Garrison Keillor and Stephen King

That's all. Now to stretch out a paper another page or two.

More horrifying advertisements on Pandora

So I'm trying to revise a paper, and THIS pops up on Pandora:



Really? Is that a look now/still? We're still not over short skirts over leggings, with a dash of arbitrary belt? And don't forget the short faux-leather jacket? Correct me if I'm wrong, that look hasn't been "punk" since 1980 or so. It wasn't punk when I was in high school between 2001-2005, and it still isn't getting punker.

I guess the hair is new. Is this day over yet?

Cartoon Network > Andy Samberg

Today, after losing a game of Monopoly to the kid I nanny, he turned on the TV to watch some Teen Titans*. The following was one of Cartoon Network's random in between shows things:



And it occurred to me that it was way funnier than 3/4 of Andy Samberg's digital shorts.

There's beauty in brevity, Andy, and you usually overstay your welcome. Case in point:



I want to like you, but you're just not that funny on your own for more than a minute. Sometimes, bad is just bad and not funny. I'm sorry you just got owned by some kid with sunglasses who probably didn't even write that ridiculous number about walking a squirrel.

Thrift store flannel. Ha!

*A surprisingly watchable show.

Happy Birthday, America

I'll be celebrating my Fourth of July by covering 2 shifts! What's a better way to express my patriotism by working retail which every day proves the economic downturn?

At least I bought some sparklers to express myself the true American way: with pyrotechnics.

So, for the awesome in your holiday, here's Johnny Cash reciting "I Am the Nation":



And here's my personal favorite song that includes the word "America" a lot as performed by the lovely and talented Hugh Laurie on A Bit of Fry and Laurie. Also, Stephen Fry makes an appearance:



Go barbecue or blow something up tomorrow.

Apparently Pandora is an equal opportunity advertiser

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I thought I was safe, but the weather gods called me on my hubris. It's been snowing all day. It's April. It's spring. Not even this classic scene makes me happy:



It just reminds me of why I hate snow so much.

I don't cough for my own amusement

Somehow I've managed to not wake up my roommate with my constant coughing tonight--I swear she would sleep through a bombing blitz without even moving. Anyway, I've only slept a few hours and can't breathe very well and wanted to find that clip from Pride and Prejudice where Mrs. Bennett is yelling at Kitty for coughing, but I couldn't, but I found the clip where Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth meet after Mr. Darcy has taken a dip in his lake (BBC version). Anyway, it made life a little better. In fact, I'm just going to watch the whole thing right now. It's not like I'm doing anything else with my time today...

Enjoy

The Marathon is Over

I'm going to need to watch something happy and fluffy where there are no consequences except happiness. But the greatest thing about the marathon...

I knit a hugely long scarf.
And yes, those are sequined stockings above my not-working fireplace.

Hopefully the next time I post I will be home--if my flight doesn't get cancelled again. I don't want to have to go angry-Joe Pesci on the weather and stab it in the neck. That just gets messy.

Finals Week

Finals week always brings out the most ridiculous in me. Seriously, this is what I'm spending my time doing:

• Eating chips and salsa in between...
  
• Learning how to do a knit stitch continental style (oh, there are styles) while...
  
• Listening to the Old Testament as an audiobook as read by a man who sounds very much like Peter O'Toole, or maybe I just want to imagine it that way--Please note, I'm taking an Old Testament class and I got ridiculously behind in the reading since, you know, it gets kind of dull having to hear about the borders of the tribes of Israel 230498 times. I've just got to make through 2nd Samuel, but occasionally I take breaks to...
• Watch an episode of Bones. I've been a casual viewer of the show, but since I've been a fan of David Boreanaz since his Buffy days, I thought I should really get into it. It's basically Crossing Jordan without the Boston accents or Miguel Ferrer's amazingly resonant, deep voice. After that I...
  
• Start cramming for another test. Right now, statistics. I realized that I hadn't really grasped the last few weeks of the class, so now I get to catch up by tomorrow so I can take the test and...
• Cram for my speech anatomy class. Too bad my major is almost, like, real knowledge or something. The one plus--I totally know what they're talking about on Bones. But I'll be done with finals by Friday...
• Which gives me a full day to be lazy and watch movies and pack and clean the apartment before...
• I fly home for a couple weeks and be lazy some more.

Anyway, I will post something more awesome soon. In the mean time, I'm going to snack, watch some Bones, and then get some sleep before heading to my last shift at work until 2009. Night y'all.

Update

So I'm trying to get my grad school applications done this week (I don't know, procrastinating homework with something that's productive?). I can't really think very well right now, but here are some things that have occurred to me this week:

• I've never met an Al(l)i/yson I didn't like.
• "Good Eats," starring the adorably nerdy and glassesed Alton Brown, is like the Billy Nye the Science Guy/MST3K of cooking shows.
• America should probably look into nuclear fusion as an energy alternative.
• Sequined stockings were probably the best choice.
• Hugh Laurie is a fantastic comedic actor. Compare this to this to this.
• I don't function well waking up before 8am.
• I actually want it to snow.
• My Sufjan Stevens (Holiday) Pandora station is the best.

Love love,
A very sleepy Kelsy

P.S. Here's my very favorite Hugh Laurie moment ever from "A Bit of Fry and Laurie":

Some thoughts for the next week

I'm going to be EFY-ing this next week so let me leave you with some random stuff:

1. The movie Fearless starring Jeff Bridges and the surprisingly moving Rosie Perez is great. I can't get the last scene out of my head. It's psychological, moving, and the best way I can describe it is a mix between the pilot episode of Lost and "Noel" of The West Wing.

2. Indiana Jones is absolutely preposterous. Yeah, all of them are, but this was ridiculous. I guess I won't ruin it yet, but take someone with you to predict everything in it. It's pretty amusing.

3. I plan on going through Twin Peaks and 30 Rock this summer once I'm done with EFY. I'm excited.

4. And lastly, a great moment in television history:



Have a good week all!

You know that song "Time in a Bottle"?

I do now, Zyrtec, and what a horrible marketing campaign. At work today the radio was on KOZY, which you can only imagine plays the most gentle "rock" possible, and this song came on. And then I realized this was the song Zyrtec keeps referring to in their latest commercial. According to Wikipedia, "'Time in a Bottle' was a posthumous No. 1 hit for singer-songwriter Jim Croce, reaching the top of the charts in December 1973, three months after his death in a plane crash." Apparently it was written for his son, which is nice and all, but Zyrtec, really? It seems like an inappropriate choice 1. because it's about a relationship, not drugs, and 2. because you're a freaking allergy medication. This is just proving how much TV I've watching in the last few days, but seriously, this commercial is on all the time. And it bugs.

But I also got to hear "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" by Bryan Adams. I have a secret love of Bryan Adams. I realize his music is corny and perfect for really awkward slow dances, but I've loved this song since I was a child...which is kind of weird. Whatever. Apparently it was written for a Johnny Depp movie: Don Juan DeMarco which looks crazy. Which is a redundant description when talking about a Johnny Depp movie. But the song was co-written by Robert John "Mutt" Lange, great producer and husband of Shania Twain...so that means the song is actually really awesome. To prove it:



Like I said. Awesome.