the cheesiest song ever written

It's true, "Careless Whisper" wins the prize. Occasionally I'll hear it in a pharmacy or something, and I'll think to myself "How did they cram this much cheese into one song?"... mind you, the tone here is more one of reverence than criticism. I mean, the saxophone ALONE, come on.

I like to imagine the natural habitat for this song, if you will. A couple staring longingly into each other's eyes across a heavily shellacked dark wood table in the corner of a bar. She's wearing frosted pink lipstick and he's tapping his cigarette into a hunter green glass ashtray. And when the saxophone plays, he averts his gaze... dramatically closing his eyes. Oh yes. This song is disgusting perfection.

pastel cauliflower

While shopping at Metropolitan Market (which has a frighteningly similar logo to the aforementioned DVD twins, I might add) I came across something truly strange: a colorful smorgasbord of cauliflower. Call me old fashioned, but do we really need to inject excitement of this kind into our vegetables? Is the thing missing from cauliflower that it needs to come in Easter colors? I don't appreciate weird visual novelty entering my high end food market. Sorry.

In case you were wondering these veggi labradoodles have names, of course: cheddar, graffiti, and verdant.

cool neighborhood!

Maybe if we just tell them it's cool here, they'll believe us. Hey, no harm in wishful thinking...

and then everyone ran out of ideas

In the almost infinite choices of a) DVDs I could rent and b) possible design options... I ended up with two that looked exactly the same. Sightly metallic gray, centered on the upper half, the more salient of the two words bolded... it's uncanny.

kids meal panda

It's hard to even guess why Burgermaster would have put this image on this side of their kids meal boxes. Before we go any further... yes, I still order kids meals. Guilty as charged.

Confused, I launched an investigation.
Me: i dare you to make sense of this picture.
Jen: uuuuhh, I guess the other animals are from different parts of the world? and he's from china? and i think he's on safari? but he's def wearing a pimp hat.
Me: i thought he was a pirate. but then i though he was a fireman panda. but then i was confused by the fact was wearing intense dish washing gloves. with binoculars.

that's the spot.

I don't know what's better... his little hands? Or the "don't stop" face.

twitter redemption

I'll be the first to admit that I'm not sold on Twitter. The idea that it's successful as a one size fits all communication format is preposterous (and a little funny). There are, however, some interesting/beautiful/[dare I say]poetic applications of this medium, like the video above. Running a search for "star next to the moon" on Twitter will bring up these images and some lovely person compiled them for us. Watching it, I am overwhelmed with the knowledge that indeed we do all share the same sky. And even though I know that fact intellectually speaking... there's something amazing about seeing it represented visually. So, in conclusion, if Twitter is the engine that bubbles little things to the surface so that bystanders can present a "meta view"... I'm down. But I can really live without hearing what Ashton Kutcher ate for lunch.

nothing like a little negative reinforcement

Implied if/then statement: If you care about the environment, then you will buy these coffee filters. Even in the smallish realm of coffee there are bigger things happening... how about fair trade or shade grown coffee?? Nonetheless, please turn down the smug-o-meter.

pop quiz

Women between the ages of 40 to 55 refer to the vagina as "vajajay" because:
a) Oprah says it.
b) Oprah says it.
c) Oprah says it.
d) All of the above

i promise...

Genius, I tell you. Married to the Sea is my go to place for a fun desktop, and a giggle here and there.

could paul rudd be more lovely?

Maybe my enthusiasm is being colored by the fact that I saw I Love You, Man last night... but still, Paul Rudd is super great. He's funny, cool, and attractive (the latter being soooo uncommon for comedic actors), and as a bonus he teaches children about caring for the environment. Love him. Love him.

In lieu of embedding the video (for some reason the code has been stripped for that one) I shall link you to it.

important health benefits

Sometimes clever wording isn't so clever.

oops

May I just add that I didn't find this on some "omg, look at the ridiculous crap people sell on craiglist" site. No, my officemate was actually looking for lumber, and this is what he found.

my breakfast

So pretty. And beats the hell out of my typical banana + toast in the car.

phrases that aren't ok: installment 1

"Do me a solid..."

where the wild things are

This book is so close to my heart that odds were high for this trailer to spoil all my hopes and dreams of a good reproduction of this classic. Needless to say, I've now overcome this fear... basically because this looks effing rad. Counting down the days now... ahem... 193.

land quilt made of tulips

Clumsy title, sorry. I mean, the Dutch and their tulips have always been impressive... but there's something particularly amazing about seeing them in an aerial view. See the original source here. Ah, yes. Good plan.

**ADDITION 4.11.09**
Reading back over this, I realize that it might sound like I'm all about mono-cultures... but I promise I'm not. I just like the picture. But I like bees more.

now that's a horse of a different color

Ummm, this video/hand routine/slice of awesome is so dang cool it literally makes me angry I didn't think of it. These are the tidbits that get us all thinking "I love the internet", and as a bonus... normal people are cool again. I'm pondering learning how to do this, but knowing me I'll just watch it over and over instead.

thrift store find du jour

I don't know what is more awesome... a) that someone thought their emergency numbers would be a good thing to donate and eventually purchased by someone else, or b) the fact that this person took the time to cross stitch said phone numbers and frame them. Either way, it can be yours for $3.

the humor of a eigth grade boy

If you sell glass this has GOT to be a common mistake when taping boxes. But I mean, it's funny right?