Monthly Archives: March 2008

Today’s Daily Puppy is beyond the beyond

How cute is little Fosse? For a good time, view all pics!

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Things like this make me question my brother’s love of Japan

I’ve asked the question before, but I’ve decided to make it a new multi-part series. Why now? Well, Will leaves for Japan tomorrow and when I see things like this: So, sayonara, Minnow, and enjoy the land of the rising … Continue reading

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Filed under Japanese people, Questioning my brother's decisions

Das ads v. das reality

Main takeaway: frozen food is gross. Hopefully they can update this to include bagel-fuls whenever those come out ;-)

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Filed under Food, Lies and the lying liars who tell them, Marketing, Naked Germans

The Hills just got older…

More videos from the “Over the Hills” channel at Heavy.com

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Filed under Old School, The Hills

In memorium: Houston

A while ago, I introduced you to my beloved puppy, Audrey. For most of my life, however, I called another dog “my beloved puppy.” That dog was Houston, our cockapoo who was put down a few years ago at Christmas … Continue reading

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Filed under Dogs, Houston, Super Cute

They tried to make him go to a nursing home, but he said, NO, NO, NO!

Also good for moving dead people, lazy people, and obese people. (Thanks, Andy!)

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Filed under Marketing, Old School

Just coming to terms with how out of my league I was

In 4th through 8th grades, I was active in our local youth community theater program. (Active = played the 10-12 line “Mom” parts in 7th grade because I was too tall to play anything younger and too untalented for anything … Continue reading

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Filed under Music, People who are far more talented than I, People who were far more talented than I was in 5th gra

So true, so true!

The greatest new blog of the week posts emails and IMs from your mother. Well, from other people’s mothers, but they might as well all be from my mother: article When I saw this article in the print version, I … Continue reading

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Filed under Making Parents Proud, Other Blogs to Read

You should have read Peggy Noonan’s column on the Obama speech

It’s brilliant. The speech assumed the audience was intelligent. This was a compliment, and I suspect was received as a gift. It also assumed many in the audience were educated. I was grateful for this, as the educated are not … Continue reading

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Filed under Current Events, Peggy Noonan

"Playing yourself on reality television isn’t to our reader the level of accomplishment that you need to have on the cover of Cosmo"

At a time when hookers are getting $5,500 an hour and cocktail waitresses are making $200,000 a year, I take solace in knowing that at least Cosmo has some standards. That said, the rest of the WSJ article on Lauren … Continue reading

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Filed under Bad TV, Best Jobs in the World, Career Advice, MTV Call Me, What the OCC never told me

Sadly, yet another better dancer than me…

Then again, I was demoted to “story telling pantomime artist” in Kusika, the Williams African Dance Troupe.

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Filed under Dance Team Girls, Seals

McCain supporters discover special effects

If you thought all McCain supporters were cute and fun and anti-iBanker like his daughter, Meghan, you were wrong. Some McCain supporters are fat and tone deaf. If these are the early videos, I can’t wait until we get to … Continue reading

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Filed under Current Events, I don't have any Republican friends

"Shatner Retrieves Hasselhoff from 1984 to Join in Run for U.S. Presidency"

A winning, albeit unconstitutional, ticket.

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Filed under Current Events, Don't hassel the hoff, Elections

Bulgarian Paula is more lucid than American Paula

Frankly, the language barrier adds about 50 entertainment points to Bulgarian Idol. Danke, Alan, for the tip.

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Filed under Bulgarians, Idol, Ken Lee

I heart Huckabees, but not the director

Andy sent me this after my I heart Huckabees post a week ago. Ummm… hello HR complaints department?

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Filed under Suckabee, Worst Jobs in the World

Happy Easter one day late!

The WaPo had a Peeps diorama contest. Maria sent the slideshow to me. AMAZING.

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Filed under Holidays, Maria's Probably Right, Peeps

What Brings You Here?

It’s time for another “what brings you here” round up! Here are some of the search terms that have stuck out as being… interesting. A reminder that in order to qualify for “interesting,” the term itself must be odd or … Continue reading

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The Mets get Santana AND Shake Shack and we get… a martini bar?

Honestly, no. I don’t go to baseball games to watch Andy Petitte leave with a spasm after the second inning while sipping a martini. No. The pics of the new Yankees Stadium don’t really show a whole lot of stadium.

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Filed under Hank Steinbrenner is a waste of space, Seriously, Sports