February 2010
1 post
“Tara Lipinksi won gold at the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, in a costume...”
– Old Gray Lady, talking about Olympic skating costumes, gets a funny case of the snarks.
January 2010
23 posts
“I took a look at these shoulders in the mirror and they’re pretty big. They can...”
– Zelda Rubinstein, on deciding to completely change careers when she was 47. She was only 4’3” and died this week. I remember her as Tangina from “Poltergeist” and as the drunk organist from “Sixteen Candles.”
F. Murray Abraham: action hero?
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Voodoo Lady->Kiss->Voodoo Lady —...
List of fictional curse words.
It’s amazing how most of these are rooted in sci-fi. Just goes to show how most mainstream stuff isn’t particularly inventive.
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Artie Lange stabbed himself 9 times →
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Troubled comic Artie Lange landed in the hospital after stabbing himself nine times in an apparent suicide attempt, sources told The Post. Lange’s frantic mom called 911 Saturday morning after she entered his Hoboken apartment and found the bloodied funnyman, a law-enforcement source said. Lange sustained six “hesitation wounds” and three deep plunges. A source...
“Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels’ hierarchies?
and...”
– Rilke, Duino Elegies, First Elegy.
Yoga is a cult.
Damn straight. I’ve lost many a friend to it.
“Obviously, on a sane planet, [Liza Minnelli] would be kept in a cage and people...”
– Daaaaaaaamn.
Via.
I am turning into a good cook.
Then again, it’s hard to go wrong with lamb.
“Next time we are honked at by a stretch-limoload of vomiting adolescents we...”
– An essay about the Christmas airplane bomber, which kind of says more teen sex/drugs = less suicidal/homicidal zealots.
Not sure why I’m so horribly amused by this “feud” when I read it:
http://www.afterelton.com/blog/edkennedy/barrowman-nph-biggaybattle
Death Pool statistics
I run a Death Pool, where people bet on which celebrities will die in the coming year. I’ve done this since 2003. In that time:
—I’ve correctly predicted 30 deaths. —From my 2004 list, only one person is still alive: Gloria Stuart. —I’ve only removed three people from old lists (all of which are still alive): Bil Keane, Annette Funicello and Jack LaLanne (back...
“I think I’m a pretty good person. I know I’m as good as anyone else. I have done...”
– Via.
December 2009
7 posts
Tori goes off again. Among other things, she basically says that if she were a man, she’d bang Jennifer Aniston. Though given the context, I’m not sure if that’s a comment on Tori or Jennifer, coming from Tori’s mouth.
WatchThe final vignette in “Paris, Je T’aime.”
God damn, I love Margo Martindale. The accent is priceless.
November 2009
2 posts
October 2009
48 posts
Trying to date two guys while living with my Dad is proving difficult.
Didn’t have this problem in high school, since there was no play for yours truly. And umpteen years later, now this.
:(
“Prepare to laugh your dirndl off.”
– From some NPR show late at night last night. Sleep-deprived, coming off a mega-long weekend and flying halfway across the continent, I found this incredibly funny on I-270 at 1 in the morning.
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