Archive for January, 2009

this is rare, and i am savoring it. the madness starts now. i have my camera w/ me at all times to watch tourists soak up the OBAMA emanating from our pristine, federally cleaned sidewalks. tomorrow is supposed to be arctic, and i imagine it’ll take me hours to get to work on the bus.

we’ll see how blog-alicious this weekend will be. there’s a chance i’ll be staying in/hiding out for much of it. i’m just too old for this.

birthday notes:

1. came in late
2. gonna leave early
3. bought a 65 cent diet pepsi from the vending machine. b/c i’m worth it.
4. had 10 or so coworkers crowd into my office with ice cream and freshly baked b-day cheese biscuits, and then awkwardly sing happy bday. cheese biscuits? why not. (heart the coworkers)
5. had pics of fuzzy animals posted on my door as a gift. did i ever mention how anti-animal i am? maura, you bitch.
6. will watch 24 season premiere tonight and 2 eps of gossip girl.

best birthday evaaaaa.

p.s. for the record, the “cute overload” site title name is fully: “Cute Overload! ” an exclamation point AND an emoticon? are you f’ing kidding me?

sweet map thingie that shows the growth of walmart over the past 45 years. i don’t have strong opinions on walmart (shocker), but i love things that are flashy and bubbly.

good find, jimmy.

“Corrupt. Arrogant. Stupid. Blagojevich Is Three for Three.”

i would disagree on point three. roland burris was a genius move. here’s why:

first we ask ourselves, why would blago even bother to appoint someone to the senate? when the democrats had vowed not to OK this pick, a normal person would have been, “well doggone, i think i’ll just go hideout in my cabin up north and watch the bulls on my tv bought by ill-gotten gains.” but not blago. he was probably more like, “well f*ck that f*cking sh*t. i’m gonna do whatever the f*ck i want.”

actually, i think he picked someone for a reason, not just to f*ck with us. i’m not a lawyer, or a law student, or anyone who has any expertise except many hours watching law and order, but it would seem to me that whatever blago is going to be charged with, it’s going to have something to do with how he was trying to sell that senate seat. BUT, if he manages to appoint someone to the senate who the entire world can’t find ANY suggestion of corruption, then i think he could use that as evidence that he was never going to carry the selling of the seat. in short, he will use the approved senate pick as evidence that he was never going to do anything illegal in the first place. SNEAKY.

but here’s the real genius. for this to work, he had to pick someone who was unstoppable. he had to find someone who 1) would take the job, and 2) be impossible for the senate democrats to pounce upon. he succeeded on both fronts.

1. anyone young and with any political ambition would never take a blago appointment. you will forever be tainted by it. burris, however, IS OLD. 71, to be exact. he has absolutely nothing to lose.

2. blago got everyone good by, i’m saying it, playing the race card. first i’m assuming that burris legitimately cannot be traced to blago in any substantial way. could roddie be that stupid? eh, debatable. plus, burris is a legitimate politician who’s won 7 (or so) elections on his own (atty general, comptroller). but the real genius was that by picking someone who was black, he’s managed to make it very difficult for senate dems to criticize burris. they come off sounding racist, especially since there are no black people in the senate. (what timing! or just more proof that america still sucks.)

so now, everyone is backing off on burris, and it looks like he’s going to get approved by the senate. i predict blago uses burris in his defense and serves no time.

heard this song in forever 21, of all places. i think i’m getting old, but i have no idea how people shop in that store. it’s as if a bunch of dyed polyester exploded all over the walls and someone forgot to call hazmat.

i’m such a sucker for mediocre cross-gender harmonizing (2:34 mark). you could have a song that was terrible with one person singing, add the opposite gender, and you had me at hello. remember this?

this was the first song i thought of when i came up with “cross-gender harmonizing.”

is the same weekend as the inauguration.

if you’ve never been to DC MLK weekend, then you’ve obviously never seen hundreds of large and in charge men with asses hang out of chaps walking down 14th street to dakota cowgirl. (RIP dakota)

so awesome. i wonder what this confluence of events was like when bush was inaugurated (twice). texans, who wear chaps for work, rubbing shoulders with these guys, who wear chaps for play. my mind is exploding right now.

just wanted to inform everyone that the blogging will be light for at least the next week. i must attend to my future, and that requires me to eject all fun out of my life until it’s been dealt with.

i wish you all the best.

this happened a block from my apartment.

Car Wash Mishap Injures Two Employees

A car wash employee suffered seizure while driving a van out of a Northwest Washington car wash Tuesday, striking and injuring two fellow employees in the process, police said.

Earl Risby was outside, at 13th and O streets, Tuesday afternoon and watched as the employee at the Mr. Wash drove the white van out of the car wash so it could be dried. He watched in horror as the driver — who suffered a seizure, police said — ran over two of his fellow co-workers who were in the midst of drying off a blue SUV.

“I looked up and I seen the van come out — all of a sudden it accelerated,” Risby recalled.

“The back of the tire hit one dude on the leg. The guy in the middle of the street, it ran right over top of him,” he added.

i smell a lawsuit.

if you watch the video in the story, you can see my apartment in the distance at the :46 mark. the kicker of the story? the van was owned by metro. weird.

thanks houston, for the tip.