She shook me two years long. Click to enlarge.
Archive for the ‘Trivia’ Category
Two-Year Anniversary Drawing
Thursday, November 12th, 2009Silent Bitch
Sunday, October 25th, 2009Once, while Audrey and her friends were listening to “Like a Rolling Stone,” they realized that between “How does it feel” and “To be without a home,” Bob Dylan was missing a “bitch,” as in, “How does it feel / [BITCH] / To be without a home?” Actually, Dylan probably didn’t forget to include “bitch,” it’s just very obviously implied, or silent, like the “T” in “Listen,” which is why it works so well to add it back in.
So, how does it feel?
Samus Lives!
Friday, October 2nd, 2009I was searching the web for photos of Pugsley for this year’s Halloween costume (Audrey’s going to be Wednesday!), and, via deceased comic book / sci fi / video game costume blog Monster Donut I stumbled on the web site of Pixel Ninja, also known as the Swedish-Japanese artist Jenni Källberg, who makes awesome video game costumes! Check out her killer Samus and super-cute Princess Peach:
9/12 Protestor We Can ALL Agree With
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Link via Dependable Renegade, via Huffington Post.
“I Am an Amanuensis” 64: Pulp
Monday, September 14th, 2009You’ll never live like common people,
you’ll never do what common people do,
you’ll never fail like common people,
you’ll never watch your life slide out of view,
and dance and drink and screw,
because there’s nothing else to do.
“Common People” by Pulp, from their excellent 1995 album Different Class. My karaoke interpretation of the song was similar to the Ben Folds-produced William Shatner version with Joe Jackson (is she really going out with him?).
Amanuensis –noun. A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.
“I Am an Amanuensis” 63: Philip Pullman
Thursday, September 10th, 2009“[. . . T]alking about them—especially if you were safe and snug at home [. . .]—was delicious.”
Indeed. Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass. Page 34. New York: Random House, 1995, 1997, 2000.
Amanuensis –noun. A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.
“Eye-Patch” Underwear for “Naughty Girls”
Thursday, September 10th, 2009Conservative California lawmaker Mike Duvall bragged about his extramarital affairs while sitting in front of a live microphone in Sacramento yesterday, according to the Associated Press. When not with his wife, Duvall enjoys the company of two “‘naughty girl’” lobbyists who wear “‘eye-patch underwear’” and enjoy being spanked.
Duvall resigned but is now claiming he hasn’t been unfaithful to his wife, and that the stories were made up. Which might not be so bad if he wasn’t a Family Values candidate who received a 100 percent approval rating from the conservative advocacy group Capitol Resource Institute.
If Duvall is sleeping around with lobbyists, I hope he wraps it up tight: according to the Sacramento Bee in 2007, “Sacramento County posts higher infection rates for gonorrhea and chlamydia than almost every other county in California.”
Not Again
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
The Cheese Stands Alone
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009Stephen Colbert may always be on the lookout for his new black friend,
But I just wish I could get my nieces . . .
. . . to like me
09-09-09
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009Continuing my study of dates and numerology, I must ask: why aren’t any scary movies being released today? The Omen remake was released three years ago on 06-06-06, but given his penchant for all things backwards and upside-down, you think Satan would be all over 09-09-09, too! From his album I Am a Wonderful Man, comedian Michael Ian Black on Satan:
I got worried about the devil though, because, it seemed to me, that he was putting all his marketing money into the vinyl record industry. But then CDs came out, and the devil was like, “Fuck! All that research and development money down the drain!” And then there was no more evil. Which was so great. Now if only we could do something about herpes.
Speaking of Satan and unwanted visitors, my divorce became official two years ago today, which means I’ve gone 730 days without an outbreak of crazy!
One last item on dates and numerology: I was recently told that there are actually two dates for celebrating Pi Day: March 14, or 3-14, the traditional day of celebration for American nerds and lovers of pie, and July 22, or 22/7 for Archimedes’s representation of pi, which is celebrated in those parts of the world where the date is written day/month, rather than month/day as it is here in the States.
