What Would Jesus Buy?

Here's a new movie by the Super Size Me guy. It seems like something they'd be talking about on Public Radio. I saw a couple articles and it seems kinda funny.

Here's the trailer:
What Would Jesus Buy?

Boston Puppy

Yesterday on my walk I came in contact with a Boston Terrier puppy. He was super cute and wobbling around. He had a little christmas sweater on and licked my hand when I pet him. Super cute! Little guy with a red sweater.

I've been helping Andy set up a new computer and fixing his set-up at his bookstore. His dad still controls everything but I worry that they'll be out of business soon because it's so gross and dumpy there. They haven't updated anything for years and Andy told me once that he thinks they only make about $10,000 a year after all the bills are paid. They aren't willing to do anything to keep up with the times. It kind of makes me feel bad but I can't do anything about it.

The featured puppy is "Sweet Potato" from the Humane Society. She's a Jack/Rat Terrier mix and is really cute! I'm sure she'll be adopted by the end of the day.

Hope you got to Californie safely.

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving! It's snowing here. It's the first snow of the year where it's making the ground white. I love the first few snows of the year (until it gets bone chillingly cold).

The paper came packed with "doorbuster" sale ads. Can you believe that some stores are opening at four o'clock AM and most at five AM? That's nuts. "Who ahhhrree these people?" (say that in a bad stand-up Jerry Seinfield voice). Who needs to buy Spider-man 2 or Mystic Pizza on DVD for $2.49 at 5 in the morning? That would be crazy zombie people who are terrible consumers, if you will. I had to figure out a way to use "if you will". I did hear "actually" on some news story the other day. I still haven't heard "if you will" in the wild yet.

I'm on my second year of doing a Thanksgiving Fiesta! Last year was probably the nicest Thanksgiving I've had in years. I don't make turkey or any of the "traditional" thanksgiving foods, if you will (doesn't really work here but I'm trying to be funny). I make tacos! I've never been a big fan of turkey and yams. I don't think you like yams do you? They seem like something mushy you wouldn't like. And instead of trying to be Martha Stewart, if you will, I get to do something new and fresh. Tacos! Yummy! Since I'm not eating yucky turkey it doesn't remind me of the past yucky turkeys I've had to choke down. Turkey, cranberries, and pumpkin pie is about as appetizing as sushi to me. It just doesn't make me excited to eat. I'll be muchin' on Tacos with all the fixings.

Ultimate Boston Terrier Growing Up Video

Thirty Seconds of Cuteness

Fossile of Big Bug

Thought this was cool. Bugs are all basically versions of ocean animals like shrimp, crabs, lobsters, etc... that have evolved on land. Can you imagine a bug this big? Cool, dude!

Link to bug story

Mr. T Does Warcraft Ad

Here's a link to Mr. T's Warcraft ad. Warcraft is the massively mulitiplayer online nerd wizard game I play with Marc. It's a phenomenon and I've spent many o' hours online playing with Marc or any number of other nerds across the globe. Doin' quests, gaining XP (experience), killin' a plethora o' enemies, stomping through dungeons looking for treasure, and havin' fun. It's probably the most entertaining game ever made (in a Napoleon Dynamite voice).

BTW, I'm a level 59 (70 is the top) Night Elf Warrior named "Plural". Looks like Mr. T's character (in the commercial, I'm sure he doesn't play) with regular "elf hair" instead of a mohawk.

Mr. T Commercial for World of Warcraft

Art and Miracles

Yes, I absolutely agree with you that babies are miracles. All babies... even scorpion babies and eel babies. Piggy babies too! Every aspect of life is a miracle but babies are super-miracles!

I love art! There was a show about modern art in HD tonight on PBS. I love the absurdity and preposterousness of modern artists. There were some great artists featured. I am always forever fascinated by your stigmas against certain things in our world. I would bet dollars to donuts that you have some sh-opinions about "art" and they aren't positive.

I love installation art. Maybe it's because I worked at MCAD and all those weirdo kids were so into what they were doing. I don't know. I hate art people. I don't even know any famous artists. I have very limited knowledge of "the art" but I love it.

Art is anything you want it to be. It's only you who has to decide what it means (if anything) to you. You don't have to know anything and you don't have to be able to explain it. You can enjoy a symphony without knowing how to play a violin, right? You decide if you like it or not. That's it. Art is freedom. You're not supposed to think anything or feel anything other than what you want to feel when you are enjoying (or hating) it. It's only what you want it to be.

My favorites forms of art are: Installations, really old religious paintings, old "masters" paintings, super cute commercial designs and characters (like chubby stars with smiley faces), guitar shapes, absurdist stuff, surrealism like Dali, and sketch drawings and doodles, and comic books from the 1960s and 70s. What are yours?

Guy Singing California

This is sure to put you in a bad mood. Corny guy singing "California". I couldn't stop laughing but I think it's really noble. It's really easy to suck, even if you learn the whole song and sing it. I'm still laughing.

Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure

Steve Martin - The Great Flydini

Led Zeppelin

Thanks for the CD's! I'll listen to them. I bought the Foo Fighters album when it came out (my favorite song is #3) but I do like the other two. Maroon 5 was on Howie and I'll give the Kooks chance (it's chance not "a chance" like a black person would say it).

Huge news in the world of online music. Led Zeppelin is finally on iTunes. I don't know if you have some weird stigma attached to them but I strongly suggest you download some of their records. They're some of the best albums ever. If you think I'm a dummy or a music snob I can assure you that I'm not. I'm trying to come up with the Shreasons that you'll say that you don't like "Zep". (Shreasons are your crazy stereotypes or stigmas for why you don't like something). I put two links to articles written by Dave Grohl about Led Zeppelin. He actually wrote and published articles about how much he loves Led Zeppelin. I'd strongly suggest downloading a couple of their records (full records). My favorite is Houses of the Holy.

Picture shows Mr. Grohl w/ Led Zeppelin I CD.

Dave Grohl writes about Led Zeppelin

Another Dave Grohl link

Led Zeppelin's Ratings by Album at Allmusic.com
(notice the number of 5 star albums, click the discography link)

Dancing With The Stars

I've been Tivoing Dancing With the Stars (I fast forward through it) and guess who was on this week? Jenny Garth your favorite 90210 actress was having a hard time so they brought in Richard Simmons and she started crying. He was her motivator that week. Jenny Garth and Richard Simmons: sounds like the planets have aligned for your celebrities.

Also, I look at the Yahoo Buzz Index and Giant Pangolin is in the top 5 for most searched terms. Weird. Is it the name of something else in the news? Did Kanye West's mom die because of a Giant Pangolin or something? Odd.

Yahoo Buzz Index

I'm a Guitar Hero!

I got Guitar Hero this week and I've never had as much fun playing a video game. You basically rock out to a bunch of good (and bad) guitar songs with a special guitar controller. It's so much fun. It's like playing a rock show! I'm trying to see if I can get an extra controller for my Christmas party. I figure Marc or the kids could figure out how to play it pretty fast. It's super fun. I was playing it last night for about four hours straight. It has a ton of good songs from the Foo Fighters to Heart to Free Bird as the finale. You get encores if you play good enough for the crowd to get into it. The encores are unlisted surprise songs that are harder like the one shown in this video.

Best DVD's Ever

Talking with Marc about the best comedy shows and he suggested I watch a new show that just came out on DVD called Flight of the Conchords. He said it had some classic quotables in it. It made me wonder if you've seen the all the best comedies in the last few years or if you missed any.

I don't know if I ever suggested you get the Chappelle's Show DVD's. The are just as funny and I'd consider them modern classics up there with Curb Your Enthusie, Arrested Development, Extras, and Ali G. You'll have to rent the Chappelle's Show DVD's. It was a huge hit and semi-controversial. It was also one of the funniest shows ever. Rent it.

I'll watch the Flight of the Conchords and let you know if it's as funny as Marc says it is. I watched a few clips online and it seems like something that you'd like and maybe even l-o-v-e.

Just between you and me. I don't really like Tony Hawk. I try to like him but he just annoys me. Maybe I'm jealous but I've never liked him (even when I was a kid). He was on Smarter than a 5th Grader tonight and he dresses like a bum (a kid). I'm just not into him. I don't really know what you see in him either. He's not attractive. He's old and he was wearing dumpy "pot head" clothes and he isn't very smart... actually he's kinda dumb. I saw his wife too... she old. I don't usually like to rag on people but I don't see what is so special about him... is it because he was a "teen dream"? Like Donnie and Marie Osmond or Peter Frampton or Chachi (Scott Baio).

Beard

Since you told me about "Beards" I've been hearing it everywhere. I heard people use it on Howard Stern a bunch of times and it was on some TV show somewhere. At least four or five times I noticed it since you told me what it was.

It makes me wonder how many times I've heard it in the past and thought they were talking about the hair on men's faces. I had never heard that before and now I'm hearing it all the time.

It's like when you learn a new vocabulary word and all of a sudden it pops up in your everyday encounters. Like I learned "bete noire" and I've seen it at least three times in the last month. Look it up if you don't know the deffy but maybe you've known all along. I wonder what other slangs you know that I've never heard of?

Christmas Songs

I was looking through Christmas songs on iTunes and I was going to gift you a few to add to your Christmas music collection but I'm not sure which artists you are interested in. There are so many bad Christmas songs that would make me cringe when I was previewing them. If there are any singers or songs you like just let me know. I'm pretty sure you have most of the classics but let me know if there are songs that you want. I'll gift them to you.

Talkshow w/ Spike Feresten Hollywood Douchebags

That's funny! I've seen his show a couple times and think it's good. I saw this last weekend and was going to ask you if you saw it. Isn't that funny? I never watch T.V. and I saw exactly this sketch last Sat. night when SNL was super borning. I like this show and have watched some episodes online. He must be midwestern because he's totally got an accent. Is he Canadian? He reminds me of my Dad's family when we were kids. He's a little like my brother Charlie's side of the family.

He's your celebrity crush? I would think most of the ladies think he's kind of nerdy. Do you really think he's a hunk?

How Far We've Come - Matchbox Twenty

Yes, I know that Matchbox Twenty be corn-nay but I really respond to them for some reason. There is something about their hits that hits me. I really like some of their songs for some reason.

Dave Grohl - Tiny Dancer

Elton John - Tiny Dancer

Foo Fighters - My Hero

Guitar Hero Monkey Wrench

This game is a phenomenon. It uses a special guitar controller. You play the guitar along with the buttons on screen. It looks pretty fun but I wonder why you would just learn how to play an actual guitar.

Burger Magic

Cute Porcupine