Planning…
is important.
I TOTALLY should have made the microwave popcorn BEFORE I started the dishwasher in this pain in the ass charming 1942 Beach Cottage we call home…because if I do it now, I’ll blow the circuit breaker.
Son of a bitch.
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HAPPY FIBONACCI DAY!
(Photo credit Fibonacci Sequence Day and GoComics. Well, and of course Bill Amend.)
Posted November 22nd, 2009. 10 comments
I shall not be ashamed…
The weather today sucks.
Wind is whipping, temperature won’t exceed 50 degrees Farenheit, and we’re on the third straight day of rain.
So, no…I shan’t be ashamed when I tell you that I’m not planning on doing a DAMN thing today but drinking hot tea, watching mindless television and breaking out this bad boy:
Oh…and, need I REALLY mention that I received NO compensation WHATSOEVER for this post?
I thought not.
Posted October 18th, 2009. 11 comments
When Life Gives You Crappy Pics…
Photoshop and call them “art”…
(see full show review tomorrow at Music Savvy Mom.)
Silversun Pickups drummer Chris Guanlao at The NorVa. 10/11/2009
Posted October 12th, 2009. 1 comment
Etymology as Entertainment. Again.
I changed the theme.
And, naturally…I spent all the time I SHOULD have been writing a new post doing THAT…so you get another warmed over, vacuous one…
Call it “Sesame Street” for ostensibly educated adults.
Here’s a list of words chosen merely because I like them. They’re fun.
And the letter of the day is………….
tenterhooks (this post is all your fault, Kathleen…)
Got more? Comment – enlighten me.
Posted October 11th, 2009. 5 comments
Throwback Thursday: And the Blue One is STILL sexy.
Hello. My name is Ri, and I’m a Serial Blogger.
Yes, I am Ri of Music Savvy Mom…and the music is my first love. But, I do have other interests…random thoughts…a twisted sense of humor…opinions.
I need somewhere for them to go.
So, I’ve taken two of my Blogspot blogs and combined them here. A smorgasborg of random…a year’s worth of “WTF” upon which I shall build an even bigger Palace of Drivel!
(Good Lord, I feel so empowered!)
I haven’t decided on my chosen level of censorship yet. I’d say “lax” is a safe bet.
Still tweaking the site, but in the midst of the migration from Blogger,
while reading some old posts…I thoroughly entertained myself! So, in the collective spirits of
self-serving vanity, conservation, recycling AND Zombies,
I’ll be exhuming a few for your enjoyment. This one first ran on November 9, 2008.
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According to the Gothamist:
November 8, 2008
Naked Cowboys Settles Suit with M&Ms
The self-proclaimed World’s Greatest Performer, the Naked Cowboy, must have gotten a sweet settlement deal from the M&M folks. The NY Post is reporting that “he kept mum yesterday after settling a $4 million lawsuit against the Mars candy company. The underwear-clad busker, whose real name is Robert Burck, declined comment except to say ‘the matter has been resolved’ after pulling his case from Manhattan federal court.” The tighty-whitey tough guy brought his wrath down on the company after he noticed a blue M&M wearing his trademark outfit on a big screen outside of their Times Square shop. He later declared on the Today Show: “Type II diabetes and childhood obesity is epidemic. I am the opposite of that. I don’t endorse that product.”
Could be that it’s early, and I’m only on my first cup of coffee, but I’m torn on this one.
- *On the one hand, this is a prime example of why AdMen should run their brilliant ideas by the Legal Department first, and this falls into my “Dumbshits, you deserve what you get” file.
- *On the other hand, this guy may be wackier than a Fourth of July Fruitcake, but he did come up with this schtick, and he’s the one freezing his peanuts on the corner trying to make a buck, so one might say “Fair play to him…curses on the Evil Conglomerate.”
- *On the other hand…he is sort of a panhandler, and while his physique itself might reflect trips to the gym and the consumption of veggies and eggwhite omelettes…that Butter Face, stringy hair and the WalMart brand tighty whities are decidedly offputting. If I’m sitting in an overpriced cab that smells of cabbage and falafel, praying that the foriegn substance I have just detected on the door handle IS actually hair gel, I’m not gonna be pleased to look up and see Roy Rogers: Chippendale Reject out my window. In that case, I’m looking at M&M/Mars as The Corporate Robin, who was bested by the Scum of Gotham! Dammit, Batman, where are you???
- *On the other hand…should he be paying THEM for this free publicity? I mean, really…
- *On the other hand-
Dude, it just occurred to me that the price of my M&M’s Peanut might be going up! Pfarpfegnugen! (yeah, I totally spelled that wrong…) I’m taking all my hands and going to Walgreens to stockpile, people. I suggest you do the same.
Posted October 8th, 2009. 1 comment
Damn right. He’s a badass.
I’m referring to Alexander Hamilton.
In a desperate attempt to force myself to write a post, I scanned my list of labels for inspiration, and my eye fell on ol’ AH. So, purely for giggles, I checked his name on Google News.
Turns out my man has had FIVE articles referencing him in the past week!
(The one about the White House Tuesday Night Jam is my personal favorite. Placenta & avocado trees and the question of just how many spouses Mr. Chabon actually has were high points.)
Yeah, when we’ve been dead a hundred and five friggin’ years, let’s see if WE spawn quintuple news stories on some random week in May.
Pfffft.
I predict I’ll get two…tops.
Posted May 14th, 2009. Add a comment
I’m in a slump. Rally caps, anyone?
Seriously.
I mean…how sad is it that on a blog called VACUITY, I can’t find anything to say? It’s not like I’ve set any lofty literary goals, here. Sheese.
Well, I’ve at least gotten off my prodigious derrier long enough start a new playlist.
(It’s over there ——->>>>>>>>>>)
I did a Shuffle of the songs I’ve played recently. So…there you go. Perhaps one of you wise, wise readers can tell me if there’s some connection between the music I’ve been listening to and my utter lack of motivation?
That’d be nice.
And way cheaper than therapy.
Thanks in advance!
psst. The old player is “Archived” way at the bottom of the page. Down there vvvvvvv.
PS: I bet this is all Helen Hunt’s fault. Bitch.
Posted May 3rd, 2009. 1 comment
Miss me?
Yeah, didn’t think so.
In case you’re wondering NOW where I’ve been…(y’know, now that I’ve brought it up, and now that you feel guilty for not thinking about me at all for a week)…I’m feeding a new addiction.
Posted April 22nd, 2009. Add a comment
Duelling Shuffles
So, as “Music Managers” go, I have two. iTunes for my iPod and Rhapsody for my cell phone.
I’ve discovered that the “Random Shuffles” on them are decidedly not random. These things are posessed. Now, I have the SAME music on BOTH of them – the entire library is identical. Should be random draws, right?
Well, you tell me. Here’s what came up not five minutes ago:
Rhapsody:
Black Crowes – Remedy
Squeeze – Another Nail in My Heart
The Cure – Friday I’m in Love
The Smiths – How Soon is Now
Go On, Say It – Blind Pilot
iTunes:
Lyle Lovett – That’s Right (You’re Not From Texas)
Neko Case – Jettison
Billy Bragg & Wilco – Caliornia Stars
Pat Green – Wave on Wave
Shane Nicholson – You and Your Enemy
See? I’m not nuts – see??? Today Rhapsody wants me to be all rock/punk/new wave. iTunes wants me to be altCountry.
Is it any WONDER I can’t get shit done? Even my music players are conspiring against me!
(By the way…which do you think won this round?)
Posted April 11th, 2009. 1 comment
About that last post…
No, I wasn’t drinking, nor am I on medication…well, at least not any that’s SEVERELY mind altering.
But it did just dawn on me that not everyone may have caught the movie references. If you didn’t recognize that I was totally ripping off The Graduate and Top Gun…then, yes – I would have appeared absolutely batshit insane.
Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman’s character in The Graduate…the pool scene(s) – begin at 4:50 (through Simon and Garfunkel’s The Sound of Silence), then again at 9:22 below:
And from Top Gun…well, I couldn’t find the scene where the CO chews out Maverick (Tom Cruise – ugh) and references the flying of rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong. All the other scenes are just too “Top Gunny” to stand, so I found one of Val Kilmer from Real Genius that I like MUCH better. What? Val Kilmer was in both Top Gun AND Real Genius. Perfectly logical substitution:
The bit about dental school and it being Ben’s mother instead of his dad…well, that was all me.
Just wanted to clear it up.
You’re welcome.
Posted March 28th, 2009. Add a comment
So, there I was…
…watching the needles on the cockpit dials go limp. Nothing but blue as far as the eye could see, and I was out of fuel, altitude AND ideas.
Suddenly in my mind’s eye, I was transported to Benjamin Braddock’s swimming pool. As I saw myself floating there, I began to regret tossing that Letter of Acceptance to Dental School back at his mother and retorting
“Oh, yeah, Mrs. Braddock? Well, maybe I WANT to fly rubber dogshit out of Hong Kong! SOMEBODY has to do it!”
This shit wouldn’t be happening to Goose, I’ll tell you that for nothin’…
What?
Sometimes these things just come to me, apropos of nothing.
Oh, like it doesn’t happen to you, too.
Pffftttt.
Posted March 26th, 2009. 2 comments
Yet another time suck…
So, I finally upgraded the family cell phones this week. It was time – they were ancient, barely held a charge anymore, and some of my buttons had ceased to function.
ANYWAY…my new phone has a QWERTY keyboard. Yeah, this is something I never knew I always wanted. Thanks to the peer pressure of a crapload of my bestest buddies, I am turning into quite the text-ho. (On the upside, though, I’ve been able to minimize the amount of minutes on our plan and up the texts, so it works out cheaper. Sa-WEET!) I refuse to lapse into that awful “text speak” though, which has only minimal resemblance to English. No, I use ALL of the words in a sentence, correct capitalization AND proper punctuation, thankyouverymuch.
Just in case you wondered…that’s what I’ve been doing.
Posted March 19th, 2009. Add a comment
…so….um….er…
…what’s everybody got planned for the weekend?
(Points will be awarded for creativity and level of outlandishness, of course.)
And, if no one comments, well then:
(a) this blog is aptly named in truth – on both the author’s AND the readers’ accounts
and,
(2) it will give me a perfect excuse to drink heavily this weekend.
Love and Kisses,
Ri
Finder of Silver Linings Everywhere
PS: Edited because Blogger and I are embroiled in an ongoing battle about spacing, and to mention that “Night on Bald Mountain” was ACTUALLY featured in “Weekend at Bernie’s”. Go figure, eh?
Posted February 6th, 2009. 2 comments
So, um…what’d you have for dinner?
We had Baked Teriyaki Chicken,brown rice and mixed veggies.
(Yeah, this is one of those days when the name of this blog is entirely accurate.)
But, you could actually leave a comment and tell me what you had for dinner. Y’know…I’m just sayin’…