Hot or Not- Candidates Edition.

Let's pretend that I am this black woman named Tionna Smalls who has graded the presidential candidates on their Fuckability Quotient.

My favorite part is when she says the candidates names. That's enough to make me melt.

"Almost Like a Bad Joke"

So scariest thing ever.



aren't we supposed to be the good guys?

spreading democracy?

not doing stupid shit like um… i don't know, raping women!?

Beisbolllll

So not that I am too well-versed in my baseball stuff, I vaguely understand the rules, but um… steroids list thing… are there a bunch of Yankees names on this list? or is it just me and anyone whose name I recognize I assume its cause they are from the Yankees?

I am not like a yankee hater or anything, i mean i'm from the ny area, and i suppose i prefer the mets. i mean honestly i don't really care one way or another, but just seemed like a lot of yankees.

Yum, Pumpkin Soup.

i just want your kiss boy, kiss boy, kiss boy. i just want your kisss.

Pumpkin Soup by Kate Nash

video is adorable.
song is infectious.
words are cute, too.
and so is kate nash.

I <3 the Bryant Park Project

The Bryant Park Project is a radio show on NPR. I love it. Download the podcasts, really really great stuff!

The hosts are just fabulous, Luke Burbank and Allison Stewart. Really cool people.

Plus, not that you can tell through the internets, but Luke Burbank is kinda cute.

And he also did the fabulous interview with Sigur Ros. Amazing.

Vodka Vodka Vodka

So its finals time, so obvs I have a post entitled "Vodka Vodka Vodka," but really that's actually in reference to the funny article I found and lesser so the horrible night I had over the weekend. (it involved someone with only one hand… but two arms. don't ask.) but yesh, more time to procrastinate and I found this gem on wonkette.

Some 64 year old guy was trying to bring a bottle of vodka onto a flight from Nuremberg to Dresden. In accordance with the new rules about not taking liquids onto airlines unless they are checked in with your luggage this was highly illegal. The security officers told him he'd either have to pay to check his vodka with the luggage or toss it.

So, he chugged it.

Good choice, good sir. Good choice.

Just as a side note… he also almost died of alcohol poisoning and did not make it onto the flight.

Purity Balls

i've probably written about these things before, but they are these big dance events that daughters attend with their fathers where they promise not to lose their virginity until they are married, which i don't know, personally, i think is a little whacked out.

But anyway, feministing.com had an article about it and how people are always like this is revolutionary, the girls who participate in this are apart of a larger counterculture.

the author of the post was talking about how these things are NOT revolutionary and simply perpetuate the same ideas that over-sexed pop stars send out.

Pop culture tells women that their bodies are public property and that they have to be sexual in order to be desirable and loved. Purity balls and the like tell women that their bodies are private property (though not our own of course--our bodies belong to our fathers, husbands, and the men in our life) and that they have to be virginal in order to be desirable and loved. In either case women's sexuality belongs to everyone but women. There's nothing counter-cultural or cutting edge about that.

interesting stuff.

kosher boy

the worst part of this clip is the singing icky fish.

Hannukah Hamm

oooh cha nook nah.

Legs Backwards!

Lookie Here!

Movie of My Life

I think Zooey Deschanel would play me int he movie of my life, not that we look so much alike, but whatevs.

And the doofus in my story owuld be Bobby Canavale and my manager would be the guidance counselor from freaks and geeks.

We Keep On Waiting, Waitinggg

J'Adore Feist

The Good News Is That This Is Sort of a Joke

vagina dentata…

new movie coming out, called teeth…

Oh MJ, Isn't NJ the Butt of Enough Jokes?

The Huffington Post thinks that Michael Jackson is hiding in New Jersey, or was… And like kinda scarily close to my hometownnnn, damn.

check it out

then enjoy this clip of filipino prisoners dancing to thriller, because i don't think i can stomach putting up a picture of mj.

Oh. My. God.

these guys love beef jerkey. LOVE IT!

there is a special level of hell reserved for some people.

in short, people suck.

When Parents Infiltrate Myspace People Die, Seriously

this 14 year old girl was on myspace, met a really cute boy. under her parents strict supervision this girl started talking to the boy and she thought he really liked her. then the boy started calling her names and drudging up things from her past and in essence calling her a horrible person. girl who has already suffered from emotional issues is understandably fraught from the name calling, etc. girl retreats to her room and hangs herself, 3 weeks before her 15th birthday. cut to after the death, news surfaces that it was the parents of one of her friends with whom she had had a falling out with. the parents took it upon themselves not only to terrorize this girl from the privacy of their own home, but to also encourage other parents to do the same.

disgusting.

just plain disgusting.

you know as a seventh grader myself (yes because thats how old you are when you are 13 when these girls ended their friendship) i've gone through similarly difficult situations with my friends, i've had similar situations occur during high school and even into my college years. my parents have always been by my side to help me through it, but ultimately it was my problem to work through. even if seventh grade does seem too young for them to be able to deal properly without their parents involved, i feel ridiculous having to state this… but the parents sit down with the daughters and try to have them work it out in a civil manner. the parents should be the ones preventing their daughters from doing such horrible things, not the ones perpetrating them themselves!

and thank goodness i had the mother that i had. i was always worried that when she would bump into someone that i had an issue with, that she would take it upon herself to say something to that person in my defense, but she always behaved civilly no matter what. i am really proud to say that she was able to do this.

i really don't know what else to say right now. i am thoroughly grossed out.

silly americans

sooooo news that is rather new…

apparently, in subsaharan africa, little girls are likely to miss like 4 days of school because they can't control their period blood.

sooo what do the american pad and tampon companies do?

they start a marketing campaign to make sure that we know of this travesty instead of like… i dont know…

donating pads and tampons to them?

I <3 Feist So Much That I Even Enjoy Fake Feist

yea, boo for really expensive frustration mac upgrades.

but i do love my ipod and laptop, so no big dealio.

Why Won't You Give Me Your Love?

i love this song. It came up on my ipod during lunch today and I've had it on repeat since. Ps… Check out the fantastic West Side Story-ness of the clip.

Fat People Aren't Completely Screwed… Sorta

According to the NY Times, fat or overweight people have a lower death rate then average or underweight peoples.

awesome.

however, turns out that's cause overweight people are just more likely to get non-fatal diseases or whatever...

eh.

check out the article

I <3 craigslist.

so over this past summer one of my good friends introduced me to the wonders of craigslist and oh how wondrous it can beeeee, lol.

soo after a couple of months of perusing the men in search of women pages (ps… there are a ton of really lonely guys in northern virginia.) i did respond to like two ads. cause like, this is how cool my life is, lol. nothing panned out.

but anyways, i actually decided to put in my own ad, why… je sais pas, haha. but its funny. i did get a bunch of responses, one was particularly nice. but among my faves…

someone who is looking for his princess…

"older man to serve as Your slave (and i do NOT mean sex slave)?"

that was alllll that the email said, hahaha.

awkward.

anyways, my ad was flaggggggedddd, wtf! lol.

ah well, it happens i suppose, lol.

ps… as always be safe and be smart. its craigslist people, not something i can put down as being safe or whatever.

oh and along with that, guyy whoo i replied to actually replied to mine too, but that was just cause we had similar music tastes. for the record, i have decided not to respond to him, lol.

Sometimes Cute Pictures Can Make You Feel Better On A Bad Day

Current Playlist

August 17, 2007

Wake Up- The Arcade Fire
BMFA- Martha Wainwright
Casimir Pulaski Day- Sufjan Stevens
Set Fire to the Third Bar- Snow Patrol ft. Martha Wainwright
Lay Your Head Down- Keren Ann
9 Crimes- Damien Rice

"If the children don't grow up,
our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up.
We're just a million little gods causin's rain storms
turnin' every good thing into rust."

"Poetry is no place for a heart that's a whore
And I am young and I am strong
But I feel old and tired
overfired."

"Oh the glory that the lord has made
and the complications you could do without
when i kissed you on the mouth"

"I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
And I, I pray that something picks me up
and sets me down in your warm arms."

"It seems like every story told about us isn't meant to be
You fly on wings of gold all the way back home to me"

"Give my gun away when it's loaded.
If you don't shoot it how am I supposed to hold it?"

Butte Pirates

this is a real name of a sports team, at least cracked.com says so.

cracked.com posts a pretty comprehensive list of the world's most ridiculous sports team names.

as a umd student, i am proud to be a terrapin, or a terp as we are sometimes known as.

spret if you go to a football game and watch them carry our proud name on the flags… backwards.

oh, but the moral of all that is our mascot is a turtle. an obscure one at that, and we didn't make the list. oh well.

"Vagina" screams textbook. "Vajayjay" says Facebook.

Let's talk about our cooches a little bit more.

I <3 Crazy Duets

Cher and David Bowie!

Contemplate Monkeys

Halloweeeeen!

Welll, I am always a little behind on the times, butttt yesterday was halloween! Which is always funn!

I went trick-or-treating for canned foods to donate to the Maryland Food Bank! Yay for doing good for the community!

This also gave me an opportunity to get dressed up, I was a pumpkin, and go trick-or-treating in general.

I also was just sent pictures of my cousin's little baby, Sammy, he was a monkey for halloween and the little girl who always shows up in pictures with him, who I have deemed his girlfriend (i think her name is emma, emily? je sais pas) was pepe le peu! soooo cute.



we also saw a baby elmo last night that was too cute for words. i am in full baby mode lately.

Your Pikachu?

An entire article on how the word va-jay-jay has entered the english languagee. funnn!

Yum

So Entertainment Weekly has up their list of the Ultimate Male Hotties.

I think yum covers it. Or at least this picture of Christian Bale.

Some choice picks…

Christian Bale (obvs)
Marlon Brando
Daniel Craig
James Dean
A young Clint Eastwood (check him out below)
Carey Grant
Rob Lowe
Mark Wahlberg

Mr. T's 8 Safety Tips

I know this list has gone around the internet, but I was recently sent it and I think that it's really important to read. Ps… Mr. T didn't really make these up. At least I don't think he did.

Tip #1

The elbow is the strongest point on your body. If you are attacked and are able to use it, please do so.

Tip #2
If a robber asks for your wallet and/or purse, do NOT hand it to him. Toss it away from you. Chances are he is more interested in your wallet and/or purse than you and he will go for whatever it is he is looking for. You should run in the opposite direction.

Tip #3
If you are ever thrown into the trunk of a car, kick out the back tail lights and stick your arm out the hole and start waving like crazy. The driver won't see you, but everyone else will.

Tip #4
Women have a tendency to get into their cars after shopping, eating, working, or whatever and just sit (doing their checkbooks or something else.) Don't do this. A lot of times a predator will sit and watch you, waiting for the perfect opportunity to attack. When you get to your car you should get in, lock the doors, and leave.

If someone is in the car with a gun to your head, don't drive off. Instead gun the engine and speed into anything, wrecking the car. Your air bag will save you. If the person is in the back seat they will get the worst of it. As soon as the car crashes bail and run. It is better than having them find your body in a remote location!

Tip #5
If you are going to your car in a parking lot or garage…
A. Be aware: look around you, look into your car, at the passenger side floor, and in the back seat.
B. If you are parked next to a big van, enter your car from the passenger door. Many serial killers attack their victims by pulling them into their vans while the women attempt to enter their cars.
C. Look at the car parked on the driver's side of your vehicle, and the passenger side. If a male is sitting alone in the seat nearest your car, you may want to walk back into the mall or office or wherever, and get a guard/police officer to walk you back out. It is always better to be safe than sorry. And better paranoid than dead.

Along the lines of car talk, if you are ever locked in a car but the keys are in the ignition obviously drive that van away from there. If there aren't keys in the ignition jam something into it, like a bobby pin or chewing gum, remember leaving the primary location is the worst situation possible, if he can't start his van, he'll have a much harder time transporting you.

Tip #6
Always take the elevator instead of the stairs. Stairwells are horrible places to be alone and the perfect crime spot. This is especially true at night.

Tip #7
If the predator has a gun you are not under his control. You should always run. A person aiming at a running target will only hit it 4 in 100 times and even then he probably won't hit a vital organ. So run, in a zig-zag pattern if you can.

Tip #8
As women, we are always trying to be sympathetic to others, don't. It may get you raped, or killed. Ted Bundy, the serial killer, was a good-looking, well educated man, who ALWAYS played on the sympathies of unsuspecting women. He walked with a cane, or a limp, and often asked "for help" into his vehicle or with his vehicle, which is when he abducted his next victim.

Gosh, I feel bad spreading fear, but these are just things to keep in mind. I guess.

Hoohahs!

So last night I was over in another dorm building visiting some friends and I bumped into my friend Ilana who is directing the school's production of the Vagina Monologues and she invited me to audition!

In all of my excitement I started looking up the monologues online (i left my copy of it at home, boo. had i only known last weekend I would have brought it with me! gah.) Anyways, in my my search I came across a link to boingboing.net which is like one of my favorite new sites to ogle at.

Anyways, it linked me to this article, the Hoohah Monologues, which obviously I found to be fabulously horrible, lol. love it.

Ps I figured out how to do html! ish! hahaha. I'll go edit stuff.

Campaign Goodies!

Their Looks for Fall 2008

NY Times looks at the candidates gift shoppiesss, my favorite parttt!

It's Almost Halloween!

This lady is scared of cotton balls, lol.

Enjoy.

Buffalo Springfield and the Environment

Bonnie Raittt! Jackson Browne! Ben Harper! Keb 'Mo! Some other people!

Of the people I recognize, totally love them, plus Buffalo Springfield is prettyy damn cool.

They are working for the environment, cool beans. But I kind of like them singing together a bit more, oh well, lol.

Stalking Just Got Easier!

Look at how happy they are to be violating another's privacy!

Kind of makes me hope they find out something really horrible while stalking their child or significant other.

If you click on Stalking Just Got Easier! up at the top it will link you to an article on the consumerist.com and a creepy eepy clip where some guy shows you which gadgets can help you "look after" your children. All of which is just code for, here is how you make sure someone isn't doing something you don't want them to be doing.

Apparently it's all legal. Even if used to watch someone who is not your child.

Je sais pas.

Disturbing.

Oh The Commons Shop

Weird Wares - News



The awesome thing is that I totally want the s'mores kit.

Oh and the vibrating condoms, too. But really, who doesn't want those?

Girls I Wouldn't Mind Looking Like and Boys I Have a Crush On

So, I have a paper or maybe two due tomorrow, so obviously it's almost 2AM and I am on a Juno jag, still.

This Juno Jag (I think I should copyright this phrase cause it's so damn catchy) has led me to two conclusions.

Conclusion A. I've been thinking this for a while now, but Michael Cera in a track suit just confirmed my suspicions of him being wonderful and fabulous and I totally have a big crush on him. All of his awkward talk show appearences have helped me come to this conclusion as well.



Conclusion B. I really would not mind looking like Ellen Page. She's really pretty. She's got great style too.



From what I can tell from the trailers for this movie, the two of them seem to have really great chemistry and all I got to say is that this movie better not dissapoint.

This Type of Stuff Still Exists?

Cause doing laundry and cleaning is so idyllic.

My New Guru

Today NPR's most emailed stories podcast included an essay by Barbara Held, entitled "A Positive Outlook is Overrated."

This women speaks the truth. She's also the author of "Stop Smiling, Start Kvetching." (I haven't figured out how to do italics yet, it says all I have to do is hit ctrl+I, but it ain't doin' nothin' so I'm a just put quotations around it. Deal.

Anyway, here is a link to her essay on npr.org.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15505690

I also haven't figured out how to make this a working link soooooo, sorry, lol.

Oh Japan…

So I found this on www.boingboing.net. Image courtesy of them as well.

An idea they are bouncing around over there to decrease the crime rate is to basically have women walk around wearing vending machine costumes soooo that if they feel threatened they can literally back up against a wall… and then pretend to be a vending machine to deter attackers.

I feel as though I really shouldn't be spreading this proposition much further, because even in all its silliness my mother or even the university may start suggesting it to prevent attacks.

woohoo!

There Is No Way to Get Past It

This is my obligatorily contrived first post. As the title suggests, there's really no alternative, so this will have to suffice as my stilted introduction.

Sooo… Bienvenidos, Bienvenue, Welcome…

My name is Katie, I am a second year student at the University of Maryland.

Hopefully I can use this blog to just post some interesting things that I have found in wanderings.

Starting with some pop culture stuff, I suppose.

I am dyinggg to see the new movie Juno, with Ellen Page, Michael Cera (GEORGE MICHAEL), Allison Janney, and Rainn Wilson, among others.

The trailer has me roped in already…

Vanessa Loring (Jennifer Garner): Your parents are probably wondering where you are.
Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page): Nah... I mean I'm already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?

the music seems pretty great as well so far, i suggest checking out this link…

http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/09/11/juno-movie-sountrack/

it has a listing of the tracks and lets you take a listen to a couple of the tracks and download them, one of which I believe is Ellen Page and Michael Cera covering the Moldy Peaches, which is pretty cool.

Anyways. I think that's about it. Hopefully pretty painless.