to make la mere happy...

...maybe this is who I should date! dodie - what say you?!?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/fashion/20speechwriter.html

OMFG

How good was MM? Ladies, I cannot wait for next season. seriously.

catching up on tee vee

so i finally got to catch up on gg and mm. ( i have unfortunately caught laryngitis and don't feel like leaving this house so it was the perfect time to watch my itunes.) in terms of gg, loved the shout-out to the hotness of stephen on the tudors. had to giggle at that one. but, why were they so obsessed with yale? i felt that yale must have paid them to feature the campus.
now on to mad men. when i saw the title of the episode, i couldn't wait to see if it would feature our favorite norwegian composer. and it did. was minorly disappointed that they felt the need to dialogue about it. as we well know from the wash post article, the average mad men viewer is part of that dreaded "intellectual elite" who has undue influence over our cultural sensibilities and should have a basic knowledge of classical music. (ps obama tries to watch mad men despite his hectic schedule!)
what say you, mes soeurs?

Seeing them tonight, whoo hoo!

The political atmosphere

has made me nostalgic for the early years of West Wing and because Borders is having a buy two get one free sale for DVDs, I went and got the first three seasons. Oh West Wing. Why is television not this smart anymore?

I brought my new baby home today...

Isn't she adorable? So thin! So shiny! So full of available memory! I'm in heaven!

Angie is so great

Love her foundation work. Love that she is working to take care of the children of undocumented workers here in the US.

Go Sox!

am sooo excited. are you guys watching???

"your days of blowing off my letters are over"

Said Waxman to Condi. read this for why you should love your congressman, Charles.

A few things SNL related

Cause what with all the politics going on, and actually funny people on the show, i've started watching again...first of all, is EVERYONE in the world at 30 Rock tonight? I mean, jeez, everyone is there! Also, did you see who they have next week????? Coldplay and our favorite mad man??? OMG I cannot effing wait!!!

November 25th! Who's excited?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L_ygkK__Ak

Where might one find a jacket such as this, do you suppose? Or maybe he made it himself? I mean, do you just wake up one day and say 'I know, I should wear a jacket with epaulets! Not just any epaulets- feathered epaulets!'

Ah, gotta love Brandon Flowers. Can't wait for the album, especially since now I have a boy who'll go see them in concert with me. Sigh. One more month.

You must go see!!

I loooooved it. But then again we have ALWAYS been fans. Also, new favorite actor is in it. He played Septimus in Stardust. he is awesome. in this and in body of lies. must find something to cast him in.

!@#$%^&

So, another reason why my computer sucks: Today it reset my Ipod to "factory settings" which essentially means that it erases everything on it. I mean, my music and everything are all still in my Itunes, but do you know how long it takes to upload 3,845 songs? Grrrrr.

Putin rears his head and comes into the air space

I love this image of Putin as some sort of sinister, menacing celestial being

Such awesomeness

Ok, I am relieved to see that someone else has such an unhealthy obsession with MAD MEN as I do!! Please check this out, its amazing! http://www.flickr.com/photos/nobodyssweetheart/sets/72157606178887453/

I suspect that Jed Lowrie is in fact 12.

Right??? They just keep getting younger...or I keep getting older. Its disturbing.

Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator

this is great. Ha Ha.
http://politsk.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah_13.html
I would be named Beans Harpoon Palin. Arrgh.

Oh Bostonites...

So whichever cast member this (Andy Samberg? um, why can't I tell? oh yeah...haven't watched SNL in years until this year), anyways, whoever this is doesn't really look anything like Mark Wahlberg, but he has the way he speaks down pat. And I know this is a stupid sketch, but its really kind of funny I though. Watch it! http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/mark-wahlberg-talks-to-animals/727504/

How did we miss this one?

Um, read the description and who is in it...it appears to be an ara special (since he reps both actors). Anyways...so odd!

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/justburied/

Amanda Palmer vs Feist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6En8zrrPZnQ&feature=related

Time to take the plunge

Went to the Apple store today and talked to one of the Mac Genius' (Geniuses? Geni?) about which computer I should buy into order to become a digital photo wiz, and was steered towards the Macbook Pro, although he said I'd be fine with the 15" 2.4 GHz version.

The Facts Are These: I can get an apartment now and cross my fingers that my computer won't die in the next couple of months, or I can get the computer and possibly a digital camera now, and move out after the madness of the holidays, in Jan or Feb. I'm leaning towards Option B since my computer crashed twice today, and La Mere has been acting jumpy lately and I'm not sure she could take the news of me leaving (she didn't put any plants in La Pere's room because she doesn't want to go in there), and I'm feeling pretty good after my awesome vacation.

What do you guys think?

(oh and P.S. my genius was named Kumar, which was completely brilz)

No more mustache?

Watch the press conference on the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes. RDJ looks great and am soooo excited Rachel McAdams is in it!

Oddly, neither of the 'Rents noticed this when it happened...

Body in Fort Pond Brook still not identified
By Christian Schiavone/Staff Writer
Thu Sep 25, 2008, 07:27 PM EDT

Acton, Mass. -

Police have yet to determine the identity of a man found dead in Fort Pond Brook off River Street late Wednesday afternoon and are awaiting autopsy results from the state medical examiner’s office.

Two teenagers discovered the body after they spotted a bottle of vodka near the brook while walking along the train tracks and went for a closer look, according to police. After finding the man face down in the water, they rushed to a nearby house and called 911 at 5:22 p.m.

Lt. Robert Parisi, a spokesman for the department, said police found no identification on the body, which appeared to have been in the water for some time.

Parisi said the body was too badly decomposed for officers to determine even a rough estimate of the man’s age.

“We're going to find out exactly what happened,” Lt. Tom Rogers told a reporter at the scene on Wednesday night.

Acton police and firefighters as well as State Police were on the scene until after 9 p.m.

Am I a genius, or what?

So La Mere has been kinda depressed all week-not even going to Joe's and bitching about Sarah Palin cheered her up, which was kind of worrisome. Later I was talking to Nancy at work (who also runs a Blockbuster) about my vacation and mentioned that I'd just read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and was thinking of re-watching the movie, and she goes "Oh yeah, we just got 21 Jump Street at the store, you gotta see it, it's hilarious." So she lent it to me and I gotta say that mom seemed pretty excited- I mean, come on, this is a woman who watches every single procedural cop show, including occasionally British ones on PBS, and who also owns practically every Johnny Depp movie ever. If this doesn't cheer her up, I don't know what will.
Seriously though, keep an eye out (or rather an ear) 'cause I'm a bit afraid that this is the beginning of a downward spiral.