It's all about the Yummy Sushi pajamas

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1) I'm getting antsy for my Yuletide Fic Exchange assignment!!! I can't wait to see what my writing choices are!

2) I finished the first of the Holiday gifts this morning. I still have 90 yds of yarn on the skein, but that's not enough for another scarf/neckwarmer. I'm regretting not bringing the beginnings of the next knitted gift. In the office 'til 6.

3) Rehearsals for The Giver begin on Tuesday and the producer hasn't e-mailed us the PDF sheetmusic yet. I hope he doesn't give it to us for the first time at the first rehearsal. That would suck.

4) I'm trying to pin down a time to spend time with the guy friend I told you about a bit ago. I know that it's irrational and it won't change anything (I've worked so hard to learn that it's not my appearance, but my personality that should matter to me), but part of me is kinda excited that he'll see me now that I'm so thin. The little-girl-still-believes-farytales part of me thinks that he will finally see me as a possible romantic partner now that I've adapted to societal dictates of desirability.
Fucked up, right?

Anyway... The first person who can tell me where the title of this post came from will get the knitted accessory of their choice!
1:25 PM- Boo, got it!

we were in the middle of a move and had no internet access for most of october. :-(

i'm interested in a room at either the marriott or hyatt, checking in on either thursday or friday, and checking out on monday.

if you can help me out, please email lafemmedesfemmes at gmail dot com.

thanks!

( You know you want to read them... I'm just making you WORK for it. )

My daily Twitter posts:

• 10:41 Whew! Finally settled into teh new office cube space.....moving is a real pain! #
• 11:36 @zianeu - it is bigger by about 1/3, so that is nice. #
• 12:01 @seelix - having been on an Avengers kick for teh past few days....I say got with MRSPEEL #
• 14:05 ::: headdesk ::: I just love that other folks here don't mind the fact that their not doing something is totally fracking up my work! #
• 14:48 I swear if I get wound any tighter today I'm gonna snap #
• 14:54 @zianeu - oh I've been accused of being anything BUT a "team player"! #
• 14:59 @daniinnc - heh....good point! :P #
• 15:01 @zianeu - I am more of the "give me a job to do, and then get the hell outta my way and let me get it done" kinda player. #
• 15:16 @wonderjenn - bosslady....I've got teh first round! #
• 15:24 Yay! Just got a pick-me-up....listening to The Babylon Podcast #178, and heard the promo for @TheGeekSpin. (Yeah........I'm a dork) #
• 15:24 @jtindiepodcast - congrats bud, and good luck! #
• 15:40 @nscottg - plus.....Netflix streaming now too! #
• 16:07 Why the folks here at work think I am a geek: yfrog.com/13v2yfj #
• 18:05 Well...poo. Stayed over a bit to help our VP move her office to teh new space, and she had a new spare docking station for Dell laptops .... #
• 18:05 .....she was cool enough to give it to me when I mentioned having a Dell laptop. Got home, and while the spare power supply I have ..... #
• 18:05 ....works with it, the actual dock is not compatible with the model laptop I have. (Inspiron 1501) #
• 18:06 @tdrury - Looks like you are pimping an upcoming ep of Sarah Jane as well juding by the poster next to your mirror! #
• 18:08 @tdrury - well...to be honest....the ep is sitting on my drive right now....just haven't watched it yet. #
• 18:09 @tdrury ....I dunno how those keep popping up on my drives! I have a feeling one will be appearing in a couple days too. #
• 18:17 @clq - nah...you won't need luck. All my clean installs went pretty damn smoothly. #
• 18:31 @wonderjenn - ah man...that would be perfect for another Drunken Dollhouse Podcast! #
• 19:49 @wonderjenn - bleah....not a tea fan sweet or otherwise #
• 19:57 RT: @dollhousecast - Think we could sic her on some execs at FOX? xkcd.com/311/ #BradPost #
• 21:54 @longklaw - yes go for it. Works just fine on a 3-4 year old lappy we have here. #
• 23:06 @drkiki - sounds like a geek nirvanna to me! #
• 00:01 @RoboVampire - thought you had that already #
• 00:12 Debating watching more Avengers on Netflix or go to bed. #

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It was movie night at the parents. This has been an ongoing ritual for the better part of the summer. We find something (rented, bought, cable, whatever) old or new and just sit back and enjoy. Tonight, we squeezed in a triple feature. There really was no rhyme or theme, except movies 1 and 3 had Javier Bardem in them. Other than that, different genres, different directors, different tones. It was nice.

First, we caught the last hour of No Country for Old Men. Second viewing of it for me. Still creepy, and easily recognizable as a Coen Brothers' film. I could tell it was from the kitchen, just from the cadence of the dialogue.

Then, it was a selection from the five films I brought tonight. The Blockbuster on the way home is closing and they were $3.99. Couldn't pass them up.

Parents had not seen Split Second before, so in it went. Now, SS is a strange little film in that it doesn't quite know what it is. Is it a murder mystery, a horror film, a sci fi film, a comedy, or a buddy film? The answer is yes, it is all of those. It's not a great film, it's not even a good film. I find it oddly charming despite the body count. And it has Rutger Hauer in it. And in the end we learn that anything can be taken care of as long as we have big-ass guns.

The last film for the evening was Vicky Christina Barcelona. Which, considering I went into the film hating the two name actresses, was easily on the precipice of my twitchy eject button-pushin' finger. And yet I came out of it really enjoying it. I can see why Penelope Cruz won the Oscar, and I've gained more respect for her. But Scarlett Johansson... aside from her figure, how has she made it in Hollywood? She's a fucking awful actress, and she sucked the life out of a character that was suppose to be taking chances and full of life. She and the incredibly annoying narrator were the worst things about it.

And that's about it. Three movies in one night. Fun times.

Dad's perfectly fine. Not just for a 63 year old man, either. He's perfectly fine for a 33 year old man!
He doesn't take any meds for blood pressure/heart issues/heartburn, etc... he just eats lots of vegetables and fruit and doesn't eat much red meat.
The doctors were astounded.
He wasn't loopy after coming out of the anesthetic, but he was acting like he'd had 3 glasses of wine. So, a bit slow on the uptake, but not woozy or anything.
He sat in the house and watched soccer while I went out and ran errands.

I am nearly finished with the first Yule present!! 30 rows (every row decreased by 1 stitch) and it will be done :) I started it on Tuesday. Not bad at all.

Now sleep. I have work tomorrow :)

Okay, I came downstairs intending to clean up the kitchen and then the living room - and looked in here at the computer room.

WTF? I cleaned up this room yesterday! Okay, maybe it was the day before yesterday. But no more than that! I worked hard at it! It looked great! Why does it look awful now?

Right, because I have a household of 6, 3 of whom are energetic children, we're all packrats, and the three adults are happy busy gamer geeks.

WTB a house brownie. Will promise to faithfully leave out bowls of milk, honest.

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2009-11-13/open-thread-what-is-your-all-time-worst-dvr-space-eater/

http://www.bestweekever.tv/?p=47401

Over the past week, I’ve noticed that my DVR has been strangely full to the point where I have to delete like three things just about every time I record anything. Last night, I vowed to unearth the root of this problem, and it only took me about four seconds to figure out what had happened:

I Season-Passed the Ken Burns “National Parks” PBS Documentary Series last month. In HD. And designated it “Save Until Manually Deleted.”

This was tying up roughly… 99.9999999999% of the total space on my DVR, and yet, as I stared at the episode descriptions, I could not in good conscience delete something that I not only was positive I’d love, but that also seemed so literate and valuable compared to the rest of the stuff I usually DVR (e.g., regular season NHL games, every HBO series regardless of how behind I am, and funny one-second things that happened during NFL broadcasts that I can’t bring myself to erase). I know I’ll never delete National Parks for this exact reason, but I also know that I’ll NEVER decide that it’s time to start watching this 1,000-hour commercial-free documentary about land. I’m resigned to having it on my DVR until the end of time.

This brings me to our question for the weekend:

What is your all-time worst DVR space taker-upper?

Movie you never felt like watching? Entire series you know you’ll like but never got around to starting? Memorable event that you just save on your DVR forever out of principle? Ken Burns’ National Parks documentary? And if you don’t have Tivo or a DVR, then…wow. Get one.

Leave your favorite DVR-ruiners in the comments.

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2009-11-13/adam-sandler-please-tell-us-the-grown-ups-trailer-is-just-a-brilliant-parody-please/

http://www.bestweekever.tv/?p=47380

After watching this trailer for the new Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider and David Spade movie Grown Ups, I am strangely getting pretty psyched to see Old Dogs:

Wow. I feel like I’m missing something here. Is this a pitch perfect mockery of everything bad about Hollywood comedies? I know every one one of these actors has been in a terrible movie or two before, but there’s no way they’d join forces and make movie with a hacky title like Grown Ups, right?

Between the Disney narration to that shot of “the guys” laughing and drinking wine in a cemetary to Kevin James hitting that tree, someone at some point HAD to have said something along the lines of, “We’ll show those jerks on the internet how you make a fake cheesy movie trailer!” These guys are professional comedians. They don’t actually expect us to believe this movie would be a good way to spend two hours and $13… right?

To Chris Rock’s credit, he looks pretty embarrassed to be involved at all. Also, I’m guessing they passed on these titles:

Adults

Older People

Middle Aged Family Men

Growin’ Old

Mature Human Beings

The Untitled Adam Sandler Project He’s Contractually Obligated To Make But Not Contractually Obligated To Put An Ounce Of Original Thought In To

Via Dan:

When Will Dude From Grandma’s Boy Show Up

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2009-11-13/eva-mendes-continues-appearing-topless-to-maintain-our-interest-in-her/

http://www.bestweekever.tv/?p=47378

Eva Mendes may not be “that interesting,” per se, but she’s at least aware of Hollywood’s raging indifference towards averagely-talented but really attractive actresses, and rather than just maintain her fame solely through pointless gossip magazine headlines, she takes a far more proactive approach and just appears topless a whole bunch of times:

Eh, not super-naked here, but it beats Us Weekly covers about “Eva’s steamy affair with name you only know from previous Us Weekly covers!” Nice to see Jessica Alba appears to be accepting the same inevitable naked fate.

Also, apologies for the strangely hetero-male posts the past couple days; I’m sure Michelle will be back to dude it up soon enough.

More pics of Eva’s topless jeans somethingerother:

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2009-11-13/video-hits-one-rihannas-russian-roulette-full-of-torment-cleavage/

http://www.bestweekever.tv/?p=47376

Here’s the premiere of Rihanna’s “Russian Roulette” music video, in which a distraught Rihanna attempts to endure Hannibal Lecter’s holding cell by displaying an array of various cleavage arrangements. Nice to see she’s landed on her feet:

(via ONTD)

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2009-11-13/30-rock-even-padma-cant-get-between-liz-and-jack/

http://www.bestweekever.tv/?p=47369

Padma Lakshmi hopped on board the 30 Rock cameo train last night (not a real train, unfortunately), confusing my brain with a weird 30 Rock / Top Chef “Things I Like” combo not entirely unlike the pizza / waffles box that Kenneth gleefully revealed to Tracy:

In general, it was a standardly funny episode (not much need to even point that out anymore), but concluded on a legitimately touching note, perhaps drawing us ever-closer to the Jack & Liz coupling that will never happen but would blow away any Ross/Rachel, Casey/Dana, Skinner/Krabappel “finally getting together” tv moment.

Here’s Padma’s appearance (anyone notice that she’s really hot? I think I’m the only one), followed by the eventual Jack & Liz romantic-comedy business reconciliation:

Episode thoughts? Favorite Lines? Comment away (if the comments haven’t intermittently disappeared, which they’ve tended to do)

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2009-11-13/this-banner-ad-already-ruined-my-friday/

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Just came across this banner ad on a news site, and I’m already bummed out for the weekend. Thanks, cryptic dog warning people!

It was some ad for veterinary somethingerother, which I will now never use because it wants me to mentally picture that happy dog having his hopes and dreams dashed by a slipped spinal disc that he don’t even comprehend. He’s just gonna be all like “Whimper whimper, I don’t understand why I’m hurting but I’m still gonna try to smile because I’m a dog, but can you help me??”

THAT’S IT – I’m getting hammered this weekend. Thanks internet.

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http://www.bestweekever.tv/2009-11-13/wanna-work-with-will-i-am-help-him-remix-lmfao%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cla-la-la%e2%80%9d-2/

http://www.bestweekever.tv/?p=47347

Attention all aspiring DJs: Want to work with Will.I.Am? Calm down, we all do. That’s why you have to prove that your worth it, in the Pepsi Refresh Studio Challenge. Here’s how it works:

Head over to the Pepsi Refresh Studio. There, you’ll have the opportunity to remix LMFAO’s club hit “La La La.” Do whatever you want with it, be creative, and make it sound good. Click on the above video to hear LMFAO explain the rules to you themselves.

Then, Will.I.Am of the Black Eyed Peas will review the submissions, pick his favorite, add his own special flair, and make that the OFFICIAL remix. You can check out other examples over on their Youtube page. Or check out the above amazing remix by LALALANYO for inspiration.

You can learn more about the contest from the mouths of LMFAO ahead.

Think you can top the others? Enter the Refresh Studio here!

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2009-11-13/cbs-taps-the-who-to-play-all-your-favorite-csi-theme-songs-at-super-bowl-xliv/

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There are reports today that legendary TV theme writers The Who will be playing the Super Bowl halftime show this February. It is probably just a coincidence that CBS, who will broadcast this year’s game, is also home the CSI franchises that rocketed The Who to theme song stardom. The network just wants to put on a good show for America, and what goes better with chicken wings and nachos than cop show theme songs?? NOTHING!

Why it was just the other day I was locked in a late night debate over whether or not The Who are the greatest writers of TV show theme songs of all time. Personally, I still think John Tesh’s “NBA on NBC Theme” gives him the title, but The Who have nostalgia on their side. Just think how many people probably lost their virginity during the opening credits of a CSI: NY rerun this week alone. Hey, maybe they’ll even cover the NCIS: LA theme! That would be better than a hundred Bruce Springsteen crotch slides!

Kudos, CBS. And you get bonus points for the fact that Super Bowl XLIV is in Miami. I hope all your advertising looks like this:

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2009-11-13/miracle-whip-embraces-its-terrible-ad-campaign-declares-war-on-stephen-colbert/

http://www.bestweekever.tv/?p=47341

A couple weeks ago, Stephen Colbert responded to Miracle Whip’s XXXXXtreeeeeme!!!!! mayo-bashing ad campaign with a youth-targeting ad of his own proving that mayonnaise is, in fact, the most SKAAAATEBOARD WOOOOOO!!!! condiment of them all.

This week, Miracle Whip responded to Colbert with this inflammatory memo:

It’s nice to see the Miracle Whip people at least acknowledge and embrace the ridiculousness of their original campaign, as well as to recognize the potential publicity explosion of getting into a condiment war with Colbert Nation (albeit one they will assuredly lose).

I would’ve expected their response to have come in the form of some disheartened legal document humorlessly clarifying the errors in Colbert’s broadcast, but that would’ve just been TOO MAYO. Your move, Colbert.

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2009-11-13/while-you-were-again-holding-out-hope-for-jack-and-liz-together/

http://www.bestweekever.tv/?p=47334

• Daniel Radcliffe was allegedly photographed smoking weed at a party and walking around blurting “I love weed!” Kids are likely to be disappointed by this news, not because he’s a children’s movie star smoking pot, but because of how incredibly uncool he sounded.
• Martin Scorsese will accept this year’s Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes. The presentation is expected to be spectacular but probably deserve about 20 minutes cut out of it.
• ABC is planning a modern adaptation of the classic tv action show Charlie’s Angels, a thing which has never been done before.
• The director of Twilight semi-confirmed that Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are, in fact, dating. Man, with these rumors swirling, New Moon might actually do pretty well at the box office.
• And finally, Megan Fox reveals the Michael Bay / Hitler joke that was cut from SNL before the taping, presumably because it was too offensive to both Bay and Hitler.

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