Allyson, sorry Dane ruined the show - and wish you had not been subjected to the sustained misogny.
Beverly, wood burning fireplaces or wood stoves placed in an outer wall warm you about two feet from the fireplace and noplace else in my experience. For a fireplace or wood stove to take the edge off, it needs to be inside the room, naturally with a stove pipe to carry off the smoke.
Also fireplaces and wood stoves are very polluting. If they are sealed units, meaning no smoke in the house, then the pollution mainly hurts your neighbors. If they are a classic fireplace or wood stove with air interchange in the room then they hurt you as well. People with wood heat statistically have more respiratory problems than people with electric or gas heat. (Coal heat causes similar health problems.)
I met a bunch of people for brunch at Table Fifty Two this morning and then went to Target for a couple of things. The Pride Parade started at noon right outside the Target I went to, so I caught the tail end of it.
It's hotter than I was expecting, so now I'm a sweaty mess. I was already feeling delicate thanks to a migraine yesterday. Man, I was a total failboat yesterday. Made coffee and
didn't put the coffee mug
under the drip, and I think that we all can agree that a receptacle is an important part of the coffee-making process.
I have no idea who Dane Cook is, but clearly my life is the better for it. yeeps.
my hunch that Wonder Woman is targeted younger than Catwoman is.
I would agree with that hunch. Franny wanted to dress up as WW for Halloween when she was 6.
Lee, let's say I'm good with up past here even, to here.
I need to work out a site title graphic. Can I just go with some sort of font stylings, or does there need to be a beard in it? I went with subject matter for the spectacle site and the skirts, and thematic for the women, and just plain text for most of the rest. Dunno. Dunno. I was gonna go with a literal Platonic beard, but that's really just wanking.
Last week, I don't remember who was on Graham Norton, but it was one of the few times I turned it off, because it was a combo of boring and irritating--usually he's good enough to overcome one or the other, but put those two together and add my lack of knowledge--snoozefest.
This week...OMG Russell Brand. And Emily Blunt--she's precisely that, blunt. And hysterical. And they start off insulting each other, and it's just audiencey goodness.
You know, I think the one I turned off was Katy Perry, now that I think about it...yeah. I know who got the friends in this breakup.
For some reason, I'm looking at Leeloo cosplay, and it is the most consistently near-porn costume I can think of--while she's less sexual, than, say, Emma Frost, precious few women have that boyish and slim a figure, so they all look one hiccough away from multiple NC-17 wardrobe malfunctions. It's mesmerising.
Of course, a decent number of women are taking it straight to NSFW, with stripping, or the outfit being body paint (the white bandage one, not the orange rubber strap one). Wow, Leeloo. She's clearly too curvy to be accurate, but she's hot.
OMG. Christina Hendricks cosplaying Leeloo.
Okay, I'm getting as creepy as the guy that runs the tumblr now. I don't even know why I started doing this. I don't even like the movie. God, internet, what's your deal?
Allyson, what are you going to do in order to negate the effect you had on the universe by paying into Dane Cook's pocketbook? This requires atonement far and beyond the torture of experiencing his set.
Speaking of which, I think I'd love to see a Russell Brand live show. I think he's my sort of asshole. They're bleeping out so much of this bit that I have absolutely no idea without lipreading what they're even saying. A good 20% of the segment.
The Annenberg photo gallery is advertising an upcoming show called "Who Shot Rock And Roll" on Pico near me, and that title is over John Lennon and Kurt Cobain's pictures, and I really didn't understand that the show was not entirely tasteless until I reached Tina Turner, but even so--way to go to deliberately fire off certain sequences of neurons in my brain guys. I definitely remember this show more than any since the one with Serena Williams in a swimsuit. But they're not even using any of those pics on the website. Hmmph.
I need to work out a site title graphic. Can I just go with some sort of font stylings, or does there need to be a beard in it? I went with subject matter for the spectacle site and the skirts, and thematic for the women, and just plain text for most of the rest. Dunno. Dunno. I was gonna go with a literal Platonic beard, but that's really just wanking.
Photo of Alan Moore, perhaps?
Alex Trebek is hospitalized after having a mild heart attack.
Thanks, Matt, for setting back the cause of sexy facial hair another decade. I'm trying to help here.
Tom, I can't believe that Star Riders concept is in the 90s. That so seems like an 80s miscalculation. It's pretty horrifying. Think of all the poor vulnerable girls that could have been contaminated by that one chick who looks like she's sticking her ass into a flower.
Allyson, what are you going to do in order to negate the effect you had on the universe by paying into Dane Cook's pocketbook? This requires atonement far and beyond the torture of experiencing his set.
I don't understand why the Laugh Factory keeps allowing him to ruin people's nights. Clearly, the majority of the audience didn't enjoy the set. And I saw at least one of the better comedians had bailed before Cook had finished. I don't know if it's as common as I think it is, but from the comedy shows I've seen the comics preceding the headliner stick around, and seem to support each other.
the comics preceding the headliner stick around, and seem to support each other
That's certainly standup etiquette as I know it, but Montreal was peculiarly high profile and backwater at the same time. Two English speaking comedy clubs in the entire city, and they were within easy walking distance of each other. Such a minefield.
But so fun! I miss comedy sometimes, even as I understand I had to run away from it to save my sanity.
I think this is an interesting list, and I encourage people to make immediate and continuing use of the information.
My mother's response to my Batjacket was "You know, in my head, you're too old for that stuff."
Yeah, I know. But it's sure better than a coke habit.
