9/17/06

This was today's Gospel Acclaimation.  I don't get it.  I don't understand the phrasing.  Somebody explain it to me.

May I never boast, except in the cross of the Lord.

The post below has been modified for greater lucidity. PSA: Don't blog if you've been drinking.

9/16/06

I saw Kevin Nealon tonight, and if you are not jealous, you are dumb.  Or you were there.  One of the two.

I went to Westport with Gretchen & Frank & Kelly & Pat & Pat's child bride, Kristy.  Christy?  Kristee?  I don't know.  We started out with dinner at Ozzie's.  We intended to get tickets first, but they were sold out.  Told us to come back at 10 (when the show starts) to see if any of the reserves cancelled.  It took almost half an hour to get a group of six seated.  Point of information:  it is hard, very hard, to get seated at a sports bar when there are multiple football games on.  The manager came out and apologized to us for our wait, but he didn't offer us anything.  Oh well.  The food was good and plentiful.

We went back over the the funny bone, and got some seats.  While we were waiting, we saw Kevin Nealon wandering around outside, talking on his cell phone.  Gretchen desperately wanted me to go out and bother him.  But I'm very shy, so I didn't want to.

Then Gretchen saw him loitering around the bar, and she wanted me to "go to the bathroom" with her.  But I had to go, so I said yes.  When we came back, Pat asked if I kissed him on the cheek, or went for the lips.  But since I have to take it to the next level, I said, "Screw that, I blew him in the hallway."  Inappropriate.

I think people misunderstand my affection for Kevin Nealon.  I am not attracted to Kevin Nealon, I just think he's really funny.  Quote from Gretchen, "He's cute, I'd do him."

Here are some very blurry cell phone pictures:

Here is a some drunk chick who got all up in the camera:

It was a good night for comedy.  BBC America had 4 hours of Eddie Izzard stand-up.

From a Kentucky tourism commercial: "Kentuckey has more shoreline than Florida."  What?  Kentucky's landlocked.  Fricking liars.  (And if they're including lakes and rivers, they're still lying, because Florida is fricking full of lakes.)

My car is fine.  I hit the brakes before the jerkfaces had a chance to do any damage.

The title of this post is taken from an old episode of SNL where Tim Meadows as Ike Turner is apologizing to Kevin Nealon for striking him in anger.  I do not personally LOVE Kevin Nealon.  I just think he is cool.

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9/12/06

John Mayer, you are a weird kid. 

Katie & I went to see John Mayer & Sheryl Crowe on Sunday night.  The above was his introduction to the song I Don't Trust Myself (With Loving You).  He did a few of those.  The first time he started out with "This song is about what makes time travel possible."  I was confused.  I didn't know John Mayer had a Flux Capacitor song.  Turns out My Stupid Mouth is about time travel.  You know, "how time is not linear.  String theory."

Also, the hair is getting far too long.  He was so adorable when he first came on the scene and now the hair's starting to look girly.  Like a damned dirty hippie.

Plus, he makes weird faces when he sings:

This is not one of those "caught at a weird moment" things.  This is basically his constant singing face.

Katie mentioned him dating Jessica Simpson, and I told her about how he had a fit about how she was just using him for publicity.

Did you hear about John Mayer's "If You Date John Mayer" list?  From a Rolling Stone interview: "Twenty-four-hour phone-sex assistance. If there's a cute girl in the front row, I'm gonna run off stage and call you."  "You have to run every single fantasy you've ever had through me. You'll never cheat. You see a cute guy at the gym, I'll be him. Or we'll get him. I don't care." 

If I haven't mentioned it before--weird kid.

Which prompted the conversation of: If you were dating a rock star/musician who toured, at what point in the relationship would you feel comfortable quitting your job to travel along.  And what would you do?  Because I think there would be a lot of boring time along the way.  Katie & I would both write.  Either try at a book, or try to sell a column to a music/entertainment magazine.  I'm going to call my column "Along for the Ride" and I have stated it in my blog, so it is officially mine, do not try to steal it.  Just because it's based on a theoretical relationship does not mean it's not mine, mkay?  :)

Sheryl Crowe sounds different live.  Her voice isn't as deep.  I wonder if they do that with editing, or if she just tries harder to sound like that on the albums.  She brought out JM to do the boy part on Favorite Mistake.  Katie spent the whole performance dreading All I Wanna Do.  "Oh no, this is it."  No it isn't.  She didn't play it.  I heard once that song is about how much she hated St. Louis, so maybe not appropriate for the venue.

But beforehand we had dinner at Dave & Buster's.  We were the queens of all trivianess.  I like skeeball better (which we also played), but the trivia gets more tickets.  In the end, our tickets bought these awesome guns (two each):

And a bunch of giant pixy stix (and a massive sugar rush at the concert).

I took my guns to work.  They work beautifully.  I can shoot the door (or people coming in the door) from my desk.  Plus the dart is sticky.  Like a Wacky Wall Walker.

On Monday, I was at my desk, and Last Dance by Donna Summer came on the radio.  Since that is a good morning song, I went into Chris's office and we had an impromptu dance party.  That is the only thing of note to happen at work this week.  Tomorrow is no bosses day.

Had dinner out last night with Debbie & some of the women from the last place Debbie & I worked together.  It was a fun evening.  Got to hear all kinds of horror stories.  Too, too amusing.

Six votes in the poll so far.  Not enough to decide.  Vote in the poll.  Diddy wants you to.

The Gilmore Girls are very important to him.

It's DVD Tuesday!  Grey's Anatomy & The Office both came out on DVD today.  Best Buy has the best price on Grey's Anatomy that I found, if anybody was looking.  Next week is Gilmore Girls Season Six (best $ at Walmart).

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9/9/06

I've got this weird thing, it doesn't happen all the time, but enough to be annoying, where I end up folding my ear while I'm asleep and when I wake up my ear hurts like demons live in it.  It's so sore that rubbing it actually hurts more, so I just have to wince for a while.

Have you ever heard of that?  Does that ever happen to you?

I've spent the weekend watching Gilmore Girls Season Five, cleaning, destroying some electronics, giving myself spa treatments, etcetera. 

"You did what?"

Yeah, a whole big pedicure foot spa treatment.  It was great.  Six steps: a soak, a scrub, sanding, callus lotion, balm, regular lotion...

"No, no, no, 'splain the bit about the 'destroying electronics.'"

Oh, that.  My external CD drive was being a jerk, and now it's a dead jerk.  I probably didn't do anything (yet) that can't be undone, but I did remove the sticker that voids the warranty.  Not that it's a big deal, because I'm sure it's way older than the warranty would ever cover PLUS it stopped working entirely about a week ago.

The reason that I felt no qualms about busting it open was that it wasn't working at all.  The worst part of that being that it died with a CD inside it--a CD that belongs to the St. Louis County Library.  Somehow, I don't think they would be interested in receiving back the 17 CD audio book without disc 11.  I think the next recipient would somehow find it lacking.

And despite all my dismantling, look at this:

See that green bit through the window of the metal box?  That's disc 11.  Despite all of my abundant raw strength--stop laughing, it's not that funny--the last little bit of dismantling (apparently the crucial bit) is beyond me.  It needs a screwdriver with a star-shaped tip.  I need that to get the bottom piece of plastic off, so that I can access the other two screws that will let me get the metal casing off and get to the CD.  How annoying.  But Katie is wicked handy (and has more tools than the rest of the girls I know combined--I think), and has something that (we hope) will work.

I love the Gilmore Girls.  Love it.  So imagine how freaking excited I was when Jen told me that the only (currently released) season I didn't own was on sale for super cheap at Target.  Ran right out to purchase my very own copy.

I've always sort of thought of myself as pleasantly naive, particularly about crude references.  This season of Gilmore Girls has an excellent example of what I mean.

There's an episode that ends with Logan climbing in Rory's window at Yale and there is kissing (etc.) and the following dialogue:

--Rory, you want me to go?
--No.
--Good, because if you think climbing in that window was hard...

Which then inspired the following dialogue in my life:

--Eww.
--What?  It's sweet, he doesn't want to leave her.
--Uh, no.  Hard?
--Gasp! NO!  That is NOT what he was saying!  It would be hard to leave!
--No.

I just feel like that's a little "blue" for the Palladinos (the writer / director / creators of the show).  Nobody talks like that on this show.

So, question:

From the commentary:

--We originally cast, as Lane's love interest in the band, Adam Brody. 
--What happened to him?
--He's on a show called "The Ock."  I don't know what that means.
--Sounds kind of science-fiction-y.

See?  They miss Dave too!  I am going to take this to mean that if the OC hadn't stolen him away, Lane would have married Dave instead of stupid old Zack.

OOH!  Guess what?  I was watching The N last night, and saw the teaser for the next season of Degrassi, and guess what???  SEAN'S BACK!  For real.  Not just on the internet like last time.

He's coming back for Emma, it's gonna be awesome!

Ready for the sad part?  Season premiere on 9/29.  I know that doesn't sound tragic, but that's while I'm in FLORIDA!!  Gilmore Girls AND Degrassi are going to premiere while I'm gone.  I'm going to have to figure out the timers on the digital cable.

The N has the best quizzes:

Cameron's the best one!  I'm excited.

I think I'm going to do a facial today, too.

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