hair

so i keep losing hairs in the shower.  some of these hairs are grey.  nothing like your head not being able to decide whether to go bald or grey to make you feel old...

basement

every filene's basement i have ever seen has been on the 2nd floor.  is this an intentional irony or just a peculiar oversight in commercial planning?

Boombox

i want.

source: treehugger

football

offsides on the defense, false start on the offense...

why, ref, do you need to tell me whether it's on the offense or the defense, when the terms are already different depending on the side?  this has puzzled me for years.

i would also like to take this moment to bitch at television for not airing a single Tech game up here, despite us being #7 in the country.  I have seen sooooo many crappier games,  many of which are just as far away.  and i've seen pretty much every UT game.  now yeah i like watching UT, but they get EVERY game up here? (even back when they were #11) and we get NONE.  television, someone damn well better air the Tech/UT game at least, if not the Tech/Kansas game.

start wearing purple

so those familiar with self-proclaimed "gypsy punks" Gogol Bordello will recognize the call to don the historically regal color purple. Lead singer/songwriter Eugene Hutz has been proclaiming "start wearing purple" since their first single in 1999.

"start wearing purple, wearing purple
start wearing purple for me now
all your sanity and wits they will all vanish
i promise, it's just a matter of time"

well as of Sept 15th, Yahoo seems to have jumped on the purple wagon. They have launched a new campaign, "Start Wearing Purple," which is meant to capitolize on the color's association with "innovation and imagination." apparently it's also been the "official color" of Yahoo for some time now. the website, www.startwearingpurple.yahoo.com (it's not worth going to), is a smorgasborg of media; photos, video, blogs, all linked around the color purple (but seemingly nothing more).

as silly as i think this is, Yahoo can really do what they please in terms of launching a crappy ad campaign, but i do wonder about the legality of stealing the phrase "start wearing purple?" i don't know enough about copywrite law to know whether lyrics are protected property. *shrug* either way i don't think the campaign is going to last...

source: techcrunch

what a fool was i...

EEEEEEEEEEVILLLLLLLLL.

apparently lauren thinks i think she is eeeeeevillllllllll.  if you missed what this original post was then i guess there's no meaning behind this.  sorry.

sarah palin debate flowchart

source: adennak.com

BGE

so i've lived in my apt for a little over two years now. when i signed my lease agreement, i was under the impression that all my utilities were covered in the rent. that said, i haven't paid anyone other than my landlord and comcast a damn thing for 2 years.

apparently i was mistaken. it seems that i am responsible for paying my electric bill. how this misunderstanding took place i'm not sure, it was so long ago, but fact of the matter is that BGE shows up at my apt last week to turn off my power. i wasn't home but my landlord (thankfully) bought me some time. they seem to think that it's time for me to pay up the almost a grand for the electricity i've been using for the past 2 years. while it's only fair to ask me for what is owed, how the HELL do you let someone get power for 2 YEARS before you decide to do something about it?!? i mean, really, i've lived places where if you miss a month, next month your power is out. if nothing else i would figure they would have reverted the billing back to the landlord??? obviously not, they just continued to think i've been skirting them for 2 years while in reality i had no idea it was even my bill to pay.

anyway, thanks to a huge financial bail-out from the gov't of grandmother, i can take care of this, but i'm still peeved. it's not like i didn't have the money to be paying all along, i would have just liked to know...

trashcan

sorry i have been gone for a little.  i have an extra trashcan, it was bought for me to go in my bathroom, but i refuse to put it there because i will never use it for anything, which means it will just fill with feminine wrappers and so-forth.  gross.

nuns

i heard this from a fargo-ian.

two nuns are driving through transylvania late one night. there is lightning on the horizon and moon is full. all of a sudden, a tiny vampire jumps up onto the hood of their car!

"ahhh!" they scream. "what do we do?!" asks the driving nun.
"i don't know!" says the other. "wait! i just remember i put holy water in washer fluid! hit him with that!"

the nun turns on the sprayer and soaks the tiny vampire, who starts writhing in agony. the wipers slide back and forth, but the tiny vampire hangs on, badly burned but now more angry than ever.

"what do we do now!?!" cries the driving nun.
"i know! show him your cross!" says the other.

so the nun rolls down the window, leans out, flips him the bird and screams "GET THE FUCK OFF MY CAR!"