because

I love this picture so much. I've been sitting on it, waiting for the perfect occasion to use it, but have not come across one yet, so here you go. (From pretty.little.world)

Ghostbusters improv

Okay, I smiled SO HARD at this. LOVE.

Color Me Katie is such an uplifting and positive blog. She participates with something called Improv Everywhere where they do crazy/fun things and video them. In this one, people dress up like ghosts and go through the NY Public library and then the Ghostbusters come in and try to capture them. Go to the site to watch the video, it will make your day.

(photo from Color Me Katie)

parody with cats

Ha, there's a Sartorialist parody with cats:

The Catorialist

At first, I thought it was a serious street-photography of cats, but after reading, you can tell it's really parodying The Sartorialist's writing style, layout, and photo titles. Clever.

Ukelele in crochet

Found this from my friend's blog Snippets & Snapshots.

So cute, awfully realistic, and the music is good too! Apparently there's a whole series of vidoes on You Tube. I'm watching them now.

when comics are true

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I saved this who-knows-when but it is SO true. Had this dream just the other night, actually.

(source: XKCD)

Regretsy

This is genius. Regretsy makes fun of the ugly and nonsense things people post for sale on the well-loved indie online retailer, Etsy.

It's only 3 pages long right now, but I can see the potential. Currently, the site include Pokeman menstrual pads, vulva jewelry, Michael Jackson commemorative baseballs, and a CROCHETED MEERKAT NATIVITY

This is so odd.

Wii ski and sleep

I am not impressed with the first 5 pages of so-called stylish people on Chictopia. It doesn't usually take me 5 pages to find someone I'd consider stylish, but I guess like all things, this is cyclical. It's funny what people consider stylish. Skinny is definitely one of them, which I have to agree with even though I don't like it. An outfit, even if not that spectacular, looks great when you have legs for days.

I took a short trip out of town this weekend to see an old friend from college who moved out of state and was back visiting. We did crafts and played Wii and stayed up late talking like girlfriends should do and man do I miss that. I need more girlfriends. We played a skiing/snowboarding game with the Wii Fit, which was a lot of fun with the board reading your movements side to side while you skied. I love that the Wii is the first social gaming system. It's just as much fun to watch as it is to play, and everyone can be involved. I laughed so hard that I cried while watching her try to figure out some of the moves. I love laughing til I cry. I needed that. With all of the stress I've had lately, it felt good to laugh really hard. It's impossible to be in a bad mood while watching/playing Wii. Gotta figure out a way to play more often. I know lots of people with gaming systems, but it seems hard to get together. I love Rock Band, and lots of people I know have it, I guess it's just hard to make plans.

Here's the black sheep I cut out and sewed together out of felt.

I really miss staying up late chatting. We talked about relationships and travel and religion and society and politics and sociology and man do I miss having someone to talk soc with.

I think work has really been taking a toll on me, since I slept most of the weekend. While I am a sleeper, it's unusual for me to sleep this much and be this tired.

Also, my new upstairs neighbors need to learn how to walk lighter. Would it be passiveagressivenotes of me to leave a note asking them to pay attention to how they move in their own home?

Ha, one of the words of the day over at Urban Dictionary is blinker beat

When the tic-toc of the blinkers [on a car] syncs with the music playing on the car radio.

Dude, check it out, I got blinker beat happening on this Jay-Z song.

I didn't know there was a term, but I so notice this. Love!

"I like my women like I like my coffee"

And if you are cool, you'll know where the second half of that sentence goes.

I saw this on the front of a shirt on some guy at the Farmer's Market yesterday at the Shockoe Tomato Festival. So I finish the sentence for him, and he turns around and points to the back of the shirt where the answer to his "I like my women like I like my coffee" was this:

Ground up and in the freezer

(with a picture of a freezer)

EW, just EW. You took a perfectly good joke, and made it creepy. I'm sure that guy gets lots of dates (NOT).

For the record, the Eddie Izzard joke goes,
"I like my coffee like I like my women... hot, and strong?"
Clip here, go to :55

There was also a 15 year old girl there with a skirt that barely covered her vag. At like 4 pm. It was SHORT. I mean it's one thing to wear something like that at a club (but still major ew). Seriously if she'd moved any way but completely vertical, she'd flash the world. EW. Where is your mother? I wanted to walk her back to wherever she came from--you cannot walk around dressed like that downtown.