Mar 27 2001
For various and sundry reasons I won’t go into here (lest I suddenly start sounding like some teenage diarist), I am feeling particularily misanthropic today… which means I’m going to sit around, eat ice cream, and play the Match Game drinking game. Later.
Mar 27 2001
“Now, I don’t want to be newszak, but we could probably cause some dot carnage if we brandstormed and created a vortal.” I have no idea what I just said, but you too can talk like an advertisement (woo!), thanks to The Buzzwhack Buzzword Compliant Dictionary.
Mar 27 2001
I’m sure y’all have seen that “Hatt Baby” Flash animation that’s been making the rounds for a while — now read the translation (no, it doesn’t really make any sense either).
Mar 23 2001
The All-Important Pith Oscar Pool — Now With Prizes!
Isn’t it time you won something at the Oscars? E-mail me your picks for the top seven awards (picture, director, actor, actress, supporting actor, supporting actress, original screenplay, adapted screenplay), and the person with the most correct guesses wins! In case of a tie, the entry recieved first wins.
The Prize: A genuine “Don’t Mess with Texas” keychain, as purchased in the hotel lobby on my way home from SXSW! Wow!
Anyway, without any further ado, here are my picks, posted for posterity:
Picture: Gladiator
Directing: Traffic
Actress: Roberts
Actor: Crowe
S. Actress: Hudson
S. Actor: Del Toro
Original Script: Almost Famous
Adapted Script: Traffic
Mar 23 2001
One of the co-authors of The Rules, the book that told women to stay quiet and get plastic surgery if they wanted to ‘keep a man’, is getting a divorce. Hmm. Excuse me for a moment while I nearly kill myself with peals of cruel laughter. (Times like this remind me of my absolute favourite Molly Ivins saying: “My momma may have raised a mean child, but she didn’t raise no hypocrite.” Damn straight.)
Mar 22 2001
Add this to the list of links from yesterday: Oscar-themed recipes for both food and cocktails. Okay, it’s Tequila Mockingbirds and Roman Beef Marinade at my place on Sunday! (Mad props to David (of no fixed URL) for finding this)
Mar 22 2001
SurvivorJeff.com — See Jeff’s Outback colouring book! Send fan mail to the “Jman” himself! And lots of other content currently under construction!
You know, after last season when my beloved Tagi Alliance trounced beach bunny after beach bunny, I really wasn’t mentally prepared to see Jeff and his merry band of Kucha so mercilessly given the boot. It’s all Michael’s fault, of course.. damn him and his easily constricted lungs! Damn him!
Mar 22 2001
Finally someone came up with the excellent idea of creating a Canadian counterpart to Where’s George?, appropriately named Where’s Willy. Grab some five dollar bills, and start tracking! (from Weblog Wannabe)
Mar 21 2001
DeeT liked to tape television shows in the 70s, and happily for the rest of us who weren’t so forward-thinking he’s got his audio archives online.