Another Round Up of Thoughts and Feelings.

• Best headline ever.
• As messed up as Orrin can be, he can be remarkably acute and badass when he wants to be.
• Having driven in Boston, New York City, DC, and Durham with enough regularity to be well-versed in all four, yes, it is.  Definitely.
• Just when I discovered it for myself.  Boo.
• Concord!  I didn't even read the article.
• Seriously, people, give Cougar Town a chance.  The creator himself recognizes that the original conceit (and title) wasn't great, but it's a whole different beast now.
• The only reason I need to move to Philadelphia forever.
• Hahahahahahaha.  I know this is serious, but still.
• I wholeheartedly agree.  The two party system sucks.  That's all there is to it.
• Soda.

All I Seem to Post Are Videos... Oh Well, Part 10.

And now for the finale of this little ten part exercise in laziness series of videos, I bring you a link TO a set of videos.  It's no secret that I heart James Franco and all of his weirdness.  And now, he and his brother have gone a step further and allowed us to follow them for a bit.  What transpires is a genuine interaction of (famous) siblings, who seem like fairly well-grounded folk.  Take a gander at the earnest fun.

Thanks to Best Week Ever for the tip.

To make it even better, my new obsession -- Aaron Tveit -- is going to be JF's bf in the new movie Howl.  Woot!

All I Seem to Post Are Videos... Oh Well, Part 9.

TWIST!

Sort of. I'm still just posting videos for now, but this time, I'm going to post more than one, and they are going to have a common theme: Sesame Street!



God. Memories. It was clips like this that made me the man I am today. I credit Sesame Street with, like, stuff.

Now, more importantly:



COLIN FARRELL ON SESAME STREET!!!

If I may be a bit political for a second -- as much as I love Colin and think he's a beast, it makes no sense that his decidedly adult private life is considered okay but Katy Perry couldn't show a little cleave.
  Sexist?  Absolutely.

All I Seem to Post Are Videos... Oh Well, Part 8.

Kevin Arnold gets scooped by Zach Morris. Oh pop culture bliss. In other news, I feel like Fred Savage is due for an NPH-like comeback, yes? Can we make that happen?

All I Seem to Post Are Videos... Oh Well, Part 7.

Every frickin' time. OK GO makes the best music videos. I don't usually post them, but this has cute doggies! And if there is anything unifying about this blog, it's the posting of ubercuteness.

All I Seem to Post Are Videos... Oh Well, Part 6.

This mash-up rivals DJ Earworm, if not surpasses his stuff. It might be because of the inclusion of Survivor. I don't know. But it's kind of amazing.

All I Seem to Post Are Videos... Oh Well, Part 5.

So, I found this video at Best Week Ever, and it titled its post "This Video Is Literally Called 'Baby Porcupine Eats a Banana and Has Hiccups'".  I'm pretty sure the intent is to suggest that this is somehow as cute as a puppy and a baby.

It's not.  And I'm going to break ranks, as The Atlantic would say, and say it's not cute.  It's creepy.  I think it looks like a mutant human (WITH HANDS) eating a banana.  YES A MUTANT HUMAN.  Screw you biologists, that's not a cute rodent at all.

We Interrupt This Series of Videos...

...for another video (sort of). 

 

But this is a good reason: The second season of Justified, one of the single best shows on TV, finally has a premiere date.  It's coming back February 2011.  Set your Google Calendar reminders now folks!

 

"A little too old to be fightin', aren't ya?"

"I'm certainly too old to be losing."

 

*bliss*

All I Seem to Post Are Videos... Oh Well, Part 4.

My growing crush on JGL just took another step forward. Dude is on a roll with (500) Days of Summer and Inception. Make another movie with Zooey!!!

All I Seem to Post Are Videos... Oh Well, Part 3.

This vid has already gone viral, but I don't care. It makes me smile like the puppy/baby vid and the parallel parking vid. So I'm posting it again, ready for Wave Two of viraldom -- thanks to me!

All I Seem to Post Are Videos... Oh Well, Part 2.

Parallel Parking from Yum Yum London on Vimeo.

Dear M. Night,

Remember when your twist endings were as good as this one? That was a long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long time ago.

-A.

All I Seem to Post Are Videos... Oh Well, Part 1.

To be fair. This is f***ing cute as all hell. Puppies and babies! It's a veritable confluence of all the sweetness in the world in one flash video.

30 Days.

Dear Comcast,

 

Really?  It takes you 30 days to put my name on your internal Do Not Call list?

 

I recently moved to a new apartment and switched cable providers because it was cheaper.  Since then, Comcast has called me every day to attempt to get me back as a customer.  Advice #1: That's effing annoying.  If you want me back as a customer, lower my rates, and stop messing with my DVR programming. 

 

Finally, today, Comcast switched the incoming phone number it was using to call me so that I'd actually pick up the phone after ignoring them.  The service representative just started talking and was about to transfer me to a salesperson without asking me if I wanted to proceed, let alone why I bothered switching in the first place.  Advice #2: That's effing disrespectful.

 

I shouldn't be surprised, I guess.  Anyway, I requested that they not call me anymore.  That's when I was told that it can take up to 30 days for that to be entered in the system.  WTF?  You can unsubscribe from spam with a click.  The US Post Office can make the switch in 2-3 days.  Hell, even print magazines like Entertainment Weekly take at most a week to make changes like that.  But the purveyors of xfinity takes 30 days to stop calling an ex-customer?  FOUL.  Go back to HBS and learn how to stop pissing off your customers.

 

Love,

 

-Me.

Reason 6,342,778 That Dunkin Donuts Is Superior To Starbucks.

Dunkin Donuts is participating in National Coffee Day today.  Starbucks isn't.

Proof That DC Is Not A Food Mecca.

Don't read any further if you haven't watched the season finale of Top Chef: DC.

 

Seriously.

 

I'm spoiling this sucker.

 

---

 

I used to live in New York, and when I moved, I couldn't be happier.  I just am not a NYC person, no matter what I like to think about myself.  DC is much more my speed.  That being said, one thing that I have never been cool with is the crappy food in DC.  Don't get me wrong, it's okay, especially if you're willing to pay your soul (which, this being DC, is already in short supply), but for a city as cosmopolitan and international as this, the food sucks.  And it especially hurts knowing how good New York food is.

 

So when Top Chef decided to film here, I was all like, snuh?  Wuh wuh?  Hooey.

 

But I like the show.  I loved this season how cocky Angelo was, and how deluded Kenny was.  And I loved Tiffany.  I mean, with stars in my eyes did I love her.

 

And then she got booted off for one off-day.

 

And now I find out that Kevin won.

 

Boo.  Hiss.

 

With standards like this, DC will never be a food haven.  Ever.

 

Tiffany come back!

God Bless Southwest.

About a month ago, I flew up to Providence, Rhode Island at the last minute from BWI Airport.  It's a bit of a stressful trip because getting to BWI from Washington, DC is a bitch.  On the flight back, I made the unforgivable mistake of leaving my iPod Touch in the back seat pocket of the plane.  I thought for sure that I was never going to see it again.  But I went through the motions (never give up!) and made a request to Southwest's lost-and-found.

 

Cut to a few days ago.  I receive a call from Southwest saying they found my iPod (with the headphones I had had!) and that they were FedExing it to me right away.

 

Consider me dumbfounded.  If ever there is some decency in the world, Southwest is a part of it.

In Case Danny and Annie Wasn't Cute Enough For You.

Marcel the Shell is here to cute-ify it all. Oh laws yes.


MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON from Dean Fleischer-Camp on Vimeo.

Take a Break and Watch This.

This video has been making the internet rounds, so you might have already encountered it.  If not, then stop everything, and prepare for a lump in your throat to arrive toute suite.  This is the story of Danny and Annie. Apparently, this group called StoryCorps takes real peoples' real stories and animates them for posterity.  You can't make this shiz up:


Danny and Annie from StoryCorps on Vimeo.

Emptying Out My Mind.

1. Blessed be whoever decided to release Mockingjay on Kindle at the same time as the regular hardcover release.  You are a colon among appendices.
2. Why is Justin Long a star?  
3. Why is Jay Baruchel?
4. I get Malin Ackerman and Emma Stone mixed up.  Somehow, I feel that that's not really a big deal.
5. I am totally Team Valerie on Project Runway.
6. I am totally Team Tiffany on Top Chef.
7. Forgive me, but my current pop culture obsession is My Boys.
8. I totally took his class!  I don't know what to believe anymore!
9. So shameful.  On multiple levels.
10. Liberal elite media is funny.

Recently There Have Been A Slew Of Cute Animal Videos.

Observe:

PENGUINS!



OTTERS!



CORGIS!



I'm keeling over amidst all the cuteness. For reelz.