And it’s not even my birthday!
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Home Depot recently announced that they will take your old compact fluorescent bulbs for recycling. This is great news — you can’t dispose of CFLs the way you can a traditional bulb, as CFLs contain trace amounts of mercury. Hoping this means more people will begin adopting CFLs in their home.

YES! :: running around in circles and panting::

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Remember Michael Vick and his dogfighting arrest, along with the revelation of dozens of dead, abused and injured dogs on his property? Today, one of those rescued dogs now spends his days providing therapy to cancer patients. This is why I donate my time to our animal shelter. Rescue animals — their resilience, the way their brains allow them to trust against all odds, and their ability to survive and adapt — inspire me in ways I’ll never really understand. Thank you to every shelter and group that took these animals in and gave them better lives.

Congratulations, Phyllis and Del.

What if Perez Hilton launched a clothing line and nobody came? I’d laugh my ass off, that’s what would happen.

Yes he is.

Congratulations!

I just got a Pajamagram from TBS/TNT! Being a blogger sure has some fun perks.

New York finally has a decent rock station. I am constantly whining about the lack of good terrestrial radio around here. Yes, WFMU, whatever, but I can only tolerate so much weirdness during a car ride. Most local stations are hip-hop, Top 40, metal or easy-listening. All stuff I generally can’t stand for more than a song or two. But our old 101.9 lite-jazz station has apparently been reborn as a rock station, and so far my fear of 24/7 Linkin Park has been unfounded. Plus, Matt Pinfield! Love him. He started out at the Melody Bar in New Brunswick. Remember? Sigh. Anyway, the station will probably be out of business within a year, but at least now I have something to listen to when my iPod is on the fritz.

Congratulations, California!

Congrats to How Stuff Works for winning the People’s Voice Award for Best Copy/Writing. W00t!

Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson got married!

Guess what, ya’ll? The geekboy started his own blog! About geeky things! Go on and add gagglefrak to your blog roll.

OMG this news makes me so happy! I just told somebody the other day that I couldn’t wait for Amy Poehler to get pregnant. I have no idea why. I can’t wait to see her do Amber preggers. JELLUS?

Ted Allen (of Top Chef and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy fame) gave Too Much Free Time a shout-out on his blog! Check it out. I’m so tickled!

This weekend, Danica Patrick became the first female winner in IndyCar history.

Big, huge congratulations to Rona on the birth of her baby daughter, Molly Grace on April 4th. Yay, Rona, we are all so happy for you!

Thanks to the lovely ladies over at Cupcakes Take the Cake (who were recently on Martha Stewart!) for featuring me on their blog yesterday.

I get such a thrill when I see anything of mine over there!

Lisa just emailed me with the excellent news that she snagged us two fifth-row center seats for Flight of the Conchords at Town Hall NYC. OMG!!! Now I just need to decide on a tee-shirt — Jemainiac or Bretrosexual? Read the rest of this entry »

Yay, The Office comes back tonight!

w00t!

Congrats to How Stuff Works for their Webby nomination!

You guys know how I’m always scrambling for freelance work. I still am, but here’s something positive — thanks to Chuck, I’m now a contributing writer to the awesome Discovery Communications website How Stuff Works. I’ve been writing on environmental topics, which is right up my alley and so far has been really interesting. And my first article was posted yesterday! You can read it here.

It’s not some huge work of art or anything, but I’m quite proud, as I’ve always wanted to be able to say that I get paid to write. And now I do. So yay for me.

Wish a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my favorite April Fools, Maggie and Ivon.