It’s Jen’s birthday! Yay!

By popular demand, more Meena videos. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday, the geekboy spotted a weird-looking bird in the yard. He had a red body but a grey head. I took a bunch of photos, trying to figure out what kind of bird it was. I looked in my books, online, couldn’t find anything. Then I looked at the photos more closely. And realized the bird was just a regular cardinal. Who had NO FEATHERS on his HEAD. Read the rest of this entry »

How was your weekend? Another packed one for us. I’ve had too many late nights in the past week or so, actually, and it’s starting to catch up with me. I’ve come down with some sort of summer cold. My throat and lungs are raw and every muscle in my body is aching. Unhappy. Read the rest of this entry »

REALLY, E! Online?

My latest article is up over at How Stuff Works — How Wetlands Work. In one article, I managed to mention the Jersey Devil, Swamp Thing, Phish and “the swamps of New Jersey” (holla, Springsteen!).

Rich at FourFour made a video that chronicles the various homophobic fuckery that went on in America this past week. Watch it after the jump. It left me in tears. Read the rest of this entry »

Caught the deer eating out of the birdfeeder again. Read the rest of this entry »

If you didn’t catch Coldplay on The Daily Show the other night, video is below. Watch that second one and you tell me that Chris Martin isn’t completely in love with Jon Stewart. Adorable. Read the rest of this entry »

Nah, there’s no such thing as global warming. But on the bright side, now we can further pillage the environment and dig for more fossil fuels instead of working to find clean energy! YAY!

It’s been a great week or so, what with the REM and Pearl Jam shows. It’s not over yet — tonight is Eddie Izzard at Radio City Music Hall. Then next week? The Feelies reunion at Maxwell’s, a show that sold out in about an hour. It’s the summer of nostalgia. And then next Thursday, we leave for Canada!

…for the worse. Because I got a Flip. Read the rest of this entry »

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

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Most people have the stupidest ringtones. Seriously, lady, the theme from the Lone Ranger? And someone here smells like onions. And the wi-fi connection is kind of slow. And the woman who comes to fetch you once your car is finished is WAY too exuberant for a) this job and b) this early in the morning.

I’m sitting here at the Toyota dealership, getting my car serviced in preparation for our trip to Canada next week. WOOT! I’ve got my cheap Sony earbuds in, listening to Stern, and I am realizing that they are SO EFFING UNCOMFORTABLE. Consider this a call for recommendations. I’d like a nice, small, comfortable and relatively cheap set of earbuds. Buds I can wear for a long time (like an airline flight) that won’t make my ears start to ACHE fifteen minutes in.

There’s still time to enter the Weeds DVD giveaway…

I call dibs on Violet!

Look what Susie gave me! Do you love it? I love it.

The Pearl Jam show was much fun. Although now I am spoiled and from today forward I will refuse to attend a show at MSG unless it’s in a luxury box. Free dinner, free booze, and a private bathroom. Even our own t-shirt vendor. I loved it. Although we were up quite high, we were center stage and could really feel the energy of the crowd. In fact, at some points we could feel it so much that we thought the stadium might implode. Read the rest of this entry »

You don’t need it anyway.

Get well soon, Heather! [thanks maria]

Seriously, retire already.

“It’s as Ann as the nose on plain’s face.”

Yesterday Susie and her husband invited us to join them at the Pearl Jam show tonight at Madison Square Garden. Of course we said “yes,” I mean, it’s Pearl Jam. I haven’t seen them play live for about ten years. Oh, did I mention that we’ll be enjoying the concert in a private luxury box? How civilized! I can’t wait. Eddie Vedder, two times in one week. My sister is GREEN with envy.