Something my acupuncturist said recently (sorry, I live in L.A.) has stuck with me. She said the problem with social media is everyone thinks they’re the star of their own adorable, wacky sitcom. LOOK HOW MUCH SOCIAL MEDIA I HAVE. I must be in like 80 adorable sitcoms. I’m frankly tired of a lot of it. All of this clicking killed my proper blogging too.

Facebook - 100% pictures of babies
GoodReads - where I learn exactly how damaging Twilight has been to society
Tumblr - where fairly illiterate 17 year old girls show you how they’re “brilliant at life” (actually spotted this description on a Tumblr)
Google+ – where I post Beavis and Butthead screencaps from Tumblr (I don’t even understand my behavior here)
Flickr - where my photos go to die a lonely death
Instagram - photos of sunsets
Twitter - pretty funny during a State of the Union address or when a celebrity dies
Pinterest - 90% wedding-obsessed pins, 10% Reddit LOLs that have finally filtered down to housewives
Yelp - eye-rolling reviews by college kids who think $8.95 is a lot for an entree
Spotify - where you can quietly sneak a Britney Spears song into a pretentious playlist and shock your friends

I guess I’m glad I don’t have Foursquare? For some reason, I never jumped off the cliff on that one.

So…can I axe you some questions? Has Tumblr killed your blogging? Has Twitter made you hate Facebook? Do you have EVEN MORE social medias than I do? Are you sleepy? How sleepy? Sleepy enough to sleep under your desk?

PS I might have been harsh on Pinterest. It’s pretty addictive actually.

As if Hulu wasn’t awesome enough already, they are now carrying a few choice episodes of Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy’s Post MST3K show FILM CREW.

Hulu astounds me with what is so available in their catalogue (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia! The Big Lebowski! ALL Arrested Development episodes!  I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, the Munsters?!) but this, this is a sweet, sweet addition.

Brian has a blog. He’s a movie omnivore. GO FORTH, ye lot, and use your Netflix accounts.

The Leningrad Cowboys is a Finnish rock and roll band famous for its humorous songs and concerts featuring the Soviet Red Army Choir.

This was sent in by my pal, the ruling wine baroness of Wilmington NC, Sara Copeland – I have never heard of these people before, the countries they are from, and I don’t know what socialism is, but if all of it adds up to THIS, then…it’s okay. I think.

(PS YES, I have heard of Finland. I was just joking.)

As many of you out in cube land must know, you’ve got your work computer (always clean out those cookies) and probably one at home (why hello illegally downloaded music and strangely suspect websites in history folder probably due to a BF). I just happened to notice today that my one of my Firefoxes has way too many bookmarks but HEY, some of them are kind of neat. And mostly involve shopping. Because I am a girl. I must adhere to the gender roles assigned to me.


Anyhow – what’s in this horribly unorganized bookmarks folder?



Super 8 Movie Spool Clock by IMOTIME
I was probably among the last kids in a particular generation of film school students to actually use a Super-8 camera to learn how to edit and shoot my very first short films. Clearly I want this out of pure nostalgia. Kids today! They don’t know shit! With their Canon DV this and thats and their YourToobs and such. Pfft.



“No One Wants to Play Sega with Harrison Ford” by Brandon Bird
I have no idea where I may have stumbled upon Brandon Bird’s art but you must visit his site to see more of his work. His paintings have this strange affect on you: first you are comforted by a recognizable pop culture reference, and then you are disoriented when it’s turned on its head, usually in a joyous and surreal twist. You might see Christopher Walken working on a robot or Noam Chomsky walking in a parking lot towards his sweet, sweet ride. Buy something too, contribute to the arts, you person that is probably super excited watching American Gladiators. (Insta-Disclaimer: I have been watching American Gladiators.)



Bertman’s Ball Park Mustard
Recommended to me by my boss after I had described to him how I wanted to steal the mustard from Phillipe’s by simply pouring it into my pockets.

Guys With Guns – a Flickr photoset by peter-noster
Yeah, I was probably looking for pictures of Simon Pegg in Hot Fuzz to set as my desktop background and I came across all kinds of actors brandishing firearms in this excellent little collection. Click further. You’ve got to see Sean Connery in Zardoz.



Polish Movie Poster for Mulholland Drive by Swava Harasymowicz
This is just plain old sweet.

I Got Wood – Ed’s t-shirt from Shaun of the Dead
Well, come on. Every slacker male on the planet should have this to go along with his unique odor of video game sweat, oily foods, and the musky touch of bong smoke.

As if we needed more. Here are Yahoo’s top searches for the year of 2007. You may weep now.

1. Britney Spears
2. WWE
3. Paris Hilton
4. Naruto, The Japanese Manga Series
5. Beyonce
6. Lindsay Lohan
7. RuneScape
8. Fantasy Football
9. Fergie
10. Jessica Alba

Just…wait till he puts it all together. I’ll be doing this dance this Saturday night (8/11), at Akbar in Silverlake, starting around 9 PM. “DJ Zaius” (AKA, my friend Mark) will be DJing until 1:50 AM when he has to turn on the lights and throw everyone out.

Here you go, a map of recent Los Angeles homicides, compiled by info taken from the LA Times Homicide Report blog. It will give you the chills.

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Huge Beer Orgies is the type of phrase that grabs my attention, and it did today on the LA Times website in this legendary party guy’s obit. I am pretty sure that if the LA Times inserted this phrase into regular headlines (Iraq Quagmire Huge Turns Beer Public Against Orgies White House) their circ would soar like the eagle.