Friday/Thursday night Youtube Yoinkage, March 21, 2008

Clip 1: “The Six Million Peso Man” I brought this up over at Pension Plan Puppets yesterday—if Carlo Colaiacovo grew his hair out and added a badass mustache, he'd totally look like the six million Peso man. Personally, I love the first five seconds.



clip 2 : “Being a Leafs Fan on YouTube”, from Steve Dangle. I first stared watching his stuff when he got featured over at Barry Melrose Rocks. And no, Scotty, this “poor kid” is not my boyfriend. He's kinda cute, I'll admit it...Make of that what you will, folks. All I know is this particular clip made me laugh so much my cheeks hurt every time I've seen it.



clip 3: Denis Leary's “I'm An Asshole”, dedicated to a very special leprechaun NHL commissioner

Friday Youtube Yoinkage, March 7, 2008

This week's theme for the Friday Youtube Yoinkage is Mats Sundin. Why? Because I can.

If I were Mats Sundin, you know what I'd do? I'd hire a small Ecuadorian child to polish my head.I mean, nobody else is going to think of that. I'd go up to other players and be all, "Hey there Daniel Alfredsson, is that new hat? ooh, impressive. (rolls eyes) " Meanwhile Pepe is just sitting on my shoulders scrubbing and polishing, scrubbing and polishing, making my head shine. And I would pay him more than enough to send some money home to his momma working in the bordello or whatever Ecuadorians do. After all, I am Mats Sundin, Goddamm it, and my head deserves to have a shine that can been seen a mile off. (Yes I sporked that from Lewis Black, but I added enough of my own to make it mine. Maybe. Probably, Not)

Umm, I'm not sure what brought that on, but onto the clips!Clip one has Mats against Wayne Gretzky shooting for McDonald's. For some reason, the way he says "big mac" makes me giggle.


Clip two is a classic commercial that needs no introduction:


clip three stars a poor French-Canadian goalie as a gardener. Always makes me giggle

Vermont Politicians are Always Game for Some Football

(I got a bright shiny +5 for anyone who knows what was the inspiration for the title)

I saw this story a few days ago. I've been busy with other stuff, so I apologize for being slow. Even though it's politics and football, it's just too funny to pass up.

Vermont Senator and Lifelong Crazy Bastard Bernie Sanders is leading the Vermont delegation (all three of them) to let Vermont be considered as "home territory" for the New England Patriots. That's because we can't watch the final game of the season unless we subscribe to the NFL network. You can read the delegation's letter to the NFL comissioner here (pdf link near the bottom of the page.)

I personally don't mind if I can't watch the Pats--I'd probably fall asleep to it anyway. But it is fun to watch if one of those huge (300, 400 pounds) guys catches the ball and goes for a touchdown, or if it snows like a banshee. It's also fun if it's Pats versus Colts--one of my brothers is a Pats fan, the other a Colts fan. Needless to say, it gets interesting.

NBC May Not Have teh Best Stuff to Watch, but it Has the Best Reception

Since I've been home, I've been watching the Today show a lot more than I ever did while at college, mainly because I never watch it while up in Canuckistan. Here is the schedule for the NBC channel where I am:

7-9 AM (when I'm usually not awake/crawling out of a nice, warm bed): Today show
9-10: Dumb and Dumber Regis and Kelly
10-12:Today show part deux


What Boggles (and probably Yahtzees and Sorrys as well) my mind is that the Today show is on for a total of FOUR HOURS a day. And yet in almost every single sement, they end up running out of time. How in THE FUCK does this happend? I mean, you're on for FOUR HOURS, you would think you could fit shit in! And it isn't like they're trying to cram in the most important information. This morning's episode (after I crawled out of bed at nine) has featured: a stpry on the results of a survey about people marrying for money, Ann Curry jumping off of a bridge, ways to break 5 annoying habits, and wil feature champion ballroom dancers....that are only 8 or 9 years old. It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have to be lying down since I screwed up my back shoveling snow off of the barn roofs yesterday. Right now my back is stiffer than the average morgue resident. But with ice packs, some good reading material and ibuprofin, I'll be fine.

Tastes Great!! Less Filling!

In all seriousness, I feel as if I'm the only chick I know who isn't totally enthralled by Grey's Anatomy. Maybe it's supposed to be a chick thing, but I really don't know. Then again, I'm not the type of woman to go after typical chick things. Sure, eating ice cream when you're sad is okay, but so is drinking hard alcohol and watching explodey movies. It is in this spirit that I present my take on Grey's . From what other people have told me (although mostly men who have said this), it's rather accurate. Appreciate! (just lacks something...)

I mean, I was reading up on this series (Thank you, Wikipedia!), and there's one episode where the main plot line is an STD outbreak among the staff. Mother of God. More humping!

In Which I Actually Remember Something

When I was in high school, I got the chance to participate in a program called Math Science Upward Bound during the summer. In a nutshell, it was supposed to provide kids like me (supposedly smart with 6 weeks to kick around the Vermont Technical College campus during the summer) with the opportunity to get a "head start" on what it would be like in college. We chose different classes we wanted to be in. One of the ones I was in was a biotechnology-type course.

Why do I mention this? I may have a crappy memory, but I remember one activity we did where we extracted DNA from some sort of plant matter (leaves, melon slices swiped from the cafeteria, stuff like that) though some process (I remember blenders were involved, but the rest of the process is kind of fuzzy.) Anyway, what I do remember is that it had to sit in something for several hours in order to extract the DNA from it.

It is with this inspiration that I present "CSI: Real Life" Enjoy! (I gotta get a thesaurus or something.)