Actresses playing strippers = Girls dressing slutty on Halloween

November 7, 2009 at 7:37 am (television) (, , )

In last night’s “Ghost Whisperer”, Jennifer Love Hewitt’s character has a paranormal encounter with a stripper, who takes control of her body to give her a message from the other side.

Everybody wants to play a stripper, nobody wants to be a stripper.

Jump to see the clip, in which JLove tries to look confused while pole dancing.

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Gonna make you come tonight……over to my house!

November 6, 2009 at 8:49 am (music) (, , )

Watch this video, which I think originated with Aziz’s twitter, but is too good not to share.  The three men in this band are so spray tanned, so overly necklaced, and so Wallace and Grommit mouthed that I don’t know what to do with them.

B4-4 with “Get Down”  (I’m not even mentioning the weird framing device of the movie)

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Ask Gynomite!

November 6, 2009 at 8:45 am (ask gynomite) (, , , , )

Gynomite is a licensed therapist in 2 1/2 states and she would love to take a crack at your emotional dilemmas.  Write her at askgynomite@gmail.com- all emails stay confidential.  Today, Gynomite takes on being concerned about a friend’s mental health.

I am worried about a friend of mine.  We both live in a big city, and our families are far away, and she has just been acting very jumpy and strange lately.  I’ve known her for about 8 months and haven’t seen anything like this until recently when she started calling me in the wee hours of the morning asking me questions about philosophy and trying to read me stuff she found on the Internet.  But then she’ll kinda be fine for a day or two afterwards.  Then it’ll happen again, and she’ll get sweaty and kinda frenetic when we’re out at a bar, yelling at strangers about weird things.  I feel like I’m the only person who is concerned, but I don’t even know what I should do?  Do I make her go to therapy?  Call someone?

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And that’s how we kinda ate in a four star restaurant.

November 6, 2009 at 8:34 am (my life) (, )

Kumail and I were in Atlanta, and after a long and fun day, we decided to reward ourselves with Thai food.  We love Thai food.  A local guy with an IPhone looked up the closest Thai place to where we were, and gave us the number and address, with the warning “I think it’s a nicer restaurant”.  “Perfect” we said.  We found out that they were only taking to-go orders for the next ten minutes, and it was questionable if we would reach the restaurant in the next ten minutes.  So even though we had wanted to peruse the menu and find what fun little random Thai dishes they had in Atlanta, we ordered our curries over the phone, menu unseen, and continued driving to the restaurant to pick them up.

When we arrived at the restaurant, a valet approached my window and asked what we were doing.  That should have been a sign.

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Bald bears

November 5, 2009 at 9:44 am (cuteness) (, , )

If you’ve ever been curious about what a bear would look like without any fur, then journey to this zoo in Leipzig, Germany, where all the female bears have lost their fur.  With fur, they look like this:

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Jump to see what they look like now.  It’s not super pretty.

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Gynomite’s Emotional Assignment of the Day

November 4, 2009 at 9:28 am (gynomite's emotional assignment of the day) (, , , , , , )

Today’s emotional assignment is to take more responsibility for your emotions.

When I worked with teenagers a few years ago, we played this “game” where I would describe a situation, and the kids would have to write down, independently, what their emotion would be based on that situation.

I would say “Your mom isn’t home because she had to work”.  For some of the kids whose moms didn’t work, they felt excited that she was working and also happy about having time alone in the house.  For kids whose parents were always working, they felt ignored and bummed that they were alone again.  Admittedly not a fun game, but it was a good introduction to the idea that our emotions are created by us, and not by situations.  The situations are ambiguous, WE are the ones that give them meaning.

It’s terrifyingly easy to forget this.

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This will be stuck in your head. I promise.

November 4, 2009 at 9:03 am (music) (, , , , )

Sudanese rapper Bangs with “Take You To Da Movies”

Via Vivek, via Jarrod Routh (Hooray!)

 

 

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I know rednecks, and you, sir, are no redneck.

November 2, 2009 at 11:24 am (Comedy) (, , )

I want to share with you an actual excerpt from the NY Times article about Jeff Dunham.  That’s this guy:

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He is incredibly popular.  He has the most viewed Comedy Central Presents of all time, and his new TV show debuted with 5.3 million viewers, bigger than any other premiere in Comedy Central history.  He’s popular.

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This just in….Diddy is confused by dollar bills.

November 1, 2009 at 1:19 pm (pop culture) (, )

Understandably.

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"What is this thing?"

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Get ready to feel violated

November 1, 2009 at 1:17 pm (movies, music) (, , )

This Halloween, wonderfully named band Hoobastank covers Ray Parker Jr’s “Ghostbusters” theme.

Here’s the original video

And jump for their mind numbingly boring and yet still totally hateable cover.  Then find a way to slip the word Hoobastank into conversation today.

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