just be.

silly tv is silly

no, i don't watch "downton abbey." i might be the only one. but i enjoyed this.

 

puppy bowl!

 

kristen bell really loves sloths, and it is SO SWEET.

and that thing she says about being between three and seven? yeah. i have that.

 

tim conway, brain bleacher

 

this makes me think i might need to go back and watch some episodes of that. i didn't adequately appreciate its cast during its first run.

must watch marmaduke!

 

looney tunes are great brain bleach.

omgomgomg one of my favorite looney tunes is on the tivo: two boys are watching a road runner cartoon.

 

boy 1: sometimes i feel very sorry for the coyote. sometimes i wish he'd catch him.

boy 2: if he caught him, there wouldn't be any more road runner. you wouldn't like that, would you?

boy 1: no.

boy 2: i thought you wouldn't.

...

boy 2: that was a very good commercial.

boy 1: yes. ... i sometimes think i'm the road runner. beepbeepzipTANG!

boy 2: it's a bad habit.

boy 1: what's a bad habit?

boy 2: daydreaming.

boy 1: well, i dream i'm other things, too.

boy 2: you should see a p-sychiatrist.

boy 1: like who?

boy 2: like me. i'm going to be a p-sychiatrist when i grow up. or maybe a p-sychoanimalist.

boy 1: i'm gonna be a road runner. beepbeepzipTANG! ... the thing i don't understand is why he wants to eat the road runner in the first place.

[wile e. stops and addresses the boy, explaining how delicious road runner is to coyotes. end.]

urrghghgh

okay, look. i don't expect perfection in writing online. most writing online these days is blogging by amateurs who have not made their living writing and editing, and i can forgive a lot of errors there (not to say that they don't still bug the shit out of me, but you know: i can hold my tongue).

but when articles written by professional journalists, edited by professional editors, and published by major publishers contain multiple glaring silly errors, i get a little stabbity.

tonight, we are watching our usual first round of news, the pbs newshour. there was a story that mentioned the office of the u.s. trade representative (USTR), and i worked there back in the mid-1990s, so i was curious and googled USTR and limited results to the past 24 hours. and i found a story on business week, published by bloomberg. and i couldn't even assess the reporting because my eye was twitching so much from the grade school–level errors. so i downloaded adobe reader, pdf'd the article, and marked the errors. (here, if you're curious.) because yes, that is what i have going on on a friday night. that's just how i roll, yo.

okay

just one more bit of dialog:

paul: "i could see staring at this face for the next 50 years."

jamie: "really?"

p: "oh, yeah, absolutely."

j: "even if i get a double chin?"

p: "i'd love both of them."

j: "and grey hair?"

p: "mm-hm."

j: "and wrinkles?"

p: "not a problem."

j: "even if i have false teeth, a mustache, and i drool?"

p: "why do you gotta push? [jamie: "okay, i'm sorry"] you always push."

other songs

i sort of petered out at the end of my 30-day thing. no idea why. but today i'm formatting a document, work that is exactly right for playing music while i do it. i have my ipod on shuffle, and it is presenting me with some awesome songs.

when you're sad, "smile." i really love this version by american idol contestant gina glocksen.

 

when you're mad at your guy, "strut" by sheena easton:

 

i know! but there it was in my shuffle.

edited to add another one that's good if you're pissed at your partner (fortunately, this is very rare for me):

 

when you're mad at work, "bang on the drum all day":

 

when you're feeling that all-welled-up-with-love-and-affection feeling, whether it's love for your significant other or your dog (or whoever makes you feel that way), "ice cream" by sarah mclachlan:

 

when this came on, i stopped it shuffling so i could listen to the rest of the album it's on--not sarah's but an album that nobody should be surprised i own, "mad about you (music from and inspired by the television series)." i love everything about this show except that it's no longer on the air. :snif: this album also has some beautiful dialog clips, which is as much of a fix as i get any more.

jamie: "i just don't know why this is all so hard!"

paul: "what?"

j: "this! everything! marriage! it's supposed to be different than this."

p: "says who?"

j: "everyone!"

p: "well, they're wrong. it's just like this. it's exactly like this."

j: "according to who?"

p: "everybody. i asked around. look: there's always going to be stuff, you know? but that's—i put up with your crap and you put up with my crap."

j: "that's marriage?"

p: "this is what i'm thinking."

day 28: a song that makes me feel guilty

i honestly can't think of a song that makes me feel guilty. unless you count feeling guilty for liking it, in which case i direct you to the songs that make me laugh or my guilty pleasures. in which case, those.