Do you have a Google Doppelganger (a googelganger?)? I do and he's serving in Iraq.

My New Phone

So, my happiness exudes through wireless connections tonight over my new phone. I was disappointed that I had to drop Verizon Wireless to obtain My supercool deluxe phone of lusciousness, but I will hopefully be over it once Cingular proves its network net worth. Previous phones have been phones on their way out with features that were cool at the time but had been around for a while. This phone should be cool for at least two months or so...

Tim, John, Chris, and mon copin (with special guest appearances by Tristan and Ian) met up tonight at Cobalt followed by my first trip to Wonderland. Great time and my previous post's question was finally answered and the appropriate changes were made. So unless the entire world wants to download the dreamy Big Fish font, I'm going to stick to the blogger friendly fonts.

I like my friends! They make me feel silly for being so insecure.

Haloscan commenting and trackback have been added to this blog...Apologies for the site if it happens to be messy now. I'm attempting to put some effort into it and aparently the font I love isn't turning up on computers that don't already have the font. Any ideas? (changing the font is not the correct solution) Thanks Robot Johnny!!!

Anwar gets Drilled

Weeks after American Idol contestant Anwar Robinson was revealed to have a special affinity for the fellas, barriers were removed to allow for drilling in Anwar. Let's see if anyone can strike black gold. I just hope that Anwar doesn't experience any leakage...

The only thing nastier than throwing up quiche is throwing up cheesecake

Ghost of Haha!

This "This American Life" episode involveing MIND GAMES had me cracking up. Regarding the Improv group Improv Everywhere, check out more of their missions here. Hysterictamerical!!! What a great TV show it would make....candid camera on a grander scale.

Kinda takes me back to The Yes Men

10 Songs to Help Get me Through My Day

1) Kings of Convenience "Know How" (MTV link and sample)
2) Jill Sobule "Cinnamon Park" (All Songs Considered Link)
3) Avenue D "2D2F" (band's homepage link)
4) The Dears "Lost in the Plot" (MTV link with video)
5) Astrud Gilberto and RJD2 "The Gentle Rain (RJD2 mix)" (Amazon Link)
6) Nouvelle Vague "A Forest" (NPR story)
7) The Killers "Why Don't You Find out for Yourself?"
8) Everything But the Girl "Rollercoaster (King Brit Scuba mix)" (sample)
9) Beck "Girl" (sample)
10) Phoenix "Everything is Everything" (review)

The Harlot

Based on Entertainment Weekly's review of The Starlet, I set my TiVo to red dot it.

The show itself was pretty terrible with three phonies struggling to win Faye Dunaway's affection (Schitzo tid bit: Favorite Faye Dunaway movie = Arizona Dream (after Mommie Dearest of course)). The screen tests seemed pretty horrific to me only to be surpassed by the fact that Vivica A. Fox would sign on for such a show. But here's what interested me:

Between the screen tests, when the "actresses" were supposed to be themselves, they were hamming it up even more. Every second represented a chance for a sound clip with Oscar worthy speeches with each compliment from the judges ("Thank you, Thank you, you have ALL inspired me SO MUCH!") and forced monologues to each other about how much the judges were WOW'ed by their performances, it became apparent to me that the show was much less about good acting and much more about how phony people could be. All three of the girls had faces and personalities that made me want to take a black Sharpie and draw unibrows and horns on their head shots. (maybe a few blacked out teeth too...)

Anyway, the girl who won had a rags to riches "right off the bus" story that I imagine the producers just couldn't decline...now that's compelling TV.

Is it me, or has time done Charles Ingles a world of good?

Talk about some good and wholesome wank jobs.

(Google of "wholesome wanking" = 0 hits)

Project Runway: Austin's cover up Show

For all of you Project Runway fans, I thought I'd post the link.

Nadia Turner, Scott Savol Turn Bad Note Good

Nadia Turner remains one of my top American Idol contestants. She has style, she can sing, and I believe she has excellent musical intuition (with one blaring exception "Time After Time"). Tuesday night's performance of Oliver's "As Long as He Needs Me" left me relieved that she would most likely not appear in the bottom three this week except for one blaring flaw. The last note went noticeably flat. She did manage to pull it back up, but it left me gasping for air. Would America notice? And then something miraculous happened: The note fixed itself upon replay. During the recaps, Nadia's off pitch money note became an on pitch honey note, leaving me confused and delighted that the producers would interfere on behalf of one of my favorites. J and I replayed it over and over again to be sure...and after tossing about ideas of digital correction, J surmised that the recaps are from the dress rehearsals and that Nadia just performed the song better the previous day. I had never noticed this "tweaking" before and wonder if it had any impact on the voting.

To quote a very wise young man: "Jesus Saves." (article not related to quoted individual)

This was in response to my confusion why wife beater and serial killer costume model, Scott Savol continues to remain in the competition. He just isn't appealing and his initially smooth and surprising voice is now bland, boring, and "pitchy." I thought he was getting through the competition by playing the God card, but now being characterized as a violent wife beater made me believe that he finally blew it. And alas, Scott was in the bottom three this week and as the weakest of the three performances, I crossed my fingers that my prayer would finally be answered. But no. Nikko Smith (who I don't really like that much) gave a brilliant performance of "One Hand, One Heart" and reaped his reward: a kick out the door. Why, oh why? "Jesus Saves." According to the aforementioned wise young man, people like the story of salvation and if Scott was able to turn his life around through his lord and savior Jesus Christ, that's good enough for the bible belt's vote.

Teri Hatcher has Red Letter Day

Can someone explain this to me?

Explanation 1) The Red Letter day: Teri Hatcher was having her monthly. As a gusher, only a red suit would cover the bloody mess.

Explanation 2) The Rob and Amber complex: For me, Teri Hatcher was the only recognizable name of the five housewives from her successful run as Lois on Lois and Clark. Perhaps the other housewives feel that Teri has had her time to shine and that they should be allowed some time in the low wattage spot light. Maybe Teri has become the media darling of the show leaving the other housewives feeling behind in the race for exposure. This could result in nothing but jealousy, anger, rumors of lesbianism (Thanks for the link, Chris [Feb 8, 2005]), and an environment of desperation. These cat fights conjur up images of Lynn, Alex, and eliminated Patrick of Amazing Race 7 fame who would stop at nothing to mention how much they hate Rob and Amber. Be it whining, or with clenched fists, a confessional doesn't go by when they aren't commenting how much they hate Rob and Amber. My Aunt Nancy told me during a particular hard time at my job that I just need to ignore everyone around me and focus on the job at hand. I would like to offer this advice to both Amazing Racers and Desperate Housewives

Explanation 3) The probable explanation: They are spoiled, petty babies with boobies.

In the meantime, find out which petty baby with boobies you are by taking the ABC sponsored quiz and maybe win a prize. (I think there was a better quiz circulating the internet before...) but I'm happy to find out that I'm Lynette, my favorite of the housewives.

Oh Phil,

You are so hip and kinky. I love it when straight gay men act like gay straight men.