Seinfeld: Bubble Boy (Not Balloon Boy)

For some reason, whenever I have been talking about the Balloon Boy or his idiotic father, I keep saying ‘Bubble Boy”.  It must be a side effect of watching too much Seinfeld. So, I figured maybe it was a good time to post this little clip for the real Bubble Boy.

MOOPS!

PS: Speaking of Balloon Boy, chalk it up to my old home state to be home to yet another nutball.  And, they live in Ft. Collins no less – home to my hapless Rams.  (And, a hapless Sheriff’s Dept, apparently.)

Inside the Mind of a Woman

Okay, I know this went around a few months ago, but I ran across it again and felt the need to post.  If you haven’t seen it, the gist is this:  A guy goes on vacation to Europe for two weeks, and his girlfriend either forgot, or didn’t understand he was leaving.  The story is told through the emails he received while he was away.

Yes, this is what goes through our minds as women, I am sorry to say.  Oh, and the video is 8 minutes long, but worth it. Welcome to our world.

Enjoy!

A few days off…

I haven’t been around because it’s my birthday this week and I am taking a few days off to celebrate.  Well, perhaps celebrate isn’t the right word, as I am still in denial over last year’s birthday – but, I digress…

FYI – People who share my birthday: (not a very stellar group)

Keyshia Cole (28)
Ginuwine (34)
Dominic West (40)
Paige Davis (40)
Vanessa Marcil (41)
Eric Benet (43)
Todd Solondz (50)
Emeril Lagasse (50)
Sarah Ferguson (50)
Mia Nair (52)
Tanya Roberts (54)
Tito Jackson (56)
Richard Carpenter (63)
Penny Marshall (66)
Linda Lavin (72)

Worst Commercial Photoshop Ever

I’m definitely not a Photoshop expert, but even if I tried I could not pull off this disaster – found on the package for the Wii game Pet Vet. I am shocked that this would even make it out of a DeVry Photoshop I class –  let alone on to a real actual product.

I don’t know what’s worse: the freakishly giant rabbit?  The phony orange cat who’s not even in the same state? The fake hair on the Miley Cyrus look-alike?  (or, my favorite line from the Photoshop Disaster site this came from, “the horse with Hitler’s haircut?”)

I’ve seen a lot of bad Photoshop from people who don’t know what they’re doing and I’ve seen some really bad Photoshop from people who think they know what they’re doing – but I’ve never seen this bad of Photoshop from someone who is supposed to know what they’re doing!

Two words:  This sucks.

Photoshop Disasters

Go to your Happy Place

I’m having one of “those weeks” and it’s only Tuesday.  Maybe it’s the weather… maybe it’s my head.  But, I needed a cheery picture today, so this is it.  A cool vacation ad for the Bahamas from the 50s.  How exotic!

The End of Gourmet Magazine

This is a sad say in the culinary world.  Gourmet Magazine, the oldest cooking publication in they United States is folding.  Condé Nast chopped the mag in a cost-cutting move along with three other titles.  They only have two cooking titles, Gourmet and Bon Appétit, and they chose to keep BA over Gourmet.  Of course, I get them both, along with Food & Wine and Saveur, but Gourmet has always been my favorite.

The magazine was published since December, 1940. The move comes as somewhat a surprise to foodies, as the Gourmet title has prestige. Or it did, anyway.  Another example of mediocrity over substance in my opinion.

So, We Lost the Olympics

Wow – even after trotting out the Obamas AND Oprah!  Perhaps if they had made Michael Jordan come as well – or maybe Al Capone’s corpse?  What, the 5,000 Italian Beefs they shipped to the IOC didn’t work?  (Okay, I made that last part up.  Maybe.)

Franky, I’m not crying about it – I didn’t really think that this was a good idea for Chicago.  The transit problem alone was reason enough to keep the Olympics away.  Have you ever tried to drive downtown on a Friday in the summer?  Now add about  a zillion more people and see how that works out for you.  Can you imagine Sox games, Cubs games, Taste of Chicago, Neighborhood Festivals, Concerts, AND the Olympics?  There aren’t enough hot dogs in the city for that…

The only thing that makes me sad is that now I can’t rent my house out for $50,000 and head to Paris for a few weeks as I had already planned.

Groovy Green

I’ve been working on a post about something that happened to me involving a piano tuner and hiding in my garage, but it’s taking way too long!  It may even have to be a two-parter.  So, in the meantime, here is some eye candy for you.

It’s no secret with anyone who knows me that green is my favorite color.  Dark green, light green, lime green, forest green, grass green, pickle green – I love them all.  In fact, I wore so much green in college that one of my friends nicknamed me the “Forest Green Queen of Mean.”  I suppose because I was such a sweet and docile gal.

Anyway, I found this vintage paint ad from 1968 for this fab color of green.  In fact, this color is similar to the one right here in my office.  This ad is so dokry – not hip with the times at all.  ”How else could she have made so much difference so quickly, so inexpesively?”  Nice clunky sentence, Mr Ad Copywriter.  Plus, what’s up with the model?  Yay! My room is green!  Now I’m going to drop acid and listen to my Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band record!

I’m glad to see green is coming back as a hot decorating color – even if it is because of the word green now connotes the milquetoast ecology initiative and/or healthy mass produced food products.

Viva verte!

Please, Please, Please Go See This Movie

Funny?  Check.
Heartbreak?  Check.
Smiths’ Songs?  Check.

Yes, 500 Days of Summer, you had me at the first scene when your main characters both had Morrissey and Smiths album covers on the wall in their rooms as sullen teens.  Couple that with a few heartbreaker Smiths songs, and you have the perfect little movie.

Oh, the plot is pretty good, too.

500 Days of Summer Soundtrack

Mad Men & Mad Fonts

As any fan of Mad Men knows, the baby-daddy of the show, Matthew Weiner, is obsessed with getting every detail of Mad Men historically correct no matter how small… (The current season is set in 1963.) But, in this day and age it turns out there are people out there that are more obsessed than he – especially in the font department.  (New word of the day for me: historicism)

Turns out Weiner (or someone involved with the show) even stepped into the same shitstorm as IKEA did a few weeks ago, as they dared to use crappy Microsoft wanna-be Arial as his closing credit font (gasp!) instead of the classic and more age-appropriate Helvetica.  I think I’ve finally got it: when in doubt, never fuck with Helvetica or Futura!

The font in this ad for Season 3 seems to be, thankfully, age-appropriate and all’s right with the world again.  (Also, I really just wanted to post this shot of the gorgeous Don Draper aka Jon Hamm.)

If you’re interested in all the minutia, here’s a great article by Font God Mark Simonson from last year.