Cheap Trick

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My favorite Dream Police reference was Apu singing dream police as he washed his T top firebird. I wonder if the Green Police advertisement will give a boost to Cheap Trick's download stats on Itunes. I laughed at it, but it was a bit creepy as the UK has already set up a green police... seriously, they will wear green jackets like in the ad.

Sherlock Holmes of the Bosom

If you've ever wondered if somoene has implants or not, just ask for a flashlight. Then take the flashlight and shine it under the breast. If it lights up like a pumpkin at Halloween, you've found an implant.

Teeth

From my mom's tooth-gum structure, I inherited a small gap between my front two teeth. After having braces, the two teeth slowly slid apart. It's small but noticeable. For years, I thought the only solution would be $600-1200 per tooth 'lumineers' which are like veneers but not permanent (they last 20 years, don't look like "Chiclets" and don't involve filing down your teeth). For 8 dollars & in 2 weeks, I'll have that gap fixed. I always found that gap annoying, and I know it pissed my mom and dad off since they spent good money on braces only to see that tiny gap form. I told them they can claim to have fixed it with braces since this procedure will only cost $8.

Dental technology advancements kick ass.

More Problems with the Man Made Side of Global Warming

Not good for the scientific community when the data is not trustworthy in one highly touted or referenced study because it will cause skepticism about others studies by the same group. Man Made Global Warming has had a rough three months... not that the American mainstream media would notice.

Maybe two giant snowstorms in Washington DC in 2 months can wake them up.

The Demon Sheep Ad

This is the most unintentionally funny political ad of all time. This is gold. When you think it cannot get weirder and worse, it reaches a whole different level of weird.

Super Bowl 44 Thoughts

Great game. Great coaching for the Saints. Bad decisions for the Colts. Great defense by the Saints, bad defense by the Colts. Few memorable commercials; etrade baby love affair being a highlight. Queen Latifah should send The Who a flower arrangement for performing so bad that everyone will forget her awful pre-game performance. "I hope I die before I get old" is it ironic or just coincidental that the Who got famous for that line in "My Generation"? Tomorrow I get to make fun of the fat humps that teased me for not wearing Colts stuff to work. I'm not a Colts fan, get over it fat humps.

Indy should have known they'd lose after Obama said he thought they'd win.

Dan Fogelberg Rocker?

This was his hardest sounding song. He just had to kick it up a notch for Letterman in the 80s. His music made my mom cry often and I never understood why until I experienced love and heartbreak. We need some real classic Fogelberg...

Please Reverse This Trend

Europe's nightlife is dying??? Say it ain't so. Some of the euro hotspots feel like grown up collegetown areas where there are 15 bars within walking distance of each other, the streets are thick with people and there is a buzz in the air. It's like that condensed area in Portland Maine with cobblestone streets and 8 bars within throwing distance of one intersection. That is a good nightlife atmosphere. All cities should have that.

Young Doppelganger

As a kid growing up in the 1980s, my aunts and uncles called me Alex P. Keaton. It didn't dawn on my mom that sending her son to school in Lacoste polos and button down shirts might be OK on TV but not OK for 1st grade in Saco, Maine.

Scrooge McDuck

Disney knows how to make stereotypes that everyone can identify but love. You don't see anyone ripping them for a Jar Jar Binks type character. No one ever questions my favorite stereotype that they turned into a lovable character: the cheap penny pinching moneymaking Scotsman Scrooge McDuck. Scrooge might not wear pants, but the guy has enough cash and gold to fill a giant vault that he can swim in. He swims in his money. The idea is absurd as he has a giant vault that is stories high, yet money and cash do not circulate like H2O molecules, so what is the point of having the vault be deeper than say 8 feet? I'll leave it to the man himself. Scrooge what do you havew to say for yourself?

Thought so.

Fallen Caryatid Under Her Stone

If ever in Paris with some spare time, check out the hole in the wall Rodin museum. He is worth it. The gardens are great and hold some nice treasures of art. You pop around a corner in a garden and bump into "The Thinker". The Indianapolis Museum of Art had/has some Rodin pieces/duplicates and the "Gates of Hell" pieces were/are there. I wonder how many people truly notice his work there when they enter and exit the featured exhibits they have each season.

One of my favorites is to the right. It shouts no no this beautiful Greek girl will not hold up your heavy stones. She will not bear your burdens for eternity. Rodin was so cool that he left his casts behind so duplicates could be made. I like how he can capture facial expressions, especially in The Burghers of Calais. They are worthy of long gazes and intense observation.

Thanks Auguste Rodin. The world is a more beautiful place because of you.

Zombie Book - State of Decay

For zombie tales lovers, I will be ordering State of Decay. In my recent haul of books after the holidays, the only fiction book I sought out was "The Domination". The Domination is a classic of alternative history where the worst of the worst of humanity are the leaders of the old British Cape Town colony.

Miss Murder

Finally got the name of the song. This plays at my gym randomly between the German Gay disco and awful pop tunes. For an alternative pop rock song, it's catchy. The bridge reminds me of the bridge in "What Would Brian Boitano Do Part 2". Of course, this came out in 2006, and I'm 4 years late to the party.

Movements with Fascist Elements

I wonder how many people see Fight Club and V for Vendetta and realize that the folks looking for something greater than themselves end up stripping away their identity for submersion into a mass movement. To become realer, greater, awesomer, they must lose their soul for the greater good that promises to destroy the current reality and replace it with one leader's vision.

Home Healthcare Robots

Wonderful to think we may have robots to supply home healthcare in the future. If you read the post, the saddest detail is that average elderly person receives 9 mins of care a day from a nurse. Sad. $45-60K annually for 9 mins a day. I would much rather receive home care from a robot and live in my own home than live in a nursing home. If they can program the robots to replay famous stand up comic routines, this robot would be the perfect nurse.

The WSJ NY Times Whining Overeducated White Women Articles

The recent WSJ article on Mr. Right being hard to find, and the subsequent 'me too' NY Times articles, is the absolute best example of NY media creating new 'problems' for upper class overeducated white women in NYC. Oh stop the presses, some overeducated white women can't get married by age 35. Oh lordy!

This is not a problem....
1. This is secretly a vehicle for women to brag about themselves. It's called whine bragging. Get used to it as the world has become such a calm place we now have to find ways to bitch about the good things. See this entry on Ann Althouse's blog about whine bragging about a marriage.
2. Women, wake up, men have been doing this for years. How come no one ever wrote this article when men were married 'down' to women without college degrees? Maybe they can start doing what men did and look for healthy genes and charming partners. Maybe they can marry a guy who doesnt make as much money as them or have multiple degrees and fuckin' live with that. Oh the horror!
3. Get over yourself. Seriously, you're probably not attractive, no matter what the WSJ or NY Times says. They ripped on Christina Hendricks.
4. This is the downside of feminism. Sorry, secretly men now get all the milk for free thanks to sexual liberation and we do not have to worry about being the primary breadwinner. "It's OK to come out boys, we won!"
5. This is the latest thing the NY media makes a fuss about when they do not want to talk about real people problems. Last year, it was talking about people making 100K annually seeing their salaries reduced or god forbid their cancellation of NY Knicks season tickets.
6. This feeds into the women are not truly complete without a Mr Right.
7. Intelligence is overrated in a partner, and a college degree does not signify intelligent.

If it is here's some solutions...
1. Get over yourself
2. Maybe on a date talk about the world and your interests, not a list of your accomplishments.
3. Maybe look for what is inside a person. After all, college degrees are given out like pez now. With the incidence on mental disorders at my college, I am thankful i did not marry one of those genius Scarsdale girls.
4. Maybe when you spent 3-4 years in grad school and broke up with that great guy because you didnt have time for him but he was so right, maybe, just maybe, that guy was the mr right for you. I'm not typing this as a guy dumped because someone wanted to set up a free clinic in sub-saharan africa by age 30 when she was 20, wait yes I am. $100 says she's still single and her biological clock is loudly ticking.
5. Mr or Mrs Right is a romanticized concept that didn't and doesn't really exist. Consider how long arranged marriages lasted in even the Western world. In the 1890s, some people started to marry for this thing called love. Drop it. It feeds into our obsession will perfection.
6. Get over yourself. Your bourgeois concerns about Mr Right make me laugh. The world is a dangerous, tough place where many people have big, daily problems. You, Ms Great Accomplishment Life, finding Mr Right is waaaaaaay down the priority list.

Dr Helen has a different take on this. Ann Althouse has been citing this as well here, here and here.

The Insecure

Sometimes I wish I could wrap my arms around insecure people and transfer some of my confidence to them. To forever beat oneself up over imaginary faults is a sad exercise that yields no gains.

Ha Ha Jay-Z Lost Money

Celebs losing money because of bad investments. Uh oh, maybe Beyonce is going to have to perform more concerts for dictators and their families.

My Doppelganger

Just give me 30 years

Good Mash Up

The Kardashian family is involved with some dumb weight loss supplement. Whatever. Great mash up here as someone edited this so you see the Kardashian advert as well as a 1990s phone sex ad that was played on such great shows as USA's Up All Night. As a lonely 13 year old, those were sexy to me. The model in that advert is Lorissa McComas. I have problems.

My Wife's Doppelganger

Except she's 8 inches taller than my wife.

Freedom

To truly be free may require you to be responsible for your actions, plan your life and live with the consequences.