This week - I stumbled on this funny food video on Serious Eats: ‘Waiters Who Are Nauseated by Food’
The skit is from the Dana Carvey Show and it features my two favorite funny men on TV: Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell.
They’re outrageous without being ridiculous. I love checking out old school video with these comedians. It’s interesting to compare their comedy origins to their current stints on NBC and Comedy Central.
[from http://usinfo.state.gov/gi/Archive/2005/Aug/09-538421.html]
Mark and I woke up for the Discovery landing - yesterday morning. We also woke up a couple of times Monday morning (starting around 3 AM or so) - to watch the delay of the landing and eventually, the scrubbing of the landing. I thought it was cute the shuttle crew woke up to the tune “Come on Elieen” - for their commander, Eileen Collins.
We toyed with the idea of driving up to Edwards Air Base…and scrubbed it. I didn’t want to get stuck in traffic.
I was amazed we could see the shuttle in spite of all the city lights. We tracked the shuttle’s progress through some NASA websites. We stepped outside about ten minutes before the estimated landing. We kept our gaze on the western sky.
Then we spotted a bright orange light. It looked brighter than a star and it moved faster than a plane. Mark said it looked like it was traveling at the right speed. It stay bright and it kept moving quickly across the dark morning sky….it’s not exactly a night sky since it was already 5 something in the morning.
When it got further east, the shuttle looked dimmer. A few minutes later, we heard and saw all the garage doors shake around us.
“Sonic boom!” Mark said. We ran back inside the house and watched Discovery touch down on the runway.
Wow. I said a little prayer of thanks.
SAN DIMAS — Munching on some potato salad at Coffee Bazar….damn good stuff….a shame the wifi keeps flaking out like blonde.
For folks who didn’t know….I started up a new photoblog on our road trips. I also updated my wedding blog.
We had a bunch of people in my parent’s cute little house on last Saturday for aparty/feast for my brother. My aunts came up to my room to check out the wedding dress….thank you Jen for taking those beautiful pictures. My auntie spied an old picture of my brother and me, in a tiny silver frame. We were in some restaurant booth and I held my Cabbage Patch doll in the middle.
She laughed, “Do you remember how I used to make you cry over that doll?” she asked me. “I kept telling you it was such an ugly doll and you kept bringing it everywhere.”
I suppose I’ve graduated from ugly dolls to alcholic bears. A few weeks ago, Jen speculated the bears picked up something from their travels.
“You don’t know where their butts have been,” she told me. “They sit everywhere.”
“They’re inoculated,” I retored on the phone.
“With what? Febreeze?”
Maybe I should toss the bears into the washing machine some day.
My auntied e-mailed me today….
“I go to your website regularly to check how you’re doing and I’ve noticed that you always spell the word “opportunity” as oppertunity. I hope you won’t mind my pointing this out to you.”
Hmmm…I thought that was the phonetic spelling of that word….ok…joking. Yeah…sorry about the mis-spellings…sometimes I’m justing typing on the run and I didn’t spell-check the entry…and other times…well…I’m just careless - no worries on spelling errors for my news stories - they go through a few levels of editing before they’re sent off to the press. Even then…I found one caption, for a picture I got published, that spelled Berkeley : Berkley…..I checked my story and my e-mail and I got it right….so it was the newspaper who slipped up.
i found this news mention on nicole’s blog
Jan Stephenson said that Asian’s were killing the LPGA tour. Apparently, they’re not promoting a sexy image. According to this 51 year old racist player - claims that men were the better golfers - thus the LPGA tour was beholden to getting it’s audience off on a sexy image. Yeah, at 51 one year’s old - I suppose Stephenson is having problems holding up her sexy image.
““If I were commissioner, I would have a quota on international players and that would include a quota on Asian players,” Stephenson told the magazine. “As it is, they’re taking American money. American sponsors are picking up the bill. There should be a qualifying school for Americans and a qualifying school for international players. I’m Australian, an international player, but I say America has to come first. Sixty percent of the tour should be American, 40 percent international.”
yeah…..Lucy Liu is way sexier than you…..So, maybe we should have a quota on old 51 year old white female players…..
vs.
take your sex appeal and shove it!
raining today 
and all I want to do is curl up with a good book….
I just finished:
a wierd 1945 comedy on a guy, who seems simple minded…but he can also blow you away with his revelations.
this book rocks! if you love Stephen King: pick it up! In general, the Dark Tower Series is an amazing, life-long effort for King…some say he may not be able to finish these books before he’s dead and gone…why? Because they take so much out of him….
this is a thriller - a page turner - my guilty pleasure
this is a shame….
Wired News: Write a Story, Go to Jail
i remember back when i was in high school - some TV network ran a special on the short stories by jr. high and high school students. The theme was on free speech. the stories were transformed into screenplays for TV. The first story showcased in this series haunted me for some time.
it’s told in the first person. the student arrives at school one day and he finds national guard soldiers posted everywhere. the other students wouldn’t talk above a whisper. it was shot in black and white. he saw another student kicking and screaming about his rights, as a pair of soldiers dragged him away to some unknown, but dreaded fate. the narrator walked into his home-room. he had history for first period. he browsed through his book and saw several pages have been ripped out. he became indignant. “who did this to my book?” his classmates motioned frantically to shut-up. one whispered - don’t you know? they eliminated our bill of rights. the story ended, with a horrifed realization marring the narrator’s face.
“Sara McFall, Robertson’s attorney, calls Robertson’s writing “disturbing,” but argued in court, “If a story describing such things is evidence (of a plan to commit murder), then Stephen King would be serving a life sentence.”
it’s absolutely absurd, the lengths the government will go to “protect” students. furthermore it’s shameful to treat our students like criminals - before they have a chance to commit any treason, violence, bombing, etc. whatever happened to educating students? instead, we have laws that are set-up to trip them on creative expression. to trap them in their writings. Growing-up, i had no fear, when turning in my creative writing assignments. My imagination ran free and my teachers nurtured my inspiration in story-telling. Ok, granted, I was not a doom and gloom, bombing type of gal. But at the same time, my teachers never censored those dark stories on witchcraft and suicide, and later on teenage angst. Where else could students find the safest means to express fears and frustration and pain? These laws seem like the final push to eliminate the safe havens found writing. Because once you eliminate that valve for creativity - what’s left? Do you honestly think students will simply come out and TALK about the disturbing thoughts? No. If anything, there’s more of chance to simply act on those disturbing thoughts.
argh. maybe i’ll move to Canada and raise my family….whenever I get the urge to have little “queenkvs” running all over the place.
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