Hey, remember “out of control” with dave coulier? it turns out that it was the first original programming nickelodeon did back in the day.

it also turns out that dave’s co-star diz hasn’t done a lot since…and according to this flickr photo, she has been selling magazines on cahuenga for years. which makes me sad i never knew while i lived there.

yay diz!

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I want this job. How do you get this job? But only because I value Katy Perry as an artist.

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1. Nothing. If you don’t like it get the fuck out!
2. Or, Rush Limbaugh calling for segregated buses. We have known the man is an idiot for the last 15 years. I’m actually amazed that we can now unabashedly add ‘racist’ to that modifier. You’d think that it either would have been obvious much sooner or simply never come up. But yet here we are in 2009 and the man is calling for segregation. Fucker.
3. And our disposable lifestyles. This depressing article from the NYT highlights self-storage, a concept I didn’t get before the article. Now it just makes me want to scream.
   

   Even by the early ’90s, American families had, on average, twice as many possessions as they did 25 years earlier. By 2005, according to the Boston College sociologist Juliet B. Schor, the average consumer purchased one new piece of clothing every five and a half days.

   What is wrong with us? Why do we have a compulsion to spend money?

4. And Wolf Blitzer failing beyond miserably at Celebrity Jeopardy while Andry Richter mops the floor with him. Skip 2 or 3 minutes in if you don’t want to watch the entire 10 minutes. So the comedy sidekick (and genius) cleans up; the man who is supposed to deliver news can’t even get out of the red.
   

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five mostly unrelated thoughts:

1.  david beckham is just too ridiculously good looking.  i mean really.  i flush just looking at himsometimes.

2.  i tried to cook plantains this evening with dinner and it was a total failure.  i created tasteless, crispy chips with none of the sweet and salty goodness i associate with the tostones i’ve eaten at myriad south american restaurants. what went wrong?  maybe they weren’t ripe enough.  i was saddened, having high hopes that they would be a fruit/veggie that Z and T might actually willingly consume.  

3.  one more teacher workday and the academic year begins.  in my new role as program coordinator at my new school, i am in charge of one full-time and one part-time assistant.  that’s a weird new change for me and has underlined my extreme discomfort in delegation.  i really prefer to do things myself, and i need to get over that.  i’m afraid it’s not because of some virtue in which i want to serve others, but because i am a control freak and want to reap heaps of praise when things go well.

4.  i have mixed emotions about john mayer.  there’s little to argue with in terms of his guitar-playing ability – it’s pretty fucking amazing, although sadly not showcased in the majority of his pop-heavy tunes. he’s pretty funny and well-spoken and well-written and self-depreciating, all of which i dig on.  but the bland tapioca of his music sends me a-snoozing, and i took affront somehow in a faculty meeting friday when my extremely well-intentioned new principal used his song ‘no such thing‘ as a springboard into an inservice on school discipline.  in reflection, now, i’m not actually sure what the parallel there was.  i was perhaps too busy having my hackles up being forced to listen to the song looped before the meeting began, then instructed to listen to it again with a copy of the lyrics in my hand.  it’s not horrible, but it’s not exactly the type of music i’d draw upon for inspiration and deep though, you know?  maybe i’m just still a judgmental music snot, circa my days at wcwm.  but how can that be?  i have new kids on the block on my iPod.

5.  scrunchies are still very popular in gymnastics, i observe.  why?

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as todd sat watching “clerks 2″ on demand this afternoon, i had a lightbulb epiphany as i finally figured out who rosario dawson reminds me of. DW from the arthur books. discuss.

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last night i had an adult dream about john mayer.

john mayer?!

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today is diesel’s birthday.

our little man is two years old today!

gus is celebrating with him, also, with the incentive of a cookie.

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sarah silverman is fucking matt damon. and it really makes me laugh.

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