Fun Fun Superfun

I had a great weekend. I went to a wedding in Long Island that was outstanding in a handful of ways:

1. I am pretty sure I've never been to Long Island before... except maybe for a college info session for SCAD, I think, back when I was living in NYC and thinking of going back to school for graphic design (about 6 yrs ago).
2. I have never danced so much at a wedding... I'm talking had to take my suit coat off in the first 15 minutes, legs tired the next day, sweating like a crazy person, legit reason to loosen the tie and undo the top button of the dress shirt style dancing. Damn. Craziness. Seriously, I don't usually dance.
   
3. Great company
4. Oh! and bonus, the vegetarian food was legitimately good! Mmm... veggie lasagna with a healthy portion of cheese baked in. Yum.
   

So wedding gushing aside, I came back and dove into my week happily working away, and this noon I spent a lunchtime moment floating over to my friend Liz's blog where she posts some info about her art, life, books, etc. Recently she's posted videos that represent a shift away from some of the installation/wall art she's been doing for the last year or more into a new direction. She's got four videos up now... and the latest, which shows raindrops on a window at night, is BEAUTIFUL!!!! I recommend checking them out. They're quiet and fun and, to me, very Zen.

So, if you're feeling blue 'cause it's Monday, fear not! It's getting beautiful again outside (after all the storminess of the last week), I've got some Zen stuff to calm you down, and life is good.

Cheers!

Amazing Photo of the Week

I was just on Huffington Post, and I want to know where they got this goofy and amazing picture of John McCain. It's amazing. It makes me giddy. I just can't wrap my head around how awesome it is. Can you? Seriously. Why is he holding that ancient cellphone? It looks like current day John McCain with 1991 John McCain's cell phone. Incredible. It came with an interesting article too.

Incredible.

Amazing.

Hope it makes you smile too.

TGIF.

Scandal, wha???

Confused by the layers and layers of controversy and scandal, crimes and misdemeanors that have swirled around the White House over the last 7 years? Wondering where the Department of Justice firings connect to Coercive Interrogation of Guantanamo Bay detainees? Just want to chuckle to yourself while thinking of John Ashcroft, Larry Craig and Mark Foley in a barbershop quartet together... wait... was Foley in the quartet? I think I'm wrong on that last one. Well if you're feeling the first two, check out Slate.com's supercool interactive chart of Bush Administration scandals! This clever little info graphic is not only fascinating and nicely designed, but informative as well.

The Girl Effect

This is cool. Speaks for itself, really. I just watched it on their website (there it's full screen!) and was impressed enough by both the message and delivery that I really wanted to pass it along. Enjoy.

I'm sorry, but that's just not cool

So apparently John McCain took a pretty nasty swipe at Barack Obama in the last few days, saying something the right wing talk radio hosts might say all the time, but something many were surprised to hear blurted out by a presidential candidate. In essence he claimed that Obama would like to lose the war in Iraq because doing so would be politically expedient. There's video of McCain's statement here. Today, however, I came across an interesting blurb on Andrew Sullivan's blog that adds a little context to the picture. What they raise is the idea that such comments really are, historically, not the sort of thing that presidential candidates engage in. Meanwhile Ben Smith over at politico is on a mission to find any precedent for a presidential candidate (not their surrogates) nakedly accusing their opponent of selling out the US. Assertions of weak patriotism, etc. are certainly all too familiar at this point, but there is something a little more direct about what McCain had to say. Let me know what you think.

MacGuyver Movie?

Alright!

A discussion of the show and the possibility of a movie on Salon.

The author does a pretty great job of summing up why I loved this show when I was a kid:

"Though, actually, when you go back to watch his adventures two decades after they first aired, you discover Mac's target audience probably consisted mainly of boys, not men... This jogged in me memories of boyhood, especially of how, after watching each MacGyver trick, I'd feel a bit invincible: I was small, but I was clever. Like MacGyver, I could take them."

Obama is a Hiphopopotamus

So this past weekend I picked up the Flight of the Conchords CD, which is tons of fun... although I have to say that if you're unfamiliar with the show you should really get to know them by checking out the DVDs of the first season. Below you can check out their runaway hit Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros (feat. Rhymenoceros and the Hiphopopotamus). It's classic. Before that, however, or after (whichever you prefer) you should check out political news of the day from Wonkette, where they've documented McCain's inability to say whether he believes or not that Obama is a secret Hipopotamus! Amazing.



There ain't no party like my nana's tea party!

Cheese Rap, Best Way Back

Dear Readers,

I've been away a good bit lately, stressed over relaunching my company's website and playing lots and lots and lots of softball. Still, the website is now launched, so I've got a little more time on my hands... a little! Enough to uncover this gem, sent my way by the "I Love Cheese" group on Facebook (I kid you not):



Enjoy!!

Old Skool Video Game Goodness Redone

I saw a great animation over on Purple State Blog from PES, then floated around checking out a few others. My favorite is below, and features an array of old school video games (Pac Man, Frogger, Space Invaders) redone through awesome at-home animation goodness.

Enjoy, and check out Pes's other stuff too. There's a clip that's basically porn with chairs that is pretty amazing (called Roof Sex, check it out here the sound isn't really safe for work, but the imagery is wonderfully tame yet graphic).

Here's the video game clip:

Wowzers

Anybody missed the Obama New Yorker cover controversy? Nope? Me neither. I the cover is a little... hmm... off color, but then again I also feel like some of the outrage seems outlandish. Is stuff like this going to deepen and extend the outrage into new territory, or is it just same shoe different foot?



Thoughts? An interesting question, to me, is something this cartoon really highlights, which isn't so much the content of the cartoon of the Obamas, but the fact that it ran on the cover of the New Yorker. I can't IMAGINE the National Review running a cover like the McCain one above. Maybe that just reflects how little I know about the New Yorker, but still... feel free to chime in.

h/t Americablog

Typo...or commentary

I came across this headline on politicalwire.com, one of the sites I check obsessively. I leave it to the reader to decide if this was a mistake, or a deliberate commentary on the relationship between the Bush House and FOX news.

Fox Dies at 53

Fox News: "Tony Snow, the former White House press secretary and conservative pundit who bedeviled the press corps and charmed millions as a Fox News television and radio host, died after a long bout with cancer. He was 53."

It's Friday, and that's ADORABLE!

In Amsterdam a cat adopted a newborn red panda cub and is nursing the wee one along side its own kittens. I don't know how popular the red panda is in any general sense, but I think they're incredibly adorable. I've been a huge fan for awhile now, so when I saw this news piece I couldn't help posting it here in my slow slow blogging week.