Enflamed with Passion

I cannot draw penises this well.

I've never counted exactly how many feeds I'm subscribed to, but they extend almost to my status bar. Perhaps I'll do a screen cap sometime. There are some I only skim and others I wait to check. I'm not even sure why I added Upside Down Dogs to it; all the posts are titled "Photo". Of my many subscriptions, I strongly recommend Passive Aggressive Notes. The image above is my favorite post yet. It actually wasn't included in the post proper but it is absolutely fantastic. My favorite comment:

The orange penis is not ejaculating.

His genie is going back inside!

Avenue Q in P-town

While I don't really miss my old school, I occasionally miss the roommates I had. Not all of them, of course, but I certainly miss Rick and the opportunities I wasted with him. Such as lifting the soundtracks to The Producers and Avenue Q from his iPod. However, I have recently learned that the later will be coming to Portland later this month. I'm excited. The timing is a little precarious as I'm scheduled to start work the next day, but I'll walk it off. I'm just a little concerned I won't be able to find anyone willing to go with me, but really, how can you hate this?


Tickets here.

Mo Mormons

Some people posed with the silly sign.

Driving home from the event, I listened to Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me, which is probably my second favorite NPR program after In Character, which is really more of a segment anyways, so I suppose I just lost the game or something. I really ought to like some of their music centric programs more than I do, but I think we've established that I'm some sort of anomaly. Did I mention The Puzzle? I lurve the puzzle. Will Shortz is the sphinx. Sphinx would make a really cool substitute for the word cool in the future or maybe to refer to an attractive female?. We could change the future of children's vernacular together! Think about using next time you want to describe something as hott or hip.

In the jazz department at BYU-I,we were discouraged from using the word hip because it apparently had drug connotations. I call bullshit as it's a derivation of hep, but whatever. This will tie together nicely.

I apologize for my saturation of links. I've gotten carried away.

In any case, with the confluence of General Conference and Mo Rocca today, I've decided it an opportune time to link to this, which is unfortunately, now outdated. I'm sure Mo would have appreciated the whole zero hits I'd have given him anyway.

By the way, here's what wikipedia has to say about what is hip:

Despite research and speculation by both amateur and professional etymologists, the origins of the term hip and hep are disputed. Many etymologists believe that the terms hip, hep and hepcat (e.g., jazz musicians' now cliched "hip cat") derive from the west African Wolof language word hepicat, which means "one who has his eyes open".^[1] Some etymologists reject this, however, and have even adopted the denigration "to cry Wolof" as a general dismissal or belittlement of etymologies they believe to be based on "superficial similarities" rather than documented attribution.^[2]

An alternative theory traces the word's origins to those who used opium recreationally in the 19th century. Opium smokers commonly consumed the drug lying on their sides (i.e. their hips). Because opium smoking was a practice of socially-influential trend-setting individuals, the cachet it enjoyed led to the circulation of the term hip by way of a kind of synecdoche. This theory, however far-fetched, is most certainly disproven by the fact that the term hep was used until around 1940, when it was replaced in popular culture with the term hip for no apparent reason other than to make the word current again.

So there, ha!

Stuff White People Like

When I first saw this blog I thought it was pretty brilliant satire. Haha, this is funny, I'm glad I'm not a yuppie, and so on. But as I progressed, I found myself fitting more and more of the white people profile. I listen to public radio (#44) and I like The Daily Show/Colbert Report (#35), but when I saw number 38, I knew I was a white person, even though I don't like dogs (#53) or coffee (#1). Now I'll probably try to follow this list as much as possible just because of how much I love #50.

Picture Related.

#38 Arrested Development « Stuff White People Like

Fantastic!

Onion headline that made me laugh

Just seeing the headline in my RSS feed made me laugh. Even more so when the area was Salem, Oregon. Perfect for Singles Awareness Day. Poor guy...

Local Girlfriend Always Wants To Do Stuff | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

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British Sketch Comedy

I heard about these guys on NPR this morning and decided to check them out. I've been on a bit of an anglophile kick as of late with Primeval and found That Mitchell and Webb Look very entertaining. I spent the majority of my leisure time today watching their many sketches on youtube. Here's one of my favorites:



This one is also good if you can get past the whole biscuit business:



You should also definitely check out Numberwang and all it's derivations. If only I had cable...

NPR: BBC Comedy Hit Heads to U.S.

Barack-tober

Michael Cera in a Funny Or Die video

Did you know Michael Cera was the voice of Brother Bear on the cartoon version of the Berenstain Bears? It's true!

Anyways, I don't frequent Funnyordie.com often, but I really should, because this had me giggling:

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis from Comedy Deathray, Zach Galifianakis, and Michael Cera

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Clip from the IT Crowd

I'm having a sort of gay day, I'm even wearing slippers, so I felt this clip from The IT Crowd was appropriate. Unfortunately it cuts out before Moss says, "I'm questioning every value I've ever had, and loving it."

Another Best of Craig's List

I'm going to have to check out Craig's List more often, as this is hilarious:

best of craigslist : Star Wars Guide to the Candidates

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Vulcanology

From the wikipedia page on Vulcanology. I found this amusing:

Volcanology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Christian mythology


The study of volcanology was not advanced much between the days of Plato and Hutton. The Christian world explained volcanoes by a multitude of prescientific notions, but it was also thought they were the work of Satan or the wrath of God, and only saintly miracles could avert their wrath. For this reason the relics of Saint Agatha were paraded in front of lava advancing on Catania in 253 A.D., and miraculously the lava clove in two (down two valleys) and spared the town. Unfortunately the relics of St. Agatha proved ineffective in 1669, with the loss of much of Catania to Etna's lava.

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Venn Diagram Jokes

It's been a while since I checked out Indexed, a very clever webcomic of sorts, although it remains on my RSS the same way Dinosaur Comics do. It doesn't use art, but rather witty graphs. A few made me chuckle. This one made me laugh:



indexed: Clearly unbalanced.

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The Onion describes my friend Chris

To be fair, probably a tenth of mine are in some way related to various video games, if not more.

Half Of 26-Year-Old's Memories Nintendo-Related | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

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Best Onion Headline Ever

School Bully Not So Tough Since Being Molested | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

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Tom loves Craigslist

Tom Leykis (whose wikipedia entry has recently been butchered) loves talking about Craigslist and Myspace and how they are used to facilitate sexual encounters. Tom Leykis is reading this on air right now. It's pretty funny. I'm glad I didn't turn the radio off right away like usual. His monologues are always the best part of his show, aside from the occasional listener smack-down, although that was what turned me off his show to begin with. I began to notice how he'd start talking over people when they disagreed with him, and suddenly he was not-so-different from Bill O'Reilly and the experience was ruined. Most all of his callers agree with him (and then continue to testify on how often he is right and how listening has changed their life), so after the first ten minutes, you've heard the remaining 50 before the next monologue. Most of the things he talks about are true, to those to whom such truths apply, or I must assume so as I have no contradictory evidence to disprove or refute his claims and he seems credible. Even so, I imagine there's some self-filtering of opposing arguments, because the next 5 callers will probably rail against you after you've been talked over by Tom, and who wants that? Thus it seems that the only opposition he receives are from new listeners who aren't familiar with all of his stances (he speaks in broad terms and never says always) and outraged women. Although I don't listen to him often anymore or agree with some of his positions, or follow the lifestyle he advocates, he is a very successful broadcaster and I suggest anyone who hasn't heard him, or heard of him, to check him out. It's hard to compare him to any other broadcaster, so far as my knowledge permits, although comparisons could be made to a secular televangelism program with it's proclamations of truth and life changing testimonials. Here in Portland he is on AM 970 from 3pm-7pm.

best of craigslist : It's me! Every girl ever.

Dewey Cox

John C Riley is much easier to listen to than look at. The interview is over 20 minutes long.

NPR Music: John C. Reilly Sings Dewey Cox

Conflicts

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Nina Conti

She has a brief cameo in For Your Consideration. I've decided ventriloquism is hot. Or she is. Pick one.

Harmless mistake

I have my RSS feeds for NPR and The Onion way to close together and was shocked when I saw this headline:

Bush Acknowledges Existence Of Carbon Dioxide | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

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