people in times square are wearing large orange hats. the guy on the news said "they" were giving them out--who "they" are, i don't know. but...our terror alert level is orange...is this a coincidence? if it's not...hot damn that's funny. god bless america.





hopefully, the hats were not given out by, you know, terrorists. that just wouldn't be so funny.

anyhoo, it's 11.26 pm and i think i'm going to ring in the new year by taking a nice, long, hot bath...happy new year, all.

Yahoo! News - Neil, Tim Finn Complete 2nd Studio Album.

wow...neil finn news on yahoo. weird.
also, didn't know there was a Seven Worlds Collide dvd...i'll add that to my list of things i'm going to buy myself any day now.

so i have this little camera attachment for my cellphone. it came with the phone for free, that's why i have it. so i tried it out a few times and the pictures looked, when viewed on my phone, extremely crappy. i tried emailing them to myself, thinking maybe they'd look better on a bigger screen, but then i'd had some problems with the emailing (which i'd called t-mobile about, and they said there were some temporary problems with that service at the time, and even though this was really no big hardship on me, they gave me 50 free minutes--so i now love them).

anyhow, i was disillusioned with the camera, and the emailing, and haven't tried it again for months. and last night for some reason i thought of it again, and emailed myself a picture i'd saved on my phone. and i'll be...it DOES look a hell of a lot better on a bigger screen. see...





took that when i saw the big duran duran reunion show at the end of august.

yay! my camera phone works!

since we are currently at Terror Alert Level Orange, i would like to remind everyone to get ready. very informational. (also a repeat--i've posted this before.)

50 Reasons Lord of the Rings Sucks.

i'm sorry. but at least it's not pictures of Lord of the Rings, right?

anyway. very funny:

#22. Legolas shoots arrow after arrow at his enemies, and yet the number of arrows in his quiver never decreases. I guess elves have glands on their back that secrete arrows.

#38. Liv Tyler's immortal elf volunteers to give up her eternal life for a single romance with a human man. Could any man really be that well endowed? I find it unlikely.


heehehhe.

yeah, so i've been noticing lately that i haven't actually written anything on here in ages, aside from commentary on inane pictures found on the internet. i'm trying to figure why this is, and the most i can figure this morning is that my head has been spinning.

i start five days a week usually looking at photos on the internet, on yahoo news. i do this when i arrive at work, while drinking some coffee, in an effort to orient myself with the world and get myself ready for the day. it rarely works that way, in fact distracts me to the point where i forget entirely about work for half the day, at times.

there are a ton of useless photos on yahoo, and all of them mixed together, photos of homes blown to bits in middle eastern countries and photos of jennifer love hewitt holding scotties in Harrods, then serving creamed corn to homeless folks in LA. bizareness ensues.

i look at them long enough and it's hard to discern what's what and who's who. i look at them long enough and i get uneasy about the humungousness of the world, the imbalance and the unfairness. (yes, nice of jennifer love to dole out the christmas eve dinners at the mission, but in the very next photo she's trying on a necklace worth $80,000 [and that's the sale price]...where's the middle ground?)

ahh...i don't know. it's 10:00 AM and already my head is muddled. i could go on and on in a very mentally ill fashion about how much the world is a big, sad place, but i won't, because i have work to do, and if i don't start it now i may never.

my point being, i will try to write more, and post pictures of lord of the rings less. except for maybe an occasional pippin, cause he's my new favorite. ooo, or eowyn. dude, she TOTALLY kicks ass. not like that stupid arwen, all she does is cry.

oh yeah. work. ok bye.

another santa monkey!!

mick jagger's 92 year old dad. he's so cute!

Lord of the Ring Dings....aahahahahahahahhahaah! sigh.

(from this thread on fark.com.)

christmas webcam--turn the lights on some guy's house on and off via the web. wacky.

bad hairdo aside, how come renee zellweger doesn't want to look like this all the time? supposedly she's 'bulking up' for the Bridget Jones sequel, but man, she looks good all curvy. much better than she looks when she's flat-chested and emaciated. in my opinion, anyway.

and speaking of flat-chested and emaciated, how scary is lara flynn boyle these days? answer: terribly.

barbie-type dolls made into movie stars. some of them are eerie, no kidding.

every other friday, we get paid at work. these are very busy days at the office--someone from each group home has to come and pick up the checks for their house, so it's a lot of people in and out. on these days, we always have two platters of "homemade" cookies (made by an employee from our ice cream store--but made at the ice cream store, so they're homemade, but not homemade, i guess) in the reception area for the people who come and go. i think it's a nice touch, and it's something people look forward to (the residents, anyway--sometimes while chatting with me at the office on non-payday days, they ask if i have cookies, hehe).

anyhow. i just heard a staff person outside my office refer to the cookie someone else was eating as a 'chocolate chipper.' and this just reminded me how much i hate that phrase. chocolate chipper. isn't it just easier to say, chocolate chip? 'that cookie looks delicious. is it chocolate chip?' chocolate chipper is just so...cutesy. or something. it's not even cutesy, but it's something, and it irritates me. i'm not sure why. perhaps i need therapy.

love/hate mittens. i love these. no, i hate them. no, wait, i love them. hehehe. ok i really do like them a good deal. they're kinda funny, no?

oooo and the ones made from the round altoid tins are even neater! : Pintoid Sours.

Marcy's Pintoid How-to.

how to make a pinhole camera from an altoids tin. so neat! pinhole cameras take such groovy pictures, too. must make one. on mental to-do list now.

warning: the story linked below is disturbing, and there are some details in the little blurb i wrote below that might be disturbing as well. just so you know. go back and look at Arong the Santa Monkey if you are not feeling up to reading about gore right now. thank you, drive thru.

CBS News | Cannibal: I Had Other Volunteers.

this is the kind of shit that really makes me believe the entire world is going to hell.

i mean. supposedly the guy who was killed consented. and there are others who are into this sort of thing too. so, at least the guy who did the killing didn't, say, kidnap and kill someone, supposedly. but jesus christ it's a disturbing story. what on earth happened to the human brain, what kind of evolution, that make some people find being slaughtered and eaten a sexual turn on?

whole world. going to hell.

Yahoo! News - Duran Duran to Kick Off World Tour with UK Gigs. yay! duran duran news on yahoo!

wow. this cheered me up right fast:

A monkey named Arong wears a Santa Claus outfit...

and just in case this page disappears in typical yahoo fashion, a direct link to the picture.

i would just like to advise anyone who is thinking about using Sprint for anything phone-related: DON'T DO IT. i SO cannot stand them. their customer service is ATROCIOUS. it took me literally months to get my account cancelled, and now that it finally is--for a phone that i haven't even used in months--i still have to pay for ANOTHER billing cycle because they won't just cancel it as of today. or as of last week, which was when i was told by the hump who called me demanding money for the PHONE I DON'T USE told me it would be cancelled. apparently he was just in the collections department and has no authorization to cancel accounts. so the lady i spoke with today told me. he put in his notes that he "advised" me to call the number she's at to cancel my account. in reality, what he told me was that i could call that number if i wanted to, just to follow up on it being cancelled, but he definitely told me he would put in a cancel order for my account. the lady i spoke to today did not seem to want to hear that what he wrote in his notes and what he told me were two different things.

grrr. i am so happy to have them out of my life.

Create a Snowman. the gallery of snowmen people have created is awesome...

yay, an advent calendar! i used to love advent calendars as a kid. the real paper kind, though, with the little windows that concealed tiny toys and such. i loved tiny things as a kid. anyhow, happy holidays!

so no doubt did a cover of talk talk's it's my life. which has:

a.) reminded me what a fantastic 80s song this is.

b.) made me really sad because i'm thinking that a lot of no doubt's fans do not realize that this is a song from the 80s, have never heard of talk talk, etc.

of course, the original is still best.

Knitting and Freeform Crochet by Prudence is some crazy shit. check out this coat or whatever it is. damn, some day, i'm going to make something like that...like when i'm old and nutty and have 35 cats living with me, but still. i'll do it, you'll see.

hm, and then on sunday, i could go to the punk rock flea market.

Bazaar Bizarre 2003. i really want to go to this. like to the point where i'm thinking, how long did it take to get to boston by train? hmm...

really. a makeover. look into it. even freaking gollum looks better than you, dude. that's sad.

Yahoo! News - Fonda: Married White Female.

bridget fonda got married. to danny elfman.
is it just me, or is that weird?

NZOOM - ONE News - Entertainment: "British band Duran Duran have arrived in New Zealand, ready to rock '80s style as the support act for Robbie Williams in Auckland."

now i like robbie williams and all, but that's just wrong. they're his supporting act? WRONG!

oh my god. what a fucking day.

that's really all i can say about it.

wheeeeeeeeeeee it's snowing! it was sheer white outside the windows a short while ago. it's almost stopped now but there's a nice white coat on the ground now...

you know, you just don't see enough pictures of men poking other men's bellybuttons. especially famous men.

killingjar.org.

whee, i started a photolog! there's one entry (with several pictures) up on the homepage, and if you hit the 'photolog' link on the left, you'll get links to a couple more entries. hope you like them; if you don't, you're just a doodoohead, because i am a photographic genius.

i just realized that whenever i link to a picture in yahoo news, about a week later or something, it turns into a different picture. like that one i linked to last week or so of shoshanna johnson, well, she's now sharon stone. go figure.

do you think that at any point recently, Peter Jackson has looked at the men surrounding him and thought...man, i could really use a makeover?

yeah, probably not.

(each of those words above after 'Peter Jackson' is linked to a different picture, by the way. in case you missed it. because you should not miss the picture of viggo. he looks so much better without all the hair...)
(and ian mckellan. nice!)

i am. so. out of it. today.

i'm not tired but i feel like curling up in bed and napping would be really nice right about now...i think i had too many days off of work. plus, what i'm working on now that i'm here is slow-going stuff: lots of reading and highlighting and i kind of think that the thing i'm reading repeats itself every few pages...and i'm not just saying that because i'm out of it. it really does.

anyhoo. lunchtime.

i've found my next craft project: powerpuff cross-stitch. :)

from a site with lots of interesting, um, adaptations of the powerpuff girls, such as:
fleetwood mojo
buttercup max
powerpuff ghost in the machine (cool!)

lots and lots of other pics, too.