Thursday Niftiness!

[yendi]

Starbucks has a new gourmet hot chocolate coming out! Nearly 400 calories in six ounces -- the sure sign of something that will taste yummy!

Latest addition to my wishlist (courtesy of Bookslut): Godzilla on my Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters. I love it when books are written about my heroes. :-)

Meanwhile, in Sacramento: "It's an inappropriate use of city equipment, obviously."

What's sadder? Bill O'Reilly's lame-ass sexual fantasies, as reported in the lawsuit mentioned over at the Smoking Gun, or the fact that he can't tell the difference between falafel and a loofah?

Oh, no more Britney Spears -- it's now Britney Federline. I love how she makes her decision to change her name sound like a defiant act.

Scrubs fans! Ted (the attorney)'s a cappella group that appears periodically? They've got a CD! And the CDBaby site has a streaming MP3 of them covering the show's theme song. And Underdog. :-)

Image of the day:

Yeah, I'm psyched. And I need this on a t-shirt.

Comments

[terminalwriter.livejournal.com]

including at a local event in which people dressed as porn stars, an official said Wednesday.

I'm very dissapointed with the news media. They didn't provide any photographic evidence!

[dragontdc.livejournal.com]

How exactly do porn stars dress?

[mycroftca.livejournal.com]

How about gourmet chocolate chips? forestcats found that CostCo suddenly started carrying our favorite chocolate (Ambrosia's Blue Ribbon bittersweet dark chocolate chips), which she then bought in great quantities for the upcoming holiday baking extravaganza...

[yendi]

I'll need to keep an eye out for those! :-)

[mycroftca.livejournal.com]

We used to go up to Wisconsin when we'd visit Chicago to specifically buy them, and lug 20-30#s of chocolate for our annual load; however, the company was bought out, and for a few years now, the only way to get any was in 50# lots intended for restaurants. Too much cash all at once, so we hadn't restocked in a while. forestcats was delighted with the find, and couldn't wait to show them off to me....

icon fun

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

I wonder what magic arrrghs do?

Re: icon fun

[mycroftca.livejournal.com]

Check out Monty Python and the Holy Grail, that should clarify nicely...

Re: icon fun

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

That's the Arrggh beast.

[dindin.livejournal.com]

Because you know, "society won't let [her]" change her name. Damn you society! ::shakes fist at society::

[yendi]

You know Britney -- that society girl debutante never could go against Being Proper.

[dindin.livejournal.com]

Of course. When I think of Britney the first words that come to mind are white trash being proper.

[shaddragon.livejournal.com]

Ouchie. That's high-cal chocolate indeed.

And I'm definitely looking forward to The Incredibles (which is remarkable, since I usually don't care much for cartoon comedies). They showed a preview of it at ComicCon this year, and it looks absolutely magnificent. (Granted, not a patch on the preview of Neil Gaiman's Mirrormask, but hey--it's hard to match Gaiman for genius).

[yendi]

It's written and directed by the guy who gave us The Iron Giant, so if it's not Neil-worthy, it's capable of coming damned close.

[shaddragon.livejournal.com]

Must admit I've yet to see Iron Giant. I guess I ought to? ;) I think it's just that I prefer Neil's style and genre -- Mirrormask just looked phenomenal. Surreal fantasy; an acid trip for kids is apparently how one previewer described it. But yeah... Incredibles looks like a blast. The clip they showed was hilarious.

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

Riley is a jerk, but I'm not too impressed with the lady in question either. Supposedly he harasses her, she leaves and gets a job at CNN, and then begs to come back and work for him again? It sounds like she's playing the victim. If she'd just stayed at CNN, and coughed up the tapes she must have of him, then I'd say she had a slam dunk.

How odd, Mr. Incredible in balancing on his belly, not flying. You can see the shadow on the ground.

[yendi]

Oh, there's no question that she's being opportunistic here (and she may also be guilty of blackmail). But if she really taped those conversations, no question that Riley's got much to answer for (and no, none of it's as bad as anything he's actually done on air, but standards are weird).

Yeah, I'd noticed that Incredible was on the ground. Gotta love it. :-)

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

Yes, looking at her lawsuit at the Smoking Gun, I felt like I was the one who needed a shower.

[rhapsody-98.livejournal.com]

Ah, another Scrubs fan.

Did I mishear, or was the Janitor "let go" on Tuesday????? TELL ME HE WASN'T FIRED!!!

[yendi]

I don't think so -- I think Kelso said that the Janitor's unseen crane-operating buddy had been let go.

[rhapsody-98.livejournal.com]

Oh, the little guy. That make more sense.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Did you read the whole firefighters article? "...largest internal probe ever".

*dies laughing*

[yendi]

I read the article, but missed that line. :-)

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

'he can't tell the difference between falafel and a loofah'

he must've meant a faloofafel.

[yendi]

Cleans with the power of chickpeas!

[angryvixen.livejournal.com]

She also pledged to quit singing...

She pledged? You mean, like, she promised? I swear, the world would be a much better place if she would just GO. AWAY. I can only hope she's a girl of her word and will stick to this.

[yendi]

Oh, I can't imagine she'd break a promise to her fans. *snort*

[indigoleo.livejournal.com]

(No gut, no glory)
Finally! A super hero I can identify with! lol! I can't wait for this to come out. It looks like such a hoot!

[oneechan19.livejournal.com]

That new hot chocolate sounds so yummy. At my old school, in the coffee shop, I would get white hot chocolate with irish creme. So nummy!

[raptorgirl.livejournal.com]

I want the Godzilla book, too!

[yendi]

:-) I'm not surprised.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Around here, if I say, "So Casey, what's that date again?" as a complete non sequitur, he'll say, "November fifth?"