It’s never hit me this hard before. We got home Monday night and I’m still having trouble making it to my normal bedtime (@ midnight) and sleeping past 7am. The first few days, I was fine because I was very busy and it was physical work (laundry, cleaning up the yard, vacuuming, dusting). But now I’ve moved onto more sedentary things like photo processing, trying to get my inbox under control and catching up on my rss feeds — and it’s like taking a sleeping pill!
So today, I’m going to take a more strategic approach to the problem and flip back and forth between yanking weeds in the yard and plowing through stuff on the computer (that is, at least until it starts to get too hot out there). Maybe that way I won’t have a chance to get sleepy…
So, anyway, just a reminder that I’m not posting links to the blog anymore — they’re going to twitter these days — if you’re interested in following me around the bizarre warren that is the internet, check the side column here or sign up for my twitter feed. But just to provide the exception that proves the rule, here’s a bonus link for the day:
The Annotated Conundrums… here’s the word on this blog from the kids over at Old Jews Telling Jokes:
Best thing I found on the Internet this week: some writers from The Daily Show found a hundred-year-old joke book and are going through it page by page, trying to find the meaning behind punchlines that are seriously outdated. It’s like comedy archeology, and it’s fascinating. You can find their work at The Annotated Conundrums. For example, there’s this ancient witticism: “Q: When does one become soured? A: When he is in a pickle.” Makes no sense, right? But apparently this was quite the knee-slapper back in 1902.
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The coolest thing about this Surprise Wedding Reception from Improv Everywhere is that the “guests” at one point do the Macarena. Oh, how 90s of them. Or, has it displaced the bunny hop as predictable wedding reception fare?
(btw, did you know that one of Emmie’s special talents is that she can macarena to any music?)
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The White House correspondents’ broke bread together with the President and First Lady on Saturday night. Obama spoke, and was brilliant, but I think he may have actually been upstaged by Wanda Sykes, who took no prisoners! See what you think:
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I was talking to my brother yesterday and discovered that he was not aware of last week’s battle between Jim Cramer and Jon Stewart. It also occurred to me that all those friends I have out there who live abroad, or don’t have TVs, might have missed out on the fun as well. So, here is what I’ve collected so far. I’ll add more as it becomes available.
Before you start the first video, go check out the video I posted last weekend — it was what got this whole kerfluffle started.
UPDATE: more from GLH, uggabugga and americablog.
Continue reading ‘Stewart and Cramer: A “Spirited Back and Forth”’
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It’s hard to believe that someone could come up with an idea that is dumber than the War on Drugs, but South Carolina State Senator Robert Ford has gone and done it (via Ice Station Tango):
Now, why would we, as a community, want to take a productive member of society and turn him into the taxpayer’s problem by throwing him into jail or prison, when all he did was drop the f-bomb (or pick up a bit of weed for the weekend)? Plus, if swearing were outlawed, we’d miss out on wonderful moments like this one (via One Good Move):
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