You Could’ve Listened, But Nooooooo…

  • Nov. 12th, 2009 at 12:43 PM

I warned you I was allergic to that shampoo, but did you believe me?  Oh no, not you, think you know everything, don’t you?  Well, now my face is melting, so let’s hear your clever idea for fixing that, Vidal Buffoon!

Gary 054

Your “Gary” has the (echo effect) Jowls of DESSS-tiny, Heather Y.

Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Disa-POINTED!!!, Pups

Letting it snow...

  • Nov. 11th, 2009 at 11:13 PM
It's that time... the holidays are upon us. Bloomingdale's has had Christmas trees up since Memorial Day, pretty much. The lights are on the palm trees in Union Square. And the performance schedule for Let It Snow! is out.

The show previews next week, then runs through 12/19. Here are the dates I'm performing:

11/20 (preview)
12/5 (matinee)
12/5 (evening)
12/11 (evening)
12/12 (matinee)
12/18 (evening)
12/19 (evening)


Matinee' shows generally start at 3:00, and evening shows at 8:00.

For those who don't know (or don't remember) Let It Snow is the family friendly fully improvised Holiday musical where we take an audience member's small home town and do a two hour holiday musical tribute to it.

You can find more information about the show at: http://un-scripted.com

And Alan made this BITCHIN interactive Google map, listing the show summary from every town that we've featured during the course of the last several years doing Let It Snow! http://un-scripted.com/content/let-it-snow-interactive-map

me
Missing the snow in Boston a little... :)

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Break Out the Pitchforks and Torches!

  • Nov. 11th, 2009 at 10:30 PM

Washington, D.C. — Outraged legislators renewed calls for banning human-animal hybrids after researchers at the Frankenstein Institute for Extremely Scary Science announced the creation of a “lambaby.”  According to a spokesperson for an angry mob that stormed the Institute, “arghle grumble blaarphle rhubarb rhubarb!”

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I have just one word for you, Brynne M.: PASICKIE!

Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Primates, Unusual animals

Mad Man

  • Nov. 11th, 2009 at 4:02 PM
One of the payroll people here at work just came into my office, wondering why they had been paying me as an independent contractor rather than an employee eleven years ago. She'd been cleaning out some old files and discovered my original paystub from way back when I was just supposed to be working here for a few weeks helping out with some random filing.

I have such mixed feelings about my job. It's certainly not anything close to what I expected to do with my life, but at the same time, I've been here for over a third of the time I've spent on this giant ball of rock. I can't say that I like it anymore than I can say that I dislike it, but in so many ways, it's kind of the perfect job for someone with my particular set of skills and habits. Quite frankly, the idea that I should be looking for some other source of employment has never stopped bouncing around in some random corner of my brain, but I can't imagine ever leaving an employer that has promoted me from being a brainless file jockey to being in charge of my own (admittedly rather small) department, while more than tripling my starting salary in just over a decade (and that's even despite the fact that I'm not getting a raise this year due to Bernie Madoff and the shitstorm that is our national economy).

I don't mean to gloat, and I don't mean to whine. But seeing the numbers on that piece of paper really rattled me.

Oh, I’ll Wait

  • Nov. 11th, 2009 at 7:28 PM

Heeerrrrrre, birdie, birdie, birdie. At some point, you’re going to need a drink of this niiiice water I brought you. Maybe not in the next minute, maybe not in the next hour. But I’ve got alllllll day, boys, and you’re the only thing on my calendar.

Unfortunately he realized too late that he was waiting for woodpeckers.

The early cat gets the bird, Karen M.

Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Birds, Danger, I'm Going To Eat You, Kittens

Kitten in the Keys

  • Nov. 11th, 2009 at 4:25 PM

The piano is my forte, and I love to lie down in it,
It suits my laid-back at-etude, I don’t care how you spinet.
When I’m keyed up, can’t stay upright, life’s tempo gets too taxing,
I lie for just a minuet, and presto! I’m relaxing.

I’m never too Bizet to take a nap where notes are rolling,
When melodies float like the breeze, this console’s quite consoling.
So play whatever song you like; Chopsticks to Clair de Lune-a,
For where there’s a piano, I expect piano tuna.

HPIM1686

We all octave a kitty like that, Kristina V.

Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Kittens

Nov. 11th, 2009

  • 10:29 AM
Alright, I'm applying to an MLS program soon and am trying to explore a couple different career paths.

I'm looking for experiences, typical days, if the job is actually in demand, etc. with the following:

Public (any of the following:)
*YA/Childrens
*Adult Services/ Reference



Academic
*Archives



School Media:
*K-12



Any help would be appreciated!

As for some info on me, I'm 22, my favorite genre is YA lit., I don't particularly like children but am devoted to getting more kids reading and not made fun of, and I'm interested in archives because of the solitude, and I enjoy what little I know of preservation (I make phase boxes often at my current job for rare/decaying books), buuut I'm terrible at Access and databases. Like, terrible. I'm not actually that good at computer stuff. :/

Nov. 11th, 2009

  • 9:37 AM
I won a free personal training session today at the gym. Score! I'd been thinking about buying a session, but have been too cheap to do so. I know this is their way of trying to hard sell you into more, but you can't hard sell someone who has no money! Or you can, but it is not going to work on the girl.

NaNoWriMo update- 22K words, last night I banged out almost 3K in a frenzy of trying to get to my plot. I am really enjoying the process again this year, I really like the structure of having to get something done every day. Though that is also a bit of a curse, because I find myself needlessly drawing out some scenes that are utterly useless because I worry that I'll run out of story before I get to the 50,000 word mark. So there will be a lot of editing to do eventually. But tonight I have to commence with the actual adventure! portion of the story and cease wanking on about music. In my imagination, Neutral Milk Hotel has gotten back together.

Also- I am giddy like a little girl for New Moon.

Gargamel’s New Pet

  • Nov. 11th, 2009 at 1:19 PM

I’ve been trying to look more evil and less snuggley, I swear. And yes, I’ll try to grow into my paws faster. Look,  I know I have a lot to live up to, but I’m trying. Really. Please, I can’t sit in these Smurf undergarments any longer.

How would you feel if I stuck you in the Jolly Green Giant's briefs?

Azrael, a little help here?

I just found something that looks like a blue jellybean in here...

Papa Smurf had a big ass, Sandy S.

Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Pups

Nov. 11th, 2009

  • 8:38 AM
Watching Jesus Camp reminds me again how scary I found The Handmaid's Tale.

Stunning Mouth Update!

  • Nov. 10th, 2009 at 9:53 PM
I've just discovered that the top bracket on the right side of my mouth that the "tough elastic" is wrapped around is no longer attached to my tooth. I suspect that this is going to negatively effect my prognosis. GAH!

We'll find out tomorrow when I call and let them know about this unfortunate circumstance.

KNICKERS

  • Nov. 10th, 2009 at 10:52 PM

pants
Originally uploaded by innerbrat
I would like to point out that these aren't the actual pants I was actually wearing at the time. - they don't even fit me, but I love them.

Also, yes, that's the quality of webcam I have. I never use it, so I don't feel bad about this fact.

ALSO. I said I was back to blogging. Turns out I'm not, yet...? Go read Penny's blog instead. And post a picture of your pants.

Come Out With Your Wings Up!

  • Nov. 10th, 2009 at 9:56 PM

Schwenksville, PA — Police today ended a reign of terror as they apprehended notorious crime lord “Feathers” McGinty, suspected of masterminding KFC and Chick-Fil-A robberies across five states.

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I’ll have the “chicken surprise,” Anthea M.

Posted in Top 4 Tagged: Birds

The Persian Gallery

  • Nov. 10th, 2009 at 6:53 PM

I don’t get it. What does she do? What do you mean, she just sits in there all day? Can you tap the glass or something? She has an Artist’s Statement??? Because as far as I can tell, she’s neither an artist, nor does she make any kind of statement. You know what? Here’s my statement: You come to my house tomorrow and I’ll charge you $40 to watch me sit on the couch all day. How’s that?

Purrformance Art

Heavy on the tannins, Marco B.

Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Kittens

Spring Cleaning

  • Nov. 10th, 2009 at 3:55 PM

Stefanie had been looking for it for months, so she was thrilled when she finally found her ring under the bed. Of course, her discovery made her realize that she should really clean more often.

I's can't see but me thinks you be holding a turnip?

Nice dust bunny, Stefanie H.

Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Bunnies

strange

  • Nov. 10th, 2009 at 10:20 AM
Some nights I have the oddest dreams. I tell you, it's either old boyfriends or college friends or sometimes people from high school. Or randomly it'll be all of them mixed together. Yesterday I found an old boyfriend on facebook, through a friend of a friend. It's just weird if you ask me. I almost wanted to friend him, but then I thought that would be awkward and whatnot. Then again who knows. We're both different people now and I'm much more secure than I was then 15 years ago, or am I?

Request to record our Story Time

  • Nov. 9th, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Has anyone else had strangers from other cities call and ask if they can tape your library's story time for an audio recording? I am just uncomfortable allowing strangers to record our story teller and the kids who are attending and not be able to tell me exactly for  what they will use this said recording. Has anyone else had this type of request? If so did you try to notify your regular story time groups ahead of time? Was it very distracting to the kids? Thanks!
Hello! This question is prompted by a class assignmint, but I'm hoping that any answers I get will be useful to many people.

Is anyone aware of any blogs or websites that recommend books in languages other than English? I'm especially interested in sites that recommend fiction, but anything will do. I don't have any particular user group in mind in terms of age or reading ability.

I don't have an interest in any particular language as a result of my assignment, although I'd certainly prefer sites that are in English or are bilingual so that I can understand what I'm looking at. If you do have a good source that's not in English, please describe the contents a little bit. Even if I can't use it, someone else might!

Thanks in advance!

Pachyderm Don’t Play that Way

  • Nov. 10th, 2009 at 12:51 PM

It happened so fast that he barely heard the massive snorf or felt the violent whoosh of air. But when he looked down, Paul realized that his entire forearm had been sucked up her trunk, and the look in her eyes said, “I don’t have to give it back, you know.” It was the first and last time Paul would play “I got your nose!” with Ellafante.

Oh honey, you best let go of that peanut if you want to keep your dignity.

That’s a risky little game, Christoph G.

Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Nightmares, Unusual animals

Starting right meow, we’re posting kittens whenever we like. We’re not waiting for special holidays or Caturdays to roll around. It’s meow or never Mother’s Day! Hurry up meow!

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Not so funny meow is it Amy S.?

Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Kittens

how i growed grass?

  • Nov. 9th, 2009 at 8:46 PM
Anyone got experience growing a lawn from seed?

So a little over two weeks ago we tilled the lawn, laid down mulch and spread grass seed. We've been watering it 2X a day since and have yet to see any grass.

We took a look at the packaging today and noticed two things... one it says that grass will start to emerge in 2-4 weeks, so we may be worrying for nothing, and two it says to rake the seeds into the soil. We never did that.

So the question is -- should we do that NOW or will that do more harm than good?

CONFIRMED:

  • Nov. 9th, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Touching hay is now causing my hands and arms to break out in hives.

This is... extremely inconvenient.

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Time for the C.O. Traffic Report

  • Nov. 9th, 2009 at 7:57 PM

This is “Captain” Lance Monkeypants in CuteCopter One, and we’re getting reports of puppies attacking cars on the southbound I-812 at Bleen Street.  This is a multiple-puppy situation, very aggressive, and they are simply not letting any car get past them, so drivers are advised to use surface streets until further notice.

Now over to Ellie B. with the weather!

Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Pups

What I Did On My Weekend

  • Nov. 9th, 2009 at 2:48 PM
Friday - I had a bout of gastronomic distress and insomnia the night before, so I called out of work. Friday morning, I played Borderlands. Around 2 o'clock, I thought it would be a good idea to seek lunch. I did not get home until 10pm. I wasted a lot of time talking to the regulars at the Shanty, making fun of GameShow Network shows, and listening to how local business fared in October (most good, some shops are closing, though). I then came home and drank too much wine.

Saturday - Recovered from wine. Beat Borderlands playthrough 1. (The Destructor can go fuck itself). Used Foursquare to track down folks who were in town drinking. Drank a little. Went to a birthday party.

Fell 15 feet off a deck.

I'm okay except for some bruises and scrapes, but it could have been a lot worse. Luckily I bounced off a metal carport on my way down and did not land on any rusted nails or shattered guardrails from the part of the deck that broke.

Sunday - Started Dragon Age. Decided it was too nice to play videogames all day, so walked to Marblehead for nachos. Came home.

Working in a library.

  • Nov. 9th, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Hi!

I am very interested in becoming a library technician. I don't want to work in a public library,however,I want to work in an academic or research library.

What would I need to do to persue this career? I might would eventually like to become a librarian,but that would be many years down the road.

I have no college. I was thinking about volunteering to get some "hands on experience". Would this be enough to prepare me or would they prefer someone that already has a degree (at least a bachelors).

What could I do to make myself stand out when applying for this type of position? Thank you in advance.

Well, Blow Me Down!

  • Nov. 9th, 2009 at 4:51 PM

Avast there, ye sea dogs!  Just because I’ve only got one eye, ye’ve got no call ta be throwin’ me in the trash with the rest of the bilge water!  That’s all I can stands, I can’t stands no more!  (Now where did I put me spinach?)

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Have you considered adding an eye patch and a parrot, Laura S.?

Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Kittens

way back when

  • Nov. 9th, 2009 at 12:50 PM
So it has been eons since I wrote. Every once in a while I think that I want to sit down and write but then that decision comes and goes. Well today I realized that I wanted to try picking this up again and really stick to it for a while.
I have been reliving some of my past especially since I've obsessively started rewatching old shows on hulu- one unparticular "My So-Called Life." It brings me back to high school without me actually having to go back there. In a way, it feels good. I think about the people that have come and gone in my life and although there is a twinge of uneasiness or something that might make me sit and cry, I smile and remember it with contentment.

Ask not for whom my eyes roll.

  • Nov. 9th, 2009 at 11:21 AM
The headline from today's Metro:

Commies not over the Berlin Wall's fall

...along with a overly-biased editorial that implies that the violence at Fort Hood was a terrorist attack had me thinking that I'd write about labels and dehumanization as tools of social control, but I really don't have it in me today. Besides, there's altogether too much shouting as it is.

I will say this: "Commie" is SOOO 19551985.

Nov. 9th, 2009

  • 8:07 AM
Someone built a mock-up of the Berlin Wall in the main hall of my building.

Encore (Kinda): Orangutan and Hound

  • Nov. 9th, 2009 at 12:13 PM

A while back, Meg featured some orangumazing photos of Suryia and Roscoe, the orangutan and hound-dog buddies.  Now, thanks to sender-inner Marilyn T., you can see the heartwarming story of how they met.  On your mark, get set, awwww!

Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Interspecies Snorgling, Primates, Pups, Unusual animals

I said PEPPERONI AND EXTRA CARROTS

  • Nov. 9th, 2009 at 1:43 AM

They never listen—watch, it’s gonna arrive with broccoli on it.

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Sorry about your Bunday, Annie T.

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Are the H1N1 shots ready yet!?

  • Nov. 8th, 2009 at 8:51 PM

This thing is really getting in the way of my alfalfa nomming.

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Des M., you might want to try an apple a day, as a precaution.

Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Farm Animals

Hon, where’d the crackers go—HEY!

  • Nov. 8th, 2009 at 7:11 PM

thief

[chipmonnk voice] “Oh, were you gonna eat this?”

C.O.X.G.C.U.

Surely you can spare one, Julia G.?

Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Pocket Pets

(Must've Been the) "Roses Are Free"

  • Nov. 8th, 2009 at 11:01 AM
Take a piece of tinsel and put it on the tree
Cut a slab of melon and pretend that you still love me
Carve out a pumpkin and rely on your destiny
Get in your car and cruise the land of the brave and free ..



"I watched a snail crawl along
the edge of a straight razor. That's
my dream. That's my nightmare.
Crawling, slithering, along the edge
of a straight... razor... and surviving."

Identified as "Ft. Hood shooter"
Brain Scientist (biochem degree from Virginia Tech) who growed up in the Bali Hai neighborhood of Vinton, Va.

Take a wrinkled raisin, and do with it what you will
Push it into third if you know you're gonna climb a hill
Eat plenty of lasagna 'til you know that you've had your fill
Resist all the urges that make you wanna go out and kill




'V' invades, conquers Tuesday
4 November 2009 9:47 AM, PST
Fast National ratings for Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. TV audiences appear willing to welcome the Visitors back into their homes. ABC's remake/reboot/reimagining of "V" had a strong premiere on Tuesday in the first hour of what will be a four-episode November launch, followed by an eventual spring relaunch.

High School Madness
"you look funny, where are you from?"
"America."
"your parents, what are they?"
"Palestinian."
"what country is that?"
"they came from Jordan."
"you're Jordanese? i don't think so. i think you're Indian."
"am not."
"are too. hey guys - LET'S GIVE GANDHI A WEDGIE."



Throw that pumpkin at the tree
Unless you think that pumpkin holds your destiny
Cast it off into the sea
Bake that pie and eat it with me


(No) Escape from Trance Mountain ..
And among these “experiments” conducted on US Soldiers by their government, and was a “research specialty” of Major Hasan’s, one was one called Radio Hypnotic Intracerebral Control Electronic Dissolution of Memory (RHIC-EDOM) which was pioneered for the US Military in the 1960’s by New York University Professor J. Anthony Deutsch who…“indicated that the mind is a transmitter and if too much information is received, like too many vehicles on a crowded freeway, the brain ceases to transmit. The Professor indicated that an excess of acetyl choline in the brain can interfere with the memory process and control. He indicated excess amounts of acetyl choline can be artificially produced, through both the administration of drugs or through the use of radio waves. The process is called Electronic Dissolution of Memory (EDOM). The memory transmission can be stopped for as long as the radio signal continues”...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sargant

[ thanks to Patrick for suggestions/inspirations / and, um, Michael Hoffman for his bold declaration that not only is the frame part of the picture, sometimes it's the most important part .. (KEYWORDS : Malaclypse the Younger , Nidal Malik Hasan , Apocalypse Now , Marlon Brando , Roanoke , Vinton , Anderson SC , Blue Ridge Mountains) ]

Going to the Moon BRB

  • Nov. 8th, 2009 at 1:18 AM

KTHXBYE!

George

Tia A. claims George (tinfoil) and Olive (bed) are astronauts, and that some guy named Jonathan took this picture. I’ll call LOL-NASA to double check her sources.

Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Pups

P.N.F.

  • Nov. 7th, 2009 at 9:38 PM

Puppular Nose Freckles! Check this dotted muzzlepowsche action!

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Did you really think I wouldn’t give you an Xtreme Close up?

C.O.X.P.N.F.C.U.!

croseups

Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Pups

Worst Caturday EVAR

  • Nov. 7th, 2009 at 8:30 PM

Damn hamsters are always ME ME ME!

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Stephanie W., I hope things improve.

Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Caturday, Kittens, Nightmares, Pocket Pets

Eep

  • Nov. 7th, 2009 at 10:25 PM
So, I'm alone at home, I have no idea why my landlady's not here, it's dark, the air smells of smoke, and there's sirens in the valley, something scratching at the wall, and a helicopter with a searchlight making slow circles over my house.

...I so did not pick the right night to be watching a Stephen King movie. D:

ETA: Have now succeeded in watching movie and am not dead! Another successful Saturday night in Refurland!

Son of ETA: Turns out all of the above (with the exception of the scratching and the movie) can be explained by the fact that there's a huge house fire just down the road from me. We now return you to your previously scheduled D:
Title: (When You Get to My Door) Tell Them Boris Sent You
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: PG-13
Length: 4,198
Warnings: High levels of silly. \o/
Spoilers: To 5x08.
Pairings/characters: Sam, Dean, Castiel.
Notes: And now for something completely different (tag to 5x08).

Summary: Sam is never allowed to make plans ever again. Just so we're clear.

It starts in Wellington, Ohio. )

Nov. 6th, 2009

  • 6:51 PM
Last minute Warsaw Village Band tickets, 2 available from us.
Show's at 8 tonight @ somerville theater, would like money but would rather they get used than not.
email, cybertrash at gmail

Cubicle of Unfathomable Awesomeness!

  • Nov. 6th, 2009 at 6:26 PM

We’ve all seen them, envied them:  They are the Cubicles of Unfathomable Awesomeness, beacons of style in the soulless sea of the modern workplace.  Is your cubicle unfathomably awesome?  Look for these tell-tale signs:

  • Multiple pages from the Cute Overload Page-A-Day Calendar, the only calendar specially formulated to melt away those stressful brain cells.
  • The almost-nearly-completely-as-cool calendar for the ASPCA!
  • Pen. (Pens rock!)
  • Telephone with more buttons than the Millennium Falcon.
  • Web browser open to Google Analytics, bringing instant karmic enlightenment to statistics junkies.

And the crowning touch, the crème de la cool…

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  • Puppy in your in-box!

Bonus points if it's a boxer in your in-box.

Cool pup + cool job = cool you, Ayumi S.

Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Calendar, Pups

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