Chock-full of Random-ness Today

Christmas is Tuesday. I have absolutely zero funds but the fam all sorta voted on foregoing the traditional Christmas because The Wedding beat it by 10 days and that was an all-too-realistic financial experience. So I have asked the immediate fam: Momma, Daddy, Big Bro, Lil Sis (Big sis and brand new BiL don’t really get presents for Christmas because they’ve gone to Kauai Hawaii and NYC for the honeymoon and still haven’t opened 99% of their wedding gifts).

I want to make everything with stuff already in my stash, so far I think Im doing pretty well, even though only one person will actually receive on the 25th. Moms will get a reusable heating pad, you know the kind with rice in it? I found a tute aqui. I figured it would be pretty awesome to have at work.

Im knitting a cap for Daddy, he’s the only person who will get his gift day-of because we don’t live together and we’ll be doing Christmas breakfast. It’s always sorta hard trying to figure out what my dad wants besides a giant flat-screen HDTV… Big Bro will also be getting a hat, but we went and picked out some dark heather gray yarn for his because he wants a hat like the style that Common wears a lot, only a knit version.

I mean, you can’t fully see the style of hat in this photo, but Common is my #1 celebrity crush, so who cares because he’s just GORGEOUS!

So anyway… the Lil Sis… I don’t know what she wants yet, but I’ll ask her. She’s usually pretty cool about what she wants. Plus, she just got a Pink DS Lite (I’m only slightly jealous… she let’s me play it) so she’s still stoked about that.

Also, I was thinking of creating a Painting as a gift for another friend of mine, I’ve got a spare canvas that just about the right size… but I’ve got to sketch it out first and then think about it. I think it would be a pretty awesome gift and they’d definitely be stoked about it.

In other news, I had an interview last Friday for an internship at a videogame website that I’ve actually had a profile on for about 1.5 years. It’s paid, it’s in The City

(only 3 blocks from my mom’s job/BART [our subway]), and it’s an industry gig. That would be pretty awesome to score, without even thinking about the possibility of free stuff! They want to start the position in the beginning of the year, so I won’t find out for another week because they’re interviewing several candidates and I was the first one. Sooo…. hopefully they liked me best! [in that photo, btw, I can totally see in the almost bottom left-hand corner the building I had my last internship in; right next door to Second Life offices!]

I guess that’s it for now. I’m going to go watch The Little Mermaid in Spanish and get some work done on Daddy’s hat. Merry Christmas everyone!

“I made a funny” © Master Splinter, ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’

It seems as though my rapier wit, jocularity, and all-around haberdashery have returned/increased as of late. Yes, I know that last one has absolutely nothing to do with being funny, but I always thought it was a funny word to say, so I said it.

Somewhere I believe in the back of my mind it is somehow related to this blog. Yes, it’s still young (and beautiful, I might add), and no one really reads it on a regular basis, but I think it’s a great outlet for all of my drollery that I never quite get a chance to share aloud. It’s almost like this blog has unblocked my mental flow and a deluge of funny has been released. I’m finding that my comebacks in conversations are much funnier than the crap I’d been coming up with.

It’s hard to give explicit examples because most of my humor comes in various bits of social commentary rather than jokes; so many times when I’m funny, it’s in a you-had-to-be-there moment. Trying to share or re-create those moments are never, in my experience, anywhere near as funny as the hilarity of the moment.

Some examples are comments on a skipped CD, a reply to a friend’s comment on me “spelling” gangster with 12 r’s, artist portrayals in cartoons, etc. See, even giving an example makes it sound extremely unfunny.

Anyway… in other news, I would like to know why Jennifer Lopez is still making albums. I mean… really? Like, for real? I mean, hearing a live performance on SNL should have been enough to make people stop dead in their tracks… But then again, both Britney Spears and Ashlee Simpson have committed disastrous performances on SNL and still have record deals… Everyone know’s about Ashlee’s lip-synching, “acid reflux” disaster, but I mean, did you ever see Britney sing Don’t Let Me Be The Last To Know? I almost cried, and not beause it was a breakup ballad.

Chris Crocker is too funny

Britney Spears’ appearance at the VMA’s is all over the place. I didn’t even watch the show but I heard it was bad because everybody and their momma is talking about it

So I know by now everyone and said mothers have seen this clip on YT:

I immediately questioned the seriousness of the clip, and once I found he was sincere, I quickly realized that this was the funniest crap I’ve ever seen on YT. Funnier than the squirrel, funnier than a Star Wars Kid parody, funnier than Miss South Carolina (who is now, apparently, so last week),…. just.pure.hilarity.

All I wanna know now is, has Britney seen this? This might be the intervention she needs! Like, “dang, is my life really that tore up that someone ELSE is cryin and getting embarrassed for me?” She will immediately set down the crackpipe and put on some panties.

The parodies have already begun. Here, and here.