I miss Calvin and Hobbes. They don’t make comics like that anymore. Thanks to Kathryn for sending these along today!

Robot Chicken is awesome.

I swear, if the SciFi channel would spend half their “original movies” budget on making more quality shows like the new “Battlestar Galactica” series, or even syndicating older quality sci-fi shows, the world would be a better place.

I have to hand it to them, the names that they come up with are hilarious. But seriously, how many movies do we need like…

Flu Bird Horror!
Monster Ark!
Anonymous Rex!
Kaw!
Supergator!

and, my all time favorite:

Mansquito!

If you have not yet experienced the epic greatness that is Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, I cannot recommend it highly enough!! Neil Patrick Harris cracks me up. The songs are great. The characters are great. (Bad Horse… Moist… Captain Hammer, Corporate Tool… )

The thing I really like about the charater of Dr. Horrible is that he’s not really horrible. He’s actually a pretty normal guy, sweet and well meaning, and just a little bit lost in this big horrible world. He feels useless and unnoticed, and tries to rectify that by acting as both villlain and anti-villain at the same time. He’s a very complex character, struggling and sad… sorta like all of us, in a way.

I laughed. I cried. I really actually sang along!

There’s only three episodes, and they’re something like 15 minutes each. Apparently, there is going to be at least one more episode made! Yay!

Argh! Brett tagged me in his post and I feel it is my duty as a friend and netizen to follow through.

What I was Doing Ten Years Ago
I was unpacking boxes after moving into our first house, wishing the cats would do a better job at cockroach patrol, and working at a really boring job while trying to figure out how I could get paid for being creative.

Five Snacks I Enjoy
1. tortilla chips
2. apple slices with peanut butter
3. crackers and cheese
4. cashews
5. pistachios

Five Things On My To-do List Today
1. vacuum the house
2. walk 2 miles and stretch
3. don’t fall asleep at my desk
4. cook dinner (étoufée, rice, green beans)
5. pay bills

Five Favorite Recipes
1. Rice and black beans
2. Pizza
3. The Big Salad
4. Angel hair pasta with marinara sauce
5. Lentil soup and grilled cheese sandwich

Five Jobs I’ve Had
1. Designer
2. File clerk for mayonnaise company
3. Cake decorator
4. Ice cream scoop jockey
5. Cat washer

Five Bad Habits
1. Biting my nails
2. Watching Seinfeld reruns every night before bed
3. Not dusting
4. Forgetting to water my plants
5. Eating too many tortilla chips

All The Places I’ve Lived
1. Houston
2. Plano
3. Sherman
4. Dallas

Five Random Things About Me
1. I am synaesthetic
2. I drive a Prius
3. I would love to go into outer space, except that I get motion sickness
4. I can wiggle my ears
5. My favorite season is winter

Five People I’m Tagging
1. Doc
2. Yvonne
3. Bob
4. Nate
5. Bonnie

Monday night, my stomach hurt from laughing for 2 solid hours. We saw Eddie Izzard’s show at the Majestic Theatre, and I think it was the very first stop on his pre-tour tour. His material was somewhat rough and he made jokes about “must… work… on… that… one…” (pretending to write in an imaginary notebook). He seemed to find his groove toward the second half of the show, and completely sucked us all in to that zone where you’re laughing so hard that you can’t stop laughing even though your stomach hurts and your face feels like it’s going to crack in half!

For instance, did you know that Charles Darwin wrote a book, called “Monkey, monkey, monkey, monkey, monkey, YOU!”

And that giant squid lived in the hold of Noah’s Ark, but were constantly asking for towels and trying to tune in “The Riches” on the telly? He said “My other problem with this story, is, ok. ‘Alright, tigers, there you go, hop on board, badgers, follow along, spiders, deer, more badgers?…. um, hey, who do we have on board now? ‘ ‘The tigers.’ ‘What, just the tigers?’ ‘Yes, just the tigers so far. They seem bigger!’”

And the bit about God inventing creme brulee for the badgers and then hand-feeding it to them…. LOL. I guess you had to be there.

He also kept whipping out his iPhone on stage to look up stuff on Wikipedia! It was really hilarious the first couple of times, until the audience started doing the same thing and finding the answers first.

Last night Doc and I went to a cooking class at Central Market, to learn how to cook Moroccan food. The food was great. Our classmates were interesting. The chefs were knowledgeable. But I don’t think I’ll be back. It was way too expensive for the experience. I didn’t learn anything I didn’t already know, and I know how to follow a recipe, which is really all that we (sort of) did. I say “sort of” because we had printed recipe packets but the chefs kept saying “I don’t like the way they say to do this, let’s do it this other way.” And I was expecting more of an individualized experience. I thought that Doc and I would have our own station with ingredients, chopping block, stovetop, and we’d experience making all the dishes ourselves. Instead, we had a group of about five people and we all would find one little task to do… like Doc chopped some garlic. I grated the peel off an orange. Somebody put everything in the pot. It just felt very very basic. I wanted to learn about Morocco, the history of their food, what types of special ingredients they used, how they make phyllo dough, etc etc etc, and instead it was more like a lesson in how cooking almost never happens in reality: with 15 people in the kitchen getting in each others’ way and feeling like we’re not contributing.

1820 to 1887: Golden Age Of Muttonchops.
1973: Computers will double in speed between now and the year 3000.
evening of 31st December 1999: Nibbler orders a pizza to be delivered to Applied Cryogenics, using the pseudonym I. C. Weiner.
2012: War of 2012. Conan O’Brien loses his freakishly long legs.
2063: Humanity starts dropping ice cubes into the ocean to counteract global warming
2200: Pine trees become extinct
2620: To end that stupid joke once and for all, Uranus is renamed… to “Urectum”.

It’s the Futurama timeline! Constructed by nerdy people with too much time on their hands (love you, nerds!)

Speaking of time-sucking nerdy pursuits, this guy made his own custom Lego set! Completely freaking awesome.

I was disappointed that I couldn’t get tickets to see Eddie Izzard’s performance here this coming June. Tickets sold out just a few minutes after they went on sale.

There’s no Church of England fundamentalism. We can’t have Church of England fundamentalism. You know, like they have Islamic fundamentalism. Jihad!  Church of England fundamentalism is impossible because you can’t have: “You must have tea and cake with the vicar… or you die!” Tea and cake or death! Students with beards, “Tea and cake or death! Tea and cake or death! Little Red Cookbook! Little Red Cookbook!” You know, ’cause, “Cake or death?” That’s a pretty easy question. Everyone, anyone could answer that. 

“Cake or death?”
“Uhh, cake please.”
“Very well! Give him cake!”
“Oh, thanks very much. It’s very nice!”
[points] “You! Cake or death?”
“Uh, cake for me, too, please!”
“Very well! Give him cake, too! We’re gonna run out of cake at this rate. [points] You! Cake or death?”
“Uh, death, please. No, cake! Cake! Cake, sorry. …”
“You said death first, ahaaa, ahaaaa, death first!”
“Well, I meant cake!”
“Oh, all right. You’re lucky I’m Church of England! Cake or death?”
“Uh, cake please.”
“Well, we’re out of cake! We only had three bits and we didn’t expect such a rush! So what do you want?”
“What, so my choice is ‘or death?’ Well, then I’ll have the chicken, please.”

 

Rodents of Unusual Size? I don’t think they exist.

Luke has to learn how to do his little light up sword and try to block the little pokey ball. Meanwhile, the shiny guy always worries!