tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88991107664169509572023-11-16T05:46:25.353-08:00Aha! Smoking Pancakeslike a sexy, dangerously unhinged miss marpleScenesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14584772288716738021noreply@blogger.comBlogger408125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899110766416950957.post-60569793334120319822010-05-19T19:18:00.000-07:002010-05-19T19:19:30.247-07:00Proceeds go to the Deborah Gross FundCome see me tomorrow night in the role of a lifetime as Deb in "Conversations with Deb." One night only!<br /><br />http://newyork.ucbtheatre.com/shows/2297Scenesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14584772288716738021noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899110766416950957.post-26127628905619904112010-05-12T09:45:00.000-07:002010-05-12T09:47:10.122-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDMsJqpraSPNHpeFZPmYZ8CjxatI0xgeUGcDGeCiQWrcClHLeLGJN8YD3H_OgF84lD6P5eRp_rqLYfNHUurw1P8hdTVsT27kL8Uy8rYv9bBe5LXrj6_pNXjIBrUAS4fIayzh3fRYYiZ7Az/s1600/HatEtiquette.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 351px; height: 337px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDMsJqpraSPNHpeFZPmYZ8CjxatI0xgeUGcDGeCiQWrcClHLeLGJN8YD3H_OgF84lD6P5eRp_rqLYfNHUurw1P8hdTVsT27kL8Uy8rYv9bBe5LXrj6_pNXjIBrUAS4fIayzh3fRYYiZ7Az/s400/HatEtiquette.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470425899126454914" border="0" /></a>(<a href="http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/Clothes%20Articles/etiquette_for_hats_and_caps.htm">source</a>)Scenesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14584772288716738021noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899110766416950957.post-18091056664562744592010-05-05T12:30:00.000-07:002010-05-05T12:31:29.552-07:00A little something for my spam commenters_ _ _ _ _ _ 汉语/漢語... 官话/官話 <i>'''''''</i> 北方话/北方話 <span style="font-style: italic;"><br />. %%<br /><br /></span>北方話 <span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span>Scenesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14584772288716738021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899110766416950957.post-16549718120950600622010-04-28T10:49:00.001-07:002010-04-28T10:50:01.181-07:00''Stockpiling vegetable purees for covert use in children's food is an idea that cannot be copyrighted." <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/04/28/arts/AP-US-Seinfeld-Cookbook-Suit.html">- 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan</a><br /><br />Finally! An answer!Scenesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14584772288716738021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899110766416950957.post-79114910529851635122010-04-25T17:10:00.000-07:002010-04-25T17:13:04.529-07:00Ending breast cancer. Replacing it with diabetes.This is really really real.<br /><a href="http://bucketsforthecure.com/"><br />KFC's Buckets for the Cure</a>Scenesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14584772288716738021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899110766416950957.post-79241887718260504912010-04-06T12:43:00.000-07:002010-04-06T12:44:26.647-07:00SADISTIC TERRIFIC this Sunday, 4/11 6:30pm at the Magnet!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFXSrJlBy9osFLqdi9evLvsyR_z4KSNrxwhUUWPHQAtEGBdrDbPwd_dX1X9Ro5aKzqRZvk9IPdnbGSN_4FTLlHHwvVSNiCSWOrB4rHErqDn5IwQL-pLoX-3rgP1gyiIiCm600eOnECc05n/s1600/Sadistic+Terrific+flyer.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 436px; height: 272px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFXSrJlBy9osFLqdi9evLvsyR_z4KSNrxwhUUWPHQAtEGBdrDbPwd_dX1X9Ro5aKzqRZvk9IPdnbGSN_4FTLlHHwvVSNiCSWOrB4rHErqDn5IwQL-pLoX-3rgP1gyiIiCm600eOnECc05n/s400/Sadistic+Terrific+flyer.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457112548988215906" border="0" /></a>Scenesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14584772288716738021noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899110766416950957.post-10212027477511423712010-04-06T07:33:00.001-07:002010-04-06T07:33:58.871-07:00"At the time, I was a 92 lb Korean woman..."<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >-from NYTimes comments on Health page</span>Scenesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14584772288716738021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899110766416950957.post-46900048920719195472010-04-01T07:27:00.001-07:002010-04-01T07:28:01.466-07:00April Fool's updateNo one's played an April Fool's joke on me yet, so I'm still pretty unsuspecting if you're looking for a target.Scenesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14584772288716738021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899110766416950957.post-39768168506472371252010-03-26T10:01:00.001-07:002010-03-26T14:31:42.136-07:00"Cello-punk band <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasputina" title="Rasputina">Rasputina</a>'s concept album <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_Perilous_World" title="Oh Perilous World">Oh Perilous World</a></i> features an alternative-history scenario where Mary Todd Lincoln is Queen of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a>."<br /><br />- Wikipedia entry for Mary Todd LincolnScenesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14584772288716738021noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899110766416950957.post-84882537764529185372010-03-25T12:47:00.000-07:002010-03-25T12:55:27.884-07:00<h1 id="yn-title"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100324/ap_on_sc/as_india_disappearing_island">Disputed isle in Bay of Bengal disappears into sea</a></h1>For nearly 30 years, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1269462583_0">India</span> and <span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1269462583_1">Bangladesh</span> have argued over control of a tiny rock island in the <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1269462583_2">Bay of Bengal</span>. Now rising sea levels have resolved the dispute for them: the island's gone. <p><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1269462583_3">New Moore Island</span> in the Sunderbans has been completely submerged, said oceanographer Sugata Hazra, a professor at <span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1269462583_4">Jadavpur University</span> in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1269462583_5">Calcutta</span>. Its disappearance has been confirmed by <span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1269462583_6">satellite imagery</span> and <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1269462583_7">sea patrols</span>, he said.</p>Scenesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14584772288716738021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899110766416950957.post-43264200856641769412010-03-12T09:47:00.000-08:002010-03-12T10:00:43.315-08:00<h1 class="articleHeadline"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/03/12/us/AP-US-Suspicious-Powder.html">Powder in Montana Envelope Just Crushed Pain Pill</a></h1>So the story starts out by telling you that state officials in Montana are fine, after they discovered that a white powder in some mail they got was just a crushed up pain pill.<br /><br />No, it wasn't put there on purpose to scare them. Apparently, some lady just accidentally dropped it into the envelope before she mailed it.<br /><br />Okay, I buy that. It was on her desk, it fell in, sure.<br /><br />Then they tell you the stick they thought was some kind of "triggering device" was actually a lollipop stick.<br /><br />Wait, a stick? There was a stick, too? In the envelope?<br /><br />Yes, apparently, this woman was carrying around the envelope in her purse for a week, where she naturally also had loose pain pills and used lollipop sticks floating around, and they made their way into the envelope.<br /><br />Allowing for the moment that a lollipop stick and pain pill could make their way into an envelope by accident, how did this woman fail to notice the bulges when she sealed (I'm assuming they didn't crawl into a <span style="font-style: italic;">sealed</span> envelope) and placed the envelope in the mail?<br /><br />Also, why didn't she throw out the lollipop stick?!!<br /><br />Clearly a massive government cover up. Everyone should be quarantined who so much as read the news today.Scenesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14584772288716738021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899110766416950957.post-25281343370119122012010-03-03T08:35:00.000-08:002010-03-03T08:41:51.910-08:00<h2 class="entry-title"><span style="font-size:180%;"><a href="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/cheese-thief-jailed-for-7-years-in-california/?hp">Cheese Thief Jailed for 7 Years in California</a></span></h2>Decriminalize cheese thievery!Scenesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14584772288716738021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899110766416950957.post-12090338189799544072010-03-01T13:03:00.000-08:002010-03-01T13:06:19.860-08:00CONVERSATIONS WITH DEBDeb, of <a href="http://www.conversationswithdeb.com/">Conversations with Deb</a>, fame, brings you her trademark brand of interaction along with myself, Dru Johnston, and Scott Sobol. <a href="http://newyork.ucbtheatre.com/shows/2297">Friday at UCB at 8pm. $10. </a><br /><br />We've done this show once before and it was terrific. It'll be even better this time because I won't try to put on a blazer while still holding a scotch glass.Scenesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14584772288716738021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899110766416950957.post-2616531813425120292010-03-01T13:00:00.000-08:002010-03-01T13:01:05.686-08:00<h1 class="articleHeadline"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/03/01/world/AP-US-ODD-Goat-Chase.html">Goat Leads Texas Police on 30-Minute Chase</a></h1>"There was no immediate word on who owned the goat. "<br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br />*Apparently, I already had a "goats" tag. </span>Scenesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14584772288716738021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899110766416950957.post-79451806622607164392010-02-23T10:41:00.000-08:002010-02-23T10:42:33.207-08:00<h2 style="font-family: georgia;" class="title"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/paleontologists_weve_been">Paleontologists: 'We've Been Looking At Dinosaurs Upside Down'</a></span></h2>Scenesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14584772288716738021noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899110766416950957.post-55402365382622458172010-02-19T07:40:00.000-08:002010-02-19T07:41:21.504-08:00You know how you were pretty sure you took Family Guy's side?Now you can be <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/18/family-guy-actress-respon_n_468331.html">completely sure</a>.Scenesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14584772288716738021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899110766416950957.post-55098116799354926492010-02-19T07:06:00.000-08:002010-02-19T07:08:28.307-08:00<a href="http://www.pajamajeans.com/Default.aspx?bhcp=1">This</a> is like a fake commercial from SNL. I hope next they make a three-piece pajama suit.Scenesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14584772288716738021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899110766416950957.post-85693002376827318902010-02-17T10:35:00.000-08:002010-02-17T16:04:28.367-08:00This video where actors describe their favorite performance of the decade is annoying but makes up for it by being <a href="http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/02/15/magazine/1247467035861/the-best-performances-of-the-decade.html?hp">hilarious</a>. Also...what happened to Sandra Bullock's hair there? It's like the girl next door got electrocuted. Very scary.<br /><br />I stopped watching after Jake Gyllenhaal said "God, I'm such a kiss ass," with this very serious, concerned look on face. Yech.Scenesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14584772288716738021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899110766416950957.post-88626263059198714332010-02-11T13:06:00.000-08:002010-02-11T13:55:12.520-08:00"Garlic finely cut and suspended in olive oil together with parsley leaves is often served to barbecued fish in Croatia."<br /><br />-from <a href="http://www.uni-graz.at/%7Ekatzer/engl/Alli_sat.html">an article about garlic</a><br /><br />After they eat it, they taste delicious.Scenesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14584772288716738021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899110766416950957.post-78904990990022709732010-02-10T05:44:00.000-08:002010-02-10T05:45:55.841-08:00<h1><a href="http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/399397.html">Letting Poor People Vote Is Dangerous</a></h1>"Poor people are capable of feats of bravery and revolution. They can storm the Bastille, overthrow the tsar or stage an Orange Revolution. But impoverished people are incapable of making sober decisions and voting responsibly in a popular election."<br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">*h/t to Olivia.</span>Scenesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14584772288716738021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899110766416950957.post-36784707158430501112010-02-08T12:49:00.000-08:002010-02-08T12:50:48.139-08:00New York Times delightfully overwritten sentence of the day<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/us/07nurses.html?ref=health">"The seeming conflicts of interest are as abundant as the cattle grazing among the pump jacks and mesquite." </a>Scenesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14584772288716738021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899110766416950957.post-68375989144909649662010-02-08T11:05:00.000-08:002010-02-08T11:09:13.857-08:00Are they microwave-safe?I had to research CPR certification for work, and I came across a site that lets you become certified in the safety (comfort?) of your own home with a video and manikins. From the FAQ page:<br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" ><strong>13. How do I clean the manikins?</strong><br /> The heads are dishwasher safe. The lung bags are replaceable. </span>Scenesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14584772288716738021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899110766416950957.post-24829951912408463422010-02-04T17:30:00.000-08:002010-02-04T17:35:02.773-08:00"Run the flirty one."Sometimes I wonder if they're doing this on purpose:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHv77DDW9Dg9TEv2K3jdNNUbwisHk4BMKAgBf2AJAZiQctMxBFTejvRva6YbAbRY8lO8gWG73zPcV4XiliTJYxspieaMLPuEhSxNO2-VNPTdN9yr5dQp9x7tHBfQuLdEtu38tzvCEFAN-Y/s1600-h/defense+officials.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHv77DDW9Dg9TEv2K3jdNNUbwisHk4BMKAgBf2AJAZiQctMxBFTejvRva6YbAbRY8lO8gWG73zPcV4XiliTJYxspieaMLPuEhSxNO2-VNPTdN9yr5dQp9x7tHBfQuLdEtu38tzvCEFAN-Y/s400/defense+officials.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434566023820790818" border="0" /></a>(The photo attached to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/us/politics/03military.html?hp">an article</a> about defense officials seeking to end Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Click to enlarge and you'll see what I mean. Or think I'm a giant homophobe.)Scenesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14584772288716738021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899110766416950957.post-51794362645363072702010-02-03T13:24:00.000-08:002010-02-03T13:31:09.994-08:00I really hopethat there's still only one comment posted when you read <a href="http://bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/the-societal-police-take-on-insect-displays/?hp">this article</a> on overly critical parents/people in the Bay Area. The article includes several examples of people being a little too overbearing and preachy.<br /><br />The VERY FIRST commenter objects to the article on the grounds that it only includes examples of women acting this way. If you're going to criticize people for being critical, then you have to be egalitarian about it.Scenesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14584772288716738021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899110766416950957.post-68286310400899645532010-02-02T17:56:00.000-08:002010-02-02T18:02:27.149-08:00Chimps iz so smart!Look, <a href="http://cuteanimals.todaysbigthing.com/2010/01/28">they can make a movie</a>! If by "make a movie" you mean variously try to eat, break, or make sex at a video camera someone decided to throw into their cage.<br /><br />Too bad it came out slightly too late to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.Scenesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14584772288716738021noreply@blogger.com1