The Sincerest Form of Flattery, Indeed

Some (many? most? all?) of you may be unfortunate enough to remember a flash file that Chris first found a few years ago called Badger Badger Badger. Well, for better or worse, it has imitators. Lots of them.

So far, I think this is my favorite:


Really, you only have to watch the first five or ten seconds to get a ridiculous laugh out of it. Although the snake is pretty good too.

Hallelujah

So, for some reason I woke up this morning thinking about the Alias episode where Marshall Flinkman and his pregnant NSA-agent girlfriend Carrie Bowman (nee Flinkman) get married right before Carrie gives birth to their kid.

They were married by agent Weiss, who got himself ordained, online, by the Internet Church of Mammals. (Weiss is played by Greg Grunberg, who my female readers might recognize from Felicity, and who my hip readers might recognize from Heroes.)

Anyway, I have no idea why I'm thinking about this, but the fact is that it was a really touching and funny sequence.

Although it does bring up an interesting point: You, too, can be ordained online, by the Universal Life Church. And, from what I understand, it's free.

Read here for more info.

EDIT: Terrible Follow-up: Hayden Panettiere, a star of Heroes and supporting actress in Ice Princess, was born in 1989. Like, August of 1989. She is younger than The Simpsons.

Strange Brew

So Kirsten's watching Private Practice in the background, while I'm screwing around on the internet (reading about Sean's new dog, which is pretty ironic in and of itself).

So anyway, Taye Diggs finishes the episode without many clothes on, and Kirsten says, "Taye Diggs is pretty without his shirt on," in the same tone of voice in which you might say, "I'd like to leave my entire family for that man."

Grumblegrumble.

Anyway, as a one-week recap, I met Peter Sarsgaard at Starbucks in Clayton last week, the day after he did a speech on campus (remember, he's a WU alum). Dude needs a shave. He had this unkempt beard that looked vaguely like a dirty Brillo™ pad that once was white but now was sort of a grayish-brown. And he had this green jacket that you can just tell is his favorite. You know, the way you can tell that a certain teddy bear is a child's favorite because it's missing on eye and half its right arm? Yeah, same thing.

I've always thought of myself as fairly collected, when I need to be. But what happens when I run into this monotonal semi-celebrity whose greatest accomplishment is boinking Maggie Gyllenhaal?

I just sort of point and go "puh-puh-puh-puh-puh...."

Thank God it wasn't Kevin Costner.

Cat Love Corn Muffin!

In reference to my previous post related to adorable cat-ness on a probably-perverse website, I present to you a sequel.

Touch My Muffin and Die, the Frat Cat story.

I'm Glad She Won't Stop Talking

This evening Kirsten and I were on our way to Borders, and we were talking, for some idiot reason, about the movie Beetlegeuse.

Anywho, after confusing Bill Paxton and Bill Pullman for the hundredth time (still funny, by the way), we both realized around the same time that the wife in the movie was played by Olympic hopeful Geena Davis. Kirsten, in her own sweet way, said, "Geena Davis has a face like a horse!" in exactly the same way as she might have said, "Geena Davis hit on my husband!" Say that out loud, it's funnier that way.

Anyway, as we're walking through the parking lot to the store, she then says, "And Sarah Jessica Parker has a face like a foot. It's like a foot! With a great big corn for her nose!"

Pause.

"Or maybe a bunion."

Interesting and Unrelated Quotes

"Most guys I know who get married see some slight behavior variances after the fact"
-Sean, on why I can't watch football anymore

"Tom Brady is so pretty he's unpretty."
-Kirsten, explaining the circular nature of prettiness.