Paul Bunyan

I got called on Wednesday, interviewed on Thursday, spent the weekend in Hallock, and then got offered a full time long term sub elementary art position in Bemidji this morning. The teacher is out on disability and the position is likely for the rest of the school year. So anyways…I am moving to Bemidji sometime very soon. Oh man…my life is so crazy. Wish me luck…and come visit?

It’s a….!

My older sister’s ultrasound today showed us a healthy growing little BOY!! At 20 weeks, he has 10 fingers, 10 toes, a perfect 4-chamber heart, and well developed spine.  We are so excited!!

“Auntie”  Becca

A Web-Musical? With Doogie Howser?

Really, how could you ask for more?

Maybe having reigning geek royalty Joss Whedon write and direct it.

“Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog” is unlike any quasi-Youtube video I’ve ever seen, and you can check it out for free here: http://www.drhorrible.com/mushortio.html

If everyone in Maur had danced to “Thriller” together with iPods on high…

Silent raves? Isn’t that a contradiction in terms?

Apparently, thanks to demonic FACEBOOK, people are showing up in public places at organized time, listening to their own music, and grinding up on their grandmother’s pet schnauzer.

Needless to say, I’d do it.

Check it out at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94541066

African Nuns

Had to share this video – this was the going away ceremony they had when I left the convent I was staying at this weekend (the bennies Sara Trent and Cara Sandquist are volunteering there). Basically sums up African hospitality.

When Classics Meet Cronenberg…

That’s right: “The Fly” is now an opera. With nudity. But no Jeff Goldblum.

“Review: Opera version of ‘The Fly’ fails on buzz factor”: http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/09/opera.fly.ap/index.html

Don’t Mess with the Pope

Lots of homework + social awkwardness = plenty of time to find things like this:

“Vatican sets up anti-terrorist squad”

And you thought the Swiss Guards were friendly…

the bears season starts sunday…

…so check out this amazing piece of journalistic gold: “neckbeards: are they growing on you?” on the main page of www.chicagotribune.com today.  for some reason i’m having problems posting the link.  so just look it up manual style.

my favorite paragraph: “Neckbeards, in general, spark interest because they don’t conform to normal grooming trends and haven’t been in the public eye since Henry David Thoreau penned “Civil Disobedience,” says Louis Giersch, a non-neckbearded man who runs a Web site dedicated to them. Giersch ranks the neckbeard’s re-emergence as the most important advancement in facial hair since General Ambrose Burnside wore friendly mutton chops on the Civil War battlefield” (Stacy St. Clair).

also of note, the amazing (and helpful?) graphic linked underneath the main story on the FRONT PAGE of the CHICAGO TRIBUNE website. hahaha, oh those crazy chicagoans, they really know their priorities.

what the world has been needing… or, at least, what kathy has been needing

http://www.baconsalt.com/

i would marry justin or dave or a canister of bacon salt.  however, that american home video clip… $5000?  really?