Internet killed the video star

Paramore: Misery Business

This year's Warped Tour lineup is insane. As in really, really good. I'm not sure if I should be embarassed that I share musical tastes with the hordes of fifteen year old fankids with the same bad emo haircuts who all shop at Hot Topic and labor under the delusion that they're each a unique, precious snowflake. But speaking of haircuts...is it wrong for me to covet Hayley's hair? She's totally adorable. And I'd put money on the fact that she could kick Avril Lavigne's poser ass.

Since I'm on the subject of music, I'll touch on the fact that there'll be more music posted here soon, both videos and MP3s. I've started listening to the 90's alternative stuff again, so expect to see a lot of that. Man, are my music tastes ever schizophrenic...

I've got my plaid shirt and Docs on standby. Any day now...

Why fight when you can negotiate?

The last thing I wanted to see this morning before I've had any coffee...or the last thing I would have wanted to see today, period, really...was two squirrels, um - how do I put this...making more squirrels. Getting it on (cue Barry White playing softly in the background...). Just out in the open for the world to see. Silly me - at first I thought they might have been playing, and stopped to watch the cute tree-rat frolicking. But then it turned all PG-13 on me and I had to avert my eyes. I swear, dozens of trees available and they have to go and get frisky on the railing. How totally scandalous...squirrels have no shame! At least it wasn't manatees, though (or dugongs, even...'cause that would be silly). I guess I can be grateful for small favors...

^^^^^ I made this! ^^^^^

Heh. I find it very funny that CNN.com is running this on their website halfway down the page from a GIANT headline story about Paris Hilton's interview with Larry King last night:

JIBJAB'S NEWS: What we call the news
This just in: The state of news is a joke!

Ha! The state of CNN "news" is also a joke, to the spoint of self-parody, it seems. And I love that Barbara Walters was quoted as saying she was above interviewing Paris, now that she's out of jail. She had no problem doing it when the fool was in jail. So yeah...Barbara Walters sooo has high standards as a "journalist".

(By the by, Paris...don't act contrite in one breath and then reveal that you're still a spoiled, priveledged little skeeze in the next...oh, and diaf, plzkthx! And is it just me, or is she starting to transform herself into a living incarnation of Wall-Eye Barbie(R)?)

The person who works down the hall keeps asking for clues to finding my blog. It's like a game of "Where on the internet is Maus's blog". And my new boss keeps pondering aloud "Does it rain like this every day?". Every day. And every day we look at him and shrug. It's an endless cycle!

The line for not giving a care starts here

Haha. So this is me. Officially just not giving a care. I'll do what I have to do, and not a modecum of work more. And you can't make me. So. There. And from some of my half-whispered conversations with other people here, I'm not the only one. I applied for a job at a private school today. I'll be applying to another public school locally tomorrow. That's part of my new not-giving-a-care mental health regimen. Also, the budget year is wheezing to its consumptive end, so there's only so much I can do right now that really counts for anything. There was so much I didn't manage to accomplish and get a handle on that I feel like the last six months doing this job (and doing it someone else's way) were largely a waste, and that's so frustrating to me. And it's becoming ever more apparent that surface matters over susbstance here. If the adminsitration has their way, before too long we won't have anywhere within a reasonable distance to park. Two words: trellises and bouganvilla. Why? Because they look nice. You know what else looks nice? A few extra bones in the old bank account. Lining my pockets buys my obedience and continued acquiesence. You wouldn't want me to take out my over-worked, low-moraled angst on the bouganvilla, would you?

Now for the things I can give a care about...I have big plans for the rest of the summer. The fifth Harry Potter movie with M. The water park across the bridge with my mom, my little sister and my son. Blazing Saddles in a theater that sells booze. Maybe Miami with M (if the stars align themselves in my favor). As the young people say these days: Woot!

Four out of five Uniqua's agree.

Can you believe there are people making a living as baby naming consultants? I am officially in the wrong line of work. And to be honest, although my son's name seemed unusual to me at the time that we picked it (it was originally meant to be "David", but I changed my mind kind of late in the game), I keep seeing more and more kids with it - both boys and girls. There's no way I'd spend a couple hundred dollars to have someone else pick my child's name. Just please, for the love of all that's holy, stop naming your daughters Mackenzie and Kaitlyn, America! Someone in the thread I got the link from on Fark suggested Slartibartfast for a boy's name. Genius! Why didn't I think of that?
















Supposed "spoilers" for Deathly Hallows are flying fast and furious around the internet in the last couple of days. Not on the legitimate fan sites, just in other places I tend to frequent. Some of the theories are actually kind of funny, but others...not so much. Wal-Mart has forbidden employees from giving away information about the plot once the books are stocked in stores and on sale. By the way, M - since Helga Hufflepuff was JK's wizard of the month for May, and Salazar Slytherin is the wizard for June, I won't be surprised if in July it would be Rowena Ravenclaw. And I think a horcrux clue will be present since Hufflepuff is holding the cup and Slytherin is wearing the locket (see The Lexicon, and they also have the Black family tree posted - those wizarding families intermarried as much as the Amish...). So, what will the Ravenclaw horcrux be? And what about Griffyndor?

*UPDATE*: No Ravenclaw!? Gryffindor. Holding the sword. So this tells us...nothing. Bah!

Godzilla Raids Again!

This post needs more cowbell...
But seriously, where are the Mothra tributes, people?