Yes, another video post. Please forgive me, but it WAS Super Bowl Sunday. One of my favorite commercials came early in the game:

Who knew Abe Vigoda was still alive? (According to SOME on the Twitter, he made a second appearance during the halftime show. But I’m pretty sure it wasn’t him. I think he would’ve [...]

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For your Saturday enjoyment:

OK Go – This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo.
Note: One continuous take.
When I found out it was the same guys who did the Treadmill Video (at the end of the linked post), I wasn’t surprised at all.

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As a child of the 80s, I have a special place in my heart for the movie Back to the Future.
Michael J Fox? Cutie. 80s wardrobe? Laughable. Crispin Glover? Creepy even then…
Anyway, recently my friend Bridget (the same Bridget who hosted the AMAZING blog carnival on Peace yesterday check it out over thirty entries!) did [...]

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Lately it seems like my neck has a crick in it all the time. Not one of those “I can’t move my head and therefore have an excuse for not doing laundry or dusting” cricks. (I WISH.) More of a “This is annoying and every time I turn my head I sound like a bowl of Rice [...]

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One of my favorite things about air travel
(besides being seated in coach next to a  young 140 lb emo guy who orders a TRIPLE vodka and cranberry for a 2 hour flight)
is the reading material.
I know what you’re thinking: “That’s a stretch.” And you have a point. Airplane reading material IS only a couple levels [...]

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Just watch. You’ll understand.

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Hello and welcome to my late-arriving Friday post. Let’s just pretend I’m on the West Coast, shall we? Then I can be three hours less late than I really am.
Okay.
Welcome to the Twitter Ho-Down, as hosted by The Fellowship of the Traveling Smarty Pants. Below, the best of ME from this week. I was oddly [...]

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Illness update:
Hannah…
…does NOT have pinkeye. WOOOOOO! She has a scratch that’s healing on the surface of her eye (thankfully, NOT the cornea).
(No pinkeye means I get to send her to school today! After two days at home! And right before a 5-day weekend with all of the kids here! All day! Every day!)
I…
…am STILL getting [...]

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I’m in a giving mood today, so I thought I’d share some linky goodness:
First, a Public Service Announcement.
“Hey Baby, take off your bra. I just heard about an approaching chemical warfare attack” is NOT a good pickup line.
Unless the woman is wearing this:
Yes, this is a real invention. It was awarded the IgNobel Prize in [...]

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Hey. I’m sick. Which seems to happen to me at this time every year. So a post from last fall seems especially timely.
Originally posted October 2008:
I purchased an instrument of torture yesterday. No, I haven’t gotten into some sort of kinky hobby. If only.
No, I bought this item because a lot of people-most of [...]

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