just a spoon full of sugar
- sooo needed.
from scotty
- Jinxed.
omfg.
That is a mild representation of my feelings about the Buffalo Bills MNF (Monday Night Football) game last night. Mild. An illustrated reaction is pretty much the same as Rian Lindell’s:
photo by Luc Leclerc/US Presswire
But you know what? I don’t blame this on the Bills. Nay. I blame the sack of crap announcers that jinxed the kick. Approximately 2 minutes before Rian’s kick, the infamous Norwood WIDE RIGHT from the 1991 (Super Bowl XXV) was uttered over the MNF airways. I immediately started yelling:
SHUT UP
SHUT UP
SHUT UP…
but the announcer continued. Nobody knocked on wood and then the ball was set. I could not believe my eyes.
WIDE RIGHT!!!!!!????
I can’t even muster up the energy to determine what words to use and describe my anguish over this loss. And honestly it’s not even the loss. The Bills shouldn’t have been proud of the effort had they pulled out a victory. The Bills are 5-5, have lost four straight and five of their past six. They’re only two games behind the New York Jets, but with only six games remaining, this hole is quite substantial.
And let’s face it people. Tiebreakers aren’t the Bills’ friends and it seems winning isn’t lately either. Sunday afternoon we face the Kansas City Chiefs, and that should be an easy win.
I’m a little negative today. I’m sorry, but who get’s excited over loosing? Especially since we were JINXED!!! Ah, I digress.
Happy innerspaeth will be back tomorrow.
- Throwin’ it back to chores.
Clearly, these are still a reality for some (usually young people who live at home). The definition of a chore is a hard or unpleasant task usually involving cleaning or housework and THIS, my friends, is exactly why I’m throwing it back to chores today.
Since I own my own home and Ilikelove to have it clean for my own personal satisfaction (well and for the cats) I have grown to actually enjoy cleaning because it’s MY OWN house. This means that I technically no longer perform “chores” and thus, it’s time to throw it back to chores!
Follow me?
OK, so… in the Spaeth House Saturday was chores day. Even if you slept over at a friends house on Friday night, you were still expected to get your ass back home to help mom and dad with “things” around the house. Some chores lasted ALL DAY LONG:
Cleaning out the garage
Organizing our closets and making piles for the Salvation Army
Washing the cars (3-4 total, INCLUDING vacuuming the inside)
BIG cleaning before company
BIGGER cleaning before xmas
I always hated the garage cleaning, which also involved WASHING the floors in the garage. To this day I still think my parents were insane for that. It was soo freaking clean when we were all done I could eat dinner off the floor. (NOTE: we didn’t park the cars in the garage and the lawn mower was always parked on a piece of cardboard, if you get me) The best was when random people would pull into our driveway thinking we were having a yard sale because of all the crap in plain view from the road. This always made me and my siblings laugh whilst I think it made my dad upset.
So there you have it kids. I’m thowin’ it back to chores today, or really for the whole weekend. To all the kids out there who have to help their parents clean the house — GOOD FOR YOU! You’re building character! Although, I do pity you if you have to clean out the garage on Saturday.
- ADC Hall Of Fame 2008
It’s with absolute excitement and horray! that I’m able to say R. Roger Remington’s day has finally come! He has been inducted to the 2008 Art Director’s Club Hall of Fame!
Since 1971, the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame has recognized and honored those innovators who have made significant contributions to art direction and visual communications, and whose lifetime achievements represent the highest standards of creative excellence.
This year they’re honoring the following people along with Roger:
Alex Bogusky
Sir John Hegarty
Ray Eames
Maira Kalman
John Maeda
Bruce Weber
My experience with Roger has been through his teaching and devoted research to design history at RIT. There Roger has developed a unique scholarly resource, the Graphic Design Archive, where I worked for two years. This project involves preserving and interpreting the original source materials of 19 Modernist design pioneers such as Lester Beall, Will Burtin, Cipe Pineles (the woman whom my cat is named after), William Golden and Alvin Lustig among others.
Congratulations Roger!
- Ninja Kitties!
Well someone finally got it right.
Toyota Corolla’s new commercial features ninja kittens!!! My only critique would be that there’s not enough fluffy kitty fuzz coming out of their clothing. Why? Because the world is always better with kitty fuzz. Actually I got so wrapped up in the kittens that I didn’t really care what the car was. That’s probably bad advertising, but hey I’m featuring it on my blog so it can’t be that bad.
Thanks for the link Cowboy Mark!
- Throwin’ it back to cars with wood paneling
I really want to highlight station wagons with wood paneling. This was the family car when I was just a little nugget. Actually, it was the family travel wagon (mostly for trips to Buffalo, NY to visit the grandparents) and it looked pretty darn close to this:
1986 Chrysler
Now, before sweet, little, innocent Jennifer (little sister) came long, this car was perfect! Just me and Chris (big brother) in the back seat and then Mom and Dad in front. Chris and I would always play games or joke around together in the back. My dad’s favorite story was when Chris and I thought it would be fun to pretend like we were throwing up (car sickness). I think we liked to do this because it got my dad all riled up. Eventually we weren’t playing around anymore. Chris actually started throwing up and then I did too. Man, my dad was soooooo mad at us after that. We never joked about fake puking again.
But eventually Jenny (now Jenn) came into the picture and this pushed Chris to the back. Importantly, this wasn’t a wagon with the back seat facing backwards. He would basically just sit in the trunk. My parents would carve him a little spot between our suitcases and Jenny and I always got jealous, mostly because he was able to lay down, completely, and we still had to sit with seat belts on.
I digress. This post is about wood paneling.
So in the 80’s, wood paneling on cars was totally in. Now? It’s totally out but some cars are trying to bring it back, unsuccessfully.
There’s the Hummer H3 with faux wood paneling. Very hot.
There’s the PT Cruiser. Hideous.
It still cracks me up when I see any car with wood paneling. I saw one today which gave me the idea for today’s Throw Back Friday. So, there you have it. If you see one out on the road today honk or wave at the driver. Thank them for keeping the 80’s alive.
- So, what happens to the Messiah lovers now?
This video is absolutely hysterical. Worth the 3 minutes. This is also going to happen to Peggy (from my post on November 3).
Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are
Thanks for the link Scott (a now lost and empty Obama obsessed individual)!
- Cartoons you won’t see in the Post.
I’m hoping to see these in the Washington Times, however.
- It’s official.
I’m proud to be a Republican. McCain’s concession speech shows just how great of a leader he would have been. He was tactful, sincere and strong. And as he said, it’s natural to feel disappointment. We must look forward with great interest for the sake of our country and not regret what might have been.
- Thanks for the reminder FB.
After I voted this morning at 6:15 AM, I came back home to shower and get ready for the “historic” day ahead. This meant, of course, starting off by signing onto my Facebook account.
Low and behold, my good friends at Facebook were there to remind me, and all of the other whatever million users to go and vote today.
my Facebook login screen on election day
Thank you Facebook. I mean, without you and all of the other, impossible to ignore reminders, I may not have remembered to get my behind out of bed at 5:30 AM to go vote. With all of the other pressures in the world I’m so glad I have you on my side.
Now, the real kicker would be if Facebook could predict and tell us the winner of the election before it’s announced!!! That would be something else, but that would also imply who Facebook is backing… the black guy or the old fart.
And Facebook isn’t racist or ageist…is it?
