At least he's a good tipper.

Have a Happy New Year!

Someone buy me one of these, please.

The prequel to: "Help Lord: The Devil Doesn't Like Breast Augmentation!"

(Found at Funky Junk Trunk)

Inside the Actor's Studio with Chris Rock



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ohhhh, the train of thought....

Way it goes...

Last night, my brother in law and I were talking about dealing with people...I've worked for some really difficult people.

Shitty people.

I told him that for years, I really thought that I was a "people person", and it took a job in management for me to realize that; really, I'm not.
When I'm dealing with a difficult person, I try to remind myself that difficult people are made that way by how they've internalized their experiences.

That said, I know that I've been shitty to some people, and that those people would perceive me to be a difficult person.

On occasion, I've caught a glimpse of how someone sees me in a negative way, and it's jarring...but, then...usually... it doesn't matter to me.
Because, unless I respect them...what they think of me, matters not.

One of the best scenes I've ever seen in a movie bringing part of this into light is the "Way it goes..." monologue Kevin Spacey gives in the film Swimming with Sharks.

It's awesome, and you can watch it here.

The Giving Tree - Read by Shel Silverstein



(My favourite story)

This picture of William Suarez Peirto: 1943 from Shorpy

Makes me think of what Kid Creole's dad might have looked like.

Oprah finds another fake memoir...

Herman Rosenblat’s holocaust memoir Angel at the Fence: the True Story of a Love That Survived which Oprah Winfrey called, “the single greatest love story, in 22 years of doing this show, we’ve ever told on the air.” turns out to be, um, probably untrue. It all started when Rosenblat, a holocaust survivor, entered a Valentine’s Day newspaper writing contest for the most romantic story...

Geez, can't a couple of seniors get their 15 minutes of cha ching in peace?

Who's Canadian?

The true story of a dinner conversation in which several Americans came to realize how many iconic Americans are, in fact, Canadian.

"If William Shatner's Canadian," one insists, "then I could be Canadian."

Another opines that there should be a law against Peter Jennings, a Canadian, from hosting a network news program

Hilarious podcast from This American Life.

Let's play:

Find the Canadian!

(Thanks Piika)

Police: Woman faked missing baby story to win back ex

McCormic was trying to lure an ex-boyfriend back when she invented a missing-child story that triggered a statewide search this week, police said Friday.

I've heard of girls faking pregnancies to get a guy back, but this one went all the way.

I hope they do make her pay back all the money that was spent on the search.

NME's Hottest Men in Music

(Click on picture to see them)





Aside from the fact that I'm not familiar with any one of them, I agree with Jezebel:

"It's pretty clear that the readers dig pale, skinny guys with dark hair and slightly dead eyes.

Alex Turner, Jack White, Mark Ronson, and Brandon Flowers all make the list, as do Pete Doherty and Julian Casablancas. The photo gallery is hilarious, in that if you flip from picture to picture, it's almost as if you're looking at a weird family photo album, filled with brothers who share a genetic tendency to scowl and tilt their heads slightly to the left".

Beyonce kicking the shit out of a crazed blonde obsessed with stealing her husband?

No more waiting to exhale...

I love Dino!

Why buy expensive toys?

All the (little tiny) single ladies...



So, while we ooh, and ahh..about how cute she is, and how well she does the moves for such a little girl....I'd like to report to you that this kind of thing has more or less replaced skipping, and playing ball in the schoolyard for girls.

I think it's more than a little sad that little girls don't want to be little girls anymore.

MEXICO CITY - A U.S. anti-kidnapping expert was abducted by gunmen in northern Mexico last week, a sign of just how bold this nation's kidnapping gangs have become.

U.S. security consultant Felix Batista was in Saltillo in Coahuila state to offer advice on how to confront abductions for ransom when he himself was seized, local authorities said.

I'm not even going to say anything...

Switched At Birth

On a summer day in 1951, two baby girls were born in a hospital in small-town Wisconsin. The infants were accidentally switched, and went home with the wrong families. One of the mothers realized the mistake but chose to keep quiet. Until the day, more than 40 years later, when she decided to tell both daughters what happened. How the truth changed two families' lives—and how it didn't.

Amazing if you've got an hour to listen to this story.