Tuesday, August 26, 2008
I Sense There's Something in the Wind...
And it's this DAMN COOL special edition Nightmare Before Christmas DVD set that I just bought!
Yes, I'm a nerd. Yes, I have an obscene obsession. No, I'm not ashamed of it. And no, I don't see it ending any time soon.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Best Revenge Ever.
No, I'm not talking about "You Oughta Know" winning Alanis Morissette a Grammy award even though it was written about Dave Coulier (whose career has since gone NOWHERE)... I'm talking about bikini wearing baristas dousing a pervert with boiling water. The story is about a minute into this clip. Enjoy:
Sunday, July 20, 2008
The Dark Knight...
Was absolutely amazing. Ben and I saw it yesterday and were blown away. I don't need to remind everyone how much I love Christian Bale and that Batman has always been my hero, so this movie was like perfect nerd utopia for me.
The saddest part of my experience, of course, was the passing of Heath Ledger. He was an actor that had been relatively low on my radar until I saw him in The Brother's Grimm, and when I heard he was going to play the Joker, I was a bit skeptical. I'm glad to know that my skepticism was completely unwarranted. Heath Ledger did a phenomenal job as the Clown Prince of Crime. I'm sad that we won't get the pleasure of seeing him as an ongoing foil to Christian Bale in the next installment of the Batman saga. He truly deserves a tip of the hat for his performance. I'm thinking Oscar caliber.
So everyone go see it if you haven't had a chance to already, and go see it again if you've already seen it. I plan to.
And we got a special treat of the new Watchmen trailer at the beginning. WOOT!
The saddest part of my experience, of course, was the passing of Heath Ledger. He was an actor that had been relatively low on my radar until I saw him in The Brother's Grimm, and when I heard he was going to play the Joker, I was a bit skeptical. I'm glad to know that my skepticism was completely unwarranted. Heath Ledger did a phenomenal job as the Clown Prince of Crime. I'm sad that we won't get the pleasure of seeing him as an ongoing foil to Christian Bale in the next installment of the Batman saga. He truly deserves a tip of the hat for his performance. I'm thinking Oscar caliber.
So everyone go see it if you haven't had a chance to already, and go see it again if you've already seen it. I plan to.
And we got a special treat of the new Watchmen trailer at the beginning. WOOT!
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Who Watches The Watchmen?
EVERYONE if it were up to me!
Thanks to Chris for sending this over to me. Based on the few minutes and quick glimpses in this trailer, I think this is going to be one of the best movies ever made. Don't let me down, Zack Snyder... don't let me down.
ETA: Well thanks for letting me know it was pulled, Tony!
If you want to see the trailer go to Apple and download it.
Thanks to Chris for sending this over to me. Based on the few minutes and quick glimpses in this trailer, I think this is going to be one of the best movies ever made. Don't let me down, Zack Snyder... don't let me down.
ETA: Well thanks for letting me know it was pulled, Tony!
If you want to see the trailer go to Apple and download it.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
I don't like Adobe CS3....
I love it! (Sung to the tune of Dreadlock Holiday by 10cc).
Yup. I've got it.
And it's Awesome with a Capital A.
Yup. I've got it.
And it's Awesome with a Capital A.
Friday, June 27, 2008
On Notice!
I've decided to make my own list of things that are "On Notice" or "Dead To Me", which is stolen borrowed from Stephen Colbert. Since I'm usually angered or annoyed by some entire group of people, persons or things, it seems only appropriate.
So here it is!
ON NOTICE:
Women Who Don't Know How to Drive SUVs
Fisher Price
Chris Jericho
Cameron Diaz
Cat Litter
The Drive To Ikea
Line Cutters
The Grocery Store
DEAD TO ME:
Spiders
Time Warner Cable
Rachael Ray
Gas Prices
Katie Couric
Back Pain
Family Guy
This list will be updated and reposted as more things annoy me or anger me enough to talk about them more than once.
That is all.
So here it is!
ON NOTICE:
Women Who Don't Know How to Drive SUVs
Fisher Price
Chris Jericho
Cameron Diaz
Cat Litter
The Drive To Ikea
Line Cutters
The Grocery Store
DEAD TO ME:
Spiders
Time Warner Cable
Rachael Ray
Gas Prices
Katie Couric
Back Pain
Family Guy
This list will be updated and reposted as more things annoy me or anger me enough to talk about them more than once.
That is all.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Flaming Letter of Hate... An Ode to Time Warner Cable
What's that? What's that? Is it The Great Pumpkin? NO, it's ME, Marlena, ON the internet at my freaking house!!!!
But Marlena, how can this be? I thought Time Warner hated you because your internet has been on and off for almost two months, and completely off for over a week!
Yes, that's right. If I believed in God, I would believe that he's been smiting me for the better part of two months. Some of you might say, but Marlena, it's just the internet, go read a book or take a walk. You don't NEED to check your email or look at the latest LOLCats.
But Marlena, how can this be? I thought Time Warner hated you because your internet has been on and off for almost two months, and completely off for over a week!
Yes, that's right. If I believed in God, I would believe that he's been smiting me for the better part of two months. Some of you might say, but Marlena, it's just the internet, go read a book or take a walk. You don't NEED to check your email or look at the latest LOLCats.
While this is true, I also work from home, connecting remotely to my computer at work so that I can stay home and raise my kid. The problem with no internet, is that I CAN'T do my job. So I've been like a roaming nomad from a bad South Park episode, looking for internet wherever I go, babe in tow.
I usually take the Noodle over to my mom's house to work when the internet is down, and the other day she had a dentist appointment so I was just going to go over there and hang out until she got done with her appointment. Well, I have a key to my mom's house, I even have a spare garage door opener to get in. What I DON'T have (or didn't have at the time) was the code to turn off her burglar alarm.
She forgot to not set the alarm when she left and when I got there it went off. And went off... and went off. The alarm company was calling her house and I didn't have her secret password either, so I was just sitting there waiting for the cops to come arrest me.
Meanwhile, I tried calling my mom at the dentist, but since she was having her teeth worked on, she had her phone off and she couldn't talk anyway for all the novocaine she was hopped up on. PLUS HER internet was down (at least her wackadoo modem needed to be reset) SO I couldn't look up the number to the dentist where she was, and I don't know where she keeps her phone books.
So after a Benny Hill type runaround calling Ben to get the dentist's number, calling the dentist and giving a message to the receptionist that I didn't want the police to arrest me because I couldn't turn off her alarm, I ended up having to go to Ben's parent's house with the baby to use THEIR internet.
Oh yeah, and I almost ran out of gas driving out there because Ben's parents live in the sticks and there isn't a gas station for MILES once you get to a certain point on the drive to their house. The other awesome part was that I decided to forgo makeup that day because I was only going to see my mom and Ben and figured they'd seen me enough times without it, that they wouldn't care. Well, let's run it down, I had to talk to two cops, Ben's parents and his grandmother, and Ben's parents have a home office too so they had a client come in that wanted to meet the baby. So my two people went to 8 people seeing me in my awesome no makeup-ness.
Sigh.
So thank you, Time Warner, for making me waste how many countless dollars in gas money driving all over creation with my baby in search of your holy grail of interwebs. Thank you for being the only game in town so I can't switch my service to anyone else. Thank you for being totally inept at taking care of your customers and being THE shittiest company I have EVER dealt with as far as utilities go. I used to work for the Satan that was the power company in Vegas and even THEY weren't as ridiculously lame as you.
I won't even bore you with my many, many service calls that were never done and how lame they are about communicating problems to each other. And today, there is a heinous thunderstorm going on and the internet is now A-OK!
'Tards.
I usually take the Noodle over to my mom's house to work when the internet is down, and the other day she had a dentist appointment so I was just going to go over there and hang out until she got done with her appointment. Well, I have a key to my mom's house, I even have a spare garage door opener to get in. What I DON'T have (or didn't have at the time) was the code to turn off her burglar alarm.
She forgot to not set the alarm when she left and when I got there it went off. And went off... and went off. The alarm company was calling her house and I didn't have her secret password either, so I was just sitting there waiting for the cops to come arrest me.
Meanwhile, I tried calling my mom at the dentist, but since she was having her teeth worked on, she had her phone off and she couldn't talk anyway for all the novocaine she was hopped up on. PLUS HER internet was down (at least her wackadoo modem needed to be reset) SO I couldn't look up the number to the dentist where she was, and I don't know where she keeps her phone books.
So after a Benny Hill type runaround calling Ben to get the dentist's number, calling the dentist and giving a message to the receptionist that I didn't want the police to arrest me because I couldn't turn off her alarm, I ended up having to go to Ben's parent's house with the baby to use THEIR internet.
Oh yeah, and I almost ran out of gas driving out there because Ben's parents live in the sticks and there isn't a gas station for MILES once you get to a certain point on the drive to their house. The other awesome part was that I decided to forgo makeup that day because I was only going to see my mom and Ben and figured they'd seen me enough times without it, that they wouldn't care. Well, let's run it down, I had to talk to two cops, Ben's parents and his grandmother, and Ben's parents have a home office too so they had a client come in that wanted to meet the baby. So my two people went to 8 people seeing me in my awesome no makeup-ness.
Sigh.
So thank you, Time Warner, for making me waste how many countless dollars in gas money driving all over creation with my baby in search of your holy grail of interwebs. Thank you for being the only game in town so I can't switch my service to anyone else. Thank you for being totally inept at taking care of your customers and being THE shittiest company I have EVER dealt with as far as utilities go. I used to work for the Satan that was the power company in Vegas and even THEY weren't as ridiculously lame as you.
I won't even bore you with my many, many service calls that were never done and how lame they are about communicating problems to each other. And today, there is a heinous thunderstorm going on and the internet is now A-OK!
'Tards.
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