Here is Aimee Mann during her recent European tour outside of a peep show in Lisbon where she was performing. I’m kidding! I don’t want the Penn family after me.
Look at her smile though! This would be a great picture for the back of a CD. Very joyous.
You can see other pictures of her tour on her site.
Read about other musical joys at Waking Up With Morning Song.
Listening to: “I’ve Been Losing You” – a-ha
After the food poisoning incident, I started on some new medication which has been kicking me in my cracked moon for the past week and a half. Still it’s better than food poisoning. The meds have sapped my energy and it’s hard to create motivation not to mention turn the funny on; however, due to the suppression of my humor gene, I’ve made some insightful insights. No, I was sober when I noticed these.
I recently decided that the first time it cost me over $40 to fill up my tank, I was going to buy a bus pass. It happened in June. Here’s the deal — a monthly 2-zone bus pass is $30. I’m spending $80 a month in just gas alone to drive. Even better is the fact that I live near both jobs and can do a full circle from home to full-time job to part-time job and back to home in a matter of minutes, so I’ve been trying to leave the car at home and “reduce my carbon footprint”. In other words, taking the bus is extremely easy for me due to my locations.
I also get to people watch. SQUEAL!
The other morning I was bopping along with Eduardo, my iPod, when a track from George Harrison’s brain-child “The Concert For Bangladesh” came on. It was the 16-minute Ravi Shankar raga opus “Bangla Dhun”. I got on my connecting bus, sat down and took in my surroundings. I had Indians all around me listening to their iPods while on their way to work. Here I am listening to one of India’s premiere musicians playing in my head when a funny thought struck me. “Wouldn’t it be ironic if they are listening to music by oh-so-white American musicians like Ryan Adams, Britney Spears or Pat Boone?” It made me giggle to myself.
In a moment of clarity recently after reading about creationists, it dawned on me that anything can be a fact as long as at least two people agree that it is true. It’s perception within their realm of reality for sure because someone somewhere will disagree with them — that being human nature and such — but it made realize why there are so many diverse beliefs around the globe.
Correction: It turns out that this thought came from a conversation I had with Kevin. I can only chalk it up to being all ill and crap.
I want to make a t-shirt that states simply:
Everything Is Something.
…especially if it’s on tie-dye. Zing!
If you like the t-shirt in the picture, you can get your own over at Mattress Police.
Listening to: “1234” – Feist
One Sentence Review: The Simpsons Movie
Almost everything you’d expect from a “Simpsons” episode only it’s on a wet-dream-sized television screen.
Listening to: “Through Being Cool” – Devo
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Hooray! A roundup! I chalk it up to being sick and then moving the site to a new host. So with those excuses in place…
Who knew someone I know knows that she knows Phyllis Diller quite knowingly?
Were you part of the crowd avoiding hearing anything about The Deathly Hallows? So was Bobbarama.
Here is one of Spooky’s funniest animations.
Scot found this very funny commercial about online dating.
Need to know the latest about Tampax? Bossy has the gory details.
Spencer posted these two great videos side-by-side — they’re musical and funny.
Pam found out that Bush’s current disapproval rating has only been beaten by two other Presidents.
…and finally, Denver blogger Big Daddy found this Dunkin’ Donuts commercial that made me laugh so hard, it made me sad and cry.
Listening to: “Cataracts” – Andrew Bird
Antisocial Commentary Release Party
Some may have noticed a certain guy who shows up in the Roundup on occasion. He certainly gets mentioned when I plug humor-blogs.com because he runs it and has made a nice community of people who are and who think they are funny — I’ll let you judge which category this blog belongs in.
Over the past few months of getting to know him via email and his blog posts, I’ve developed a little bit of a blog crush on him. No, it’s not sexual. You people are terrible! It’s one of those crushes where you are attracted to his T&A. Of course, I mean Talent & Autographing. If you haven’t read Mattress Police, you should. He has a great way of making the mundane funny. Or as I’ve rewritten “Candy Man” from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory:
Who take the mundane
Sprinkle it with odd
Cover it with cardboard
And be a writing god
…I never claimed to be a poet.
So here’s the deal. He is actually publishing his best posts into a book with which you can decorate your coffee table. It really brings out the weird architecture picture book, “Calvin & Hobbes” collections and sex toy catalog that are already strewn about your guest room. Plus this one you may actually read.
It’s called Antisocial Commentary: From the Secret Files of the Mattress Police and — to add peer pressure to this — all the cool kids are ordering it. It’s official release is August 15, but for a limited time you can pre-order it and he’ll, like, sign it and stuff. You should do it! I did it with Chuck Palahniuk when “Fight Club” was only a short story freshly published and I ran up to him going, “Mr. Palahniuk! Oh, Mr. Palahniuk! Can I have your autograph?” Yes, I used to hang out and work out with him on occasion when I was living in Portland. It’s my one claim to fame. Now I have the distinction of being the first person to have every asked him for his autograph simply because I was being a goofball.
Now you can be a goofball and pre-order Diesel’s book. It’s really worth it. Really. Why do I think so? Well, I’m certainly not getting paid to heap praises on him unless you count Karma points. All the real details are over at his site. I’m headed over there as soon as I hit ‘publish’ and pre-ordering mine just to prove that I’m a man of action. Huzzah, charge and whatnot!
Listening to: “Das Spiegel” – The Chemical Brothers
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