Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Barnight in T minus...a day

Wow, 344 and its associates are just getting so excited for barnight. We actually start preparing on Sunday, and in no way is that depressing.

Odyssey in 10 seconds
My Greek Myths professor sent this to the class. You know some kids are just going to watch this instead of reading the 406 page book and think they can do well on the test. And I know who they are.

Another Odyssey
The Odyseey and The Simpsons? In one video? WHAAAA?!

The Posh Lifestyle
These kids are adorable, and the video combines everything I love—boys (almost the right age, God how I have stooped so low in my life of solitude), British accents (cocknier the better), soccer, and Posh Spice. You know I love me some of that crazy robot, she’s got alien boobies, is covered in diamonds and I can’t get enough. I also enjoy seeing her take a soccer ball (footbooool) to the stomach.

Apache
I can’t tell if I love this or hate this or am just cringing because I’m so disturbed…either way, I’m feeling something.

Kaylyn Taylor Orr
Notebook Girls have a lot of facebook friends we don’t exactly “know.” But I do look at all their photo albums, especially this one girl named Kaylyn Taylor Orr, because her profile is just so rich and full of exclamation points. She’s from Kentucky. Here is a short selection of her "about me, "a greatest hits of her profile, if you will.
-She wants to be a Victoria’s secret model when she grows up!
-God is her number one passion
-Her all-time favorite season is Winter!
-She prefers Rings over any other jewelry!
-She has a very close relationship with her parents!
-When she grows up, she wants to adopt a dog from the pet shelter and name it “Mina"! [sic]
Ok there is so much more, I will probably do a bunch of other entries on her, but I should really stop this before I get sued or just some really angry emails with a lot of exclamation points and smiley faces. Point being, here is a video she made for her high school club or team or something. She's the hot one.

Daily Dose of Sick Nasty
It’s going to be a good season.
WesRugby members: note the “I’m A Star” jump they seem to do during the haka. Clearly since we’re doing a similar warm-up we will be equally as hardcore.

Chris Jack Oldie But Goodie
The thing that is so great about Chris Jack is his candor and honesty re: the powerful sport of rugby. He tells it to you straight, he gets sore after games. You know why? Because there is a lot of running in rugby, and it makes you tired. Also, he gives you all the details about a trip abroad, like how he lost his mobile charger, and how the first thing he noticed about Wales was that it was cold. Also I just found out he is married, but really, has he seen this face aka the moneymaker? Yeah, Mrs. Jack can pack her fucking bags that’s for sure. Get out of town.

Can you handle his truth?
This guy reminds me so much of creepy guys at Fountain street parties who somehow engage you in really deep conversations that you just can’t get out of when secretly you’re getting really paranoid because he made you a drink and would you really let someone that talks like this make you a drink and why is his hand on your lower back I mean are you fucking kidding me, and what’s with the chain, you're from Greenwich you tool, and you’re not really sure if he’s going to kill you or just make out with you forcefully or what, but either way it will not be fun. Oh..that doesn’t happen to you? Yeah me either. I don’t even know what’s going on right now. Also he has a kid, that’s fucked up. Named Hayden. Even more fucked up.

Friday, March 23, 2007

A few things about ancient gayness

1. So you know how I like to type "gay + ___" (usually soccer) into youtube and see what pops up (haiyo!)? And by "you" I guess I mean me, since apparently I'm the only person that reads this. Anyway, I do like to do that. And this clip I am about to present--a mashup of the trailer for the movie 300 and the song It's Raining Men--is very much like what would happen if I typed in "gay + soldier," "gay + ancient war," etc.

2. Why is it surprising to people that this is quite gay? Ancient Greece was quite possibly the gayest civilization of all time, and in all the best ways. There was even an army once made up entirely of gay couples, the theory being that you would never fight so strongly in battle than when you were protecting someone you loved. Good thinking! I kind of wished I lived back then, but instead of being a girl I would want to be a young prince with curly blonde locks and rippling muscles, a breaker of horses (I spent much of break reading The Odyssey).

3. This video is eerily reminiscent of the hakka, for everyone on Old Meth who is still denying they play a kind of homoerotic sport.

And here it is.

Thursday, March 22, 2007

"I mean who wouldn't want to buy a used car from a genie?"

While you were reminiscing about your old Notebook Girl days (and deciding you are not, in fact, washed up)...


Montgomery’s answer to Good Ole Tom’s.
At school there is this ad on TV all the time for Good Ole Tom’s. You can bring your gold down to Good Ole Tom, a kind, elderly gentleman with a love of gold and giving out cash for it, and he’ll give you money. So come on down! Bring your friends, bring your kin.
Anyway, this ad is sort of Montgomery’s younger, blacker version of that, meets The Cha Cha Slide and Jump On It. Hilarity ensues.


Continuing our tour de Eurotrash music videos
When I was living with a host family in Italy, my host brother and I spent most of the day watching MTV Europe. This girl, Jentina, was all over TRL Roma. She even performed this song you’re about to see on TRL Roma, and she was wearing these thigh high dior boots (of course they said Dior on them, or how else would you know how much they cost) and a bathingsuit. Choice lyrics from her classic hit Badass Strippa—"badass strippa in the escalade, jump out the truck I’m in san tropez. I have come to show you how to party, you have got to get with this. I don’t take no shhhh from nobody. I’ll take your lyrical diss. Buy it!"
Gold, solid gold.


Sad-Ass stripper
The SOV Lady Soverign’s answer to Jentina.

Friday, March 16, 2007

Finally, true fame


My friend Jen found this on a facebook group about why Stuy sucks and her high school is so much better (as is evidenced by their supreme eloquence in the facebook medium).
This is me, Courtney, and Lindsey in New York Magazine for an interview about Notebook Girls.

Williams is a baby

While you were secretly so glad it’s snowing so you can’t go running…

With just a little more oxygen...
This 1957 Disney movie imagines what life on mars could be like if there were more oxygen and water on air. Plans that migrate in search of better soil (nomads/hippies)! Plants that feed on other plants (herbivores/cannibals)! Plants that feed on themselves (masochists? The creepy guy in that video who can give himself head? Ewwww, yeah I haven't seen that either). It’s a bit of a stretch. My history professor told us we’re not really supposed to make things up in papers (this after I asked him if I could just speculate on what disease Abigail Adams and the rest of the people at Quincy had, not actually do research and figure it out). But this short is still pretty cool.



Where are you looking?
When viewing photos of people, women look at the face and men “tend to fixate more on areas of private anatomy.” They needed supersonic eye technology to figure this out?

For Lindsey
This is hilarious. Her rendition of this video is actually exactly the same as the real thing.


Ayy it’s me!
This is me battling a terrible case of some sort of bronchitis phlegm disgusting but recording the New York Times podcast with my dad.


And lastly…FUCKING FUCK DUKE
This blog is all about realness, so I will be real. I know some fine upstanding citizens who attend Duke, and I like them very much. But when it comes to basketball, I have to yell HEELS HEELS HEELS and cheer for the team of my family for generations, that of ye olde UNC. Duke, this is why you suck (excellent song).

Thursday, March 15, 2007

"Toss off any school that has Tech in its name. Tech means nerds. And nerds suck at sports."

AYYYY WES TECHHHHHHHH!!! THAT'S US!!!! ON COLBERT REPORT!!!!!!!

Alright, alright calm down. Let's get down to realness.
I will only be discussing one website today. And that is because it is a website so full, so plentiful—a cornucopia of pleasure, if you will—that we need not cast our eyes upon another.
I am speaking, of course, about the personal website of a Mr. Robert Goulet.

Some highlights:
Mr. G’s personal motto is “Check It Out.”
Robert is also an artist of the visual format—there’s a really great picture of a strange dragon/king/webbed footed monster, labeled simply as “critics.” Ah, gold. Gold drawn by a three year old retarded white tiger.
The best part would probably be the page where you get to read his poetry to the tunes of a gently strumming guitar and a horn that brings us across the seas to a land that time forgot, but one that brings up the longing in our hearts. Or some shit, whatever.

ALSO THE PICTURE OF THE G MAN IN HUGE SUNGLASSES, A SWEATBAND, AND A HANDLEBAR MUSTACHE HOLDING A LITTLE DOG IS SO FUCKING AWESOME.

If you are still reading this you have no soul. Go to the site.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

“I mean yes, I love the huge thighs…I just didn’t know why they were running down the field!”

While you were on a gay rugby team…hey…wait a second…
(watch this video)

I just recorded the New York Times podcast with my dad—every week he has a different person read the question. Then he takes a picture of them with the headset on in our state of the art home studio (aka some little recording program on my dad’s imac). As I get older I realize my dad and I are actually the same person. I’ll put up a link to that soon. I’m pretty sick right now, so I can’t tell if my recording is sexy Lindsey Lohan voice or just really gross phlegm holding back a hacking cough voice. You be the judge!!!


Padova here I come!!!
I just got accepted into this abroad program in Padova, Italy, so to get myself psyched and in that special Eurotrash mood (I am currently wearing a neon yellow stretchy mini dress and one of those weird pseudo-mullets with bizarre highlights put in random places). Here’s the video for a great Italian jam “Voglia di Dance all Night.” It’s so good. You know your feelings are real when they can’t be expressed in just one language.

I swear to god this is not one of those times I typed “gay + ____” (soccer, life etc) into youtube to see what would happen.
This was a purely organic find.

This is though
Little kids playing sports is HILARIOUS.

Toodlez yall!!

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Day 1

Ok, so my two-a-days plan isn't going so well. I did watch an episode of Two-A-Days last night, it was a really good one because Max is under a lot of pressure both on and off the field, and Alex is just so cute (but he might be cheating on Kristin with some other girl! Except let's be real, Kristin, you're pretty busted, and Alex is, well, a specimen). Anyway, I ran this morning, but I still have remnants of the Washington Street Lung/Sophia's disease/going out for four nights a week this entire semester has crippled my body, so I might not make it to the second workout. Fascinating, I know. And yet, somehow, life goes on.

Finally Feral Children Get Their Own Website
There are a few things I love to write about here, including The Girls Next Door, All Blacks, and children raised by wolves. The Girls and The All Blacks have their own websites, so why not wolf babies? Exactly. My favorite part of the website is where they talk about all the different developmental problems that come from being raised by animals (possibly to dissuade kids who hate their parents from running away to become one of the pack?), including psychosocial dwarfism (a boy who was seven looked like he was three, and a girl who was thirteen looked only seven) and hypertrichosis—hairy children. There are a lot of stories/interviews with people who found wild children, including one form this seemly kind but maybe kind of weird guy who reports—“he appeared to communicate by some form of sign language. When we found him, he had hair all over his body. We took him to jail for safe-keeping…” Jail? For Safe-keeping? Listen, I’ve been to Rikers, and in no way is that place for safe-keeping, especially not the safe-keeping of wolf children. Something doesn’t sound right. Also, one of the kids is called “starved Jessica.” There’s a girl at wes we call that, but not because she was a wolf baby. It’s because she has an eating disorder.


Daily Dose of Sick Nasty
It’s so good.

What would a Unicorn Do?
I ask myself this a lot. I’m like Unicorn, this one guy is being a dick, this other guy doesn’t call me back, what should I do? And the unicorn looks at me and goes fucking frolic in a meadow, obvz.

Friday, March 9, 2007

Breaksiezzzzzzz!!!!

Home for Spring Break, finally. While other people are going to St. Johns and Bermuda and all that for their "vacations" with their "families," I'm at home getting in shape for rugby and catching up on reading. WOOOOOOO FUCKIN SPRING BREAKKKKKKKK HOMER'S '07, you know where to find me, make it a double (but only after two-a-days and The Odyssey).

Yet another bit of comedic solid gold to come out of Boise, Idaho.
It's not that as a female I'm offended by its vagina talk, it's that as a human I'm offended by how not funny it is.

Best porta-potty names
My favorite is a toss up between Doodie Calls of New Orleans and Gotta Go Potties, of Tobyhanna, PA, because both of them sound like they were written by nine(teen) year old boys in the back of the classroom while they were supposed to be writing an essay on their favorite thing about America (positive versus negative aspects of queering the American state and the other). Anyway, this list is pretty great.

Possible Future Husband
This is Chris Jack. Noted historians of my life, draw your own conclusions.
How can you not love this guy? He hosts the All Black little video interviews with the other players, where he asks them about fishing and what kind of expensive shirts they like to buy. This is his rugby diary.
Highlights: He tries really hard to have rugby dreams before games.
He needs to eat a lot before games because he gets nervous and poops a lot.
He doesn’t like the Crocodile Snappy song.
He’s also a dreamboat (obvz—he did not need to record that in his diary).

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Again!?!?!?

Yes! Again!
It's barnight!
Only at Wesleyan for 8 months of the year do people say barnight and completely give up the word Wednesday.
"News!" Cause you know around here we (I) use that word pretty liberally.


CSpan to make federal events more widely available to the online community
Can’t wait to catch up on my pie charts and tight shots of Ted Kennedy napping.

Youtube blocked in Turkey
Guess they can’t catch up on babies falling down or more versions of box in a box (tits in a tupperwear? No?).
If only this Cspan and youtube thing could be combined…into one giant joke...if only…I were funnier….

GUY GETS HELD UP AT THE AIRPORT FOR SETTING OFF A METAL DETECTOR, AND THEY’RE LIKE OH WE GOTTA LOOK IN YOUR BUTT AND HE’S LIKE YEAH I GOT SOME WIRES UP THERE. IN MY BUTT.
Sometimes, it’s like God just hands down a little gem and is like Hey, run wild. This is one of those times.

OH MY GOD LOOK AT THIS FUCKING PIG
IT HAS TWO NOSES AND THREE EYES AND TWO MOUTHS AND ONE SHARED HEAD!!!!!!!!!!!! HAS THE WORLD GONE COMPLETELY MAD!?!?!?! AND WHERE IS THAT PUNCTUATION MARK THAT COMBINES THE QUESTION MARK WITH THE EXCLAMATION POINT WHEN YOU NEED IT?!!?!?!?!!?!?!?

Gay Soccer part 3
One of my favorite things to do is to type “gay soccer” into youtube and see what happens. This latest installment in our series is pure genius. Let me tell you, if this guy reffed more games, soccer would be USA USA USA’s number 1 sport. Just kidding, it will always be football. You homo.

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

More More More

I just got so exited by the previous post that I had to do another one.
Also I'm trying to avoid rereading my notes for my American Lit 1865-1945 test.

Saturday Is Rugby Day
Rugby season is starting up! After playing some indoor rugby (all fun and games until someone breaks a glass) with the boys next door, I thought I should get my own ball (just in time for indoor Wednesday pregaming with Avital, and in no way could hat ever be a bad idea).
I’m getting this ball.

Guess the product/Blind Item
“It’s wicked, but they love it!”
Hints, from the ad: action packed ride-on for both boys and girls
Wide age group
Can be used by both one rider or two
Please leave out obvious answers like cocaine and the entire WesRugby team.

Video from Tony
How to sum up Tony in a paragraph? It’s an impossible task. Probably the most important thing to know is that he has great hair, a dog that is sweet but has fucking hideous hair, and this summer we had great pillow talks about life and boyfriends and girlfriends and which subways we would take in the morning. Except I always knew because I’m actually from the city.
He basically owns South Orange and Maplewood, but come on, it’s still South Orange and Maplewood.
One day we will live together on a mountain top. *
He sent me this video


*he doesn’t know I have these plans

GIMME THAT PURPLE STUFF BABY

It’s been a while, sorry.
Why am I apologizing?
And, lets be real here, who am I apologizing to?

Wesleyan’s basketball team had a rough end to a season that started out so well. Actually, I don’t really remember if it started well or not—all I remember is that I had a lot of fun at the games and I yelled a lot, creating such classics as “Middleberry? More like…bottom berry…mediocre berry….ahhhh more beer!!!!!” and “HEY NUMBER 19! YOU ARE TERRIBLE AT BASKETBALL, GET OFF THE COURT!” Anyway, the end of the season wasn’t so good, clutch members are leaving the team, so I guess the school needed something to boost both team and school moral. At least that is the only explanation I can come up with for these.