overeducated and underemployed

evening clips: emotional extravagance edition

- "Madonna was so emotional after discovering her new album had hit number one in the charts, she sobbed into her champagne glass." Then she took a bath in molten gold, threw diamonds in the air, and danced.

- Now that Nick Lachey is done using Jessica Simpson to up his profile, it's Jewel's turn.

- "CBS TV movie makes Pope uninteresting"? Not possible!

- Pandas: the perfect weapon?

- The most fascinating person of 2005 is Camilla Parker Bowles. In unrelated news, "fascinating" now means foreign, hat-wearing, boring mistress.

it's called old faithful for a reason

Yo, teams on The Amazing Race. Old Faithful is a geyser that erupts every 92 minutes. As such, it cannot be categorized as something that just "does what it wants to" "whenever", and you cannot hope for it to happen sooner. Add 92 minutes to the last time it has erupted, and tada, you will know the next time. It's just that simple.

Other things that concerned me about last night's episode: Is there no recourse for those screwed over by the production people draining their car battery? And can someone please remove Christine Godlewski from her wretched sisters and place her in protective custody?

when to leave your sexy face at home

Kia Motorcorp plans to donate these bears to hurricane victims.

That is, right after Jenny McCarthy is finished giving them herpes.

afternoon clips: if the dono-van is a'rocking edition

- Ashlee Simpson flees when confronted with art.

- Jimmy Cooper's face heals just in time for a beachside wedding! If only bad-ass surfer Volchuk wasn't so deterred by broken bottles, he could have come in and provided the drunken punch up (And no, if you don't watch The OC, this should not be making sense to you.).

- From here on out, if George Michael is performing lewd acts in a public bathroom, it will be with one man and one man only.

- Jump, panda!!

- Hilary Duff to host the west coast edition of New Year's Rockin' Eve this year. You know, usually the winter months make people want to move to California, but this alone might keep them in the cold.

in defense of rent

If you don't like the story, characters, and songs that comprise the Tony award winning musical Rent, you will not like the movie. So please, people, stop bitching about its overall content and themes. You knew these things going in. You knew these things ten years ago. You knew that this story depicted struggling artists with heroin addictions and same-sex partners and yes, in some cases, AIDS. Telling them to quit whining and go get a job is ridiculous, and smacks of completely missing the damned point. You can make a case for the point not being successfully conveyed, but to deny the point exists is just lame.

i miss thanksgiving

That was a good four days, no? I'm easing back into all work, including blogging. Don't worry, tomorrow I will be back to frantically searching for content/random shit that makes me feel writey. Enjoy this tidbit in the meantime: Daniel Radcliffe gets mistaken for Elijah Wood (specifically Frodo) and takes it as a compliment. Because we all want to be made to feel unusually petite and effeminate by a group of nerds...

In Megan news: Any good suggestions for my Amazon wishlist? And in Megan-friend news: Happy Birthday to The Showboat!

so this is what it sounds like

...when Cheneys cry.

happy thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving is not traditionally a holiday for gifts, but because I am sooo generous, I present to you yet another hilariously inept "screamer" from Hollywood Momentum for your enjoyment:

"Cut to Sunday.  Phone rings again.  It's my boss, again.  Gotta go in and put out a script... AGAIN.  This one stung the most, because not only did I lose another day (the last day) of my weekend, but I also got to put the new script right on top of the old one in all those inboxes, knowing that all the work I'd given up my free Friday to do was now completely negated, since no one would ever read that script. Oh, there was screaming that day, but since I was the only one at work, there was no one else to hear it. "

Ah yes. Think long and hard about this terrifying story, dear friends, as you search in vain for the coveted writer's position that may finally get your creative career kickstarted. Will you be so thankful when your cruel bosses ask you to work? I think not.

lindsay lohan, seriously broken-hearted

And seriously confessing it to you, America. Observe:

1. The wide-legged rocking stance, accompanied by scarfy homage to Steven Tyler.

2. The Flamingo and finger point, displaying both instense emotion and balance.

3. The semi-fetal crouch with the I am so selling it to you face and the nothing is more important than this moment right now, bangs be damned hair.

thanksgiving travel got you down?

At least you're not homeless and crazy like Mischa Barton.

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