New Reality Show Seeks A Few Good "Men"

NEW REALITY SHOW SEEKS A FEW GOOD "MEN"

Comedy Central is looking for real guys to star in an upcoming reality series. It could be you or someone you know. The catch? He needs to be UN-manly. He should lack some specific skill or trait you think men should have - and desperately need our help! The more urgent the better.

Be creative and have fun with it. He could win a huge prize- and the adventure of a lifetime! All you have to do is fill out this form (it should only take a few minutes).

Lifetime TV wants you!

Lifetime Television is looking for a few good married couples who marital spark has waned over the years. A new reality show is taking a light-hearted look at modern relationships and could help get return a little romance to the marriage, and remind you both of brought you together in the first place. For more information and to apply to be on the show, visit www.optomenusa.com/married.

(via Cynopsis)

R U The Girl for TLC?

In a new series for UPN, T-Boz and Chilli, of the (former) trio TLC will set out on a journey to find a third group member to work with them in the studio and on a concert. The hit female group lost Left Eye in 2002 in a fatal car accident. For the next 8 weeks, the R U The Girl with T-Boz & Chilli show will travel around the US auditioning potential members. Auditions will be in LA on January 29, New York on February 5, Chicago on February 8, Dallas on February 12, Washington DC on February 15, Atlanta on February 19 and Miami on February 26. More info on www.upn.com.

(via Cynopsis)

Wanna be a rock star?

Mark Burnett Productions is looking for the Next Great Rock Star and is holding auditions is several major cities in the upcoming weeks.
The winnner of the competition, will become the new lead singer for the rock group INXS and accompany the band on a worldwide concert tour and become part of the group's next album. For locations, dates and times, go to www.CBS.com and click on The Next Great Rock Star. The show is schedule to debut on CBS this summer.

Freak accident

Picture it...3 a.m. Lyss gets up to take an Aleve (shoveling has left her achy). She decides to have a cracker with her Aleve, so as not to end up with that horrible burning feeling that sometimes occurs when one takes meds on an empty stomach. All is going well until CRUNCH! CRACK!

A tooth has split in half! (Said tooth, tooth #2, yet stays in her mouth).

Shit!

I have a complex dental history.....Easiest explanation- bad genes- my parents have terrible teeth, as do members of the extended family. And my mom says that we didn't have fluoridated water where I grew up either.
I have had 3 oral surgeries in the past year. Not my wisdom teeth (those came out the course of 3 surgeries during my college years, the details will be withheld as they are kind of gruesome- or, as one friend said, "thanks for not telling me the story of your wisdom teeth until after I had mine out or I would've been to scared to let anyone tough mine").
I digress.....I got an infection over Tooth #5 last December on a plane flight from Florida (something about the air pressure and a preexisting small crack...). There was the apico last January. When that didn't work and the infection came back I had to have an extraction in March. Then the first part of the implant surgery occurred in August.

That made a total of 3 teeth (beyond my wisdom teeth) extracted in the past 4 years. (The stories of the other 2 missing teeth shall remain for later). One of which is near enough to the front of my mouth that allows the gap to be glimpsed if I smile wide enough.

One of the big bosses at work joked that I am working on my' hockey player' look. (Which was funnier when I was one the pain meds).

The upside of this is that I have grown to love the staff at my new oral surgeon's office her in New England. And my mom found a new paint color for her bedroom wall (no joke. They have this fabulous lavender color in the waiting room).

Alas...now I will have to wait to see my dentist on Thursday to know what shall become of my latest oral oddity.

Bye Bye Birdies?

Long day.
Returned form vacation days + snow day to learn that our transmitter had frozen or something like that and screwed up programming for most of Sunday. Yuck. Not what I wanted to deal with first thing back.
And the snow up here in New England really must freeze people's brains and make them worse drivers than usual.


Go Patriots!

Let's see..what are people asking for superbowl tickets? What are the willing to do for those tickets? How about a beach house?And what exactly is a body blinker?

American Idol- Ground Rules

American Idol- some general rules to ponder:

• If you are an adult male, I don't care how flaming you are, please pick a song more appropriate for your gender and age than one from Annie, a musical about a little singing orphan girl.
  
• Remember that you might be shown on national TV, please try to match, or at least look in a mirror. And ladies, watch those errant bra straps.
• An-nun-ci-ate. (You're not Snow).
  
• Almost no one can actually sing the national anthem in tune, especially in B flat (try G major).
• If you lose it on camera, remember that all of America, including future employers, might soon be watching you curse out Simon, Paula, or Randy. Especially if you really lose it
  
• If you're going to mention that your cousin in a Major Label Artist at least make sure you run your audition by her before shaming your family name on national TV with a totally nonsensical audition.
• If the judges are laughing at you Stop Singing. This is not happy laughter.
  

And this is just the season premiere......

Did he mean "gentle"?

From the Casual Encounters section of Craigslist:

seeks gentile woman - m4w - 23

who's out there? anyone willing to open up? does the weather make you cold? not from around here... so are you the person to prove me wrong? email me...

Perhaps he meant Gentle?

Frustrations of daily life

I'm not so good at blogging in any consistent way..mainly b/c I think that only about 5 people ever read this.....Anyway.....
I have issues with blogging about work related things (don't want to get into trouble, like some others have) but I have been rather frustrated lately.

My boss has chosen to be an unmentionable word. He actually threatened me, saying something along the lines of "It's not like you'll ever work in another department here, b/c you'd have to go through me". A lot of the problems he thinks exist are really created by him. Other managers and higher-ups have told me as much and basically think that I should just do what I have to do, but made it clear that they think he over reacts a lot. He spends too much time worrying about the small things in life. I am enough of an adult to understand the difference b/w the small things that matter (i.e.- spelling a client's name correctly) and those that don't (who I email).
I feel that he wants to isolate me, makes negative comments about how I have friends in other departments and spend to much time with them. Said friends at work comment that they feel sorry for me and lament that I never really come by to visit them. They understand that he is irrational and thus cut me some slack.
What upsets me most is that he thinks I should be at a certain level by now. However, he has failed to communicate this to me, especially as I have no one in a parallel position to compare myself to. I cannot just be expected to 'know' in the vaguest sense......
Enough abut this for now, as it is beginning to upset me again (most of Friday night was spent crying to my roommate and my roommate making many suggestions for new places of employment).

Mooning Over Randy Moss

I thought that I heard just enough about the Randy Moss mooning incident from last week....until I heard this from my roommate's parents (who now live the the Big Cheese state)-- that the very dedicated, football crazy residents of tundra-likeGreen Bay regularly moon the visiting team's bus. You think that people who bare their ass in sub-zero weather to razz the visiting team would have a sense of humor about this. Apparently not.

ROGER WATERS CONFIRMED TO APPEAR IN TSUNAMI APPEAL TV SHOW

ROGER WATERS CONFIRMED TO APPEAR IN TSUNAMI APPEAL TV SHOW


Irony? Funny? Coincidence?

Alleged Nazi Past Threatens Man's U.S. Citizenship

Alleged Nazi Past Threatens Man's U.S. Citizenship
Immigrant Denies He Killed Jews In Warsaw Ghetto

He's 89. While it is appalling that he participated in Nazi activities it also seems somehow wrong to revoke his citizenship after so many years. It's not like he was granted citizenship yesterday.

I guess that there are no easy answers sometimes.

Winner of the longest title so far in 2005

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA; WITH SCIENCE FICTION ERADICATED FROM NETWORK TV WITH ALMOST CYLON-LIKE EFFICIENCY, THIS DARK RE-IMAGINING OF A 1970S ALSO-RAN SHOULD BE A MAJOR BOON TO THE SCI FI CHANNEL. NIFTILY PICKING UP WHERE THE 2003 MINISERIES LEFT OFF, THE NEW FRANCHISE PROVIDES SOLID STORYTELLING, AND UNIVERSAL GAVE IT A SMART PUSH-START BY REPEATING THE MINI ON FLAGSHIP NET NBC TO HELP LAUNCH THE SERIES.

From Daily Variety 1-9-2005

The First (and Second) Dog

Sometimes I think that Laura Bush maintains the facade of a good political wife while being a bit subversive.

(From Miss Beazley, Outrunning The Newshounds )

Miss Beazley has a bipartisan pedigree. Her father, Ch. Motherwell Alberta
Clipper, was born Election Day 2000, and his call name is Clinton. (His
siblings, Bush and Gore, did not survive.) Clinton is also Barney's half
brother, making Barney an uncle, of sorts. The first lady and her daughters named Beazley for a character in a children's book, "The Enormous Egg," a fable written by Oliver Butterworth in 1956 in response to McCarthy-era abuses. Uncle Beazley, the book's triceratops protagonist, outgrew his little town and came to Washington, where he fought a senator trying to have him exterminated for being out of place.

Coincidence that she names her dog after the hero of a book about fighting government 'overzealousness' ?

Casting Call

NBC will be holding auditions for men in their mid-20's to be cast a television sitcom pilot called Four Kings about four friends 'conquering' NY. This is a scripted series - not a reality show. They're also interested in undiscovered men, fresh unknown faces.
The nationwide casting call will start in the following cities: Seattle, Chicago, Atlanta, Austin, and Boston. Prospective cast members should log onto www.nbc.com/contestants for the latest dates, locations and times. Four Kings is a production fo KoMut Ent in association with Warner Bros. Television Prod.

Moose Sex Change? Anne Murray?

And excerpt from an article in The Calgary Sun:

Pet lawsuit not in cards

Three other animals, a female macaque, a moose the Sprungs kept penned up at
night for its safety, and a pet raccoon, which has since died, were also seized.
The moose, which the family erroneously believed was a male and dubbed Murray, was turned over to the Calgary Zoo
where her true sex was determined and she was renamed
Anne Murray.

I have to ask, what could have possibly made the owners think that the moose was lacking some particular parts (and with the average height of a moose being 6 to 7 feet at it's shoulders those manly parts would have almost literally been staring them right in the face).

Kosher t-shirt

I'm kosher......are you?

;-)~

Ways Women Scare Men Away

A list of 153 things a woman can do to scare a man away. Some make sense (in fact, I saw a few of my own bad habits on there). Some are absurb.

Higlights:

• Bad posture- is this valid as a 'scare away early' thing? (unless you're dating a chiropracter)
• Eat like a horse- chow down on sugar cubes, oats, and carrots?
  
• Stare at people too long- not just for women; I have a male friend who does this (even in front of his very wonderful GF) and it is very creepy
• Use pet names- ick. I hate pet names. Love me, but don't call me Pookie.
  
• Use unconscious programming or hypnosis techniques- if it's unconscious, how does the man know I'm doing it to him?
• Run into too many men that you know while on a date- does this include male family members, family friends, and co-workers? Do the men you ru into count if they are not in the same age bracket as your date (will little Billy, whom I babysat for, a strike against me)?
• Use baby talk- I have a good friend who does this to her boyfriend in public, sometimes he even answers back in a baby voice. It is a very akward thing for the rest of us; do we join in? ignore the annoying high pitched voice(s)? (What is the ettiquite for this kind of situation?)
  
• Be too intellectual or sophisticated- Are you kidding me? I'm supposed to dumb myself down so that a man is not scared or threatended by me and my big brains? (At this point I have to wonder what neanderthal wrote this list).
• Sleep around with too many guys- a neanderthal with a fragile ago had to have written this list. As long as I'm disease-free, what does my past have to do with the man I'm with now? So I might've sleep with more people than you. Deal with it.

Dates from Hell

Wow. I am inclined ot be more positive about my own dating expierences after reading a few of these......
Dates from Hell

First Dates

I was inspired to blog about first dates after reading this entry from Greek Tragedy.
I agree about the museum dates, as I once had a first date at the local art museum with someone who was well educated...just not about art. This made me annoyed, as I had to explain way too much to him during that afternoon....though he was impressed by the breadth of my knowlegde of modern art (see.....an Art History minor can come in handy sometimes).
I also believe in wearing jean, albeit nice jeans, on a first date. Anything more formal and I feel as though I am going to temple or to work, neither of which really bring out the Fun Gal in me.

Good first dates:

• Out of the way coffee place- must not have too many students clicking away on their laptops or otherwise studying, as this makes me feel as though the date is taking place in a library (side note- a friend and I once got asked to leave an internet cafe in college b/c we were talking to loud and disturbing the uptight Ivy League patrons).
• A nice restaurant- but no so fancy as though I feel I must put out for my astronomically priced entree, or too fancy for me to wear jeans at. Ideally includes soft lighting (the romantic in me), conversation-level music, and yummy desserts that we can share (fave date dessert so far= green tea creme brulee)
• A local sporting event (please no face-painting on the first date)- can be fun and inspiring if your team wins. Or you an just have a good time making fun of the losing team together
• A local 'happening' or wander around an interesting downtown (ex: Waterfire in Providence, head over to Pearl Street Mall in Boulder- highly recommend the sake bar at Happa, stroll through Church Street Marketplace in Burlington)- any boy who doesn't mind window shopping is worth keeping around for a second date

Bad first dates:

• A loud bar or club- dates are no fun if I spend most of the night screaming "what?! I couldn't hear you?!"
• Any fast food place, I don't care if you do offer to buy me the Extra Value Meal
• An artsy event, say poetry reading or the like- one of you may take it waaay more seriously than the other, possibly leading to a bruised ego on someone's part ('How could she not like proto-Dadaist jam performances?')
• Restaurant with potential to lead to embarrassing gastrointestinal events- such as Indian, Mexican, some Chinese
• A movie- no chance to chat, may have similar problem as with artsy event ('You mean you don't enjoy the brilliance of the Slavic-Russo silent films from the 50's?')

McLuhanism...and Tsunami Resources

So sayeth the media conceptualist Marshall MuLuhan. My Intro to Mass Media prof was very fond of him, especially his thoughts on the global village. In his book, Understanding Media, he explained the concept this way:

"...since the inception of the telegraph and radio, the globe has contracted, spatially, into a single large village. Tribalism is our only resource since the electro-magnetic discovery. "

(xii-xiii)

We really do live in a global village. Think about how quickly information, videos, and, photographs have become (almost instantly) available in the wake of the tsunami in southeast Asia. Video and still photographs are available from many websites:

• Waves Of Destruction
• Lost Remote- Tsunami Resource Page
• Reuters TV (an excellent site in general for raw news footage)
• The Tsunami Video Hosting initiative
• There's even a tsunami blog.

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