Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Edward Cullen of Twilight fame

Reminds me of how much I miss Buffy on the air

Friday Fun: Your Ice Cream Personality

Sometimes these quizzes are just disappointing. . If I’m “modest” and “fairly conservative,” how can I also be a “bold” “big dramatic” person. It seems we have a personality conflict in the ice cream assigned to me.

What about you?  Is your Ice Cream Personality contradictory?

Your Ice Cream Personality:

You like to think of yourself as a fairly modest person. And it’s true that you don’t talk yourself up… but you’re also pretty happy with who you are. You are incredibly cautious. You rather miss out on something than make a mistake. No one would ever call you wild… but they would call you responsible. You are a somewhat open minded person, but deep down you’re fairly conservative. You don’t like trying new things very much. And if you do find something new you like, you stick with it. You can be a big dramatic and over the top sometimes. You are bold in every way

The Ice Cream Personality Test

VOD: Bond bunnies

In honor of the the latest installment of James Bond, Quantum of Solace, being released on DVD, I bring you 30 Second Bunnies and their Bond Medley.

PS. Quantum of Solace was AWFUL. Here’s what you need to know.
(Action sequence x 2) + Sex + (Action sequence x 4) = Bond wins, again.

VOD: Jon Stewart interviews Jim Cramer

Who hasn’t been following the back and forth  between Stewart and MSNBC/Cramer this week?

Thursday night, Cramer voluntarily took part in a lengthy dialogue with Stewart about the culpability of the financial media in the economic meltdown.

I blog at wordpress.com, which means I can’t embed flash, sooooo I have to send you away to The Daily Show to view the unusually lengthy interview. Pundits and commentators will hopefully be talking about this interview today like adults, not snarky adolescents.

Go here, and bask in the glory of real journalism disguised as pseudo-journalism. Like a pit bull, when the interview gets uncomfortable, Stewart wouldn’t let go.

Ask yourselves why people who claim to report “real news,” don’t go in for the kill like that and do their job. Based on the failing economic models of newspapers, it seems pandering to advertisers (not writing too negatively about the companies that ante up) might not be the way to go. I’d buy a paper that went for the jugular and did some real investigative reporting. But maybe that’s just me wanting to stick it to corporate America.  Would you?

PS. For the record, I’d like to be adopted by Jon Stewart and Rachel Maddow. How cool are they?

Those Pesky Kids!

Who else grew up watching Scooby Doo on weekday afternoons?

via Buzzfeed from The High Definite.

FREE museum admission nationwide first weekend of each month in 2009

Museum field trips are one of the best ways to spend an afternoon.  I especially look forward to Impressionist exhibits since that’s my favorite era of art, though perhaps a bit cliche.

Bank of America is sponsoring free museum entry on the first weekend of every month this year.   Flash your  BoA debit card at more than 70 locations to enjoy the current exhibits and current collections free. The list of museums offering this deal is here.

The art lover in me is thrilled that I can enjoy LACMA for free, but the tax payer in me asks, is this really a necessary incentive given they scooped up bailout money?

VOD: Malaise de L’Orange

Here’s a Multimedia class assignment by weem. Her assignment: tell a story in pictures.

Remember Sonya the Pet Psychic? Here’s Bridget the Pet Communicator

You meet all sorts of interesting people on Twitter.   I started following @petsaretalking a while back because a friend had responded to her.

Bridget bills herself as an “animal communicator,” who works with pets and their owners to strengthen relationships and resolve behavioral problems in the home.

After visiting her blog, I thought it would be fun to schedule a quick read of the family dog, Spooky, since we often wonder what she’s thinking.  Spooky is such a character, with a great sense of humor, and her relationship with each family member is totally unique to that person.

Here’s what Bridget relayed about Spooky’s responses to my questions.   I’ll provide some background as to WHY I asked that particular question in parentheses.

Overall,

Spooky is a hoot! There’s something about Westies that is so refreshingly forthright!

1.  Does Spooky prefer to be shaggy or regularly groomed?  (I asked this because she’s a beautiful, shaggy dog, but my mom insists on getting her groomed every 8 weeks.)

Regularly groomed. She says that she likes to be “trimmed up”, and likes the treats and attention associated with it. When she gets too shaggy, people don’t think she’s a girl anymore.

I followed up pointing out that for a dog that likes getting groomed, she piddles awfully big puddles at the groomer each time.  Bridget checked back in.

I have never met a dog that liked the groomer. I expected her to say “Leave me shaggy”. I asked about the piddling. It’s loud.

And also, she said that she likes the other lady better. Your dog was kind of an odd duck all around!

2.  Why does she love Mr. Frog so much?  (Mr. Frog is plush toy that she plays with everynight before she goes to bed.  She massages Mr. Frog, while chewing on his head, before keeling over for the night.  Spooky won’t settle down until Mr. Frog is in her paws.)

“I LOVE MR. FROG! (feel a deep welling of affection) Mr. Frog is where I keep all my smell memories.”

Bridget said, ‘What?”

“When I smell something, I put the smell in Mr. Frog, and I tell Mr. Frog, and then when I play with Mr. Frog, I remember the good things I smelled.”

3. What’s up with that spot on town hall?  She has to roll in that spot every time she passes it. (There is spot on that lawn that she writhes on daily (weather permitting); while there are lots of lawns she visits on a regular basis, it’s one particular spot on this lawn that she can’t help but roll in every time she passes it by.)

That’s a spot where something bad happened. Every dog rolls there to take away some of the badness of that spot. (I have never heard of a dog doing this sort of thing). They all seem to take a little bit of the energy from that spot, and also honor the memory.

I asked Spooky what happened, and she said that a dog died there. It was a hound, like a beagle or a basset.

4. My mom (Marie) occasionally puts the phone by Spooky so I can say hello.  Does she know its me or is it just a strange voice calling her name? (Don’t judge! You know you do crazy things for your favorite pet too, and you don’t live 3000 miles away from her.)

Yes! I know it’s her! Of course! She should tell me what she ate, because I can’t smell it through the phone.

5.  Can you also let Spooky know that she doesn’t own Marie.  Other people get to hug her without Spooky doing her best Kujo impression. (Spooky could be passed out on the sofa, but the minute anyone enters my mom’s 3 feet of personal space, Spooky is at attention.  Any PDAs and Spooky is barking her head off to break up the action.)

Spooky says that she will try to be better when it’s somebody that she likes, but that she will still growl when it’s somebody that she doesn’t trust. For her, it’s about keeping Marie safe.

Not so much about it being “Her Marie” .

Details about Bridget’s work and how to get a consult for your pet are available on her website, Pets Are Talking.

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VOD: Something For Kate’s Monsters

Some of my all time favorite song lyrics are in the song, Monsters. It doesn’t take a huge leap to conclude the song is about depression, but my favorite line is more of a life goal.

’cause i don’t want to be a container
or a bastard with a ten page disclaimer

I don’t just want to take up space in this life or be the person life happened to.  I really want to make a difference and leave my mark.

i was hanging upside down from the overpass
waiting to discover something about the world
i couldn’t get with the program and i couldn’t listen to them
it was like trying to think in reverse
and i don’t want to slide into apathy
and i don’t want to die in captivity
but these monsters follow me around
hunting me down, trying to wipe me out

wipe me out

i was hiding away under water
waiting for distance and buying some time
trying to be two hundred thousand years younger
so i could excuse myself from humankind
’cause i don’t want to be a container
or a bastard with a ten page disclaimer
but these monsters spin me around
get me down, just try and shut me out

shut me out

hold it in your head
believe and make believe and make believe

i was hiding away under water
waiting for distance, waiting for time
and i don’t want to slide into apathy and i don’t
and i don’t want to live in captivity