Thoughts That Get Stuck in My Head

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Is Albert Brooks Actually Funny?

I'm just asking because the emotion he elicits for me is best described as irritation. He annoys me. Deeply. Like a burr under my saddle.

Yeah, he's on The Daily Show right now and I'm finding myself annoyed again. Since he has conditioned me to be annoyed by him just hearing his voice is annoying.

And don't tell me that he's a smart person's funny because he strikes me more as someone who thinks they're smart instead of actually being brilliant.

Monday, January 9, 2006

Monday 10

Playlist: All Dat Good Stuff

Back in the High Life Again - Steve Winwood
House of Tom Bombadil - Nickel Creek
"I'd love to stay, but the world needs my light." ~Luna (Bear in the Big Blue House)
Sister Moon - Sting
"I am the Terror that flaps in the night! I am the raspberry seed you can't floss out!" ~ Darkwing Duck
Main Street - Chris Gaines (Garth Brooks)
"'Scuse me while I whip this out." ~ Sheriff Bart, Blazing Saddles
"Security alert, all decks." ~ Star Trek
Avalon - Roxy Music
Peanut Butter & Jelly - Brian Regan (stand-up)

Saturday, January 7, 2006

Leaving a Light On

Life takes weird paths. Tonight I twisted and turned through many writing blogs, breezed through Whedonesque long enough to hear Joss accuse Nathan Fillion of smelling like turnips, and somehow ended up on Tom Bodett's blog while looking up the pet policies for Motel 6. He just started in mid-December but I have to say that I can hear his "voice" through his writing. He seems wry and sweet and homey, just like his vocal work. I figure anyone who can make me tear up and laugh out loud within his first three posts deserves a link and some quoting.

On 2005
That's life. Like a story. Like a road. Like a year -- it ends. My intention for 2006 is to live life like I know it ends. I waste too much time. I don't show the people I love that I love them often enough. I keep thinking there will be a better time to do the things I've always wanted to do than right now. There won't be.

On Motel 6 Podcasts
Motel 6 has just released for the holidays the Top 6 reasons to stay at a motel over the holidays instead of with your family. I'm sure you can probably think of about 29 reasons of your own without taking a breath, but would they have pleasing background music packed into a tidy little downloadable MP3 package?

Friday, January 6, 2006

I Spy With My Little Eye...

Back in March I posted a graphic about All The States I Love Before, based on a list I had made while complaining that someone should make an easy tool to map the places you've been. Well, someone did.