that rosebud girl

idiots galore!

courtesy of AP … it’s about the SF Chronicle …

SAN FRANCISCO — Readers have been angrily calling newspapers with complaints almost since the first telephones were installed. Now, the San Francisco Chronicle is turning some of those calls into podcasts and posting them on its Web site for all to hear.

“This is about listening to your readers,” Bronstein told the Times. “Newspapers used to be a lot more lively than they are now, and they could definitely stand some of that.”

i have long said that these phone calls would be pure entertainment. i can’t tell you how we would love to do that to many of the um, colorful folks that call in. some of the folks larry got on the line back in delaware would have been absolute gems.

and people can learn from some of these phone calls how absolutely unreasonable and stupid humanity can be.

bummin’.

a whole bunch of my friends are going to coachella in april.

i really want to go. i want to go to at least one coachella event sometime. only because edgar talks about how awesome it is and how there are usually good bands. he’s going all three days and camping out. how friggin’ cool is that?

of course, a bunch of other people are going and probably doing the hotel thing. wimps.

i wanted to go on the saturday day. wanted to see travis and the chili peppers. and there were a few other bands playing that day that i’d at least heard of and have songs on my ipod, like fountains of wayne and jack’s mannequin and regina spektor (ok, she’s not a band, but you get the drift).

alas, i doubt i’d be able to get the requisite days off. so i will miss out yet another year.

maybe next time. maybe the lineup will be ridiculously kickass next year. *crosses fingers*

in the meantime, i may have some other things to look forward to. like kim visiting in february. and vegas may be in my future.

i am also a very tired girl.

must go back to work. *sigh*

everything but the kitchen sink …

you know, the great thing about working in media is that the AP wires are always full of hysterical things like this:

BOSTON — A bookkeeper for a construction materials company embezzled $6.9 million and used the money to go on a shopping spree that included a 104-acre ranch and a half-dozen talking trees like those in “The Wizard of Oz,” federal authorities said Monday.

Samantha Martin, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s office, said that when friends or relatives asked Platt about her wealth, she told them that she was the CEO of a corporation or that she and her husband had won the lottery.

of course, the question is: where does one get a ceramic statue of al capone?

and as jane said at worK: i wonder what this woman did for christmas!

i’m glad she’s not my bookkeeper …

no, really, we were kidding …

i couldn’t make this one up even if i tried.

thank you, AP.

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Four Colorado State women?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s basketball players were suspended for setting off a chemical bomb in a prank outside a teammate?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s apartment.

“This is a case where four teammates were trying to play a prank on a teammate, and it went bad,” Grant said. “They thought the device would just make a loud bang, and that it would not be a big deal. It was not meant in a malicious way by any means. I know that Mullaney and Finley are very good friends.”

some prank.

with friends like these … you know the rest.

the internet: so interesting …

so ed was screwing around on google the other day, looking up ganio, gania and ganita, when he found this little tidbit:

ganita …

… means “mathematics” in sanskrit, apparently.

weird.

does this mean ganita is supposed to be a smart cat?

to a tee.

i do a lot of mindless internet wandering at work, and occasionally i find some really cool stuff that about a billion other people have already discovered. whatever.

the latest obsession in my corner is threadless, perhaps the sweetest t-shirt store in the universe. there’s a lot of pretty awesome designs, but mostly, there’s a lot of wickedly hysterical stuff, like this shirt:

then there’s this:

and lastly, this:

man, i wish i was that good.

i also submitted some slogans just for giggles, but doubtful i’ll ever make it to a shirt. maybe it’s time to try and sell on cafepress! ha!

(like i didn’t have 10,000 other things to do already.)

i may have to link to my threadless blog feed sometime because there are honestly a ton of really cool shirts i’ve seen, and indie designers deserve tons of love, yeah?

ok, back to work. and looking at more shirts.

warning: people can be stupid.

so i browsed through the business section of tomorrow’s paper (yes, i get to look at the paper a day in advance) and saw this item about this contest that salutes the wackiest warnings people find on labels.

it’s pretty much stuff that people have sued over. this year’s winner was “do not put any person in this washer,” which was found on a washer in a laundromat (i forget where).

upon further research, i found the web site for said contest — wacky warning labels

there is an archive of previous winners, and these two took the cake:

• A flushable toilet brush warns: “Do not use for personal hygiene.”
• A digital thermometer that can be used to take a person’s temperature several different ways warns: “Once used rectally, the thermometer should not be used orally.”

people’s stupidity never ceases to amaze me.

huh?!

the new year passed already?!

yeah, i’m that out of the loop.

everything was pretty peachy keen for the new year. just edgar and jorge and lots of ahem, adult beverages in san francisco.

here is a picture of edgar and jorge with some said adult beverages:

meanwhile, the new year has been okay to me so far. i also started my other job at h&r block on the 2nd … just doing lots of practice returns at the moment. gotta get through the quota before i can do real-people returns. yay.