Did anyone catch that at the end of 30 Rock this week?

Can someone with a paid account make a syndicated feed of my friend's Tumblr for me to subscribe to?

"LEZ" FOR 52 POINTS.

Okay, now bed.

1:56 is what the apocalypse is going to look like.

"Follow You Wherever You Go" is clearly the best song ever written:

ETA: Whoa, co-written by Macy Gray, according to iTunes.

Makes this pretty curious. (Full lyrics to that one, presumably, here.)

The Mister Softee cup! Aw, this pic was originally named "college.jpg" Meeemories! OH SHIT LOOK WHAT ELSE!

I'm in the shower, and I look down, and there is a giant fucking spider crawling along next to my foot. So naturally I am like, "!!!" and as soon as I move, water hits the thing and it jumps toward me, and I am like, "OH HELL NO" and jump out of the shower, and then I'm standing there dripping, holding a bottle of Burt's Bees that I have chosen as my spider-killing weapon. And then I think of that stupid liar entomologist who was like, "You know what that bug thinks of right before you squash it? His mom." LIES. I JUST FACT-CHECKED AN ARTICLE ON PARENTING IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM, AND MOST ARACHNIDS ARE NOT EVEN AWARE THEY HAVE MOMS AND YET I STILL CANNOT KILL THIS SPIDER YOU STUPID ANTHROPOMORPHIZING BASTARD. Because it was all panicked and frightened-looking! So I just stood there waiting till the thing got washed down the drain, and then I had to spend the whole rest of my shower being paranoid that somehow it would crawl back up.

Dear Weather,

I like you a lot better when you are freezing all the things that have exoskeletons. Please try that again.

Much love,
girlboymusic

Lalanav1: I KNEW I was forgetting something! I couldn't decide if there were two fingers or what in the vag!

I'm not a big New Yorker fan, but this may be the best thing ever written. It's about jumpers on the Golden Gate Bridge, and I don't remember the first time I read it -- but it was one of those things that sticks with you, and you spend a year afterward looking for it, typing in variations on the words you remember. I found it, obviously, eventually, and every so often I read it again, maybe once or twice a year. Because halfway down the first page, you get this:

As he crossed the chord in flight, Baldwin recalls, “I instantly realized that everything in my life that I’d thought was unfixable was totally fixable -- except for having just jumped.”

That's the part I always remember, the part that makes me go look it up again, but it continues to be that good for about six pages, really.

If you're going to watch the walkthrough of You Have to Burn the Rope, you should really do it while listening to "Let's Go" by Trick Daddy featuring Twista & Lil' Jon.

I was telling the Pixie about Kara, and Kara's Republican dad, and poli sci, and Mad Doll, and Billboard, and the failed record deals, and then I made her listen to "Crying at the Disco" and "Avalanche" and "Somebody to Love" all in a row.

Lalanav1: Ugh, ugh, it's so much more depressing knowing this stuff.
Lalanav1: GOD.
Lalanav1: LOL.
girlboymusic: YOU SEE.
Lalanav1: I want to slap her, so she stops being depressing. JUST WRITE YOUR OWN SHIT, KARA.
Lalanav1: YOU ARE FINE.
Lalanav1: STOP CRYING AT THE DISCO :-( :-(
girlboymusic: I KNOW! I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW!
Lalanav1: Ok, on to "Avalanche."
Lalanav1: AHHHHH THIS SONG
Lalanav1: :-(
Lalanav1: I wonder if she's really conflicted.
girlboymusic: LOL.
girlboymusic: I'm pretty sure she is.
girlboymusic: In many ways.
Lalanav1: Yeah....so sad.
Lalanav1: :-( :-( "I've given up everything I had"
girlboymusic: I KNOW! I KNOWWWWWWW!
Lalanav1: "Somebody to Love" now
Lalanav1: God, she's killing me.
Lalanav1: I hope you know this.
Lalanav1: KILLING ME.
girlboymusic: LOL I AM SO GLAD YOU UNDERSTAND.
girlboymusic: I have inducted you into the club.
Lalanav1: LOL!
Lalanav1: :-( around 2:30 or so when she says "We all want somebody/crave somebody/need somebody to love" all soft :-( :-(
Lalanav1: Stop! Stop! JUST STOP IT, KARA!
girlboymusic: LOL.
girlboymusic: Stop stabbing you in the heart, you mean?
Lalanav1: YES.
girlboymusic: She won't.
Lalanav1: Grr.

Skim: (during an Idol Gives Back segment set to "Fix You") "You could play this song behind images of Satan and I'd cry."
Me: "I'm sure David Archuleta will sing it at some point, and then we'll get to test that hypothesis."

girlboymusic: Fucking David Archuleta.
Lalanav1: Word.
Lalanav1: I hate him.
Lalanav1: I want to punch him with a puppy's fist.

Lalanav1: I've been hearing that since before she was even alive. LOL.
Lalanav1: So, NO, I DEFY THIS ACCUSATION.
girlboymusic: I didn't say she invented it.
girlboymusic: SO GOOD DAY, SIR.
Lalanav1: GOOD DAY.
girlboymusic: I SAID GOOD DAY!!!
Lalanav1: GOOD DAY.
girlboymusic: YES, THAT IS WHAT I SAID.
girlboymusic: GOOD DAY.
Lalanav1: YES. GOOD DAY.
Lalanav1: YOU ARE AN EXCEPTIONALLY POLITE ENGLISHMAN
girlboymusic: GOOD DAY AND ALSO GOOD EVENING, JUST IN CASE DUSK BEFALLS YOU BEFORE THE END OF THIS DISCUSSION.
Lalanav1: I TIP MY CAP TO YOU, SIR. GOOD DAY AND GOOD EVENING.
girlboymusic: ALSO, IF NECESSARY, GOODNIGHT.
Lalanav1: NO. IT IS NEVER A GOOD NIGHT. NOT IF YOU ARE STILL IN THIS WORLD. BUT NEVERMIND, GOODNIGHT.
girlboymusic: YOU'RE RIGHT, IT IS NEVER A GOOD NIGHT WHILE I AM IN THIS WORLD, FOR THE SUN SHALL NEVER SET WHILE I AM ASTRIDE THIS COSMIC GIANT.
girlboymusic: BUT NO MATTER. GOOD DAY, EVENING, AND ALL OTHER TIME DISTINCTIONS TO YOU.
Lalanav1: (ROFL that nearly made me fall out of my chair.)
girlboymusic: (It was pretty amazing, I must say.)
Lalanav1: (LOL I can't top that. You win.)
Lalanav1: VERY WELL. I WITHDRAW. GOOD DAY.
girlboymusic: THANK YOU. GOOD DAY, SIR.

This is by far the best thing I have ever watched:


"TELEVISION!"

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening to.

I don't know about shaping my spring, but these are the songs I've got on repeat right now. In no particular order:

1. Those Dancing Days - "Hitten"
2. John Mayer - "Say"
3. Vanessa Paradis - "L'incendie"
4. Miley Cyrus - "Start All Over"
5. Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals - "Fight Outta You"
6. Ben's Brother - "Stuttering"
7. Danity Kane - "Damaged"

(What the hell, Steph, you're listening to Platinum Weird and I'm not!)

I choo-choo-choose: lalanav, luckytobe_alive, skyecaptain, koganbot, theblondie, silveran, and...alexmacpherson?

By the way, the South Park episode where Britney blows her head off (okay, apparently not streaming anymore till April 19th, sorry) is brilliant. Like, Battlestar Galactica levels of brilliant. The structure, the metaphor, the willingness to take risks.

What really takes it above and beyond for me is that there are three moments in the episode where it is just silent. No dialogue, no movement. Just silence. Just sit there and think.

You have to be pretty confident in your abilities as a writer to choose not to say something. You have to be pretty sure of point argument to not make it. I hope they submit this episode for Emmy consideration, and I hope they win, because it is really impressive.