One of the benefits of working for the City of Boston is getting a couple of random holidays that most people do not celebrate. Today is one such holiday. Evacuation Day commemorates the day the British military evacuated American cities in the American Revolutionary War. According to wikipedia, Evacuation Day occurred in March of 1776, and Boston celebrates it on St. Patrick’s Day… probably as an excuse to get drunk. Wikipedia’s comment, “Celebrations are notoriously spirited.” Cute. Me? I like having the extra day off. We also get Bunker Hill Day in June.
I’m basically writing because I haven’t posted here in a very long time. Sorry about that. Been pretty busy. I will try to do better.
Black lady: Listen, you camel jockey, I don’t care what you say, you was wrong to do that! Middle Eastern man: Oh, shut up, you stupid nigga! I’m tired of hearing your shit! Go fuck yourself! Black woman passerby: Oh my god, who the hell are you to be talking to my beautiful black sister like that?! You ain’t got no right to talk to anybody black like that! Black lady: Bitch, who the shit are you? Don’t be talkin’ to my husband like that!
I miss things like this! I thought it was funny enough that dude claimed there were no homos in Iran, but man, I wish I’d been the one to write this little ditty.
So, I’m checking out my professional library blogs via RSS this afternoon and come across a post from one of my favorites, Chronicles of Bean. I’ve never met Cindi, but we’ve exchanged a couple tweets in passing on Twitter and she gives reliably good and sensible blog. So how has she been spending her time lately?
OK, so I took a couple of these… I am part Jim, part Ryan from The Office, I would have been in Gryffindor, I am Hagrid (the outcast with a heart of gold), I am part Hiro, part Peter from Heroes, but best of all:
And she goes on to say that it was dead on, matching her with the “geek” type and even displaying a picture of Tobey Maguire, which apparently works for her.
So, I worked through lunch today and it’s 4:00. Who’s my Mystery Date?
You would fall for the sensitive guy. You’ll find your future man wherever turtlenecks are sold. He will have depth, introspection, and a disturbing knowledge of musical theatre. And he may be a little weird. But hey, while your girlfriends cry over broken hearts, you’ll be having Shakespeare read to you every night.
Holy moley. Jake Gyllenhaal reading me Shakespeare?! Do you really think he has a “disturbing knowledge of musical theatre?” It is scarily accurate, I’d say. But I think I’ve got a pretty sensitive guy already. And if he already knew a whole lot about musical theatre, what would be left to teach him!?
So TVLand is doing something pretty cool with some classic actresses, and I just had to post this video here because it features one of my favorite classic TV actresses. I was going to list who plays the desperate classic housewives, but I think you’ll get more of a kick out of seeing them revealed one at a time. E-mail me if you don’t recognize them (and if you’re under 30, you may not!
With a headline like, “Life Sized Satanic Doll Serves As Masturbation Toy for America’s Youth” blazed across the Landover Baptist Church Newsletter, how can you not read the entire article? Okay, upon a tiny bit more examination, it becomes clear that this is a complete satire… it’s still worth checking out.
You would fall for the sensitive guy. You’ll find your future man wherever turtlenecks are sold. He will have depth, introspection, and a disturbing knowledge of musical theatre. And he may be a little weird. But hey, while your girlfriends cry over broken hearts, you’ll be having Shakespeare read to you every night.