Zen and the Pursuit of Simplicity Vox 2008-02-28T05:32:06Z Stella Bella Hella Umberella (Ella Ella Aye Aye Aye) http://vociferous.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full tag:vox.com,2006:6p00c225218927f219/2008/02/ I'll tell you what you want, what you really, really want. New Faves tag:vox.com,2008-02-28:asset-6a00c225218927f21900e398e102550005 2008-02-28T05:32:06Z 2008-02-28T05:32:06Z Stella Bella Hella Umberella (Ella Ella Aye Aye Aye) http://vociferous.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full

I don't watch much television and I certainly don't watch American Idol, but I happened to be sitting in my friend's house last night gorging myself with Chinese food and I caught bits and pieces.  In what I caught, I fell in love with this kid David Archuleta.  Alongside his obvious talent, he just seems like this incredible kid, the kind that you really hope your kids turn out to be.  The thing Paula says at the end about dangling him from her rearview mirror, that's kinda creepy, though.  Anyway, I'm not one to gas Idol contestants, but this kid is just .. give it a watch.

American Idol - David Archuleta - Imagine - 2/27/08
American Idol - David Archuleta - Imagine - 2/27/08



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]]> Random tag:vox.com,2008-02-27:asset-6a00c225218927f21900f48cfdcab00001 2008-02-27T06:22:25Z 2008-02-27T06:22:25Z Stella Bella Hella Umberella (Ella Ella Aye Aye Aye) http://vociferous.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full

"Let me just say this .. if you're 70 years old and you're tryna go to Alcoholics Anonymous, why not just rock it out, y'know?  I mean, fuck it." -  my friend's analogy to why he will not learn how to type correctly

Also, can I just note that we're so nerdy that we got drunk on (bad) white wine and decided the best (best!!) thing on television was the Democratic debate.  I love my life.

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]]> Another Phrase I'll Soon Be Using ... tag:vox.com,2008-02-26:asset-6a00c225218927f21900e398e0563b0004 2008-02-26T05:23:42Z 2008-02-26T05:23:42Z Stella Bella Hella Umberella (Ella Ella Aye Aye Aye) http://vociferous.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full

But Yes.
Teen boy #1: You had sex? Really?
Teen boy #2: Hell yeah, I did.
Teen boy #1: Was it like West Virginia?
Teen boy #2: Huh?
Teen boy #1: You know, 'Wild and Wonderful'!
Teen boy #2: ... Dude, that's gay.

Frederick, Maryland
via Overheard Everywhere, Feb 20, 2008

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]]> Counseling Sesh with Myself tag:vox.com,2008-02-24:asset-6a00c225218927f21900f48cde50e00003 2008-02-24T20:27:27Z 2008-03-04T15:29:42Z Stella Bella Hella Umberella (Ella Ella Aye Aye Aye) http://vociferous.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full

Despite being a self-proclaimed classy broad and amazingly awesome in every way, I'm pretty much a spaz when it comes to talking to new potential suitors on the phone.  It's not that I'm nervous, it's that I feel the need to fill in every bit of silence for no good reason. 


Okay, I just convinced myself it's quasi-nervousness.  Glad I worked through that.

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]]> Uh-Mazing tag:vox.com,2008-02-23:asset-6a00c225218927f21900e398df93170005 2008-02-23T19:23:29Z 2008-02-23T19:23:29Z Stella Bella Hella Umberella (Ella Ella Aye Aye Aye) http://vociferous.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full
John he is - Best Quality
John he is - Best Quality

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]]> Phone Call Du Jour tag:vox.com,2008-02-23:asset-6a00c225218927f21900f48cdde9890002 2008-02-23T17:57:43Z 2008-02-23T17:57:43Z Stella Bella Hella Umberella (Ella Ella Aye Aye Aye) http://vociferous.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full

"Hey, Marcy?"
"Yeah?"
"Yeah, hey, it's Stella.  I just realized when I left the bar last night that I didn't leave you a note letting you know that the Circus Boy keg was kicked."
"Oh yeah, okay, I'll got check in the back to see if there's another one but I don't think there is.  Thanks for the head's up .. hey, are you sick?"
"I mean, a little, but I'm feeling a lot better since yesterday."
"You know what I took that fuckin helped when I was sick for two weeks was that, um, Tylenol Extreme."
"Hmmmm that sounds intense."
"Remember when I smashed my truck into someone after I ran a red light and they sped off?"
"Yeah."
"Yeah, well I was on that Tylenol Extreme then."
"..."
"That shit will fuckin leave you on your ass, but it makes your head so clear."

So I'm not taking Tylenol Extreme ....

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]]> An Open Letter to The Guy Who Came to Work All Week With Pneumonia tag:vox.com,2008-02-22:asset-6a00c225218927f21900f48cdd92450002 2008-02-22T15:16:28Z 2008-02-22T15:17:17Z Stella Bella Hella Umberella (Ella Ella Aye Aye Aye) http://vociferous.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full

Dear Guy Who Came to Work All Week With Pneumonia,

Fuck.  You.

Because of your dire need to come to work and sit in the next room over heaving like an eighty-year old veteran and coughing like your lung is only milliseconds from detaching itself and projectile exiting from your mouth, I am now sick.  You had better be thankful that I'm too impaired to walk and that a massive snowstorm has decided to envelop New England, thus rendering me unable to hit New York for the weekend, because otherwise the blame would have lain entirely on you if my weekend was shot due to my feverish state.  You, asshole, are the reason that I cannot think, save for this diatribe because I am so fueled with anger, because my head is so heavy.  I am sentenced to a three-day weekend in my bed mashing up chicken noodle soup to drink down since my tonsils are the size of Montana.  Thanks to you.  And all of this means that I will lose three more days of my life feeling like I would welcome death for a moment of relief all because you thought it necessary to bring to my place of work your cesspool of germs.

In closing, I hope one of your testicles is somehow dismantled from you body in the upcoming days.  You are a selfish bastard, and fuck you.

Kisses,
The Pretty, Un-Pregnant, SICK Girl from Work

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]]> No offense, but .... tag:vox.com,2008-02-21:asset-6a00c225218927f21900f48cdd42930002 2008-02-21T15:03:32Z 2008-02-21T15:03:50Z Stella Bella Hella Umberella (Ella Ella Aye Aye Aye) http://vociferous.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full

Anyone else think McCain's wife looks like some chick in a movie who we'll eventually figure out is a zombie?

Zombie?
Zombie?




Picture from CNN.

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]]> blah tag:vox.com,2008-02-19:asset-6a00c225218927f21900e398de50dd0004 2008-02-19T20:17:36Z 2008-02-19T20:17:36Z Stella Bella Hella Umberella (Ella Ella Aye Aye Aye) http://vociferous.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full
Glooooooooom
Glooooooooom
So yet again it is gloomy as hell here.  (Note:  This picture was not taken by me and is not of where I live - this could actually pass as serene.)  Subsequently I'm having a quasi-dreadful day, mostly due to banal conversation and the constant déjà vu I was having due to the nature of prospective parents and students.  While I toyed with the idea of becoming an admissions counselor for quite some time, today has shown me that this is, without a doubt, not the career path for me.  I can't envision pimping out a college for the rest of my days and living my life in such a manner that a few memorized speeches/answers will cover the majority of my conversations. 

Either way.

I'm really just interested in going home and not being cold anymore.  I want to snuggle up in my blanket and clean my bathroom and sleep in my big, fat bed.

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]]> I Be Hatin tag:vox.com,2008-02-18:asset-6a00c225218927f21900f48cfb0e0a0001 2008-02-18T17:00:51Z 2008-02-18T17:00:51Z Stella Bella Hella Umberella (Ella Ella Aye Aye Aye) http://vociferous.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full

You know how Fark is just all around sweet cuz homeboy pops off on the sheer idiocy of news and the people represented in it?  I opened MSNBC per ushe and jus got mad hateful today - thought I'd share.

Princess di .. is dead
Princess di .. is dead
Here's my issue with this:  Didn't Princess Diana die about a century and a half ago?  I'm all for conspiracy theorists - I watched about an hour's worth of videos on the JFK assassination last night - but this Al-Fayed dude just fans the flames constantly.  Nary a day passes where shit ain't stirred by the bodyguard, the bodyguard's father, this guy to the left, or just about anyone on the planet saying they have a new theory.  Even if it is true that they wanted her dead, it will not come out in this lifetime.  Or, as seen with Tupac and JKF, it won't really come out ever.  Sad but true, so stop wasting MSNBC space on it.  Bitch is still dead, damn.

Idiocy
Idiocy

I was watching some Def Jam Poetry on YouTube last night and this guy comes on and says about George W. Bush, "I have never seen a man so arrogantly ignorant ...." Which is sorta the truest statement I ever heard made about the man.  This headline shouts to that:  Do you really think history will look favorably on the Iraq war?  Really??  Just the fact that those words could pass his lips confuses the eff outta me cuz all signs are pointing to this being the worst war for us to enter next to 'Nam.  Your legacy, sir, is that you suck.

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