July 26, 2007

After taking into consideration your helpful comments yesterday, I think I’ll be asking for a somewhat stacked, A-line-ish cut with a few more layers tonight. Not Posh, exactly, because that’s a haircut that has to be followed night and day by an on-staff stylist wielding a pair of scissors—believe me, I’ve had cuts similar to that in the past and the maintenance was insane—plus I have crazy pregnancy hair right now (it sort of freaks me out, actually, how my hair and fingernails are in this fast-forward growth mode; it somehow reminds me of those time lapse nature videos where the flower barrels out of the ground and explodes in a tawdry display of dripping pistil and stamen and ovule) and so a very stylish style isn’t going to work for very long, but in the Posh neighborhood, if you will. Ghetto Posh, without the money or the sour expression or the terrifying rock-hard boobs.

Speaking of celebrities, I saw Mean Girls last night (why? Because Tina Fey, that’s why) and I found it sort of excruciating to watch Lindsay Lohan, and not just because the movie included 5827 close-up shots of the freckle on her upper lip. There’s something so trainwrecky about watching footage of a celebrity before All the Really Bad Stuff started to happen, you want to shout through the screen and warn them to use a LIMO for the love of god—and to maybe rethink the boozy idea that playing with kitchen knives = sexy (christ, at least haul out some legitimate S&M accouterments, you know? Ball gag that Minillo chick)—and yet there’s nothing you can do.

(JB deserves props for watching that with me [although the plethora of miniskirts surely eased his burden], especially since I picked out our last movie: Jet Li’s The One. What can I say, I was really hoping for an ass-kicking 90 minutes of crazy special effects and nonstop action-fu, but it is in fact a terrible, terrible turdfest with the cheesiest wire work ever—they may as well have dangled Li from a fishing pool and swooped him clumsily around for an hour. Bah.)

This week has been kind of dragging for me, and every time I need what basically amounts to a hit of mental nitrous oxide, I watch this video. Oh man, I just watched it again. So, so funny. Bookmark that puppy, and hit me back: what’s the best thing you’ve seen on the internet lately?

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angela
16 years ago

ESP! For some reason I ended up watching videos of babies eating lemons a few months ago (you know how youtube is, you start out watching Dramatic Chipmunk and 5 hours later you’re watching infants and citrus) and I laughed my ass off. That weekend we were lounging around and I decided to feed the dog a lime wedge from my drink and he kinda licked it for a while before I lost interest. Then I looked back and he was trying to fish the other wedge out of my drink. Heh.

Rumblelizard
Rumblelizard
16 years ago

Best thing I’ve seen on the Internet lately? Three words: Zombie Preparedness Initiative. http://ww2.zombieinitiative.org/

Emily
16 years ago

This is pretty spectacular: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2005/7/8singal.html

Emily
16 years ago
angela
16 years ago

Oh, yesh, and I recently re-discovered strong bad’s email. YAY!

biodtl
16 years ago

I have no idea what they are doing, but it crack me up! http://youtube.com/watch?v=F-EHmh6T9d4

Also – Human Tetris is pretty entertaining, too: http://youtube.com/watch?v=0bK63uSTTNs

Miz Robyn
16 years ago

The best thing I read on the internet lately was when I read the beginning part of your entry – the “stacked, A-line-ish cut” part – as “stacked Amish cut”, imagined this, and sat here for several minutes trying to figure out the best way to tell you that perhaps that wasn’t the way to go.

Jenn
16 years ago

I have to say I first saw my favorite internet video on the tv show webjunk. Now my hubby has it on his webpage. It is called “Whistle Tips with Bub Rub.”

They go woooowooo. I laugh every time I see it. Bub Rub and his sis are classic. “They jus’ for decoration.”

Here’s the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSOSJ68xOBA

angela
16 years ago

OMG.

We are CONSTANTLY going WOOWOO because of that video. When I first saw it I was crying for days, it’s so funny.

warcrygirl
16 years ago

Feeding lemons to babies is just wrong!! I mean, where’s the tequila?

The funniest video I’ve seen in a while? The one I took of Captain Destructo picking up his toys while communicating with bats, apparently.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ4T-SJMQeg

Pass the wine.

jaime
16 years ago

I had to make the same apology to my husband for The One, except we went to see it in the theater. Technically, it was my *friend*’s fault… he made the suggestion, but somehow that bounces back on me.

jaime
16 years ago

Oh, and if you haven’t seen the Filipino prisoners performing Thriller, that’s what you must run to YouTube for, immediately.

Bre
Bre
16 years ago

Tyra Banks and her audience as stick figures screaming over the show’s audience giveaway: a tub o’ Vaseline for everyone!

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1766106/

lizshaw
16 years ago

I am absolutely dying over the WOOOO WOOOOOOOOOOO!

I would have to recommend McSweeney’s too. I especially love catching up on McSweeney’s recommends-

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/recommends/

Last, I would like to say that Carl Hiaasen’s Miami Herald column is awesome. I like him as an author and I have found him to be a pretty damn good read as a journalist too.

http://www.miamiherald.com/424/index.html

Carbon
16 years ago

My kids never make those faces, they love lemons and lime juice. I really don’t know what’s wrong with their tastebuds.

We have been saying “I like Turtles” like crazy around here after any random question. hahahaha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMNry4PE93Y

Darby
Darby
16 years ago

If your not watching Flight of the Conchords on HBO then I”m betting you will after this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGOohBytKTU

I want to marry Bret and have like 50 of his babies

laughing mommy
16 years ago

That Flight of the Conchords “Business Time” video… SO FUNNY!

Amanda Brown
16 years ago

I must have been living under a mossy boulder for the past few years because I only recently found this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KTl6aJDlDiY

Also I am one of those losers who was mercilessly sucked into the Facebook cult so I can identify with these guys:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rSnXE2791yg

I love your writing, by the way. You always make me chuckle to myself when I read your posts.

Pickles & Dimes
16 years ago

If you’ve seen Will Ferrell’s video “The Landlord,” with his buddy’s two-year-old daughter Pearl, you need to see the next (and last) video of Will with Pearl, titled “Good Cop, Baby Cop.”

“Hi hell…I’ve got someone coming to you.”

Kirsten
16 years ago

Just last night, hubby and I watched this “Masturbation Lesson” clip from the show Weeds. Endlessly entertaining…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWzOQTFwRBE

Josh
16 years ago

This is an recording of a man who hates telemarketers and plays an AWESOME prank on one.
http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=u76g1w0rkj

Here’s a You’re the Man Now Dog page called “Fatty feels left out”
Evil and mean spirited but hilarious.
http://fattyfeelsleftout.ytmnd.com/

Since this is mostly a female audiance, you may enjoy this how-to video about being the perfect boyfriend.
http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-be-the-perfect-boyfriend

And if you are feeling brave, incredibly bored, or are simply curious about why my comments are always off kilter, and why I’m such a weirdo, (I know you wonder some times Linda) here is a video I made which will help you understand. It is titled “A cure for that stupid song stuck in your head”, and is the only thing I’ve ever created which didn’t suck ass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-At6wk_fQs

Sara
16 years ago

Sarah Silverman — most things, but especially her “I love this cheese” video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EhKnjEXL3w (Definitely NSFW).

Brooke
16 years ago

This rap video was made by students from the university I work at (and attended):

Mac or PC?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Jkrn6ecxthM

MRW
MRW
16 years ago

Ah god, that Flight of the Concords song is the sole reason I started watching that so. I STILL laugh every time I see it and now my husband and I frequently say things like “Teambuilding Exercise 1999 t-shirt”

victoria
victoria
16 years ago

Log on to You Tube. Search for “pet hippo.” Bingo!

biscuit
16 years ago

this video of mine makes people pee themselves on you tube. I think you will appreciate it… Dog too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_IRwhEqJxw

amber
16 years ago

THIS. My husband made me watch it this morning, and it is the greatest thing I have ever seen in the history of things.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_l63p4CBWc

Ballet ninjas! Billowing chiffon! Dancing football players! And then the choir boys with glowing orbs instead of eyes….and then the one kind of flies….HEE. And then! The dancing tarzan-men! Plus the guys with the S&M gear. Whew.

Good stuff, that.

Jo
Jo
16 years ago

If the prisoner’s Thriller wasn’t enough, check out their dance to Radio GaGa, hehe http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lAVVVMcTShQ

Krissy
Krissy
16 years ago

Thank you so much for that video of the babies eating lemons. It makes me feel not so terrible about laughing at the faces my niece made when we would have her lick a lemon.

Brad
Brad
16 years ago

I think it’s been around a while, but still.
The most awesome president EVER.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZCNrf0IH_U

Melissa
Melissa
16 years ago

This could provide HOURS of entertainment:

http://www.willitblend.com/

Jane
16 years ago

You may have seen this already, I tend to be very late on bandwagons, but even if you have it’s worth watching again. And again. And again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbGkxcY7YFU

Naomi
Naomi
16 years ago

My fave at the moment is “The Man Cold”. Quote from the paramedic. “He doesn’t jsut have a cold. He’s got a Mancold. You women just don’t think….” Show it JB so he knows what he looks like when he’s “suffering”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXLHWmjA5IE

Emma
Emma
16 years ago

I discovered this from somewhere… not sure how it came into being (maybe SNL – I’m from the UK, so it might be a long-standing US joke that I’ve only just been let in on!)

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/74

Amy D
16 years ago

Zach Galifianakis does a Kayne West video: http://www.kanyewest.com/?content=video_cant_tell_alt

Christine
16 years ago

Because I’m an ass, I haven’t really watched anything all that funny on the internet lately…I don’t think…

For movies I highly recommend Chan-wook Park. I think it was you who watched the 3 Extremes movie? Right? One of those were his. Plus he has a whole revenge trilogy, although they’re really individual movies and if you haven’t seen them I think you would probably enjoy them a lot. They’re Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Sympathy for Ms. Vengeance.

Taryn
16 years ago

New hair is very cute!!

M.A.
16 years ago

No spiders were hurt during the making of this video…. http://youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc

Julie
Julie
16 years ago

Oops, this is a little old at this point, but it really cracked me up:

Hot Hot Heat
A graphical dissertation on the number one song in America
by Rob Harvilla
March 13th, 2007 1:12 PM

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0711,harvilla,76021,22.html

kj
kj
16 years ago

get ready to have your mind blown:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=x6U7xIZKrBM
THEN read the information provided about the troupe!
Mind = blown.

kj
kj
16 years ago

(okay, so it’s not funny, but it’s still way cool)

Amie
16 years ago

No idea how long this has been floating around, but, man, cracks my shit up every time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv0CIdvEnMY

Erin
16 years ago

I think you’ll appreciate this one, based on your recent post about Riley’s nap times & bed times becoming difficult. It’s funny & sweet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uISuvTiTYJA

Janet
Janet
16 years ago

Loving the new hair. Color is great. Cut is awesome. You rock it mama!

pippa
16 years ago

National Banana. The “real” Cialis ad is particularly funny. Also, Playground Tales with Brooke Shields.

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