Ironic Twist
seeking irony, because sarcasm clashes with my outfit
Friday, September 01, 2006 :::
Wow, Vivienne Westwood's collection for Nine West is super fugly.
Speaking of designer collections for non-designer stores, the Paul & Joe for Target bag I've been tracking for weeks sold out almost immediately at Target.com yesterday, so if you see it in your local Target and buy it for me, I will give you 10 free CDs (and pay you back for the bag, obviously). Here it is:
Some weather-appropriate, Hej Hej-approved music from Norway:
Are you ready for the hurricane? We're supposed to get out of work at 3:00 today, but I'm hoping that the boss will let us go home even earlier, considering some schools are closing early. However, she might be mad at me because I've spent half the morning obnoxiously defending the capitalization of Web.
Update: It's 1:33 and I'm still here. Damn.
Update, September 14: I got the bag at the Target in Owings Mills, Md. while spending the weekend in The B.C. It was the last one. Hooray!
Thursday, August 31, 2006 :::
Today is a serious contender for longest. day. ever. There are only so many hours I can waste on celebrity gossip blogs. (And that's a very high number of hours, but it's less than 8.5, which is approximately how long I'm stuck at the office on slow days like today.) I got to read a book while everyone else was out of the office, but now that both bosses are back from meetings, I have to at least pretend to look at the computer screen. Ms. WeirdCurves got me thinking about the VMAs, which I (very) tentatively plan on watching, so I went to MTV.com to read up on what's ahead. As I was scrolling through the award categories, I came across... "Ringtone of the Year." WTF? Ringtone? Do ringtones come with videos now? Seriously, how is this even a category??
Prediction #1: The VMAs will be super-boring and nothing "controversial" will happen.
Prediction #2: Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson are going to make the VMAs a stop on their "you can never have too many weddings" tour.
Tuesday, August 29, 2006 :::
I can't check out Golem at The Red and The Black tonight, and that makes me sad. Golem perform "punked-up Jewish, Gypsy, and Slavic folk songs." Although I don't actually like klezmer music, I'm such a sucker for accordions. Must be the Eastern European in me.
New contest! Win the eighth season of South Park, a three-disk set containing 14 episodes including "The Passion of the Jew." The winner also get a bonus: South Park anime trading cards (a tie-in to the "AWESOME-O" episode, of course).
To enter, e-mail me the correct answers to the following five questions by 11:59 p.m. on Monday, September 4. The winner will be announced on Tuesday, September 5.
1) What is the name of the South Park episode in which Radiohead appeared? 2) What is the name of Carman's pet pig? 3) Who sings the South Park theme song? 4) Where was Kyle's brother Ike born? 5) What is Butters' real name?
01/05: Taint and Bliss present INFAMY, 9:30 Club
01/10: Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton, 9:30 Club
01/19: Benjy Ferree, Meredith Bragg and the Terminals, Greenland, Black Cat 01/24: Hej Hej, Cafe Saint-Ex
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