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November 12, 2008

Let's discuss

One of the guys at work who half the time bullshits me and half the time is dead serious (all in the same tone) told everyone that one of his buddies that works for Glock said that sales have tripled since the day that Barack Obama was elected our 44th president. I'd like to present some theories on why and have you tell me which is the truth:

1. People see the end of times because the icon of a mature-in-age white man will no longer be our leader.
2. We're sticking it to Palin who thought she'd win on cuteness and her support for every citizen arming him or herself to the hilt.
3. We all received a memo that one way to stimulate the economy was to buy guns so we did. (Mine must be trapped in my spam filter.)
4. People fear rioting.
5. It's a fucking coincidence.
6. It's not even true.

So, what do you think? I couldn't come to a logical conclusion on that without researching, but since November 4 was only 8 days ago I'm not sure how much there is to research. How can they even tell that sales have tripled in 8 days? They must have a great system for tracking their sales and great people to analyze the data.

On completely different notes:

HAPPY 40TH BIRTHDAY, BIG BROTHER! Wish I was there, but glad I got to see you for the 110th party this summer.

There is a new Cereal Wednesday this week filmed during Neverwas weekend with special guest Mikey/LeSombre! w00t!

PS: For those of you who didn't see it in the feed reader, the other day when I yanked my post (not because Adam or Jess told me to, but because I felt like I shouldn't post it until Adam did) I had linked to this picture minus the border and the text I wrote in that post was:

"Christine/PocketCT brings Poppy's Princess Leia's demise, perhaps as justice for that stormtrooper she killed with her bare hands? [Cropped to fit the blog.]

Jess took this picture at Neverwas. She is a friend of Adam, and because I'm not sure how "out there" she is with her identity I won't say more than that or link you to her photos. She is a mad amazing, mad cool person. It's funny when you don't realize what incredible people are just around the corner, hidden in shadows… or behind the camera."

Rest of the party set is at flickr.

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Categorized A little advice please, Bloggers, Family, Friends, Opinion-ated, Photos, Videos and vlogs, Your turn! : Tagged

November 7, 2008

little love notes

Dear E Train,

Go suck your own cock. And not in the pleasant way. I want you to suck it the teethy pus-filled sore way. Because that's the best that you deserve. And I don't just want, I insist.

Poppy does not love you.

The end.

Dear Audrina from The Hills,

Justin is a dirty scumbag. He's only hanging around you so he can be on TV. I assure you he sucks the cock. That's not a bad thing in any way whatsoever, other than the fact that you think he's exclusive to you now which makes him a cheater and you a fool.

Kisses,
Poppy

Dear MTV,

Did you really think we wouldn't notice this is your third time having "The Real World" in New York if you called it "The Real World: Brooklyn"?

You're stupid,
Poppy

Dear Top Chef,

YAY TO YOU BEING IN NEW YORK I LOVE YOU I CAN'T WAIT TO MISTAKENLY RUN INTO PADMA AND TOM EVEN THOUGH THE BULK OF THE SHOW IS ALREADY TAPED.

Love love love,
~ Popstar

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Categorized Open letter, Opinion-ated : Tagged

October 8, 2008

Fowl.

My feed reader is so disorganized. So far I've only found one blog that mentioned the (second) presidential debate from last night. Or, at least, I only recall the one. And since that blogger probably doesn't care for me so much I'm steering clear of leaving a comment there so I'll say here: It annoyed me that Tom Brokaw kept whining at Obama that he was going over his time limit or asking to respond to a question, but not much to McCain. I thought the "hired help" was supposed to be impartial, but it was clear to me that Brokaw respects and approves of McCain more than he does Obama.

I am a Vermonter and am therefore obligated by birth to be a democrat. But that's not my point. My point is that Brokaw is a whiny little bitch.

Ok, really, my point is that I saw unfair treatment of one candidate over another last night and I don't approve.

If I base my vote purely on the outcome of the Presidential and Vice Presidential debates I'm going to need to do a write-in of Joe Biden for president. But, if I think back to the last eight years and realize that (what's our VP's name? Puppet Master? Rifle-to-your-friend's-face-master? Whatever…) was always the brains behind GWB then I guess I can stand for Biden being an intelligent and informed voice for President Obama.

Even if he did plagiarize parts of his speech during his 1988 run for president.

Because who hasn't plagiarized?

(Oh, shush, you have too. Remember 6th grade "reports" where you just copied encyclopedias because you didn't understand the difference between writing your own opinion and what was on a page in front of you? Yah.)

Anyway, I know some of my readers and very dear friends are Republicans (I sleep with one), but this here's mah blawg, so I'm just getting out of my head what's been rattling around.

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Categorized Opinion-ated, Real news : Tagged

October 1, 2008

Finally, a little un-apathy!

This is the video that finally made me change my voting location:

Please vote.

Thanks, Jess.

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Categorized Opinion-ated, Videos and vlogs : Tagged

September 16, 2008

It's what I do best

My brain is decidedly cluttered and unfocused today, so you get random Poppy core dumpage today.

Last night I tried to apply for a job online at a company you would know if I told you the name of it, but the process for getting my information filled in was sooooo convoluted and was taking sooooo many steps, that after 15 minutes and still only being on Step 1 of 6, I gave up. I then selected another job from the list I was looking at and was able to send off my information in 5 minutes. That company has a list of clients you've heard of, but you've probably not heard of the company itself. I suck at gauging how I'd fit into a corporate company, but this one looks a'ight from the internet. I just can't handle companies where the owners act like kings and queens and treat everyone else like servants. I've worked for a corporate company like this and it's precisely what turned me off to the corporate world for 6 years. I'm a human being at work and at play… and if I'm doing the right work then I am really enjoying what I'm doing… so don't stifle me with your bureaucratic bullshit.

I really miss PiC and da Bomb, who coincidentally both used to be my officemates when we were in the "sharing phase" of officenessdom before lots of people left our department and our floor. I'm seeing Break Boy and HLW Wednesday when Dawg and I go to Vermont, but there's not really any time for a work visit. I have a built in camera and internet access, I should log into chat and see if either one of them will talk to me. I've heard through the grapevine that things at work are very ungood, and this is something I get to feel guilty about. I know I didn't cause it, but my departure contributed to my very good friends' workload.

I also miss K and J in New Hampshire. Hi, guys. :smiles:

It smells really strongly of garlic in the apartment today. Dawg and I made those yummy chicken cutlets last night that he'd been drooling about all day yesterday and they came out fantastic! I prepped them and he fried them.

chicken cutlet!

They came out a perfect golden brown and were perfectly cooked — very crunchy on the outside, very moist on the inside.

The Lehman Brothers bankruptcy is a very bad thing for New York City business. Yes, please to Barclays. And… the AIG thing isn't helping either.

HOLY SHIT! You know that guy who does the World Series of Pop Culture?!?!??! Pat Kiernan!!! HE'S A NEWSCASTER ON NY1!!!!!!! (Um, am I the only person who knows what I'm talking about? Mebbe. How about we look on YouTube…)

World Series of Pop Culture 2007:

NY1:

And now, a KITTY BLITZ!!!!!!!!!

Georgeporge Ripple-A Mickey (Allie)

We live in a neighborhood with a school. The other night we heard the infamous ice cream truck come through at 10:00PM. Dude, TOO LATE. TOO LATE!!!!

Yes, there just might be (ok, ok, there definitely will be) a Cereal Wednesday tomorrow. I assure you, once your hosts have settled into their new home (as in, we have more furniture than a desk and two chairs) we'll be better about filming.

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Categorized Family, Friends, Life, Media, Miscellaneous T, Opinion-ated, Photos, Stream of consciousness, The kittos, Videos and vlogs : Tagged

June 3, 2008

I come from the land of protest, therefore I naturally have one.

If I was addicted to alcohol and told you I was quitting because it didn't work into my budget anymore would you tell me where I could get alcohol cheaper?

If I was addicted to crack (ha, Fab) and told you I was quitting because it didn't work into my budget anymore would you tell me where I could get crack cheaper?

If I was addicted to dirty hookers and told you I was quitting because it didn't work into my budget anymore would you tell me where I could get cheaper dirty hookers?

Read between my lines.

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Categorized Because I said so, Family, Opinion-ated : Tagged

April 15, 2008

I'm not quite sure why I'm so surprised by this that

While waiting for the orthodontist I saw this Louis Vuitton ad printed in Town & Country Travel magazine:

…underneath which was this incorrectly written sentence:

The same ad is published elsewhere with correct wording, although I can't find an image that isn't under lock and key, forcing me to paaaaay for it, but the correction to the word "that" is "than".

It's a common error to type that instead of than, but I'm just super surprised they let such a glaring error go to print. I can understand an article typo, a caption typo, but… a Louis Vuitton print ad? Linked to major celebrities? (Oh, c'mon, Andre and Steffi are celebrities.) I am guessing someone got fired for that?

That ad is very romantic when written correctly. Too bad it was ruined by the misplaced that.

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Categorized Media, Opinion-ated, Photos : Tagged

March 27, 2008

Hillary really was under sniper fire. This video proves it.

And all video footage on the internet is real.

And so is Santa.

Thanks, Pat. :smiles:

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Categorized Entertaining Poppy, Opinion-ated, Videos and vlogs : Tagged

March 14, 2008

Top Chef Chica-go

I know I'm two days late in posting about it, but this is the first wordy day I've had since the first episode of Top Chef season 4 aired. What'd you think? And were you aware that Zoi and Jennifer are lovers?

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Categorized Entertaining Poppy, Media, Opinion-ated : Tagged

March 4, 2008

This angers me.

This advertisement (which I refuse to show here) compares smoking to terrorism, and uses the imagery of the WTC on 9/11 in cigarette form.

I realize that marketing school is turning out those fancy edge-pusher graduates who think that shock value is the only way to get a message across, but that is going way too far.

And I'm not using caps or italics or bold or extra vowels to state that, but there is rage brewing inside of me. And I'm not going to stoop to their level by suggesting, "when your parents die in a fiery car crash please send me images of their dead bodies so I can post them on my blog and advise people to fly to their destination via [insert my favorite airline here] instead" … but I kinda wanna.

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Categorized Media, Not awesome, Opinion-ated, STFU : Tagged

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