Shaun of the Dead: Best Zombie Movie Ever

After a week of tsunamis, earthquakes, mudslides, Jon Gosselin, and David Letterman, its good to know that there is at least one school that thoroughly prepares for every possible disaster. There is still one school out there that takes the safety of it’s students very seriously. They believe in protecting them from hurricanes, and global disease, and zombies.Yes, zombies.

The emergency plan for the invasion of the Undead ( “flesh-eating, apparently life impaired individuals.”) Is not quite clear, what is clear is that in the event of an outbreak, there will be “documentation of lots of strange moaning.”

The not quite complete article is here

Wouldn’t you know it? This university is in Florida, the state which simultaneously has an incredible amount of elderly people and is being invaded by Burmese pythons. So I guess they know something about effective disaster prevention.

Apparently the dog park is one big social scene. I found this out while dog-sitting my friend Tina’s beautiful quirky, rescue doggie , Josie. (apparently - all animals wake up at 7:30am…anyone know of a pet that likes to sleep till 10a?). This joke is from the people I met at the Astoria dog park:

Think to yourself out loud while you’re trying to figure it out.

Q) - How did the turtle cross the freeway on its back?

A) - You take the ‘F’ out of free, and the ‘F’ out of way.

Get it? HAH!

Apparently I am the only person who never knows where those

wacky photos come from that get emailed around everywhere. If YOU are also one of those “ONLY” people, than

you can find those photos at the site below, email them to all your friends and look like you are the original, cool, one.

http://www.funpic.hu/en.index.php

Here is one just in time for summer, care of my cousin in France, Delphine. I’m sure those guys were hanging around watching an episode of MTV Cribs and thought - “We can watch movies in our pool, too!”:

Last week was not the best for me - mainly due to some cranky bosses. A well-deserving friend emailed me to let me know that she had gotten engaged, and it totally lifted my day. I even told the story to several other people. (I’m a girl…I spread news faster than Apple sells I-phones).

An immense British Medical Journal study analyzed 4,700 individuals over 20 years and determined that happiness is indeed infectious. The “Framington Heart Study” looked at each individual’s social network of friends and family to find out whether one person’s happiness could influence that of the other.

They found that being surrounded by many happy people was more likely than not to make people they know happier over time. Indeed, even if your friend’s friend has something to celebrate, it can increase your own level of happiness.

The study also says that: “A friend who lives within a mile and who becomes happy increases the probability that a person is happy by 25%.”

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The good news is that even awful ideas can get us all strangely excited! Julie Taymor is going to be directing 2010’s Spider Man the Musical! You know her from the Lion King, Across the Universe, and other more illustrious and intelligent fair.  Music and lyrics come care of Bono and the Edge (um, yeah. I just said it). Gossip on the street is that she’s getting 40 million dollars towards special effects and people will be flocking for tickets instead of continuing to spend $125 per ticket for Wicked (it’s on YOU TUBE, people!).

I’m thinking this is a job for Zac Effron. Or can we safely assume that Tobey Maguire can sing? Then again, maybe we should just go the safe route and give it to someone who’ll slam dunk it - yes…I’m speaking of the HUGH Jackman.

Does anyone think this is totally ridiculous? Or am I being toooo New York? Maybe this will be the next “Cats!” Are there any other great comic’s that would make great musicals?  I’m thinking of past post - Sense and Sizeability; the Musical! [Read more →]

Good News! British rapper, M.I.A. has not joined the star-studded masses and named her newborn something silly like “Ickitt”. According to her latest myspace.com blog post (in all caps mind you):
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This came from a chain email (so many good nuggets do)

SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up - what with walking 25 miles to school every morning… Uphill… barefoot… BOTH ways.

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids. But now that I’m over the ripe old age of thirty, I can’t help but look around and notice the youth of today.

You’ve got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn’t have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!

There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter, with a pen!

Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!

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Just to keep you all informed, President Bush and his administration are finally getting to work and doing stuff. Unfortunately, most people may think it’s bad stuff. (I think the “time out corner” should replace the oval office, right Supernanny?!). President Bush wants to relax building regulations which require sign-off from wild-life biologists before major federal building projects begin. Before building bridges and dams, biologists stall projects in order to modify designs that might endanger local species. [Read more →]

"Sexploration" column writer Brian Alexander from MSNBC.com gives us one of the most interesting op-eds of the week.

Around the 1st of November, 2008, a study came out titled "Coping with copulation may help calculate diabetes risk." The study found that deer mice participating in monogamous-mice-love (as opposed to hopping around the cage with any old rat) led to calmer rats and a stronger ability to regulate blood sugars.

Since deer-mice are so like men, the researchers concluded that this means that men in monogamous relationships deal better with stress and lower their risk of diabetes. [Read more →]