Fun With Balloons

So Kelly's last night was guest-listed, and open-bar. True to all the parties at Kelly's that Junior runs: It was LOUD. So I stayed away from the dance floor. I noticed a guy with a balloon tied around his ear. I thought: "Yeah, yeah seen it already." About 20 minutes later I look over, and he has a balloon tied around both ears. So being quite the photog for the night, I decided to have fun with him. Here's how it worked:

Most of the people who read this website religiously have the pleasure of being old and living in their own apartments. I am still in college. While you are all moved out of the houses you grew up in, I subsequently have to still spend about four months a year with all of the weird crap that my mom insists on buying. That, however, is not what I am writing about because lets face it, all moms buy weird crap and I hope when I own my own home, I will be able buy lots of weird crap in peace. I have decided to take a different spin on the whole “weird crap” situation.

Being that I am in the advertising world, I felt it very apropos to make necessary adjustments to some of our most beloved and "effective" ads in the amazing history of this great nation, under God.

i think everyone has a family friend that's weird. some fall under the "don't leave the kids alone with uncle chester" category, some the, "gee i always wanted a pair of sherling underpants" or "yes, the government is spying on us through our televisions"...you get the drift.

As seen on Yahoo.com: "Cigarette suspected in U.S. cruise-ship fire"

with a headline like this, i could only imagine the story that would follow....maybe something like:

witnesses aren't sure if it was malboro or one of his brethren-- malboro light, ultra-light, menthol, but it was definitely from that family. in what has turned into the kamikazee story of fires, several people have come forward about the events that led up to the wretched fire that occurred on a u.s. cruise ship last night, causing several injuries and a heart attack. a malboro cigarette box was seen in the middle of the cruise deck slightly before dusk. without word, the box flipped it's top and lit it's own cigarette. the box then ejected said firey cigarette onto the deck and disappeared.

You know, I don't want to come off sounding anti-semitic, but I'm willing to risk it for the price of being right.

If there is one thing that really gets me riled up, it's people who don't shower because of their faith in a supreme being. Ok, I get it. People believe in God and I've accepted that. What you believe in has no affect on me and what I believe in. Fine. But the second you sit next to me on a PATH train, smelling like some kind of weird mixture of cat urine, 4-day old cottage cheese, and a still-born fetus, is the second your fucked up belief structure DOES affect me.

Apparently this is catching on. You can send messages to people over the web. You can even call a number from your cell phone and leave a message that I can get on the web... It's a free service too. There seems to be one problem though... who the heck has a microphone hooked up to their computers anymore? I don't have the faintest idea where mine is.. do you? If you do, try sending me a message. I'd love to see how this works... or it may just be another internet fad.

i have a confession to make. i love flying squirrels. ever since my old roommate in college told me about her friend's, lucy, the obsession has grown. we used to joke about buying one and calling it rocky (original, i know).

In the spirit of weirdness, I thought I'd dig up some of my favorite obscure shows from my childhood. I used to watch all of these shows, for reasons completely lost on me, and just thinking about them brings me to a completely different planet. These are those shows that are tucked away in the back my brain, and probably weren't meant to be brought back out. If you know me, you know thats precisely why i chose to go there.

when mike told me about this site i immediately thought of my mother's family.  after 20+ years of weird crap, i am finally able to put my childhood experiences into cyberspace for some good fodder.