tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39165072011-08-28T16:34:44.531-04:00lyrical gangstait ain't a dance floor, it's a candy store!ericanoreply@blogger.comBlogger421100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-29963507663633357452008-05-01T11:26:00.001-04:002008-05-01T11:27:58.635-04:0059ericanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-41493166325491020682008-02-05T09:07:00.000-05:002008-02-05T09:24:00.950-05:00People who annoy me, vol. 3It's been quite a while since the last installment of PWAM, but this morning's commute pushed me over the edge. Maybe it is the icy rain that is falling from the sky. Maybe everyone has a bad case of PPD (Post-Patriots Depression). Or maybe people just suck.This morning's offenders weren't the worst people in the world, I'll say that, but they were irksome. First ericanoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-76118604216919526712007-12-14T17:37:00.000-05:002007-12-17T13:16:32.303-05:00Oh haiSorry, folks! I got a new, bigger penis, like, six weeks ago and I just lost track of time what with all the fun I was having. My bad!No, for realsies, I don't really know what I've been up to since November 8 but I will try my best to recap, complete with visual evidence, lolcat style.We attended a wedding on November 10 - our friends Beth and Tom were wedded in holy matrimony. It was a ericanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-27852824766484070772007-11-08T15:12:00.000-05:002007-11-08T15:15:09.756-05:00Apparently I need a bigger penis.I have received an onslaught of penis spam lately. Here's just a sampling of the subject lines:May I ask why you are so unhappy with your dick?Does your Mr. Winkie need upgrading?Prepare your love wand for the next battle!!And the worst of all time,Have you ever felt the kiss of a womb? With longer penis you will!ericanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-38343827188955739002007-11-04T21:55:00.003-05:002007-11-08T15:16:32.248-05:00Freddie the Melancholy Moose.I'm not a fan of Halloween, neither is Chris, and apparently neither is Freddie.Maybe if he had a costume that fit he would have liked it a bit more, but until then, not so much.ericanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-47718159025855929062007-10-30T14:31:00.001-04:002007-10-30T14:33:38.040-04:00Wolling Wally.More pics to come tonight (from my camera, of actual players, not me). The parade was a lot of fun. I didn't cry like in 2004, but it was still pretty cool. Looking forward to a Pats parade in early '08! I didn't see any of the "Jumbletrons" that Mayor Menino spoke of, but I did get a great view of "Dropkick Murphy" and his band. That Mayor Menino. Boy is he a hootericanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-91289006822594612912007-10-29T00:32:00.000-04:002007-10-29T01:11:23.542-04:00"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"First we went to Game 6 of the ALCS. It was a much better experience than our trip to Game 2. Then we went to Game 1 of the WS. Fantastic game there. Beckett, as usual, lights out. At those two games, as well as at Game 7, and at WS Games 2, 3, and 4, I texted with my friend who works for the Sox and my friend who lives, breathes, and sleeps the Sox. A selection:Regarding ericanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-53142603752373166772007-10-16T13:32:00.000-04:002007-10-16T13:33:34.904-04:00That Colorado Rockies Dog.Here is the story behind the terrier that sits behind home plate!ericanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-2491485492723101102007-10-14T10:03:00.000-04:002007-10-15T15:18:54.733-04:00So good! So good! So...yeah, not so much.Hub and I went to game 2 of the American League Championship Series last night.That was our first mistake.We couldn't attend game 1 due to prior plans, and I got a little nervous about asking for tickets to a game 6 or 7 that may or may not happen, so I said, okay, we will go to game 2.Game two, lucky for everyone, started at 8:21. I'm not a fan of this ericanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-49446774440664634582007-10-11T15:48:00.000-04:002007-10-12T11:05:26.712-04:00Numbers.A numerical explanation of where I've been for the past 17 days.3 - the number of photography classes I have taken so far at Ritz Camera in Boston2 - the number of these classes that were completely pointless ("How to take your camera out of the box," "how to press the button," "how to look through the viewfinder please save me sweet Jesus.")3 - the number of doctor's appointments I have ericanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-11266295898615503652007-09-24T22:00:00.001-04:002007-09-24T22:02:58.343-04:00AlsoDon't think I didn't have this thought in the car this morning, listening to Billy's entertainment report on Kiss 108, before Miley Cyrus's pregnancy rumor was debunked:"So THAT'S why she had such a nice rack at the Teen Choice Awards a couple weeks ago!"Yes, I'm going to hell.ericanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-67962417071517167462007-09-24T21:39:00.000-04:002007-09-24T21:56:58.043-04:00Where I be?I wish I could say that I've been doing all sorts of exciting things for the past 11 days since I last posted, but that just isn't the case. BO - RING, that's my life! Boring, but content overall. No complaints, really!I think the most exciting thing is that last week I took the commuter rail! Three times! OMFG it was so awesome! I didn't think I would love it so much, but I did. My ericanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-38355271804857342822007-09-13T13:33:00.000-04:002007-09-13T13:41:02.154-04:00Famous dudes I am embarassed to say I have a crush on, #3 I imagine I am not the only person out there to have a crush on this person so I'll just come right and say, I have a crush on Jeff Corwin. Perhaps I am most embarassed because I actually did in fact once say (to other real live people), "I'd like to have a Jeff Corwin experience," and then felt kind of icky afterwards because, well, he'sericanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-47094514018120456512007-09-13T13:15:00.000-04:002007-09-13T13:24:26.567-04:00People who annoy me, vol. 2Seriously, I have just about had it up to the proverbial "here" with commuting. I hate driving, I hate the orange line, I had humankind, and I have had it. I don't know if the commuter rail is going to make a difference in my life, but it will at the very least be a change of scenery.Here are the two gems I encountered on the subway today. First was the Italian ericanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-20187723362432004522007-09-10T09:38:00.000-04:002007-09-10T09:53:46.733-04:00I'm too old for this program.Here are some texts exchanged last night between me and two friends while watching the VMAs:"Brit sucked! Was she on crack?""Did u watch that disaster?""I was shocked @ how bad she was. It was like a bad dance recital!""Awful. Absolute disaster. She totally sucked it hard core.""Besides the awful lipsyncing she is way too thick for that outfit!""Wow. Just. Wow.""Why ericanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-72514871638141959792007-09-05T19:20:00.000-04:002007-09-05T20:05:05.155-04:00Things that are awesome right now. My dog is pretty much the cutest dog ever. He now sleeps with us every night, which is totally cool, because that means he sleeps later in the morning and that makes everyone (read: me) so much happier. The other day I took him for a walk down to the school fields and he found a big yellow field hockey ball. He rolled it around with his nose for a while and thenericanoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-61173107382069020222007-08-30T09:20:00.000-04:002007-08-30T09:41:55.376-04:00People who annoy me, vol. 1I'm feeling a bit vitriolic today -- riding the Orange line tends to do that to a person -- and so I feel like sharing a few thoughts about the people who annoy me.People who get on a semi-crowded train and stand in front of an empty seat. Um, no. You either SIT in the empty seat or you stand somewhere else. Don't make someone who wants that seat have to ask YOU to moveericanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-15916236627690832552007-08-28T13:20:00.000-04:002007-08-28T13:29:06.567-04:00Allll byyyy myyysellllfffffSo with hub on the left coast this week, I have been left to my own devices. Which means I have done the following things since he has been gone:Watched some of an episode of Mama's Family. Then I changed the channel before Vicki Lawrence made me homicidal.Rewatched, for, possibly, the sixth or seventh time, all of Pasha's routines on my DVR'd SYTYCD finale.Watched ericanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-54630846627963359552007-08-17T09:58:00.000-04:002007-08-17T10:30:03.287-04:00The planche, the planche!So last night was, sadly, the final episode of So You Think You Can Dance, season three. I have to tell you that this might be my new favorite reality competition, and as a die-hard Idol fan that is not easy to admit. SYTYCD gives me the warm fuzzies, a feeling that Idol has not been able to give me since the days of George Huff. I thought a lot about this last night.ericanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-76799852806493232522007-08-15T10:20:00.000-04:002007-08-15T10:27:51.866-04:00SYTYC get tix to see SYTYCD?Well, kind of. I tried to get tickets for a bunch of us to go see the SYTYCD tour when it comes to Boston this September, but seriously could not get a single pair of tickets about 6 minutes after tickets went on sale! What the eff? Dudes, I know Pasha is hot, and Kameron too, and okay, Neil too, but for reals? Sold out? But that's okay. We are troopers and we areericanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-42116888892737120372007-08-12T19:28:00.000-04:002007-08-12T19:45:37.831-04:00Holiest of matrimonies.Yesterday we went to one of my best friend's weddings. It was a great time, and they are just so cute together, so it was one of those weddings that seemed quite perfect and lovely in its purpose. One downside: it was 90 degrees in the old (read: not equipped with air conditioners) church, and the ceremony was just about two hours long. Woo boy, was that long! And hot! I ericanoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-10570599918626065212007-08-07T21:07:00.000-04:002007-08-07T21:18:20.636-04:00Could it be that OBVIOUS?So I just watched the videos from my previous post again (again) and, like, duh. Could it be that I just like dudes dressed in suits? That is what both of them are wearing! I was not a Michael Hutchence fan until I saw the video for "New Sensation" a few weeks ago, and I'm like mesmerized by "Simply Irresistible" (how apropos of a title), and now, I realize, they are ericanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-15085435041904297202007-08-07T11:49:00.000-04:002007-08-07T12:00:04.051-04:00Famous dudes I am embarassed to say I have a crush on, #2 (a two-parter, for one reason)Thanks to the wonders of the television station The Tube, I have found myself taken back in time to an era when videos were super low-budget but slyly sexy. And so this week, I regret to inform all of you that I have a crush onMichael Hutchence.And Robert Palmer. Why am I embarassed, you ask? Well, for ericanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-36714565993770774242007-08-06T21:14:00.000-04:002007-08-06T21:16:52.515-04:00Ericalina SimpsonShe's a little fatter than I am in real life, but I totally have those pants. I got them at Express in 2003. I still wear them. I'll probably wear them this week.ericanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-90616383409920486322007-08-06T19:42:00.000-04:002007-08-06T20:09:37.934-04:00 And so on, and so forth, and a MST3K link --It has been hotter than Hades here for the past week or so. This is not fun for someone with 1) asthma and 2) a sinus infection. Also it makes Freddie restless at night and then he decides to go to the bathroom in the house. And throw up sometimes. But I still love my Doodle. He is mostly a good boy, like 95% of the time. Today it finally cooled a bit,ericanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-70991873346672868022007-08-01T10:18:00.000-04:002007-08-01T10:49:17.654-04:00Back! (With HP spoilers? Maybe? Skip bullet #2)In the past two weeks:I saw Twisted Misters win the WSOPC -- Thank God! Next year, it will be me. I promise you that!I finished HP7 (it was finished at 12:50 a.m. on Sunday/early Monday -- exactly 48 hours after I purchased it!). And I want in on record that I posted on EW.com right afterwards that Albus Severus Potter = ASP and he is totally in ericanoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-90067391622415062652007-07-19T15:32:00.001-04:002007-07-19T15:43:15.033-04:00Like old milk....I fear I may have just become spoiled. I won't say anymore, but do yourselves a favor and avoid ew.com. Le sigh. If I was, in fact, actually spoiled, I suppose it was my own fault that I couldn't resist reading about the Emmy noms on my lunch break. And the Emmy noms blow. No LOST? WTF man? Anyhow, who knows, I'm still in a bit of shock.Which I guess means I can talk more about ericanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-90528828687494108642007-07-18T09:15:00.000-04:002007-07-18T09:27:29.096-04:00Interweb moratorium.So now that some douchebags have leaked HP7 onto the internets, I'm seriously stopping my surfing/reading for the next 3+ days, and maybe I won't even listen to the radio either or watch ESPN, and only watch WSOPC tonight, because for reals, if I am spoiled, I will kill someone. My friend Liz has an even better take on what she would do (which also involves violence): http://ericanoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-63386428622427477332007-07-17T22:26:00.000-04:002007-07-17T22:29:26.514-04:00I knew the K-Fed answer.And for that, I am ashamed. And impressed at the same time. Lots to say about tonight's WSOPC episode but I need to go to bed.But first, ponder this, kind readers. St. Louis will be having a special day to celebrate one of its own this fall. Yes, folks, head to St. Louis this September 2nd for Ike Turner Day! Hooray for wife-beating! Hooray for drinking yourself intoericanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-57242977981822810372007-07-17T09:01:00.001-04:002007-07-17T18:51:15.846-04:00"'Jump.' 'Up'?"Oh, Westerburg High. We hardly knew ye. Though you were my favorite team, it seems kind of sadly appropriate that your last incorrect answer would be in reference to only my favorite song of all time, House of Pain's "Jump Around." I am secretly disappointed that though you did not know the name of this song, and instead named a Kriss Kross song (though maybe you did not know this ericanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-84796341067614126652007-07-15T21:36:00.001-04:002007-07-15T21:41:19.878-04:00Famous dudes I am embarassed to say I have a crush on, #1In what I am sure will be a regular series here on lyricalgangsta, I'd like to present the first in a long list of dudes who I am embarassed to say I have a crush on:Zac Efron.First of all, what am I, seventeen?Second of all, dude wears more makeup than I do!Thirdly, he is in Hairspray. And High School Musical. I really don't like ericanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-70172043554762838702007-07-11T21:39:00.000-04:002007-07-11T21:43:59.013-04:00SYTYCPretend you are Chinese?Sometimes I wonder about things, but was that just me, or was that weird tonight on So You Think You Can Dance? Contestant Lauren is all like, "Sometimes, I pretend I am Chinese when I try out! I even have a fake name, Misha Chan!" Um...really?! Anyhow, I do not like Lauren and/or Gayer-than-Blake Neil, and so I would not vote for them regardless of whether or notericanoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-42665510623185666302007-07-11T21:26:00.000-04:002007-07-11T21:36:43.897-04:00Timbaland vs. TimbalandI like Justin Timberlake, like, a lot. And I like Timbaland. The highlight of my third Justin Timberlake concert was, in fact, when Timbaland showed up. But is it just me, or is Timbo's new song "The Way I Are" exactly the same song, structurally, as "SexyBack"? The lyrics are below, but I suggest listening to these songs one right after another. They even have the same "ericanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-63842861419155144512007-07-11T12:00:00.000-04:002007-07-11T14:27:11.653-04:00Blind rage.Well maybe blind rage is a bit much, but I wasn't feeling any warm fuzzies when I watched the first night of VH1's World Series of Pop Culture on Monday and saw a contestant cop out TWICE by saying something to the effect of, Oh heck, I'm just too young to know the lyric you are asking me to decipher in this here category called "1980s Pop Hits"!She was born sometime in the early 1980sericanoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-5395138739351447932007-07-10T20:28:00.000-04:002007-07-10T20:46:48.058-04:00Freddie.Thought you all might like to see some pics of Freddie the Doo -- taken with my new camera, tra la la! Cute puppy!Smiling, kind of!Here is his mad face. Oh Freddie! Don't be so mad!MAD.That's better.ericanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-39147398128286787622007-07-10T17:15:00.000-04:002007-07-11T09:52:49.336-04:00D'oh!In honor of Springfield, Massachusetts not being selected to host The Simpsons movie premiere (Congratulations, er, Springfield, Vermont!), here are my Top 7 favorite episodes of The Simpsons:7) So It's Come to This: A Simpson's Clip Show. When Homer is sent to the hospital in critical condition after Bart pulls an April Fool's prank, the family spends the time reminiscing. Luckily Homer ericanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-31642123818413280542007-07-08T19:04:00.000-04:002007-07-10T17:15:42.333-04:00maybe m*a*s*h is nextso we had neighbors who moved out in may. from the time we moved in to the time they moved out, every single time we pulled in our driveway, they were watching Scrubs. we could see right in their living room. there was zach braff, john mcginley, that chick from roseanne, all the time. they watched Scrubs like it was their job. maybe it was their job. we didn't know them very ericanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-84519872920420965162007-07-05T22:37:00.001-04:002007-07-05T23:00:43.155-04:00Cheetara can suck it.*So last summer I became mildly obsessed with The World Series of Pop Culture on Vh-1. By all accounts, this faux-serious weeklong trivia contest was clearly (CLEARLY) what I should be doing with my life. It was the culmination of all the years I've spent reading schlocky magazines, watching endless amounts of television, retaining useless song lyrics, memorizing dates, all ericanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-939220562263278962007-07-04T18:21:00.001-04:002007-07-05T23:04:16.852-04:00I wish this was an unusual conversation.Janice sends me an IM and a link. "Tell me your initial reaction to this picture," she says.So I say, "Um, someone gave the cat a pooper. It didn't always have one, but someone thought it would be funny to give this cat a pooper. That is my first reaction."She says, "Yeah, it's part of the sign. It is seriously the grossest thing i've ever seen in my whole ericanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-28390038268670801922007-07-02T14:33:00.000-04:002007-07-04T18:46:25.975-04:00Mind reader.So my bff Janice and I have this game we play with each other, where out of nowhere we will randomly text each other and ask, "Can you guess what my new favorite song is?" It usually means that our new "favorite" song is a) ridiculous and b) cheesy and c) has some kind of funny lyrics, but God knows that there are enough ridiculous and cheesy songs with bad lyrics out there, so we ericanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-42114724834752159622007-07-01T17:58:00.001-04:002007-07-01T18:37:40.678-04:00Also,where have I been for like 3 years, because I have totally missed So You Think You Can Dance.I think I thought this was like a poor-man's American Idol, but after AI's completely lackluster 6th season (I mean, please, it just took me about 20 seconds to remember who the heck even won! Ugh, that phony Jordin!), I have become totally electrified by the dancing hotties on this summer reality ericanoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916507.post-1033847447476781452007-07-01T17:50:00.000-04:002007-07-01T18:38:40.717-04:00Commercials make me laugh.ok, is it only me and chris, but is that commercial for comcast digital voice where the guy says, "sorry roger, you tiger now!" the funniest shit ever?we say "sorry roger, you tiger now!" in response to just about anything.we also like the commercial for "just for men" or some other weird beard coloring cream with the old-timey up baseball guys that say, "here goes mr. ericanoreply@blogger.com1