Early Morning TV

I turned off my TV yesterday after watching half of the Daily Show and falling asleep. When I woke up today it was set to Comedy Central - paid programming. Usually the infomercials in the morning tend to run the gamut from health/gym to cleaning to makeup/acne. Today was the exception - the infomercial was for LuvRub, the lube for "Him or Her and of course they can be used together." What kept me watching for 3 minutes (yes, I timed it) was the fact that the infomercial featured three couples: 1 jewish couple, 1 latin couple and 1 white, old, WASP couple. They all sat around the coffee table littered w/bottles of lube and talked about their sex lives. Even in infomercial all the stereotypes were right there, played up to no end! The blonde jewish girl was all over her bf as they both gushed about the wonderful sensations and longer/stronger erections while ahving sex. The latin couple - the guy was a joker, the girl was a slut and although they wer supposed to be a couple, she definitely saat at the far end of the couch and mentioned how she is always looking for something new to do in bd and likes to keep a tube by her bedside for her...err..partner. The old couple...yeah...the guy said how he didn't want to go to the MD and get a prescription b/c that would entail him telling the MD all th partiuclars of his sex life and he didn't want to share those. Well, buddy, you are right, why keep it in the privacy of the doctor's office when you can just go on national TV and let us all kno just how wonderfulyour sex life has become.
Then I switched to MSNBC Squak Box, nothing like waking up with a little sex news and market nes in the morning! I caught the interview with a hedge fund guy who is against the bail out. He was sharing the screen with another man who I assume is pro-bailout. I loove how diferent they were! The hedge fund guy never twitched, looked hot and calm. the other guy was gesticlating so wildly that half the time his arms didn't fit on the screen. His voice would raise and fall and it was jsut hillarious ot watch the scrawny "boy man" battle the man. My favorite was when the boy/man made a point about something and ht eman dodged it by saying "Thank you for bringing up that point, I as going to tak about it later, however, let me now talk about my third point which I believe is even more important." That's his answer to a particular question! I love it! What a great strategy! And mind you, never twitched a muscle!!!
OK I am going back to sleep now.

gross

ok if you choose to eat an apple during class at least choose to use a napkin and please don't keep putting it on the dirty desk. it's gross, you pick up germs, and i don't want to later put my stuff where your saliva has been. yuck. it's called NAPKIN.

It has arrived...

I turned on my cell phone this morning only to receive a video message from one of my former coworkers. Ladies and gentlmen, the new generation of text chain letters has officially arrived. I can't believe that that's what it has come to. It's cute...sorta. It's pretty much a little video a la anime. The message: "Give this heart to evryone you care about including me if you care. Try to collect 5, it's not easy. I may not be the most important person in your life but at least you can smile when you hear my name and say that's my friend because i am your friend and i love you." Sweet, sure! However, think of all the junk mail you get, now, let's say your plan charges you for video messages, you think you'll have many friends left after their bills skyrocket? Also, collect five of what? So if I only got 1 of these, I don' t have friends? But if I get 50 cents worth, then I have friends? Great! And really, aren't we a little too old for these? I am always amazed when my cousin, who is an amazing doctor and runs a private children's ER clinic forwards me the most ridiculous chain letters. I can't understand how someone so clever can actually believe the latest "fwd this to 10 friends if you want to have good luck or else!"

In other news, as you know I have been following the Alitalia saga, for purely personal trip related reasons. Apparently, they are holding a public "for sale" campaign. So, if you happen to have unused liquid assets lying around, and you can guarantee "medium term" continuity of service, then here is all the info you need to know:

"Such expressions of interest shall have to be received at the offices of the
Extraordinary Administrator, at Via Marchetti 111, 00148, Roma, within 30 September 2008, 12.00 a.m., together with all the documents necessary to evaluate such expressions of interest in view of starting potential negotiations."

Yep. I hear it's a bargain!

I am not huge on the Onion, but this one's good

Obama Promises To Stop America's Shitty Jobs From Going Overseas

I"m Back!

Hmm, I actually typed up an entire post, and then something happened and it didn't save :(. That's not cool at all!
I am not going to retype everything but suffice to say I am going to try to keep this thing from now on. We'll see how that goes!