A bunch of guys are suing for sexual discrimination because they’re not allowed to wait tables at Hooters. As long as they wear the fancy outfit, then why not? (QuizLaw)
And now, my friends: Ryan Seacrest high-fives a blind person. A single tear just rolled down my eye. It’s just that fucking beautiful. (WIMB)
It’s about damn time somebody posthumously gave Ol’ Dirty Bastard his own starring family-friendly vehicle. (Screen Junkies)
What if Ryan Gosling was your boyfriend and he said stuff like “Hey Girl” a lot? That is the entire purpose of this blog. (FuckYeah!RyanGosling)
OHMYGODGROSS. And BarbadoSlim, let me just go ahead and stop you right now by saying that this declaration has nothing to do with my personal technique. Thanks Julie! (lulu)
Oh and by the way, apropos of nothing, here’s what John Mayer “traded up” to Jennifer Aniston from. (Popoholic)
What if movie posters were honest? Well, we probably wouldn’t have a need for Pajiba, I’ll tell you that. (HolyTaco)
J. Lo and Marc Anthony: Coming soon to an episode of “COPS” near you. (Yeeeah!)
I think this is kind of old news by now but I don’t know if it’s ever been mentioned on the site. Anyway, Seth Rogen is writing and starring in a “Simpsons” episode. Shame I haven’t watched it since Ricky Gervais guest-starred that time. (Paste)
Rejected plotlines for Season 7 of “24?” What do I know, I’m apparently like the only person alive who doesn’t watch it. (YBNBY)
Here’s a list of pet peeves so far for 2009. Not that it’s exclusive to ‘09 particularly, but let me join in on the 80’s comeback hate. HATE. These dumb little bitches wearing this shit weren’t even alive in the 80’s. (MixTapeTherapy)
Hahaha. Hayden Panettiere got kicked out a club for being under 21 and she called the cops on them. (Celebslam)
This clip is totally ridic, and it was none other than the esteemed Ranylt who insisted that I include it. (CuteOverload)
Getting married at Taco Bell? That’s not quirky, that’s just sad. SAAAAD. (SeriousEats)
Here is a viral clip by the same art director of the upcoming Coraline. Umm… I don’t think mustaches are supposed to do this:
Pajiba Love brought to you by Stacey Nosek, who can be reached via email here.
Ranylt! What was that, a hostage terrorist video? That's the most disturbing thing I've seen since Brain Foot.
Posted by: Dustin Rowles at January 14, 2009 12:17 PM
I'm dying to look at the lulu link, but since it came from Julie I'm afraid to at work. Anyone? Is it ok or will IT and my boss be having a talk later today?
It's a semen cookbook, Lainey. You can thank my sister for that link.
Posted by: Julie at January 14, 2009 12:25 PM
I caught a Simpsons episode the other night and it was centered on Bart getting a cell phone. Something kept tickling the bottom of my mind, and not in a perverted way. Then it hit me what was wrong with the episode. I haven't watched a Simpsons episode since I was in college, which was a couple years before I bought a cell phone. Seeing cell phones on the Simpsons was bugging me the way seeing a cell phone in a World War II movie would bug me.
I feel old.
Posted by: stipe42 at January 14, 2009 12:29 PM
That mustache deserves a ride.
Posted by: jM at January 14, 2009 12:29 PM
I have one word in my defense: Herzog.*
*Yes, I know the languages don't match, but absurdity is like Esperanto: weird and universal.
I love that your sister sent you that link, Julie. My sister is still trying to digest the fact that I gave up my hymen blossom before getting married, and every now and then she'll give me the "I thought I knew you" look. Catholics...
I'm just pumped because BSG comes back this week. Wooo!
Me too! Me too! 20 months off. 10 episodes. 8 months off, finally the last 10 episodes!
BSG is the only show I watch real time (non-TIVOed) because I can't wait to watch it. Mrs. Stipe42 has to take medication to cope with me when it's on the air, because I stay up late drunkenly expounding about each episode.
Posted by: stipe42 at January 14, 2009 12:39 PM
That cat *loves* that horse! So cute.
Don't worry, Stacey, you're not the only one. I have never seen a single episode of 24. And I don't care. The Simpsons, however, I have never missed an episode of, not since it was on Tracey Ullman (yes, I'm old, shut it), so I'm kind of excited about that.
Ha! That high-5ing the blind guy? Was completely hilarious. Oh, Ryan, you're such a tool. (Although to be fair, that guy did really seem like he was looking at each judge individually when they were judging him. And I'm pretty sure he only got through due to the blindness guilt, because he just wasn't that good.)
So Hayden hangs out in Suffern? Really? I live 15 minutes from there. I wonder what "club" this is, 'cause all I've ever seen are dive bars (except for when they used to have the brewery. Then, there was also a dive with a brewery). I should go down there and kick her ass.
Ryan Gosling can "Hey girl" me any time. And by "hey girl", I mean "have sex with".
Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at January 14, 2009 12:41 PM
Julie: HAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh Godtopus, that made my day. I feel like I should buy a copy for Pierre, especially after that sonuvabitch decided to write on my facebook wall if I came on my cookies, and I had to pull an on-the-spot lie out of my ass for my mother as to what the fuck that was all about.
Also, thank you Stacey for feeding my love for Coraline. That is indeed a very talented moustache.
Posted by: Jeremy Feist at January 14, 2009 12:42 PM
And by "have sex with" I mean "In da butt"
Posted by: Be Adequite! at January 14, 2009 12:44 PM
(OCD) Um, Coraline. One 'r'. (/OCD)
Posted by: Camera Obscura at January 14, 2009 12:44 PM
I got married at work. Is that sadder than Taco Bell?
Posted by: Snath at January 14, 2009 12:48 PM
Alright, I must come out and say something: I don't like it when people use abreviations. I hate seeing "TMIYDHC" instead of reading too much information, you dumb hufflecunt.
I read BSG and immediately thought, "the Backstreet Girls are getting back together? I only knew of the Backstreet Boys... did I miss a band to loathe/love during my teens?" until I realized you guys were talking about Battlestar Gallactica (aren't you?) Now I'm left thinking I would've made an awesome token latina Backstreet Girl. Only I'd have a bigger fanbase than Howie. (Seriously, who in their right mind were Howie fans? It was Kevin and his perfectly rectangular eyebrows, all the way, hands down, happy eyebrows on my belly-button.)
I'll see your never-seen-24, Miss Nosek, and raise you the following:
Never seen Battlestar Gallactica, The Wire, Lost, Mad Men, Doctor Who (post Tom Baker), Prison Break, Heroes, or Dexter...
And I don't care, either.
I'll be at the end of my driveway if anyone wants to drive by and throw shit at me. I've got rocks though. And pretty good aim...
Posted by: Skitz at January 14, 2009 12:57 PM
Or a daycare?
Posted by: Julie at January 14, 2009 12:58 PM
Julie, my friend's girlfriend showed that to us a few weeks ago. She then squeeled, "Nutritious AND delicious?!" Then she threw her head in her boyfriend's lap and said, "NOM NOM NOM!"
She is my hero. She's everything I would like to be.
Posted by: jM at January 14, 2009 12:59 PM
I work for an insurance company. We got married in the parking lot on our lunch break, with friends and family and coworkers invited. The company paid for our cake and photos.
The idea of having a "real" wedding didn't appeal to us, and I detest most religions so there was no way I was stepping into a church. We didn't want a crappy ceremony at the courthouse either because that seemed so lame. So we opted for work and invited some people, it was fun.
Posted by: Snath at January 14, 2009 1:03 PM
It's a semen cookbook...
No lie, I read this fast and thought it said "It's semen o'clock."
That sounds like the best worst time ever.
Posted by: Snath at January 14, 2009 1:05 PM
The semen cookbook always makes me think of the worst-ever entree title... "The Seaman's Platter."
Go ahead, say it out loud.
You're welcome.
Posted by: TK at January 14, 2009 1:08 PM
Which leads us to an interesting comment diversion...
Where would your ideal wedding take place, and what would it be like?
Those who oppose marriage and/or aren't interested in it can also play. It's just a game.
I got married at work. Is that sadder than Taco Bell?
Do you work at a frozen banana stand? That has potential for the honey moon too.
Maybe you telecommute? Did you finally make an honest woman out of Rosy Palm?
Are you an ice cream truck driver?
Do you work in a prison?
Are you a travelling vacuum cleaner salesman who works out of his Buick? Did you marry the body you have in the trunk?
Posted by: stipe42 at January 14, 2009 1:08 PM
Snath: Hmmmm...when you put it that way, it sounds kinda sweet, really. What can I say, I'm a shameless romantic. Tell no one.
Posted by: Jeremy Feist at January 14, 2009 1:09 PM
If I were in a position to get married now, doing so at work would be freakin' sweet. Because I work at an amusement park. Exchanging vows on a roller coaster? Hellllll yes.
Posted by: Gabs at January 14, 2009 1:13 PM
"Nutritious AND delicious?!"
What, is this a surprise?
Well, the nutritious part anyway. It's a fact. The "delicious" part is highly subjective and highly dependent on diet. There's that celery theory too.
Because I work at an amusement park
You all know I want to get married at Walt Disney World, right?
Ideal wedding would be...anywhere. I don't care. It's important to my mother that I would get married in the Catholic church, and though I'm not practicing I'd do that for her. I just don't care though. As long as my insanely huge and crazy-assed family and my beloved psychotic friends are in attendance and as long as I'm marrying someone I adore.
Posted by: Julie at January 14, 2009 1:16 PM
Julie, my friend's girlfriend showed that to us a few weeks ago. She then squeeled, "Nutritious AND delicious?!" Then she threw her head in her boyfriend's lap and said, "NOM NOM NOM!"She is my hero. She's everything I would like to be.
I just choked on my crackers, jM. Your friend's gf is my hero now, too.
Posted by: lizzieborden at January 14, 2009 1:18 PM
...and as long as I'm marrying someone I adore.
Just marry someone you hate, it makes the inevitable divorce easier.
Why yes, I am hopeless romantic, how did you know?
Posted by: stipe42 at January 14, 2009 1:19 PM
It is not wise to be eating yogurt while reading about the semen cookbook, ugh!
Posted by: Alli at January 14, 2009 1:25 PM
There is just no male equivalent to cleavage, is there? Even if they had a place called "Cheeks" with hot dudes in t-shirts and g-strings, it wouldn't be the same. And I've never seen a piece of clothing that could just show testicle cleavage? I think until the guys come up with their publicly acceptable cleavage, they're hosed.
Posted by: Cindy at January 14, 2009 1:25 PM
I hear ya', Julie. I also must have the Catholic ceremony for my gigantic family (you think we'd survive a double wedding?) Also, I can't imagine getting married without my dad walking me down the aisle. But I'd like an outdoor ceremony: maybe my sister's country house... under the trees... right by the vines...
I don't know, Cindy, some of those guys wearing skinny jeans are showing off... if not cleavage then an equivalent of cup size.
I am ostensibly getting married in a church to please my family (when the time comes), but since with the size of my family I will have 250 guests, minimum, there's also the possibility that I'll just freak the fuck out and fly to Vegas to elope and then throw a huge party when I get home. This, however, would deprive my mother of getting to shop for wedding dresses with me. Choices.
I can't see any videos at work, but I listen to Bob and Tom on the way in, and they were talking about that cookbook. I have my own preferences for that....right from the tap!!
And, LOVE the rejected 24 plots!!! Although, some of those may have turned out better than last season. Glad to see Jack is back in ass-kicking form! "This is gonna hurt....AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!"
Posted by: dammitjanet at January 14, 2009 1:29 PM
Darn! I was hoping Snath would reply that he was a vicar. That would have been awesome.
Posted by: PaddyDog at January 14, 2009 1:34 PM
I wonder if there's a market for a smegma cookbook.
Posted by: Clee Shay at January 14, 2009 1:35 PM
I got married outside next to a little babbling brook, at a spectacular winery with a view of the mountains, in Cape Town, South Africa on a stunning summer day.
I can't say I'd change much.
Posted by: TK at January 14, 2009 1:35 PM
You all know I want to get married at Walt Disney World, right?
My best friend was going to do that, Jay. It's ridiculously expensive. Would've been awesome, though.
On the other hand, she did get married on St. Thomas, which was stunningly gorgeous, so I guess it worked out in the end. Especially considering I got a week long cruise out of the deal, too.
Posted by: lizzieborden at January 14, 2009 1:36 PM
OK, what the hell is going on with Hayden's shirt? Tell me it's not showing what I think it is...
Posted by: Leigh at January 14, 2009 1:40 PM
Ranylt:
You can't just invoke the Herzog defense willy nilly. Save it for when you really desperately need to excuse strange behaviour.
Posted by: PaddyDog at January 14, 2009 1:42 PM
That sounds incredible TK.
Best wedding I've been to was my friend Katie's, in Breckenridge, CO. It was at this gorgeous lodge and spa overlooking the Rockies. The ceremony was at sunset, on a deck covered in white lights. It lightly snowed the entire ceremony, which lasted 7 minutes and was officiated by a woman in a dress and white cowboy boots. Katie wore a gorgeous simple dress with a cashmere shawl and had a red rose bouquet. It was so pretty that even my best friend teared up, and he once shoved half an onion in his face just so he could cry.
Posted by: Julie at January 14, 2009 1:43 PM
Hmmm, I never really thought about getting married. How would that work? I guess I'd need a wrangler. Maybe some kind of dart gun and some electric fencing? Seating would be awkward with his family and friends, I wouldn't want anyone to get eaten. At least we wouldn't have to splurge on his suit, I mean, he was practically born into a tux. You know, I don't even know where I could that much bamboo for a reception. Do zoos cater?
Posted by: jM at January 14, 2009 1:45 PM
I got married in a church. A CHURCH OF AWESOME! WHOO!
Yeah. Just a regular church. Twenty minutes. In & out. Stole a box of Jesus Wafers and ate 'em in the hotel room while doing shots from a stolen bottle of Crown.
Posted by: Skitz at January 14, 2009 1:47 PM
You've got a point Genny, however, women also have butt cleavage. I maintain that dudes have to find their own equivalent of the boobies hanging out. I really think it has to involve testicles. You know how we have this unwritten rule that boobs can be out as long as you don't see a nipple? Like, boobs on their own aren't offensive - just the nipple. So, the men can't have their special purpose hanging out - that's the equivalent of the coochie (i.e. not allowed in public in any form). But I'm thinking testicles, peeking out, but not visible in their entirety could be deemed unoffensive. They'd be like tiny boobies, and they have no nipples so no worries there. I guess someone just has to invent a bra-like piece of underwear that covers the scary stuff (penis), but lets the testicle cleavage out.
Hmm, I wonder if I can make a million with this.
Posted by: Cindy at January 14, 2009 1:51 PM
Hayden is lucky she wasn't attacked or killed by homeless drifters when she visited Suffern, NY. I know that town well - it's a block away from where I live in much safer NJ, I work for their recreation department over the summer, and spent four years cleaning out air ducts in the (now leveled) old Avon testing facility. Lots of poor homeless drunk people who get into fights with everyone live there, and they are never denied admission into these 21+ clubs. Not to mention the ever growing assault rate in the town brought about by reckless teenagers and bars being the only profitable business.
Interesting fact: there are at least three big film shoots a year that come to Suffern because of its historic, 1890something founded theater. It's gorgeous. Simply gorgeous.
Stacey, maybe where YOU come from mustaches dont do that
You need to spend more time in rural UK
Posted by: nadine at January 14, 2009 2:11 PM
she did get married on St. Thomas, which was stunningly gorgeous
If you're into that tropical bullshit. WDW's Florida location counts against it, hell I hold my Miami birth against myself, so I do so with it were somewhere else yet also somehow still kinda convenient to get to. If I went to St. Thomas instead I'd feel like the people who get a Disney park hotel and actually hang out at the hotel playing golf and swimming and shit. I can't express how much that disgusts me. Utterly, utterly disgusts me. Call it Griswold of me, but you can hang out all you want back home or on one of the Virgin Islands, I've got SHIT TO DO. Like the Peoplemover and the Grand Prix Raceway.
So, how long til your vacation, Jay? You seem just a touch antsy.
You'd probably hate me on vacation. I revel in the relaxation portions of my day. And even at Disney, you can bet your ass I would spending some quality time in the spa at the hotel, getting my tension melted away and my nails did.
Posted by: lizzieborden at January 14, 2009 2:24 PM
I hardly ever get nauseous. Chemo didn't even make me sick to my stomach. But DA-AM-AH. That cookbook almost put my cheese sandwich lunch on a return flight home.
Funky.
And count me in as one who has never watched "24" either. I'm afraid I'd spend each episode waiting for "Maggots, Michael. You're eating maggots."
Posted by: Alabamapink at January 14, 2009 2:27 PM
Thanks for the Ryan Gosling blog. I think I've found my new happy place.
Posted by: Austin at January 14, 2009 2:39 PM
A billion Chinese people can't be wrong, 'Bama.
Posted by: TK at January 14, 2009 2:41 PM
I watched half of the premier episode of 24 and realized it would be a lot of effort to keep up with. So I bailed.
Posted by: Clee Shay at January 14, 2009 2:42 PM
Snort.
Posted by: Alabamapink at January 14, 2009 2:45 PM
On the Taco Bell wedding: If you have to tell people you are an "off-beat" couple, then you aren't a true "off-beat" couple. You're trying too hard.
Posted by: NotBlonde at January 14, 2009 2:48 PM
Sofia, I am in the early planning stages of my wedding right now. Its gonna be in the summer, and neither of us wants it in a church for several reasons, so we are looking into which friend or family member with lots of property wants it torn up by our boozing family and friends.
See, we've both had shitty previous marriages, and it has taken us too long to get here....so it is gonna be one hell of a party!!!
Anybody have any good ideas for cheap, simple outdoor weddings? I could use 'em!
Posted by: dammitjanet at January 14, 2009 2:57 PM
Jay you just reminded me of my dad. We've been to WDW twice, stayed at on-site hotels both times and he was ready to go at 7am since one park always opened an hour early for anyone who was staying in the Disney hotels and he was rarin' to get there before the hoi polloi.
For me, it more depends on where I am and how long I'm gonna be there. Ocean City, MD? Napping on the beach for most of the day. Florence? Up and out to the city by 8am, because I had to leave two days later.
Alabamapink, teehee!
I've only been watching 24 this week, and only this season, for the inredibly shallow reason that i've heard my favourite actor of all time Rory Cochrane is to be a guest start this season...I figured if i watch the season from the beginning I get to see Rory and perhaps develop an interest in the show...as yet I haven't done either
How ever, if during a torture session, Keifer said that line?
Guarantee i'd be comitted for life =)
Posted by: nadine at January 14, 2009 3:05 PM
Janet how about an evening beach wedding? If you can do it at a public beach it likely wouldn't cost you anything.
Posted by: Cindy at January 14, 2009 3:14 PM
That would be awesome, but we live in INDIANA!! Not many good beaches around. And, we are trying to do it fairly cheap....
I have always wanted to get married on a beach, though....hmmmmmm....discussion topic....
Posted by: dammitjanet at January 14, 2009 3:21 PM
You could get all your friends to bring their digital cameras and take the wedding pictures, and only let the ones who are really good at taking pictures do the official ones.
Another way to save is to do it in the daytime (I guess that's what you're going for, since it's going to be in the summer.) Oh, and I got all excited about your wedding, so I turned to google and I found Marquette Park and Calumet Lagoon. They look pretty awesome on GoogleMaps.
Janet, congrats first off, as for IDEAS..hmm...I'm with Sofia in the friends take pictures idea,thats what a few friends of mine have done, one friend is a proffesional photographer so did all their pictures for free since he can use them in his own portfolio anyway! Maybe also spread that around to other areas...if you have friends who can cook/cater, maybe if they do your food,that can be their present to you?
IMO, If you're getting wed in the summer, i'd personally have the service late afternoon, in your garden or a park like Sofia has said (Sofia, how do i do that gidgit over your i ? I learned all of them in school and forgot them after about a week =S) but then have candles or torches to be lit, or garden lanterns plugged into the house/generator, fairy lights etc, lots of little lights spread around, give it a fairytale/dreamy air, if thats something you're into of course(I'm basically giving you my wedding plan here...)But of course electric lights is a drain on your bill =S
The friends with the photographer friend, also had other friends who did the dresses, flowers, another picked a nice but relatively cheap dress from a chain store and had her bridesmaids pay for their own, only spending about fifty to sixty pounds each...
Also, music, a friend of my sisters is getting wed and they dont have a lot of cash, they where going to have an Ipod with a carefully picked playlist hooked up to speakers but then someone offered their gift would be to pay for a band/DJ etc
Maybe stuff like that?
Or if the urge takes, go Britney Spears on that biznitch and cater with fried chicken! I'd do that but i'm not a fried chicken fan. So my (imaginary) guests are getting pizza and mini hot dogs ,woo!
Posted by: Nadine at January 14, 2009 3:53 PM
My sister (ok, best friend) is a photographer, so she is up for pix. She can use them for ads and such, so that should be free or nearly so. Several of our family and friends do some catering stuff, so that should be covered. His entire family has a band, so he said he can cover the music.
Definitely looking at daytime. Don't they say you are supposed to get married when the hands on the clock are going up, not down? So, something-30, I guess. Sunset would be awesome....
BTW, I posted your question on my blog too, to see if I get any more ideas. My previous wedding, we thru together in a couple of weeks....and the marriage showed it! This one I want to be really special.
We both have kids, and they are going to participate. We need to save $$$ because we are going to be doing renovations to his house so we'll all fit, and we'll have 2 going to college at the same time!!
Thanks for any help!!!! I'll look those up!
Posted by: dammitjanet at January 14, 2009 3:54 PM
Jay...you need to get out of here and get to Disney, ASAP. You're becoming even more curmudgeonly.
That cookbook had me giggling for over ten minutes. Hi, I'm a 12yr old perv. Of course...I did send the link to my girl...just in case...
I, personally, am getting married in her church. I think weddings should be either in a church or in a beautiful outside location...no exceptions. No offense, Snath.
jM...she sounds AWESOME! And I'd totally go to your wedding. I even got me some formal cammies and a tranq gun I could bring! I could be the best bear...er...man!
Posted by: Shadows of Dakaron at January 14, 2009 3:58 PM
WHOA!! Those are up by Chicago! I am in southeastern Indiana......about an hour from Cincinnati!
I do have a dress.....I bought it several years ago, during my last FAILED relationship, just in case. Got it at a thrift store...it's antique lace, very '20's. I like that. He said it's my day, so make it what I want.
BTW, I WILL post my date, and invite all Pajibans to join the festivities!!!
Posted by: dammitjanet at January 14, 2009 3:58 PM
Oh, and the last two Hooters I've gone to have had almost all females undeserving of the title or the uniform. I've made matchstick men with more curvage. If they're gonna let any beanpole be a Hooters girl, they might as well let guys do it. Seriously...I've had more boob and/or ass than them.
Posted by: Shadows of Dakaron at January 14, 2009 4:04 PM
Smack me if i'm being innapropriate but will the Pajibans who cant make it see some pics?
I'm not the girliest of girls but your dress sounds awesome and i want to see how it all goes =)
Good luck with it all, and yay for having the friend/family connections to cover stuff!
I have to plan events for the (shakily run) company I work for and forget networking, half the time i'm going through my personal phone to call, variously, my mum, friends, old co workers, to beg, borrrow and steal the right stuff =)
Posted by: Nadine at January 14, 2009 4:05 PM
I will get a pic tonite and post it!
Sorry for hijacking this thread, y'all. (notice there are NO MEN answering any of these questions--I am however, STILL in the market for a Pajiba-bf!!!) but I need help!!!!
Posted by: dammitjanet at January 14, 2009 4:07 PM
And, uh, Nadine, I am a HUGE tomboy, so this is all very weird to me. Not a girly-girl, pink Barbie type girl at all. And, hopefully, this day will reflect that.
Posted by: dammitjanet at January 14, 2009 4:09 PM
That cookbook would make a fabulous gag (pardon the pun) gift for my chef husband!
Posted by: SCG at January 14, 2009 4:31 PM
Hee. Shadows, you're welcome to attend, just avoid those prissy llamas.
New Jersey never ceases to amaze me. It's like the Cops episode that keeps on giving. I heard about that Adolf Hitler kid when he couldn't get his cake made. Which, wouldn't you really want to keep a kid named Adolf Hitler as happy as possible? You know, just in case.
Posted by: jM at January 14, 2009 4:37 PM
Yay! Piccies! Woo!!
And heee, Janet me too, if you knew me in real life you'd wonder how i even knew what a wedding was, I am...not girlie...and yet i get a little giddy over babies and weddings...stupid ovaries and their stupid oestrogen...(actually today particularly I'm unwell and high off my norks so this may explain my WEDDDDDIIIIINNNG!!!!!! reaction)
But oh AWESOME, its my dream to if i ever get married have a very ME wedding...which may or may not break my dear mothers heart, hehe, but will be ME all over...and the groom, a bit, i suppose...
Posted by: nadine at January 14, 2009 4:42 PM
You're becoming even more curmudgeonly.
Oh, if one were to mention how relaxing staying at The Grand Floridian was at any time, my blood would boil. It's like when Moltar and Zorak have escaped and are holed up in Space Ghost's apartment preparing to make Unreasonable Demands, and Space Ghost was worried that his cable was out and through his megaphone out on the street says "can you at least tell me what's on?" and Zorak says that they're not even watching anything. "YOU'RE WASTING IT!!"
I stayed at the Polynesian when I went to WDW. There were many lizards.
Posted by: Julie at January 14, 2009 4:58 PM
Quiet, you in-park women! I've never been able to!
Sure, it'd sorta be a waste of money since all I want's a bed, but there'd still be a mystique of dashing out of and ignoring the Polynesian Village (and like I'm gonna waste time going back just to eat dinner rather tha at the Liberty Tree) rather than the Days Inn. They've got a $49 a night deal at their "Value" resorts, but it's ending about a week and a half before I plan to go and then goes back to $74. If it's gonna be 300 bucks for the two of us to get tickets for two days as it is I dunno.....
I do sometimes miss lizards. You barely ever see them up here, and they never creeped me out like bugs. They always seemed friendly.
We used to stay at Shades of Green, and crash all the other hotels.
Posted by: Shadows of Dakaron at January 14, 2009 5:07 PM
It was so great to have that monorail thingie stop right at the hotel. And they had parrots in the lobby!
I loved the lizards. My brother and I spent half the vacation trying to catch one for a pet. We had to settle for bitter disappointment.
Sigh...I want to go back. I went in '96, before the animal park was even built.
Posted by: Julie at January 14, 2009 5:21 PM
Hmm...am I the only one who remembers that King of the Hill did a frakkin HILARIOUS episode in which Dale threatens to sue 'Knockers' for not hiring him because he's a man? And they hire him anyway? and he has to wear the tiny shorts and the belly-revealing shirt? And that it was AWESOME?
And then he threatened to sue them because they weren't treating him like a sexual object?
Anyone?
Please tell me I wasn't the only one who watched this.
Posted by: figgy at January 14, 2009 5:27 PM
I can't remember what we stayed at when I was 8, but I do remember there were some Italian-ish restaurants in it? And, like, a little park area with parrots and flowers? When we went back with I was 17 we stayed in the campground area in a stand-alone trailer rather than a hotel. It was cramped as we were three adults (my parents and one grandmother), myself, my 15 year old brother, and my 8 year old sister. Fun fact: on our first trip to Disney when I was 8 my parents announced to my brother and I that my mom was pregnant with my baby sister, who went to Disney for the first time when she was 8. Congruity; I like it.
And yes, Julie, there are many lizards in Florida. When I went to Miami I was entertained at first but then realize that iguanas are poor substitutes for bunnies.
Interesting fact: there are at least three big film shoots a year that come to Suffern because of its historic, 1890something founded theater. It's gorgeous. Simply gorgeous.-Robert
I *LOVE* that theater. Love. It. I grew up in Mahwah and my dad took us there often when we were kids. That's where I saw Empire Strikes Back. I love that they have the Big Screen Classics program, it's so much fun to be able to see some of those films on the big screen.
Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at January 14, 2009 6:33 PM
Oh, and the lizards in Florida are the awesome. My grandparents had a lenai on the back of their house over the pool, and we would get up in the mornings and there would be li'l salamanders all over it.
Also, iguanas can be awesome pets. I had one who liked to play with my cats, and also to watch Star Trek. True story.
Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at January 14, 2009 6:44 PM
For people with kids, staying at a place on site is so lovely. We stayed at the Polynesian once and having the monorail and the pool (so the kidlets could wind down) was great.
Posted by: Cindy at January 14, 2009 8:15 PM
A moment of silence please? Ricardo Montablan has left the building.
Posted by: Cindy at January 14, 2009 8:19 PM
Cindy, next year my wife and I were planning to take Pookie Jr. to Disney World. We narrowed our choices down to the Polynesian and Animal Kingdom lodge. Which do you suggest?
Posted by: Pookie at January 14, 2009 8:23 PM
This year, I'm still thinking it's 2008.
Posted by: Pookie at January 14, 2009 8:26 PM
There's a Pookie Jr.? How did I not know that? I have heard good things about AKL also - so I'd say base it on whether your family is into seeing all the animals - or whether you'd rather have the convenience of the monorail (no waiting for the buses). The Polynesian also has a great walk in pool for little kids. You really have to base it on your family's personal preferences. For us, with little kids the monorail was a big factor.
Posted by: Cindy at January 14, 2009 8:37 PM
Thanks Cindy, it was either Disney World or a Cruise. We've done about 5 Cruises all over the Caribbean already. So Disney World it is, I wanted to see the Cirque du Solei anyway.
Posted by: Pookie at January 14, 2009 8:51 PM
Ok, this is not on my regular blog, but my ex reads it, and he doesn't know yet, but I have posted some pix of my dress.
Posted by: dammitjanet at January 14, 2009 9:57 PM
Sorry about the double post....my internet is up and down in the blizzard.
Posted by: dammitjanet at January 14, 2009 9:59 PM
Janet, that dress is beautiful; so delicate and detailed.
Posted by: Cindy at January 14, 2009 10:07 PM
The fuck! Damn lady, don't take this the wrong way, but you're creepy.
Posted by: Pookie at January 14, 2009 10:09 PM
Don't lie Cindy!
Posted by: Pookie at January 14, 2009 10:11 PM
Janet, I agree with Cindy - lovely dress.
Are you near Madison? Some gorgeous period homes there. Maybe some of them rent out for functions?
A little farther off is Brown County State Park. I know there's a good-sized lake there and maybe Nashville (the one in Indiana, yes, there is one) might have something picturesque. Last time I was down there (way back when) it was trying to be an artist's-colony-type of place, so the town might have someplace appropriate as well.
Posted by: bjs1109 at January 15, 2009 12:36 AM
I got married at work. Is that sadder than Taco Bell?
Posted by: Snath at January 14, 2009 12:48 PM
Holy. Fuck.
I leave town on business for a couple of days, and some fucktard Midwest couple goes and gets their 15 seconds of internet fame by getting married at MY GODDAM TACO BELL!
I swear my oldest kid lives on their crap, so not many days go by without me sitting in the drive-through lane at fucking 1501 E College Avenue in Normal (not), Illinois. And I missed this particular moment. Priceless.
P.S.
Jay, the Grand Floridian really is the shit. It's relaxation old-school...to the point of being kinda creepy. Plus, there are so many swimming pools that it was all I could do to keep my pre-swim-lesson rugrats from falling into the damn things.
Posted by: Che Grovera at January 15, 2009 12:45 AM
I dont know if you'll still even see this Janet but that dress is beautiful!!! *is jealous* ooohyou gonna look so pretttyyy!!
Posted by: nadine at January 15, 2009 3:47 AM
Thanks everyone!!!
I'm not far from Brown County bjs1109 so that's a possibility. Madison is a little farther, but still doable.
BTW, bjs, THOSE ARE MY INITIALS!!!! Kooky!!!
Posted by: dammitjanet at January 15, 2009 6:18 AM
Fun little fact I learned this morning on MSN...Amy Adams was a Hooter's girl. Think of that what you will.
Ranylt! What was that, a hostage terrorist video? That's the most disturbing thing I've seen since Brain Foot.