So Awake

Memo to the guy who yelled "Princeton's better!" at me from his car window this afternoon:

Actually, Princeton doesn't have a law school.

Don't call it a comeback

I'm caught up in the dual hell of still looking for a summer job and studying for finals, so things will probably continue to be quiet here for a while. But I had to share this video of John Edwards on the Colbert Report, which was funny enough to make me forget about law school for a few minutes.

Happy Peepster!

Peeps are my favorite thing about Easter. We put them in our hotel welcome bags for our wedding, and it was so awesome to fill an entire shopping cart with packs of marshmallow bunnies. The Washington Post loves Peeps, too, so much that they held a Peeps diorama contest. Check out the gallery of finalists -- there are some really well-done and hilarious submissions, including my favorite (pictured above), Peeplona: The Running of the Bulls.

Flag

Flag, originally uploaded by gwentropy.

I decided to join Photogamer because I've been having fun lately fooling around with the camera on my phone, and I figured it would keep inspiring me to take pictures of things other than Paddington. I signed up to get the challenges via Twitter, and it was surprisingly exciting when today's assignment ("flag") came through, kind of like I was a spy with a secret mission.

Cai Guo-Qiang - I Want To Believe (Guggenheim)

Endorsement

Church in Soho

Test

Testing email posting

The WB returns!

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the WB is returning in web form! So awesome. I just hope they manage to get the rights to stream Dawson's, Felicity, and Buffy -- along with Gilmore Girls, those were my favorite WB shows. And really, the WB isn't the WB without Dawson's or Buffy.

And now, because I'm feeling spammy with the YouTube tonight, here's the WB promo from 1999. Highlights include Meredith Monroe lounging on an enormous photo of James Van Der Beek's head, and Scott Foley trying to seductively slide down a fireman's pole. Also, for some reason Scott Speedman is entirely absent, as if by leaving out Ben, they could get people to like Noel more. Ha.

Late to the party

So about a million years after all my friends freaked out about it, I finally really want to see Once. I think it was the Oscar performance of "Falling Slowly" that got me, even though I still think it's creepy that they started dating when Marketa Irglova was practically in middle school (or the Czech equivalent) and Glen Hansard was like 30. Anyway, I used to always avoid the song when I heard it on the radio, because the beginning sounds just like Smokey Robinson's "You Really Got A Hold On Me", which gives me flashbacks to my days on the high school speech team, and those days are really best left forgotten. But now I'm kind of addicted to it, and am currently listening to it for something like the eleventh time in a row.

I do this with songs a lot -- I'll like something and feel compelled to listen to it on repeat for days until I move on to the next song. Before "Falling Slowly", it was "Faster Than Cars Drive" by Kate Tucker & the Sons of Sweden, and before that it was the first single from the upcoming R.E.M. album (more on that later). Last semester I probably listened to Coconut Records' "West Coast" a few hundred times, but I think that was at least partly about being homesick and missing Afsheen.

I was about to write something about how I don't really know how normal this habit is, and then I remembered how freshman year of college, Emily and I would watch the "She's A Rainbow" iMac commercial over and over together. So I guess it's not just me.

Also, that commercial is still pretty awesome even if it does look dated now (remember when you could buy any item imaginable in translucent colored plastic?):