Observation deck

I would just like to point out that Suri Cruise is now rocking the Maggie Lillis look circa like 1987-1992. And, boy, she looks thrilled.



Don't fret, Suribot, you have bigger fish to fry.

ZEKE

Zeke the Wonder Dog is a Michigan State legend. He also was the reason for my most stressful day at my college newsroom ever. But to honor U of M week, I give you a sort of video about this Frisbee-catching ball of fur.

Go Green! Go White!


Zeke The Wonder Dog from Anthony Siciliano on Vimeo.

(I think the video is too long and there are too many cliches but it was still cute.)

Totally looks like jealousy

This Web site TOTALLY conflicts me.

I have it linked on my Google reader and I always get excited when I see new posts. Then I usually get so mad that I consider unsubscribing to it.

Want to know why?

I get so jealous that I didn't make the connection myself between two celebrity look-alikes that I want to cut that bit of genius out of my life.

This post totally makes me look like a 7-year-old defriending the neighbor girl with the Power Wheels because she had that bitchin' ride and I just had a purple bike. Only in this scenario, I can't peel out of her driveway and show off by riding with no hands on the handlebars.

Whatever, my bike never ran out of battery power and I never got grounded for plowing over my dad's foot on it.

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"I'm just going to sit over here and text like a Kardashian."

- Out of the hysterical mouth of this hoe

Blerg!

For the love of Liz Lemon, I just noticed something.

In the episode of 30 Rock titled "Fireworks," Tina Fey (hallowed be her name) says "There is an 80% chance in the next election that I will tell all my friends that I'm voting for Barack Obama but I will secretly vote for John McCain."

What blows my mind is the this episode aired in April 2007, which is more than a year before we knew who the presidential candidates would be narrowed to. How did they know?!

Further proof 30 Rock is genius.

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"Whores are a problem!"

This was yelled at me as I scampered into local Target store one night. I was dolled up but wearing a pretty normal summer dress. The guy was in his 20s and he literally paused his cell phone conversation to yell at me.

It has been one of the highlights of my time in Vegas.

Have a great week.

Phantom Menace

My cell phone is definitely my adult Linus' blanket. Aside from being, you know, a necessary and quite useful tool, my scraped lil' Chocolate is like a companion. It charges under my pillow (fueling my future brain tumor), rests on my lap at work and during car rides and is always, at most, a few feet away. When I first got my cell phone (I was 16 and dating someone the parents did not like), I instantly bemoaned the technology. I thought it was just a tether. Now I can't leave home without it, have left work to retrieve it. No lie.

The concept of "phantom vibration syndrome" isn't new nor terribly scientific. I had a crazy case of it yesterday while riding to a crime scene.

I was in the passenger seat of a photographers car, feverishly mapping the location in his GPS. As I cursed the touch screen, I felt the purse at my feet vibrate. Panic began to brew and frustration festered as reached into my purse and found I was wrong. I dropped my phone back into my purse and not even 10 seconds later, I heard the chirp of a new text. Reach in, dooped again. It wasn't the photog's phone, I knew that for sure. This was my mind playing tricks on me.

On the return trip, I thought I felt my phone vibrating on my thigh. I did a little silent scream to myself and reached into my phone. No effing activity.

I think I need to take a phone hiatus. A whole day away from my little buddy that has so much influence on my life, it is messing with my head. How liberating this will be! Sweet freedom. A brief respite for me to live life again.

Yeah, it won't happen.

LOL, HAHA, HEHE, ETC

I can just hear Oprah saying "I cried my eyelashes off." I laughed my ass off.





She's probably going to have me killed for this.

I believe in this

I'm going to start watching this on Sundays instead of going to church. God put this in my life for a reason.

There are no words

New pet peeve

I take issue with the over-used phrase, "I can't wait."

Thing is, world, you have to wait. Did the Back to the Future movies teach you nothing? You can't speed up time. Please find another phrase.

On a related note, I will be doing my celebratory spins of victory and joy in my living room in ONE WEEK.

Exclamation points for everyone.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And you know what? I can wait to visit home. Because I have to.

Dancing water is magic

I still have a deep love affair with the Bellagio fountains. I know it's just water spraying into the air but, good golly, I love it.

But their song selection is getting a little outdated. They play mostly classical and Vegas-specific tunes but I feel like my wide-ranging music tastes could help them here.

What people may like to hear synchronized with magic dancing water:

1)" Salisbury Hill" by Peter Gabriel
2) "Shining Star" by Earth, Wind and Fire
3) "It's a beautiful life" by Ace of Base
4) "Your love is lifting me higher" by Jackie Wilson
5) "In the air tonight" by Phil Collins
6) "What a wonderful world" by Louis Armstrong
7) "Good day, sunshine" by The Beatles
8) "Vertigo" by U2
9) "Free fallin'" by Tom Petty

What I think would be kind of entertaining to hear synchronized with magic dancing water:

"Give up the funk" by Parliment Funkadelic
"Cars that go boom" by L'Trimm
"Puttin' on the Ritz" by Taco
The MSU Fight Song (for obvious reasons)
"Party Hard" by Andrew WK(with lyrics!!! this will spook every fanny-packin' NaNa on vacation)
"Ghost ride the Whip" by Mistah Fab (this would make Las Vegas Boulevard more of a nightmare and I would love it)

(Side note: I have seen three couples get engaged in front of the fountains. My song selections would make that special moment even better, right?! I'm thinking it would get its own page in the family scrapbook)

The mind of a SPAM writer

Isn't the trickery of SPAM mail kind of brilliant?

I mean, the authors, much like that hard-working scribe above, of the hundreds of SPAM e-mails that land in my work inbox everyday really get me thinking.

It makes me second guess everything. They have gotten really clever about sending them from senders with common names and even go so far as using Gmail accounts. Maybe I DO need to help them. Maybe I DO need a better sex life. Maybe I DO need a better SPAM filter.

Imagine the brainstorming sessions they have. A couple of guys sitting around a computer, none of them speak Engrish very well but all think they are very savvy. They are all smoking and tossing out subjects that will get people's attention.

"Sex!"
"Free money!"
"Breakthrough diabetic formulas!"
"Web sites!"
"Pensises!"
"Pleas from Nigerian presidents in money trouble!"

I received one this morning from "Natasha." Her subject line was "I fell bored" and she claimed to be a lonely woman who "live in Russia and search for love." That's convincing.

I would really love to meet these SPAM generator and immediately delete them.