Back to business. When I was younger, my aunt had a dog named Tara. Tara would sometimes break into her dog food stash and eat and eat...and eat and eat and eat. Then, completely engorged and full, she'd crawl under my aunt's bed and cry to herself, completely having a pity party. Today, fresh off the heels of two massive meals with folks I love, I kinda wanna do the same. If I could figure out how to fit under my bed and cry, I totally would but for now, I'll have to settle for groaning away, looking up at my ceiling. There's gotta be a word for this. I feel like that girl in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory who they have to roll away. All of that to say, I'm a little distracted (and honestly, a little drunk right now) but here are my top picks of the week:
- So, I think we've established by this point that I love me some Aaron Sorkin. The only thing I like more than Aaron Sorkin is an Aaron Sorkin parody and Seth Meyers' this past week was top notch (though honestly, Seth, from me to you, why is the rest of your show not this funny? SHAME SHAME SHAME). I've basically sent this to all the people I know who love The West Wing already, so some of you may have already seen this but damn, it's worth sharing out far and wide.
- I loved the story of Patrick, a deaf teen in Uganda. For fifteen years, Patrick has not been able to communicate with his family, members of the community, other than through very rudimentary gestures because sign language isn't available/taught in his home. This video shows footage of Patrick's very first sign language class, after a sign language teacher finally comes to his community in Africa. I dare you to watch it without tearing up just a little.
- I kinda wish I could make this my ringtone.
- So a total confession about me: I LOVE messing with Siri on my phone. It is by far one of the dorkiest, lamest things about me (which says plenty, just trust), but sometimes I will literally sit for 30 minutes just messing with her, asking her to be my friend, questioning whether she's Her, trying to do knock knock jokes with her, etc. So Siri related humor is already up my alley. Add Taylor Swift to that (yes, I know, I'm giving her another shout out here) and I'm all over it.
- These windshield wipers are the only reason I think I'd ever want to drive a car again.
- Haley Morris-Cafiero's art is so important--and pretty biting at that. Haley's angle: capturing and criticizing our society's way of interacting with and commenting on overweight/obese individuals. Morris-Cafiero basically sets up cameras in public spaces to capture the looks that people give her regarding her size. The results are pretty damning, really sad, and should make us all think twice about how we respond to people who are overweight.
- I think we all need just a small dose of panda triplets in our lives.
- My friend Sita has slowly turned me into a cat person. I don't know how it happened! But the transformation is complete. I happened across this video this past week documenting what happened when researchers unleashed kittens on stressed out people! (Someone find me one of these glass boxes, stat).
- My love of stationary and cards is pretty infamous amongst my group of friends; I get teased about it plenty but honestly, I have a pretty good sense of humor about it at this point. Yes, I have a PaperSource problem and could probably take it down a notch when it comes to sending out cards to people with sentimental platitudes or ridiculous inside joke drawings. No, I don't plan on changing my behavior or doing anything differently. Anyway, I've been bugging out a little because I think I'm not going to send out Christmas cards this year; my friend Ryan sent this to me in response (I think, really as just torture. Bad Ryan!) There's some really funny ones here (I particularly like 5, 9, 10, and 24).
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