Archive for August, 2010
C Gibbs playing “Alone with the Horse” live on my show
I’m having a wild and crazy Friday night involving trying to catch up on video uploads and also, shit tons of sex. I mean, you wouldn’t even believe what’s going on over here in between all the video uploading and rampant email checking and diet soda drinking. Anyway, enjoy this video! I demand you do so.
On Sunday’s ARIYNBF: There will be burps
Sunday’s ARIYNBF will be an effervescent fizzy affair and I mean that quite literally as Yami and I (and perhaps DUSTIN) will be drinking various carbonated beverages to see which makes for the most immediate belch. (I imagine we’ll also be grading said burps qualitatively).
Now I know what you’re thinking: that’s brilliant! Thank you, I agree. See, the way it came to me was last night I took a sip of Diet Root Beer and had a near instantaneous reaction. Then I wondered what it was about Diet Root Beer that’s so predictably burpy. Then I contacted Yami who said she’d be honored to belch on my show.
By the way, I’m quite aware that I may drive people away with this segment however I can’t help myself. It’s just good entertainment and also, it will be fun right up until the point one of us accidentally barfs.
Also? All the other amazing stuff which you have come to love including fan phone call and Just Me Or Everyone and Dating Experiment and Deleted Tweets and me shooting myself out of a cannon.
Also, I just added a little album on the show’s FB page for show sponsors. Go there and take a gander, won’t you?
And completely unrelated, Dustin recently reminded me of this humor-piece I wrote about why you should be grateful to be poor. Click it if you want to be mildly amused!
What I would yell if I were yelling something
Today is one of those days (and there’s nothing specific about today) where all the little petty disappointments and annoyances and rejections or rejection-seeming things that pile up in the course of a life but especially one in the industry I’m in just seem especially intolerable and I’m filled with this angsty/cranky/temper-tantrumy desire to yell at the top of my lungs, “I’m important, dammit!”
And normally I wouldn’t admit to something so vulgar however I’m pretty sure everyone feels it from time to time. And the weird thing is it’s not being triggered by anything really and even the knowledge that Jersey Shore is on tonight isn’t snapping me out of it which means it’s pretty serious.
In other news, there are about a zillion blog posts building up inside me causing immense blog pressure and I might have to have this blog lanced.
The adorableness that is my mom with the adorableness that is Tobey
Tobey always orders a Frappeccino.
Lunchtime Interview #3: Andrew Mager; mayo agnostic, nap taker
Today we caught up with Andrew Mager who apparently actually works in between taking naps and playing ping pong in his new role as “gazetteer” at SimpleGeo.“Back in the day a gazetteer was a guy who worked with the mapmaker to figure out where the addresses would go on maps. I’m a finder of places,” he says, of the job title he admits he made up. “So you work in conjunction with a cartographer?” we responded, because we wanted to use the word cartographer. Then we realized we were using the second person for no good reason so I stopped. Also, Andrew Mager designed and coded this here web site you’re looking at.
Can you name this sandwich?
Tell me about this sandwich.
It was introduced to me by my lovely colleague Nicole. She cooks breakfast on Fridays. We have cheap breakfast croissants in the freezer but she went to the store and bought croissants, thick cut pepper bacon, Velveeta slices and the secret ingredient which is mayonnaise.
Mayonnaise is controversial.
It is and a lot of people saw her using it and said they no longer wanted the sandwich.
Do you agree with their decision?
Not really. I don’t really like mayonnaise either but Nicole said Read the rest of this entry »
On Sunday’s ARIYNBF
On Sunday’s episode of Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend, C Gibbs of Lucinda Black Bear will be playing live in my apartment. Here’s one of his music videos.
I suspect when he plays on my show it’ll be a little less bombastic and more ballad-y, more akin to his stuff on his earlier albums, but I could be wrong. He’s one of my favorite musicians though, so I’m really excited.
Also? Other surprises including all your favorite things plus other things!
Hey, here’s an idea! Send your phone number for the Phone a Fan segment and maybe we’ll call you. Send it to fanphonecall@alisonrosen.com.
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