Thanks @[588214987:2048:Phoenix Robles]! This is grrrreat.

http://www.topcultured.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/balloonboyfb.png

If model body by 30 is a real goal, let me share with you 🙂

http://midcitymike.blogspot.com/2009/05/summer-ready-nutrition-kickoff.html

It wasn't me.

http://midcitymike.blogspot.com/2009/10/cop-attacks-mouthy-cartwheeler.html

Great article. Makes me want to go volunteer at a youth outreach program.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/magazine/27out-t.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

's level of crazy: he's taken to posting on tPiR message boards like an octogenarian silver surfer.

http://www.priceisright.com/fan-boards/discussion/54/category/10/topic/193

Rawr.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAuCN65LaB0

Team sketch roll call: WTF? at Taint Tonight. Lets dance.

Between the lavender for class and the etsy recommendations I've been sharing with my students, you've been swirling in my head.

Slumber party?

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=30911272&ref=sr_gallery_5&&ga_search_query=lavender_essential_oil&ga_search_type=all&ga_page=&order=&includes%5B%5D=materials_exact

Its been two months since I left the service industry. Memories!

http://midcitymike.blogspot.com/2009/09/tip-your-waitstaff.html

Missin' you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gviu6M95EoM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gviu6M95EoM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDqO5iiPoog&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDqO5iiPoog&feature=player_embedded

http://earthtainer.tomatofest.com/

http://earthtainer.tomatofest.com/

How I love Dolly Parton.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqaV1PnDJBU&eurl=http://www.dollypartonmusic.net/&feature=player_embedded

I want Michael Jackson's unreleased material to find the light of day... but I secretly fear it will be as soulless as this video. Did anyone else read "Wrinkle in Time"? I hope for the happy medium.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58n8_hN1cOA&feature=player_embedded

Thanks for finding this Katie. @ 1:50, She and I make an appearance on Conan along with Shitsauna, our trusty hot mess of a lug-a-loo. Look for me sitting in the tent. Or, just enjoy the video... it made us all laugh!

http://www.tonightshowwithconanobrien.com/video/clips/triumph-visits-bonnaroo-pt1-061909/1128174/

My childhood likes this.

http://widgets.nbc.com/cscallback/urlexchange/4727a250e66f9723/facebook.html?x=N152XnBeI1t3WSdfdA97XnBab10jWyddc1hyWHpZdVgjXiFEdl5wXiNbd1lzCHAIcg93UA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH0lEVMuzzw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH0lEVMuzzw

Yep

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/07/bret-michaels-knocked-dow_n_212386.html

Hahahhahaha.



http://www.miller-mccune.com/culture_society/gay-men-on-campus-smart-studious-involved-1282

http://midcitymike.blogspot.com/2009/06/im-too-old-for-this-crap-tv-edition.html

I'm the rootin'est, tootin'est cow poke in all the land.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amGMIdFB3KQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amGMIdFB3KQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amGMIdFB3KQ

I was pleased with an article from the nytimes this morning, and ended up with today's post. I like it, and thought I'd share 🙂

http://shar.es/1lFr

Watch the video

http://midcitymike.blogspot.com/2009/05/universal-gear-aka-universal-queer.html

....

http://wonkette.com/408523/moonie-times-considers-wire-photo-relevant-enough-for-story

Fabulousness.

http://www.metroweekly.com/scene/pic_viewer.php?p=2009-05-07_1191_42165.jpg&k=1191&d=56

Loved it!

http://midcitymike.blogspot.com/2009/05/fischerspoon-stunnin-and-dancin-930.html

Hey! The District Vinyl Record Fair is totes going on at the Warehouse on Saturday. I'm going!

http://midcitymike.blogspot.com/2009/04/maybe-ill-finally-find-dolly-partons.html

Kylie Week Continues, here on Michael's Facebook page!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zvkp-3_eLk

A debate is raging in the southern US... via church signs!

Amazing!

http://evilbeetgossip.film.com/2009/05/05/just-because-21/

A look at ME Swing's Coffee Roastery

http://midcitymike.blogspot.com/2009/05/perfect-cup-me-swings.html

In others news, the CDC has reported that the Swine Flu has become airborne. Mass panic to ensue.

http://midcitymike.blogspot.com/2009/04/and-im-pope-gimmie-my-hat.html

Bea Arthur and Rock Hudson.. "When horse was Ride and roach was bug," sings Bea.

"When too much acid just gave you gas," sings Rock.

Hunter S. Thompson and Timothy Leary approved!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3VbSfQ3nAM&feature=player_embedded

In Honor of Bea Arthur... the most surreal thing I could find. The Star Wars: Holiday Special.

She totally pulls a Whoopi and plays an intergalactic barkeep.

ONLY SHE SINGS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzXKySxPFCI&feature=player_embedded

Remember how I was worried about IMF protesters getting in my way on the way to work? I needn't have bothered. They came right to my door.

http://midcitymike.blogspot.com/2009/04/protesters-come-to-me.html

Luckily this didn't happen while I was getting tattooed. Then again, I shy away from G-town and Jinxproof.

http://midcitymike.blogspot.com/

Watch this.

It's a video from Britter's concert. It's eerie with the fans losing their shit. I fucking love crazy dirty brit-brit.

Even if you don't, I suspect you might find this hot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJrqXJxK3tw&eurl=http://lj-toys.com/?journalid=3616053&moduleid=61909&preview=&auth_token=sessionless:1240632000:embedconte&feature=player_embedded

Today's Run!

http://midcitymike.blogspot.com/

Is it Patrick? Check out April 17th @ http://lookatthisfuckinghipster.tumblr.com/page/

http://8.media.tumblr.com/37jsqloFrmei1tryTYW3so1lo1_500.jpg

I've been doing a lot of educational reading.

Yoga, yoga, yoga.

The topic of Batman managed to leach a few hours from me. Here is a round up/summary of whats been happening in the bat books over the past year.

I'm hoping Dick Grayson ends up as Bats, but thats just me.

http://comics.ign.com/articles/956/956858p1.html

Susan Boyles (you know, the Britain's Got Talent Spinster) performs Cry Me a River (not the JT Version) for a charity CD out of her hometown. 1999.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8r9lRJ6yHY&feature=player_embedded

I had to take a cab to work today.

Stupid fucking grossness weather.

The attached video is why we have to be nicer. I don't want to be them. Or maybe I do. I don't know.

Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5hH8AkWDlU

Thank you so much, Anthony.

I nearly died.

Bleach your teeth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5hH8AkWDlU

I really enjoy Patrick, the Yoga Garden teacher who is featured in this video. He's been doing periodic yoga vids for quite a while.

I'm not a surfer. I'd like to be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WE34C2eiiI

Why didn't someone tell me this was going on? I would have totally entered!

http://www.thesword.com/index.php/hardnews/2421-qlivestock-jesusq-crowned-hunky-jesus-2009.html

We're a dangerous people.

http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/904759988.html

Ink.

Yes, please.

http://contributingeditor.blogspot.com/2009/04/tattoo-youth.html

Dear Mr. Mix-A-Lot,

When I was young, MTV wouldn't play your saucy, ass-laden video. Now, as anyone who knows me knows, I have an affinity for booty songs. Dirty, nasty, sing-songy booty songs.

I sing 'em at work. I sing 'em when I shower. I sing them with every bit of joy and mirth my tuneless, keyless voice will produce. Even friends know these songs by heart and will join in.

Why are you bastardizing my bliss?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm6d2oy8GRk&feature=player_embedded

Krista doesn't really allow me to go to Philly unless its a completely neccesary stop on a bus or train.

For as much as I like grime-grime-grime, I don't like over priced grime. Hence the reason she won't let us go.

Should we have a hankerin' for some Cheesesteak, this is where we'll go. I have to admit, Ritas takes care of my fix for italian/water ice. I discovered my joy of over-the-counter flavored ice in Harrisburg, but Mom used to buy Luigi's for the freezer.

Anyway, lets get cheesesteaks!



http://frozentropics.blogspot.com/2009/04/philadelphia-water-ice-reopens.html

I've got to go get a copy from the library. Has anyone read about it? OUT Magazine used a portion of it to "out" Matt Drudge (you know, of the drudge report).

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416542051?ie=UTF8&tag=crspoli-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1416542051

Getting back to work on "the plan," this is totally my boyfriend; he may not know it yet, but I'm fairly certain we're soul mates.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgDb9JUQd5o&feature=player_embedded

Delightful.

So, for now the plan is:

a) Meet Man
b) Fall in Love
c) Drive to VT, IA, or MA and get hitched
d) Come back to DC

I gotta get to work.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/07/AR2009040702200.html

A healthy dose of surrealism:

Dolly Parton performs with Minnie, Daisey, and Snow White for a rendition of 9 to 5 that includes Daisey Duck bicycle kicking from her desk.

Dolly Non-Sequitur!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQgYx9cqzyY&feature=player_embedded

Here's a little ferocity for your morning:

I defy anyone to be that fucking flawless in a purple jumpsuit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1plvBR02wDs&feature=player_embedded

This 1986 Interview with Dolly Parton from 60 Minutes... ahhh... How I love Dolly Rebecca Parton.

"If this is trash, then I guess I'm trash."

"I've got a brain under this wig and a heart under these boobs."

As a child? The snow and cold, cracks in the walls, cracks in the floor ...the snow would come through the floor boards. "...little snow dirfts like lines of coke in the floor."

Amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dGbLtlwEA4

Seeing as how I'm not jewish nor that I grew up in I grow up in a jewish neighborhood, passover food is always an unfamiliar and exciting delight.

Like a somewhat less-desserty, thicker than (yet not as solid as) croissant pudding, Kugel is my favorite seasonal, nonsecularly secular treat.

Not sure about Kugel? Ask wiki! Better yet: Ask the counter lady at whole foods!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugel

Your people are amazing. 🙂

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iHUp4BkOCwXHCaN3c1RyYj61fYTQD97B1TH80

I've had my eye on Clocky since '04-ish. Mark and I loved her. I'm thinking about the Sonic Boom.

http://www.esquire.com/features/the-digital-man/alarm-clocks-0408

A fly on the wall while I'm home alone would find me madder than a hatter.

That said, the service industry lends itself to a few unique perspectives in regards to human behavior. That is, bullshit better left at home.

Leave your gum in your mouth. Wrap it nicely when you're done. Throw it in the proper recipetical. Do *NOT* stick it under a chair/table, as this makes you an ass.

Just like rearranging the sugar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMUcq4htakE&feature=player_embedded

There are very, very few sugary things that Fatty doesn't love. Peeps function in the same realm as Cadbury products, Recee's Peanut Butter Eggs, and Snicker's Nutcrackers-- I'm only allowed to eat them once a year.

Oh, the Peep. Shiny, glistening, glittery sugar! Delightful in my mouth, magic in the microwave. Much like baby giraffes and golden retrievers, I find you precious in your newborn form!

With this winning expose into Peeps, I'm reminded that that Chicago Tribune is going out of business, yes?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/peeps/sns-peep-factory-pg-002,0,6308948.photo

I fear for the future of my favorite alternative rag.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/03/31/washington-city-paper-parent-co-wins-bankruptcy-ruling/

I've been thinking of you this morning. I found a delicious-seeming Hot Toddy Pudding Cake recipe that seemed like magic.

Then I found these adorable little cheese-and-carrot bento delights.

They seemed very, very Amy.

http://justbento.com/handbook/bento-decoration-techniques/carrot-and-cheese-stars-flowers-hearts

Please make this for me.

k thx bye.

(or we should get Amy to help... shes such a good little baker!)

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/apartmenttherapy/thekitchn/~3/ZPRiONA_0Dw/look-hot-toddy-pudding-cake-at-gourmet-080641

Who wants to go see the Nats on Opening Day?

I wouldn't mind a little Obama-proximity, a new hat, and an excuse to enjoy a frosty cold adult beverage and a Hebrew National with kraut.

....mmmm....

http://dcist.com/2009/03/not_even_obama_can_sell_nats_ticket.php

Thanks, Towleroad, for the best headline of my morning.

I'm from a part of the country where joining the military is a very real opportunity for those who don't wish to be farmhands or make less than 30k a year for the rest of their lives.

Louis Sheldon and Andrea Lafferty make some absurd statements in their arguments to keep the mo's out of the mil. I like that they also are concerned about about Drag Queens joining, and (in the same breath) imply that they're the same as transgender folk. All I can think of is the Eddie Izzard bit about Drag Queen Paratroopers.

http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2009/03/and-theyll-replace-guns-with-dildosaahhh-fear-aaaaaaaaaah.html

I listened to this podcast on the way home from Jersey yesterday, all the while thinking of you!

http://www.wnyc.org/music/articles/27256

For all of my friends who are vocationally challenged, you're not alone.


http://dcist.com/2009/03/dc_february_unemployment_rate_at_99.php

Mmmm.... Not quite a pretzel, but pretty close to it. Maybe I'll do a video of me getting into "the sleeping yogi" pose this evening after I practice-- I think you'll get a kick out of it. There is something to be said for having a video floating around with both legs behind my head and my clothes *on*.

Has anyone seen this?!

Where can I get it locally?

http://www6.netrition.com/bell_plantation_pb2.html

I watched "Primetime: What Would You Do" and was made uncomfortable by the whole venture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-27OrJOqhw&feature=player_embedded

Thanks, Joel!

Aside from being six-packed hot dudes, this video totally brings the clever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EUupnF02vo

This poor guy. He really has stick-to-it-iveness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKxmM9n1b8g

I've loved her since she was Nell on Ally McBeal.

I'm glad she finally apologized.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ9sBkgDRzY&feature=player_embedded

I worked at a Renaissance fair one High School summer. Suzi was my wench, and I hocked s'burry shortcake.

The chick I rode with LOVED Celine. I get it now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEggoXwoXEY&feature=player_embedded

A fascinating photo series.

http://www.exactitudes.com/serie.php

Where Da Gold At?!

Geoffrey and I went down to the Dubliner, DC's oldest Irish bar/ restaurant, for some St. Patrick's Day themed food. I was craving corned beef & cabbage, and Geoff has his mind set on Shepherd's pie.

Rocks weren't the only things shammed on this trip. After a $10 cover charge just to get in ("come back tomorrow, it'll be free," says the bouncer) to the dining room, we were seated upstairs with super drunk woman in green pantsuits (and terrible makeup), as well as their stodgey 'til crunk white male counterparts.

The people watching was the best part: my meal came out tepid at best. I sent it back to get reheated. Geoff's shepherd's pie looked great, but apparently was only good.

I knew I could do better. Shepherd's pie is made with lamb or mutton, of which I found none-- today I instead made "Cottage Pie." I cut the meat down to a pound and threw in some yummy extra yellow onion and lots o' garlic.

G'luck, and Happy St. Fattrick's Day!

http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/000216easy_shepherds_pie.php

I nearly choked to death laughing.

Sebastian got worried.

http://www.erinjackson.net/blog/2009/03/17/i-want-the-gold-aka-happy-st-pattys-day/

14th Street's getting a new coffee house, just above the not-quite-recently relocated Miss Pixies @ 1626 14th.

For those that don't know, I spent a good chunk of my early DC life as a barista/cocktail server at the Dupont South Cosi. We were the "other side of the tracks" Cosi, serving up scandal with our Double Oh! Arctic Mochas.

After becoming firmly disenchanted with my coffee options here in mid city, Daddy went out and got himself a french press and coffee grinder. Now I only grind freshly roasted beans every morning.

When I want a little treat, ACKC does a good job of filling my caffinated sweet tooth, but what about when I need to get off the couch and do some work? Where do I go?

Certainly not cruise-a-bou at 14th and Rhode Island. I'm excited!

http://amandamc.blogspot.com/2009/03/mid-city-cafe-coming-to-14th-street.html

Theres a new Pho joint opening up in Columbia Heights, a very short bicycle ride circulator bus ride north!

Here's hoping its better than the Pho @22nd and P or the join in Cleveland Park.

http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2009/03/pop-preview-pho-14/

I now have an every-10-minutes bus that stops at my house, the new Target, the Adam's Morgan Hemp Shop (Capitol Hemp), and a final destination next to the zoo.

Amazing.

And only $1.

http://theheightslife.blogspot.com/2009/03/countdown-to-circulator-bus-route.html

How I play to gain everything I've lost back in one sitting. You should, too:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7720569/

Good news all around.

Maybe I'll be able to grow myself a new liver.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/08/AR2009030801476.html?nav=rss_email/components

On solstices and equinoxes we do a 108 sun salutations in the yogic tradition. During medaitation, when I'm silently spinning the beads on my mala, I have 108 beads before my guru bead.

But why? When one of my student's asked, I gave a few of the stock answers I knew off the top of my head (proportionate distance between the sun, most common denominators, etc).

Here's a good read.

http://www.hknet.org.nz/108meaning.html

Via Iconoculture:

"Part wall of shame, part blame game, part dark comedy — the online photolog ThisIsWhyYoureFat.com is straightforward data wrapped up in a complicated package of consumer emotions."

In the photo is a meatloaf cake, the frosting is (presumably) mashed potatoes, the decorative lettering atop? Ketchup.

I was so proud of my super healthy buffalo meat loaf from last week and after seeing this, I kinda wanna die. Ditto on the bacon-and-fudge danish I saw.

http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/

Courtesy of Monique's amazing art-and-life blog, Meristem Studio, I stumbled across this print on Etsy. It's gorgeous. Monique referenced it as haunting, and I'd can't say it beter.

http://meristemstudio.blogspot.com/

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_1&listing_id=19720457

Totally made me smile.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWDTomtjGms

This is a remix of the song that has been in my head for the past 8 years.

I sing this song *alllllll* the time. I love it.

I'm one step closer to finding the original.

JOY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lquTst5-b2Q&feature=player_embedded

I... I think this is it! It's the song in my head!

YEEEEES!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lquTst5-b2Q&feature=player_embedded

My apologies to Monique, but Seth Rogen as Frida might take the cake.

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/848/comedians0904pp09.jpg

I fucking love this skit.

I'm always happy when I don't have much to do between 10 and 11. I like watching these two. I'd like to believe that this is what would happen if I were given a show.

http://widgets.nbc.com/cscallback/urlexchange/4727a250e66f9723/facebook.html?x=mFmXU5FTwlaWVMZSlQKaU5FXjlCaBcBUkALAU5NclVGSAppJl12bApZSxlCUUMUFxwGVAQ

I can hear it. I'm almost 26. Hurray!

Its a terrible noise.

http://trainhorns.net/sound/

Kitchy and fab:

Ellen and Portia, Rosie and Kelly, Jack and Ennis, as well as glam top hat wearing Giraffes(my power animal!).

In the water? Kenneth Starr, Larry Craig holdin' a toilet, and Pat Boone with his prop hate loving guitar. Oh, and Fred Phelps, of Westoboro Baptist Shame.

Thanks, Towleroad.
via: http://feeds.towleroad.com/~r/towleroad/feed/~3/faGSU1P-HgY/the-gayest-painting-of-our-time.html

http://towleroad.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c730253ef0112790c4eaa28a4-popup

Quick and engaging article about "Umami"-- something that rang a bell, but was deeply interesting to have spelled out.

True Fatty Knowledge.

http://www.cookthink.com/reference/651/What_does_umami_mean

Amazing.

It made me cry relentlessly.

I watched it before Milk, and unfortunately couldn't help but find myself comparing the drama to the documentary.

The documentary won the Oscar, deservingly so.

http://www.hulu.com/the-times-of-harvey-milk

Matt Winslow... something you want to share?

http://www.sexypeople-blog.com/2009/02/matt.html

I

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/19/AR2009021901780.html

Love this bitch.

She helped me learn to save.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yeyjbQvnxQ

There's hope!

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/08/11/2331197.htm

Hey! 31 Days 'till my next marathon!

http://www.nationalmarathon.com/Map_2009.asp

Beyonce.

Amazing.

http://i39.tinypic.com/rvkim9.jpg

Local GWU Freshman was kicked out of NROTC for kissing a guy at a party. Two of his fellow NROTC fucks saw him at said party and tattled.

The Hatchet reports.

What can we do in protest?

http://www.gwhatchet.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticle&uStory_id=c079e894-f2e6-48b3-a80b-3826adaa9736

How do I get to be Mr. Gay World? Team Sketch, lets get to work on this.

http://www.towleroad.com/2009/02/post-4.html

Amazing. This High School student has been posing as a chick to get naked photos of guys at his school. He's conned at least six of them to s'in a little D in the school bathroom, threatening to show the blackmail-y pictures of them all around school.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/waukesha/39124037.html

Claires? Say it ain't so! And Blockbuster.

This list is worth a look.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/15-Companies-That-Might-Not-usnews-14279875.html

The really interesting thing here, I think, is the 1 in 5 statistic for those who have tried to take their own life. I'd not be surprised if the numbers were the same here in the USA. Also: One in Four seems low for the "beaten up" statistic.



http://www.independent.ie/national-news/one-in-four-gays-has-been-beaten-up-1623750.html

This is Matthew Mitchum. He has the best dive score in the history of the Olympics. And a boyfriend.

Beautiful.

I'll be jealous later.

http://towleroad.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2009/02/02/mm1.jpg

This is terrifying.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alcohol/2008/calories.shtml

This is Michael Phelps.

That is all.

http://www.towleroad.com/2009/02/michael-phelps.html

No, no, this post isn't about Brit-Brit, though she does look good in the hat. here are some of the best Aretha looks from the more recent years. I personally love each. and. every. one.

http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/31670148.html

I can not wait to make this.

http://www.cocktailia.com/cocktail-recipes/cucumber-cantaloupe-cocktail

Sorry, Mo. Apparently Poor Hello Kitty didn't pay her gambling debts.

http://www.kittyhell.com/2009/01/06/hello-kitty-death-cake/

Eric Reader posted this first. It made me cry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFz-FMj-9Ps

Amanda found this. I find it amazing.

http://totallylookslike.com/2009/01/08/posh-spice-totally-looks-like-sleestak/