Mr. Val and I recently entered a contest over at Rooster Teeth. The deal is to make a 10 second video quoting your favorite line from their Red vs. Blue online show for a chance to win their whole series on dvd. We've been watching RVB since the beginning. They did an off-shoot video six or so episodes into their very first season. It was a little E3 promo thing for Halo. I've never played Halo or an X-Box, but I love the RVB series.
Here's the whole original video.
Our entry was split into three parts, but it's still pretty funny. We come in around 22 seconds (watch for the Iron Maiden tshirt).
Silly but fun. Chupathingie.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090824/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_health_care_age_gap
I declare shenanigans on the above AP article that us 20 something Obama supporters have nothing to say about healthcare reform. I'm 28 and have the following to say:
1 - Call me a socialist, but god damn it, health care is a moral issue and it should be the right of every citizen, especially in a developed nation such as our own, to have access to care without going into debt (really it should all be paid by our taxes and made available for free to the public, but we know that will never happen in our self-serving, greedy capitalist system).
2 - We need the public option in Obama's plan to stay put.
3 - Peoples need to start reading the actual FACTS about the bill before forwarding another garbage email full of lies. If you believe half the shit that anyone emails you, you're a fool, and if you forward it before doing the research you're an even bigger fool than I took you for in the first place.
Flame away folks.
Our office held its regional board meeting last Wednesday at the Hyde Collection. Until mid-October they are hosting an impressive Degas exhibit with nearly 35 pieces on loan from all over the world, including the Louvre.
I don't remember the names of some of these pieces, I had to find them on an image search by memory, but these are a few of the paintings/sketches I enjoyed the most.
I had never been to the Hyde. I wasn't very social at the event so I took a self-guided tour through the rest of the home after touring the Degas exhibit.
Mrs. Hyde's home is lovely and as you walk upstairs there are a few bedrooms, but also an amazing music room that overlooks a beautiful courtyard through French doors. You can see the room on the virtual tour here.
I went into the first bedroom and happened upon this ugly sucker.
When I stepped into Mrs. Hyde's bedroom I found myself face to face with a much nicer painting from someone equally prominent.
Back in the music room they had a two gorgeous tapestries, Triumph of Faith and Triumph of Love. I stared at Triumph of Love for a good long while because I was trying to figure out what what the hell was going on in the bottom left corner. Looks like the dude is lying under a giant set of testicles. When I saw it was called Triumph of Love I figured that my guess couldn't be too far off!
*I'm sure I've told the story before about the game before the movie starts in the theater. They'll show pictures that spell out names of films or actors/actresses...for a long time Hoyt's (when they were still around) had one that was a picture of J+[light switch] followed by a cue ball and a bag. Of course, it always sent us into fits of giggles over poor John Ballsack.
I finished season 2 of Angel yesterday and then this morning re-watched the last three episodes because they were so darn good.
I'd say that if you're ever trying to get an outsider to watch Angel, you should hook 'em with those three episodes. Of course, I still haven't gotten Mr. Val to bite...I'd really love for him to get into this series.
Time to go catch up with the hood!
Like I have time for questionnaires. I'd rather just summarize Proust.
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