Hello, Halloween

Halloween totally snuck up this year, like a sneaky rat bastard in a slinky rat costume. This is no good! Due to absolute Halloween success in the past few years, the bar keeps rising, and DUDE. It's the best holiday. I really need more time to prepare. Here are the ghosts of Halloween past.

2005: Evil Tinkerbell. This was probably the best Halloween in the last five years, due to living in LA + Dennis as Yao Ming + general hedonism. Plus, I made it myself out of a kelly green "Dynasty" style dress, which is kind of impressive. PLUS, this is one of the best pictures of me to ever exist.



2006: iPod dancer! I believe Cragin gave me this idea off a "Halloween Costume Ideas For Lazy People" website. As it was too soon for a Couples Costume, Dan was Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. FYI, I spelled that without looking it up. Also, important note: in 2006, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had not yet come to Columbia for the speech that suddenly put him in every late night comic's opening monologue and into the id of the casually educated American. In other words, everyone thought Dan was "Who?". The random party we went to that year was fairly sick.



2007: This was a good one too; what can I say? Here we are as Jack and Meg White, and Ameet was the Indian Waldo. We saw 2 other Waldos that night, and the Tallywhacker blew both of them away. Can you find him???




As for this year... stay tuned.

Californians Unite!

So I've been reading about goings-on in my former state, and learned that the conservative Christians in California (?) have taken a number of creative stances on Proposition 8, a ballot measure that would nullify same-sex marriage.

1) Were Prop 8 to be defeated (which would keep same-sex marriage legal), churches refusing to perform same-sex marriages would lose their tax-exempt status.

2) Same-sex marriage would be taught in public schools.

3) It would hurt small business. (No, I'm serious. That's one of their positions).

4) It would send evil, activist judges a message!

These are all BS. The government cannot and has never been able to tell churches who to marry. Marriage, of any kind, isn't taught in schools. Small businesses already have to cover domestic partnerships in their insurance plans. And without activist judges, there'd still be "colored" drinking fountains.

So, Californian readers! I know there are a couple of you left. Vote No On 8! Even the Governator opposes it. But remember, you have to physically vote for that specific ballot measure. Fill in the blank. Be proud that you can.


(And, tentatively, vote Yes on 2, the chicken coop initiative. But I need to do a little more reading on this before recommending a ballot measure on a state 3000 miles away).

Lately

So... it's gross out. For some reason I wore jeans to work and they're all wet on the bottoms and I'm considering taking an early lunch at where ever you buy sweatpants and buying sweatpants. It's that kind of day. Everyone at the office has this face like there's a weird smell. It's like that last week of school when even the teachers are pretty open about wanting to go home.

SO. What else is going on???? Dan's mom was in town this weekend and we saw Young Frankenstein, which was great. I guess it wasn't the opening of the heavens that The Producers was, leading to all the crappy reviews last year, but what can I say? We were all bouncing in our seats.

Oh. Also, bouncing in my seat because in eight days, Obama is going to crush it.

Very Expensive Suiting

[[cue Don Pardo]] And nowwwwwww... REALLY?! with Seth and Amy... and Meghan... [[Pardo out]]

Really? RNC, you seriously spent 150k on clothes for one person? Really. I am a girl and I think that's ridiculous. She can wear things twice. Really? Really. You can spin it, like, she's so normal and down to earth! She's only got so many separates! She doesn't have time to shop! You could have made her a guest judge on Project Runway for all I care. Karl Rove would never have let this happen. REALLY! HUH!


That said, they are pretty great suits.

Holy Crap

Absolutely amazing. Amy Poehler, I wish you weren't leaving SNL, but I will follow you, where ever you may lead.

Take The Red Pill

Last night Cragin invited a bunch of us to an event her company was hosting, and you guys, it was so fucking classy. There were waiters carrying around little spoons of caviar and THOSE waiters were followed by OTHER waiters with special trays for you to stick your used spoon in (Larry David's Skewer Problem: solved!). DJ Jazzy Jeff of Fresh Prince fame spun some nineties tunes with a cadre of dancers with Hammer haircuts to interpret and perform "Jump On It." I swear, "find a PR friend" should go before "job" and after "apartment" on everyone's moving-to-NYC checklist.

I brought Dennis, as the event promised a special performance by Ne-Yo and DK is a fan. I left just as the set was starting but SOMEHOW could not spot Dennis in the crowd, which was unusual as he is a lumbering giant, and am slightly concerned that he may have been attacked by either his last Hennessy cocktail or the feisty girls in front. Dennis... reach out to me...

Puffery

So there's a big ole puff piece in the Times about my old job! Despite multiple inaccuracies, that's pretty cool. Then I got a cold sweat flashback when I saw the picture of Mini Control.



Ok upon closer inspection that's 3C. But still. Mini Control. Oh good lord I will never set foot in that room again. You haven't lived until you've tried to get a class of 30 French-Canadians to read the fake news and a hammy West Virginian to use a greenscreen.

They also got a shot of the lunch table! Besides working SNL, the lunch table is what I miss most.



Awwwwwwwww. What else should be front and center in times like these?

What Up What Up?

What upppppppppp playas? I'm Andy Martin! I'm the dude who started all those rumors that Barack Obama is a secret Muslim! Love me or hate me, you gotta admit my gee whiz smile is pretty ingratiating. Hey now, just because you think I should be shot doesn't mean I'm not interesting! I was even on the front page of the Times today! Did you know that even though I graduated law school, I was barred from practicing because I was judged to be TOO CRAZY??? FOR REALZ!!! Man that was a joke!!!! Anyway, I started the whole "Arab Obama" rumor directly to appeal to Florida Jews, the kind that that see-you-next-Tuesday Sarah Silverman's trying to bring over to the Dems. Like that's gonna work, SILVERMAN! Maybe you should try letting them know that I once ran for president on the platform of eliminating Jew Power!!! Except that's actually true. Peace out, homies. See you in Novemberrrrrrr!

AHHHH! AHHHH! AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

NEW 30 ROCK FOOTAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


(very Oprah heavy).

Ahhhhhh

Remember how I posted recently about adorable Obama supporters?

This is not one of them:


I'm not wild about McCain, but at least his several celebrity supporters can dress themselves.

So Wrong It Is Right Indeed

This might have made me weep freely the first time I saw it. And the second. And fifth. And eighth. Is that wrong to do-do-do?

(Embedded it originally, but a certain element of surprise is necessary).

I Like To Touch

I got an iPod Touch for my birthday, because it's important to stimulate the economy in times like these.


I am obsessed with it.

Awwwww

Sometimes I have to remind myself that not everyone in the red states are plotting against me.

Happy Happy Happy

It was my berfday yesterday! Hoopla! Mom took me to lunch at Blue Ribbon and baked cupcakes for the office, and then Dan took me to Craft and we ingested 48,000 delicious calories of duck liver and kampachi and caramel ganache tart with spiced pear ice cream. Yummmmmmm. I love birthdays. Despite Facebook's dehumanization of social interaction, that "Today's Birthdays" feature is pretty sweet.

Then we got down to the real business of the day: the VP debate. Duh. Palin didn't eviscerate herself, unfortunately, and even though she's still painfully... ugh... how can I put it? Alaskan? I don't know that many Alaskans, so I can't compare. I'd like to think not. Just so fake-folksy, so stuck to the talking points, so "I'm a firecracker! Who cares that nothing I'm saying is organic to my own beliefs!" So she did well. For her audience. Unfortunately.

Biden, though, really impressed me. He spoke fluently and managed to hammer his points without condescending to the absolute joke standing across from him. I hope his little choke-up when he spoke about his late family members humanizes him to people who need to vote for candidates who remind them of themselves. Even Gwen Ifill did well! I say this because I remember the last VP debates, when she couldn't remember whose turn it was.


"Say it ain't so, Joe?"

Really?

Rallying The Youth Vote

From Katie-- click to enlarge.