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I tell Kevin about my day.

Uppity — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 16:08:36 +0000

Dancing with the movie stars

Uppity — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:31:50 +0000

I don’t post videos too often because they seem to slow down the loading of the blog, but I can’t resist sharing this one. Where else will you see Gene Kelly, Jay and Silent Bob, Patrick Swayze, Rocky Horror, Mary Fucking Poppins and many more dancing together to Footloose? If you can get past the 2 seconds of Jamie Lee Curtis gratuitous pelvis-pumping in the beginning, this is really fun. Kudos to the editor, too — pretty seamless.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYL3j27sSH8[/youtube]

Old Grey Bonnets

Uppity — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:36:38 +0000

This is a video of Kevin and me in a parallel universe where we have been married for 62 years and both play the piano. Note that butt-grabbing appears to transcend space and time.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI-l0tK8Ok0[/youtube]

Pirates who don’t do anything

Uppity — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:48:03 +0000

Shiver me timbers, it’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day again!

Celebrate with a cuppa yer fav’rit grog an’ this gang of bloodless scallywags.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaWU1CmrJNc[/youtube]

The lyrics to this masterpiece of silliness are too funny not to post.

I’ve never plucked a rooster
and I am not too good at ping-pong
and I’ve never thrown my mashed potatoes up against the wall
and I’ve never kissed a chipmunk,
and I’ve never gotten head lice
and I have never been to Boston in the fall

More utter nonsense after the jump. (Thanks, Kris, ye saucy wench!)

“The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything”

we are the pirates we don’t do anything
we just stay at home, and lie around
and if you ask us, to do anything
we’ll just tell you, we don’t do anything

well I’ve never been to Greenland
and I’ve never been to Denver
and I’ve never buried treasure in ST Louie or ST Paul
and I’ve never been to Moscow
and I’ve never been to Tampa
and I’ve never been to Boston in the fall

we are the pirates we don’t do anything
we just stay at home, and lie around
and if you ask us, to do anything
we’ll just tell you, we don’t do anything

and I’ve never hoist the main sail
and I’ve never swabbed the poop deck
and I’ve never veered starboard, cause I’ve never sailed at all
and I’ve never walked the gang plank
and I’ve never owned a parrot.
and I’ve never been to Boston in the fall

we are the pirates we don’t do anything
we just stay at home, and lie around
and if you ask us, to do anything
we’ll just tell you, we don’t do anything

I’ve never plucked a rooster
and I am not too good at ping-pong
and I’ve never thrown my mashed potatoes up against the wall
and I’ve never kissed a chipmunk,
and I’ve never gotten head lice
and I have never been to Boston in the fall

(pirate captains log 2002
who be this band relient k
and why they be so full of contradictions)

we don’t know what he did
but we’re down with captain kidd
we don’t wake up before lunch
but we all eat captain crunch
we don’t smoke, we don’t chew
we watch captain kangaroo

and I’ve never licked a spark-plug
and I’ve never sniffed a stink bug
and I’ve never painted Daisies on a big red rubber ball
and I’ve never bathed in yogurt
and I don’t look good in leggings
and I’ve never been to Boston in the fall

we are the pirates who don’t do anything
we just stay at home, and lie around
and if you ask us, to do anything
we’ll just tell you, we don’t do anything

we are the pirates we don’t do anything
we just stay at home, and lie around
and if you ask us, to do anything
we’ll just tell you, we don’t do anything

[tags]VeggieTales, pirates, International Talk Like A Pirate Day[/tags]

Chat Noir

Uppity — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:24:23 +0000

In protest of A Day Without Cats on the Internet, I bring you The Cat Piano. Which I might have done anyway, shocking ailurophobic campaign or no, but still. Watch it and know that the coolness of Cat can never be suppressed.

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/3985019[/vimeo]

I heart the latest short film by The People’s Republic of Animation, narrated by Nick Cave.

We’re gonna have a good time

Uppity — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:23:30 +0000

Being a music-lover is awesome because that means many of your friends probably are, too. This greatly increases the chances that you will get serenaded on your birthday.

This year I got two songs, which I am trying to figure out how to transfer from my answering machine to my computer so I can save them for posterity, they are that funny.

But the love doesn’t end there – I also got a video version of one of the birthday songs, which thanks to YouTube I don’t have to learn DOS to save.

That adorable little baby in the video is Zoe. She has osteopetrosis, and recently had a bone marrow transplant. Her music-loving mom is Kellie. She has no hair because she recently donated it to charity. Both of them are recovering well, and you can see more of them here.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uva_Tbpdl4M[/youtube]

[tags]osteopetrosis, music, The Beatles[/tags]

I’m getting older, too…faster and faster, apparently

Uppity — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:38:03 +0000

May 25th is the day that I, along with my fellow free citizens, take time to honor the many women and men who have served us. It is also the day that I, along with me and myself, run to the bookstore for a momento to honor Mr. Fix-it’s latest successful orbit around the sun.

Kevin is a year older than me but claims that from some mysterious mathematical perspective, that 365-day length of time somehow gets shorter and shorter the older we get.

So does that mean if we live long enough, we’ll get into negative numbers? Will there be a brief, shining moment when we were born at exactly the same time, and then we start going in the other direction, like Benjamin Button? Will I be Cate Blanchette to his Brad Pitt?

Anyway. This is for the child within your heart.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2p5augniQA[/youtube]

good-ass mothah likah

Uppity — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:11:44 +0000

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdRfhARwGoI[/youtube]

[tags]Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry[/tags]

Champagne toast to Earth Day

Uppity — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:10:47 +0000

Going green doesn’t have to be snooty – let the Guide Girls prove it to you. (Where can I get one of those flying nun hats?)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6SpiHs2ls0[/youtube]

[tags]Earth Day, Guide Girls[/tags]

Kindred spirits, we haz dem.

Uppity — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:31:29 +0000

I’ve written my share of rants about the bizarre cultural trend of sexualizing little girls, as evidenced by the rising popularity of padded bras, thong underwear, and stripper poles for eight-year-olds. As depressing as such things can be, it’s heartening to know others are just as pissed off about them as I am.

Nine Deuce’s post on “making your 6 six year old sexy as fuck” via quality mother-daughter time at a day spa managed to make me laugh and cry (and throw up a little in my mouth) at the same time.

Hey, if you don’t get her used to the idea early on that she exists on this Earth to be looked at and lusted after, she might get the foolish idea that she’s a human being, and we all know that leads to disappointment, frustration, and a sense of unfairness — and then on to FEMINISM! And we wouldn’t want that. Men don’t want to fuck you, what power have you got as a woman?

Word.

[tags]feminism, misogyny, sex[/tags]