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bironic ([personal profile] bironic) wrote2010-02-05 11:28 am

Friday, flakes, funnies

People are battening down the hatches here, waiting for the storm they're saying will dump a foot and a half of snow by tomorrow evening. It'll be our third storm in a week. I am loving this winter, and not just because I get to telework so much. Wednesday morning dawned with an otherworldly landscape: branches coated with wet snow, lit yellow-white against the blue-gray clouds, a pale disc of sun visible behind them.

As the first flurries are falling, here are three things that cracked me up yesterday:

1. An email confirming that I got a spot on the White House tour (yay!) instructed me as follows: "Please be in line at 12:45 p.m. and don't forget your id." I'm surprised they encourage such wanton behavior, since things like purses, pens, "personal grooming items," stun guns and martial arts weapons are forbidden. I'd wondered if I could even bring my apartment keys, but apparently they do allow those in.

2. This indescribable political ad, found via this Slate article. Skip the middle if you want, but be sure to tune back in for ~2:20. Just. *hand flail* The pedestal and the drama and the demon sheep. It is brilliant in its self-aware cheesiness. The fact that most of it is narrated by Robert Davi just makes it all the more awesome. KOLYA DOES NOT APPROVE OF HYPOCRITICAL FISCAL CONSERVATIVES.

3. Eric calling children "teacup humans" on True Blood. (Here is the scene - gets best after 1:10. The kid's delivery of the Jesus line is equally fantastic. Warning for a Sam-related spoiler from season one, a spoiler about the villain in season two, and a season two spoiler in the title of another clip that shows up in the sidebar and in the main window when the video finishes. You can avoid the first two if you skip to 1:10.) I love him so much, and am so glad he got more screen time.

Okay, back to work.

[identity profile] zulu.livejournal.com 2010-02-05 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee! I think as long as you get to bring your superego along too, you should be pretty balanced during the tour.

Good luck surviving snowpocalypse.
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[identity profile] bironic.livejournal.com 2010-02-05 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
It is amazing the anxiety snow produces down here - and the random plowing patterns where the right lane(s) just suddenly stop being cleared and start back up again, but not before they've caused massive backups from the forced merge.

[identity profile] daasgrrl.livejournal.com 2010-02-05 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
1. Yay! So is this a super speshul White House tour of some kind? Where you get to see lots of... stuff? Shut up, I'm uncaffeinated XD
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[identity profile] bironic.livejournal.com 2010-02-05 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
:) It's super special in the sense that I'd have to wait about six months for the chance to get in instead of two weeks because it's with a(n alumni) group. Dunno what they show you except what I've seen in movies, but should be interesting.

[identity profile] m-supercomputer.livejournal.com 2010-02-05 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, it was Kolya! I knew I recognized the narrator's voice, but couldn't place from where. I love that commercial, though, and am going to find as many excuses as possible to use this animated .gif (http://wonkette.com/413527/226-never-forget) of the most terrifying segment.
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[identity profile] bironic.livejournal.com 2010-02-05 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha! Excellent. I had a great time watching some other Fred Davis ads today. The rat over Atlanta, hugging and kissing the golden dome, was especially wonderful.

[identity profile] m-supercomputer.livejournal.com 2010-02-06 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
Hee, was the rat one about an ox fighting King Roy, THE RAT? That one's amazing. Do you have the link? It used to be on YouTube, but the candidate's people apparently finally wised up and removed it.
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[identity profile] bironic.livejournal.com 2010-02-06 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, they linked to it somewhere in the Slate article, hang on - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvq1LT9yon4&feature=player_embedded#at=418

Fabulous.

[identity profile] m-supercomputer.livejournal.com 2010-02-06 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
Ahaha, that one's pretty great. The ad I meant was this one (http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/02/7_political_ads.php?page=2) - it must've been a take off of the earlier one, with more terrible animation and insane narration. And an ox. *g*
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[identity profile] bironic.livejournal.com 2010-02-06 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
Wow. That is... special.

[identity profile] synn.livejournal.com 2010-02-05 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
yay white house tour!
that ad is awesome.
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[identity profile] bironic.livejournal.com 2010-02-06 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
Demon sheep in the White House!
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[identity profile] ahab99.livejournal.com 2010-02-06 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
Man, I had no idea that was Robert Davi! I was too entranced by the extreme ridicularity of the rest of it to figure out who he was.

KOLYAAAAAAA!
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[identity profile] bironic.livejournal.com 2010-02-06 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Live up to your campaign promises or he will send Todd after you!