from the WOW report, which I found by doing my daily slog in the salt mines, during which I admire my manicure and listen to loud music and eat snack foods and drink refreshing beverages and get paid to read gossip blogs.
It’s a brutal job, but somebody’s got to do it.
uh, blog content.
Yesterday I unplugged for the entire day and read the only example of chick lit ever to fully engross me: the quite non-fictional Lindsay Moran‘s Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy.
And it occurred to me: given that most women buy their own perfume, rather than leave it to some guy, why are there no perfumes that are marketed using the superhero archetype? Or the superagent one? I would totally buy something that made me feel like Supergirl or Emma Peel; in fact, that’s how I choose perfumes: by balancing alluring qualities with kickass ones, which is how I ended up with Chanel #19, Allure, and (in my dreams) Midnight Poison, DKNY Red, and Stella McCartney, all of which can be described as kickass yet fuckable.
Is it related that today I am wearing my cape? I should totally make an indoor cape, for blogging, just to put myself in the right mindset. Why should imaginary people have all the fun?
Seriously.
Also, it keeps the tentacles warm.
“There are only two kinds of bad guys. Live bad guys, and the ones who’ve met Chuck Norris.”
This has got to be the single best blender marketing video the universe has ever witnessed, and if you doubt it, click for yourselves.
We’ve really been struggling to find something that could challenge the Total Blender’s blending capabilities. What could we blend that’s stronger than anything we’ve ever blended?
Then it hit us like a roundhouse kick to the face…Chuck Norris!
Hat-tip to Stiletto, for the inspiration to post it.
Cross-posted from runningthroughrain
Save the date for No Turning Back – A Fundraiser For Trevor Greene
Date: Wednesday September 26
Time: Doors open: 8pm,
Show starts: 9pm – 12am
MC: Todd Battis CTV News Reporter
Band: So Tight Band & Brickhouse the Band
Place: The Yale Hotel – 1300 Granville Street
Price: $20
On September 26 we are gathering together at The Yale Hotel for a
fundraiser to assist Trevor, Debbie and Grace on their miraculous
healing journey. Captain Greene was attacked from behind and struck with
a taliban axe on March 4, 2006 while sitting in a peaceful Shura
discussing how to bring clean drinking water and basic medical care and
education to the women and children of Afghanistan. His survival has
been called a miracle in the medical profession as he presently
undergoes extensive rehabilitation to speak and to reconnect his brain
and muscles in order to regain function over his entire body. Hosted by
Master of Ceremonies and CTV West Coast News Reporter Todd Battis, the
entertainment line up will feature the infectious sounds of the SoTight
Band (www.thesotightband.com) and Brickhouse
(www.brickhousetheband.com). Tickets to No Turning Back – A Fundraiser
for Captain Trevor Greene are $20 in advance or at the door. Doors open
at 8pm. Show time begins at 9pm. Price of admission includes a silent
auction, 50/50 draws and raffle items. Proceeds from this fundraiser
will go to the Captain Trevor Greene Trust Fund.
Items for door prize, raffle draw and silent auction include two flights
tickets and accommodation to La Penita Mexico, wellness gift package,
one room night in an executive suite and dinner for two, dinner for
four, dinner for two, brunch for two, wine gift basket, chocolate gift
basket and much much more.
Companies that have generously donated are: Casita de la Penita,
Signature Vacations, Foundation for Integrated Health, Fairmont Hotel
Vancouver, Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, Sylvia Hotel, Century Plaza,
Brockmann’s Chocolate, Safeway, The Yale Hotel, In Motion Lotion, Cactus
Club, T tea room and merchant, Terra Bread, Liberty Wine Merchants, The
Atlantic Trap & Gill and Tamsen Ogden Photography.
If you can’t make it to the fundraiser but would still like to
participate following is the trust fund information: Captain Trevor
Greene Trust Fund, CIBC Account #39-31137 (Bank 010,Transit 00500).
You can conveniently purchase a ticket using your credit card through
paypal: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/71765653 . If you do your
tickets will be kept at the door the night of the event.
For more information you can contact Valerie Gibbs by phone at
604.992.4697 or via email at vcg at sfu.ca.
For more information on Trevor here is a few links:
“They had the original bus that Rosa Parks sat in, the one that sparked off the civil rights protests. It’s beautifully preserved. I was going to sit in her seat but there was a black woman sitting there at the time. I thought better of asking her to move.”
An anonymous but sensible Detroit conference-goer quoted in the Guardian
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