wardrobe 911 or is that 1985?

Let no-one claim I am not artistic. Yesterday I came into a much-needed five bucks, for doing nothing more than sitting in a sunny office with three other DTESers, spouting off opinions about the people who are allegedly paid to help us get jobs. It took an hour. Five bucks for an hour of opinionating about Welfare service providers: I could be a millionaire before I run out of things to say.

But did I take that five dollars and get myself a nutritious lunch, or a week's worth of veggies at Sunrise Market? Oh no I did not. I walked myself over to Yaletown, confirmed that my hairdresser would extend credit, got my hair done to Malibu blonde perfection, then settled my linen-clad ass in the cushy sofa at Starbucks for a few hours. Sometimes you've just got to go West Side, ya know?

So what does this have to do with Worker #3116? Well, the next thing to get revamped is my wardrobe. Pulling out my jeans the other day, I realized that over 50% of them are – get ready – pegged. I shit thee not. Cuz yeah, nothing in the world is as flattering as jeans that skim the hips, then pouf out and billow around the legs down to the ankle, where they nip in smartly. Yeah, that cut would make Heidi Klum look like a cankled camel. So it is time for some new jeans.

Here is what Worker #3116 has to say about eighties jeans:

Clown Coffee is wearing these retarded jeans today that look like something I would have worn in Junior High with the cuffs pegged. They got me thinking about those Bugle Boy commercials where people would go out of their way to imply that they were sexually attracted to you, when really they were just sexually attracted to your horrible jeans. And I was thinking about how those ads would look today.

2006 Bugle Boy Jeans Ad #1
Nightclub. Nelly plays in the background. Scantily clad women gyrate, people drink expensive cocktails, the men all have five o’clock shadow and their shirts half-unbottoned. A man stands by the bar in his Bugle Boy jeans. He sees a woman in hot pink eye-liner with a razor-cut hairdo sitting on a velvet couch, checking him out. She runs a hand along her upper chest. Beads of sweat have collected on her upper lip. The man tries to play it cool, but he looks over and the sexy woman is still checking him out. The bartender sets down the man’s Smirnoff Ice, and as he goes to pick it up the woman’s fingers graze the back of his hand. Nervously, he looks up. “Hi…” he manages. The woman smiles seductively. “Are those Bugle Boy jeans you’re wearing?” she asks. Confidently, the man nods. “Why, yes, they are,” he says. “TOLD YOU BITCH, PAY UP!” the woman shouts to her friend, still sitting on the velvet couch across the crowded bar. “YEAH, BUGLE BOY JEANS, CAN YOU FUCKING BELIEVE IT?” she yells as she recrosses the room to get the bet-payoff from her friend.

And so on, and so on. I need new jeans NOW!

Operation Global Media Domination: Operation Deflation

TIAYou know you've entered the insane levels of the No Green M&Ms Concert Rider/spending most of the party in the bathroom with Nicole and Lindz celebutasticism when you check your stats at ten in the morning and are crushed – CRUSHED – to see you're only at 498 hits so far. And only #50 in the top 100 blogs on WordPress.

CRUSHED, I say!

Today

101 bottles of diet coke, 523 mentos 197

Linkie o' the Day: Beautiful Agony 31

Clay Aiken Michael Sandecki Flashdance    24

Shiloh shocker photo exclusive!    15

Watch the World Cup on your computer    9

Operation Global Media Domination: Egg Day    8

Hottest Pickup Lines of the Fourteenth Century    7

The 100 Most Influential People in History    7

Streaming Eagle Cam 3.0: Swartz Bay    6

Operation Global Media Domination: The Search for Meaning    4
 

 Meaning. Yeah, the meaning of all this is that cool science trumps sports, ourdoorsiness, and sex. At least, for those who spend their lives online; but is this exactly news?

Slash…not just a guitarist!

My thanks to the professedly swaggering hetero Frontier Editor for the following, which I heartlessly stole from his blog. There are those for whom innuendo is not enough, and it is for them that some twisted soul made the following Star Trek slash vid. If you have to ask which characters, you know less about both Star Trek and slash than you should to be wandering around on your own out here in the blogosphere. Please go on to your choice of World of Warcraft or Guildwars and hire a guide.

for your next lost weekend

Pyramid of Drunkards 

Or period of unemployment. You know, tanning always bores me senseless; I suddenly discover that I have a need to pee every 15 minutes, my book is dull (the same book that is fascinating indoors) and there are all these tiny little critters with far too many legs outdoors. Perhaps I should start my day with one of these fine drinking games instead of my usual coffee and oatmeal; it would at least keep me occupied, and might keep me motionless after a time. Beer has oats in it, right? And whiskey has rye. Excellent!

Anyway, here is a roundup of drinking games, courtesy of that beacon of responsibility in hive mind, Wikipedia. One notes, with regret, one does, that they do not list my own family's contribution to the sport: The Grinch Drinking Game.

Better than Hoo HashThe Grinch Drinking Game is quite simple. Watch "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and take a drink every time they say "Hoo." Since they say it eighteen times in the theme song and they sing the theme song three times in the show, no-one has ever made it all the way through or if they did they do not remember.

We assume no liability. Or intelligence.

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The Monkees: To Julie Newmar, Thanks for Everything

The second in a series.

First ep, featuring guest appearances by Joan Crawford and Tony Robbins is here

Opening Theme
BUT the boys are MISSING!!! so we have to phone Gonzo and get him to line up a substitute. Kermit warned us this would be a bad idea, but it's five seconds to air: what choice do we really have?

Lollapalosers indeed. But meantime we've at least had time to locate Mike. He was out back smoking "herbal cigarettes" with his friend Frank Zappa, but we managed to tempt them back into the studio with promises of Doritos and sensless violence. Watch as Mike conducts an interview with the original Mother of Invention and later conducts him in musical mayhem as Frank gets jiggy with a 47 Chrysler.

Well wasn't that…strange? You know you're out of control when Frank Zappa is the one trying to keep you normal.

Meanwhile, we've just gotten a phone call from Julie Newmar, who is working at the laundromat.

Julie likes to give raincoaster a jingle from time to time to compare catsuit fitting tips and just shoot the shit.

The boys have been using the "Drop off" window for their laundry and had never laid eyes on their pretty Cinderella…until now. Turns out Julie (who lost her virginity to von Karajan in April of '56 in the back row of Teatro di San Carlo, thus the nickname "April") is quite the classical arts fanatic. Here, the boys compete for her attentions.

Davy, as always, takes the early lead despite being at least a foot shorter than April. We relay the news to Mike, who grabs the reciever from us, hears that distinctively husky, liquid-sex voice, and takes off for the laundromat on Mickey's motorcycle. He arrives halfway through the big competition, but makes a strong showing nonetheless.

But guys, don't you know that girls can't resist a rock band? Or even a bubblegum pop band, as long as it occasionally sings in a minor key? Cue "The Girl That I Knew Somewhere…"

Yowzuh! Who knew Peter looked that hot in white tie? raincoaster would be doing a lot of formal entertaining if she thought she could get him to wear that on a regular basis!

But as the big song winds up, they realize that April has been kidnapped! Davy and Mike turn into secret agents to get the answers and go undercover in the lobby of a cheesy, overdone Beverly Hills hotel, the type where rich old women go to recover from facelifts. While there, they receive a mysterious phonecall which tells them April is in Paris or something like that…

As the boys follow that lead, their plane is hijacked by the Pamplona Panthers and they are led far afield, to Spain! They make their escape and arrive in Paris to rescue April. And just look at the havoc they cause; what's French for Monkeemania? From there, they follow the trail to Toyland?

and hey, there's April! She can totally lay down the heavy Chopin when she wants to, can't she?

Finally realizing that La Newmar is out of their league, the boys free her from her kidnapper, a would-be svengali who wishes to keep her all to himself. April kisses the boys good-bye and runs off to London to appear in a George Michael video.

The boys then attempt to escape from her many jealous suitors. Cue obligatory fleeing-posing-and-making-no-sense-set-to-cancan-music scene:

The boys return home just in time for their next gig, playing the wedding reception for The Brady Grandparents. The svengali remains firmly trussed, although even prone he attempts to groove along with the music. raincoaster is not at all sure that a song about infidelity is the very best choice for the occasion, but she loves "Look Out, Here Comes Tomorrow" anyway.

Davy sure can work that lipgloss, can't he? Is that Lip Venom? Enquiring minds want to know.

And, to make up for that Zappa-tastic strangeness at the top of the show, here is special guest Tim Buckley performing Song to the Siren.