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Hope you like the new look!!
6 Aug
I worked my ass off trying to make it nice for you. I’m still sorting some things out. But the basic look is done. I need to categorize like 100 posts still, but that’s all. Well..enjoy an easier way to go through my head.
How to NEVER pay for a college textbook again…
21 Mayespecially if you’re a member of a SUNY college.
This is the deal. I went to college a SUNY college and was too cheap/poor to pay $200 or more a book per class so I did a bit of research and found out the following.
Go to your college library and ask if they participate in the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) program. You can borrow books/DVD’s/film/anything for longer than through your own college library and there are several “textbook only” libraries within the Interlibrary Loan program. Finally (in most cases) YOU don’t have to pay ANY late fees!! I borrowed all my necessary textbooks for a WHOLE SEMESTER every year! Even though the textbooks I borrowed (from textbook libraries around the country) did rack up mucho dinero in fines, my school paid the fines in the end, not me. The thing is that if you rent a book (or books <you can borrow several at a time>) through the program and keep it for a long enough time you will build up fines and since technically your school is borrowing the book(s) from another school, not you, your school pays the fines. After almost a semester worth of fines your school will yell at you to return the book but you will pay NO FINE! If you have the books for extra long your school might eventually yell at you via a letter threatening to hold your grades. (Only happened once to me! And I returned the book and all was well).
I can’t guarantee the Interlibrary Loan still works this way, but give it a shot. You might save thousands. I did! I wasted the cash on beer and food.
Let’s review:
Step 1: Go to your college library and ask if they participate in Interlibrary Loan or some such program.
Step 2: If so, search the Interlibrary Loan data system for your needed textbooks.
Step 3: Ask someone at the library if you’ll be fined if the book is a week late. (Just to double check. Don’t say 4 months late, they might not like that.)
Step 4: If all is good and you get the book. Use it for class and turn it in when your done OR if you’re sent a letter by YOUR school library to return the book or you’ll get in big trouble.
Step 5: Spread the word and enjoy this system for the rest of your college career!
Wiki info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlibrary_loan
Best of luck and if you get yelled at don’t tell anyone I told you to do it. No one wants to get sued.
Roger Rabbit will do anything for a buck.
21 May
I was lucky enough to meet Charles Fleischer at the Motor City Comic Con last weekend. Since Marina Sirtis was too up tight to do me a solid, I asked (aka paid) Mr. Roger Rabbit himself to do the deed. Wanna know what I got?
This:
—>Click me to hear Lena’s new Roger Rabbit voicemail.<—
Sadly I forgot to tell him my common name was Lena not Mary, but whatever. Roger fucking Rabbit is my voice mail. Or will be once I figure out how to hack itunes and make it so.
Just wanted to share some awesomeness with my homies.
Rihanna has ripped off Tank Girl!!
31 JanCheck out her latest video for her single titled : “Hard”.
Now take a look at this video of Tank Girl:
Just to be clear: Rihanna’s video is a glam rip off of the original Tank Girl style from the comic and the film. What do you think?
Cool stuff my Mom let me get away with:
11 Nov
1. Drawing with crayons all over the hallway walls. Apparently she had some plan to repaint them and decided it would be nice to let me dick around with the Crayolas until she got to painting the wall over. The ” I’ll repaint in a few days, so have at it, kid.” Turned into “Wow, it’s been 5 years and I still haven’t repainted the walls. Oh well.”
2. The day she watched “Fried Green Tomatoes” for the first time. I had never torn down a wall before. We were in luck it wasn’t a load bearer. Poppy was sure pissed when he got home to see us standing over a half ripped out wall (in his office) covered in asbestos (not known to be hazardous then) howling like wild jungle women. I was about 7 years old then.
3. That time she had her friend take us to a house we were free to wrap aka throw toilet paper around while acting like wild mongeese. We didn’t know whose house it was, and we sure as hell didn’t care. Once my sister and I were done wrapping we got the sh!t scared out of us when a 7 foot giant ran out of the front door screaming with a revving chain-saw. We were in the car as fast as lightning and back home in what felt like hours. We couldn’t stop talking about that night for months. About 5 years later we found out that the house was in fact owned by that friend who drove us there, and her boyfriend (was the 6 foot tall giant). (Side note: The house was about 5 miles away from our own.) It was all planned by my Mom. She heard my sister and I talking about wanting to wrap a house all summer long. So finally she convinced her friend and her boyfriend to play along. That was one of the coolest things anyone has ever done for me. The best part was that we didn’t have to help in the cleanup. Score!
Thank Mom!
Let’s watch that magical scene from “Fried Green Tomatoes”:
I witnessed about the first minute and a half.
(Open link in a new window to view video)
“Cable Guy” and “The Truman Show”…
8 Octend the exact same way. Has anyone else noticed this?
Here is a link to each ending.
Go to 4:10 then watch until 5:15.
So what happened here?
Well the programming everyone was glued to on TV was interrupted by Jim Carrey and the screen went snowy. Finally all the viewers then had to find something else to do. Also, someone hit their TV to see it that would help with the snow.
Now let’s see how “The Truman Show” ends.
Start at 5:30 and watch to the end.
We see another montage of tv viewers eagerly awaiting the conclusion of their programming, and eventually the screen goes snowy and no more TV. The viewers again have to find something else to do. Also, someone else hit their TV to see if that would help.
Let’s work this out a bit:
“Cable Guy” was made first. So… did “The Truman Show” writer see “Cable Guy” and rip off the ending? The ending of “Cable Guy” is basically the whole of “The Truman Show”. (That whole: people are too dependent on TV, and need to get out and live their lives thing.) So maybe “T.T.S” writer saw “C.G” and thought,”Yeah. People are way too dependent on TV. What if I wrote a film script about a TV show that combined the whole ‘everyone is an actor in my life but me thing’ and that whole ‘People are too dependent on TV thing’. I’ll make billions!! And maybe I can get Jim Carrey in on it too. Cool.”
That’s my guess. Any other assumptions?
What ever happened to…
27 Sepcoffee table books?
You know you have those huge picture books that focus on famous architecture, or famous celebrity photos by famous celebrity photographers *coughannieleibovitzcough*, or photos of dirty poverty-stricken overseas urban street life (these are usually black and whites of deep-set shady doorways where some underage prostitute is smoking a cigarette while sitting on the floor looking down, at the lower right corner of the photo. For the extra uniqueness there might also be her 3-year-old brother standing in the shadow of the doorway staring into the camera. He’s usually naked or wearing only a t-shirt. For that cherry to top it off with, his t-shirt will have some upbeat American icon like Britney Spears or Mickey Mouse on it.
Look familiar?
If you have these books or ones like them I vote you unshelve them and put them back where they belong, on the coffee table. They like it there, it’s their home. Don’t worry about how typical they are. They’re supposed to be typical coffee books. Just return them to their rightful place and enjoy them all over again. I bet you’ll even notice things in them that you didn’t before.
Pee-wee Herman…
24 Sepis on Twitter!!!!
If you’re a Twitterer than follow him!!!
He’s: @peeweeherman
Brand New Baseball Caps
1 SepOne thing I’ve seen and don’t understand is when men buy baseball caps and leave the advertisment stickers on. I know they’re shiny and all, but still…
How many stickers are too many? Answer: One.
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