where you came from

today's title comes from radioactive by cutie and the followills as covered by cee-lo green. it's not on youtube yet, but you can listen to it here. and you should. you really, really should. it's way better than the original.

i'm still enjoying having fox soccer channel again. i've been watching all the champion's league matches in high definition. it's been wonderful. real madrid drew 2-2 today, but it was okay because i occupied myself/fought off disappointment by laughing at the way the oh-so-american commentators kept mispronouncing everyone's names. the real highlight of the day came in watching bayern munich slaughter some random team called cfr cluj. mario gomez scored three times! and muller scored once! and schweini was wonderful with his assists (and his yellow card). biebstuber had a groin injury and couldn't play, though. i've decided that even if husband number two doesn't like them because they are like the real barcelona of germany and always spend too much money and buy all the good players, i'll support them.

a little. all teams are not equal, after all, and liverpool is (deservedly) number one forever and ever. i'm so excited that s-la has been converted, because now we can watch the istanbul dvd together over some break or the other and force jenibean and meggo to watch, too.

speaking of s-la, her contact removal advice once again proved to be priceless. after the regular doctor's appointment, the momster dragged me to the eye doctor. i got new contacts. and new glasses, but those aren't here yet. i had to wear contacts all day, though, so i could give the doctor a "report" about how they felt over the phone tomorrow. doesn't that just sound strange? i think so. i finally took them out a few minutes ago and i didn't poke myself in the eye or flip the contact inside out or rip it in half or anything. you go, s-la. four for you, steffi coco. here, have some germans as thanks:

this just made me laugh. i'm not even sure why. i just like picturing kanye west and george bush having one of those old school rap feuds. the mental image of george bush rapping diss tracks and shooting people in drive-bys is wonderful.

i've pretty much given up on this post. i'm a little too caffeinated/high on leftover halloween candy to string together anything remotely coherent. here, have some more pictures!

question: how much do i want these? answer: a lot. 

tumblr reminds me that i'm not the only loser who gets excited by the debut of the christmas cups at starbucks.

i have decided to try to keep this in mind more often.

and i'm singing "snow-oh, snow-oh"

okay, so the title of this post may or may not have been inspired by this forever the sickest kids song. whatever, the point still stands. and the point, in case you were wondering, is that it's snowing and, according to weatherbug, will continue to snow well into the night.

in other words: no school. i'm pretty excited. like, my face right now? it looks like rahm emmanuel's face in this picture:

and along political lines, i'm watching the daily show right now. normally i record it and the colbert report and watch them in batches, but i just finished my daily current events websearch and watching last night's episode of countdown with keith olberman (the current one is recording), so i felt like getting to see a slightly snarkier take on the news.

since i just finished my webhunt - i do this once a day, usually, and it sounds a lot more intensive than it actually is, since i more or less just click my way through my top sites and bookmarks - i thought i'd share some of the things that i found interesting.

this just made me laugh so hard. 

and this? this made me want to run and write and laugh and sing. some pictures are worth a thousand words but this one needs just one: inspire. 

and this just makes me want spring to come faster. 

currently listening to: icarus - white hinterland

soul is boring - spirit flies

today's title is gleaned from michael mcclure's poem 99 theses, as i'm far too unoriginal to come up with anything myself. no, really. today i haven't done anything that could possibly be construed as productive. i've just been reading and running and listening to music. it's been another slow day, just sitting back and finding things that inspire me. like this:

in keeping with that theme (and having decided my life is too boring to blog about) i've decided to blog about other people. or, rather, to blog about random things that caught my eye on the interwebs or idiot box today.

starting with this. could they really not come up with any better descriptor than 'jesus-era'? geez, time magazine, follow my example - on days when your creativity seems sapped, turn to better writers. but thank you for letting me know that this is on youtube, since now i'll have something to watch on my phone in the car:

the economist is doing much better, having produced articles like this (and to think the british say we're the uncultured ones) and, which would've been highly appreciated back in the days when i had current events to do and couldn't think of global topics.

random fact of the day: typing in theone.com redirects you to the daily record's home page. how did i find this out? i tried to get to the onion's homepage on my phone and accidentally hit enter too early.

other random fact which wasn't quite interesting enough to be the official random fact of the day: i enjoy all the editorials calling the 'double-ohs' the decade from hell. for my commentary on the 'double-ohs', see above, right around the part where i advise people lacking in creativity to look to more eloquent sources. as for calling this the decade from hell...well, seeing as this is the first full decade i've been alive for (sorry, nineties, if i had just come along two years earlier i could pretend to be an expert on you, too), i'm not going to make any judgements. however, can a decade which gave us the end of the harry potter books and the beginning of the movie franchise be all bad?

...never mind. clearly this was bad enough to erase all the good done in the last ten years.

i've been reading a lot of poetry lately. this is one of my favorites. go check it out.

i'm in hardcore christmas mode right now, so i'm listening to the sixpence none the richer version of it came upon a midnight clear. sadly, it wasn't available when i was putting together the holiday blog playlist, so you'll just have to find it for yourself since youtube refuses to play it.

ooh, ooh! breaking news: keith olbermann just declared 'death panel' (first used by sarah palin) to be the lie of the year. share in my amusement. cable news never stops being funny.

this blog has gone on long enough. i'll restrain myself and just post one more link.

have yourself a sandinista christmas, guys!