Frog Wrestling!

Hilarious and adorable. They put my brother's high school wrestling teams to shame, what with their ability to leap into each other and, literally, bounce back.

Big Food vs. Big Insurance

Classic Michael Pollan, and very innovative, interesting information about how health care reform can help tackle what's causing us to get sick in the first place: the American diet.

The Heat is On!

And by "heat" I mean "job search" and by "on" I mean "active." But "The job search is active" did not sound nearly as catchy. Maybe "Job Search: Activated" in a robot-voice would have done better. Yes, definitely better.

Also, after stealing this idea from a friend, you're probably all going to get a wonderfully annoying Facebook invite to my blog's group in the near future. Because, yes, however many months after creating this blog, I just now realized that's a great way to get people to actually read it.

This next poll is getting more than 11 votes if I have to kill someone and use his dead fingers to check the box!

Things I've Noticed

The other day on "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" the NPR comedy news quiz, they replaced Carl Kasell with Korva Coleman, a person, by name at least, appears to be the exact mirror image of CK... KC. Same alliteration, reverse lettering. Interesting.

Also, I just noticed that lead and deal are almost reverses of each other, as well. Of course, they're not full reversals, because the ea sound works and ae does not, but still. I'm keeping it. Now, who wants to come up with a government conspiracy surrounding this fact? Because, really, lead(ers) do make deals, somtimes... dirty, downright despicable deals.

Just thought I should mention it...

Miscommunication Station

While this is great news in general, I really wish the headline was what I initially read it as:

"FDA panel approves Gardasil HPV vaccine for males, and competing Cervarix will hit shelves at high noon."

Also, there's no way Cervarix is going to do any better than Gardasil unless it's free. No self-respecting person is going to ask their doctor, "Hey, can I get the HPV vaccine? You know, the cervarix one?" Because they know they'd slip and say cervix, and once it's been said, you can't take that back.

09/09/09 NEW POLL!

To celebrate the glorious occasion of having the same number along all the dates when putting dates this way (Wednesday, September, 9, 2009 makes it seem much less monumental), I've declared it New Poll Day!

Please enjoy my poll of nonsensical wordplay, just a sniff of what's to come at my Sketch 301 graduation show this weekend at the UCB. 5:30 PM for anyone who'd like to come!

The Voice in the Vent

In a vent possibly unrelated to the vent in my room (as I am currently in my living room) has been blasting 80s-'00s pop music for the past 3 hours. I don't know what he/she is up to (random dance party? Hardcore workout? Very peppy writing?), but it's making my job search much more pleasant.