The Showtime House

Last night, my friend Ryan and I attended a party at the Showtime House in Gramercy Park hosted by Thrillist. And let me just tell you guys, the place was utterly amazing.

A $20m, four floor, 19th century mansion was renovated with different Showtime series as the inspiration for the rooms. Click here for a video about the process, where each designer speaks about their task, as well as what show acted as their inspiration.

The house was nothing but spectacular. I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to attend many different events throughout NYC, but none compared to what was offered here at the Showtime House. Ryan and I both took a lot of pictures, which I’ll post here in a few days, but here are a few of my favorites taken from the site…

Californication Study

The chandelier is made entirely of paperclips, creating a very intricate shadow on the ceiling when lit at night.

Californication Book Tower

The tower in the back is comprised of books stacked in circular, brick pattern.

Weeds Lounge

I was told that this room is 80% hemp, with the screen made of rolling papers and the artwork hung with roach clips.

Dexter Dining Room

Both chandeliers are made from wine glasses. Blood is splattered strategically across the entire white dining room, with vials of blood as the centerpieces.

You should definitely go to the Showtime House site to check out more pictures and learn more about each of the rooms. And if you’re lucky enough to live in NYC or planning a trip here soon, you can go visit the house yourself. It’s open Saturdays and Sundays from 11am – 4pm until October 26th and is located at 23 Gramercy Park South. Tickets are $25, and all proceeds go to the Happy Hearts Fund.

Madonna Demands Your Respect

Sunday night I went to the Madonna concert at Madison Square Garden. And now I’m wondering who Madge has as friends, and why none of them told her she was 50 years old. Because I saw a lot of 50 year old lady running around in underwear with jump ropes. It was surreal.

Dancing on her chair

That being said, the concert was pretty outrageous. Everything, from the dances to the costume changes, the special effects to the remixes [this one was amazing], was on point. The whole thing was pretty awesome. Until Madonna got all “wannabe deity” all over our asses.

Toward the last part of the concert, Madonna started this sing-a-long with the audience. Apparently, it was some song off of a previous album, but hell if most of the crowd knew that. Those who knew the song sang along, while those who didn’t just jumped around. This did not please The Madonna.

She started yelling at us! She told us we fucked things up, and how couldn’t we know the song?! We were such mother fuckers! Then she noticed that some people were sitting down. Sitting down? In front of The Madonna?! She asked them “Why are you sitting? Are you friends of Sarah Palin? Are you republicans? Stand up and show some respect!”

First off. Wow. Easy with the ‘tude, lady.

Secondly, I dislike Sarah Palin as much as the next rational person, but I hardly think that Sarah Palin supporters the nation over have decided to stand up and let their voices be heard by remaining seated during “Give It 2 Me”. Although, the Republican party really hasn’t done anything that could be considered more effective…maybe this could be a good path for them.

A little while later, she started yelling “This is what Sarah Palin’s husband’s snowmobile sounds like when it won’t start”, and then the music started to get choppy. And no, I have no idea what the hell that means.

After these divalicious moments, I expected Madonna to end her show my falling to her knees and screaming “Pray to me! PRAY TO ME!” but had to settle with “Like A Prayer”. But really, it’s only a matter of time till we’re worshipping The Madonna. One way, or another. Let’s be for real with one another on this one.

It’s Time For A Change!

Ladies and gents, this blog is moving!

Let me tell you why. The other day, I decided to change up the sidebar on the right here. I was planning on adding some blogs, changing the order, and deleting the Google search ads.

I deleted the ads, something that I thought would be easy and no fuss. I saved the template, continued with my day, and went back to the blog to finish some other stuff.

Lo and behold, deleting Google search ads from my site made the entire thing go crazy askew.
Do you see how the header and the content are off kilter? Do you see why this would drive me to scratch out my eyes and cry like a baby while moving through line after line of html code? It’s enough to make me move my entire blog somewhere else.

So I did!

This is officially my last post on blogger. You can find me over at my new WordPress blog, which so far, has been incredible. The best way to describe it to you is by comparing my life when using a PC laptop, and then changing to my iBook. Everything is easier, cleaner and much more intuitive.

It will be a little while until everything is completely finished on the new blog. I need to re-embed all the videos I posted here [ugh], add tags to all the posts [kill me] and all the other little upkeep items that go along with switching blogs.

But doing this now means so much less work in the future. Moving to WordPress will make it easier when I finally move to my own URL and have a custom designed site.

So, fare thee well, Blogger. Hello WordPress!

Your Mom ‘08

I’ve been an avid Obama supporter over the past several months, but I think that, due to this recent turn of events, I’m going to re-evaluate my vote.

And besides, your mom looks pretty hot in a pantsuit.

Are You Peeing Right Now?

David Blaine recently hung upside down for like, 3 days or something in Central Park, just a few blocks away from my office. And I’ll be honest with you, I really couldn’t care less. Some of his other stunts, like living in ice or underwater [like someone else I know], were so much cooler than this.

However, I don’t care what the subject is, where it’s taking place, or who ends up on the receiving end of the punchline. Any video with Triumph, The Insult Comic Dog, wins me over immediately.

If you have 11 minutes to spare, and don’t care if you end up embarrassing yourself with that type of laugh that takes away your breathe and makes you snort and turn red while at the office, then click here to watch Triumph mock a horde of Star Wars fans.

Baracking It Up

I got my t-shirt and bumper sticker in the mail last week. I never considered the fact that I don’t own a car as something that would impede the use of a bumper sticker, though. So any ideas on how I can use it would be appreciated.

But today, I’m rocking out the Obama shirt! Order your own here [or in a different blue style]. T-shirts just require a $12 donation to MoveOn.org, so it’s really cheap and you’re supporting a pretty worthy cause. Mainly, getting this man into the White House…

I still haven’t received my pin yet, though. Which is mildly frustrating, only because it is so much easier to find uses for a pin than a bumper sticker. But I really shouldn’t complain, as they were both free.

In related news, if you ever want to see how Obama is doing in the polls when compared with McCain, just go here to get a quick looksie. As of right now, them are some goooood numbers!

And LASTLY…today is the last day to register to vote! Head on over to VoteForChange.com and find out if you’re registered where you THINK you’re registered. You can also find out where your polling location is, as well. If you haven’t registered, get that shit out TODAY, folks. It has got to be postmarked for today.

And that’s about all the politics I can talk about for this week. Maybe. We’ll see…

Forget it. I’m not promising anything.

Katie Couric Is A National Hero

Can we talk about something here? Not the ridiculousness that is Sarah Palin’s VP nomination, or the idiocy that is the words that fly from her lips before verbally shitting all over my face. Not Joe Biden’s insanely well thought out responses, or his unfortunate hair situation.

No, let’s talk about Katie. And how AMAZING she is at representing her country on the front lines! Because I can tell you, if I had to do her job and sit in front of Sarah Palin and suffer this torture, I would die. I would be swallowing thumb tacks and asking husky men to gut punch me. I don’t know how she does it, but I’m damn proud of her for doing it so well.

That being said, watch the clip above. At about the :12 mark, Katie orgasms hard, but contains it pretty well. I’m guessing that having one of her questions actually answered just nailed her right in the g-spot. You can see her try to contain the pleasure that just washes over her face.

Compare to the 2:20 mark, where Katie tries to make Sarah Palin’s head explode using only the powers of her mind. Incredible.

Get ready for even more candidate fun tonight at the debate! It’s going to be freakin’ AWESOME!

And Hells Yes, I’ll Be Seeing The Movie

I stayed up until 3 am this past Monday night, and there was no alcohol or nothing involved.

I was finishing the second book of the Twilight series. A book that is, more or less, intended for lovesick 15 year old girls aching to be taken away by the ‘bad boy’ in their lives. Or 24 year old men who are just obsessed with everything vampire and need to find a way to incorporate it into their lives. Even if that means reading trashy young adult novels.
These books are, at the same time, one of the greatest and most horrendous things I’ve ever read. While I love the vampiric portion of the book, such as their powers, insights, history and even drawbacks, I’m constantly teetering on this precipice of INSANITY.

It’s been a long time since I’ve had to be around a teenaged girl. And because of this, I was wholly unprepared for the amount of RIDICULOUSNESS that envelopes their everyday lives. Everything is just hyperbolic to the extreme, it makes me want to vomit every page. Just sitting there on the subway, reading and vomiting, because I have no choice.

If his eyes aren’t ’smoldering’ or ‘intensely beautiful’, then his arms are ’sinewy’ and his body ‘of the gods’. Imagine taking a cheerleader and funneling coke into her nose before dropping her in a room with all the guys on the cover of Teen Beat, or whatever the hell it is girls get their giggly’s from, and just watch what happens.

Bam. You’ve got this book.

And yet I am now plowing through the third book, Eclipse.

But I don’t know if I should be proud of that or not. I’ll let you know after I finish the fourth and final book. That is, unless I don’t morph into some cracked out Gossip Girl and start posting pictures of Zac Ephron on here with captions like OMG LIKE, TOTES FAB!

Written documentation, people…if that happens, shoot me dead in face.

I’ve Lots Of Problems, And I Don’t Know If This Counts

I know that there are seriously like, hundreds of things wrong with me. For real. Like, after I saw The Craft, I would try to cast spells on people who would tease me in school. Or I would try to change my eye color.

More disturbing yet, I thought I did [they got bluer].

More disturbing still, I’m fairly certain that it’s only a matter of times until my powers manifest. Seriously, Inter-kids. It could be just days…HOURS…away.

I also believe that my house back in Massachusetts has a ghost in it that goes up and down my hallway in a wheelchair, I randomly sing to friends over gchat and at times have been known to linger towards the uncomfortable zone when it comes to studying strangers on the subway. People have moved away from me.

But is it considered to be a bad thing if I’m on my second massive jug of Sunny Delight [the good stuff kids go for]? To be clear, I finished the first one in 2 days and left my house, went to the grocery store, and bought $25 worth of stuff to cover up the fact that I just came for the Sunny D.

Argh! This post is making me think of it’s delicious tangy-ness! I want it now!

And none of that purple stuff!

People Actually Sat Down To Write This

My friend, Lauren, keeps a blog called The Sass Factory. Which is so totally titled to the tee [alliteration, high-five!] because the number of times I’ve had to say “Whoa there sass-pot!” are innumerous. Mostly because it’s an awesome saying, and you’ll win over anyone by using the term ’sass-pot’ in your daily vocab. Go and try, I dare you.

Anyways, I was checking out her blog yesterday, and she was writing about her [wicked unhealthy] obsession with Christmas, and her need to start it as soon as Fall begins. Obviously, what else does one do when hooked on the Noel than go to IMDB and read facts on old movies like Rudolph and How The Grinch Stole Christmas.

That’s when she came across this…

by toplaycool (Sat Aug 23 2008 14:39:47)	Ignore this User | Report Abuse
UPDATED Sat Aug 23 2008 14:40:49

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The reason is because this year could be our last year of celebrating Christmas. That is if Barack Obama wins. Listen, Christmas and Liberal Democrats don’t go well together. They already want to get rid of Christmas, and you know whats stupid, they are celebrating it and we can’t! Although with Barack Obama, he is more of a Ramadan fan. Anyway, Im scared of Christmas going away. This is my favorite time of the year, and I hope it doesn’t get taken away. PLEASE vote for John McCain, if you want Christmas to stay.

by MrMackeyMmmkay (Sun Aug 31 2008 16:13:09) Ignore this User | Report Abuse That’s a dumb thing to say. Just a really, really dumb thing to say. You can’t just make Christmas go away magically and no one has enough power to make it go away. The chaos that would be started because of Christmas being abolished would be catastrophic. Christmas will never go away.

by nestordonkey (Wed Sep 3 2008 13:52:15) Ignore this User | Report Abuse I fear Obama too. He’s also a Muslim in which the chinese are. The chinese are just waiting for us to outlaw guns so they can attack us when we’re most defencless. I’m a CHRISTIAN, and PROUD OF IT!

Um. Please tell me I’m not totally alone in thinking this is just the craziest breadbox of bat shit ever. Liberal Democrats trying to destroy Christmas? Radical Chinese conspirators trying to trick us into tossing our guns?

What the frick frack is wrong with people??

I fully place the blame on IMDB. Seriously, you guys, I would expect this type of low brow shit on a YouTube page or a MySpace wall, but YOU?? The Internet Movie Database?? I’m disappointed in you.

No, don’t touch me. No hugs, not yet. Just leave. And for the love of Christmas, bring those Netflix pop-ups with you.