Wednesday, September 30, 2009

On a Scale of 1-10, How Socially Acceptable is it to...


Own a Snuggie (also known as a Slanket, also known as a backwards bathrobe)

Scale says: a 10!! I'd go so far as to say it's socially unacceptable to not have one! I'm in one right now. IT'S EFFIN AWE-SOME.

The Slanket
-noun
a knockoff version of the Snuggie.
Other than the fact that the name is arguably funnier, Why would I pay 45.95 for the knockoff when I can get the original for $14.99 at CVS?

Personally, I've only seen the Slanket in my favorite publication still in print: Skymall. Can I ask a serious question? Does the president and CEO of SkyMall really think she can get away with claiming her name is Christine Aguilera? Someone should really tell her that if she insists on creating a Latino pop singing alias, she should have at least chosen someone like Enrique Iglesias. People trust him way more.

Friday, September 25, 2009

On a Scale of 1-10, How Socially Acceptable is it to...




Continue wearing Blublocker sunglasses even though you had them before The Hangover came out

Okay here is the issue: a lot of people got them BECAUSE it was really funny when Zach Galifianakis put them on the baby in The Hangover. But if you had them before (as I did) will people think you're just a huge poser? May-be.






I can't say I'm not an offender. After seeing Juno for the second time, I googled "sunglasses Ellen Page wore in Juno" and then immediately ordered them from urbanoutfitters.com.


I think that's soo different though, because I didn't get them to be trendy. I got them because Ellen Page and I have similar shaped faces and coloring and they looked good on her. I probably would have tried to buy her whole wardrobe if she hadn't been so poorly dressed.

Since I broke the Ellen-Page-Juno-Sunglasses in July along with any other pair of shades I've ever owned, well, all I've got left are my Blublockers. So, do I risk it? Or just squint 'til mid October?... About a 5

Thursday, September 24, 2009

On A Scale of 1-10, How Socially Acceptable is it to...


wear sunglasses if you're significantly less attractive without them?

Scale says: 1.

Be yourself! It's almost as bad as photoshopping your facebook profile picture.

The '1' represents time spent in the car. Chances are, if you're driving me around, I probably know what you really look like. I never get in cars with strangers.

There's nothing worse than wasting 15 minutes of your time talking to someone you think is hot, then watching them take their shades off and being like WTF.


Wednesday, September 23, 2009

On a Scale of 1-10, How Socially Acceptable is it to...




Wear Abercrombie and Fitch

Check your calendar. If it's after the December 2003, then a zero.


I know that it was a big part of some of our lives (cough, Becky Kaganov), but so was "The OC" until season 3 and we all let that go two episodes into season 4 (at the latest). To put it into perspective, you're a babysitter. If A&F's bedtime is 10 pm, it's already 1 am... the next day.

Abercrombie and Fitch is a great example of one of those fads that all you have to do is add an E on the end. Fad + E = Fade. And no, that E is not referring to ecstasy. In fact, I'm not sure what the E stands for but regardless, the point I'm trying to make is simple: just because LFO writes a song about something, doesn't mean it can last forever.
More evidence: "Girl on TV" was about Jennifer Love Hewitt's career.


This is a true life record of how the conversation went when LFO first serenaded me with Summer Girls:



Yeah...I like it when the girls stop by.. In the summer
So, if I were to stop by say, in November, would that not work for you? Okay, let's shoot for *thumbs through datebook* July 9th? Okay, July 9th for now, but it's really gonna depend on my unpaid summer internship, oh, and when my parents want to go to the Cape. So, I'll let you know.

Do you remember, Do you remember? When we met, last summer??
I mean, it was like a month ago, so yes, I recall.

New Kids On The block,had a bunch of hits
Chinese food makes me sick.
Sucks fo you.
And I think it's fly when girls stop by for the summer,for the summer
I like girls that wear Abercrombie and Fitch,
Yeah, cuz most of them are sloots,, duh.

I'd take her if I had one wish,
But she's been gone since that summer..
Since that summer
Hip Hop Marmalade spic And span,
I respectfully decline to comment.

Met you one summer and it all began
You're the best girl that I ever did see,
Look brosef, I wasn't born yesterday. Unless you've never opened a Victoria Secret catalogue, you're
just lying to get in my pants.

The great Larry Bird Jersey 33
When you take a sip you buzz like a hornet
Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets
Call me Willy Whistle cause I can't speak baby
Something in your eyes went and drove me crazy
Oh, just ignore that. It's probably my new acuvue day and night color contacts.

Now I can't forget you and it makes me mad,
Left one day and never came back
Stayed all summer then went back home,
Macauly Culkin wasn't Home Alone
I mean, he was. That's the whole point of the movie...

Fell deep in love,but now we ain't speaking
I got a new phone so I don't have your number. Maybe if you responded to me "Need Numbers" facebook event, we wouldn't have this problem.

Michael J Fox was Alex P Keaton
Now you're just making shit up to rhyme with the word "speaking." Are you high? There's so many
more logical choices: seeking, thinking, freak-a-leaking...

When I met you I said my name was Rich
You look like a girl from Abercrombie and Fitch
New Kids On The block,had a bunch of hits
Chinese food makes me sick.
The more I think about that, the more I realize this really isn't gonna work out. What will we eat on Christmas?Next your gonna tell me you're allergic to movies. I'm already trying to ignore the fact you're not Jewish, but, you really aren't making this easy.

And I think it's fly when girls stop by for the summer,for the summer
I like girls that wear Abercrombie and Fitch,
I'd take her if I had one wish,
But she's been gone since that summer..
Since that summer

Cherry Pez,cold crush,rock star boogie
Used to hate school so I had to play hookie,
Always been hip to the B-boY Style
Known to act wild and make girls smile,
Love New Edition and the Candy Girl
Remind me of you because you rock my world

You come from Georgia where the peaches grow
They drink lemonade and speak real slow
You love hip hop and rock n roll
Dad took off when you were 4 years old
You obviously know nothing about me... This is where I start to think there's another girl, like that time you called me Carla by accident. Plus, you know the only lemonade I'd even drink is crystal light mix!

There was a good man named Paul Revere
I feel much better baby when you're near
You love fun dip and cherry Coke,
I like the way you laugh when I tell a joke
When I met you I said my name was Rich
You look like a girl from Abercrombie and Fitch

In the summertime girls got it going on,
Shake and wiggle to a hip hop song
Summertime girls are the kind I like,
I'll steal your honey like I stole your bike
So that was YOU! Grrr...

Bugaloo shrimp and pogo sticks
My mind takes me back there oh so quick
Let you off the hook like my man Mr. Limpet
Think about that summer and I bug,cause I miss it
Like the color purple,macaroni and cheese,
Ruby red slippers and a bunch of trees
Are you high?

Call you up but whats the use
I like Kevin Bacon,but I hate Footloose
We have nothing in common.

Came in the door I said it before,I think I'm over you
but I'm really not sure
Well, can you make up your mind before I book this flight? I really don't feel like paying the change fee.

When I met you I said my name was Rich
You look like a girl from Abercrombie and Fitch


Needless to say, "Rich" broke up with me January, 2003 because I refused to wear my A&F ripped jeans and jean jacket-with-tha-furrrr-tha-whole-club-was-lookin'-at-hurrr. We haven't spoken since, not even a text, mainly because we never exchanged numbers again after that time I lost my phone.



Monday, September 21, 2009

Sloanehenge, going in a new direction...

Hello (in quoting Lil John and the East Side Boyz) "Lovers and Frieennnnds",

Okay, things that are back "in":
Being at college, Melrose Place, being musically talented (which was really fizzling out after High School Musical 3 left theaters but is making a comeback with "Glee"), fedoras and one shouldered tops/dresses (although I'm not exactly sure why), and most important to us at the moment: themes.

According to a reliable source (my 12-14 year old cousins) it was cool to have a themed bar-mitzvah, then it wasn't, and now it's back. Kind of like Bob Dylan and the Jewish religion.

Also, since I will graduate into the real world soon-ish I feel like I need a little more direction in life. So, the new theme (until I get distracted) will be...

On a scale of 1-10, how socially acceptable is it to: _____

Since I invented the socially acceptable rules back in 1894, I'm really the only qualified candidate and even though I don't really want to, the board has been heckling me for six decades. And frankly, I'm sick of fighting.

The new leaf 'ah turns tomorrow!

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Well That's Almost Three Hours I'm Never Getting Back


After five long days including two plane rides, I have finally accomplished the near impossible: I finished (duhn duhn duhhhhhnnn) watching Transformers 2. For the amount of time invested, one would hope I’d be left thinking more than, “how are Megan Fox’s jeans still so white if she keeps rolling around in dirt?”



Don’t get me wrong, who doesn’t like Megan Fox in white jeans? All I’m saying is that, I’m at a point in my life where I would rather spend that 2 hours and 40 minutes (over 5 days, including two plane rides) doing something more productive… like, I dunno, playing snood, or, ordering an autographed James Gandolfini poster from Skymall.