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• Why the hell do I never have any damn pens at my desk?
• I need a goddam Ghostwriter pen around my neck.
• Which I never understood:
• Like, if they're all carrying pens around their necks, why can't they also carry a mini version of the alphabet or something, just in case?
• Or maybe I just think waaaay too much about Ghostwriter.
• Wait--is this magazine from months ago, does The Game have a new album out, or am I horribly out of touch?
• Also, Courtney Love's on the cover, too. And sober, apparently.
• Oh, could someone tell me what my myspace picture is right now?
• For some reason, our computers at work aren't 99% of myspace profile pictures.
• Ah, our teen service tech skills are unstoppable.
• Really, I'm just sick of telling teens that it's not us, it's the new filter, and we'll unblock Yahoo games or whatever for you.
• Radio wants teens again.
• "Could Video-On-Demand Be TV's Answer to the Web?"
• Um, I think they mean like The Box.
• Anyone else remember the Box?
• No, of course you don't, because you guys all probably had parents who got cable in the late 80s.
• I, on the other hand, had the extremely grainy, extremely ghetto, Box.
• You'd call and request videos, except they didn't really have a back-up for slow times, so there was a lot of watching, like, 30 seconds of "Push It" and then a scroll of the available videos and my sister and her friends discussing which they wanted to see.
• And a lot of Digital Underground.
• I swear, someone was calling The Box and ordering "Humpty Dance" every hour on the hour for awhile there.
• I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom.
• Except I seem to remember them beeping out "busy", because I vaguely remember expending more 11yrold mental energy trying to figure out what the bleeped word was. I assumed it was something much more than just "busy".
• I'm also pretty fondly remembering the In Living Color "Push It" parody right now.
• Which I tried to find on youtube but couldn't.
• Instead, here's "Mr Ugly Man", the Shaggy parody. Which I totally have running through my head right now.
• OK, who watched "Heroes" this week and was weirded out by Mall Cop's reading his wife's mind, realizing she's had a song stuck in her head for ages, and then PLAYING THAT SONG!?
• Mall Cop, I'm totally with you on the using your powers for sexy and/or romantical good, but if I've got a song in my head for weeks, the last thing I want is to hear it.
• During a romantic interlude.
• Of course, that may have more to do with the quality of song I get stuck in my head.
• "Into Your Arms", for example.
• ...new Weird Al...
• Billy Joel's oldest daughter is dressed in a manner appropriate for an old-timey house of burlesque.
• Speaking of old-timey, I'm reading And a Bottle of Rum right now, and boy-howdy! is it great.
• Some colonial keeps describing himself as being "feloniously drunk", which I believe I'm completely stealing.
• Why does the ALA think I want to buy my own subscription to their publications?
• Yes, I've got a $100 and more to drop on School Library Journal for my home use.
• She's very pretty, though.
• Billy Joel's daughter, that is.
• You know how Joel has those freaky, bug-out giant eyes? They work on a girl.
• I kinda like the shoe The Game designed. It's got checks.
• I'm trying to convince Tiff that Claudia's Room needs a Cafe Press store.
• ...all kinds of Australian crap...
• No surprises here: Courtney Love's working with Linda Perry.
• Who isn't getting paid to do so.
• hmmmm...
• New Shins album January 23!
• That's exciting.
• Ack! Jars of Clay!
• What's the name of X's country/sort-of-joke side project?
• Wasn't it The Wreckers?
• 'cause that's what Michelle Branch is calling herself these days, along with some other chippie.