By Jasmine on July 5, 2010
who am i crushing on this week!
Name: Pretzel m&ms
Occupation: Chocolate candy
Status: Well, owned by Mars
Most known for: colorful candy shell, delicious milk chocolate
Recently known for: crunchy salted pretzel
Up next: travelling to my belly
Why you crushin’?: they are so incredibly delicious! I’m not sure how or why it took so long to fill an m&m with a pretzel. Maybe the science wasn’t as easy as it sounds; maybe lots of engineering and failed attempts were made until it was just so. I feel like these things should’ve been existing all along. I’ve been slowly emptying my 30 oz. party size bag. It’s getting down to the bottom of the bag and temperatures are going to be nearly and actually in the hundreds the next few days. I might need to reload before the sun annihilates my motivation to leave the house.
I swear I’ll have some more serious crushes in the coming weeks. I just feel so uninspired by humans lately. Womp-womp.
Posted in Crush, Eats, Review |
By Jasmine on July 1, 2010
Listen up, losers! I’m sorry, none of you are losers. I don’t know why I said that. Anyway. My friend, Steff Bomb (I’d like to check that birth certificate, please), is an amazing plushmaker. And a darn-tootin’ good sketcher (sketchist?) as well. Currently, she barely lives in Chicago, IL, so I’m sending out some pleas and pleases that you, or a well-moneyed friend of yours, would please to buy one or several of her things. Or commission her to make sketches for you for things that you’ll need, or something. I know some of the newer and bigger plushes are expensive, but that’s how the handmade world works! She doesn’t have a factory of small children working for her
(anymore), only her two little (and worn) hands. Hop to it, or I’ll send
this army of stumps and that one deer after you!
I Make Monsters, steffbomb.com
Posted in Animals, Crafts, Eats, Family, Fresh, Review |
By Jasmine on June 30, 2010
(Please forgive my face and bangs and pimple-nose. Yikes.)
Well, first of all, a month or so ago, Agnes ran straight across my face one morning, leaving scratches along the way. That was nice. And now? My cats are filthy. I don’t know where they’ve been hanging out. Maybe Agnes is going for the
“Justin Timberlake’s (refreshingly) dirty feet” look, or maybe Jack is channeling Huck or Finn; whatever it is, these cats are completely off-white anymore. They shake out dirt and dust, and I’m left with dirtily soft hands after petting them. I want to know where their secret hangout is! :( At least Jack is
trying to clean himself up a bit, right? Sure.
Posted in Animals, Family, Fresh |
By Jasmine on June 28, 2010
who am i crushing on this week!
Name: T.A.M.I. Show
Occupation: A 1964 concert film (yes, I have a crush on a concert film this week)
Status: Um, well, it featured The Barbarians, The Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, James Brown and the Famous Flames, Marvin Gaye, Gerry & the Pacemakers, Leslie Gore, Jan and Dean, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, The Rolling Stones, and The Supremes
Most known for: uh, being collective footage from two obviously amazing concerts that took place in October of 1964, that featured that day’s biggest stars
Recently known for: in 2006, the film was named to the National Film Registry by the U.S. Library of Congress, and it’s first authorized release came this March when Dick Clark Productions finally put it on DVD
Up next: unless you count me watching it every day, nothing
Why you crushin’?: I mean, come on. It’s fairly obvious by now that anything having to do with the 1960s is the greatest thing in the world to me (save for racism and sexism obbbvs). While The Ronettes and The Beatles are sadly missing from this concert and, therefore, film – and, though I can barely stand Diana Ross – I still found myself flipping the fuck out when I finally watched it last night. It started and didn’t fucking stop for two straight hours. Fast songs, slow songs, songs I knew by heart, songs I’d never heard – James Brown and his cape!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When he dropped to his knees, I, literally, said aloud, “Shit! Someone bring him his cape!” and a dude totally brought him his cape. Anyway, not only were the performances outstanding, there were also a good amount of dancers on stage with them that didn’t. quit. Oh and, no big deal, but Tony Basil and Teri Gaar were two of those dancers! I definitely want to watch it again so I can find them. Some girls were in bathing suits, one dude was probably the lead singer of TV on the Radio; I can’t even explain to you how badly you need to find this thing and watch it to death.
Alright, I just checked: you can’t watch it online at Netflix, Amazon, or Hulu, but you can totally rent or purchase it, respectively, at those first two places.
Posted in Crush, Fashion, Movies, Music, Review, Television, Wanderlust |
By Jasmine on June 21, 2010
who am i crushing on this week!
Name: Michael John Douglas (a.k.a. Michael Keaton)
Occupation: Actor, Batman
Status: Divorced from his baby-mom, actress Caroline McWilliams, in 1990, and then dated Courtney Cox for a bunch of years in the nineties, too!
Most known for: he was Batman, Beetlejuice, AND Mr. Mom
Recently known for: playing dads to actresses I liked and now no longer like all that much in Herbie: Fully Loaded (Lindsay Lohan) and Post Grad (Alexis Bledel), and also directorial debuting (The Merry Gentleman) and lending voice to Disney/Pixar films (Cars, Toy Story 3)
Up next: he’ll play police Captain Mauch to Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg’s mismatched detectives in the upcoming The Other Guys, which also stars Steve Coogan (swoon!), Samuel L. Jackson, Dwayne Johnson, and Eva Mendes (among others)
Why you crushin’?: I mean, the dude was my favorite Batman, first of all. Also, I trekked out to a midnight showing of Toy Story 3 Thursday night, and his Ken completely stole the show. He was magnificently Kennish. Wikipedia says Keaton had a failed standup comedy career, but his comedy was gold in this. And in Beetlejuice! I mean, I know he’s reading from a script, but there’s only so much written words can produce, you know? But yeah. I also really enjoyed the very underrated The Merry Gentleman. It was a long film, and darker than I like to see my Bruce, but he was still great in his role. I don’t know, I don’t know; I’m just still high from Toy Story 3 and how completely insane he was as Ken’s voice.
Posted in Crush, Movies, Review, Television |