This is Public Health

Best use of social media for public health I’ve seen in awhile. I’m going to have the chorus stuck in my head for the rest of the day.

Dance Magic Dance

Because this makes me happy…

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Personal faves are days 4, 7, 13, 15 (for the shirt, which reappears on day 92), 23, 26, 28, 36 (his jacket is spectacular), 37 (very MJ-esque in RocK With You), 56, 62, 69!!!, 80, and 87.

Interesting how student art galleries look the same everywhere you go (good times at UCSB, good times). Though I do admit, Yael’s facilities as a whole look quite a bit nicer than what I had access to. I like how you can tell he goes home over the holidays (I’m guessing somewhere in SoCal) cause he goes from wearing heavy jackets to t-shirts.

See the list of songs used here.

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James Todd Smith is the New LL Cool J

Or he’s the old LL Cool J, or LL Cool J has always been James Todd Smith. But whatever the case I am simply writing to express my appreciation for the Cool. As his appearance Wednesday night on Project Runway (sorry Suede, but you needed to go) showed us, the man is a fantastic looking fourty. Seriously. The man was born in 1968, or so the wiki tells me. I was a fan of his ‘Mama Said Knock You Out’ video back in 1991 (special attention to the Unplugged version) and it seems he’s calling a comeback now with strategic appearances on popular shows. Come on, appearing as a hip-hop mogul called Ridikolus on 30 Rock? Superb. The already mentioned Project Runway guest judge appearance. And, the highest achievement of coolness possible, appearing on the new season of Sesame Street. So yeah, props to the Cool. And does anyone else remember the movie Toys? He played the military minded cousin of Robin Williams’ character? He was the son of the bad uncle who took over the toy company? Anyone? Well, I was a huge fan of that movie. I suppose that’s all I’ve got to say. Yay LL. Take it away Elmo…

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But where was the banana stand?

Apparently these days you know you’ve really made it if you get to appear on Sesame Street. Or maybe everyone I like just happens to appear on Sesame Street. Meaning I was flipping channels this morning and happened to land on Sesame Street while Will Arnett was on it! He was a magician (oh GOB, how we miss you) helping Elmo, Big Bird and another monster with counting, all while using his AMAZING magic abilities. After watching the wonderful cross the Sesame Street writers made between their show and Arrested Development I decided it must be a clip posted for the children! But apparently it isn’t up yet. Makes me think that the episode I saw this morning was a new one, not a repeat, so we’ll all have to wait patiently for it. Season 39 looks like its gonna be pretty chock full of amazingness. In the meantime, we’ll let Feist help us with our counting…

(Obviously the Sesame Street people are talented, hip, with-it folks. Not only exemplified by those they get on the show – NPH, Feist, Will Arnett – but check out the similarities between the Feist Sesame Street clip and the actual video for her song. I love me some Sesame Street. Hey sisterkungfuhustler, if the public health thing and the dinosaur-bear gig at the Museum of Natural History don’t work out, we should try to be on Sesame Street. Maybe they’ll let us clean the dressing rooms.)

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Science is Sexy

A friend of mine sent this to me and said it made her think of me. I am honored. If there had been guys like this wandering around the lab and singing, I probably wouldn’t have quit my job back at Sansum.

Pipetting has never been so sexy…

you know you love it

(Fun fact, the beach that they are at is where I completely cut the toenail of my little toe off climbing the rocks close to the Golden Gate and got a fisherman’s hook stuck in the bottom of my foot. Separate occasions. I love that place, no really, it is a great beach!)

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girls kissing girls kissing girls

Right now in Santa Barbara the ‘it’ song that is currently being played on repeat here is “I Kissed A Girl” by Katy Perry. She apparently used to live in Santa Barbara and appears to be the darling of the music people here. Though I don’t give much props to these ‘music people’ at anytime. I’m not sure what the rest of the world is doing, but it seems like there is no other new music out there, just her’s. Yay for the bubble I live in.

One might think this song could possibly be some sort of girl power experience, but really, in my opinion, it is quite a marketing ploy. This is a song written for the males of the world. It isn’t about a girl expressing her sexuality, sorry, it is about her getting drunk and making out with some girl she doesn’t know. The reason you know it is expressly written to attract the male population are the lines ‘I hope my boyfriend don’t mind it’ and ‘ It’s not what, good girls do/Not how they should behave’. Now the males listening (and now reading) think, ‘No, I don’t mind, I encourage’. And I’m sorry, good girls kiss other girls, too. Also, after hearing the song, it becomes very likely those of the male persuasion will peruse the internet to find the video. Which, by the way, is horrible.

Stealing a suggestion from Glitterati Gossip, check out Jill Sobule’s song of the of the same title for a much more emotional and realistic song. And frankly, Sobule has ridiculously better lyrics for all her songs.

But good job for Katy Perry’s marketing people, yay capitalism!

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Part of the 4.8%

There are several joys to being unemployed (which I’m trying to embrace). For instance, today I had the opportunity to watch all the episodes of Project Runway Season 4 that I hadn’t seen yet. Thank god for Bravo’s marathons. Hence, I am much more appreciative of the hot tranny mess that the women of this page will lovingly delve into. Also, now I don’t have to wait for them to be available for viewing on Netflix.

While unemployed you also get try to coax the dog you are watching into the pool in the backyard. This means I got to use all sorts of toys, trickery and dogese. I failed miserably. Luckily, looks like I won’t have a job for at least the next two weeks, so we’ve got time. No worries.

But most importantly, being jobless lets you find amazing things like the almost-was opera Soccersongs. This was an opera that was to debut for the 2006 World Cup. It was commissioned by the German government as a collaboration between director Robert Wilson, music producer Hal Wilner, and singer-songwriter Herbert Groenemeyer. It was going to have inflatable items and robots, but more importantly, the opening scene was going to have dinosaurs and soccer. Seriously, amazing. Someone managed to combine pretty much my favorite things: dinosaurs, soccer and musicals. Oh Germany, how I love you so. I think this idea needs to be resurrected. Maybe we can get Alanis on board. Ferrrosh, can you ask her?

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full disclosure: I am 1/4th German, i.e. partially biased