First Review

Someone finally sent me a review of the blog. I feel so honored to have received this review that I am going to post it right on the site. Here we go:

"You can do better with the website. I think part of the problem is your worse half is not as witty as you may think. And you aren't as edgy as your emails to me. Do you check who is hitting your blog? My friend has a way of tracking who looks by their servers. Can you do a better job commenting on current events? Try to be offensive, polarizing? At least that will get comments going."

Sweeeet!!! I do realize that it's not exactly a ringing thumbs up endorsement but I'm just pumped that someone finally read our site. I sent the link to another one of my friends and her comment to me was, "Ugggh, I opened the link and just saw too many words and didn't read anything." Yes, a bad review is better than no one reading your words. If you don't have anyone reading, this entire exercise is just mental masturbation. To be fair, I haven't been edgy. I'm working towards it. And to be fair to Stretch, she hasn't written much of anything to really be judged. Anyway, thanks for your patronage and honesty. I'm working on my next blog, it's loosely titled, "The Nazis were just Misunderstood and Prison Rape is Hilarious."

Word of the day

If James Lipton was asking me what my favorite word is, none of these are it; however, I think we should show the following words a little love.

Callipygian. Adjective, having shapely buttocks. There’s a word to describe a badonkadonk? Really? Why hasn’t Lil Jon incorporated this into a rap song? Couldn’t they incorporate the word play between callipygian (pronounced like pigeon) and chicken head? I demand some sort of investigation into this.

Underwhelming. Do you even realize that this is a word in the English lexicon? Someone in my office said, “That’s completely underwhelming.” I actually giggled....errr, laughed a hearty manly chuckle. For some reason, it sounded hilarious. As if they coined a new word. It’s a real word, people. Who knew? Can you honestly say that you’ve used underwhelming? Compare that to the number of times you’ve used or heard someone say “I’m overwhelmed.” The disparity is, well, overwhelming. Underwhelming is the Ashlee Simpson of the English vocabulary....compared to Jessica’s overwhelming…talents?

Today I got an e-mail from Don Cheadle

In addition to being a Debbie Downer (waaaa waaa), I'm also someone who likes to be involved in a bazillion extracurricular activities. Think Max Fischer from that movie Rushmore. Except no beret. And I'm not a dude.

One of my many extracurricular activities is to save Darfur. At first I attempted to do this single-handedly, and I'd like to say that I made some headway, but frankly it wasn't pretty. Luckily I stumbled upon the official Save Darfur Website, and this has made things much easier.

On this website, you can sign up for the Weekly Action Network, which basically means that every week they send you an e-mail asking you to do something small to help the effort. For example, today Don Cheadle sent an e-mail asking me to petition the Whitehouse. Usually it's just filling out a form e-mail that gets sent to the Whitehouse. It's very simple to do, so why not?

Sometimes they actually ask you to call your Congressperson. And one time I actually called the Whitehouse comment line. Apparently they have a phone line that is manned by operators whose purpose is to collect comments from concerned citizens. This totally blew my mind. I wonder if any of those comments ever get listened to? And I wonder how many people call each day? I'd guess hundred of thousands, but I'd also be surprised if maybe they only get like 50.

Anyhow... the moral of this story is: It's important to have extracurricular activities and it's important to remember those who are much less fortunate than us, even if they are on the other side of the world and their problems seem irrelevant to our lives. We are citizens of the world, people! Global community! Save Darfur!