You should watch this

It's months old, but still funny.

I recommend having 3-4 Capital Brewery Winter Skals beforehand. Tends to make it funnier.

I officially dislike Glen Mason

Glen Mason is a smug bastard. He is the George Bush of football. His team lost horribly to a team we should have beaten soundly and all he can say is "it was a great college football game." Really, Glen Mason? If you are a college football coach and your team loses a bowl game, it is not a great college football game. No exceptions. In fact when your quarterback's pass is intercepted when you throw a HAIL MARY PASS on the 40 YARD LINE with ALMOST A MINUTE left in the game you are indeed a shitty college football coach and that is a shitty college football game. End of story. Get rid of him. He's fiddling while Dome is burning. (I love you if you get the reference.)

Merry Christmas

....two days ago.

Apparently I've been very busy in SoDak, although all I recall doing is eating, playing Trivial Pursuit and shopping. For your holiday entertainment, check out the top thirty Chuck Norris facts, below is a sampling of the facts most repeated at Truhe family Christmas. What, your family doesn't talk about Chuck Norris and do Ron White and Lewis Black impressions at Christmas? Weird.

• When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.
• Chuck Norris sleeps with a night light. Not because Chuck Norris is afraid of the dark, but the dark is afraid of Chuck Norris
• According to Einstein's theory of relativity, Chuck Norris can actually roundhouse kick you yesterday

They did it again

The City Council wants to bring streetcars to Minneapolis. Another great idea.

Disappointed

I thought the Sex and the City animations would be fabulous, but alas, it was not so. They use different voices, with different inflection, rendering the conversations not nearly as interesting. It makes you realize how fabulous the casting on SATC was. The witty, fun, (sometimes) intelligent dialogue is simply not as interesting when read by other voices.

PS - This page featured an ad for TravelGirl magazine, which I would assume I am the target market for. I predict it will either be really good or really bad. Perhaps I'm too young? It appears TravelWoman or worse...TravelLady..would be a more appropriate title. Plus, you'd think they'd sell it at...I don't know...THE AIRPORT, but I've never seen it there.

Worst website ever

American Express's website blows. It's ridiculously slow and some of the links just choose not to work at random times. I've been waiting about 3 minutes to log into my account info. Not sure if it's the former or latter problem holding me up today.

In addition, their Membership Rewards site has been down for months. Try typing in membershiprewards.com and see what happens. Fun, right?

How is this acceptable to AmEx management? Unfortunately there are no email links on their piece of crap website or I'd let them know how I feel.

Woohoo!!

Minneapolis going wireless

This is freaking fantastic - the kind of thing government should do more often.

Crushing defeat

The Boys lost their semifinal game by 1 point, bringing an end to a much better than usual year.

Feliz cumpleanos

Today is my blog's birthday.

I couldn't make this shit up

A dead lady was found at Big Bird's house.

Choices, choices

I'm getting a duvet for Christmas and have my eye on these snazzy Jonathan Adler duvet covers. The only problem is narrowing it down to one.

Ditto

I know Laura already blogged about it, but I just wanted to confirm that I also very much enjoyed Jingle Bell Doc. My personal favorite was a fantastic arrangement of O Holy Night. It was so amazing, I even remembered the arranger's name - Lieb.

(Attn. Abby: Have you heard of him/her? You're my only loyal reader with arranger knowledge...at least that I know of...unless someone is a closet band teacher.)

PS - Unlike Laura, I did know who Doc Severinsen was before this concert.

Goulet!

Great idea for the next tailgating, I mean football, season:

Goldie is selective

The U only admits 5,300 freshmen? Seems low, doesn't it? I'm sure it's right, I just would have guessed a much higher number. If you do the math, that means there are likely more graduate than undergraduate students at the U....or about the same number if you add a large allowance for transfer students and people taking >5 years to graduate.

Am I the only Gopher who would've guessed a higher number?

The article also says only ~25% of applicants are accepted to the U. I'd be interested to see the average GPA and ACT score of accepted students.

I guess this article confirms what I've always known - the U of M is one kickass public university. Go Gophers!

Update: The U has 28K undergrads, 16K grad/professional students, and 5K nondegree students (whatever the hell that means). So the 5,300 freshman admissions seems really low now, especially since 15%, or nearly 800, of them will quit in the first year.

Memo to City of Mpls

I'll play your little snow emergency game and move my car all around if you plow my f$^#ing street.

Deal?

Happy STD!

Coworker Carrie alerted me to this article about an LA County website that allows people to anonymously alert partners that they have an STD. Only the notification isn't the somber message you'd expect, it's an (in my opinion) inappropriately flashy e-card.

PR Update

I was right about Nick last night, but not Diana. I predict another win for Santino next week and think Marla's going home.

Diana, you're out

I'm super excited for Project Runway tonight. Interestingly, I learned Jay has turned down his winnings from Season 1 because there are "too many strings attached." I'm guessing the attention the show got him and the other top contestants generated better offers than $100K and a mentorship from Banana Republic. The BR is far from Jay's style, so more power to him.

As for this season, I found out there truly is a fantasy PR. Play Fashion Face-off at bravotv.com. I've got Nick winning this week and can't imagine Diana can squeak through another week - she's out.

Funny girl

I generally don't watch news on TV, as I find it very inefficient to do so when there's news all over the internet. I do watch, or should I say listen to, the morning news while getting ready for work. I'm generally a CBS girl, but this morning I watched Fox 9 morning news. I know Fox 9 is by far the most annoying of evening newscasts, but I thoroughly enjoyed their morning reporter, MA Rosko. She seriously cracks my shit up. This morning they had her standing on the corner of 31st and Hennepin and she was chatting it up with randoms that were coming to take the bus and waving to them as they went off to work. To be honest, she acted a smidge drunk, which is perhaps why I found her so endearing. If you live in the viewing area, I highly recommend checking her out. Let me know what you think.

Fun stuff I forgot to mention

1. The Joynoelle lady is a talented designer, but she could use some help on the business end. Julie and I went to her Christmas party hoping to try on fun clothes, including wedding dresses in Julie's case. We were a bit bummed to find she had about 2 items in each size...and one of the skirts in my size was made of a material Julie could best describe as "stuffed animal," which I can't imagine would have been flattering. We came ready to buy, but unfortunately Joy was not ready to strike while the iron was hot. And by "strike" I mean sell us stuff and by "while the iron was hot" I mean while Julie and I were a little buzzed off the wine she was serving.

2. The MIA has all its period rooms decorated for Christmas in their respective country and era. It's fun.

Tip of the day

Check out Second Debut (4300 W 36 1/2 Street - near Excelsior and Grand) for gently-used designer clothes, shoes, and handbags. Coworker Carrie and I shopped for our lunch today and both came away with some super deals.

If you were a size 7 1/2 or 8 shoe, don't bother going. There's nothing cute there for you.

Or maybe I want them all to myself....

Observation

If you are white and have cornrows, Paris Latsis and Kevin Federline, you are an asshole. I can't imagine a more ridiculous look.

Tell me USC quarterback Matt Leinart (top) does not look like Bob "the Bachelor" Guiney. I dare you.

I could waste the whole day watching E's 101 Most Unforgettable SNL Moments.

Thanks NWA

A voucher I received when I volunteered to be bumped from a flight paid for all but $40 of my Vegas flight. To make the deal even better, I got over 9,000 miles for the flight thanks to TRIPLE miles and the Silver Elite bonus. Excellent.

Say it ain't so

No more doubledecker busses in London. (Washington Post Article)

Why?

Let me just say that the premise to Rumor Has It makes me throw up in my mouth..and not just a little, A LOT.

Annie: I'm the most screwed-up person in the world!
Sarah Huttinger: Well, did you sleep with a man who also slept with mom and Grandma Katherine?
Annie: You slept with dad? Dad slept with Grandma Katherine? Ew!
Sarah Huttinger: No!

There is simply nothing funny about that. How the hell did this movie get greenlighted? Like the thought of a man sleeping with three generations of women isn't stomach turning, much less can serve as the plot to a successful romantic comedy. And why did Jennifer Aniston agree to do it? With Kevin Costner no less, who has put the kiss of death on every movie he's done since Field of Dreams. OK, I could go on all day, but I'm done.

Secret's out

I learned this week that CNN's coverage is preempted in airports anytime their's an air travel emergency, say like the shooting in Miami, so travelers don't panic. Except now that the policy is made public, travelers will panic anytime the in-terminal TVs aren't on CNN and assume the worst, right?

Weiners

After a somewhat extended absence, the Right Ons returned to music trivia last night with our A game on and came in 1st.
We have learned our Achille's heel is date/number questions. i.e. What year did Kurt Cobain die? How old was Tupac when he died? So you know Tupac was 25. Cobain, along with Morrison, Hendrix, Joplin and Carpenter (Karen, that is) was 27 when he died in 1994. Tough questions.

Christmas Traditions, Truhe Style

I was about to get mighty angry when I read this post on my schwester's blog. She had me thinking she had done our annual White Trash Tour of Lights without me.

The WTTL has been a Truhe girls' tradition pretty much since we were able to drive. I have multiple pictures of the festivities and one Christmas we even made a video of the tour, complete with interviews at local gas stations about favorite neighborhood decorations.

The WTTL has never failed to be entertaining. We can always count on the old standards - mismatched lights (color & white, blinking & nonblinking), excessive light usage, poorly strung lights - as well as above average trashiness - wood cutouts of all 101 Dalmations, 6 foot tall Beavis and Butthead lawn decorations, a lifesize Elvis/Santa.

Bring on the trashiness Sioux City - I can't wait for this year's tour!

So, I know I was all excited about Project Runway premiering tonight, but, like all TV shows I get superexcited for, I'll be missing it. Remember how excited I was for My Name Is Earl? I've seen maybe 3 episodes. Will and Grace is my "favorite show"...I think I've seen it once this season and couldn't explain the major happenings of the last 3 seasons. The problem is, no matter how excited I am for a show, I can't bring myself to schedule my life around it.

I know I need Tivo in the worst way, but I just can't bring myself to spend even more $$ on TV. Plus, Project Runway is on Bravo, which means they'll be showing the first two episodes again tonight at 11, and tomorrow at 3am, 3pm and 7pm, etc, etc.....

The favorite

Believe it or not, The Boys are the top seed in the Chicks FFL playoffs. That's a lot of pressure!

Musiclives.org

Support a fantastic cause - keep music in public schools - and get this fabulous bracelet to boot.

Mama like

Can't wait to see Michael on Project Runway Season 2. Wednesday night 10/9 Central. Yay!

I heart Target

...and Target hearts me. Mostly because I spend ungodly amounts of money there on things I didn't need in the first place. Take tonight for example. I went to buy a pizza cutter and face lotion. $86 later, I finally left the Target Boutique.

I'm sure everyone has a similar story. Discuss.

My neighborhood has STOP eating animals and STOP Bush stickers aplenty, but I must say I would prefer this.

You can buy all types of these bad boys here.

It's over

Queer Eye, you've had a good run, but you're clearly on your last leg. The Queer Eye Wedding Season gimmick is the reality show equivalent of adding a baby to the cast and having the child magically be 6 years old the following season. It's been fun while it lasted.

That's only in the mornin'

I was going to blog about my love for Home Alone and did a Google search for an accompanying image, when I found this doctored up picture of Bubb Rubb. For those not familiar with Bubb Rubb and Lil' Sis, go to this website and click on "More Bubb Rubb" to check out the video. You can thank me later. Josh D. first showed me this video approx. two years ago - good to see Bubb lives on in cyberspace.