Sunday Night Still Alive

Not unlike Nanette, I have been in terrible procrastination mode for some time. Paper due tomorrow, about 70% written. Another due Tuesday night, 0% written, maybe 50% of necessary material read & brooded over.

Now, I'm willing to let myself slightly off the hook, because of the wretched writer's block I've been grappling with since Friday, but I think I need to give myself a good talking-to about this whole procrastination thing. I'll have to do it later, of course, because I've finally hit my work stride and ain't nothin' gonna slow me down. Except for this little list of writing fuel, posted for your dubious enjoyment (not that you shouldn't enjoy it; just that I'm dubious that you will enjoy it, because it's kind of gross and unhealthy. How about I shut up now and just post the damn list?):

Smarties (US readers: these are not sweet-tarts, they are a highly evolved form of M&M, with harder candy shells in better colours and tastier, more chocolatey chocolate. They kind of kick the ass of M&Ms, actually.)
Chee-tos
Cheeze-It (the plural of Cheeze-It, being, of course, Cheeze-It)
Diet Coke (formerly vile beverage rendered delicious & addictive by squeezing the juice of nearly 1/2 a lemon into it)
Kraft Dinner
Many, many glasses of ice water
There's an alarming number of orange food products on this list. If you can recommend any others that make your exam-time hell (which is now, perversely, quite fun) more liveable, please let me know.
Sunday, December 10, 2000 06:57 p.m.

John Turturro Fame Audit
Because there's never enough Turturro-centric content on any site. And because I am in a battle to the death with the worst case of writer's block, ever. I seem to be fuctionally incapable of producing even a single worthwhile sentence for my paper. And yet the essentially meaningless drivel that I post here flows like wine from my metaphorically mixed fingertips. Oh, cruel, cruel academic irony.
Friday, December 8, 2000 03:12 p.m.

Exam Time Wackiness

Updates are going to be sporadic at best for the next couple of weeks -- I've got exams galore and then I'll be vacationing for a blessed week in England -- so if you'd rather be told when I've updated than keep clicking back here in the (possibly vain) hope that there's something, anything new, I recommend that you join the notify list. It's fun for the whole family. And sometimes I write something vaguely amusing to it.
Wednesday, December 6, 2000 09:52 a.m.

Iron Chef Drinking Game
Just about the only thing that could make Iron Chef funnier is extreme inebriation. This elaborate game is a team sport, too. If boozing it up is not your idea of fun, check out the rest of the site - they've got episode guides, bios of all the chefs and the commentators (Including Fukui-san, who gained fame in Japan first as a baseball commentator!), and a general FAQ for those of you who are thinking, "what the hell is an Iron Chef?"
Wednesday, December 6, 2000 09:48 a.m.

sarisari
I am in luuurve with sarisari. They've got a little bit of everything, just like their namesake Filipino mini-bodegas, and what they've got is just great. Pretty design, amusing writing, great topics (there's a funny piece detailing the editors' home Iron Chef Potted Meat Battle) - in short, everything good. Via Loobylu.
Wednesday, December 6, 2000 09:45 a.m.

O Brother, Where Art Thou Promo Site
This is so much fun. The navigation bar is an old-time radio. Wall-to-wall sepia toned Coen Brothers genius. And lots and lots of Clooney.
Wednesday, December 6, 2000 09:43 a.m.

Bird on a Wire Housewarming
New domain, new look, new links. Yay!
Monday, December 4, 2000 01:28 p.m.

Avocado World
My favourite link from the all-new, all-good Bird on a Wire is this one to the California Avocado Commission All of the CAC's website is gorgeous and mouth-watering, just like the fruit it promotes. Just be sure not to miss out on the recipes.

Their links section led me to more produce fun with the California Fig Advisory Board, the National Watermelon Promotion Board, and the California Strawberry Commission, which provides its web content in English, Spanish, French, and Japanese. What I really, really want is a site that's got an index of all those wonderful early 20th-century fruit crate labels. Not even the Washington Tree Fruit Directory could help me out with that.
Monday, December 4, 2000 01:24 p.m.

Gwendolyn Brooks, RIP

Monday, December 4, 2000 01:23 p.m.

The New Face of Terror
Why is Kathie Lee Gifford inflicting her new, hoochie-mama persona on an unsuspecting world? Particularly horrifying are the shots where she looks just like Mariah Carey's slightly (but not much) older sister. Testament to the powers of airbrushing, it's true, but damn scary, all the same.
Monday, December 4, 2000 01:21 p.m.