OMG. The lengths these Japanese girls will go just to get that wide-eyed Western look. I mean, check it out:
Sheryl—you’ll have to ask Mariko if she swabs her eyelid with glue and pokes a stick in her eye as part of her daily makeup routine.
Category Archives: snippets
Misheard Pearl Jam Lyrics
How amusing. Someone made a kind of flash animation music video to the Pearl Jam song “Yellow Ledbetter.” However… whether or not it was intentional (and I’m still not sure), the animation includes wonderfully misheard lyrics. Now, granted, I couldn’t understand a damn thing Eddie was saying in the first place, but I know this ain’t it.
Flash animation | Real lyrics (for reference)
He’s Still Around?
Um… is it bad that I did a report on Milton Glaser in my Intro to Graphic Design class, and I didn’t realize he was still alive?
*facepalm*
For a fascinating interview with Milton Glaser, courtesy of Adobe, check this out.
Taxes: Check.
Just got done with Das Taxes. We bought a $10 book at Barnes and Noble today about filing your 2005 taxes, and it was actually helpful. Worth the ten bucks. Unfortunately, we just barely missed being able to itemize our shit. We gave it a shot, though, and we know what kinds of receipts to save for next year.
So, let’s hear it for having our Federal tax refund to fund our summer vacation. w00t.
Aaron’s quotable for the evening? “Use tax? Suck my left fuckin’ buckeye.”
Chocolatey Soy Candle Goodness
I just made a Hershey’s-Chocolate-scented soy candle for Mark. Now the whole house smells kind of like chocolate. OMG it’s making me hungry.
In related news, I’m going to be adding a link on my sidebar shortly, so visitors can purchase an assorted five- six-pack of homemade tealights made by Yours Truly—mainly to test the PayPal shopping cart system so I can implement it for the LakeShoremen (once I’m given access to their PayPal account).
Hmm. Maybe I should order some more scents and dyes and stuff. I’d forgotten how much I enjoy making candles.