July 2010
Hey Michiganders, starting tomorrow it is illegal to text while driving. You will get a ticket even if you are stopped at a red light, and they don’t need to pull you over for something else in order to enforce.
June 2010
mittenstategirl:thebrownshaun:
I stole this from my friend Romina’s Facebook note. Bolded are ones that I particularly relate to.
- -Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you’re going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you’re crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.
- -Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn’t work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or FAQ’s. We just figured it out. Today’s kids are soft.
- -Sometimes, I’ll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the f was going on when I first saw it.
- -I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I’ll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone’s laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I’m still the only one who really, really gets it. (I felt this way with Ghostbusters 2 recently).
- -I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.
- - Answering the same letter three times or more in a row on a Scantron test is absolutely petrifying.
- - I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the shower first and THEN turn on the water.
- -Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I’m from, this shouldn’t be a problem….
- -You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you’ve made up your mind that you just aren’t doing anything productive for the rest of the day.
- -Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don’t want to have to restart my collection.
- -There’s no worse feeling than that millisecond you’re sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.
- -It really pisses me off when I want to read a story on CNN.com and the link takes me to a video instead of text.
- -I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
When I started to read the list, I was determined not to reblog. But I actually thought some of these were pretty funny, and related to the ones above. Click through one of the people I reblogged this from for the full list.
the other day when two of my friends started talking about their bouts of mastitis. I think what set me off was the, “I squeezed and it looked like a noodle came out!”

(via bbook)
Band of Horses - Funeral
Noah and the Whale - Give a Little Love
all I want to do is watch reruns of Criminal Minds until I have seen every one. Whilst unemployed, I don’t let myself watch any TV during the day, so I’ve gone a little crazy knowing there are 5 episodes on my DVR. I have gone for a walk, looked for jobs online, and cleaned up my bedroom. Doesn’t that earn me one episode?
Bob Dylan: Lay Lady Lay
The recording session wasn’t going so well. The drums were too heavy. Dylan suggests to the drummer to just play bongos. There is no stand for the bongos. The drummer asks the young studio janitor to hold the bongos. One take later, you have this song.
The janitor’s name: Kris Kristofferson.
True story.
I wish Columbia studio A still existed. Just to go there and stand in the room so many great Dylan songs were recorded in.
I can’t remember if it’s RCA Studio A or Columbia Studio A, but the Country Music Hall of Fame has the studio door, recording light, and I think a console or two on display. It was Owen Bradley’s main studio. And I’ll always get goosebumps in Studio B. Always. Sadly, I had to miss this year’s pilgrimage due to travels.
My in-laws had a poodle named Muffin who was quite a bastard. He’d bark ferociously any time someone tried to hug my mother-in-law but loved to cuddle on her lap. When they’d play this song, or even when Mr Woolie would sing it, he’d literally howl. He’d get up and run over and “sing” right next to the radio or Mr Woolie. A duet. Never for any other song.
The only thing I think about when I hear this song is the SNL skit and one of my roommates in college who would come into your room and sing this to you the morning after having one too many. You’d feel a mixture of being nauseous/hung over, and wanting to laugh. It was torture.
I just read something about Venezuela and…
SEE!
YOU TOO!
What the hell?
Yep, at first I thought you spelled it wrong.
Russell Brand, about his fiance Katy Perry
I feel like this might be the loveliest compliment ever.
(via carolinek)
I concur!
(via lizlemon)
(via lrusso)
Indeed, I just wish it wasn’t about Katy Perry.
Deadman - When the Music’s Not Forgotten