Movin' on over..

I moved this blog to Word Press.

Herbert the Pervert

Before going into my blog, I am probably going to be officially moving this blog to Wordpress this weekend. Right now I'm adding tags and learning about the features before officially moving. I will be sure to make a note of it when I go "live."

Anyway, I wasn't a loyal Family Guy watcher until I got cable in March. Before March, I mainly didn't watch Family Guy since it was on the same time as Desperate Housewives and, of course for me, DH takes precedence. So now I always end up watching Family Guy reruns on TBS, on On Demand and on Sundays when they've stopped reruning DH reruns (seriously...what's up with that? Thank g-d they're showing on On Demand). It really is an insanely funny and weird show. Now, I don't know what this says about me, but one of the characters I *always* look forward to seeing is the old guy, Herbert. I only found his name after a Google search. I won't type the things he says, but luckily YouTube doesn't fail in providing me video to help me:





And JibJab has a nice long video, but they don't let you embed.

It seems, though, that Family Guy or its affiliates get really upset about clips being shown on YouTube. But I think those three work well. And as for why I like him, I think it's the dark part of my brain that still finds shows like Beavis and Butthead funny.

And just for fun, here's some more clips from Family Guy clip:

Blogger vs. Wordpress

Before starting this Pish Posh Etc. blog, I kept a very political blog. I kept it before the 2004 election and I trailed off writing in the middle of November 2004.

Anyway, I started this blog with Blogger since it's what I've used before and what I'm used to. I have started shopping around, though, and the verdict seems to say that Wordpress provides a really great platform. For fun last night I imported my Blogger posts to a Wordpress blog and they moved over really well. So, I might poke around with Wordpress more this weekend, but I really like that they offer more templates. Here's what I had so far: Pish Posh Etc Wordpress. I think that template is a little more "me" than any of the ones offered by Blogger and it seems they have many features built in that you have to add here (the counter/tracker, to name one). It has more bells & whistles, but I think I'd like to get some more bells & whistles around here.

Keith Olbermann on the Soup

Over the weekend I was watching The Soup and was surprised and happy to see Keith Olbermann making a cameo. He actually made fun of the whole thing on Countdown last night too. Anyway, here's the clip from The Soup:



and here's the cut to the Legally Blonde part:

Fun weekend

I had a fabulous weekend in New York for my birthday. When I got in Saturday afternoon, I did some shopping at Macy's. Of course, in that Macy's, the plus sizes are on the 7th floor. I guess that goes to show the lengths they'll go to to keep people that aren't model size from the general public. Their plus size department, though, is so huge and nice so it's worth the adventures on the escalator. I did end up getting some clothes. Afterwards I hopped the subway to Union Square area. All over Union Square people are selling Obama memorabilia. I love that his candidacy has generated so much enthusiasm. I keep thinking that, even if things don't work out (and God, please let Obama win!!), this has been such a memorable campaign and it's great seeing people this excited about a candidate. So, anyway, I strolled over to Strand bookstore and got myself mesmerized with the $1 book racks. Of course at the end I ended up putting back most of the $1 books, except ones for my friend's 1 year old son, and got the more expensive ones...I got A TV Guide to Life: How I Learned Everything I Needed to Know From Watching Television and Barack Obama's The Audacity of Hope.

My friend then met up with me there and we had dinner at an Indian restaurant and had dessert at Max Brenner. We finished up the night by seeing the film Mamma Mia! at the AMC in Times Square. The film was fantastic...great music, sexy Pierce Brosnan, and of course Meryl Streep played a great part.

And Sunday we got up late and met my other friend for brunch at the Tick Tock Diner and did a whole buncha shopping in mid-town. I have to finish with a little story about the Bolt bus. This was my third time, I think, taking the Bolt bus and I have yet to be disappointed. On the way back I was really impressed, even though we did get stuck in tons of traffic out of New York and I missed my train (and had to take a cab home...damn bad Sunday Septa schedules). Some guy thought he was on the bus to Boston (how the driver or he didn't realize this is beyond me) and realized his mistake when we started crossing the bridge. The driver had some Bolt associate meet us at the first rest stop in NJ and drive him back to the Bolt stop. Now that's some great service!

I will leave with a clip of Abba:

On turning 29

I turn 29 today, one year till I turn 30. I didn't think I'd be one to care that much about ages, but this year I'm getting a bit introspective, which I suppose is natural with a milestone birthday a year away.

Most of my college friends seem to be settled in careers and/or settling with partners. I'm not doing any of these things and I know that these days it's common for 30-somethings to still be in transition, but I guess I grew up having certain expectations for my age. I know I have accomplished quite a bit, but I still don't see it as enough.

Sigh, I will stop at there. Next weekend, if I don't have to work, I was thinking of having a Sex & The City marathon. I did just get the last part of season 6 from Amazon. I think watching that will help me.

In tribute, here's an episode of Friends that's appropriate for this morning...it's where they all recall their 30th birthday.

The annoying end of Will & Grace

Ok, I promised myself no more TV blogging this week, but what the hell. When I go into work late I end up watching sitcoms on Lifetime most of the morning while I'm doing stuff around the apartment. So...right now they are showing what I think is the last season of Will & Grace. Now, I really do love so much about Will & Grace and I still contend that the Karen/Jack storylines are so much more entertaining than the Will and Grace storylines. But of course since I love the show so much I do care about Will and Grace. I started getting bothered by the show when they brought in Harry Connick, Jr. as Leo. I couldn't stand Leo's character and didn't like his relationship with Grace at all.

So, around then I really watched the show primarily for the Karen and Jack's stories. I really had no feelings one way or another about Vince, the cop Will ended up marrying, but I was happy they finally let Will have a long term boyfriend after all these seasons. That was one of my issues the series too.

Anyway, right now they're showing an episode of W&G where Grace is pregnant and having Will help her with her Lamaze class.

Of all the series finales, in my mind, I think Will & Grace had one of the worst. The Jack & Karen stories ended good and funny, as expected. Then I hated that Grace took Leo back after he did all that cheating on her. But I found it extremely unrealistic that Will & Grace went 20 years without talking at all. As for their kids meeting at college and falling in love...that was a little too unrealistic for me too.

It really made me upset that such a generally good show went out in such a bad way. Boo!!

A good Jack, Rosario & Karen moment: