Ph4t L00tz!

Caro got an email today from figureprints:

Congratulations!
You have been selected to create your very own FigurePrint!

We at FigurePrints have been working hard to increase our manufacturing capabilities and process a larger number of orders. As a result we have added additional winners to the Jan. 18th, 2008 drawing, and you are one of them. Your account has been enabled to allow you to place an order any time before midnight Feb. 9, 2008 PST. To be clear, being selected only grants you the opportunity to purchase a FigurePrint and this email is not meant as a free or discounted product.

Looks like we'll be getting a little version of Lleyla in our mail! I'll post pix when we get it.

Of course I'm totally jealous. I want a little Hua action figure!

Fly Conchords Fly

If you've never seen "Flight of the Conchords" on HBO, you don't know what you're missing. Here's a taste:

Bait and Switch

A commercial came on during one of Caro's "Stories" that doubled me over with laughter.

Adult contemporary music plays in the background. Think "Feel the rain on your skin" or some such claptrap.

A mother and her daughter are getting ready for a wedding. We see them already dressed, putting the final touches on their appearances as they look out the bedroom window at the gathered guests, groom, and preacher in the distance on the lawn below. They seem happy and excited.

The narrator (a woman of indeterminate age) gushes on ad nauseum about how this is the most important moment in a woman's life, and how everything needs to be absolutely perfect, that nothing should stand in the way of her dreams. It is at this point I'm confronted with the thought that I may be purchasing whatever this ad is selling, very soon (for our own impending nuptials of course).

Cut to the end of the ceremony and we see a close-up of the couples' hands as the groom puts a ring on the bride's finger. My, their hands look awfully old and wrinkled to be such a young couple. The camera cuts to the couple's faces, and we see that it's not the daughter getting married, but the mother. Odd. A renewal of vows perhaps? Remarrying for money? Shotgun Wedding? Who knows?

Now, the clincher: What do you suppose is responsible for the wedding going off without a hitch? What product are they targeting at this nation's burgeoning population of sexagenarian brides?

Depends Adult Diapers. Nothing ruins a wedding like the bride's loss of bowel control. It'll make the honeymoon an adventure though...

If I find a youtube of this commercial I'll post it of course...

The Final Misadventure of Explodo-Cat

I'm pretty good at waking up at 6:30am on days I have to work, regardless of the presence of an alarm clock. When I woke up this morning to find that our already unreliable alarm clock was rendered more so due to the lack of power, I immediately located my cell phone to check the time. It was 6:36am. I also noticed that the rest of the apartment was likewise without power.

Caro called the apartment complex's office while I checked the news on my phone ("is it a killer snowstorm? alien invasion?? armageddon???"). The complex's answering service didn't answer - they're fired - and I found no such alarming news anywhere.

She then called Centerpoint, who kindly told us that yes, someone had been out there to investigate the problem already that morning and no, this was not their problem, call your apartment complex. Great. Showers in the dark for everybody. Hope you weren't keen on groomin there, fella. We managed to locate a flashlight ("I think I remember seeing one under the bed") and started our day.

Caro found out later from the complex's handyman that at some point during the cold winter's night, a stray cat thought that the transformer atop a power pole would make a great place to keep warm. One expoding cat later, our whole building was without power.