Hello, Hello, baby – you called, I can’t hear a thing.

March 16, 2010

Amid the vastly overblown and largely fake controversy over Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” video – a sweet, little gem of a cover has emerged.

I have a bit to share, but my brain can’t handle looking at a computer screen tonight. Lars is loading Buffy (season 5, disc 6!! We are just zooming through this rewatch-a-thon) into his Macbook as I type, but – things to look forward to:
1. My review of the first 45 minutes of 500 Days of Summer. I’ll give you a hint; 45 minutes was enough.
2. My upcoming trips to Chicago and Ft. Worth. Work-related, but still.
3. How I’m pretty much wimping out of the whole blonde thing, but we’ll see.
4. A mega mix of awesome entitled, “500 Days of Summer made me want to commit mass murder, but Joseph Gordon-Levitt is still pretty cute” It’s a sort of rom-com meets 1990’s hipster meets Tarantino meets a dance party in a library type of vibe.

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Whut the lateshoes dones red on teh internetz today

March 15, 2010

What the “Telephone” Video has to do with Women in Congress

Hate Mail of the Week: “We Won”

Comment of the Day: Inside Glenn Beck’s Brain

“I Went With The Flow:” Rielle Hunter Repulsed By GQ Photo Shoot

“Wow, We’re All Going To Hell”: Rielle And The Stages Of Grief

I have to say that I find the whole John Edwards sex scandal car-wreck-tacular. I’ve never liked him, largely because he seemed like a gigantic, shit-grinned, phony-faced a-hole….which, I rest my case… but, this stuff is just… it’s stuff I can never un-know and now I want you to not be able to un-know it with me. Pure trash. I worked from home today, what do you want from me?

Gisele’s Vogue Cover Story Defies Comment

Breaking: Kate Winslet & Sam Mendes Split

Sad. She should come over and watch some Criminal Intent.

Pretty Wild Follows “Bling Ring” Suspects

I watched this last night and I don’t even know what to say. Apparently there are no limits to bad parenting.  ”I do what I want!” (make sure you watch the Cartman clip in the comments).

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What? You don’t remember when I dated William Moses in the 80’s?

March 15, 2010

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Weekly poll – (courtesy of Norse Penny)

March 10, 2010

1. What is your middle name? Michelle

2. What is your nickname? Lars calls me “Bunny” and “Bug” other than that, Tray, Trace and occasionally Fred (by my mom).

3. When you were a kid, what did you want to grow up to be? The Go-Gos

4. Name one thing you’re really good at. Guessing upcoming plot-lines on tv shows

5. If you had one superpower, what would it be? Invisibility. No question.

6. What’s the last book you read all the way through? Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich

7. What’s the last movie you saw in the theater? Shutter Island

8. Name one song you think everybody should listen to. “King Of Carrot Flowers Part 1″ – Neutral Milk Hotel or maybe also “Together in Electric Dreams” by the Human League.

9. Name one guilty pleasure. Lady Gaga. Though I’m getting less guilty about it. I’ve gotten through so many workouts thanks to her.

10. Name one thing you’re terrified of. Other people breathing near me.

11. What is the sickest you’ve ever been? Strep throat. Ugh. Miserable.

12. Are you in love? Yes!

13. Mountains or beach? Beach. I know that I chose to move from the beach to live in the mountains, but I am never as happy as when I’m sitting by the water with my toes in the sand. Sigh.

14. Name one thing that makes you happy. Springtime, laptops, music, good design, friends, movies, my t.v. friends

15. Who is your celebrity crush? Robert Reich

16. If they made a movie of your life, who would play you? Rupaul

17. Name a pet peeve. People who write really long, convoluted, complicated emails.

18. Where would you go on your dream vacation? I’ve been fantasizing a lot about the Seychelles

19. What was your first love? (Not a person – just thing you remember being really, really important when you were a kid.) Wonder Woman

20. Name one person who broke your heart. David Boreanaz

21. Name one thing you do when no one is looking. Adjust my bra, probably – oh and dance. I dance A LOT when I’m by myself.

22. What’s next? Finish my yearly evaluation. Holy shit. I just can’t do it. It’s sooooo long and boring.

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Bringing up old shit….

March 9, 2010

Okay – sometimes I trip a little too hard on the Wayback Machine, but seriously. *The WB Machine is an internet archive*

Look how young and cute we were.

Kicking Judy on KRCL

Some of our playlists were the total shit! Check ‘em out.

I even looked up Melissa’s old website and fell in love all over again. She would most likely murder me dead if I posted it here, but if she ever allows the world to see her awesome past writings – I’ll pass it along.

P.S. Why won’t Tawnya’s boss leave? I just want to leave a few minutes early and it’s sooooooooooooooo not going to happen because he’s being a total panty-waste. GO HOME, LITTLE MAN! WORK IS GIVING ME A YEAST INFECTION!

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Whut Lateshoes is read in the internets today

March 8, 2010

Sarah Palin Loves Socialized Health Care (When She’s Paying For It)

WTF??? Doesn’t this exactly prove the opposite of her position on health care? Am I crazy?

Top 10 Academy Award Mysteries: Explained

Second Life Sex Pervs Keep US Economy Afloat

Our Top 10 90s-Woman 90s Movies

Pass. The. Damn. Bill.

Rainbow Coalition: A Color Wheel Of Oscar Gowns

*A side note for Melissa (and anyone else who watches Project Runway) – Notice how blue and orange are opposites on the color wheel? I don’t know why this didn’t occur to me before, but – doesn’t that mean they’re an extremely compatible color combination? Outside of opinion and taste – color theory does not lie, PR judges.

More Than Words

Vivienne Westwood Victim Of Bizarre Stuffed-Cat Attack

The “Period Undies” You Didn’t Know You Needed

Just because Christina Hendricks is hot

And finally – this disgusting mystery solved!

You fucking hippie douchenozzles! Stop hollering at me to get out of your way just because you’ve got to ride a fucking Circ du Soleil bike through campus to pick up weed from your friend “Jello,” who’s a professional glow-sticker.

Shove your stupid tall bike straight up your ass.

I’m just saying.

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Live-blogging thirtysomething Season 1, (the pilot)

March 3, 2010

Holy balls. thirtysomething season 1 is on Netflix “watch instantly”??????!!!!

I’m watching it right now! It’s like being in heaven. Or the late 80’s. Or Fall semester 1997 when I failed a class because I had to watch thirtysomething every morning at 9, instead of learning about “Colonial Literature” or something.

Whoa. Mike and Hope are having creepy sex.

The high-wasted, Z-cavaricci, pleated pants are freaking me out. They all look like they’re carrying around this morning’s dump in the their shorts.

Watching this as an actual “thirtysomething” is fuh-reaking me out.

Did you know that single women can no longer hang out with their friends with babies because babies are loud and annoying?

Melissa is wicked hot.

Elliot just admitted to Michael that he cheated on Nancy and I mentally kicked him in the nuts and then gave him a hug, cos that’s what this show is like.

This is nothing at all like being a thirtysomething in 2010. Our shoulder pads are ponytail holders aren’t nearly big enough.

I think that Michael and Gary have some real homoerotic tension.

The music is…. awesome….terrible. I can’t decide.

That was fast. On to episode 2….Hope’s parents come to visit and she acts like a total bitch. Stupid Hope.

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I might be a 90’s woman…

March 2, 2010

One of my daily reads, 90’s Woman - posted a hilarious list that made me feel both proud and old. Check the list and my responses below.

You might be a 90s Woman if…

Any of the following changed your life: Bikini Kill, Nirvana, 7 Year
Bitch, Hole, Babes in Toyland, Sinead O’Connor, Lisa Carver, Tank
Girl, Sister Spit, Liz Phair.
Girl you know it’s true. Bikini Kill, Liz Phair, Nirvana… I’m looking at you

You have had a crush on any of the following: Paul Rudd, James Spader, Brittany Murphy, Winona Ryder, Johnny Depp (21 Jump Street era). Check. (Paul Rudd, of course)

You’ve read Sassy. I remember buying the Sassy with Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain on the cover at Broulim’s in Rexburg and thinking – I really want to Kool-aid dye my hair… and be in mega-cute, punk-rock love. What did I know?


You’ve defended sex workers or been one. Defended? yes. Been one? No.

When you heard Billy Corgan and Jessica Simpson were dating you got upset. I just couldn’t decide which one of them was slumming.

You’ve made a mix tape on an actual tape. …or about a zillion mix tapes on actual tapes.

You know lines from Clueless. I only watched this a few times, but I do know many lines from Reservoir Dogs and Glengary Glen Ross, so that’s counts for some 90’s cred, right?

You were kind of slutty for a while and aren’t ashamed. Not slutty enough. I was a bit of a make-out slut, but looking back I really could, maybe should have been much, much worse.

You’ve marched for abortion rights, against the first Iraq War, or for Take Back the Night. I got suspended from my christian high-school for drawing a peace sign in the white checks of my uniform skirt during the first Iraq War. Our principle was a retired colonel and a mega military hard-on who hated Mormons. So you can only image.

You have ever been into Wicca, eco-feminism, or liberation theology. I like watching Willow be into Wicca…and I’ve read a lot of Mary Daly. Does that count?

You have a speech ready whenever any of the following come up: Camille Paglia, WAM, Katie Roiphe, or the Michigan Womyn’s Festival. Oh, please don’t make me talk or think about Camille Paglia. Ever. Ever again.

You think any of the following items of clothing are hot: thigh-highs, plaid shirts, work boots with dresses, cat-eye glasses, chunky heels, baby-doll dresses, overalls, plaid, flannel, bra straps showing, barrettes. Shut up.

You’ve dyed your hair a color not found in nature, ideally with Manic Panic. Manic Panic and/or Kool-aid…my hair has been: green, blue, orange, pink, orangey red, turquoise and purple. I’m thinking of going blonde this spring, so look out.


You are all over your birth control responsibilities. Check.

It would never occur to you that women wouldn’t work or that men wouldn’t clean the house. Check.

You have self-identified as bisexual (even if you’re gay or straight). This one is funny. I’ve been consistently accused of going the gay way for most of my adult life… I just embrace it. It makes me seem much more interesting than I actually am.

You can do a feminist analysis of your favorite pop culture. I can do a feminist analysis of your face. That’s how good I am.

You started—or at least read—a zine. Now it’s a blog or tumblr. Well, duh.

You are both ironic and sentimental. But for real, not like that “like rain on a wedding day” Alannis Morissette irony song, which you have mocked but know all the words to. Yes. Of course not…. and fuck you. I wasn’t totally aware of this fact until I had to sing it playing Rock Band and I murdered it. In a good way.


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My names is Bella and well, basically I’m shit at everything

March 2, 2010

I’m attempting (for the third time) to read…Twilight…and it’s soooo hard. I keep stopping to ask our dear Ms. Meyer important questions like, why? why? why? and what? huh? and wtf?

So far, I’m only through the first chapter and all of my thoughts have pretty much been summed up already by this lovely gent, Alex. Enjoy.

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Lah-dle doddle do lah-dle-da-diddle doddle – a Mix tape

March 2, 2010

Tonight Will Be Fine – Teddy Thompson

Acid Tongue – Jenny Lewis

Just About Glad – Elvis Costello (live)

gabriel – emmy the great

Isaiah 45:23 – The Mountain Goats

Carol Brown – Flight of the Conchords

Yeah! Oh Yeah! – Tracey Thorn & Jens Lekman (Magnetic Fields cover)

Mary’s Song – The Aislers Set

Bang Bang – Sara Schiralli

What Happened Then – The Apples in Stereo

I Don’t Mind – Slumber Party

Happiness – Elliott Smith

and this guy…

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