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Lindsay Lohan is an egotistical, boozed-up tart

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Milka-what?

Milka-what?

By now, most of you have probably seen the new E*Trade commercial in their talking baby series, “Baby – Girlfriend”.  If not, go watch it now and then keep reading.

I watched the ad when it first came out, and I’ve watched it several times since then, and it makes me laugh every time.  It’s definitely one of the best ads in the series.

Apparently, not everyone thinks so.  The Boston Herald reported today that Lindsay Lohan has filed a $100 million suit against E*Trade, alleging that “a ditzy toddler appearing in [the ad] is modeled after her and improperly invokes her ‘likeness, name, characterization and personality without permission.’”

When asked for comment, the company that produced the ad said they “just used a popular baby name that happened to be the name of someone on the account team.”

Hey, Lindsay: How about we go back ten years or so to when you were cute and lovable, and just pretend that the intervening years of drug and alcohol abuse, humiliating public behavior, promiscuity, and unbelievable narcissism never happened, eh?

I’m hoping that this is all just some sort of misguided publicity stunt.  The alternative, that Lohan actually believes that she has exclusive rights to the use of the name “Lindsay” in entertainment, is just too painful too contemplate.

*sigh*


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Review of My First Big Book: Jack and the Beanstalk

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

My First Big Book: Jack and the Beanstalk
By Jeff Macon, Michelle Macon, and Monica Chang
23 pp. Allen Chao/Innovage $20
ISBN 1-58805-807-7

One cannot help but admire the courage of any author who strives to follow in the footsteps of Tabart and Jacobs by reinterpreting this timeless classic.  Jeff Macon, Michelle Macon, and Monica Chang apparently could each muster up only a third of the requisite fortitude.  Although their combined courage may be admirable, the fruit of their efforts is not.

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The newest additions to the Kamens family

Saturday, October 31st, 2009
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As if today weren’t already bad enough…

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

… I just discovered a dead rat in our kitchen.

Granted, a dead rat is better than a live rat (nice to see the cat doing her job), but still…

*sigh*

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On sugar bowls and psychology

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

We have a ceramic sugar bowl with a loop on the side which holds a small sugar spoon.

When the spoon is inserted with the open side of the spoon facing the bowl, it fits properly, all the way into the loop.

When the spoon is inserted with the rounded bottom fo the spoon facing the bowl, it does not fit all the way into the loop.

When the sugar bowl is passed to a guest, the spoon is usually in the loop, facing the correct direction.

Some guests return the spoon to the loop correctly; others put it the wrong way.  Some notice that the spoon didn’t go in all the way and turn it around; others leave it facing the wrong way.

Those of you who know me personally or have read my blog for a while no doubt realize that seeing the spoon facing the wrong way and sticking precariously out of the loop is, to me, like nails on a chalkboard.  It is, quite simply, something that is Not Right, and what’s worse, something that is Not Right for No Good Reason.

But aside from my personal fascination (probably bordering on OCD) with trivial little things like this, I find myself wondering if anyone has ever studied it.  It seems to me that you can divide people into three categories: people who simply don’t notice things like this; people who notice but don’t care; and people who notice and care.  Do these categories have greater significance?  Do they speak to people’s work habits, intelligence, happiness, etc.?

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Trivial, little things that deafeningly scream “This is not who I am!”

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Eleven days ago, I bounced a check.

Ten days ago, I bounced another check.

I didn’t even realize I’d done it until today, when I finally got around to plowing through the mound of paperwork I’d been allowing to accumulate for weeks in my inbox.

I. Do. Not. Bounce. Checks.

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Destined for happiness

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Sighted downtown today, a young couple holding hands, with “matching” T-shirts.

Hers: “I always get what I want.”
His: “It’s all about me.”

This pair is surely destined for a long, happy life together.

 

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A present I would rather have done without

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

There has been a polite little family of mice sharing our house, aside from the domesticated variety safely ensconced in their aquarium. I call them polite because they never left droppings anywhere in plain sight, and because they resisted all human food, confining their snacking to the commercial mouse food in our bathroom closet and to the cat’s food bowl when she was otherwise engaged.

Unfortunately for them, she was not always otherwise engaged, and has been gradually reducing their number.  And thus, we have found a series of little deceased rodents in various locations around the house, sometimes sans cranium.  It seems that the cat does not care for the rest of the mouse.

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Too clever by half, then not clever enough

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Upon our arrival in Cleveland last Friday afternoon after a three-day drive from Boston, we hastily emptied the car before the start of the Sabbath.  Imagine my dismay to discover that the duffel bag containing all of my clothes was missing!  I had put my clothes for the trip in my backpack, so that I wouldn’t have to take out the duffel until our arrival, but that of course meant that I never noticed it was missing.

I was dumbfounded.  I was sure that I’d loaded all the bags into the car.  I could imagine only three possible explanations, all of which were unpleasant: (1) I idiotically failed to load my duffel into the car; (2) I removed the duffel from the trunk at some point during the trip while accessing another bag, failed to put it back, and drove away without it; (3) we left the van unlocked and untended at some point during the trip and someone snatched the duffel.

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Coining a new phrase

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

While discussing with my wife a product which is so poorly designed that it’s an absolute marvel that it made it to into manufacturing: “The team that designed this was definitely a few monkeys short of infinity.”

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