pinguinitos

today is international penguin day.

thanks to my parents' civic pride, i also know that today, the pittsburgh penguins won the first round of the playoffs against philly 4 games to 2, how fitting! (suck it eastern PA).

so go celebrate and watch march of the penguins and/or happy feet, while wearing black and white of course.

from the latter, for your visual pleasure.

oh, and it wouldn't be a true celebration without a penguin joke:

One day, on the way back from having lunch at a Restaurant, Joe and his dad ran across a delivery van, with smoke pouring from under the hood, on the side of the road. The van driver works for the London Zoo. He pleads with Joe and his dad to do him a favor. He offers them £200 to take a truckload of penguins to the zoo, because they needed to be there within the hour. Agreeing, Joe and his dad proceeded to load two dozen penguins into their van. Then, off they drive towards the zoo.

An hour later, the delivery driver gets his van fixed and heads off to the zoo to catch up with his delivery. As he's driving down the road, he see's Joe walking down the street with the penguins.
He stops and gets out of the van. In an irate voice he asks, "Hey, Joe. I thought I gave you a £200 to go and take the penguins to the zoo for me?"
"Calm down," Joe says. "I took the penguins to the zoo, but we had change left over, so now I'm taking them to the cinema and then tomorrow I might take them to the circus!"

tacos seem like a good idea at 3am until you drop and break your phone.

caitlin has finally allowed me to post the video of my new favorite people: i don't actually know their names. but, this song has made me do a legit lol multiple times since monday. almost as much as a video of some animal that enjoys to be scratched under its arms.



and for a little brooklyn love.

prayz b 2 mother urth

it has obvi become so hip to be *~*green*~* these days. we are green as grass and will not be outdone by trends.

thus, our 2009 earth day tips on how to stay green in brooklyn:

1. don't bother with paper or plastic, simply slip the desired item into your own purse/american apparel hoodie and quietly exit. (i would make sure there is no metal detector first)
2. poop outside! it makes great fertilizer and saves a flush. (watch out for that poison ivy to wipe)
3. save electricity and only blast the salsa from the radio 3 hours a day - as opposed to your usual 24.
4. cut down on the slave conditions at those rubber plantations, reuse your condom. hey, according to the pope they cause aids anyway.
5. the next war will be fought over water, so take a cue from the local vagabonds and don't shower. you'll save tons of water.
6. hey, while we're at it, hygiene won't save the planet, might as well not flush either.
7. recycle all those pbr cans (or just throw them on the street, because let's face it, inevitably someone will come and recycle it for you).
8. there's no night like garbage night in ny, just make it shopping night!
9. hop on the locavore trend- get out your fishing rod and go fish in the hudson.
10. never underestimate the power of dumpster diving (you win, freegans).

come on people, this is our planet we're talking about. all it takes is a little effort from a lot of people and we can reverse all this global warming, rainforest destruction, icebergs melting extinction of animals, etc. hey, we may even make it to the rapture if we're lucky. cross those green thumbs!

dreams of our fathers and detours from the path.

caitlin demanded that i write a piece about my father rather than post a video of my new boyfriends. while i find it troubling that i cannot share my happiness with the world about men who sing taco bell inspired songs, i shall now pay homage to the real man in my life: el doctor.

i will pay homage in the form of a poem, entitled:

islands of hope, tears of pearl, screams of pain, but new beginnings.

dad,
i love you.

four twenty

every since i was an adolescent and vaguely understood what 4-20 was about (kinda), it always made me laugh a little. it was the cool thing in high school to all do something at 4:20 on 4/20, and by something i mean giggle.

pros and cons of celebrating today?

pro. in ny, you can get everything delivered, even the ganja, even by bike, reducing your carbon footprint. (soooo 2009).

con. kumar is now working for obama after committing suicide on house. another suicidal pothead working in government.

just say no people.

and when there's nothing left to say, run across an innersection.

peek-a-boo, oh you
yes, their french toast was the best
roam now with caution

in honor of how small new york city really is: oof.

much like the classic "totes obvi" we introduced a couple months ago, *~* brings you yet another great vocabulary builder:

oof

after the biggest oof moment of them all today, it seems only appropriate that we define this incredible word on the 18th of april, 2009.

definition:
a sigh of "wow" or "oh shit" or "i didn't expect to run into you!"

or (as it has been experienced)

all aforementioned expressions at the same time.

examples:
person a: "i just realized i only have $37 in my bank account for the next two weeks."
person b: "oof."

person a: "i'm just not that into you."
person b: "oof."