My Fan Letter to Michael J. Fox, circa 1989
By Scribblescrawl | November 27, 2008
Months ago, I admitted to the world I’ve never seen Back to the Future. Well, that’s not entirely true. I saw part of it as a kid, which I will prove to you now with a letter I wrote to Michael J. Fox in 1989. Sadly, he never read it, because it was forwarded back to my house. Mom saved it, found it recently, and gave it to me **sealed** when I went home today. About three seconds after I tore it open, my family was making fun of me for it, as well as they should. I was a geek.
So of course I’mma post it.
And the envelope…
Haha. But really, let’s think for a minute, who writes a famous person, spells his name wrong AND lists what they HAVEN’T seen? Me, that’s who.
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FACEinHOLE.com (SFW)
By Scribblescrawl | November 26, 2008
I decided to drive home for Thanksgiving tomorrow morning instead of tonight, so here I am, trolling the net and drinking beer. Which, really, I guess is what I do every night, but anyway, point is, I stumbled on this site. I’m months behind the curve, as it seems to have been featured on many “Web 2.0″ sites already. But hey, it’s still news if you haven’t read it, right? And, despite its name and unlike most of the stuff I post on my site, this is completely safe for work.
FACEinHOLE.com
The site’s gimmick is… without the luxury of Photoshop or the tedium involved in erasing a celebrity’s face, any regular sap can now ham-fistedly paste their own ugly mug onto a celebrity’s body, or into a famous painting, or a gorilla or whatever. This is way more varied than the post-your-face-on-an-old-yearbook-photo thing I’ve seen people do lately. And trust me, if you had fun with that, you will LOVE this. You can even buy a t-shirt with your fake-head creation right on it. Since I 1.) don’t have Photoshop, 2.) am lazy, and 3.) don’t know what to get folks for Christmas, I think I will become great friends with this website.
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I keep trying to hate Justin Timberlake…
By Scribblescrawl | November 16, 2008
….but then he goes and does something silly like this.
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Knock Knock, Who’s There…BALLS
By Scribblescrawl | November 14, 2008
I am not at all mature. At all.
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I have failed as a nacho lover
By Scribblescrawl | November 6, 2008
I forgot today was National Nachos Day. I had a Post-It on my home computer monitor reading “Nov 6 is Nachos Day!!” and I STILL forgot it was Nachos Day. That’s OK, though. Every day is Nachos Day in my heart.
But to make it up to myself and my fellow nacho fans, I present my two favorite results from searching for “nachos” on Youtube.
First, Hellboy discusses his leisure time.
Second, a fan video for “Devil’s Nachos” by Zac Hanson. Yes, that Hanson. I laughed so hard I LOL’ed.
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President Obama, sunshine and my historic vote
By Scribblescrawl | November 5, 2008
On November 4, 2008, the USA chose its first “black” (bi-racial, really) president, Democrat Barack Obama. Put it in the history books. And the blogs. I feel like I’m jumping on the Obama Obandwagon to write today. But I know that if I don’t, I’ll look back in 20 years with my memory chip in my cyborg brain in my flying apartment and regret that I didn’t record how I felt on this important day.
And I can say without hesitation, without regret, without doubt, that I feel fucking great.
I’ll disclose, I am a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat. I would be ecstatic had the nation chosen ANY Democratic candidate after these eight years of abysmal Republican presidency. The race factor didn’t influence my decision one bit, I’ll admit there’s a special sweetness to Obama’s victory. Living in one of the most racially charged cities in the nation, I am especially proud to say that I, a white twentysomething, voted for a black man as our leader in the same city that felt the blood of Martin Luther King on its balconies, that saw and still sees latent and blatant racism every single day. In fact, living in Memphis is probably what has made me associate Obama with “black” as quickly, or quicker, than with “Democrat.” Among people my age, things truly seem colorblind. But look outside my demographic (for example, the comments on www.commercialappeal.com or the anecdotes told by my fellow bloggers), and the reality hits home: collectively, we are far from colorblind. Shelby County voted overwhelmingly for Obama, but that didn’t stop Tennessee’s electoral votes from falling in opponent John McCain’s bucket. Surely some people will say that nullified my vote, as if I and the rest of my fellow-minded voters might as well have not voted at all. And while there might be truth in that, I’m glad to have done my part, in my time, exactly where I sit. In this county, in this state. Because without us, things will never change.
But enough of the heavy-handed rhetoric. The other thing I wanted to remember is how excited, how happy and so damn HOPEFUL so many of this country’s citizens felt today. I got text messages saying things like “the sun is shining brighter today”… my friends shot off fireworks (!) last night as Obama won (seriously, when’s the last time fireworks got shot off for an election?)… Facebook, Myspace and even those same commercialappeal.com comments from earlier in the post show real jubilation, and flat-out cheer. Whether it’s because a Democrat won, or because a black man won, or simply because retarded George Bush isn’t going to be in office much longer, people in this country are excited. I can’t help but get swept in it.
Go Obama, Go Democrats, Go USA. If I knew how to embed a song, I would SO be playing Aretha Franklin’s version of “A Change is Gonna Come.” Because one way or the other, it is. And I am turned right toward it, with my shoulders straight and a smile on my face.
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There’s a National Nachos Day?!?!
By Scribblescrawl | October 15, 2008
Yes, there is. And it is November 6. My new favorite holiday.
The Commercial Appeal has a large spread devoted to nachos in the Food section today. The food reviewers voted RP Tracks the best nachos in town (well, OF COURSE) and printed the recipe for RP Tracks’ fantastic barbecue tofu nachos.
The morning was beautiful, no clouds in the sky and a perfect temperature. Today is also the day Steven comes to visit for a week. Today is going to be a good day.
(there’s a party at my house Friday, inquire for details!)
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My one-time-only political endorsement
By Scribblescrawl | September 19, 2008
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I put mayonnaise on everything, that’s how I eat
By Scribblescrawl | September 10, 2008
More bits.
Sometimes funny things remind me of even funnier things. Right after posting my last blog, I immediately found something else I wanted to post. It goes like…
This ironically-funny-rap-video by Jon LaJoie called “Show Me Your Genitals” has been making the rounds for a few months. It has over 3 million YouTube views, so maybe you’ve seen it. It’s kinda funny, here it is…
But, to me, what’s funniest about it is that it reminds me of this other video, NOT made for comedy, posted 2 years ago, by a Canadian white rapper named Chuggo… here is his unintentionally amazing masterpiece…
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Putting my finger in my bellybutton had disastrous results
By Scribblescrawl | September 10, 2008
1. I recently re-bought Weezer’s Blue Album. I remember when it came out. I remember what it did for me in high school, how I thought it was poppy and catchy, and I liked it, but also how I resented it for forming the “cool person in black glasses who calls themselves a nerd” subgenre. The Weezer Kid. Then I realized the album is SIXTEEN YEARS OLD.
2. Have you noticed that lately Memphis is hotter at night?
3. My new cat Miles woke me up at 3 a.m. biting and pulling at my ear piercings. He managed to pull the ball out of one ring, but lost it in the covers before he swallowed it. What the hell can I do about this? I can’t sleep with earmuffs on….
4. Tonight I saw Lost Boys 2: The Tribe. Many people my age saw The Lost Boys when we were young. Vampires, Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, remember? Well, they made a sequel to The Lost Boys… 21 YEARS AFTER THE FIRST ONE. Gahhh, how old can I feel tonight? Anyway, I expected it to be awful. And yes, it’s terrible. But if you’re willing to laugh, it’s damn funny. If you’re into bad horror movies that can’t help but be funny, then here you go….
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