Perpetuating Stereotypes

Worse Than The Pox

Planet Unicorn

This was sent to me by Kathi, and it's splendid!

The Boyz Are Back in Town

If you leave your chair, Desmond will take it. Also he loves red wine.

Dustin finally got back from his T-givs trip, and at first things were tense...the boyz were warring:

But later everything was okey dokey.

Two Things

1. EP (my hometown for you non-MN readers) won the football state championship again (snore!). The best quote from the article is this: "Domination? You can't spell it without an E and a P." ... wow. I can't help but notice that you also can't spell creEPy without an EP.

And 2. Seriously there are this many crunchberries in cap'n crunch these days?! Whoa.

"Don't Put This on Your Blog Heidi"

Aunt Joie and Uncle Moose (aka the awesome T-Givs hosts that fed me and the other abandoned cousins and friends) are like Brangelina and Joie wants everyone to know that she got dressed first, they didn't like plan to wear matching clothes on purpose. Joie+Moose= Joose or Moie, either one works. Some fun facts about them: Moose and I have the same birthday, Joie makes a SUPER good mac and cheese from scratch, I thought Moose was his actual real name until like 2 years ago, Joie is hi.lar.io.us, and Moose is a Republican! Celebrate diversity on the holidays, right?!?

I love them and love that they love being on this blog!

T-Givs 07

Stef brought those buns, I had two and they were good. Meg made a tasty app and later on people ate my pumpkin pie. Cousin Drew ate like half the turkey.

Baked

In preparation for Thanksgiving, Nora and I made Pumpkin pies. There was leftover pumpkin mix so we tried to make muffins but they ended up more like flavorless dumplings... and that is the story of how I invented Pumplings!

Thunder Hands

Vampire Hands mixed with Thunder in the Valley played a 70s show at the Hexagon on Monday and Chris did an amaaaaayzing version of Without You ("I can't liiiiiiive if livin is without youoooo...")

Finally Someone Explains Football

Click here for a very useful how-to guide.

Oofdah!

The NY Times published this article about the closing of the Norwegian consulate in Minneapolis; click here to read about it.

Mulaney Stand Up Sample

I like this guy, and although this starts out slow it gets real good:

A Bit Much?

9ish Years Older

Ben found his old yearbook... clearly a lot has changed:

Apatow on McSweeney's

This is a documentary about working at 826LA:

Good Ol' Corruption

Click here to read a fun Washington Post article listing the many, many, many scandals of D.C.. Also known as What Happens When Old White Guys Stop Being Polite and Start Being Real.

Optical Indie

This is the music video for the song Golden Cage by the Berlin band The Whitest Boy Alive. It will tickle the part of your brain that controls visual perception:

Cousin Shawn's Birthday

Cousin Shawn and his wife were in town and we celebrated his birthday at Pizza Luce downtown Minneapolis.

Down the Hall from my Office

When things get slow at work they let me go watch the printers print...

Adventures in Babysitting

Cousin Megan and I successfully babysat three of our littlest cousins on Friday (so their parents could go see Springsteen)...there wasn't much time for photos because they kept us pretty busy. Tucker is smarter than me.

The Bono of Graphic Design

Last week I went to a Steven Heller lecture. He has written over 100 books, and he currently works for the New York Times and teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York. One of his students is responsible for the redesign of pill bottles now available at Target.