Tonight! Lake Worth or Bust!

We’re so excited to hit up Lake Worth tonight! Six great bands will be playing in that little Palm Beach town, and we’re gonna chill up there for my birthday. We even rented a hotel room so that we could party hard and not worry about driving home.  We’re gonna catch this show and see the incomparable John Ralston-fronted Invisible Music, the Dan Bonebrake-fronted Grey & Orange and see what the Northwood Social Club at South Shores Tavern. Northwood Social Club is pretty new, and I’m curious to see what it’s all about. Chris has heard a couple of the tunes before and he says that I, and anyone else who’s planning to attend, should expect good things.

Then, we’re going to head over to Propaganda to catch The Freakin’ Hott, Stonefox and Zombies! Organize!! live. Yes, that Stonefox. Yes, back together. Yes, you should probably already know that. Unfortunately, we’re going to have to miss the Florida Yeah Poor House show tonight with Kill Miss Pretty, Dooms De Pop and Murderous Rampage!

Who Wants to Spend Two Hours Watching Seth Rogen Grab His…

D*ck? Ooooh, me me! Please, can I be first in line to watch Zack and Miri Make a Porno? It’s obvious that we’ve all changed our minds about Mister Rogen since Knocked Up came out, right? Yup, Knocked Up, a movie about how repulsive it was to think about this guy grunting over and dripping (man teat) sweat on Katherine Heigl, is so far from our heads now that Rogen has become a household name that we forgot that the whole point of the joke – the joke that is Rogen’s sudden success as a leading man – is that he’s a really, really unattractive man whose pants we want to stay out of. Why is it so hard for Inkpen to write man teat? She is losing her edge! Back to the point, which is Inkpen can’t take it anymore. Every time she looks at Seth Rogen, she gets sick. Hopefully, he will go away after the next four sure-to-be-annoying movies lined up on his IMDB profile. If we’re lucky maybe he’ll take Shia with him. Click on the video below to puke.

Politics Videos That We Watched On a Tuesday Night

I’ve been wondering who in the heck this “Joe the Plumber” guy was, so I finally tracked that down thanks to Mahalo, wassup? Here’s the YouTube video on the topic in case you’ve been as in the dark as I have.

Also, I very much enjoyed this little back and forth between Fox News talking head Megyn Kelly and Obama campaign spokesmen Bill Burton on Fox News about, what else?, Fox News. It’s pretty pathetic that Fox has to defend itself this hard? I don’t mean to be sexist against my own kind, but this chick is a mega “B” who looks like she should be dancing on a stripper “P”, wassup?

Finally, I’m getting addicted to Joe Biden’s sassy frankness and, honestly, it has to do with takedowns like this:

I need to stop, but Fox News coverage of Joe Biden’s interview with Barbara West needs to stop too. Really, this is moronic. It really does seem like these wackos are emitting the desperate death rattle of a political propaganda machine that survives on a radical sensationalism that isn’t appropriate for a nation of people who really, really need to understand how to participate in a democracy that produces responsible leadership.

Watch and enjoy!

What Not To Do At Your Reception!

Inkpen doesn’t know if she’ll ever get married. She hopes that one day someone might see within her soul something feminine and valuable. That’s a very shaky hope — sniffle. Anyway, some of her friends got married this weekend and she videotaped it and put it up on the Youtube website. Well, while she was there fishing for it, she came across a first dance video that just about takes the cake for lameness. For anyone who’s ever tried hard at something, put massive amounts of effort into something, that failed big time, that veered way way off the path of anything that could possibly be interpreted as not embarrassing, here’s a good chance to chuckle at yourself while laughing at what dweebs these tools are. Cheers! (Gosh, I’m a terrible gremlin of a mean person)

Chongathon – What Inkpen Has Been Missing

For most of her life, Inkpen has had a tendency to avoid women who look or act like they could knock her block off. That must be why she totally overlooked the whole chonga thing. The other day, a girl Inkpen works with, who’s in her early 20s, mentioned that she was going to be a chonga for Halloween. WTF? Inkpen did not know what this was, so she asked a school teacher friend, who filled her in. For those of you who’ve overlooked the chongas, and tend to enjoy this sort of female absurdity (Kiki), check out the videos that she showed me.

The chongalicious video is a combination of something terribly tacky with something all high school and college girls do. This is so boot that it’s funny.
Oh no they didn’t. The Real Chonga okaaay. Still booter than hell.

Pray for Palin – Keep the Witches Away!

Saw a clip from this video on Bill Maher the other night. Pretty freaky dudes. Anyone know what the “F” this “SH” is all about?

It doesn’t get more desperate than this!

That’s pretty desperate! This is one of the worst photo ops I’ve ever seen. Everyone knows that Montag is nothing but a publicity skeez. Inkpen has interviewed her many times, and she never has anything to say. And, when she’s done saying nothing, she wraps it up with a “that’s about it”.

Social Networking — your bedroom window is open

Inkpen can’t stop thinking about the topic touched on in a recent, thought-provoking Sun-Sentinel article that her mother, the little one, read to her. The story reports on Palm Beach County teachers who posted or had others post potentially questionable content on their Facebook pages. The story turned Inkpen’s full attention back to a topic that she has been thinking about on and off for some time.

While it is certainly understandable that school systems would be concerned about teachers posting questionable personal content in the public realm, the issue goes much deeper. Younger generations of web users — or anyone who engages in social networking — are opening their personal lives, interests and preferences to the world. Mainstream discourse labels activities that most young, middle class Americans consider fairly normal — such as drinking alcohol, cursing, wearing flirtatious clothing and partying really really hard in your 20s — as shocking, prurient and character defining.

If such prudish standards of character are taken seriously, what young liver of life in the digital camera-social networking age, from Miss USA to presidential assistants with a past, doesn’t have a “questionable” stamp on some behavior that he or she once engaged in? More than that, who really cares anymore? Given the number of videos out there, probably half of the female population under 30 has appeared on Girls Gone Wild.

Is it a good time for young-internet savvy people to start defining what’s offensive and what’s not for themselves? Inkpen is very interested to know how other people really feel about this. Like, have you ever edited a profile or switched it to private for fear of some kind of exposure? Do you feel like that curtailed your self-expression? Do you care?

One of the things that Inkpen thinks is so great about social networking sites is that they publicize the inner worlds of many people, bringing to social reality formerly inexpressible personal dimensions. Before such sites existed, it was probably only writers, journal keepers and perhaps artists in other disciplines who lived with that other dimension of self, the one that could be put on a page or canvas.

Social networking sites and blogs leave many people who are unschooled in the art of self revelation vulnerable to criticism and overexposure. Inkpen thinks that maybe it’s time we all started making room for our fuller, more obviously flawed selves. Thoughts?

However, Obama’s Schizophrenic Video for “Yes We Can”…

…makes Inkpen feel like she might have a panic attack or a seizure. They played this video at the Obama rally that I went to on Friday afternoon.  It was really confusing. Everyone’s talking and singing all over each other. Who are half of these celebrities anyway? Will.I.Am, OK. Scarlett Johansson, OK. John Legend, OK. The guy Claire dated in the first season of Six Feet Under, OK. I don’t know who those other people are. Is that bald guy playing the guitar Howie Mandel, or not?

Is that funny? Judd Apatow and Hayden Panettiere PSA

So, here’s a question you can think about for fifteen seconds and then forget: Why, with all of the money, experience and backing that comes with being a successful producer, with at least three feature comedies under his belt and a professional (although annoying) actress on board, would Judd Apatow come up with a short, amateur video that’s not that funny? I’m not saying Judd Apatow sucks. I’m not saying he’s overrated. I’m not even saying that movie goers are rapaciously feeding on B- caliber comedies these days and calling them great because there’s no actually-funny movies coming out. But, I am saying that he is responsible for the following video on Funny or Die, which kinda might be like saying the same thing.

I hate to be a hater, but seriously…that is the second most annoying thing that I’ve seen in my life. Like everything else Apatow does, it’s like a commercial for what’s already popular in Hollywood.

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