Per usual, the following is ripped from the headlines actual idle time-wasting IM conversations between myself and Kelly (aka kdiddy):
kdiddy: i just caught the tail end of the Mariah Carey CRIBS episode
sweetney: doesn’t she have, like, a pool in the middle of her house? and a closet so big you could park a semi in it?
kdiddy: i forget if there’s a pool, but the "closet" is nearly as big as my house
sweetney: yeah that ain’t right
sweetney: i mean, unless you’re a part of the Underground Railroad and harboring large groups of fugitive slaves, it’s really uncalled for
kdiddy: i get really amused when it’s obvious that the people on CRIBS have just bought the house
kdiddy: like when the bed clothes are still wrinkled from being in the package
kdiddy: and they’re like, "yeah, these are 500 thread-count…something. where’s my garage?"
sweetney: but they always know where the Cristal is.
and where "the magic happens."
sweetney: LINK
kdiddy: i think i would have trouble eating that
sweetney: i swear to god, i want us to make a pact that from here on out if ever we’re in a position to acquire a cake for any occasion, you and i strive to find, make, or pay to have one made that is Cake Wrecks worthy
sweetney: we must conquer Cake Wrecks. make it our bitch, as it were
kdiddy: DEAL
sweetney: LINK "Katie, my blog is 3 column why is your cake? Were you planning on pasting in some ads and a blog roll on the sides?"
kdiddy: congratulations AMY. or Abby
sweetney: the first, top one is totally sad. like they might as well have written in icing "oh fuck you, here’s your cake."
kdiddy: honestly if i was given the task of writing on a cake, it would totally look like one of those. whenever i had to write on the board in grade school it would always get progressively smaller and tilt waaaay up
sweetney: aww!
kdiddy: and i bet that’s what my cakes would look like. or like in "Idiocracy". St. God’s Hospital – with the ‘tal‘ running down the side…
sweetney: NICE. bonus points if you actually MAKE the cake that results in our conquering Cake Wrecks
kdiddy: i think i can probably make that happen
sweetney: sweet. let me know when to show up for the Pittsburgh "Key To The City" presentation and award ceremony celebrating the achievement. and remind me to bring my gigantic foam finger.
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Holy unrelated Batman!: This discussion over on the linkblog went from stupid to sort of uncomfortably heated to a really thoughtful, civil discussion regarding Obama v. McCain of the sort you really might want to check out. I mean, if you’re into that sort of thing.
