Fierce!

How much did I love this season of Project Runway. The breakout star and winner, Christian Siriano, was absolutely hysterical! Hot mess....tranny....fierce....he even outdoes Tim Gunn for quotable quotes.

So, what do you get when you put his awesome-ness together with one of my favorite shows on TV? This hot mess....



Enjoy!!

-ist

There is something about the suffix, -ist. It's a productive suffix in that you can easily coin novel words by adding -ist to the noun. It has multiple meanings in the English language, corresponding to (i) "advocate of", (ii) "user of/expert in", or (iii) "detractor of". Although use (iii) is probably only a recently developed use of this morpheme (def: a minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units, e.g., the or man), it appears to be the most productive.

Chris, WTF are you talking about??!!!

Well, I guess this all came out of the election for the Democratic nominee. Someone's racist....someone's sexist....sounds like we have (iii) covered. How cool would it be if we could change the perception to (i)?!

Okay class, open your books to page 123 and let's review our vocabulary words for next week's pop quiz.

Do you RSS? I RSS....

I've been working with the new Blogger template and added some of the additional features it allows. I subscribe to a bunch of blogs but I thought I'd add a couple of the ones that I visit the most. You'll find those feeds on the left navigation.

There is a series of -ist blogs that cover news, current events, etc. from the big cities in the US. Of course, being in LA and all, I read LAist on a daily basis. This is a very cool blog that lets me know what concerts are coming up, sporting events, community events....it even tells me if there is a major accident or road closure that's going to impact my commute to and from work! I thought I'd include this so that my friends all over the country can see what's shaking for those of us in Hell-A.

The second feed that I've posted is AmericaBlog. It is a liberal take on the political world. These guys provide brilliant insight on all things political, with correspondents who have served in the US government....from the Congress to Defense, from the states and abroad. It really provides breaking news and analysis of those things I think are important.

My hope is features like this will keep you coming back. Well, that and I hope to be blogging a bit more about what is happening with me.

I'm at the mall on a diet pill!

Probably my favorite band in the entire world is the B-52's. After 16 years since their last album, they are releasing "Funplex" on March 25. Needless to say, this fan is ecstatic about their new album. I also routinely keep up with their activities as I am one of their "friends" on MySpace. So, earlier this week I make my almost daily visit to my MySpace home page and low and behold there is a bulletin posting that the B's are looking for extras for their upcoming video shoot. WHAT!!?? What do I do....how do I get selected??!!

They provided an email address where I sent my contact info, gender and age, and a photo. It said in the posting that they would be letting people know by Wednesday evening if they'd been selected. If you didn't hear back by then....you were out (auf weidersehen!). I didn't hear back. Oh well, I tried....would've been fun....maybe next time.

It was a very busy week at work this week. We have a big meeting twice a year for all of our business units and lots of folks that you don't see on a daily basis were in the office. Lots of meetings, lots of lunches, lots of happy hours and dinners. I ended up getting home on Thursday evening quite late. I had an early Friday but I realized I hadn't checked my msn account all day....it'll only take a couple of minutes. I open my email account and "Voila!," an email from the address "Funplex." I could hardly contain my excitement. Are they just acknowledging that I didn't make the cut? NO!! I've been invited to be an extra in the video! Details, details, I need details....dress code, check....directions, check....time, uh....time, er....time, AAAARGH! They wanted us there at 10am....Friday morning! NOOOOOOOOO!! There was no way I could do it. I had a meeting early Friday morning, a candidate interview at 10am, oh and I work 40 miles from LA.

Was this my big break??! I hope not. Such disappointment, but after hearing snippets of the entire album, I'm guessing there might be another opportunity.