I saw it on Digg so you may have already seen it, but this really bears repeating: the SNL sketch from this past weekend mocking Sarah Palin was a nearly verbatim re-enactment of the actual Palin/Couric interview, with slightly different emphases and pausing for extra comedic effect. That’s the state of political affairs: the late-night comedy shows and political parody people are no longer coming up with scripts for funny spin-offs of real events. They’re just re-playing what actually happened, because it’s already bad enough to make people laugh.

Ugh.

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Ah.

I had this guy. On the road. He was driving. I was parked on the side of the road. In a parking spot there, on a fairly busy street, just happens to be where our vet is located. So I was parked. Finished with the vet, we’re sitting in the car now. Put on my blinker, sort of edge out a bit, wait for a break in traffic. This guy in his car goes by me, but then stops directly in front of me, and puts on his blinker and his reverse lights, as if he wants to back up into the spot that I’m trying to vacate.

Problem is, I can’t go forward into the lane next to my parking spot, because he’s in it. And I can’t get out into the next lane over, because it’s already busy, plus now everybody who sees the lane ahead of them is blocked (by this dork) is changing lanes way ahead of time, so I doubly have no chance. I wait for a few seconds and see it’s hopeless, so I sort of wave at him, hopelessly. He opens the door, leans out, and motions for me to pull out into the lane with all the traffic, then returns to his car.

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Via BoingBoing, I found this very interesting article on silly - nay, extremely silly - website User Agreements. You may have seen these before; often there’s a link in a small font at the very bottom of the page you’re viewing which when clicked, tells you that you agree to let the website collect anonymous cookies, track your IP address, and other things to limit their legal liability should it ever become an issue. But as with all things in life, there are some who just have to take things to their extremes.

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Last Thanksgiving sort of surprised us. It’s not the kind of holiday that we find easy to keep track of, when living so far away from family and friends. This year would be different though. We noted the day’s approach nearly a week in advance, and discussed plans to attempt preparing and eating some semblance of an actual, bona-fide cooked meal. Turkey would perhaps be biting off more than we could chew (hah!), so we opted instead for a chicken. And being only the two of us, the number and quantity of vegetables would have to be limited - say potatoes, carrots, turnip and sweet-potatoes. Now we’re talking! It sounded delicious.

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I’ve always loved the dedication Sesame Street has to using modern musicians to teach basic concepts to children. Nowhere is this more apparent than using Norah Jones as a spelling instructor.

Flight of the Conchords is a New Zealand comedy/musical duo that have been around for a while - perhaps you’ve heard their fly rap skills? They also have a self-titled television show which has been renewed for a second season, with the same dry wit from their comedy tours.