Google Searches That Piss Me Off

Not that anyone is reading this blog, but is anyone else as pissed off about the fact that when you Google "Project X," the 1987 film starring Matthew Broderick and Helen Hunt doesn't even rate the first page of search results? Hell, the "short-lived hardcore punk/youth crew band from New York City" Project X even gets fourth billing.

Giant Cell Phone

'Nuff said.

Sometimes There is So Much Google in the World...

So my sister posted this great review of The Hunger Games earlier today, in which she wrote the following line in reference to Wes Bentley's portrayal of Gamemaker Seneca Crane:

"Sometimes there is so much beauty in the world; I just have to put it in a computer generated arena and force it to kill itself."

Which then prompted me to think, "Hmmm....I wonder what imagery pops up when I do a Google Images search for that line?"

Well, in the ten or so pages of images I searched, there was not one American Beauty reference...although you would think that the first part of that quote would have at least warranted this image of Thora Birch and Wes Bentley:

Screenshot from American Beauty in which Ricky Fitts says, "Sometimes there is so much
beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in."

But no.

Instead I got the following treasures...

The image Lauren used in her
review post...makes sense.

Jacob wrestling the angel...a little less sense.

Everyone's favorite "arena" board game.

I'd like to "force" this movie to "kill itself" too.

John and Yoko. Go figure.

There are no words....

HAHA...because this image happens to
be from a post on the same site as
Lauren's The Hunger Games review.
God bless, Google!

Fancy Nancy Comes to Norwood

Fiona wants to be Fancy Nancy.

Every night, we read Fancy Nancy and the Mermaid Ballet.

And, every night, we stop on a page that has this picture.

For about twenty minutes.

Fiona's greatest dream is to live this picture. She wants a tutu bathing suit:



Which I got.
And a flower cap. That I'm working on.



So in love with these caps am I that I've decided for this year's family excursion to Ogunquit that I will buy every member of my family an efflorescent hair protector!

So my dad will look like this:

Why I Love My Students - Reason #512:

Today, one of my students came up to my desk looking to pass in his assignment. In one hand he was carrying a folded up piece of paper. When I asked him what was drawn on the paper, he showed me this line drawing he had made of a chubby little duckling. As it had nothing to do with the class assignment (although I am a high school art teacher...so it wasn't entirely out of my curricular area), I asked him what the drawing was for. His response:

"I googled 'cute'. and that was the first thing to come up. So I decided to draw it."

So I tried to google "cute" in hopes of finding the image to share with you. That image is no longer the first image to appear...but this one is pretty damn cute, too...

Almost as awesome as Limecat....almost.

I Love You (in Handcuffs)

I'm constantly amazed by what people out there create in their spare time. Recently, a friend of mine posted some impressive "Law & Order" inspired embroidery.

Which got me thinking.

What else does the nation's longest running legal drama franchise inspire (aside from some very questionable fanfiction)?

I got this:



Dun Dun

In Retribution

I'm not a good blogger. I make no pretenses. I work full time, have two kids, and prefer to zone out reading crappy books, watching crappy television, or playing crappy kiddy games with my progeny.

But I never, ever let my sister get the last word.

So, I googled.

"JenJen smells"

Yeah, I did.

When you do that, the first thing that comes up is a facebook status: "JenJen smells like big foots doodle hairs."

Now, I can only assume that JenJen's punctuation and grammar skills are as finely honed as her personal hygiene. So, I'll let you imagine the subtleties of that and leave you with this haunting, corresponding image (i.e. what pops up first when you type it into the google machine):