My new favorite thing

Every Tuesday, you can count on YouTube being blessed with a new video from a group of Canadians that go by the internet moniker Epic Meal Time.

The gist of what they do is exactly their name describes. They create meals that consistently epic in stature (and I can only imagine in taste as well) and then eat them and make you jealous.

Check it out:








And there's plenty more here.

HOORRAAAYYYYYY!!!!!

Congratulations world, AIDS has basically been cured.

Check it out here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/14/hiv-cure-berlin-patient_n_796521.html

A quote from the article:

"On the heels of World AIDS Day comes a stunning medical breakthrough: Doctors believe an HIV-positive man who underwent a stem cell transplant has been cured as a result of the procedure.

"Timothy Ray Brown, also known as the 'Berlin Patient,' received the transplant in 2007 as part of a lengthy treatment course for leukemia. His doctors recently published a report in the journal Blood affirming that the results of extensive testing 'strongly suggest that cure of HIV infection has been achieved.'"

And just so long as you're okay with stem cell research (or if you can fake it for a few hours), you're invited to the worldwide party.

So turn on the music, crank up the volume, and pound some Bacardi, planet Earth. We're one step closer to invincibility!

GEICO

A little while ago I made a post about jack In The Box and their often times incredibly questionable (but still hilarious) advertising schemes. Though this isn't going to be about Jack In The Box, it is about another company that in my opinion has recently been coming up with some really funny commercials that are worth watching once or twice- GEICO.
          I want to preface this by saying two things: 1) For a long time (and with the exception of the caveman commercials), GEICO has been located at a place in my mind that is home to the companies that have the absolute stupidest, most nonsensical and all-around WORST advertising campaigns in the history of ever. The commercials that, after watching just once, make you violently shake your head, foam at the mouth, and need to take a handful of aspirin while putting your face in front of a fan on full blast to calm your nerves. For a while, I easily pictured their advertising/marketing team to just be a a few random homeless men that execs at GEICO picked up off the street and paid in cheap booze to scribble on pieces of paper and mess around with a video camera (which I realize could actually be a FANTASTIC idea, but believe me, it's really not, and I would know). That being said, I specifically want to point out these commercials just to show how far these guys have come, so congratulations GEICO, this is my formal acclamation of your forward progress. 2) This campaign is still fairly hit-or-miss (like the elmer fudd one, or the woodchuck one), but there are a few gems in the bunch, so as far as I'm concerned, a 25% success rate is good enough.

So yeah.







This one gets an especially big commendation:



And because I know someone is going to wonder why I didn't post it, I'll post this one. However, 1) I don't really like this commercial, I find it annoying actually, but 2) the mom is a babe, so I'll let point number one slide.



BUENOS NOCHES/MAÑANAS/TARDES

A few songs

Here's a few songs that I've been really enjoying lately:







http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qPw4kv43gk (embedding disabled, good song anyway)

And thinking about this:

Things That I Am Thankful For

Here's a brief list of all the things that I am thankful for.

Let me set the mood first:



Ok, here it is:

-Power Rangers
-Capn Crunch
-My Family
-Most of my friends
-The ocean
-Bouncy balls
-Not waking up early for Black Friday anymore
-Boobs
-Football
-Good beer
-Giraffes
-Japan
-The smell of fresh cut grass
-Good carpet
-Scarves
-Black and white pictures
-The Roarin' 20's
-Apples to Apples
-GameCube
-Piggy Banks
-Inclimate Weather
-Not getting into car accidents
-Velvet
-Guitars
-Really comfortable chairs
-My cat (even though she's a bitch)
-Enjoying a good book once in a while
-Coffee and the energy it gives me
-Gold Toe socks
-Jacuzzis
-The color red orange
-Snuggies
-Silly hats
-Standard hats
-Fireworks
-Top ramen
-Clean Air
-Sweat pants
-Computers
-Thrift Stores
-A good cigar every now and then
-A pen that writes really well
-My gift of wit
-My eighth grade English teacher
-Salamanders
-The Mars Volta
-Not being dead
-Fresh clothes out of the dryer
-Fire extinguishers
-Puppies and kittens
-Musicals
-GPS devices
-Musical chairs
-Trees
-Sandwiches
-Mother Earth

Happy Thanksgiving brothers and sisters

True Love!

Here is a brief list of my favorite pet names I may have used for a significant other at one time or another. I hope that you are inspired to use one or more of them.

But to start, let me help set the mood for you:



I apologize that some of these are coming from a male-to-female perspective, but many can go both ways.

-Punkin
-Sugar Booger
-Peanut
-Cutie Patootie
-Snowflake
-Princess
-Snuggle Wumpkins
-Boo bear
-Butter Butt*
-Nom Nom
-Spanky*
-Dreamy
-Cherry Blossom
-Smooshy Tooshy*
-Sugar Lump
-Cinnamon
-Bro*
-Jewel
-Cutie Pie
-Dumpling
-Queeny
-Cowgirl
-Ladybug
-Chunk-a-Dunk*
-Angel
-Twinkle tits*
-Jelly bean
-Cuddle bear
-Lover
-Hot stuff
-Kinky Stinky*
-Pudding Cup
-Cherry Pie (unoriginal, I know, STFU)
-Shawty
-Smoochy
-Sandwich-Constructor*
-Birdy
-Kitty Cat
-The Erector+
-Cloud
-Sugar Plum
-Sugar Baby
-DAT ASS+
-Stud Muffin
-Juliette
-All Mine :)

Good luck ladies and gentlemen, go forth and love.

P.S.
* denotes a term I used in real life with repercussions ranging from minor to severe
+ denotes a term you should use with caution and only under the correct circumstances

Nothing New

Here's what I'm thinking:




Here's also what I'm thinking:

Yes, cows.