Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Myles of Style - we are waiting for your call

tonight i applied to be on Myles of Style - which is the HGTV show hosted by Design Star season 2 winner Kim Myles. i LOVE kim myles and i love her program. i feel like kim would have been not only a wellesley woman but she would have been in shakes. also when i was in NYC for jeff and liz' wedding i saw kim on the street. she HAS to pick us!


here are the photos i submitted of our pathetic bedroom hoping she'll take pity on us.





as they say on the HGTV website: "With Kim, you don't get inches of style -- you get Myles."

Monday, May 12, 2008

Queenie in Trouble - a fun fact



here's a still i made from the greatest video ever posted on the internet. ever. 'Queenie in Trouble'.

apparently this 2 minute video (watch it 2 posts below. you won't be sorry) is an exerpt of a 20 minute short called 'Dogway Melody' - which is a spoof performed entirely by dogs in costumes of a movie from 1929 called 'Broadway Melody'. the 'Dogway Melody' short is allegedly an extra on the DVD of 'Broadway Melody' and includes dogs performing such hits as some al jolson number, as well as Singin in the Rain by Gene Kelly. ben has ordered the dvd from netflix for me so i will be sure to post here if this fantastical rumor is true!

Thursday, May 8, 2008

reaction video to the greatest video ever posted on the internet. ever.

this is a video i made of myself watching the video below. please disregard the amount of chins i am wearing in this video.

THE GREATEST VIDEO EVER POSTED ON THE INTERNET. EVER.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

i'm a DOUBLE winner tonight!

1. brooke white went home tonight on american idol. finally.
2. i won at DQB!


DQB is Drag Queen Bingo - a weekly going-on at Hamburger Mary's in West Hollywood. Ben was trying to cheer me up from a lousy day with a walk around the neighborhood. We came upon the establishment and could hear the screaming from across the street. We went up to the door and the man (and his poodle) working the door told us that for $20 we would get a book of cards for 10 bingo games and an extra card for the grand prize. Now, I am a Lipson. This means that a love for BINGO runs through my veins. We are a Bingo loving people.

The game was "Rim Job" - which as our hostess Belle Aire (pictured far left) described it, is "a ring around your free space". Out of the few hundred participants, _I_ was the lucky winner!! In H.M's tradition, when you win you have to run around the bar while people pelt you with their wadded up bingo cards. While I was doing my victory lap the crowd sang "Kara got a Rim Job! And she liked it!" over and over.



My winnings include:
-gourmet trends chocolate xpress (as seen on TV)
-bodum milk frother
-tea forte tea trays for silken tea infusers
-marilyn monroe mug
-yellow suctioncup-type ball
-free 3 hour self defense course provided by NOW (National Organization of Women)

pretty rad.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

text the word "vote" to 5702


yes i did. five times tonight. well done, cookie.

Monday, April 28, 2008

blue mini got screwed




poor mini. tonight while driving home from work the dreaded 'flat tire alert' came on. right in the middle of my newest book on tape, Fleeced by Carol Higgins Clark. i pulled off the freeway into a gas station, and discovered that some jagoff lost a screw on the 10 East and mini found it with his front tire.

lucky for me, there were 3 AAA tow-trucks with drivers in the parking lot of the mobil located at national bl. and overland ave. i called AAA, told the operator that i was in a gas station staring at three of their service providers from Brentwood Car Club (a coincidence, as that was who he was sending to my aid), and was told that one them would be right there to help.

then i walked over to these gents who were each enjoying a plastic-tipped cigarillo, told them that within moments one of them would get the call, and when he did, i'd be just 10 feet away awaiting assistance. one of them said "we could have helped you if you hadn't called AAA, but now we have to wait for them to send us over."

10 minutes later, the youngest dude, kevyan, approached. but not to help. he came over to tell me they were still waiting to get the call from dispatch.

about 10 minutes after that, imagine our collective surprise when a 4th AAA truck pulls up. Mostafa hops out, says he's responding to a service call for a blue mini with a flat, and changed the hell out of that tire.