W + K

"wait, there's an invisible monkey"--heard on a tv commercial for an upcoming show on KGW channel 8, about super bowl ads and the local advertising agency Weiden + Kennedy

brilliant.

I would totally go see this.

they really ARE

As soon as i can get a link to this, i'll update the post. Its very giggly.

family tree

from How I Met Your Mother, Barney:

incredulously: "You're not from Missour-a??!?! Well I'll be a monkey's uncle!"

second time this phrase has come up in a month. what is it's origin? anyone? yeah, it's weird. so I google-image'd and this was the first pic that came up for monkey's uncle:

OUCH

i wonder if it's real...

Josephine Rose

my favorite kid in the whole wide world ever.

:) :)

Thanks Julie!!

Look what Julie texted me this morning! All day I got caught up in things like scrambling for rent money, babysitting, and watching an AWESOME Blazer game. But here he is now, before i sack out with Harry Potter, this very cute guy, who looks just like this guy!

Ye Olde Guy of the Familie

On the topic of jury duty: "It's what separates us from the monkeys."

TODAY AND FOREVER!

this is getting out of hand, Huffmeister.

YESTERDAY!

i gathered monkeys all day, and yet my evening took a surprise turn and by the time i got home it was past midnight. ok, in chrono order:

1) Sam Seder on Ring of Fire radio program, appx 1pm: "...they are talking in monkey voices."

2) Trip to Fabric Depot, no big surprise to see monkeys, but I wasn't even looking. This very cute fabric was just behind the red flannel i had come to buy:



and this was getting quite the ogling from a tiny old lady, I was not about to snap a picture of her looking at it:

3) After the Depot i went to Columbia art supplies to pick up some fabric dye, and this was next to the register:

UPDATE: o shit i forgot to post the pics. its february.

1001 reasons why kids are cute

partial

All I wrote down earlier was "...a monkey would be a refreshing step up! a monkey would talk less!" and I cannot remember what show it was! Either HIMYM or FG .

way.

i admit, i am still surfing the web for no dang reason. what am i thinking! my time would be better spent outside, it's GORGEOUS. Portland is always mild and wonderful when the rest of the country is arctic blasted. lucky us. but this guy? you just know all the locals are like "there goes another gringo loco..."

all the news thats fit to blog

Thank you, msn homepage, for keeping me informed of the day's important topics.

yester yester day day

I let the day get away from me before I could sit down and post. I have a good excuse though: Enchilada Dinner Party. It was delicious. But earlier in the day, going to visit my friend's brand-new baby, the topic of The Jungle Book came up, specifically the Orangutan character, King Louie.

nighty nite

fuckin A i am soooo sleepy. but not sleepy enough to browse the "news" before I crash out with Harry Potter 5. Thanks HuffyPoo, sweet dreams.

Fine Homebuilding

Yet another magazine my housemate has a subscription to, sitting on the kitchen table. I started to flip thru while eating my breakfast, and on the letters to the editor page i went immediately to this entry, not even reading any of the others:

sidekick

Sewing, watching/listening to Family Guy: James Woods is going to star in a TV pilot written by Brian, who wanted Elijah Wood for the role. James is making a list of demands, and at the end of it says "Oh, by the way, I need a chimp sidekick." So I got my camera ready and...

Coco Love Good

AND...

today my friend Julie sent me a link in response to me posting the picture of the monkey poster in her son's room. It's a song called The Smartest Monkey by one of my fave bands when I was in high school, XTC, which means that I am old.

Girl Party!

After picking up my friend from the airport, we met up with some other lovely ladies at the Gold Dust Meridian. It's a swanky enough place, with decent food and drinks and atmosphere. But they dropped the ball entirely with lazyish service and overly froofy giant fish-bowl drinks dripping with umbrellas and plastic mermaids and yard-long straws. The table next to us ordered one and when it came out it looked like a joke, a tiki-bar monstrosity. I don't even think the Alibi makes a caricature of a drink like this. Anyway. After that group left, but before Mr. Lazypants cleared their table, I managed to catch this out of the corner of my eye, so we snagged it from the rim of the fishbowl. The picture is blurry. So were we.

ditto

Still have Family Guy on. I'm done with laundry, now i'm getting ready to pick up a friend from the airport. Peter to Lois: "By the way, I bought a chimp." Raise your hand if you think I have the TV on too much. Wait, don't answer that.

over-heard, over-monkeyed

At some point i might have to refrain from including quotes from Family Guy (and How I Met Your Mother)...there's practically a monkey in every episode! Just now while I was folding laundry, Stewie says to Brian: "I've been a naughty little monkey!"

Right Turn, Clyde*

In addition to the aforementioned Esquire magazine that my housemate receives in the mail, he also receives Smithsonian, which makes a nice balance. He must have let the subscription lapse, because I hadn't seen it around for a while, until now. The February issue came in the mail today, and on the Letters to the Editor page, the letters addressed topics from the December issue, which we did not get. But at least we know what the cover looked like:



*it is entirely possible that I used this title for a post back in '09, for those of you paying very close attention. haa!

One-two punch

Here is the kind of poster you might find in an 18-year-old's bedroom, whose room was shown to me by his mom, an old dear dear friend who i've re-connected with after stupidly too long. Last time I saw that kid he was still a lil' pip-squeak.



And here is the shirt of a girl who was walking by me and my friends outside of a bar. I asked if i could take a picture of her shirt, and, after explaining about the blog, she decided that maybe i wasn't overly weird (maybe just a little weird) and said yes. Thanks Sara!

FISHBONE!!! AND ROSCOE!

OK. Stay with me on this:

So, last week i read in the Portland Mercury about a movie called "Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone." It was playing here as part of the Reel Music film festival. I wasn't able to see the movie, but i dug out an OLD OLD OLD tape that i made in probably 1991 or 92 when i lived in LA and listened to a LOT of Fishbone (and Jane's Addiction and Bob Marley and Cypress Hill...). I tried to play the tape in my car, but it became stuck in my tape player due to the fancy customn squeezy-paint decoration i embellished the tape with. Ha. I got it out with some pliers, and remembered that this happened to me once before when i first got my car (i should put a post-it note on the tape that says "Do not play this tape in your car, dummy").

Now it is today and I was craving this music so i found it on Grooveshark (an awesome place to listen to music when you don't want to suffer the randomness, commercials and EVERY POSSIBLE GENRE WILL PULL UP A BEATLES SONG of Pandora). And the fantastic song "Short Bus Movin'" includes this line:

"...the mayo men used firehoses to spray the monkeys back in their cages..."

Of course i went straight to youtube to find a video of the song (happy SIXTH birthday to youtube, btw. that's right. only SIX. and you thought it had been around since the beginning of time...). There wasn't a regular video for it, but the first listing that came up was a clip from the movie Tapeheads, one of the most underrated and hilarious movies EVER! The scene in which this song is featured (but not featuring the monkey lyrics) has Fishbone all dressed up in cowboy gear and they are credited with the name "Ranchbone," which just adds yet another hilarious element to this great movie. If you don't believe me, just watch it yourself, and keep an eye out for Roscoe.

at breakfast this morning...

...casually flipping thru Esquire magazine, which one of my housemates receives in the mail.

well that's just great.

According to the show on PBS* right now, there are monkeys in the wild that have DIED from stress-related maladies that, pathologically, are the same as stress-related maladies that affect people. I feel the need to point out that i, personally, have been feeling less and less stressful recently, and i have to tell you, it feels pretty good. Buck up, monkeys! And people!



*link is to PBS info, there isn't a link to watch the show :-(

Family Guy

The one where Brian is trying to start an animal rights group after accidentally killing another dog and finding out it wasn't that big a deal. No one was interested so Stewie wants to cheer him up. He offers an empathetic anecdote in which he remembers reading a Curious George book, which was written by the wrong person, or something like that. In the "flashback" Stewie is shown reading Curious George, horrrified, and he exclaims "...monkeys aren't supposed to drink chardonnay!"

les bebes sanges

On the Huffington Post this morning, in which a tiny french girl recounts the story of Winnie-the-Pooh, except that I don't remember any of the things she is talking about. Perhaps I skipped that chapter? I just remember honey jars and upturned umbrellas used as boats and toes growing cold in the snow, tiddly-pom. She's a darn cute kid, but my all time favorite cute kid on the web is this superstar.