love conquers all $600 annually.

this is some truly epic star crossed lovers shit. everything about this awesomeness has made my day (title of his post included). scandals really are bigger in texas, it's just how we roll: mayor of conservative west texas town runs off to mexico to be with his illegal MALE lover. you can't write this shit.  plus he's hot. now i want a pic of his latin lover. it's got everything...romance, intrigue, drama, politics, mexico. lifetime, please buy the rights now! or we can do it up real classy, give it the finesse this love story deserves - weinstein co, focus? 

give this brave fairy kudos here: jwlown@gmail.com

(if you don't have something nice to say, please refrain...i say use 'fairy' with the upmost endearment)

Glee!

For some unholy reason, the topic of absurd controversy around my office this week has been Fox's 2009 pilot baby: Glee. Apparently, I've been walking around with a big sign on my back which reads 'hey boys, come tell me how much you hated glee.' Okay, so yes, there are tonality issues; yes, it walks a tricky line between homage and parody; yes some of the characters border between lovable and repellent. Is the lead super annoying? The football star is gay, right? How Tracy Flickian is that chick?

Well here's what I have to say to you: frankly, I don't give a shit.

I liked it. Yeah! I said it, I said it in Johannesburg! I liked it! I thought it was honest and dorky and weird and gay and twisted (Ryan Murphy is a liiiittle bit genius) and cheesy and sweet...a show so wrong, it's right. I was entertained for sixty whole minutes. Personally, Glee was more entertaining than if NCIS boned Without A Trace then cheated on Private Practice with CSI: Miami who then had a baby with Criminal Minds and snorted heroin with the regular CSI. Apparently at upfronts Fox was so geeked up about it looked like the Glee baby threw up Glee vom all over New York City. Glee hot air balloons, Glee parade, cheerleaders wearing Glee uniforms, Glee Glee Glee. So, obviously I'm in good company...and you know what that means, clearly I will be a network executive one day. But anyways...look, maybe it'll be a huge hit, maybe it'll bomb (at the very least a great guilty pleasure)...but I think any show that attempts to do something original and refreshing deserves major props (stole this from the only male coworker who agreed with me over ichat...(where was that coward when I needed backup? i think he's afraid his fellow coworkers aren't going to shove him into the dumpster with his marc jacobs jacket on). I can't tell you how bloody sick I am of reading medical drama and procedural spec/sample scripts and frankly, this type of programming is the architect of channel surfing and surrenders of 'I guess I'll meet you at the bar, there's nothing good on tonight'. So what I'm saying is, procedurals cause alcoholism...basically.

So anyway, screw you naysayers.

I for one can't wait until Fall to see the series in it's entirety. If this (see below) scene doesn't make up for its faults, then you are lame and can go watch CBS or that show with the suitcases and that old bald cheese dick.

Awkwardness Abound!

if you didn't get enough awkwardness here.

it's your lucky day Awkward Family Photos is teeming with awkwardness. 

warning: kk, you might get secondary. 

Random Thought of the Day

do you think marrieds and preggards generated this much douchbaggery  before facebook existed? 

head has been removed to protect the innocent retarded. 

and yes, this profile pic is legit. seriously, when did this become okay? 

p.s. true story: i straight up googled 'html code for strikethrough' in order to achieve maximum comedic potential on this post. nerd alert. 

FreeCycle.net

with 'the big move' looming at a mere 3 weeks away, i am beginning to panic about what i'm going to do with all the stuff i've amassed in my huge house (sigh) over the past 3 years. garage sale, perhaps - but i mean, am i really going to have time to arrange that, we haven't even found the new digs yet? craigslist - 'check out my eclectic collection of vases, mismatched linens, and halloween decorations' 

well, i've stumbled upon this (hopefully) great solution that will clear my conscious as well as my closet. Freecycle.net is a grassroots organization that operates much like craigslist but for free in the spirit of 'one man's trash is another man's treasure' and 'going green!' i hope to make an starving artists' day when he takes 12 vases, 4 thingamagigs, 5 dinglehopers and 9 whatchamacalits off my hands. 

this post feels like i just did charity work. now i'm going to go reward myself with a cookie. 

a dash of fug: the new texas drivers license

ew.

on second thought i'm totally impressed by this. it's completely en vogue and hip to the current 80's revival. bravo texas, quite fashionable.

it's a good time to be a Californian. 

google image search: 10 points for this gem

Dear Lily, I'm Sorry. Don't Hate Me.

created custom by me for lily for being a shit head. 

i was the shit head, not lily...unsure how to grammatically agree that adj. with the correct noun :-/