So, I log onto Vox and the first things I see are pictures from hawaii (all he does it photo blog) at the San Diego Comic Con.
I'm so very jealous. I've always wanted to go, but never have. I've promised myself that one day I will go. Hopefully by the time I can afford a trip like that, the Comic Con will still be around.
It may surprise you to know, and it surprises me that I will admit to owning (and actually listening to) this cassette tape back in 1986, so... Shhh, please don't tell anyone. It's embarrassing.
Actually, it was Poison that finally separated my sister's and my tastes in music. She chose black spandex and big hair, while I ventured towards a more Brit-poppy New Wave style.
This is where we parted musical paths. I mean we still both loved bands like the Clash, INXS and the B-52's, but things were never the same again after she went all metal on me with that big fucking hair... But I do fondly recall the days we used to drive around with the windows down blasting this shit with the volume at 11. Good times, good times...
Teh big biped tom is werking to manee ourz, so I is feelding kwestuns insted. I tuk this frum May. Thank u may. Besos, Ana-Sofia
Do you have any pets?
++ I haz one hooman tom, and i claim dominashun over teh ducks and morhens and teh littel dogz but not teh big dogz becaz they are scary.
Name three things that are physically close to you:
++ A snoring biped and Pink Bunny and a pilow
Are you or were you a good student?
++ yes I cna use teh puter and i get happee when I finish teh jumble.
What's your favorite sport?
++ chasing the red lazer dot all over the haus
Do you enjoy sleeping late?
++ I sleep all day
What's the weather like right now?
++ Thundery.
Who tells the best jokes?
++ I does, but the biped doesn't always unner stand them
What was the last thing you dreamed about?
++ Chasin the moorhens.
Do you drive? If so, have you ever crashed?
++ I know how but I amn't aloud.
Do you believe in karma?
++ Yes. I rode from grandma and the mean man's haus in their honda
Do you believe in luck?
++ yes.
Do you like your eggs scrambled or sunny side up?
++ I likes to try to eat them while ther still inside the bird but i doesn't ketch the birds so i eat meow mix brand cat fuel insted.
Do you collect anything? If so, what?
++ i colelect plastik bags, then i chase them around the haus
Are you proud of yourself?
++ duh I's a cat
Have you ever given money to someone?
++ i give purrs and head butts taht are betr
What's your favorite food?
++
meow mixx brand cat fuel. Teh biped has gave me all kines of expensiver fud, but i love meow mix brand cat fuel bestest
Have you ever had a secret admirer?
++ Osure
Do you like the smell of gasoline?
++ I luv teh smell of napalm in the morning. When I smell that smell, that gasoline smell...it smells like...victry..
What's your favorite invention?
++ teh lazer pointer thingy
Is your room messy?
++ no but teh bipeds haus is becuz i keep leaving bagz all over becuz i am mad he is gone so much
What do you like better: oranges or apples?
++ meow mix brand cat fuel doesnt haz oranges or apples.
Do you give in easily?
++ ohno.
Are you a good guesser?
++ no i dont always gess where the biped is walking so he almost trips and fallz becuz i iz under his paws.
Can you read other people's expressions?
++ i can tell if someone doesnt liek kittehs and then i go sit on them.
Are you a bully?
++ Are you a plastic bag or a bird or a toy or a red dot?
What time did you wake up this morning?
++ teh bipeds alarm ringd at 'o shit' oclock i gess. thats what he sed anyways
What did you eat for breakfast this morning?
++ meow mix brand cat fuel
What do you plan on doing tomorrow?
++ i haz usual friday cat bizness lick meow sleep meow watch the birdz eat meow mix brand cat fuel meow sleep meow lick.
What's your favorite day of the week?
++ Sunday. i like watching the family guy becuz of the drinking talking dog. hes funy.
Is there someone you have been constantly thinking about? If yes, who?
++ teh biped when hes at his jobs. he shud spend mor time here with me.
Skydive?
++ i jump off of teh top shelf in teh clozet.
What toothpaste do you use?
++ my tooths dont fall out so i doesn't needs paste
What does your last text message say?
++ "meow. meow. mraaah" frum dg
Who was the last person you spoke over the phone to?
++ grandma and the mean man when the biped wuz talking to them erlier
What's your favorite school subject?
++ Geophysical fluid dynamics
What's your least favorite school subject?
++ latin
Would you rather have money or love?
++ i doesn't haz any pockets so id rather haz love.
What is your dream vacation?
++ my balcony when itz cold.
What is your favorite animal?
++ i iz my own favorite aminal
Do you miss anyone right now?
++ noes.
What's the last sporting event you watched?
++ the allstar baseball game.
Do you need to do laundry?
++ i jest likked so i iz clean and static-free.
Do you listen to the radio?
++ We doesnt haz a radio becuz the biped works in a radio.
Where were you when 9/11 happened?
++ i wasnt born yet.
What do you do when vending machines steal your money?
++ i pores granulated pool chlorine in a pile under them then dumps brake fluid on and then run like hell becuz it makes a big fire and killz the machine
What color are your bed sheets?
++ bayzh
What's your ringtone?
++ miles davis "all blues"
Who was the last person to make you laugh?
++ the littel chiwawa downstairs. hes so funny.
Do you have any obsessions right now?
++ a ace bandidge.
Have you ever sat on a roof?
++ no but i sit on top of the fridgerater
Has a rumor even been spread about you?
++ that i iz a diva
Do you like sushi?
++ no. sushi isnt one of teh flavers in meow mix brand cat fuel so i doesnt like it.
Do you believe in magic?
++ yes When the biped scraches this spot on me my back leg muvs even if i doesnt make it. scary
Where did you get this survey?
++ the biped is sleeping and i was reading may's vox and she had it and i stoled it.
Ther isnt any mor kwestuns so im going to my mistr coffee box. have a happee day. besos from Ana-Sofia Vargas :x)
was to call my insurance company, Progressive. I remember having talked to someone locally a few months ago when the guy I had the accident with (we'll call him JH since those are his initials) submitted his original claim about this accident, but I didn't have his name or number, and I didn't even have the number of the local office. I had to just call the generic 800 number on the website.
I would like to point out that within five minutes, I was talking to my local guy again. That's pretty impressive service.
He made me feel a lot better too. I had assumed that the claim JH made had been paid, that my insurance coverage for this incident had been maxed out, and that JH was suing me for *another* 75 grand. Turns out, they were still negotiating the original claim, in fact my insurance guy (CT, my hero for today) even had him down from 50 to 35, but for whatever reason, the guy decided to file suit against me about it. Apparently 75 is just the number they always use.
This guy had no broken bones and no catastrophic injuries. It was all soft tissue. And apparently he ended treatment months ago. He's just being a prick for some reason.
My insurance guy said "I'll meet with my litigation team and we'll decide how to proceed. If we need to, we'll hire defense counsel. We'll do the lion's share of the work here - that's why you pay a premium."
So there's that.
I am a farmer who raise ducks and cows. The animals have a total of 9 heads and 26 feet. How many ducks and cows do I have?
Submitted by The BlueTie.
I am a girl who picks on the QofD. I have two hands, two feed, a head, a set of nunchuks, and some brass knuckles. For the purposes of this question, we'll leave out my well-armed midget assassin sidekick. Which one is going to be the first to make contact with your body? Bonus question: Will it leave a mark?
it was well-written and quite hilarious - and Estelle was fabulous...
and of course, will be in syndication on Lifetime until the end of the century - heh heh
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-getty23-2008jul23,0,6843248.story?track=ntothtml
OBITUARY
Estelle Getty, 84; 'Golden Girls' actress brought humor, depth to mother roles
Special to The Times
July 23, 2008
Estelle Getty, whose acting career bloomed late in life with her Emmy-winning performance as Sophia Petrillo, the wisecracking mother of Bea Arthur's character on the popular NBC sitcom "The Golden Girls," died Tuesday. She was 84.
Getty, who also won notice for her performance on Broadway as Harvey Fierstein's mother in "Torch Song Trilogy," died at her home in Hollywood, said her friend and caretaker, Paul Chapdelaine. Getty had been battling Lewy body dementia for the last eight or nine years, he said.
"The only comfort at this moment is that although Estelle has moved on, Sophia will always be with us," Betty White, one of Getty's "Golden Girls" costars, said in a statement.
Getty was a veteran stage actress in New York City when she came to Los Angeles for the West Coast run of "Torch Song" in 1985, and her managers urged her to try making it in Hollywood. She told them she'd give it two months.
Six weeks later, she got the part of Sophia, an elderly mother who was forced to live with her divorced, middle-aged daughter and her daughter's two friends in a house in Miami.
Though about the same age as Arthur, Getty put on a wig, makeup and dowdy clothes and for seven years engaged in hilarious verbal combat with her TV daughter, Dorothy Zbornak, who towered over the tiny but feisty Sophia.
"Our mother-daughter relationship was one of the greatest comic duos ever, and I will miss her," Arthur said in a statement.
Freed from normal social constraints by a mild stroke, Sophia got many of the show's funniest lines, made even more droll by Getty's deadpan delivery. The intergenerational free-for-all often left Dorothy in stunned silence, from which she recovered by cooing ominously the name of the retirement home from which her mother had been rescued: "Shady Pines."
Dorothy [to Sophia]: Four women live in this house, the toilet seat never has to move, and you always manage to make it bang.
Sophia: Forgive me, sweetheart, why don't you just get me a litter box to put beside my nightstand!
Getty, a natural comedian famous for her one-liners even in private life, played Sophia for laughs, but she also brought depth to the character. It was her idea that Sophia would always carry a purse because, she said, older women are forced to shed so many possessions in their later years that everything they own ends up in their purses.
"Nobody puts down their life very easily," she explained in a 1992 interview with Newsday.
In 1988, the year she won an Emmy for her performance as Sophia, Getty told The Times that she did not know what made her character so popular, but she thought it had something to do with her being so small.
"There's something about people identifying with little people, for various reasons," said the under-5-foot Getty, who sometimes referred to herself as "a miniature person." She said she also thought the difference in stature between her and Arthur set up a comic situation, since Sophia seemed always to be the one telling Dorothy to shut up.
Getty was born Estelle Scher on July 25, 1923, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, the daughter of Polish immigrants.
She fell in love with the stage as a small child when her father took her to see a movie and five acts of vaudeville.
"I was stunned," she wrote in "If I Knew Then What I Know Now So What?," her 1988 memoir written with Steve Delsohn. "I had found my world."
By age 5, she was studying singing, dancing and dramatics at a settlement house. She graduated from Seward Park High School and began getting acting experience in the Borscht Belt in the Catskills in upstate New York.
After her marriage in 1946, she worked as a secretary and continued acting, eventually moving into motherly roles.
"I've played mothers to heroes and mothers to zeros," she wrote. "I've played Irish mothers, Jewish mothers, Italian mothers, Southern mothers, New England mothers, mothers in plays by Neil Simon and Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams. I've played mother to everyone but Attila the Hun."
Getty also played Sylvester Stallone's mother in the 1992 film flop "Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot," Cher's mother in the 1985 movie "Mask" and Barry Manilow's mother in the 1985 TV movie "Copacabana."
Being typecast, however, also gave Getty the most important roles of her career, including "Golden Girls" and "Torch Song Trilogy," in which for five years she played mother to Fierstein's drag queen in the Broadway production and on national tours. (Anne Bancroft played Fierstein's mother in the 1988 film version.)
Fierstein had met Getty in the late 1970s when playing in small theaters in New York and, Fierstein said, she "drove me crazy asking for a part." He told TV Guide in 1986 that when he got around to casting "Torch Song Trilogy," "It began to strike me as funny to imagine this teeny little thing bossing me around."
Reviewing "Torch Song Trilogy" when it opened in November 1983 at the Huntington Hartford Theatre in Hollywood, former Times theater critic Dan Sullivan called Getty's performance "tough, funny and wonderfully positive."
Getty had lived in the Los Angeles area since her "Golden Girls" days. Her husband of 57 years, businessman Arthur Gettleman, died in 2004. She is survived by her sons, Barry Gettleman and Carl Gettleman; her brother, David Scher; and her sister, Roslyn Howard.
Maybe you remember, last year I crashed crushed my Subaru. Pulled out in front of a guy on a Harley.
A few months ago he submitted a "policy limits claim" on my insurance - this means he asked for the full amount that my policy covered at the time. Unfortunately that was only $50,000.
This morning a guy showed up at my house and served me with papers. He's suing me for an additional $75,000.
I'm scared and freaked out and I don't know what to do. I mean, obviously I have to get an attorney and stuff but... I'm scared. That's a hell of a lot of money, and that accident was totally and completely my fault. I don't have a leg to stand on here.
Things are running through my mind like selling my second car, moving from my house into a cheap apartment, not going out any more... basically my life getting much shittier just so I can pay a lawyer and whatever judgment I end up with.
Not a great way to start my day.
"Coolest f-word ever deserves a fucking shout! I mean, Why can't all decent men and women call themselves feminists? Out of respect for those who fought for this." -Ani Difranco, Grand Canyon
I am a farmer who raise ducks and cows. The animals have a total of 9 heads and 26 feet. How many ducks and cows do I have?
Submitted by The BlueTie.
Probably Vox is sick of people giving shit about lame QotD... This sounds like "Voxers! Just get over it!"
Next week, we might have cross word puzzle. The following week, we might have sudoku.
