cheese

Doesn’t seeing Britney smile make you feel all warm and toasty inside? She speed raced through her opening statement, but baby steps are fine with me! She looks lovely! The rest of the show has been horrible, so it’s time to watch Mad Men!

conservative colorwheel

The Democratic and Republican conventions do color analysis a little differently from one another! Imagine that.  Not wishing to pull a Hillary by holding up several bright pantsuits ahead of time to see which one would shine most brightly, John McCain himself was THE variable- tested out against many colors of the rainbow during his speech tonight. On the fly! Which was the most flattering in this toss up?

This horrible lost weatherman green is not included in the toss up at all personally. Green is a great color.. trees, grass, one side of dollar bills, etc., but its good name is being ruined here:

I like the red better. It’s bold and reminds me of red hots, which I guess could be a nice political association:

Blue will get my vote though, and I think it flatters everyone no matter how outrageous a gesture they may be making (BIDEN):

This looks like a great big bear hug of a picture, doesn’t it?

not going down without a fight

“A demonstrator is removed from the convention hall during Republican vice presidential candidate Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota September 3, 2008. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)”

During CNN’s coverage of Palin’s speech, they cut to one of these “Code Pink” ladies being escorted or AIRLIFTED out as she’s being carried away looking like an airplane going down. Crash landing! No explanation was offered when the incident was shown, so I guess the visual was enough. The guy’s face in the background is especially funny.

in the year 2000

I just turned on Conan, and the musical guest, Lykke Li, is singing everything through a megaphone! Into the microphone! What if it was through a telephone too? That’s all the phones that are coming to mind. I can’t really hear what she’s saying, but it’s not bad. Do people do this often live? Plus then she sort of uses it as a dance prop in between verses. I guess this is the future:

hamm on a hog

You know I never feel like I get to make enough jokes about pork, so thank goodness for this picture. Jon Hamm, bike beast, plays Don Draper on the AMC show Mad Men, which makes Sunday a much better day than it was before. It’s set in the 1960′s where everyone dressed sharply and used more genteel vocabulary for the most part. Don’s having a rough season 2 so far, but clearly he still photographs well.

Motorcycles always remind me of this George Michael line from Arrested Development:

Maeby: “Do you want to go shopping with me? I bet you could get something cool.”

George Michael: “Yeah, I’m gonna need a leather jacket for when I’m on my hog and need to go into a controlled slide.”