how does pop culture invade your vocabulary?

for example, i always say "doh!" when something goes wrong or i drop something and "yoink" when i take something from someone. this are totally stolen from the simpsons.

i also say "frak" all the time which is originally from Battlestar Galactica (it's their future curse word) but I picked it up from Veronica Mars and she picked it up after she went to a BG conference. So it's one big media loop.

Tontreal

I had a very weird dream last night. Spain and Canada formed an alliance to start some genetic testing. Basically, they were going to do experiments on babies. So Canada decided that the experimental babies would be marked by having "Tontreal" as their birth place on their birth certificate. ie, Montreal and Toronto. Tontreal was repeated over and over in this dream. Maybe about combining different places I feel I belong to?

Dreams are interesting, huh

Swatties are HIGH-larious

I was watching Last Comic Standing, a show I always thoroughly enjoy, when I started laughing really hard at these two beyond queer guys who were playing straight Jesus freaks. And then I realized they sounded familiar. I searched my gmail and realized that the duo was a group called God's Pottery and that they are Swatties. I had received a few emails earlier promoting them from the Swarthmore NYC digest. Anyway, they are by far one of the funniest groups on the show. Their schtick is to pretend to be positive, Jesus loving do gooders. So for the Yo-Momma jokes they did all good jokes, like "your momma is so terrific that she got elected mayor...by a landslide!" Please check out their website godspottery.com because they are simply hilarious.

Here's a bit from their website:

"Their first song was entitled, simply, "Jesus." After an overwhelmingly positive response, Jeremiah and Gideon returned the next Sunday with a follow-up tune, "Jesus Jesus." The next week, they played "Jesus Jesus Jesus." As the crowds swelled and word started to spread, it became clear to the boys that they were on to something big."

A foot in the door

Today was my first day at Channel 13. It was interesting, invigorating and quite exciting. I can't tell you how weird it is to wake up in the morning glad to go to work. A near year of instability has made me really treasure this three month opportunity to not think about making enough money. Plus I got a cute id card!

The hyper-Real World aka "Mexi-loco"

The Real World Hollywood went to Cancun and then they went to Playa del Carmen. Watching this episode was like revisiting all the tourist-infested Americanized and drunken bits of Mexico that my friends and I tried so desperately to stay away from. I was amazed how two different groups of friends could go the same places and have opposite experiences. At my end: the free beaches, historical day trips (tulum, etc), the 30 cent taco places and Playa Walmart (with a mole bar, mmm), the great cheap hostels with interesting peeps, the long public bus rides and inner city experiences. For the Hollywooders: four star hotels that look like the Marriot, private tourist only beaches, swimming with dolphins, cruise rides and fire dancing! All included a way of avoiding the Mexico in Mexico and going for (baja)California with an accent. Well some MTVs never change.