Models falling down. Yes, I’m laughing
Feb 17, 2010 Funny
Karma pretty much dictates that I’m going to fall down soon for posting this video, but I’m going to risk it anyway. In honor of New York’s Fashion Week, here’s a video of models falling down.
Maybe if they ate once in a while they’d stay on their feet better.
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Public Speaking Advice from an 8-year-old
I can’t believe I’m up this late. I swore I was going to go to bed before ten, because I have to get up at five. I’m speaking on a panel tomorrow for an organization called the Advertising Women of New York, about how brands work with bloggers to get their messages out. So I should be in bed, because when I’m really tired I tend to say some really dumb shit. But Jake gave me some fantastic public speaking advice, so I wanted to write it down before going to bed.
While I was tucking him in I mentioned that I wouldn’t see him in the morning, since I’d have to leave before he woke up. He asked me why, and I told him I was speaking in front of a bunch of people about blogs (which made him roll his eyes – he always rolls his eyes when I mention blogging). He asked me if I was nervous, and I told him just a little. This was his advice:
1) Look for familiar faces in the audience, people who like you and will make you feel relaxed if you look at them.
2) If you can’t find any familiar faces, then imagine everyone in their underwear.
3) If imagining people in their underwear doesn’t work, then try not to pee your pants.
Awesome advice, all of it.
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The spinning fly
Sep 23, 2009 Funny
OK, so I’m sitting here trying to get my onlife life in order, so that I can then go upstairs and start packing, all while trying not to get distracted by Twitter. And I want to get enough sleep so that I don’t drive off of the highway tomorrow on my way to North Carlina for the Type A Mom Conference in Asheville. Especially since I’ll have the kids with me. Although, Fiona keeps saying that we’re going to a carousel. And then Jake gets this really frustrated look on his face, like “My sister is a stupid five-year-old.” And then he yells “We’re going to North CA-RO-LI-NA! Not CAROUSEL!” And then she laughs. She’s clearly doing it on purpose at this point to bother him.
But I digress. So I’m sitting here at the dining room table and I hear a really loud buzzing sound, and at first I thought it was coming from my computer, like a drive spinning really fast. Then I look over to where the sound is actually coming from, and I see what looks like a fly doing that thing that one of the Three Stooges used to do, where he would spin around the floor on his arm. So of course I grabbed my camera, which was right next to me.
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First of all, bonus to anyone who can name which “Friends” episode is playing in the background (Toni, I think you should voluntarily take yourself out of this one, because that’s just not a fair fight – you know every episode backwards and forwards). Second, what else has crawled into that crack to die? Third, did it die? That did not look like something a fly would do for fun – it had to be injured. I’m pretty sure it was limping as it walked away, muttering something about Keyser Soze. And while I have no problem killing flies, I was the only one down here and I didn’t know it was here until it did that.
Weird.
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