Friends

October 31, 2003 on 6:31 am | In Television

Okay.

On Friends tonight, Christina Applegate (Married With Children’s Kelly Bundy) played Jennifer Aniston’s younger sister. Applegate’s character (Amy) is supposed to be a complete and total moron.

At one point on tonight’s show, Amy compared herself to Erin Brockovitch. Now, since Amy’s supposed to be a Grade-A Moron. So we have to assume she never read about Erin’s pursuits in the newspaper; she heard of the famous movie.

Here’s the problem. The film Erin Brockovitch stars Julia Roberts. Earlier in the series Friends, though, Julia Roberts played a formal elementary schoolmate of Matthew Perry’s (with whom he ends up trading underwear). So who starred in Erin Brockovitch in the Friends reality? A star who looks exacty like Chandler’s female friend?

Like Daffy and Donald, this is a pair o’ ducks.

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    Also

    October 29, 2003 on 11:25 pm | In Movies

    Weird Al’s forthcoming DVD Collection

    Custom window treatments

    A million kajillion dollars

    (These are other things on the list of stuff I want that I started yesterday.)

    Update: If you want to get me the digital video camera, check out this list.

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    Things I Want

    October 29, 2003 on 3:08 am | In Life Updates

    Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them — a Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken

    Dude, Where’s My Country by Michael Moore

    Boogers Are My Beat by Dave Barry

    Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns (DVD) (See giganticfilm.com)

    A Mac-compatible digital camcorder, preferably with Firewire built in, highly rated by Consumer Reports

    To tell you my entire Groundlings story. But in brief: The Groundlings are a hugely popular LA-based improv troupe. They boast some of the best and funniest alumni you’ve ever dreamed of meeting. I auditioned for their school (completion of which is a prerequisite for becoming a Groundlings performer) over the weekend. I had a chance to look over photos of Groundlings alumni. I saw pictures of Will Ferrell, Cheri Oteri, Chris Kattan, Chris Parnell, Phil Hartman, Jon Lovitz, Lisa Kudrow, Ana Gasteyer, Paul “Pee Wee Herman” Reubens, Kathy Griffin, Julia Sweeny… It’s a long list. Current Groundlings include SNL’s Will Forte and Gilmore Girls‘ Sukie, Melissa McCarthy.

    Skipping over all the good parts, I did as well at my audition as is possible — I was placed into the Basic class, which is better than not getting placed into any class or getting placed into the Introductory class. So I did the best one can do! Woohoo!

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    Crappy Tries

    October 28, 2003 on 4:44 am | In Charlie, Life Updates, Things of Amusement to Me

    So…

    I came home from work today and greeted Charlie. Mondays are often his toughest day, when he’s alone for the longest stretch of time, after a weekend of much family fun time.

    He was extremely happy to see me. I made the daily inspection. Charlie very rarely poops in the house now, and when he does, it’s always on or very near his pee sheet. (Note: If you are offended by words like “poop” and “pee,” please do not read this post.)

    In front of Charlie’s pee sheet today was his new purple plush squeaky bone, his favorite blanket, and a chicken-shaped toy.

    Charlie had apparently not been able to find a giant neon sign with an arrow reading DON’T LOOK HERE!!.

    It was a very, very small amount of solid doggy accident, but the cover-up earned big laughs.

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    I know what you’re thinking.

    October 27, 2003 on 5:03 pm | In Charlie, Food

    You’re thinking,

    “Lex, what would happen if I put an ear of corn in a pot and placed it on the stove, turned the stove on, and forgot about the pot for about 45 minutes?”

    Well, I’ll tell you:

    1. The water level in the pot will go way down.
    2. The corn will be somewhat well-done. It will not have any usual texture or flavor, surprisingly.
    3. It will be very very very hot, so you should try to resist the urge to bite into right away like an idiot.

    Also, if you have a dog named Charlie, he will look at you quizically when you yelp in pain after tasting the overcooked searingly hot corn too fast.

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    Fire Bad!

    October 26, 2003 on 9:14 pm | In Life Updates

    It smells like fire outside. It smelled like fire inside until I closed the windows. But it reeks. The sky is gray, although it’s a sunny, cloud-free day.

    I know Smokey said Only YOU can prevent forest fires, but I don’t know what I should have done. I wasn’t even NEAR where the blazes started.

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    Take Me From Our Leaders

    October 23, 2003 on 4:37 pm | In News

    The US Senate passed a bill prohibiting spam, and setting up a Do Not Spam list (that any spammer would love to gain access to). According to CNN:

    “I don’t go to a town hall meeting, I don’t meet a friend who doesn’t say, ‘Take care of that spam,”‘ said Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Montana, another bill sponsor.[CNN]

    I don’t know of anyone whom I don’t know who wouldn’t not vote for not Conrad Burns. Or not.

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    Work’s For Me

    October 22, 2003 on 10:20 pm | In Work

    (Sidenote to those already distracted by this entry’s subject line. No, I did not commit a grammatical atrocity. I’m using a possessive and not a plural. Thank you for your time and misguided concern.)

    I work for a company with staff all over the country. My office is in Santa Monica, but we have staff in Washington state and in New York. We keep in contact via phone and instant messenger.

    This week, I’m meeting a few key staff members from those non-California locales for the first time. Face to face. We’ve never met in person, and now I’ve met 50% (ie, “1″) of these visitors, and by week’s end, I will have met the other 50%.

    It is very strange to put a face to a voice/screen name/email address after going through so much time not knowing.

    I have an extremely crass and disgusting analogy to make to the oddness of seeing something/someone for the first time, but I don’t want to offend anyone, particularly one of the two people I’m meeting, who also happens to read this blog on occasion. Suffice it to say, the analogy involved toilet paper.

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    Blogs on a Lump

    October 22, 2003 on 5:45 am | In The Lex Files

    I’m updating some blog features, including improved permalinks, categories, and other fun stuff.

    In the process, I’m also breaking lots of things. You notice something broken, you comment here, and then you’ll know I know.

    You know?

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    It’s still out on this one

    October 20, 2003 on 10:25 pm | In News

    As you’ll recall, I served on jury duty just a couple weeks ago. All the case we heard was very touching, on a personal level, nothing like this happened.

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