Readers! Just a note to say that This American Life is fundrasing again! I sent in 5 dollars! AGAIN! because I love public radio, and fundraisers. And Ira Glass.
get ready because the annual MLISA holiday taco drive is coming soon!
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I rewatched “My So Called Life” because that’s what you do when you’re bored in Istanbul, and I picked out some key AC outfits and wanted to share them with you
Sharon Chirsky, I stopped being friends with you because you dress better than I do. Do you see these overalls? Also Rayanne Graff said my hair was holding me back.
Boxers are the new way of saying ” I’m so whiney about everything, my life is so hard. My parents love me too much!!”
are you kidding? Also how did anyone not guess that Rickie was gay? I mean the way he spells his name is a total clue
Wah Wha Wha, I have to do something! Also check out the dude behind AC
How can you not love him!
Overall Power
This one is so early 90’s power lesbian, I don’t even know what to do with it
No one ever mentioned that Ms. Graff shaved her legs at school in a Holloween Costume. She’s my favorite character, mostly because she banged Jordan when AC just whined about it.
So Gay.
I’m so over Jordan that I’m going to wear a floor length tee-shirt.
Whatever, I kind of love this one. His good looks weather the test of time. Also He can’t read!!
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M!
I don’t know why I’m so interested in this, but I’m OBSESSED with knowing how much it costs to ship a dead body on an airplane. I don’t know why. Just curious I guess! It’s really hard to find out online and obviously, I’m not going to call a funeral home (who arranges these things) because how awkward is it to ask about something like that “just in case.” they would probably think I was some kind of famous murderer.
I’ve been doing some research and it turns out that you need to buy a big box, called an air tray to put the casket in when it goes on the airplane. I found a website that sells them and for reasons only they know, they also sell air tray themed t-shirts and mousepads! I don’t know who else besides me would want something like this. Instead of posting the shirts online, they should have just called me up and asked for my credit card number. The regular design is pretty good, but the 25th aniversary one is amazing! A grim reaper! An airplane turning into a coffin! Ughh I need this for Hanukkah.
(I posted the mouse pads because you can see the images better. go to the website for more information)
http://www.customairtrays.com/
posted by Caroline
![I was on craigslist last night looking for a display case for a store (long story) but I actually came across an unbelievably awkward REAL post from some crazy lunatic. I would link to it, but craigslist posts expire, and I want this to be around FOREVER. The photo is taken from the image attached to the ad. Read it, and then just let your mind grapes bonk around for awhile trying to figure it out.
i have a billion dollar product that i have developed called KETCHUP2! - $100 (mail order)
Date: 2009-10-29, 7:42PM EDT
Reply to: sale-v3e9w-1443547695@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
i have developed a new condiment called ketchup2. it’s a unique blend of flavors and spices that can be used as a bbq sauce, hot sauce, wing sauce, ketchup, and the best steak sauce you ever had. i am looking for an investor who has the means to get this product to the world market. (does anyone know donald trump????????) i am also offering a 12 bottle case to restaurants and households who want to try my creation. be the first on your block to have k2. call anytime for details. 570 744 2571 bert](http://10.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksnfngD4xD1qz7xa6o1_400.jpg)
I was on craigslist last night looking for a display case for a store (long story) but I actually came across an unbelievably awkward REAL post from some crazy lunatic. I would link to it, but craigslist posts expire, and I want this to be around FOREVER. The photo is taken from the image attached to the ad. Read it, and then just let your mind grapes bonk around for awhile trying to figure it out.
i have a billion dollar product that i have developed called KETCHUP2! - $100 (mail order)
Date: 2009-10-29, 7:42PM EDT
Reply to: sale-v3e9w-1443547695@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
i have developed a new condiment called ketchup2. it’s a unique blend of flavors and spices that can be used as a bbq sauce, hot sauce, wing sauce, ketchup, and the best steak sauce you ever had. i am looking for an investor who has the means to get this product to the world market. (does anyone know donald trump????????) i am also offering a 12 bottle case to restaurants and households who want to try my creation. be the first on your block to have k2. call anytime for details. 570 744 2571 bert
Mass Town Makes It Illegal To Own More Than 3 Cats
posted by Caroline
This is me in kindergarten, in a slammin’ cowgirl themed outfit that my mother allowed me to - no, encouraged me to - wear OUTSIDE THE HOUSE on a very regular basis like it wasn’t the ugliest outfit 1991 had ever seen. Um, so all the white stuff you see there is real live fringe that moved all over the place. I think the bottom is a skort, not a skirt. It’s hard to tell, what with my super ladylike pose.
So as you can see from the calendar, it is March of 1991. All photos should have a calendar in them; it makes it much easier to know when the photo was taken. I am half-remembering that in my class, we did birthday parties for each kid where their parents would come in and bring cupcakes or something and maybe tell all the five year olds about how a cesaerean section works or something. Since I had a July birthday when school wasn’t in session, they made me have my birthday day in march. The fuck? It’s hard to tell a five year old that they are going to pretend it’s their birthday but it’s really four months before their birthday and their parents are in on it but no you are not six years old…or something.
posted by Caroline
I didn’t know when I put up my bird feeder that only the World’s Dumpiest Birds were gonna show up. Where are the cardinals???
i decided to join twitter last night because I’ve been watching a lot of 30 Rock lately and hearing Jack Donaghy say “synergy” over and over made me want to get some synergy for this here blog, whatever that means! So twitter it is! Follow us @mylifeissoawk because mylifeissoawkward has too many letters!
posted by Caroline
PS - please follow us because we want to look popular. We are desperate.
Monique :i totally got 36 bucks out of bank of america for COMPLAINING
Always call your billing companies and say you are sad and unemployed with no light on the horizion and you heard that the competing company is offering a super deal!
They’ll always give you a break!
Note: This does not work in Turkey. I tried.
Here are two names that I used to like A LOT when I was little and now I don’t care for them at all.
1. Crystal
2. Pamela
posted by caroline
So, you know those T Mobile comercials for their MyTouch phones with the Cat Stevens song and whoopi goldberg? Well, have you noticed what’s on the screen of the phone whoopi is holding? An illustration of herself as a Dracula satire! So bizarre! You know that someone actually came up with this idea and then had some illustrator draw it out. AND THEN THEY USED IT IN THE FINAL CUT OF THE COMMERCIAL! augh!
Posted by Caroline
hey guys - sweet sale going on at the jewelry company i work for, Bittersweets New York. Vampires!! Click the photo to go to the site.
The most awkward charitable event of my lifetime (ok I was born two months after) has got to be Hands Across America. Now, a brief intro from wiki:
Hands Across America was a benefit event and publicity campaign staged on Sunday May 25, 1986 in which approximately seven million people held hands in a human chain for fifteen minutes along a path across the continental United States. Participants paid ten dollars to reserve their place in line; the proceeds were donated to local charities to fight hunger and homelessness and help those in poverty.
OK, so clearly this is a bananas stupid idea as well as a great way to spread the flu virus. Even though tons of people actually showed up (why?), most didn’t spend the money to “reserve” their place in line, so the event, which cost more than $17 million to promote and put on, raised only $20 million. So basically seven million people came out on a sunday to hold hands for fifteen minutes for no reason. People are such creeps!
But! Here is what made it AWESOME: the dumbest, most embarrassing 80s celebrities participated, including R2D2 who has no hands. R2D2 you guys! Seriously! That is just like setting him up for failure and embarrassment.
Trenton, New Jersey (with Dionne Warwick and Tony Danza)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (with Jerry Lewis and Scott Baio)
Baltimore, Maryland (with R2-D2 and Emmanuel Lewis.) The first break in the chain west
of New York was reported to be in Maryland due to R2D2 not having hands.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (with the Pittsburgh Pirates Parrot)
Cleveland, Ohio (with David Copperfield)
Cincinnati, Ohio (with Chewbacca the Wookiee)
Columbus, Ohio (with Michael J. Fox)
Toledo, Ohio (with Jamie Farr)
Chicago, Illinois (with Walter Payton …the longest unbroken section of the chain was allegedly in Illinois)
Springfield, Illinois (with 50 Abraham Lincoln impersonators)
St. Louis, Missouri (with Kathleen Turner under the St. Louis Arch)
Memphis, Tennessee (with 54 Elvis Presley impersonators)
Amarillo, Texas (with Kenny Rogers, Renegade, Lee Greenwood and Tony Dorsett at the TX-NM border)
Albuquerque, New Mexico (with Don Johnson, and the Dearholt Family)
Phoenix, Arizona (with Ed Begley, Jr., however desert areas were mostly empty, dotted with one-mile (1.6 km)-long chains of people. Truck drivers sounded their horns during the appointed time.)
San Bernardino, California (with Bob Seger and Charlene Tilton)
Santa Monica, California (with Jack Youngblood, Dudley Moore, Richard Dreyfuss, and Donna Mills)
Long Beach, California (with Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Reverend Robert Schuller, Kenny Loggins, and John Stamos, backed by Papa Doo Run Run
Oh my god you guys, NO one knows who most of these “celebrities” are! You should have just gotten celebrity impersonators, because people love the shit out of that for some reason. The 1980s were lucky that they didn’t have reality shows on TV because if this event was today, it would be 50% VH1 reality show cast members hoping to get photographed and no one wants to hold hands with those slime buckets because they probably have STDs. As does R2D2. I think; I have never seen star wars.
posted by Caroline
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