Music is great, Starbucks is great...

Right on, Liz Lemon. Right on.

See, guys? This is why, when my love of baseball died a natural girly death when I went away to college, I didn't miss baseball. The gnawing disappointment, the spooky feeling that you, and you alone, are controlling the fate of your favorite team, the crushing and agonizing overinvolvement that you KNOW is ridiculous, but you just can't STOP CARING and WISHING THEY HAD FINISHED DEAD LAST LIKE THE TWINS IN '93 SO THAT IT WOULDN'T HURT GOD THE PAIN.

I am eating a giant slice of sausage pizza to numb the Feelings, invalid as they are. aj and I walked over to Corner Pizzeria where the speakers blare Sinatra at all hours. Even 8:00 a.m. when CP isn't open. This morning, an African-American mother of two burst out the door of CP during non-business hours (I'm guessing she either owns it or sets them up with breakfast muffins or something) and said in a tone that was either facetious or earnest, "Don't you just LOVE this music?"

I mean, yes, I do. But every morning with the "My Way" or "Fly Me to the Moon." A girl has her limits.

WHY?! WHY DID DEMPSTER FAIL ME?! HE GREW AN ALLURING GINGER BEARD!!! WHERE WAS THE POWER OF HIS MIGHTY ONTARIAN WHISKERS?! GOD IT HURTS SO BAD.

(several bites of subpar giant pizza later)

Okay, so then I watched P-Run.

This is a conversation I believe happened in the Hamptons after the airing of last week's ep...

Tim: Victor?
Victor: Yes, honey?
Tim: I know you're trying to be supportive, and I appreciate that you went through all the trouble to glitter paint the UP YOUR ASS, YOU DISRESPECTFUL WHORE sign, but...well, I'm her teacher and...
Victor: Tim, I told you that when you look over the tops of your glasses like that, it only makes me want...
Tim: Oh, stop. And for God's sake, please take the effigy of Kenley down from the kitchen doorway. Jen and Violet are coming over later, and we don't want to give her nightmares.
Coco Chanel the Pom: *bark bark!* (roughly translated from Pom: But Daddy, she IS a disrespectful whore!)

After this week's ep? I don't know, maybe Heidi will come over, she and Victor will get drunk on a few bottles of good syrah, and the effigy will go back up. After all, Jen and Vi can't be in New York forever.

( I HAVE HAD TO FIGHT MY WHOLE LIFE! )

WHY????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ALL YOU NEEDED TO DO WAS JUST...WIN!! IS THAT SO HARD, CUBS? JOE MANTEGNA JUST SAID AMAZING, WARM, WONDERFUL THINGS ABOUT LOVING YOU IN A YAHOO! COLUMN TODAY!!!

The pizza isn't helping. Maybe if I make an effigy of Kenley.

But seriously, in hilarious news, if you like laughing about and loving Horatio Caine, this is one of my favorite posts from last week. Genius.

Also, if you love random shots of TITUS being all TITUSy, piecesofalice provides them in the comments of my recent lazy picspam of Life.

Be grateful you will not hear from me tomorrow, as I will be at the Gomez concert, trying desperately to earn good karma by being happy and involved in Not Cubs related life activities.

I'm not very big on the Christmas Wish List memes, but one of piecesofalice's requests interested me--because Christmas is, of course, about reflecting on what most benefits ME and makes ME happy--and afforded me the opportunity to harangue aj into making loverly cover art. Seriously, look at it:


So even without songs, this is already a rad fanmix, right?

But you get songs too! Sorry, it's my first, so it's probably a little weak on variety and...general...things. But it's the thought that counts, and my thought was, "After I force aj to make bitchin' cover art, I will dig through my Brit Pop and formulate...LIFE!!! LIFE IS AWESOME!!!"

Anyway, merry early Xmas, piecesofalice. Enjoy this with gooseburgers and eggnog made from bourbon and ice cubes.

( Tie My Hands: A Life Fanmix, featuring songs for Charlie, Dani, Ted...Even Roman! )

Hope this improves your night more than conflicted feelings about Hot Garrett Jesus.

I'm watching Monday's ep of Heroes right now.

I'm beginning to think that the real Hero of the show is Nathan Petrelli's hair. God, it is marvelous.

Also, ( spoiler... )

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These are things that are awesome right now:
1) This picture of Jen Garner, Violet Affleck, and Gay Uncle Victor, linked thanks to 19. Adorable. I imagine that Uncle Tim is busy doing season 4 P-Run press.

2) Life is on in one minute! Hee hee!

3) The Wire - Season 5 Invitation to the Set. Clearly, someone has been taking good, home-cooked care of Meldrick Lewis the last few years.

(THE WIRE!!! YAY!!!)

4) The Richard Cheese version of The Jeffersons theme song. Any time Cheese pulls out the old-man Sinatra wail, it's good times, but especially when it's on the line "Movin' on up to the east side."

5) Minnie does this thing where she lets her back legs go completely slack as she gets out of her chair so that she ends up drag-tumbling her way onto the floor. Physical comedy: ain't nothing like it.

Okay, so Life! Huzzah!