Author: Carrie - Cannibalistic Nerd

Here’s a picture of a dog stacked on another dog because I don’t have much going on right now and don’t want to turn my brain on.

The dog on the bottom is Milo, a former foster dog. He’s a puggle – a pug/beagle mix. They are insane. In a good way, but they are just nuts. That spot he’s lying in is Ed’s spot. Ed is a really good dog – he doesn’t cause trouble unless absolutely necessary, but he also holds his ground and is incredibly headstrong. Since Milo was in Ed’s spot, Ed spent a good amount of time sitting on the floor trying to stare a hole through Milo. When that didn’t work, he decided to just jump up there. Usually, this works perfectly because Jenkins, our other dog, is a big wuss and will move to give Ed his spot. But, this was Milo, who doesn’t mind direct contact (Jenkins likes his personal space), and is nutty in a “I don’t care, you can sit on my head” kind of way. So there they sat, Milo on the couch and Ed on Milo, each unwilling to compromise. I feel like there’s a life lesson or an analogy in there somewhere, but I’m not really concerned with what it could be because I just find the picture funny. That one dog is sitting on that other dog’s head, heh heh.

The end.

P.S. WordPress is being all weird and not doing what I ask it to – it’s like it knows I’m trying to post a phoned in blog entry. If I were currently drunk I would slur “shuttupwordpress, I’ll do what’s best for me cause I know what’s best, go back to pressing your words and I’ll worry about mene” (that’s a combination of “mine” and “me”). So, if this post is lost when I hit Publish, well, ok, I guess that’s for the best.

P.P.S. My wireless mouse died and I have no patience for the trackpad or whatever it thinks it’s called. Thus, I can’t do stuff I want to do like copy and paste and photoshop a picture of a makeup bag. So you get this. And I know in the grand scheme of things this is really not a problem. People who don’t have fingers to even use trackpads have it much worse. I’m sorry.

P.P.S.2  I told you in the title that I wasn’t going to turn my brain on so if you’re reading this far down it’s pretty much your own fault. Ha ha ha, I laugh at you!

The All-New Super Friends Shenanigans Round Up S2 Ep1A – “The Brain Machine”

In case you don’t know what I’m doing, here’s a recap: I find the Super Friends cartoons of the 70s and 80s hilarious, and I’ve recapped every episode of the first season and am now starting on the second.

Guess what? The All-New Super Friends Hour is split up in to 4 different, separate stories. This allows me to milk an episode for much longer than the first season. This is both a relief and cause for concern. I don’t think there will be as much unnecessary arm wrestling this time around, but hopefully I will be spared play-by-plays of Superman checking the mail (ok, that didn’t happen but may as well have). Let’s get started:

Season 2, Episode 1, Storyline A – “The Brain Machine”

Original Airdate: September 10, 1977

Short Synopsis: “On the outskirts of Gotham City, strange experiments are taking place.” Dr. Crainum has a brain machine, which advances man’s mental evolution by a million years. He tries it out on himself and becomes an extra-super genius. Note that this laser treatment does not regrow hair:

He now has the power of telekinesis and better head reflecting abilities. He decides to “borrow the huge dish antennae from the Metropolis Institute of Technology” to beam his smart rays on everybody.

It’s just the opening credits and already Aquaman looks as useful as a member of The Go-Go’s.

And, no, Super Friends, you can’t just make super heroes who can’t fly able to just because it would be cool to see them flying through space during the opening credits.

“Compared to me and my mental powers, you are all super weaklings.”
Batman, Robin, and Wonder Woman decide that this is the job for them, for some reason. So they go to the Metropolis Institute of Technology and are greeted by Dr. Cranium with the above quote. Four years since season one, and some things never change:

Narrator: “Later, after freeing themselves…” and he even says it in this embarrassed-for-them way, too.

WTF Screenshots
Oops, look who got hit by the brain beam!

Batman and Robin confuse Wonder Woman by sending a dozen “inflatable dummies” that look like Robin careening toward WW in bumper cars. Where in the hell did they get twelve blow-up Robins in such a short amount of — you know what, never mind, I don’t want to know.

In the end, they change Dr. Crainum back (after Wonder Woman gets changed back), the brain machine gets dismantled, and everything is right in the world again. As far as I can tell, they managed this because of dumb luck super strength and prowess.

In preparation for next week: Wonder Twins 101
This is the beginning of the Wonder Twins era. The Wonder Twins are Zan and Jayna, and they have a pet monkey named Gleek. To explain their powers, I’m going to quote directly from Wikipedia, because it made me laugh: “The Wonder Twins powers are activated when they touch each other and speak the phrase, ‘Wonder Twin powers activate!’ This phrase is unnecessary and just a habit of theirs.” I have the same habit whenever I come in contact with anyone. I get very strange looks.

Here’s an updated version of the Wonder Twins:

This is the version we’ll be dealing with:

Zan can turn into any variation of water, Jayna can turn into any kind of animal, including animals from other planets as long as she knows the names of them. I think Zan drew the short straw as far as usefulness goes, but we’ll see. He does have the best superpower if he’s trying to trick you into thinking you’ve peed yourself.

If you would like to see these shenanigans for yourself, Season 2 is available on DVD.

No Renovating

Tom rides MARTA every day to work. MARTA is Atlanta’s public transportation system. He noticed this sign recently and took a picture. It’s one of my favorite things right now. If I feel down, I think about it and it lifts my spirits. Since it makes me so happy, I wanted to share it with you. The extra-wonderful thing about this sign is that since it exists, if there’s NOT one where ever else I go, that means I’m allowed to saw and spray paint at the same time.

Have a great weekend and happy renovating!

Brought to You by the Number Three

Andrea over at About 100% was nice enough to pick me as one of three bloggers she’d like to learn three things about. It involves a giant number three, sharing three things about yourself, and then picking three bloggers you’d also like to learn three things about. I’m saying three a lot.

1. Last night I dreamed I had a live chicken stuck in my hair, and while someone was trying to get its feet un-tangled from my ponytail, I thought to myself, “Well, at least I can blog about it tomorrow.” Then I woke up and decided to blog about it anyway even though that’s much less interesting than if I had actually gotten a chicken stuck in my hair.

I bought the shit out of this bread.

2. I consider the fact that I both washed some sheets and left the house to buy bread today an astounding achievement. I wrote that previous sentence before I had actually left the house to buy bread, so my confidence is at an all-time high.

3. My dad used to add a half an hour to every hour-plus trip and 15 minutes to every half hour trip so as to reduce the amount of complaining towards the “end” of the trip. I would even make two 90 minute mix tapes to cover the “three hour trip” to grandma’s house. When we always arrived before I had heard all of both tapes, I chalked it up to extra tape in the cassette. I trusted what my dad told me so much I didn’t figure out this scheme until I actually had to drive one of the routes myself in college.

Here’s three bloggers for you to check out and maybe we’ll learn three things about them on their blogs (or, really, you can learn three things about them by just visiting their blogs):

1. Craftwhack: Jeanette writes about a lot of things and is very funny. Most importantly, she’s willing to take pictures of her adorable child being sad at the taste of her homemade fruit treats and given me express permission to laugh and laugh at her sad child.
2. The Reedster Speaks: Cindy started her blog in December, and she is a very funny lady. She’s also a lot of fun on Twitter, too. And, she regularly gives me Klout in Superman and Barry White and I try to up her influence in Salad.
3. Misty’s Laws: Misty is great. She’s been shown a lot of love lately with blog posts devoted to her wonderfulness, and she was even recently inducted into the League of Funny Bitches. This is all well-deserved as she is indeed funny, and also a very supportive, friendly blogger.