This series of videos, Target Women, were brought to my attention by college roomie Evelyn. And they are AWESOME!

Sarah Haskins does a segment on InfoMania, which you can watch Current Thursday nights at 10 pm.

There’s about forty in the series, but here are four of my favorite:

The first, the classic, the original – YOGURT!

Jewelry

Broadview Security

Back 2 School

This is my favorite of the PS22 Chorus videos.  And I don’t even like Coldplay!  In fact, I like the PS22 version of this song quite a bit better than the original.

Enjoy!

This is the IBM 305 RAMAC, the very first computer to contain a hard disc drive.  It weighed over a ton and stored….WAIT FOR IT…5 MBs OF DATA!!!!!!!!!!!

Are you kidding me?

I have a flash drive smaller than my thumb that holds 8 GBs.

For those of us doing math, that’s 1,600 times as much data.

I’ll wait now, while you mull that.

Is your mind blown?  If not…it well and truly should be.

Here’s what was the top story on Buzz when I checked my Yahoo mail this morning -

And here was the news when I searched Google News -

The lesson?  Crowdsourced news can bring interesting things to the forefront, but not all of it will be true!

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One of the greatest scenes from one of the most underrated movies of all times, Outside Providence.  Just like this scene, the movie itself works on so many levels.  It’s also one of Alec Baldwin’s most memorable performances, as Old Man Dunphy.  It’s just a fantastic, fantasic movie.  If you haven’t seen it, seek it out!

The scene is transcribed below the video!

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Dean Mort: Do you have a friend called Drugs?

Dunphy: Drugs Delaney?

Mr. Funderburk: How many individuals named drugs could you possibly associate with?

Dunphy: Just one.

Dean Mort: Yesterday we received a letter addressed simply to Cornwall Academy, Cornwall, Connecticut. So naturally, we opened it and read it, and – you might want to sit down. It begins -

Greetings Dunph,

What’s happening? I got your letter today. Cornhole Academy sounds like it really sucks the big one. I can’t believe they make everyone work a lot and not smoke. You should tell that piece of shit Funderturd to shove it. You didn’t want to go there in the first place. Eat shit, man. Today you should have seen me and Mousy today at school today.

Drugs Delaney: We got cocked on a pint of Blackberry brandy and ate some T.H.C. on the bus. We were fucked. This teacher, Mr. Rivera, goes — “What’s wrong with you Delaney?” I go, “I’m totally FUCKED man!”

Dean Mort: Everybody laughed like a bastard.

Drugs Delaney: Oh man, you should – You should see this song I’m listenin’ to, man.

Dean Mort: It’s called, “Don’t Bogart That Joint, My Friend.” I think it’s by a group called –

This is a couple of hours later. Must have nodded out, man.

Drugs Delaney: I gotta go, cause I’m probably definately gonna nod out again.

Dean Mort: You want me to send you some Squeef, or you got enough? Good luck not getting caught.

Cocked in Rhode Island,

Drugs Delaney: Drugs. P.S….

Dean Mort: Oh yes, there’s a post script you might be interested in. Mousy says he stink-fingered Bunny Cody. As you might imagine Mr. Dunphy, this is fairly incriminating. Technically, you have not breached any of Cornwall Academy’s rules. But you can bet your bottom dollar, Mister. We’re going to be keeping an eye on you.

I love people who are passionate about their projects, and that definitely describes Caitlin Crosby’s three year quest to record the footage for the following video, and create it.

Caitlin (along with actress Brie Larson) is the driving force behind LoveYourFlawz.com, a budding movement to promote body image celebration, not just among teenage girls as such pushes often focus on, but along the entire spectrum of age and gender.

This is a subject that is close to her heart, and a theme that can be seen throughout her songwriting – like in another of her popular songs, “Imperfect is the New Perfect.”

Take a look at the video – it’s really great.  Very inspiring!  And while you’re at it – Love Your Flawz!

OK, here is a bizarre (and also inspiring!) thing that happened to my friend Jeannie and a project of hers, The Prayer Box Project.  Yes All In Caps.  Deal With It.

She had an idea to put a prayer box at the top of this popular hiking place here in LA, Runyon Canyon.  It’s a place where people tend to do an equal mixture of hiking and contemplating, due to the stunning combination of cardio-inspiring inclines and awe-inspiring views.

In this box, people could jot down their prayers on little pieces of paper and put them into the box, bolstered by the notion that their prayer, as it slipped through the slot, was joining all the prayers – all the love, longings, hopes, dreams, and ambitions – which had been scrawled out on similar bits of paper and entrusted to the box by the hikers who had come before.

It’s poetic and nice, right?

So, of course it got stolen inside a week.  Stinkin’ Angelenos!  Grr…

However, that’s not the end of the story.  On January 1st of this year, the very first day of the brand new decade, it mysteriously showed up again, with some of the prayers inside still intact, no less.  Sure, it was worse for the wear.  But aren’t we all?  The important thing is that it’s back, it’s working, it’s serving its purpose.  Again, what more can we hope for ourselves than that?

I’d like to take a lesson from the prayer box, and I think we all can.  Maybe 2009 tried to hold us back, and beat us up.  Maybe 2009 even snatched us off of the path we were on and held us hostage for awhile.

But, that was then and this is now.  It’s 2010 and WE’RE BACK, BABY!  We may be battle-scarred and a little tattered, but we are BACK ON THE MOUNTAINTOP!

PS – If you think this was a cool idea for a project and want to throw some support Jeannie’s way, due to her being the kind of person that would think of such a cool idea for a project, LOL, then visit her at her blog, http://IHeartJeannieMai.com (so named because she’s adorable and of course everyone does!), or watch her shows, How Do I Look? or Extra.  Although, the latter not being quite as important if you’re not a Nielson family.

I tool this the other day while I was trying to wake that sleepyhead up!   Then, of course, there’s the added cuteness of THE TONGUE:

I have searched through YouTube to find the best copies of every single song, in order, that comprise The Last Five Years. When possible, they are the original Norbert Leo Butz and Sherie Rene Scott versions. Enjoy!

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It’s pre-sliced red apples with Walden Farms calorie-free caramel dip. MMMMMMM…so good. And let’s just take a moment to absorb that little descriptor there. CALORIE-FRICKIN-FREE!!!!!!! No calories. Zero. None. Zippo. The big zilch.

And, yes. That’s an XS in the background. I’m in heaven!

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