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sister salad

2008-08-01T13:09:00.002-05:00

My sister, Liz, and I are starting a sisterhood video blogging project, not unlike that of the Vlogbrothers, John and Hank Green.

Herein we introduce ourselves as sister salad with a trip to Spring Lake, MI to see vlogbrother John Green.

(Intro music by my friend The A-B Theory.)

Radio advertising.

2008-07-30T00:35:00.004-05:00

Some people think radio advertising is not so hot.

I would have to disagree...

Listen to the most brilliant radio ad that I have ever heard, and revel in the fact that someone, a mere human just like you or I, wrote this. I know it may make you feel inadequate, and wish that you had been this person, but we need to understand that we will all be better people for having heard such genious.

CHAAAAAAAARRRRLLIIIIIIIEEEE

2008-07-23T03:48:00.004-05:00

We only got 4 minutes to save the world...

2008-05-22T16:37:00.003-05:00

I ♥ Miley

You love this video:

That's all.

It's Joke Dinner, Man. You asked for it.

2008-04-18T00:26:00.002-05:00

Joke dinner all started with December always asking Jeff and I to get him dinner because he never does his copywriting work until the last minute. One of these Tuesdays or Thursday evenings, we were out getting food and had the had-to-be-there hilarious idea to get him all the most random things off of the McDonalds drive-thru that we could get with the money that December had given us. The whole "joke dinner" ended up being rather anticlimactic, despite how funny Jeff and I still thought that it was at the time.

Anyway, from then on, December always asks us to get him joke dinner now, and finally we agreed. We changed the joke though, and decided to get him something that he at first didn't know was a joke dinner at all. That was a long intro to a short video. Enjoy.

Goats in trees

2008-04-04T13:11:00.002-05:00

Goats in trees is my new favorite. Did you know that goats can climb trees? They can. They taught themselves to do it because they are resourceful, and in places where all the vegetation, their food source, is up in the trees, they just climb up there to eat. The photos of it look bizarre because they don't appear to be eating anything, just hanging out. I like them. I want to go climb trees with them. We will build a fort, and play cowboys and indians with another tree full of goats. Or maybe we will play pirates. And the ground is hot lava. Yeah, hot lava.

Waffid or Davfle?

2008-03-26T13:09:00.002-05:00

A project I did for a digital photography class.

Have you ever looked up the definition of a letter?

2008-03-25T23:55:00.004-05:00

P:

P is the sixteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled pee or occasionally pe (pronounced /piː/).

The Semitic Pe ("mouth"), as well as the Greek Π or π (Pi), and the Etruscan and Latin letters that developed from the former alphabet, all symbolized /p/, a voiceless bilabial plosive.

In English and most other European languages, P is a voiceless bilabial plosive.

Both initial and final Ps can be combined with many other discrete consonants in English words. A common example of assimilation is the tendency of prefixes ending in N to assume an M sound before Ps (such as "in" + "pulse" → "impulse").

A common digraph in English is "ph", which represents the voiceless labiodental fricative /f/, and can be used to transliterate Phi (φ) in loanwords from Greek. In German, the digraph "pf" is common, representing a labial affricate of /pf/.
Those who speak Arabic are usually unaccustomed to pronouncing /p/; they pronounce it as /b/ or /v/ instead.

It's supposed to be 73 on Wednesday.

2008-03-07T16:50:00.003-06:00

But last night it snowed. Here is my courtyard this morning when i woke up.

People on the east coast think we're crazy, but we still freak out about the littlest bit of snow on the ground. I don't care what they think. It's cool. Literally.

What does it take?

2008-03-01T23:44:00.002-06:00

-Some scissors to chop the legs off a taxidermy duck
-a green floatie for safety
-jeff’s courage to get inside a sewer
-me and hilary’s skateboard contraption for pushing salsa
-2 white hazmat suits
-a nasty creek with the perfect sewer
-some iced salsa
-an inexperienced hand model (DAAAANG!!)
-a dog who likes Doritos
-some baristas who don’t care what happens to their store’s dumpster
-an art directed bowl of fake pears
-the chance to cover a dead duck with cheese product
-some friendship building with American Coots
-a broken bottle of jalepenos
-and one girl who claims she’s American…

What do you get?

Peaks and valleys...

2008-02-15T17:14:00.001-06:00

If you haven't seen the show, then maybe you won't think this is funny, but I do.

They are some wild and crazy guys.

How to be Psycho

2008-02-12T00:12:00.000-06:00

I think it's time I posted this...

2008-02-06T01:38:00.000-06:00

I want this.

I always burn toast. Wait, I don't have a toaster. Now I definitely want this...

Untitled.

2008-02-04T03:24:00.000-06:00

I can't sleep because of my cough.

Gift Card Poker

2008-01-27T03:30:00.000-06:00

When no one has any money, this is not a bad alternative. It's totally the season to do it too... most people have leftover gift cards from "the holidays" with half-balances on them that they don't really care about anymore.

One man's trash...

Superstar Wonderful Weirdos

2008-01-20T04:18:00.001-06:00

I've been making videos with my friends since I was 11. When I was home visiting for Christmas, I got some of my old Hi-8 tapes converted to DVD, and I have been doing some editing.

I thought I'd post this music video that me and my friend, Sara, made in high school.

It is an Alanis Morissette song that never made it on to any of her CDs, but it will always live on in our hearts.... ;)

I can't sleep.

XTREME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-12-13T19:56:00.000-06:00

Doritos is a client.

I am the prefect person to be making advertising for them.

Now let's all go get some FUCKING Mountain Dew...

Modern Toss

2007-11-16T14:41:00.001-06:00

i love these.

www.moderntoss.com

zOmBieS rOCk!!

2007-10-30T23:56:00.001-05:00

...at Guitar Hero against Flavor Flav.

Firehosen.

2007-10-17T23:02:00.000-05:00

My friend, Sara, caught this little gem on tape... makes me laugh everytime...

Well, honestly I am mostly posting this for Jason. He'll appreciate it. But who am I kidding, he is the only person who reads my blog anyway...

Hint: You need to watch it about 10 times to really get the feel for it... the second interjection is the funniest.

Fruit-By-The-What?

2007-10-17T01:33:00.000-05:00

Fruit-by-the-foot racing! ...with the kind you can extend to be 6 feet long if you rip it down the middle.

GO.

I have a dream...

2007-10-02T01:03:00.002-05:00

That one day my finger will have a silver B.L.T. on it!

2-Fold Prank Call to Starbucks

2007-10-01T16:02:00.000-05:00

So it all started with an accidental prank call that I made to Starbucks. I called the store where David works, hoping that he would answer, so that I could ask him a question. He didn't answer, so I didn't feel like bothering with making the girl go get him and everything because it wasn't all that important. I found myself asking the girl a made up question about what frappacinos are, and what kinds they had. I figured it was harmless enough, but then I felt like the biggest loser ever because I had just accidentally prank called Starbucks my myself in my car.

Later that day, Gabby and I were hanging out and we were bored. I told her about my phone call, and we had the idea to prank call his store with a planned-out scenario. We concocted a little story:

I am going to be a crazy lady calling the store with a 2-fold question. First, I'll explain that I accidentally knocked a 1 lb. bag of Sumerian Blend coffee beans into my garbage disposal. I'll ask what they think I should do about it, and if I can just turn on my disposal or if they think the beans will break my disposal. The second part is that I want to see if I can get their store to replace the fallen beans with no charge.

When we call the store, David answers. I start telling him the story, and I begin without even changing my voice because we hadn't planned on David being the one to answer the phone. He doesn't recognize my voice, but I slowly get more and more Wisconsin, by default. (?) So we didn't think to start taping it until this point, the same point at which I decide to ask him if he personally can come over and get the beans out of my disposal... (here is a short clip from the middle of the conversation)

So my camera cut off, but he did agree to come over and help out a crazy stranger for $50. I guess now I know if I want anything from him there's my price.

Creepy.

There's no hope for the number 5...

2007-09-29T02:10:00.000-05:00

Jason,

Here is proof that you are doomed.

And, Jason, aren't you also 5'5"? ;)

Ju5t jo5hin'....

let's see how long it takes...

2007-09-25T10:42:00.000-05:00

for david to notice that i jacked this from his blog.

it's a social experiment.*