Zugenia's Procrastination Salon

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H just sent me this, under the subject "This just happened on Facebook":



God bless America.

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Lady Z: I WANT THIS BAG.
D: How much is it?
Lady Z: $448.
D: Sorry.

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A Journey Round My Skull is my favorite recently discovered book blog.  I've been following it in Google Reader for a while now, and I find myself sharing every post.  For as long as I've been reading it, it's focused on an ongoing series of "forgotten illustrators" from around the world, such as Czech artist Jiri Trnka:


Jiri Trnka, illus. for Andersen's Fairy Tales, 1959

and Spanish comic artist Salvador Bartolozzi, who did a series inspired by Collodi's Pinocchio in the 1920's:



I promise that there is nothing in the internet more worthy of your attention right now, so go check it out.

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So, the generic brand of everything at the supermarket (the only stuff we can afford right now) is called "No Name," which means that all our food comes in packages that say "Sans Nom," which I keep reading as "Without NOM"—which is the last thing you want your food to be.

In other news, I spent a full hour on the phone yesterday with AT&T—correction: with NINE DIFFERENT REPRESENTATIVES of AT&T, from who knows how many countries—trying to cancel my service with them so I can sign up with the iPhone provider up here (Rogers). 24 hours later, I have no phone service at all because I can't figure out with my meager, amateur hacking skills how to unlock my iPhone so that it will work with a non-AT&T SIM card, and I refuse to pay someone else to do it because it blows my mind that neither AT&T nor Apple offers this service so that someone may legally move to Canada and continue to use their product. Seriously, Apple, you are on my list today.

Incidentally, Loudtwitter, the service I was using to feed tweets to LJ, died a few days ago—hence the lack of daily trivia. But I just signed up with Twittinesis, so we'll see what happens in the next 24 hours.

I absolutely love MTAA (M.River & T.Whid Art Associates)'s "The Interview (AKA Proust Questionnaire)":

Watch "The Interview"

More on the history of the "Proust Questionnaire" here.

Conversation had some time in the last few weeks:

D: Baby, you know the phrase is "I want to go to there."
Me: I thought it was "I want to go there."
D: I know; I've seen you use that online a few times. It's "I want to go to there." That's why it's funny.
Me: Liz Lemon doesn't say, "I want to go there"?
D: No. "I want to go to there." You've been misusing a current catch-phrase.
Me: Because I'm old.
D: Yes, but it's okay.

• 11:09 Hola, Bitches! Fully wired in Canadia! #
• 13:15 I go offline for a few days, and when I come back, both Farrah and MJ are dead. #

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• 06:46 Old man just totally cut in front of me in line at immigration office. Letting it go because he's got less time in the long run. #
• 11:47 We're in Canada! #

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• 15:13 We were turned away at the Canadian border. Yes we were. Trying again tomorrow. #

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• 11:02 Daisy Mae comforts kitty on the road. yfrog.com/0f7laj #
• 18:47 "What is a joke but an idea expressed with extreme concentration?" Geoff Dyer on KCRW's Bookworm #
• 22:08 Daisy and Kitty did 10 1/2 hours in the car today. Will we ever be able to do that with children? #

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• 14:41 Finally all moved out and on the road. #
• 00:14 Terre Haute, IN. Where stuff "as seen on tv" comes from. Daisy and Ophelia staying in their first hotel. #

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• 08:20 Mattress King is a lewd name for a store. #
• 14:13 Movers delayed 24 hours. Back at the Hampton Inn. #
• 14:14 A little girl has lost her I <3 Hooters balloon and is distraught. #
• 14:19 Show support for democracy in Iran add green overlay to your Twitter avatar with 1-click - helpiranelection.com/ #
• 19:45 Dollar store product, thy name is brilliance. yfrog.com/15dlpoj #

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• 10:37 Never moving again. #

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• 10:25 Dear Black Eyed Peas, It is 2009. Apparently, YOU'RE two thousand and late. Best, Lady Z #
• 10:25 P.S. You suck. #
• 10:33 Packing = most sisyphusian task since dissertating. #
• 11:06 Daisy just caught a moth in the air, spit it out still flying, and caught it again. #
• 11:11 Want one of these in my home. bit.ly/18Wl6r #
• 15:59 Accomplished this sweltering afternoon: putting the sectional couch in a trailer, driving it around town, and dumping it on our front lawn. #
• 16:03 Just ate half a jar of hot hot hot habanero salsa over tortilla chip crumbs. Not the brightest thing I've ever done. #
• 16:04 Now I have to go move 60 boxes of books. #
• 18:59 Correction: 86 boxes of books. Absurd. #

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• 20:17 Wish I were at karaoke with @mindykaling. I'd sing with you, Mindy. #

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A couple of days ago—just in time for the big move—I lost my husband to some thing on the internet that made pretty little ringing sounds and made him oblivious to all else in the world.  I just went there myself, and I may never come back.  Enter the tone matrix at your own risk.

• 11:26 Today: pack. Tomorrow: pack. Wednesday: pack. Thursday: pack. Friday: move. #
• 15:22 Ophelia is never going to forgive me for this visit to the vet. #
• 03:38 Once again, asleep by 10, awake at 3. #
• 03:39 But all the books are in boxes. #

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• 13:58 How will I live so far away from El Camino? Getting nervous. #

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• 16:19 Think it's possible to get a group of kids under 12 to watch a feature-length 1933 movie entirely in French? Mais oui, c'est possible! #
• 16:21 Hugo Cabret Day was sparsely attended (due, we think, to last-minute competition from Take Yr Kids to Dickson Day) but still loads of fun. #
• 16:22 Check out the short film D made for the event: vimeo.com/5098910 #
• 18:49 Le Million (1931), dir. René Clair: Even more entertaining the second time, especially with a group of kids playing Le Million Bingo. #
• 19:28 Want burger. Am listening intently for burger-making sounds from the kitchen. #

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I've been following the news from Iran largely through Andrew Sullivan's The Daily Dish, and I find this image (of a protester assisting an overwhelmed riot policeman) incredibly moving in the midst of political chaos:




D said something yesterday about how the consistently amazing work produced by Iranian filmmakers testifies to the integrity of a culture and the strength of its people, even or especially in the face of political adversity.  This photo strikes me the same way.

• 11:49 Daisy does not understand the act of showering. She waits patiently just outside the curtain to make sure we emerge unscathed. #dogsorpr0n #

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• 11:07 I can usually tell in a split second whether a station is Christian radio. It scares me when I'm wrong. #
• 23:37 Department friends threw me a lovely going away party. Feeling bittersweet. #

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• 10:35 Sometimes when I search for things in gmail I find old messages from my dead friend. #
• 11:22 I'm going to eat the last pack of Ramen in the house, and then no more Ramen until we get to Canada. #
• 11:32 Have had "Total Eclipse of the Heart" stuck in my head for 24 hours and it's entirely my own fault: bit.ly/NIzne #
• 12:20 Loving In Search of Lost Time, but I can't stop pausing over passages, thinking of Slaughterhouse 90210 posts for them. bit.ly/h0Fyp #
• 15:06 New musics: Dirty Projectors, British Sea Power, Grizzly Bear, oh my! #
• 15:07 Now taking suggestions! RT @_atabei: @zugenia what are you going to eat in between last ramen & Canada? Start of guessing game... #
• 15:17 Dear me, Who forgets to redeem a coupon for free VS panties before the exp. date?? You suck. Resentfully yrs, me #
• 16:30 Dear Lord, Let me never hear the phrase "disco stick" ever again. Amen. #
• 19:04 Risotto! #
• 21:29 I just quipped "Bonita Papelbon" and my husband had no idea what I was talking about. I am old. #

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I love this little video.



My favorite YouTube pup since Bizkit the Sleepwalking Dog.

• 11:06 I need one million boxes. #
• 19:04 I resent eMusic's slashing my allotted downloads in half as of July. Is it even worth paying $20 for 50 songs? #
• 03:58 omg Celebrity Wipeout = genius RT @THE_REAL_SHAQ: I wanna go on wipeout #
• 03:59 Whenever I go to bed early I just wake up in the middle of the night. Boo. #

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I know I'm kind of late to the party with this one, but it's still really funny.


Total Eclipse of the Heart: Literal Video Version