seeing as SNL is returning with new episodes this coming saturday, i thought i'd post my favorite skit from last season. kristin wiig is absolutely hilarious, and i am so looking forward to what she does this new season. (michael phelps is hosting... which means the cast needs to carry him because he probably isn't very funny.)

here's my second favorite...

he got paid $10 million for THIS? ad execs were touting the commercial (before its release) as "aimed at the youth market" to compete with macs. well well well, this does not speak to youths at all. WTF m8?

i bet jerry seinfeld uses a mac. seriously, someone go check out that guy's office.

A SHORT LOVE STORY IN STOP MOTION from Carlos Lascano on Vimeo.

I usually don't read the book reviews in the weekend Journal, but today I ran out of paper to read while on the subway, so I begrudgingly jumped in. I was knocked down by the review-slash-essay on patrician life -- it was a beautiful treat to have on my way home.

An excerpt:

"The patricians had their faults. They kept their feelings bottled up and spent a fair amount of time in bed, either engaged in amour or gripped by obscure funks that people today take pills for. Their cardinal therapeutic method -- "have a drink," the words pitched somewhere between a quetions an da command -- falls short of the contemporary hygienic ideal. In morals the upper crust inclined to libertinism and winked at what they called "naughtiness," though as a concession to virtue they insisted that the naughtiness be carried on discreetly."

--Michael Knox Beran (from his review of the book "My Three Fathers" in the Wall Street Journal weekend saturday/sunday july 12-13, 2008)

i like lasagna cat. check out the moustache/manic monday episode.