I've always wanted bronzed baby poop - doesn't everyone?

This is just ridiculous. I have no words, there are too many jokes and I can't pick just one.

The Excremental Suri

I just don't see how that's necessary. Maybe a quote from the "artist" will clear things up:

"Babies mostly breast-feed for the first four months, so a baby's first meal of solid food may be a baby's first meal at the dinner table," said David Kesting, director of Capla Kesting Fine Art, located in Brooklyn's Williamsburg gallery district. "A bronzed cast of baby's first poop can be a meaningful memento for the family."

Or perhaps not.

The Superficial says it funnier than me, of course.

Goodbye, John Mark Karr

I realize this isn't quite timely, but I haven't had Internet at the apartment since Monday morning (oh, the horror! It's like not having my crack. I'm KIDDING, there is no crack - stop looking at me, Academic Standards Committee or whoever it is that can kick me out of school) and I didn't have a chance to post about it yet.

I really don't have anything monumental to say on the subject of John Mark Karr and his fake murder of JonBenet Ramsey (who, by the way, was killed on my birthday - and the tsunami hit on my birthday as well. That kind of makes me feel guilty. "Thousands of people are dead! Let's have some cake!" Anyway.) So, John Mark Karr. First of all, the situation worries me because I wonder what makes people go that far over the edge. I have pretty severe anxiety disorder and I worry about things like that - but then again, I feel like I'm TOO tuned-in to reality, which is why I wake up every morning in the middle of a idiopathic panic attack, and the anxiety about the future, the past, the present, etc. - doesn't let up all day. So I don't think it's likely to make a turnaround to being too tuned-in to reality to losing all touch with reality. I hope.

At any rate, I'm just glad that Creepy McSpookyface is off of my TV. Eeeesh. I hope he doesn't not kill someone else, because I wouldn't mind never seeing him again.

On Friday, I was MOOOOOED at, y'all. MOOOOOOOOOOO-ed! Details to follow.

Conan O'Brien Plays 1864 Baseball

Oh my heck, this is funny. I love Conan O'Brien so much it hurts sometimes. To play the video, click on it to "activate" it, then click the play button.

HT: Popoholic

Mp3 Clips and Track List from Clay Aiken's New Album

Update 11/25/2007 - Files Removed. Don't hate on me - blame GoDaddy.

For those of you who may be interested, here's a track list (not sure it's necessarily in the right order, but who really cares about that?) from Clay Aiken's third album, A Thousand Different Ways, and 30-second preview mp3 clips for each song.

1. Right Here Waiting
   Originally recorded by: Richard Marx
   Written by: Richard Marx / Produced by: John Fields
   
2. When I See You Smile
   Originally recorded by: John Waite
   Written by: Diane Warren
   Produced by: John Fields
   
3. Without You (first single)
   Originally recorded by: Badfinger, Harry Nilsson, Mariah Carey
   Written by: William Collings, Thomas Evans, Michael Gibbins, Peter Ham, and J.C. Molland
   Produced by: John Fields
   
4. Lonely No More (new song)
   Written by: Andreas Carlsson, Samuel Waermo, Mimmi Waermo & Clay Aiken
   Produced by: Andreas Carlsson and Samuel Waermo
   
5. Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word
   Originally recorded by: Elton John
   Written by: Elton John & Bernie Taupin
   Produced by: Per Magnusson & David Kreuger
   
6. Everytime You Go Away
   Originally recorded by: Paul Young
   Written by: Daryl Hall
   Produced by: Adam Anders
   
7. Everything I Do (I Do It For You)
   Originally recorded by: Bryan Adams
   Written by: Bryan Adams, Michael Kamen & Robert John "Mutt" Lange
   Produced by: John Fields
   
8. I Want to Know What Love Is - Guest Vocals by Suzie McNeil
   Originally recorded by: Foreigner
   Written by: Michael Jones
   Produced by: Russ Irwin, Marti Frederiksen & Charlton Pettus
   
9. These Open Arms (new song)
   Written by: Jon Bon Jovi & Desmond Childs
   Produced by: John Fields
   
10. Because You Loved Me
    Originally recorded by: Celine Dion
    Written by: Diane Warren
    Produced by: Eman
    
11. Here You Come Again
    Originally recorded by: Dolly Parton
    Written by: Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil
    
12. Everything I Have (new song) - Featuring William Joseph on Piano
    Written by: Jeremy Bose
    Arranged by: Jeremy Lubbock
    
13. A Thousand Days (new song)
    Written by: Christian Leuzzi, Aldo Nova & Emanuel Olsson
    Produced by: John Fields
    
    
14. Broken Wings
    Originally recorded by: Mr. Mister
    Written by: Richard Page, John Lang & Steve George
    Produced by: Eman

I want to nap for 68 hours.

So, I finished my first week of my second year of medical school. Thus far, it's not scaring the life out of me like last year did. It's probably because I've actually had the Medical Microbiology course that we have (I got a B in it as a graduate student and don't actually need to retake it, but I figure I should be able to get an A this time around, and I want a 7-hour A for my GPA. Also, I need the review for boards and such. Also, it's fun (aside from this intro stuff that I've heard 6,000 times). Also, it's really nice to not feel like a doofus for once, after feeling like one for an entire year.) I also had a graduate course at the medical school called Molecular Aspects of Pathogenesis, which included an Immunology section, taught by my current Immunology professor. So Immunology is basically a carbon-copy review too, at least so far. The only class that I'm going to have to really study hard for is Pathology, I think. I hope.

However, I'm not used to getting up at 6:30AM and sitting in a wee little classroom for six hours of lecture every day - I'm so tired right now that I'm afraid if I go to sleep, I won't wake up until sometime on Monday afternoon. Speaking of our wee little classroom, it's rather squashed compared to last year's classroom (we're in the same room all day, the professors just change.) Last year, we had these nice tables, and individual chairs, and plenty of personal space. This year, not so much. It's like sitting in a movie theater all day - comfortable at first, and then later, you want to die. It reminds me of a shoebox - one of my classmates said that she felt like we were all sitting in the same chair. Hee. I guess I'll get used to it.

And this year, we get to do some interesting things like go and watch autopsies when they're performed, and spend some time in an STD clinic. Ewww, but in an interesting kind of way.

In other news, I got my new Canon 30D. Eeeeeeeee! I'm so excited that if I weren't so tired, I'd run around in circles. And if I had a tail, I'd wag it. That is all.

I hate when people don't know how to have an intellectual discussion.

Bill Maher is an idiot. That is all. He's on Jay Leno right now talking a bunch of baloney about Mel Gibson, and religion, and stem cell research, and I hold opinions that are 180 degrees away from his, but that's not why I call him an idiot. I call him an idiot because he gives no reasons for his bold statements - i.e., "Stem cells aren't even alive!" Oh really? Why not? What's your reasoning? I could give my reasoning to counter his statements, but I'm just too sleepy at the moment.

In other news, my first blog post was on August 8, 2004. Happy anniversary to my little blog.

MySpace weirdness, and other bizarrities

I know bizarrities isn't a word. Leave me alone.

So, I was browsing through my "friends" on MySpace last night, and discovered that my cousin (who I used to be really close with) has a baby, which I had no clue about. And I hear about it through one of his MySpace comments. Bizarre.

Other things that I find bizarre:

• The fact that when people ask what I'm doing and I tell them I'm in medical school, they go, "Oh, so you'll be a nurse when you finish?" I hope not, because then I'd be the worst doctor ever. Not that there's anything wrong with being a nurse, but no. No, medical school means "doctor". DOC-TORRRRR. And speaking of that, I was at my dermatologist's office right before a big neuro test in January (it takes me awhile to post stuff - whoops) and I had forgotten to do some stupid iPledge minutiae related to my Accutane prescription. So I told the nurse, "I'm just so frazzled, you don't understand." (Let it be known that "you don't understand" is a phrase I use frequently - I really don't mean it that literally.) She got all huffy and said, "Yes I DO understand, I have a bachelor of science degree in nursing!" I was like, "Okay, but you still don't understand." (I didn't actually say that out loud.) I mean, I didn't completely understand how stressful medical school is until after I'd finished my first year. It's one of those things that you don't fully get unless you've been through it yourself. Anyway.
• What was that other thing I thought was bizarre?
• Also, Flavor Flav. What did he do to get famous, exactly? I must have missed it. And what's with the clocks? And why are all of these scary girls salivating over a guy who is 4'7", wears six outfits concurrently, names girls "Oyster", has no real teeth, and can't say anything except, "YOU know what time it is" or "I'm feeling you all up in here, you know what I'm sayin'?" AND, most puzzling of all, why did I watch approximately three episodes of Flavor of Love yesterday? Okay, that's embarrassing. Don't tell anybody I just said that.

That is all.

Nigel Pinchley is Hugh Laurie is Nigel Pinchley

Last night, Scott and I were talking about House MD (he has the Season 1 DVDs borrowed from me) and he asked me if I knew that Hugh Laurie voiced one of the British characters that take over The Drunken Clam in the Family Guy episode, One If By Clam, Two If By Sea. Well, I did not know this. So I checked IMDb, and the character that he voiced was the main British guy, the eeeeeevil Nigel Pinchley.

I'm not sure what to do with this information. For some reason, I'm completely amazed when someone has two natural-sounding accents. It could be because I'm a simpleton or something. (Incidentally, why is every British person named either Nigel or Simon? Hmmm.) And I wonder why they didn't let Hugh keep his British accent for House? Maybe his wittiness doesn't come off as well in a British accent. Or maybe Chase (Jesse Spencer) filled the non-American accent quota for the cast. Who knows. One last House related comment - Season 2 will be released on DVD on August 22 - head on over to Amazon and preorder, and I get a wee percentage of the purchase price. And you get a season of a great show - with ticks in unmentionable places, practical joke wars, and gunshots. Great stuff.