You can blame it all on me...

Obviously this is already out there and a million people have seen it. but it's been amusing me for days and deserves to be posted again.

Amy came in on Monday to our new shared cubicle (oh man, we are SO not going to get any work done) and said, "did you watch Saturday Night Live?" And, of course, I hadn't but thanks to the work of ohnotheydidnt, I knew exactly what she was talking about. So the past three days have been made up entirely of one or the other of us busting out with "It's my dick in a box!" every three hours or so apropos of absolutely nothing. It worked out perfectly on Monday, since we were unpacking and Amy had many chances to exclaim, "Put your junk in that box!"

What's sad is, from reading various comments on ohnotheydidnt and youtube, there are actually people out there who don't realize what this is actually parodying. Samberg's hair is so Color Me Badd it's ridiculous, and it's almost impossible for me to listen to the melody without starting to sing, "Let me lick you up and down til you say stop (Freak me baby, aw yeah...)" or "Ride it, my pony!" There were SO many songs like this in the early 90s. AND NONE OF THEM WERE A JOKE. (Samberg himself said that they were aiming to parody any group that had a song with the word "freak" in it in the 90s, though I think the existence of Jodeci's "Feenin" helped, too.)Honestly, both Amy and I independently came to the conclusion that it sounds a ton like "Baby Come Back" too -- maybe that's where it all stems from.

I don't see nothin' wrong with a little bump n' grind...

Cult of Personality

Total crazy person dies. We will remember Niyazov as a great leader whose contributions to his people include: * Building a giant gold statue of himself which turns to face the sun * Naming a month after himself, and one after his mother * Instituting a national festival of melon * Building the world's largest shoes * Constructing a giant ice palace in the middle of the desert * Dictating a national hairstyle for men and women * Requiring television hosts to wear less makeup * Writing a book of sayings, the Rukhnama, and making it required reading throughout the country, to the extent of basing the drivers' license exam on knowledge of its text * Redefining adolescence to end during the mid-20s * Closing down all hospitals in Turkmenistan outside the capital city of Ashgabat and so on.