Take that Disney! I hate you so much.

Second City Network has posted some new videos that are pretty hilarious. This is the troupe that did the Sassy Gay Friend bits, which are pretty one dimensional, but still entertaining.



Anyway, these new ones are Disney princesses giving advice. Some of the jokes are old (if you follow Disney princess jokes, and really, who doesn't?) but the summation of the material with some great delivery really pans out.

This is the place. Again

One trick to blogging every day: short posts. None of these full stories or complete thoughts I’ve been wasting my time with. I even ended that sentence with with, and I’m not going to change it.

I’m heading back to Utah for the first time since I graduated, many moons ago. I’ll be in Provo, Salt Lake, maybe a little Heber. I’ll be there from Friday to Tuesday. Let me know if you will be too.

What should I do? I have my favorite haunts that I’ll visit. Plus I’ll try to pick up girls in periodicals. Maybe I’ll wear my scrubs for the whole trip to emphasize my many degrees that permit me to wear pajamas to work.

But I also figure I should try some things I never tried before. Like I never went to Tucanos. I never actually went to the Salt Lake. I never went to Sundance.

Let me know. Awesome things you did. Awesome things you should’ve done. Most of my friends are married (so unvisitable) so I’ll have plenty of time to fill while I’m up there.

Blogging like it's my Job

A friend told me that a successful blog needs posts nearly every day. Clearly, my blog is destined for failure.

I only made it about a third of the way through my lesson today, so I considered posting the inspiring latter 2/3 of the life of Job here. But I don't think anyone would read it, so I'm keeping my pearls to myself.

Instead I'll report the statistics from our Name That Tune game. I didn't have a stop watch, but by my keen sense of timing, this is the order of how quickly they were recognized:


Saved by the Bell (only the bell was required to identify)
Seinfeld (perhaps the most universally recognized)
Gilligan's Island
Fresh Prince
Ducktales (one false guess of Tale Spin)
Full House
90210
Superman
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Peanuts
Batman (This should have been #1. It started with "To the Batmobile!)
Man of Constant Sorrow
Praise to the Man
Walker, Texas Ranger
The Final Countdown
Daria
You All Everybody (Driveshaft from Lost)
2 ducks talking about Meet the Parents
Spiderman (70s version. Way hard.)
David the Gnome

Surprisingly, the only one that wasn't answered correctly was David the Gnome. Praise to the Man would have been higher but there was some confusion in naming it.

I'm sure you're having a hard time relating this back to Job. Pretty much the whole lesson would be that way, hence me not posting it. But you should come to my next one.

Scott Pilgrim Rules My World

I saw Scott Pilgrim last night, and it was 8 kinds of awesome. Maybe 9 kinds. Never has a movie made me want to play video games and be in love simultaneously. Sadly, the two are so often mutually exclusive.

I think the success of the film is mostly attributable to Edgar Wright, who appears to have the golden touch. Sure, he’s sticking with his nerd roots, but he knows those roots really well. I watched Hot Fuzz this week, and forgot how well planned it is. I’m a much bigger Shaun of the Dead fan, so remembered well how good it is. He picks his genre films, buddy cop, zombie and comic book respectively, and just nails them. They’re both homages and prime examples of the genre.

This film nailed comics. Ang Lee tried to make his comic film, The Incredible Hulk, and was notoriously unsuccessful when trying to get the feel of a comic book. Wright gets it right on. And where this particular comic is so based in music and video games, his focus on those elements was equally successful.

The cast was good, though I feel less noteworthy than the structure of the film. A friend had told me earlier in the day how Michael Cera reminds her of a Chihuahua, so I kept seeing him as one, which was a bit distracting. But generally everyone performed admirably. The movie was so packed to the gills that every part was small, but they all worked together well.

That review really didn’t express how fun the movie is. You should go see it because it’s fun. The film-making side of the movie is what impressed me, but what made it a great movie was that it was a great time. Go see it.

Psychosis Virgin

I brought a med student with me on an interview yesterday. It was his first time meeting a psychiatric patient.

She started out telling me how she was here because she threw away her roommate’s food because it was harmful to the environment. This progressed to a variety of concerns for our environment, like how the Bermuda Triangle is expanding. Because of problems like this, we need to move to Saturn. Mars just isn’t good enough. How does she know this? She is God in female form. She needs to make plastic by drinking saltwater through her nose, which will help her make it to Saturn.
Then she stops talking. She says to me, referring to the med student, “That guy doesn’t believe me.” I look over at him, and his mouth is hanging open, ever so slightly.

I forgot; he’s a psychosis virgin.

This is one of many reasons why my job is better than your job. I also heard today about Lady Gaga bringing a patient a centerpiece for their table. Another patient’s medication was turning their face into a porcupine. Another patient didn’t want to talk to me because I wouldn’t let her eat shampoo. Another stopped taking her medication because her psychiatrist told her telepathically that peppermint candy works better than medication. Another patient was telling me about how she sees faces floating in the air, only to have her husband tell me that his wife isn’t necessarily hallucinating because their house is haunted.

It’s great when patients get better. It’s sad when they don’t. But I rarely fall asleep at work, excluding those days I work for 30 hours straight.

What small talk did you have to make today?