The lunchtime blog: Catfish, Nerdspecs and 90210 day
Sep 2nd
Oh my Facebook, the website for Catfish (uber-buzzed about controversial about upcoming film du jour) has got to be one of the most clever film sites I’ve ever seen.
Go Enter Nev’s World. You’ll be happy you did.
For a minute there, I felt like I was working actually in the Mac OS. Ah, nostalgia. I miss that ol’ Blueberry iMac.
Watch!:
A co-worker just showed me the trailer for that film and I was about thisclose to running over to Chinatown in search of a bootlegged copy from Monday night’s Toronto screening (Apparently I momentarily forgot that I don’t like in 1995 New York city circa 1995) , but I went to the bathroom and took pictures of my new specs and orthopedic shoes instead because that’s what I do on my coffee breaks.
Some people indulge in cigarettes or banal small talk by the water cooler (assuming that your office has one). I indulge in shameless acts of self-obsession.
I’m not actually self-obsessed, but I can certainly see how it might appear that way.
Hey, give me a break – I grew up in the 80’s!
And speaking of times gone by, HAPPY 90210 DAY!!! 9.02.10 – get it? Please enjoy this awesome clip of the gang getting ready for the spring dance. Dress drama and Dylan McKay in a tux? You spoil me, interwebs…
One last point of interest:
I found out today that Mark Zuckerburg is worth $ 4 Billion.
Coincidentally, Burger King was slated to be sold today for close to that very amount.
Theoretically, this means that Zucks could enter the Whopper world if he really wanted to. So could Canada’s five biggest banks, but I don’t think they’re going to… (can you tell I was just working with Financial news?)
I wonder if he’d try for the King Pin spot in Fast Food land. Steal Wendy away from Ronald and RUN THIS COUNTRY (as if he already doesn’t).
I just blew my own mind.
Time to go grab a pop and get back to work.
JUST a pop. Yesterday, I went down to grab a pop and came back upstairs with a new friend for my desk.
The toy store at the base of this building is deadly huge. I’ll probably rack up quite a few creatures during my time here…
<3L
Fan Expo 2010: Nizzle nerds out [VIDEO]
Sep 1st
Hiya hooms.
Feel like watching a bunch of nerdlingers geek out over even bigger nerdlingers and related nerdcore merchandise?
I did. So I went to FanEX at the Metro Convention Centre on Sunday, despite the fact that I’d only slept a few hours and was living in a 90% un-packed house.
You know your girl isn’t going to pass up an opportunity to buy some kawaii new toys and Nintendo gear – or feel borderline stylish… even if only in comparison to obese Freddy Krueger.
Here’s the video. Enjeezy!
<3L
ZackBash Aftermath : Interviews and Peektures
Aug 31st
It’s a busy day in big girl world, so I’m blogging on my lunch break like a CHAMP ’cause I’m on a ROLL and I don’t wanna quit.
Ph-ph-photos (“GO!”). Captionless, because you don’t really care who these people are anyways, who are we kidding?:
Okay, one credt: Nate Black, ’cause he rules at life.
All of the above ripped from Facebook. Image credit: Mark Zuckerberg.
VIDDEHS:
Zacktaylor.ca mashup:
ZackTaylor.ca’s Big Bash! from Zack Taylor on Vimeo.
Lions Den Throw:
Jermaine Hamilton – Nights and Weekends:
and my favourite – Gabe and Maurice:
There are a few more still on my HD (Liz, Aleesia, MRO, SW) but I’ve got to get back to working now. These hoos! aren’t going Ya! themselves.
What a boring blogpost. Sorry guys… Fan EX post tomorrow. That should make up for it.
<3 L
$435 Super Mario Sweater – Would you Rock it?
Aug 30th
There may be an extreme heat alert in place right for Toronto right now, but sweater weather is almost here.
I can feel it. Heck, I can SEE it:
That doggy’s all ready for the fall time with his fuzzy wool coat but are YOU, fleshbot?
I didn’t think so.
Hoomins (and sphynxies) need to cover up when it gets chilly outside.
This Super Mario Sweater will definitely keep you warm, and it’s undeniably sweet – but it’s also $435.For one sweater.
According to JoyStiq, for that price you could have two Nintendo Wiis, a Playstation 3, an Xbox 360, a top of the line netbook or a bunch of knives or something.
If I had an extra 450 bones to throw towards my wardrobe, I’d spend it on a new coat or boots or a shoulder vampire or something. Maybe a deluxe Evil Jester costume…
You know, something I could wear every day.
The irony is that anyone who would drop that much on one item of clothing probably isn’t a gamer to begin with and wouldn’t want to wear something to tragically nerdcore.
I am not one of said snobs. I want this sweater SO EFFING MUCH right now.
Hey Shigesato Itoi – my birthday is in November… wink wink, nudge nudge 
Love,
THE JESTAH
FanEX, LiveGreen, and some Epic Emmy wins.
Aug 29th
What. A. Weekend.
It feels like it was about 5 minutes long, but that’s okay. Time flies when you’re having much merriment (and/or hauling gear around your pad), am I right?
So many videos are coming – no joke. I collected enough footage this weekend to make a documentary. Maybe I will…
I’ll call it “Capitalism: A Love Story”. That’s a good name for a doc, right?
It’ll mostly be me, dancing around Toronto like a Spaz, a la:
I’d watch a full length feature film of myself doing the boogie slide for sure – but that’s only because I’m a stark raving narcissist like that.
The above video was shot last night when I met up with Sean and Michael for a little bit after the LiveGreen Festival.
What a nice event. I learned a thing or two about lessening my carbon footprint (Did you know that the energy saved from just one pop can can operate a TV set for 3 hours? I just Googled that. It’s legit.) and had the chance to eat some of my beloved street corn.
I can’t wait to post the viddies of Skratch Bastid and Devine Brown (<3). Lots of cute dog footage too. Be excited for that.
Today, I hit up Fan Expo, which is kind of like Comic Con but Canadian and bigger. Shatner was there. ‘Nuff said.
I didn’t meet him, mind you… but he was there. I did get to battle with Kick Ass, buy some toys and kiss Tron on the mouth. That was cool.
Full on VLOG post coming laytah. In the meantime, please enjoy this little “Happy Birthday Zacky” vid I threw together from the other night. Full length interviews with all of the special guests I talked to will be uploaded when I get a freakin’ chance, JEEZ!
ZackTaylor.ca’s Big Bash! from Zack Taylor on Vimeo.
I full like I’m working two full time jobs right now between my job job, my blog blog, and all of these other little gigs I’ve got running on the side. TIFF is going to be insanity.
Meh. I’ll sleep when I am dead. And unpack my new apartment while I watch the Emmys right meow!
SHELDON COOPER WON FOR BEST ACTOR, did you hear? The most epic of all wins imaginable! He deserves to win every award ever. Except for the Darwin Awards ’cause, well… you know.
Jane Lynch and Betty White, Eric Stonestreet and Dexter’s Steve Shill also took home awards. Kill me with a machete made of AWESOME why don’t you.
And please Kill Edie Falco for stealing Tina Fey (or Amy Poehler)’s award, while you’re at it. Ahhhh, I kid, I keed. I love Edie Falco. I just love my funnygirls more.
I’m going to go watch the rest of this now and nerd out some more. It’s going to be a late night assembling well-priced, mass produced Swedish furniture, I tell you what.
<3 Lauren O’Parsons
BB Blogging – MOVING DAY!
Aug 28th
Hi precious flowers,
Blackberry Blogging. Moving day. Internet comes to the new digs tomorrow.
If you see a blonde girl walking down the street with her blog face on, two hands to the BB, stunna specs in full effect, that’s totally me. Hi.
Oh Rogers man, how eagerly I await your visit. My peripheral metacarpals quiver in anticipation.
Last night’s parties were so good.
Got to play with a whole bunch of new friends and old friends and random coolbies. Just how I like it.
Nate and Corey and Andrew and Casie and Liz and other Corey and Sean and a whole bunch of Toronto Twitteraties and other media kids were at Zacky’s party. I would link them if I was on a COMPUTER. RAH.
Met up for a minute with Brodie & co. after that (HI!) and was going to swing by Fierce Fab’s soiree in the North but it was getting late so I cuddled with Groundskeeper Willy and crashed around 4 a.m. instead because I knew I had to be up early.
You see, today was MOVING DAY!
We got everything into my new room a few hours ago and then I treated my crew to sushi ’cause they deserved it for hauling my stuff up and down the stairs.
I love you all so much – Thankyou from the bottom of my weakling heart.
I’m on the subway right now, almost at St. George station. Going down to Yonge-Dundas square for the Livegreen Festival VIP meet and greet (Thanks @NotableTV!)
I’d skip it to unpack some more, but I really want to say what’s up to Divine Brown ’cause I’m a hyooooge fan.
All of the interview videos from last night will be posted this week. I talked to a bunch of cool peeps…
I can’t pick a favourite because they’re all sweet. Aleesia, Spenny, and Bachelorette boy top the list. That’s as far as I’ll go. Oh! And Lizzie and Casie, obvs, ’cause nothing is more fun than shoving a mic in your homegirl’s face for a recorded gab!
G2G now – at Yonge-Dundas square. Fourth time this week… Something keeps drawing me back 
Love you – and mother earth too.
-Reduce, Reuse, Recycle O’Nizzle
Tonight: Zack Taylor’s Big Celebrity Bash
Aug 27th
Hey there, hip friends.
What are you up to this evening, hmmm?
If you aren’t too repairing a bicycle or combing your righteous beardstache, I’d like to invite you to my buddy Zack Taylor’s birthday party/ webbiversary at the Roosevelt Room.
We’ll have punch, and pie, and a Spencer Pratt Pinata…
Maybe we’ll even have a Spencer Pratt.
Unfortunately, I can’t reveal exactly which celebrities will be at this event, but I will say that it’s going to be one star-studded clusterfrick of an awesome night.
They don’t call Zacky the Perez Hilton of Canada for no reason. Homeboy’s connected – and not like, Canada connected, but really connected, in an L.A. type of way.
I can safely reveal (without getting my skull chewed off by publicists and the like) that some Playboy cover models, Toronto Argonaut Cheerleaders, local entertainment reporters/ music hosts, recording artists and BLONDE BLOGGERS will be there.
Apparently, a bunch of coolbies are flying in from New York and Los Angeles too, but that’s all on the hush hush. You’ll find out who popped by the soiree tomorrow morning in newsland (or tonight, if you’re there.)
Also cool: Guest performances by Aleesia and French DJ (*swoon*) Monsieur Cedric.
Yours truly will be doing some red carpet interviews for ZackTaylor.ca and a bunch of other sponsors, so wave or punch me in the head or something if you see me. Maybe it’ll be caught on tape and go viral… We’ll both be FAMOUS!
Gratuitous promo spot:
This all pops off at 10:00 p.m. ish tonight, so get to the Roosevelt Room fashionably whenever-the-heck-you-feel-like it.
Telling people to “be there early!” is lame. I never arrive early because I’ve got better things to do than bop around an empty club.
The truly cool never wait in line anyways. I often do wait in line, but that’s only because I’m a nerd. A late-rolling, too-cool-for-school noiiiid.
And on that note, I still have nothing to wear tonight.
If I don’t find something after work today, I’ll probably just go in last year’s Halloween costume. What do you think? Too cool?
[Note: The "punch, pie and Pratt pinata" was a literary device used for comedic effect. Unless somebody is inspired by this post to bake pies and paste a flesh toned beard and crazy eyes onto a Bob the Builder pinata from the Bulk Barn, you'll be more likely to see young William Shatner in outer space than the above mentioned things.]
(sorry John)
Love,
Lauren
LOL Digest: Patti Mayonaise, Kanye West and the Noche de Rábanos
Aug 25th
Hi friends.
This is what’s up in the mind of one female earthling sitting in Toronto on a rainy hump day night…
Some Angels were in town today because we’re (finally) getting Victoria’s Secret stores in Canada (a whole two of them! woohoo!). Can you believe this is Adriana Lima’s first visit to Canada – ever?! I heard she requested Polar Bear in her stirfry. And they gave it to her. Whatever. She’s Adriana frahking Lima. She can eat the shoes off of my feet if she wants to… think she’d want to?
I was going to try to ninja snipe an interview with Chanel Iman or something but I was worried that big huge bodyguards might pounce and I’d get punched out by a Green Mile look-a-like.
Totally kidding – I’m not afraid of Green Mile. I could take him out if I wanted to.
The reason I couldn’t go down to witness human perfection with mine own eyes is because I had to work today. WOMP WOMP.
Speaking of dope chicks who kick ass, I finally watched Kick Ass the other night and fell head over borderline homo pedophilic heels for Hit Girl just like everybody else.
Was a finer character this year portrayed in film? I think not.
When I grow up, I want to be a purple haired potty mouthed prepubescent killing MACHINE. Badass meets cute meets all of the awesome epic cool words combined right here.
McLovin’ was alright in this too (even though he’s a total douche IRL) and I was crushing hard on Kick Ass when he wasn’t being a mayjah lovey-dovey poes. I do love me a cute little anglofro.
I was validated in the best way Monday when I stumbled upon this video of Kesha’s Tik Tok and Katy Perry’s California Gurls (with some Miley Cyrus clone joint I’d never heard) mashed up and sounding like… pretty much the exact same song.
I’ve been ranting internally about these two songs and their striking similarity all summer – singing along with one when the other would be playing, just to prove my point.
I only wish now that I had voiced this groundbreaking discovery earlier so that I could have 64,000 hits on Youtube. Surely, we were the only ones who knew about this.
Pop music – FORMULAIC? As if.
I am so disillusioned.
Also cool this week: discovering that there is a festival JUST FOR RADISHES in Mexico – a weird one, too – on December 23rd (The night of the radishes). A tuna tossing festival, a baby-jumping festival and a monkey buffet festival – these things also exist. Thanks Buzzfeed!
Radishes remind me of beets and beets remind me of Doug, so I did some Googling and found a few episodes of my old favourite show to watch when I get a chance. Can’t wait for that. Doug’s right up there with Pokemon, Sailor Moon, Rugrats and Recess for the top viewed “rush home after school to watch” cartoons of Lauren time.
*Doo doo doo doo doo doooo dooo…* I’d whistle that if I could (I can’t) but you wouldn’t be able to hear me anyways.
PS – searching for Doug images showed me a side of Patti Mayonnaise I really never cared to see. Rule 34 on that one, big time. I was, however, lead to this hallucinatory revelation on Vice.com and love it very much:
I see Patti as more of a Carey Mulligan than an Agyness Deyn, personally.
Lest I be mistaken for a nostalgia blogger, I shall turn now to Kanye West.
Have you heard this remix of Power yet? Yeez is getting a lot of leverage off of the original, but it’s well deserved.
Jay-Z and Swizz Beatz feature on this remix, so it’s obviously amazing. Could you just picture the three of them in a room together?
Jay: Yo, I gotta get home to B…
Swizz: Yeah, Alicia be waitin’ up for me too…
Kanye: I’M KANYE WEST. KANYE. LOOK AT MY SHOES. I’M KANYE. KANYE WEST. LOOK AT ME.
jokes, jokes… you know I love me some Mr. West
Kanye West Ft. Jay Z – Power (Remix) by moneykillslove.blogspot
Um… outside of the internet I’ve been busy as heck. That’s why I’ve been blogging late nights at 1:00 a.m. Wonder how long before I finally crack from the sleep deprivation?
To give you the short and sweet of it…
- Sunday I went out for a nice charity Brunch with some lovely ladies:
- Then I went to Ikea and out for dinner with Frikshun and bought way, way, way too much Swedish goodness. Fell in love with this vanity station… will probably go back to buy it next week.
- Sean bought the hipstamatik filter for his iPhone. Loves it.
- I started a new gig on Monday. Top floor in an office building downtown with a gorgeous view of the water. Free coffee, ice-cream on Fridays and an arcade machine in the “games room”. The work is cool too… real cool Toronto’s been good to this kid.
- Monday night I hit up a gasmy Twitterific event at The Gladstone Hotel and that was fun. Met some more cool TO Tweeps and caught up with some I hadn’t seen in a minute. Paul McCartney made a video of me driving home and attempting to beat box after the event:
- Tuesday, I worked and then had some appointments – eyeball and hair. The latter of which was so, so awesome as always. Marisa is the queen of head massages and hand massages and listening to me bitch about life and, most importantly, DOING THE BLONDE. Fabulous colourist. So glad I found her
- Also Tuesday = a little bit of shopping, a solid run and some serious kitten cuddles. And I caught the pink cement truck with my Blackberry. FINALLY!
- Today was 9-fiver – with many an adventure up in that time – and then straight to the gym afterwards for some yoooogah and eliptical goodness. Read the H&M magazine on the machine and was filled with fashionable ideas, a list of things to buy. I guess that’s the point…
- Got caught in the rain afterwards when I walked to get groceries. Laaaame but sort of cool. Rain in general is sort of cool, don’t you think?
I’m rambling.
Tomorrow is another huge day and Friday is even huger… Saturday, also Huuuuge.
I’ll blog. You know I will
Love,
Leelee
PS – this is how you draw an owl.
The Mohawk Shoe: Would you rock it?
Aug 24th
Fancy a row of pony hair on your pumps, m’ladies?
Apparently, Stefano Pilati thought someone might when he was designing YSL’s FW2010 collection.
Upon first glance, I wasn’t even tempted to shell out more than a month’s rent for these puppies (they retail for $1,070 USD), but after seeing them in the wild…
… I’d still rather blow my money on new toys and parking tickets.
That being said, if a magical shoe fairy brought them to me for free (or at a 96% discount) I’d be stomping all over the city in those puppies like
It would be a bold move, but that’s sort of what I’d like to move toward with my personal style (I’ve still got a long way to go, obvs).
Bold, but not ridiculous. Pony shoe? Maybe. Rooster shoe? Nej. (sorry Prada).
But oh, oh, OH what is this? Some blue suede shoes – bald ones – at only a fraction of the price by Steve Madden!
I don’t necessarily need blue pumps but… well, I kind of do.
The new season of Gossip Girl premiers Sept. 13th (eee!) and once everybody sees Blair and Serena rocking the trend I won’t be able to find a size 8 in store for the life of me.
If those pictures weren’t from last season, this would totally make sense.
Whatever. Elvis died like, 60 seasons ago and he’s still cool so imma get me some blue suede shoes. Pyaw!
One more shoe – last one, I promise. Once I get to clickin’… you know how it is.
Behold: Alexander McQueen’s gold snakeskin peeptoes with SKULL embelleshments:
Be still my whimsical, charnel heart.
Are these not to freakin’ kill for? Maybe I will kill for them.
Kill two little two goblins and put their little goblin skulls on a pair of faux-snakeskin payless pumps that I’ve coated with metallic spray paint…
Yeah. That’s what I’ll do.
8 bit wedding invitations – A 1990s acid trip love story
Aug 23rd
When 1996 Leonardo DiCaprio and I get married, this is what our wedding invitations will look like:
We will film the honeymoon coitus for web distribution, and it will look something like this (minus Bowser):
*shakes head* Rule 34…
The money we earn from said proh-no-graphic masterpiece will be spent to commission an MK style battle royale between Teddy Ruxpin and Champ Bear.
We will bet everything on Ruxpin, rig the fight, and clean house in our illegal “talking cartoon teddy bear death match” gambling ring.
T-Pain will be infuriated by how much he has to pay us and release an auto-tuned self-recording of “the song that doesn’t end” from Lamp Chop’s play along out of spite.
Leo and I will distract ourselves paying washed up celebrities to commit random acts of mischief and murder.
We’ll get 1991 Dustin Diamond to shoot up Bayside High, just because we can (and because I just so happened to find a comical image to illustrate this in my Google imaging adventure)
When 1996 Leo turns into 1997 Leo and sinks to the bottom of the ocean, I will be forced to find a new love…
It won’t be that guy.
But does anybody else see a glint of Russel Brand there? Just saying…
Anyways, 1992 Mark Wahlberg and I will begin dating (it was inevitable) and after a short time he will propose to me (also inevitable).
Did I just waste 15 minutes of my life creating that image?
Meh. It’s not time wasted if it’s time enjoyed, I suppose… and oh, how I do enjoy me some Marky Mark for Calvin Klein
You are hereby cordially invited to my 8 bit wedding in the year 2016, gorgeous blog reader.
I’m not entirely sure who I will be walking down the aisle with, but he’ll be just as excited as I am about wedding invitations that look something along the lines of these – otherwise, I wouldn’t be marrying him. Duh!
<3
Princess O’Pizzeach
