let's blog about the pictures i have on here instead of doing real work

i'm going over to a friend's house to watch elf in like half an hour anyway. i can't wait! first time this season!

i was thinking about that chris isaak picture. look at the sneer thing he has going on with his lip. my friend says that he sounds like if bing crosby and roy orbison made it, but you know what? after watching the christmas special, it is pretty obvious that elvis is his idol. i'll bet when he was little he practiced that lip thing in the mirror so much that now it just comes naturally. he never talks about how much he's into elvis, but he does cover an elvis christmas song on his album. but he also covers a roy orbison one. i guess my one gripe with chris isaak is that he never comes out and just says "okay, everyone, i know you know this already, but i wish i was elvis. there you go." i mean, we do all know it. wait, i have another gripe - i have been waiting for the chris isaak show to come out on dvd for like five years. i never watched it because it was on way too late for me or i was busy watching sifl n olly or i just had no idea i liked chris isaak so much back then, but i wish like hell i could watch it now. remember that one video he had, the one where it was on the beach and like a million girls were in love with him but he was too sad for all of them? or maybe that's an amalgamation of several of his videos, i don't know. memory is weird. anyway, if you don't think chris isaak is cool, here are two things that probably won't change your mind but have served to reaffirm my own opinions: two guys whose opinions i have a lot of respect for both think chris isaak is awesome and both have used the term "modern-day roy orbison" to describe him although they have definitely never met, and also one guy i who i just plain admire came down to the city for a punk show he wanted to see (i forget the band, but i remember thinking "man he is so cool, i wish i'd gone to that show") and saw someone at the show. guess who that person was? it was chris isaak, and he was dressed like a greaser. awesome.

a friend commented the other day that the guy in a tux is actually riding backwards. amazing! i wish i could meet him. although i don't think he speaks english, so i guess i wish he learned to speak english and then i wish i could meet him.

i just realized i can't wait for the snl christmas special. i love the steve martin sketch where he is wearing that ridiculous sweater and he does all that wishing. it makes me laugh every year and then i reference it for like two months after christmas is over.

another picture i keep thinking about is the one of the rabbit stealing a cookie. look at that steely glint in his eye; he knows this is wrong, he's not even sure if he's going to like the way the cookie tastes, but he is going to take that damn cookie and nibble it under the couch! he's looking the person taking the picture straight in the eye. that bunny is bold. also, i'm always confused as to the setting of the picture. the paper cups make it look kind of like an office party; why is there a bunny in an office? or maybe it's just a gathering in a house where the people don't want to do too much clean-up. so why is the bunny out? he might get stepped on. also, bunnies are afraid by nature. why would this rabbit be doing something so bold with a bunch of company around?

the one picture that grates on my conscience is the one of the panda eating cake. at first, i thought it was a triumph, in the way that funny things on the internet that you find and show to other people can be a triumph even though they were put there by other people. the context of the picture is, it's the panda's birthday. he has a little crown on, and he's eating a piece of cake with a fork. it makes you feel terrific to look at it. but then i thought about it, and i realized that pandas don't know the meaning of celebration. i'm glad the panda doesn't know that the tiny crown is demeaning because it mocks his giantness. and as for the cake, if it's bad for people, it's probably terrible for him! i thought that animals in captivity were supposed to lead lives as close to the ones they would have led in the wild because that is what's healthy, but it's obvious that this panda is just an oversized pet. he's being forced to do "people" things and then being laughed at for them. and with that diatribe, my attempt to force my cat into a tiny polo shirt i bought at target officially comes to an end.