Last night, TigerKitten and a few other friends and I went to see Kathy Griffin at Madison Square Garden.

Her stand-up is very much like her television show specials but with more swearing.  It's very much like you're sitting in her living room and talking about the latest celebrity gossip news.  Or like you're reading through email exchanges between me and Buddhista.

I thought it was hilarious, although it's not full of side-splitting punchlines.  It's more like a steady stream of serious chuckles.

And she talked about everyone I wanted her to talk about: Anderson Cooper, Britney Spears, and Oprah.

One thing that surprised me was how very not shocking the whole thing was.  Kathy has built her reputation on saying outrageous things that make celebrities angry or uncomfortable.  But, you know how Anderson Cooper is gay but has never said so publicly?  Kathy didn't even mention this.  But she did mention him getting a text message from Ryan Secrest, which, I guess, is kind of the same thing.  But still.

The strangest part of the show was right in the middle when MSG staff pushed a man in a wheel chair along the aisle that was in front of our seats.  There were perhaps 8 staff members there -- maybe a few of them were EMTs -- including one guy that was pushing a stack of metal cages that look like the sort that chickens are shipped in.

The man in the wheel chair must have weighed about 750 lbs.  He was so fat that his hips seemed to have become fixed and splayed out to the sides, hence the wheel chair.

I still don't know what that was all about.  It was just strange.

In the end, I really enjoyed the show.  We had good seats.  We had a lot of laughs. A good time was had by all -- except for maybe that giant fat dude.

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This is the show I was talking about: Ninja Warrior.

It's AWE. SOME.

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moar i can has cheezburger

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Also found via Joe, but not as good as the Gummi.



By the way, if you're watching this at work, I should warn you that this frog has mammalian genitalia.  I don't know why.  I also can't tell you why it's showing, either.

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Buddhista, please play this song for Big E.



And you doubt my love for crazy, Europop music, come over to my apartment and we'll put the Vengaboys on the surround sound followed by Schnappi das kleine Krokodil.

Hat tip: Joe. My. God.

Update: Here's the video in English:

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OMG!  SO CUTE!



You might want to turn off the sound, though.  That's not cute at all.

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OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG

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New York is having a thunderstorm today.  They really aren't all that common here like they are in Georgia.  I miss that a lot.  I love thunderstorms.  It's nice to see the lightning reflected in building windows through the pouring rain.

But still... where's my snow?

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Who wants to take me on a date?  Thrillist recommended this SUPER cool place: Astor Center.

Directly above Astor Wines & Spirits, we have built three unique spaces which together comprise a facility unlike anything else in the city – or the world, for that matter. We wanted to create an environment conducive to the sort of progressive thinking that has suited us so well in the past – to build a place that would facilitate exchanges between winemakers and wine drinkers; between Michelin-starred chefs and masters of the Manhattan apartment kitchen; between omnivores and herbivores; between legendary cookbook authors and razor-sharp restaurant bloggers; between politicians and pig farmers. More than just a place to take a wine class or watch a celebrity chef wield a blow-torch, at Astor Center we’re building a concept – a new approach to education, a new way of exchanging ideas, a new forum for discussing that which brings us together around the table.

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"Sheena Is A Punk Rocker"
by The Ramones

Well the kids are all hopped up and ready to go
They're ready to go now
They've got their surfboards
And they're going to the discotheque a go go
But she just couldn't stay
She had to break away
Well New York City really has it all
Oh yeah-ah, oh yeah

Sheena is a punk rocker
Sheena is a punk rocker
Sheena is a punk rocker now
She's a punk punk, a punk rocker
Punk punk, a punk rocker
Punk punk, a punk rocker

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There's a Dunkin' Donuts, herein referred to as "Dunkies", up the street from my apartment and I like to stop in for munchkins to bring to my coworkers.  Unfortunately, the credit card machine at my local Dunkies has been broken for SEVERAL weeks now and I rarely carry cash.

My response when confronted with an unexpected cash-only situation is to simply walk away from the counter, leaving the staff to deal with my abandoned purchases.

When I was in college, there were a couple of years after I turned 21 that I actually didn't drink.  I would still go out with my friends, but I drank water or Sprite for the evening and then I would be the designated driver for our group.  NUMEROUS times I had to talk my friends out of scarfing down Krystal burgers and go for Waffle House instead.  I know that sounds like not much of a compromise to you, but there is a world of difference between a steamed "hamburger" composed of only what I can tell is sawdust and my two eggs over medium with a side of grits and sausage all cooked in the fat from a week's worth of bacon.  Really, Waffle House is way better and most of the time I could convince my friends to go there instead of Krystal.

I don't know what compels drunk people to eat junk food, but it does seem like a really common habit among drunkards.

I'm usually able to skip the hotdog cart near the subway stop, but Dunkies is almost irresistible.

And tonight is Project Runway night.  I watched the show over at my friends' apartment on the upper west side and we enjoyed a bit of wine and snacks.  I was still tipsy when I got off the train and knowing I had a few dollars in my pocket, I decided to stop in for a lemon filled donut.

Lemon filled donuts are my favorite.

So, I got in there and I asked for their last lemon filled donut and I noticed that their "No credit cards" sign was gone.  I asked about it.  They assured me that they do.  I laughed and said, "Well, I'm asking because the machine has been broken before."

They tried to make it sound like the machine is just broken "sometimes."

I laughed skeptically and pointed out that it has been broken for a while.

I chatted with the cashier for a couple of seconds as I paid and she got my donut.

But then she did something strange: she went and gave me three more donuts.  For free!

They felt so bad about me complaining about the credit card machine that they gave me three free donuts.  Granted, it was 1:30 in the morning and all the donuts were pretty stale, but still.  I appreciate that kind of customer service.

On Monday, I'm definitely going back to Dunkies to buy donuts for folks in my office.  Dunkin' Donuts has earned my appreciation.

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