The best card idea

Do you ever forget someone's birthday/graduation/misc. special event and think, "Oh, I can just send an ecard"? Then you actually look at the ecards and realize that they're pretty cheesy and you feel bad for being such a slacker about mailing a card. Well, if you ever find yourself in this predicament, just upload a picture and an .mp3 to go with it and www.postcard.fm will combine them into a spiffy email card.

Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

I know that a lot of my recent posts have been about entertainment/pop culture etc and have been severely lacking in jholiday personal life updates. So, I'm sorry to deprive you longer still of jholiday life updates and hot goss, but this show is too good to not talk about. And, I haven't been doing anything all that exciting lately anyways.

"Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" (avail. only thorugh itunes) is one of the greatest shows ever! It stars Neil Patrick Harris and is created by Joss Whedon who created that cult classic Buffy show that I always thought was lame. Buuuut, this show is all gold, baby. Watch it, watch it, watch it now!!! HCUOSJKFSJLJCLBS!!! I can barely contain myself.

I hate those bluetooth thingees

I found this comic online a while ago and I think of it every time I think someone is a crazy person because I can't see their earpiece.

This is one of the funniest, unintentionally funny music videos ever

I guess this is the kind of music they like in Germany. I especially like the guy jumping on the trampoline with watermelons and bananas around the 1:28 minute mark.



If you liked this, check youtube for his "Ding Dong Song". Classic.

Haaaalloweeeeen!!!!

I think the days right before Halloween are my favorite part of the holiday because I love imagining a costume and then piecing it together. The holiday itself is always fun, but the parties are never what I build them up to be in my creative, costume crazed mind. Last year I was Indiana Jones but for this Halloween I've been plotting my costume for months. I'm going as Hobbes from Calvin and Hobbes. Know any Calvin lookalikes? I'm accepting applications.

In addition to being in the early stages of planning my own costume, I'd like to help you with yours! In the coming weeks you can look forward to a veritable jholiday blog Halloween fashion show, with pictures of some jocose, inventive (and easy!) costumes that surely no one else will have.

My Favorite Song

The Korean pianist Yiruma's "River Flows Through You" tops my favorite song list. This first time I heard this song, I found it so truly beautiful that I've listened to it nearly every day since. It took my appreciation of music to a whole new level. I'm working on it for the piano right now (a daunting endeavor), so if you want the sheet music send me a message.

Book of the Week

My dad once told me that all successful people read -- and that if I wished to be so, I should read a book a week. Luckily for me, I just can't stay away from the darned things, but I often wonder if I'm not reading enough when I fail to meet the weekly mark. The last book I read, Eldest, (completed last night in anticipation of Brisingr!), took nearly two weeks for me to thumb through its pages.

Now I have my choice of materials, and I chose a collection of short ghost stories by Charles Dickens that I found at the Chico used book store. It includes the most famous ghost story, A Christmas Carol, but also holds some other really unique, clever characters in its tales of ghosts and ghoulies. More than any other author, Dickens transports me into the world he creates in his writing, and I can't wait to return again to his dusty offices, graveyards and decrepit manors in Victorian England.