Happy Christmas to my goyim out there! While you've been having family dinners and whatnot I've been having a fabulous fourth night of Chanukah. We went to Chinatown for dinner in order to fulfill Jewish stereotypes and man was it good! Sadly, we did not see a film (another part of said stereotype for the uninformed). I did, however, just watch about three hours of Ghost Hunters on SciFi and began contemplating whether I thought it was all BS or if it had an iota of truth to it. Still not sure where I fall.
Tomorrow (well, today...it is 2 AM afterall) we're having a Jew party where we will be making koeksisters, which rock. Ours look better than the ones pictured on that website, fyi. It's part of our family's Chanukah tradition. Every year we get a ton of people to come over and we put them to work braiding dough we've already made and then Mum puts them in the boiling oil and fries 'em. Since the oil is dangerous only Mummy is allowed to do it because she's a grown up. I do the syrup. Our syrup is made up of a shitton of sugar, some honey and some ginger and water. Syrup, of course, is the most important part of the process. You need to make sure that the entire koeksister is covered head to toe in syrup and you leave it in the pot for a bit to let it absorb the syrup. There's always that period of time when the koeksisters are being made faster than I can get them in and out of the syrup so there's a backup and I stay in the kitchen longer, playing catch up. It's a very fun time and a wonderful party!
You may ask me, "why do you guys make koeksiters? Obviously I have read the wikipedia article you have linked to and know what they are now, but it says they have a South African origin and if I've paid attention to your previous posts on the board, aren't you from the US?" To this I would reply, "Why yes, kind friend, I am a US citizen. But my mother is originally from South Africa. She brought/found the recipe and we've been making them for Channukah ever since I can remember." You might then ask, "Why for Chanukah specifically?" And I would explain, "Because one of the traditions for Chanukah is to eat food that is cooked in oil. It has to do with how long the oil in the Temple lasted."
So Happy Christmas/Chanukah/Saturnalia/Festivus/Kwanzaa/Unbirthday/Whatnot!!!
Love,
Adri
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Thursday, December 18, 2008
POSTING PARTY
I felt we should keep up this posting frenzy because as of yesterday at 4 PM I am also done with school! Sadly, typing is not very fun. I may or may not have cut the very tip of my middle finger on my left hand off in an X-acto blade related accident a few days ago. Luckily I didn't bleed on my project so I could still use it in survey! Yay! I would post pictures but I sort of kind of forgot to take photos of my wall. Mum did so maybe I'll be a show off later. I will, however, be posting my final project on my personal youtube soon and favorite-ing it on BW's youtube so you guys can see the epicness. As a teaser, let me tell you that it involves a sword fight and AWESOME. One reaction to it was "OMG ADRI THAT WAS EPIC" to which I asked "Did you watch it with the music?" and he replied "THERE WAS SOUND??!!!" Oh, good times.
Anyhoodle, I really liked Melis's post where she replied to some of our comments. We do have this unspoken thing where we don't reply directly to comments using our Badgerstaffwhenevs account because there are so many of us participating and only one of us has the account password. Speaking of, if you guys want the ability to post stuff on our youtube, email me and we'll figure something out. But I digress. We do read what you write and really appreciate the feedback.
Even though I'm pretty sure that very few, if any, of our youtube watchers know about this blog let alone follow it, I figured I'd ask them a question.
What do you guys want to see on our youtube? More reviews? Shorts? If you want more reviews, do you want us to continue to piss off Twilight fans everywhere and do the rest of the series (if so, do you care about our sanity?) or move onto other books/movies? If the latter, what books/movies do you think we should check out?
Thanks!
So that's it for now. Adri's gotta get to Union Square in a half hour and the trains take for f-ing ever. Ciao!
Anyhoodle, I really liked Melis's post where she replied to some of our comments. We do have this unspoken thing where we don't reply directly to comments using our Badgerstaffwhenevs account because there are so many of us participating and only one of us has the account password. Speaking of, if you guys want the ability to post stuff on our youtube, email me and we'll figure something out. But I digress. We do read what you write and really appreciate the feedback.
Even though I'm pretty sure that very few, if any, of our youtube watchers know about this blog let alone follow it, I figured I'd ask them a question.
What do you guys want to see on our youtube? More reviews? Shorts? If you want more reviews, do you want us to continue to piss off Twilight fans everywhere and do the rest of the series (if so, do you care about our sanity?) or move onto other books/movies? If the latter, what books/movies do you think we should check out?
Thanks!
So that's it for now. Adri's gotta get to Union Square in a half hour and the trains take for f-ing ever. Ciao!
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
AIM Lullage
I suck hard for not contributing to this. All I can say is....SCHOOL.
But fear not, my lovely BW Blog readers. I have a month of freedom away from that dreadful, dreadful place of learning.
So for now, I'll share with you an epic conversation I had with the lovely Panda just a few minutes ago....
Bold=Me
Italics=Panda
What should I dedicate my BW blog entry about?
impregnating people?
hahahaha
Ummm....I'LL SEE WHAT I CAN DO
hahahahaha
Like how easily swayed I am? hahaa
that's why you're so fun
It's why I'm so good at improv
I SAY YES TO EVERYTHING
you're easy
*shrug*
In more ways than one. *winks* *strips*
EXCEPT NOT.
except totally!
you whorgy with me all the time
you do it all the ways!
But I don't whorgy with just ANYBODY
Kenneth the Page: Hello there, I'm a real good sex-man. I do it all the ways
HAHAHAHAHAA
I love Kenneth
so much
you and kenneth should meet up
Ummmm we should
11:45 PM
We'd totally have hot intercoursage.
so you can impregnate him
With my girl-sperm
badger sperm
it's what makes you so rabid
HAHAHA
it also sharpens your teeth
*snorts*
I don't even want to know how sperm and teeth are connected
Oh who am I kidding
YES I DO
IT'S ALL I'VE EVER WANTED
it's from gnawing on the tubes of badger sperm
that shit is hard to open
hahahahahaahahahahahahahaa
That's what he said.
hahahahaha
damn straight
this conversation is pretty epic
I'll have to agree with that
we should share the joy
WITH THE WORLD
blog?
Ummmmmm HELL YES
So...yeah....there you go.
***Peachers
But fear not, my lovely BW Blog readers. I have a month of freedom away from that dreadful, dreadful place of learning.
So for now, I'll share with you an epic conversation I had with the lovely Panda just a few minutes ago....
Bold=Me
Italics=Panda
What should I dedicate my BW blog entry about?
impregnating people?
hahahaha
Ummm....I'LL SEE WHAT I CAN DO
hahahahaha
Like how easily swayed I am? hahaa
that's why you're so fun
It's why I'm so good at improv
I SAY YES TO EVERYTHING
you're easy
*shrug*
In more ways than one. *winks* *strips*
EXCEPT NOT.
except totally!
you whorgy with me all the time
you do it all the ways!
But I don't whorgy with just ANYBODY
Kenneth the Page: Hello there, I'm a real good sex-man. I do it all the ways
HAHAHAHAHAA
I love Kenneth
so much
you and kenneth should meet up
Ummmm we should
11:45 PM
We'd totally have hot intercoursage.
so you can impregnate him
With my girl-sperm
badger sperm
it's what makes you so rabid
HAHAHA
it also sharpens your teeth
*snorts*
I don't even want to know how sperm and teeth are connected
Oh who am I kidding
YES I DO
IT'S ALL I'VE EVER WANTED
it's from gnawing on the tubes of badger sperm
that shit is hard to open
hahahahahaahahahahahahahaa
That's what he said.
hahahahaha
damn straight
this conversation is pretty epic
I'll have to agree with that
we should share the joy
WITH THE WORLD
blog?
Ummmmmm HELL YES
So...yeah....there you go.
***Peachers
Friday, December 12, 2008
Haters to the Left
There's been over a month of silence on the blog, but we're sure a bunch of you can relate to the reason - that time of the university/college term where everything's due and then come the exams. And now the winter holidays are upon us all, so you should be seeing more from us over on Youtube.
Speaking of Youtube, in the several months since we posted our Twilight review, the hits and comments have kept on coming. Our official policy isn't to respond to the comments directly on Youtube (as far as I know) especially when it concerns the odd flame we receive. We do see your comments though, and your compliments just totally make our days!
This blog though seems like fair enough space (and I doubt any nay-sayers bother to read it) so I'd like to take this entry to go through some choice comments - both positive and negative - that we've received.
From silvertamagachi: "I'd let sparkly!Aladdin sneak into my bedroom and remove me of all human rights."
Exactly. I mean, it's not like Aladdin DOES anything... other than sit in the corner in a rocking chair ALL.NIGHT.LONG. (Peachers, you could be on to something!)
From FrenzyChickenStudios: "haha even though i luv the book that barbie part made mee pee my pants!"
Peachers - making people piss themselves since 2008!
From Mbmonkey: "You guys are hilarious. x]"
Thank you! We do try our best!
From decaydancegurl23: "okiz some of your video was funny and i admit it was true in some parts... but at some points you just went TOO FAR!"
It's comments like these that really make me smile. I mean, really I was the person who really ragged on Twilight the most. Laura said she rather enjoyed it, and Adri didn't seem to know where exactly to fall. Sure she didn't like it, but she didn't seem to hate it either. And yet people feel so slighted by our review because we didn't fangirl and flail over what is - in my opinion - on of the worst abominations of literature ever. Frankly, as far as I'm concerned, the only person who has permission to be seriously butthurt by our opinions is Stephenie Meyer herself (which, from what I've seen, is a strong possibility thought I've seen worse from other people). But I guess to some fans, opening their eyes and seeing how ridiculous a book they like is... just HURTS. But we're sure not sorry about it.
From holechko232: "wow, you have like NO life. shes has enough thoughts dipshit. shes VERY complex. i just think you need to go back to the 70's miss BEATLES shirt."
Evidently, our video has thrown you into such a rage that you find yourself unable to type or know my name. I mean, it shouldn't be hard... our names were given at both the beginning and the end of the review. Also, you're off by a good decade on that insult. The best thing about this is that we DON'T need to get involved, because a sane person usually comes by to offer up the proper correction/defence in the comments on theit own. But yeah... The Beatles? Try the 1960's, thank you. SpinachPuffs said it best: "YOUR COMMENT HAS FAILED TO DAZZLE ME."
Also, let it be known that if anyone EVER wants to convince me otherwise that Bella does indeed have thoughts, feel free to! I'm eager to hear a proper argument.
From reneconner58: "F*** you. If you can't understand it then you must live a sad and lonley life. I don't feel one Oz. of sympathy. Twilight is about a couple. I couple who cannot possibly be together, but yet they try. They try and try and try. Edward's love for her overpowers the monster within him. It's a love story. You are a disgrace to the entire Twilight community and to Stephenie Meyer."
I think a lust story covers it better. All they want to do is jump each other and have lots of raunchy sex. But if that's what's passing for love these days then OKAY!
From JustMissMelon: "okay after 18 seconds this was not even worth watching, if you hate it so much why waste your time talking about it (rhetorical question)"
BECAUSE WE CAN.
From CptnTightpants: "I kind of love you all for this."
Believe me, we love all of you for watching!
From erinya13: "You guys are awesome and made me LOL. This should totally be a series."
Thank you! And while we will be working on other projects, this might be an occasional reoccuring series. And the books might not always necessarily suck too!
From Dominican231: "you guys r gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay seriously n i im not hatin im juxx telling da truth"
Well I am feeling pretty damn happy right now.
From Scapegoat723: "Hey, Beatles shirt. You are a god. This review is fucking awesome."
As it happens, I'm not technically a god. Timelady is more like it, but then again, a lot of lesser beings perceive us as godlike so... okay, I'll give you that one.
From neispita: "Awesome stuff, now I have to read Twilight. For the lulz. And I'm now very jealous that I don't have friends who'd do this sort of thing with me. Hope to see more of you, afterall fandom is infinite in its possibilities..."
You're exactly right! Fandom is infinite in its possibilities, and there will be more to come from us. There's some school vacation time ahead, so hopefully you'll see a finished video from us soon!
In the meantime, you could always check out Robot Girlfriend!
And until then, stay brilliant!
-Melis
Speaking of Youtube, in the several months since we posted our Twilight review, the hits and comments have kept on coming. Our official policy isn't to respond to the comments directly on Youtube (as far as I know) especially when it concerns the odd flame we receive. We do see your comments though, and your compliments just totally make our days!
This blog though seems like fair enough space (and I doubt any nay-sayers bother to read it) so I'd like to take this entry to go through some choice comments - both positive and negative - that we've received.
From silvertamagachi: "I'd let sparkly!Aladdin sneak into my bedroom and remove me of all human rights."
Exactly. I mean, it's not like Aladdin DOES anything... other than sit in the corner in a rocking chair ALL.NIGHT.LONG. (Peachers, you could be on to something!)
From FrenzyChickenStudios: "haha even though i luv the book that barbie part made mee pee my pants!"
Peachers - making people piss themselves since 2008!
From Mbmonkey: "You guys are hilarious. x]"
Thank you! We do try our best!
From decaydancegurl23: "okiz some of your video was funny and i admit it was true in some parts... but at some points you just went TOO FAR!"
It's comments like these that really make me smile. I mean, really I was the person who really ragged on Twilight the most. Laura said she rather enjoyed it, and Adri didn't seem to know where exactly to fall. Sure she didn't like it, but she didn't seem to hate it either. And yet people feel so slighted by our review because we didn't fangirl and flail over what is - in my opinion - on of the worst abominations of literature ever. Frankly, as far as I'm concerned, the only person who has permission to be seriously butthurt by our opinions is Stephenie Meyer herself (which, from what I've seen, is a strong possibility thought I've seen worse from other people). But I guess to some fans, opening their eyes and seeing how ridiculous a book they like is... just HURTS. But we're sure not sorry about it.
From holechko232: "wow, you have like NO life. shes has enough thoughts dipshit. shes VERY complex. i just think you need to go back to the 70's miss BEATLES shirt."
Evidently, our video has thrown you into such a rage that you find yourself unable to type or know my name. I mean, it shouldn't be hard... our names were given at both the beginning and the end of the review. Also, you're off by a good decade on that insult. The best thing about this is that we DON'T need to get involved, because a sane person usually comes by to offer up the proper correction/defence in the comments on theit own. But yeah... The Beatles? Try the 1960's, thank you. SpinachPuffs said it best: "YOUR COMMENT HAS FAILED TO DAZZLE ME."
Also, let it be known that if anyone EVER wants to convince me otherwise that Bella does indeed have thoughts, feel free to! I'm eager to hear a proper argument.
From reneconner58: "F*** you. If you can't understand it then you must live a sad and lonley life. I don't feel one Oz. of sympathy. Twilight is about a couple. I couple who cannot possibly be together, but yet they try. They try and try and try. Edward's love for her overpowers the monster within him. It's a love story. You are a disgrace to the entire Twilight community and to Stephenie Meyer."
I think a lust story covers it better. All they want to do is jump each other and have lots of raunchy sex. But if that's what's passing for love these days then OKAY!
From JustMissMelon: "okay after 18 seconds this was not even worth watching, if you hate it so much why waste your time talking about it (rhetorical question)"
BECAUSE WE CAN.
From CptnTightpants: "I kind of love you all for this."
Believe me, we love all of you for watching!
From erinya13: "You guys are awesome and made me LOL. This should totally be a series."
Thank you! And while we will be working on other projects, this might be an occasional reoccuring series. And the books might not always necessarily suck too!
From Dominican231: "you guys r gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay seriously n i im not hatin im juxx telling da truth"
Well I am feeling pretty damn happy right now.
From Scapegoat723: "Hey, Beatles shirt. You are a god. This review is fucking awesome."
As it happens, I'm not technically a god. Timelady is more like it, but then again, a lot of lesser beings perceive us as godlike so... okay, I'll give you that one.
From neispita: "Awesome stuff, now I have to read Twilight. For the lulz. And I'm now very jealous that I don't have friends who'd do this sort of thing with me. Hope to see more of you, afterall fandom is infinite in its possibilities..."
You're exactly right! Fandom is infinite in its possibilities, and there will be more to come from us. There's some school vacation time ahead, so hopefully you'll see a finished video from us soon!
In the meantime, you could always check out Robot Girlfriend!
And until then, stay brilliant!
-Melis
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