By light of day, I still feel this way! http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5350983/highlight/55246
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Sometimes I write about starlets
Here are two Yahoo pieces I've written recently about Heidi Montag and plastic surgery and Miley Cyrus at the Oscars. Funny, no. Fizzy, yes.
Deleted Tweets
Here's a deleted tweet from Dustin and my Deleted Tweets segment on last night's show http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5349385/highlight/55240
Need your photo opinions once more (these are the ones photographer Eric Fischer likes)
Care to hear about my personal low?
So I’ve gotten sucked into this game that Rite Aid is sponsoring where you get little tickets every time you purchase certain items and if you collect the right combination of tickets you can win prizes varying from a mortgage (which I could totally use to put a down payment on all these band-aids and peanuts I bought at Rite Aid) to cash to gift cards to Wii to other stuff. I thought I was the only one lured by the siren call of FREE STUFF THAT COSTS MONEY however my friend’s parents who are also respectable people have a game board too. So my local Rite Aid was out of game pieces and being the sensible person I am I wasn’t going to make a special trip to another store to redeem the tickets which were duly mine however I did carry around the receipt indicating that I was owed some tickets in case I happened to come across a Rite Aid in my daily trips to New Hampshire or Angola. Look, I don’t care how far I have to go. I NEED THOSE TICKETS.
So anyway yesterday I was back at my local store purchasing artificial sweetener and Sobe lifewater, because I am artificially sweet and wanted to drink something that didn’t taste very good and I gently inquired at the top of my lungs whether they had any game pieces. They did. The cashier handed me a fat stack that was the size of a hunk of chedder or a pretty big scone or a decent sized scoop of ice cream or a hamster. “How many am I supposed to take?” I asked. “All of them. The game is over tomorrow.” Sweet holy Jesus!
Just a fraction of the tickets
So I’ve spent the last I don’t know how long going through these tickets (don’t worry, I have a system) and I still haven’t won anything and I’m pretty sure this is a very poor use of my time, especially since I have a large to do list which includes important things involving important things. That’s squared importance. But if I win something big it’ll be worth it. But, I mean, who win these things? But someone has to!
UPDATE: I didn’t win anything.
More info on Myq Kaplan (and a couple tracks)
Myq is one of my guests tonight on Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend. Here’s more info about him and his upcoming show and album.
Here's the silly video you were supposed to see last night
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I host a weekly Ustream show where I interview guests and sometimes shoot myself out of a cannon… Please excuse the whore’s share of makeup I’m wearing here as I’d just come from a TV appearance seeing as I’m very important. http://ustream.tv/alisonrosen http://alisonrosen.com
On tonight's Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend
Please tune in tonight and I’m saying that both to people who make it a regular weekly event to watch and to anyone new who may have stumbled in here by accident and now is caught in a web of Alisonness. Also, as some of you may or may not know, I did an impromptu FANZ ONLY (and by that I mean fans and anyone who happened to see it or hear about it on Twitter) show on Monday night and it was fun. And why do I feel the need to put Z instead of S? It’s ZILLY!
Anyway, tonght we have comedian Myq Kaplan, Dustin, Activity Pit founder Kim Flynn and a cooking demo. RSVP!
And here’s a photo of the puppies Kim’s dog just had!
Apparently you’ll be needing a magnifying glass to see the photo.
And for anyone who listened to Dustin and me discuss his oatmeal fixation on last week’s show, here’s the blog post I mentioned from when we both worked at the same magazine. Unfortunately the photo is no longer there but it was a photo of a box of pop-tarts sitting next to a box of oatmeal.
Thanks Joe!
Joe McDonald sends updates to members of my group at The Activity Pit and they are awesome so I’m reprinting today’s message here.
A message from Joe to all members of A Rosen By Any Other Name on The Activity Pit!
Lots of Alison news today, RosenFans, so pay attention!
Alison’s USTREAM show begins tonight at 10pm eastern time. This week’s guests include comedian Myq Kaplan, Kimberly Flynn (creator of the The Activity Pit) and Dustin Goot. Also: a cooking demo!. Here’s the link: http://www.ustream.tv/AlisonRosen
Alison will be also be appearing on CNET’s The 404 this Friday. The internet broadcast begins at 11am eastern. You can watch by going here: http://cnettv.cnet.com/live You’ll need a computer.
And then on Sunday night Alison will appear on the TV Guide channel’s “25 Biggest TV Blunders.” The show will cover “everything from failed talk shows to bad remakes to stars who turned down hit roles.” You’ll need a TV.
In other news, Alison’s parents have entered the Twitterverse! Doctor and Mrs. Rosen are now posting comments on Twitter, so by all means go to their page and click on the FOLLOW button: http://twitter.com/alisonsparents DO IT NOW!
Alison’s blog: www.alisonrosen.com/blog
Alison on Twitter: http://twitter.com/alisonrosen
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News Distillery
Gideon Evans, Faith Salie, me, Brian Donovan
So I’m still playing catch-up here and in terms of games, catch-up is not at all as fun as Noodles.
Last week I was part of a live show called News Distillery at the 92Y Tribeca which I believe Dustin and I talked about on the show last week because you WANT to say 92STREET Y Tribeca but that’s just wrong. Despite the cumbersome nomenclature issues I still got there in time and knocked it out of the park. I mean, I really hit a home run with that one. I mean, I shot and then I scored. Not to brag, but I really got a hole in one. Also…
Wow, my knowledge of sports is sorely lacking because I just sat here staring at the screen trying to come up with more things to say and I fell asleep. Bullseye!
Anyway the show, which was hosted by Faith Salie and featured me and the people in the above photo is sort of like an improv show but using news and current events stories. Before the event I read a 72 page packet of news stories and I’m pretty sure I sneezed and some information about Dubai fell out. In other news, I spoke at length from the stage about The Bachelor and though about three-fourths of the audience hadn’t seen the show I’m told that may have been my finest moment. Not just at that show but ever, in all my years on this earth.
Not really, just at that show.
In other news I have these patches of dry skin on my thumbs and they’re kind of uncomfortable and I need to take a shower and wash my hair which will just exacerbate the problem. It’s a wonder I get out of bed in the morning.
Some of the games were Six Degrees, wherein you must connect two disparate news stories using six headlines, and news haiku, where you write a haiku about a recent story. This was my haiku. My WINNING haiku:
Oh Olympics, You
So cold, fast, racy. But I
Watch The Bachelor
There’s probably some kind of rule about puncutation in a haiku. Also in AN haiku, but mine was read aloud, not written, so just stop ok. Just stop it right there.
All in all it was super fun and I’m glad I got to be a part of it.