Jenn Martinelli Blogging in Boston

First I'll be nice. This little lady is on my hooray list, Clementine!

Quite a drama going on with Heather's blog thanks to some crazy censorship nazis.

Come on folks, lay off. I'm pretty sure we still have freedom of speech in this country. She didn't malign anyone, she just reported the facts!

See what Rob did about it here.

Everybody who's ever studied architecture or probably even art history has heard of the Glass House.

I really want to go see it.

Martha Stewart herself I am not offering my opinion on, but I love all the crazy tips you can find on marthastewart.com!

There is a "Good Things" section in each category now. Here is Home Decorating for starters.

And for some reason, this is one of my all-time favorite random things.

son look at all the people in this restaurant
what do you think they weigh
now look out into the parking lot
at their SUVs taking all of the space

they give no fuck
they talk as loud as they want
they give no fuck
just as long as there's enough for them

gonna get on the microphone down at walmart
talk about some shit that's been on my mind
talk about the state of this great nation of ours
people look to your left, yeah look to your right

they give no fuck
they buy as much as they want
they give no fuck
just as long as there's enough for them

son look at the people lining up for plastic
wouldn't you like to see them in the national geographic
squatting bare-assed in the dirt eating rice from a bowl
with a towel on their head and maybe a bone in their nose

see that asshole with the peace sign on his license plate
giving me the finger and running me out of his lane
god made us number one cause he loves us the best
well he should go bless someone else for a while and give us a rest

they give no fuck
yeah and everyone can see
they give no fuck
we've eaten all that we can eat

Ben Folds

I don't even really know what to say about this except, have you seen the commercial? Maybe there's more than one but I've only seen one. Thank goodness for DVRs because Rob and I were like, WHAT? and had to rewind it and watch it 2 more times.

This is wicked funny! Oh Durex, you jokesters.

I'm pretty sure this isn't good news. I feel like it's one of those movies like The Day After Tomorrow, The Core or even Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer about the planet dying. It's just the beginning part though where weird things start to happen and nobody understands what's going on yet.

Hey crazy tax evaders, guess what? Shut up and pay your taxes.

It seems that your point is a semantic one. So what if the amendment allowing federal income tax wasn't properly ratified? Do you have some other suggestion for how to support a government big enough to run a huge country? If you think there should be no government at all then I really can't even begin to have a conversation with you, as I am not an insane anarchist.

I'm sick of hearing about you. If you're really never going to give up and never going to pay your taxes, and are planning to fight to the death, then just put a bullet in each of your heads so I can stop listening to you.

Clementine and I and baby Hester had a belated birthday picnic for Clementine's and my birthdays this past Sunday in the Public Garden. It was very fun! Then we went to the ICA, which I also enjoyed. You should check it out if you haven't been. Thursday nights starting at 6pm are free, sponsored by Target!

Anyway, here is a really great picture of me with Hester at our picnic.

Apparently it's OK to be an idiot about technology, but run a technology magazine.

That's a head-scratcher.

Read Round is Funny's post where she shared a speech a Rabbi gave on Thursday before the vote.

This is my favorite snippet:

I hope this ends today, I am tired of having these conversations, it is so painfully obvious what is right.

Inspired by Melissa

1. I'm not doing what I want to do "when I grow up"
2. I'm over my budget every month
3. Sometimes I just have no idea what I'm doing
4. I often put my foot in my mouth
5. When I'm driving I hate pedestrians and when I'm walking I hate drivers
6. I don't get enough sleep
7. I'm overwhelmed
8. I have a hard time saying no
9. I don't exercise enough (but I'm working on it!)
10. I sometimes say things in public that I shouldn't
11. I really hate it when I'm wrong
12. I watch really bad TV
13. I'm bad at keeping in touch with people I don't see all the time

Here you go, I found it for you Rob Reed.

Mais...boum!
Quand notre coeur fait boum
Tout avec lui dit boum
Et c'est l'amour qui s'eveille

Boum!
Il chante "Love in Bloom"
Au rythme de ce boum
Qui redit boum a l'oreille

Um, if photos like these may embarrass you, you might want to remember that you're a couple of celebrities, and someone around you has a camera, and you should probably guess that they are going to end up in gossip magazines and all over the internet.

Just a tip. You're famous. Take it under advisement next time.

Halle-fucking-lujah. Can I get an "Amen"?

OK, so I saw this, and that's all it took for my true craft-making nerd self to come out. Not that it isn't often out anyway.

But truly, you must be a nerd if you get excited about a random wikihow article on making a random ring and think to yourself, "I really need to go to a bead store and get some supplies." Especially if you've never really made anything at all in this realm of crafts before. Maybe while I have exactly zero extra time in my life I should stick to the crafts I'm already obsessed and actively engaged with. Yep, probably a good idea.

However, when I retire young after making my first million, I would like to spend all my time adding other crafts to my repertoire, such as:

• Sewing
• Jewelry making
• Quilting
• Ceramics
• Gardening (not really a craft, but I'd love to have a garden with lovely flowers like Peonies and Hydrangea and Lilac... I'm sure it makes no sense to have those 3 flowers together and I know nothing about anything... I'm just saying...)

And if I could get access to it, what about glass-blowing? That would be pretty awesome I bet.

And, while they don't qualify as crafts, I would also like to get back to:

• Oil painting
• Photography, ie: processing my own photos

And in the meantime, I need to get better at drawing and animating on the computer because I think it would be super fun to publish my own cartoons online. As some of you know, on family vacations especially, I famously document all the "fun" by drawing cartoons. I want to get them all re drawn on the computer eventually and save them for posterity. There are some priceless gems from when my brothers were younger that really can't be missed.

No, not really. Suck it, spoiled bitch. This is what happens to regular people when they do something called "break the law".

We saw this movie last weekend and I really loved it. Here's a review from Pajiba.

It's really funny in parts, really sweet in parts, and while some of it stretches believability a little bit, it's overall definitely a good movie. Yes, the director is the same as for The 40-year-old Virgin, so if you liked that I'm pretty sure you'll like this as well.

You wear a t-shirt with a hole in it to work, and you're not a roofer or a garbage collector or a landscaper.

Um yeah. It's a tiny hole and I think I have our kitty to thank for it, but still. Don't worry, I'll put a sweater on now that I'm in the a/c.

They had to kill the tiger on the way to the zoo.

Otherwise it's still kind of awesome. What kind of morons keep a lion and tiger as pets on the roof of a meat processing plant?

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut

By the way, if I haven't mentioned it strongly enough, you really really need to buy this Fratellis album. I skip almost everything else on my iPod at this point to listen to anything from this album.

You may have heard one of their songs in this iTunes ad.

Anyway, if you don't believe me, trust Charlie (see his Must List) or NPR.

This woman is on NPR right now talking about her book, Without a Map about what happened in the 60's when she was 16 and became pregnant and suffered through horrible disapproval from her entire community, including her own family and even her doctor. I can't believe she didn't go totally nuts or kill somebody.

Anyway, it sounds like she eventually made out OK but it sounds like a pretty shitty time, that's for sure.