¡viva la graham!

i blame popjustice for turning me on to lucky twice, a swedish dance duo in the vein of ace of base and a*teens. we’re talking eurodisco cheese at its most putrid. their single, “lucky,” is altogether horrible which of course also means that it is completely irresistible.

visit their myspace for a stream of their one song, or, if you’re so inclined, watch the video below (click here if you can’t see the video).

from the looks of this photo, the optimistic girls of lucky twice really believe they’ve got an illustrious career in front of them. ah, the innocence of youth.

am i the only one who loves rashida jones? she plays karen on the u.s. version of the office, and because she stands in the way of jim and pam’s eternal bliss, she’s no one’s favorite lady.

i love pam, don’t get me wrong. but rashida jones is adorable! she might not feel like playing pranks with jim (she’s too busy for that shit!), but she’s definitely a classy lady. i hope she sticks around on the show even after the inevitable end of her relationship with john krasinski’s character.

also, i found out yesterday that she’s the daughter of quincy jones and peggy lipton. how did i not know that before??

every once in a while, press people send new music my way with hopes of receiving free publicity. well, i can’t say i was excited when the new katharine mcphee album showed up on my doorstep, but at the very least, i was curious. she was definitely better than taylor hicks, the annoying soul patrol schmo who miraculously triumphed on american idol last year.

my first impression of her debut disc? terribly mediocre… and i hate to say it, because i thought katharine was a bright spot on what was an overwhelmingly dull season of the karaoke juggernaut. lead single “over it” could have been recorded by any of the boring bitches from high school musical, and ridiculous “hip-hop” tracks like “open toes” wouldn’t even make the cut for brooke hogan. ok, that’s meaner than i wanted to be, but you get the picture.

katharine, shape up or ship out! you’re way more talented than country bumpkin kellie pickler, so how come her stuff is better??

i never noticed how much amy poehler looks like little dakota fanning! she portrayed the pint-sized movie star on a very funny saturday night live skit last night. amy definitely had dakota’s mannerisms down pat for “the dakota fanning show,” but the best part of the sketch was when drew barrymore emerged as little miss sunshine’s abigail breslin.

when discussing future film roles, abigail said, “i play a doll that comes to life, and i’m about to do another movie with a talking hamster.”

dakota replied, “i get raped in my next movie.”

top that!

i’m not one to comment on politics — at least not here on the blog — but i couldn’t ignore one of the articles in the latest issue of rolling stone. the story, “run, al, run,” basically begs former v.p. gore to make a bid for the presidency while also alleging that it has been his plan all along.

writer tom dickinson makes a pretty strong argument for his candidacy, noting gore’s turnaround in the public eye thanks to his stance on the iraq war and environmental issues. (he’s been against the war from the beginning, and he’s nominated for an oscar for his global warming documentary, an inconvenient truth.) now it turns out that gore has been nominated for a nobel peace prize as well. not bad for a man who was once considered the epitome of uncool.

i’m not sure who i’d vote for as of yet, but i think it would be interesting if gore entered the fray at the last minute.

in case you missed it (or haven’t seen it in a while), here’s his ironic turn opening saturday night live a few seasons back. even though it’s meant as a joke, it begs the question — is it too late to turn back time?

meet “super tonio,” the world’s largest baby. ladies and gentlemen, this is not a 6-month-old, this is a 14.5 lb. newborn. some poor woman had to carry this lump around for 9 months. obviously they delivered him via c-section, because otherwise he would have torn his mother’s vagina in half.

as my friend liz would say, imagine that inside of you!