Just Keep Twirling, Lana.

When Lana Del Rey bursted on the scene, you probably thought one of two things: "OMG! She's Amazing!" or "WTF is Hollywood Sadcore?! You can't go around making up new genres!" That is, of course, until you saw her perform for the first time (the most infamous being her performance on SNL).

But that's not the only talent she lacks…she's not exactly the most skilled dancer out there. And by that we really mean she only has one move: The Twirl. Say what you will about her singing ability, but she's just gonna keep on twirling like she just don't care. And some lovely peeps who love to waste more time than we do, have put together a special Tumblr dedicated to it.

Here's a few of our favorites:

You can see more at Lana Del Rey Dancing.

Consider your time wasted.

LOOK ON ME AND DESPAIR

What better way to christen my inaugural UoL post than with the king of the internet, the cat photo. Recent fav is this fabulous creature; the very picture of comfort, elegance, and nonchalance. Proper majesty. I lay my chronicles at your squished in feet, Sire.

So please treat me well, cyberhighways. Hopefully blogging is like bike riding. Get back on and blah, blah, blah.

Share It Maybe?

I'm sure we're all sick of hearing Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" but earlier this week Sesame Street released the Cookie Monster parody of this radio hit. Whether milk & cookies makes this song any better is a maybe.

 

Things I Didn't Know Existed: Gluten-free Rice Krispies

I just happened to be at Big Lots the other day when I tumbled upon these. I'm pretty sure I you were concerned about gluten, you wouldn't be eating Rice Krispies in the first place. I guess we all know why it's on clearance!

Place Kitten

I don't know if you've ever worked on web layouts and simply needed placeholder images (of a certain size) but never knew just where to look. No need to worry, it's Place Kitten to the rescue! All you do is copy the URL and specify the width and height and ta da, you've got a kitten!

Here's a couple of examples:

500x300

240x360

The Power of Morgan Freeman's Voice

One of my friends posted this today and it was so good I just had to repost it.

The Everlasting Door Stopper

Iron Chef

Anime Expo is this weekend and this is probably one of the most ingenius cosplay costumes I have ever seen. Special thanks go out to Tokyobunnie for this ounce of goodness.

Feeling Nostalgic

Sometimes I think about the first time I started blogging. Back in high school, I started my first blog on blogspot. I was a sophomore (this was circa 2002-ish) and it was sorta focused on anime. That didn't last very long. I outgrew it quickly and started another blog that was more of a personal/life blog that talked about anything and everything. Time passed and I had moved on to Xanga, then Modblog (which I tried to Google but doesn't exist anymore), and eventually settled on Livejournal in my senior year of high school. I was on it every day and kept it updated up until the beginning of my junior year of college when I started spending more time on Twitter and Facebook. I made some great internet friends on Livejournal, some of which I still follow to this day.

I still keep a blog…actually, I keep several. Most of them reside on self-hosted Wordpress. But I decided to create this specific blog as a place where I can just post whatever I want without any real focus or reason. It's a place where I can take a break from crafting well-formed sentences. This is the Unit of Leisure.