Office Monkey Blog

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Got An Olive Problem?

If you're anything like my friend, Wayne, then your love of filthy martinis has left you with jars of olives in your fridge, just sitting there, juiceless and lonely.

So, I endeavored to find a recipe to solve this problem. And it came, courtesy of Food Network.

Enjoy!

GREEN OLIVE TAPENADE
Recipe courtesy Pilar Sanchez
2 cups Spanish green olives
2 tablespoons capers
7 fresh Spanish marinated anchovy fillets
1 teaspoon lemon zest
1 teaspoon finely chopped parsley
1/2 cup olive oil

Put all ingredients except olive oil in food processor and pulse until thoroughly pureed. Add olive oil and pulse until incorporated. It says it should take about 12 minutes to make.

And for those of you not interested in the fishy flavor, I have a feeling that the anchovy fillets are optional.

Monday, October 30, 2006

Oh yes.



It's like looking into a beautiful, all-too familiar mirror comprised of a collage of all the best aspects of this million dollar visage.

Want to see what famous celebs you resemble? Then have some fun over at MyHeritage.com.

Yum. Jelly-cheese sandwich.

What makes a Lisa happier than a delicious snack? That's right, getting a shout-out, interview-style.

In a recent interview with Associated Content, I got to wax poetic about blogging. Check it out:

While the cliche of the bored and frustrated office worker is pretty well worn territory (mostly by the great movie "Office Space"), there are a few sources that still present a fresh voice for those laboring at the copy machine and the multi-line phone. One such source is the blog "Office Monkey" (http://being_lisa_t.blogspot.com/), which criticizes the foibles of pop culture icons on behalf of young office workers nationwide...

For the rest, click here.

Sunday, October 29, 2006

The L.A. Sketch Riot Wants YOU!


This goes out to all of you sketch comedy troupes!

Employee of The Month is seeking sketch comedy groups to participate in the first ever L.A. Sketch Riot, 3 days of Sketch Comedy (Dec. 8th, 9th and 10th).

We are looking for groups to do 30 minutes of sketch comedy for a fun festival at the Westside Eclectic.

NO ENTRY FEE.

You don't have to send us a tape, if you have a website with video, YouTube, or something online anywhere to apply.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 15TH, 2006!!!

For more information on how to apply, please check out the L.A. Sketch Riot website.

Friday, October 27, 2006

Living My Life Faster


This is supposed to be the result of an 8-year photo project, in which this guy took his portrait every day since 1998. I have no idea if it's legit or not, but if it's fake, then hey, that took a lot of effort too, so kudos.

Thursday, October 26, 2006

My Lunch Snack
















































AWESOME.

My new favorite toy

OMG, OMG, OMG! Not since receiving my iPod nano for Christmas last year have I been so excited! Combining my love of gadgetry, along with my obsession for running, the Nike + iPod epitomizes the ultimate in Lisa's nerdy loves.

This has apparently been out since July, but I didn't find out about it until this morning and it took a grand total of one hour from the time I did, until I had purchased it directly from the Apple store.
Unfortunately, it's not the Gel Asics + iPod, which would make me VERY happy, but it's all good, cause I've made a little cozy out of leftover pink shoelaces (don't ask why I have those just hanging around, I'm actually not sure anymore...) on my shoes for my little sensor to rest whilst I run.

However, if you're interested in purchasing a little holder for your shoe sensor, then the Marware Sportsuit Sensor looks like a pretty good one. Plus, you don't have to make a cozy for each shoe--you can just put it on different shoes.

US Weekly Giving Me Some Love

Holy Condaleeza Rice! I'm so happy!

A blog post I wrote yesterday got a mention on US Weekly's Blog.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Because I'm Just That Retarded

I recently found this (I know, I know, it's been up for a while now...) and, in keeping with my Tyra Banks/ANTM obsession, I felt the need to share it with you guys.

I've already messaged my boyfriend and my mother, and you're probably next, whoever you are, reading this.

It's Pumpkin-Carving Time

For those of you who know me well, you know that one of my favorite Halloween activities is cutting up a pumpkin. It's always been a challenge for me to try and come up with a realistic and hopefully scary-looking jack-o-lantern that will really scare the kids.

This year, I've decided that the scariest visage which I can put on an unwitting pumpkin would be that of none other than the fabulously terrifying Tyra Banks.

Any kids coming to my apartment will be greeted with the solemn announcement that they are still in the running toward becoming America's Next Top Trick-or-Treater. Unless I'm not holding their picture in my hand. In which case, they will have to pack their things and leave the loft IMMEDIATELY.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

If you really loved me...

...you'd do it.





In the hopes of getting ourselves some more attention, we're up on VH1's Best Link Ever and would love for all of you drunken, adoring fans to scootch on over here and give us a vote.

That is, if you really love us as much as you CLAIM you do.

Monday, October 23, 2006

Just Another Reason To Love Craigslist...

Yes, this shit is highly amusing, and I'm posting it mostly because I thought it was ridiculous and you all would enjoy it, but I would be lying if I didn't tell you that I was totally thinking that would be a pretty easy way to make a hundred bucks.

Luckily, I'm not yet ready to stoop quite that low.

Yet.

Lisa's Red-Headed Slutty Stepchild Recipe


1 oz peach schnapps
1 oz Jagermeister®
Cranberry juice

Basically, from the research I've gathered, it's the Jagermeister and the cranberry juice that really constitute the essence of the shot, and possible substitutions (depending on taste, and/or desire for a stronger or weaker drink) for the peach schnapps in the recipe include, Crown Royal and/or Southern Comfort.

Heck, basically, whatever works for you! As long as it's got red hair and is slutty!

Friday, October 20, 2006

Brenda Joyce on her lady parts



"It wants too much."

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Oh Hell No

I know that bitchy and annoying Omarosa did not go and get herself some useless-ass implants. Except that she did.

First of all, what the hell is the point? She is absolutely horrific in every way shape and form. No one on Earth wants to look at that bitch's titties anyway. Making them bigger just increases the mass of something that is--as a whole--already so offensive to the senses that it should actually be illegal. What she should be doing is trying to make herself shrink away so that there is less of her to hate.

Secondly, if she thinks any man on this planet is going to be tricked into a relationship by luring him to her with some fakey-fake titties despite the black hole that is her personality--she's probably right. Men are (for the most part retarded) and this stupid bitch will probably find an even stupider man-bitch to do her bidding. And I say, it serves him right.

Thanks, Popbytes!

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

My dad's dead...

... so where's my show?

From MSN News:

Bindi Irwin, the 8-year-old daughter of the late "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, will star in a wildlife series to air on the Discovery Kids network early next year.


I know what you're thinking...I'm just obsessed with having my own show and extremely jealous.

And you would be right.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Remember this hot mess?



That's right folks. Sharon Osbourne used to have a talk show here in the U.S. Enjoy the immense amount of awkward.

I went to a taping once and the most interesting thing that happened during the freezing cold hours I was trapped on that stage in the audience was that Minnie kept pooping all over the place. Good times.

Tis the season...

...to be dressing like a ho, even if it's freezin'!

I love Halloween, even though most of the holiday seems to exist solely as an excuse for undercover (and flat-out) hoochies to parade around in ridiculous get-ups (think "sexy" insert profession) even when all these fools know no matter where you live, it is too cold to for a bitch to be out and about half-nekkid!

That said, I'd like to take a trip down memory lane with some of my favorite celebrity hoochies on Halloween.

Now, I'm going to start at the very beginning--with Mimi--of course, for whom Halloween isn't much different from any other day of the year. Frankly, I've seen her wearing much less, in a much colder and inappropriate climate. I do especially enjoy the painted-on abs and wonder if they're part of the costume, or leftover from midriff-less outfit preparation from the night before. The great thing about Mariah is that the fool dresses like this on a daily basis. I imagine she's shown up at the gynecologist's office in Vegas-style showgirl costume and jammed those lucite heels into the stirrups without so much as batting an eyelash. That's the kind of dedication this ho has to image.

Her smile is great too--displaying a sort of disbelief at how ridiculous/insane she still gets to walk around being, while still consistently being invited to high-profile red carpet events.

Moving on to a woman who isn't afraid to rock the camel toe without so much as a shred of irony, Coco, with her man, Ice-T. I have so much trouble understanding that this is the same man who is so damn good on my beloved Law & Order. Sigh. Anyways...

This is how I prefer to imagine the night's preparations played out:

COCO: OK, I'm ready to go out. But Ice, baby, you look so silly in that orange jumpsuit!

ICE-T: What are you talking about, you crazy bitch? It's Halloween.

COCO: Oh snap! I totally forgot! (Looks at outfit.) Do you think I should change into something sexier? I mean, I've got a crotchless version of these hotpants I was saving for Easter Sunday, but honestly, I don't know if I can wait that long! My cooch is ready to party NOW!


Now here we have one Ms. Paris Hilton, and you can tell by the picture that this is a Halloween costume because she's actually wearing underwear--which leads me to believe that she probably thinks this costume title is "Amish Girl."

Honestly, I think that if Paris Hilton ever showed up to a public event dressed appropriately I would probably be very concerned that she had been killed, skinned and her body was being worn by a terrorist completely unfamiliar with American pop-culture.

This is all I have for now, but expect more cattiness as the season approaches...

Monday, October 09, 2006

Garth Marenghi's Dark Place

Thanks to friends with good taste, I have recently become obsessed with Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, which aired on the Sci-Fi Channel, but which my cable-less ass has only seen from episodes posted on the Internet.

So, for those of you like me, I've gathered together the best of what I could find online of Dark Place--that is until October 16th.

You can watch the first episode of Dark Place ("Once Upon A Beginning") on the Sci-Fi Channel's website for the show.

The rest are clips that I found on YouTube.

EPISODE TWO - "Hell Hath Fury"

Here's the entire second episode. I would comment on the episode more extensively, but really, the humor speaks for itself. My love affair with Dean Lerner, which I started after watching the first episode, is further cultivated as I get to watch him whip out that shotgun at the drop of a hat and shoot things.


After watching the first two episodes, you'll be able to enjoy these more random clips.

DARK PLACE MUSIC VIDEO - "One Track Lover"

Dr. Sanchez pines for Liz, who pines for Dagless, and he expresses his hopelessness in the form of glorious 80's music. The only way this could be any more awesome, would be if there were a smidge more key-tar.


THE HORRORS OF GLASGOW - "Scotch Mist"

Dagless talks about his hellish trip to Scotland. Kind of makes me want to go there.


FIGHT SCENE - "The Creeping Moss from the Shores Of Shuggoth"

If you're a nerd like me, then you know exactly what I mean when I use the expression nerd-fight. This is when two guys who are both equally inept at any sort of physical activity square off and engage in what they believe to be a fight. It's much more fun to watch than a real fight, because no one really ever gets hurt. Although, it's not unheard of that someone ends up locking himself in his room and crying.



Did I mention how much I HEART Dean Lerner?

4 Da Shorteez


Since I'm always a few years behind most trends, and only really get impassioned about things after they've long since been discovered by others, I've recently been watching lots of Aqua Teen Hunger Force (thank you, Netflix). Most recently, I watched the "Sir Loin" episode, which features the song, "Doin' It 4 Da Shorteez," which will soon become my new phone ring (sorry, Crime Mob).

After finding out that the song is by MC Chris, I googled him and I'm telling you, you should check out his website cause it's cooooool.

Friday, October 06, 2006

A Taste of Gratuitous Self-Love

For my recent (and first) podcast interview that I did for A Socialite's Life earlier this week, I first had a little photo shoot with my good buddy and noted photographer, Wayne Ford, at his apartment's pool.

We actually only needed one picture, but there were so many good ones, that I felt they must see the light of day somewhere. Plus, it's so rare that I actually ever full-out dress like a girl. Therefore, I've decided to post my favorites from said shoot.






I love this one, mostly because you can't really see me. It's the martini that's the star of the show and I almost used it, except that it looks too similar to another picture on ASL that we use for a completley different feature.





This is my Patsy Stone rip-off picture. I enjoy the lazy cigarette hanging out of my mouth, which I'm trying to light without catching any part of my person on fire. With my cigarette, and martini glass, I'm about one prop away from having way too much shit in my hands.


This was another picture I really wanted to use, but I didn't think I looked quite crazy enough in it. I love how 70's the lighting looks. And yes, bitches, all of that is my real hair. This bitch can't afford weave no way, no how.



After seeing this picture, I'm totally realizing that dieting and exercise is for dumb people. Want to look skinny? Then just take pictures like this for the rest of your life. I like to imagine that I would be able to get myself in the US Magazine "Too Skinny!" Issue, with my picture sandwiched in between Kate Bosworth and the dangerously skinny Olsen twin, as opposed to the less skinny one.

My God, my feet even look small. Fucking-A.



This is my Fellini bitch picture. Seriously, if this were in black and white, Marcello Mastroianni would be begging me not to call his wife, as I had previously threatened to do in the scene at the beginning of the movie. That's right, bitches, cause this ho is playing the mistress. Cause nothing says homewrecker quite like a plunging neckline and slight bouffant half-up, half-down hairdo.


This is a great shot from some of the very first pictures we took, when I very ambitiously thought I could handle all those damn props at once. You can't tell, but I soaked two cigarettes with vodka cause I kept spilling that shit all over the place. At the end of the shoot, my hands smelled like I had been molesting the hell of some poor, innocent olives.




Recognize this? If not, then I'm not even sure what you're doing here, cause CLEARLY this is my most Janice Dickinson moment of the entire shoot. Short of rocking the crazy fake titties and/or showing my crotch, I'm obviously channeling the world's--nay, the UNIVERSE'S--very first supermodel.





And for my last pic, I just went for the pretty shot. That's right. I said it. Cause I think I'm pretty.

I think I want this...

...more specifically, a subscription to this magazine for Christmas.

I'm kidding. But seriously, doesn't it kind of look awesome? I just always remember that they have to spray their butts with adhesive for the swimsuit competition so that they don't get wedgies. I kind of feel like I might want to do that for my everyday life--because like beauty pageant contestants, I also don't have time in my fast-paced life to be picking wedgies willy-nilly.

Thursday, October 05, 2006

My bank account is telling me...

...I can't afford to keep buying things like this if I'd like to have enough money for health insurance.

But my heart keeps saying, "Just avoid major surgery and/or cancer and you'll be fine. Buy it."

My new desktop background

I love this picture.

I found it when I googled the term "fat lisa" and stumbled upon this little hidden nugget of an adorable website called Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives.

The Office Monkey Speaks

Since I've been blogging like a maniac over all things celebrity and pop-culture related for A Socialite's Life I've been totally neglecting Office Monkey, as you may well have noticed. Additionally, I am in fact, once again, an office monkey, answering phones (ugh), scheduling meetings (grr) and (gasp!) picking up dry-cleaning.

I know, I know. We all thought I had left that nonsense behind but I keep getting sucked back in--lured back by the prospect of actually being able to make enough money to pay rent. Sigh.

Luckily, though, it's all temporary. And then I'll be back to my leisurely blogging and slowly dwindling bank account.

So, for the moment, I'm really just going to let loose and whine for a bit. I'm menstrual and hormonal, suffering from allergies that have me looking like I'm walking around with two black eyes, with a random toothache thrown in to boot. Basically, it's just one of those days, which I'd much prefer to spend cuddled under blankets on the phone complaining about my ailments to my mother, whilst I watch trashy daytime television and sip hot tea.

I also keep getting suspicious accusations from my germaphobe boss that my "allergies" are actually a cover for a cold I know he thinks I have, to which I respond by stating that I don't really believe watery eyes are usually a symptom, but hey, I'M NO DOCTOR. I generally leave that last line out.

I'd also like to take this moment to thank the creators of the Luna and Clif Bars, without which I would assuredly starve to death.

In any case, this is just a little Thursday morning rant that will end shortly--as soon as I can see Friday peeking over the edge of the horizon and teasing me with it's flirtatious promises of weekend sloth.

Until then.