At first, it felt weird and wrong to do this without Alison Rosen. Like: wait! I’m supposed to be having a conversation with someone very funny weird. Then, about a half a second later, I became mesmerized by the sound of my own voice and it was okay.
Those are great!
I think when you grow up in a cold climate you learn how not to lose gloves. Usually when you take them off you either put them in a coat pocket or stuff them in a coat sleeve. If you lay them down somewhere, you’re gonna lose ‘em.
The ear wax thing reminds me of the grandmother of a woman I went out with for a while. She had extremely poor hearing. One day she went to a doctor and he removed a mass of wax out of each of her ears. She could hear fine after that. It’s strange because from what I understand she had trouble hearing for quite a while. I don’t know why it took so long to find the cause. Maybe she just never asked a doctor to look at it.
Proof that I’ll listen to you talk about anything. Not just the sex advice on AOTS. Well done, Anna. I guess that I too like the sound of your voice….
Fake Crying? I got the perfect career, professional griever. Think about it, jerks who have no one to mourn for them, could pay you to cry at their funeral. How about this, just got some bad news but can’t express your feelings. Anna to the rescue! A waste of your talent? Maybe, but in these economic times who would fault you for being creative!
Those are all just great. very entertaining. to me.
joe, you always know how to make a girl feel better. and gee thanks batman, because god knows i love to talk. and ron j, i admire your entrepreneurial spirit which i surely just spelled wrong. what’s ironic about my ability to fake cry is that i don’t cry in real life…hardly at all. and i always feel vaguely ashamed of that. oh and doc rock, happy to entertain!
Anna! I enjoyed your vlogs! You kinda need to work on the “camera aim at the ear” thing, but over all it was super duper! I feel kinda bad though, cuz I’m kinda cheating on Alison Rosen when I look at your vlogs. Am I?
Toddrod
I have officially been entertained. Of course, now you have to make these all the time or we shant be satisfied.
I’m a bit torn on the ear wax/q-tip issue. I usually tear most of the cotton off and then go in with them. Of course, I have candle factories in there so I don’t want to go ramming stuff about or I’ll be deaf really quick. I did go to an ENT recently and he got a big sharp device out and went spelunking….it hurt like hell.
toddrod: i knew/hoped it was only a matter of time before you made a full conversion.
derek: cotton OFF? really? ow.
My brain hurts.
I can’t really think of anything useful to use the ear wiggling thing for, unless you’d like to put together a traveling circus act with me, because I can make my ear squeak.
As for the gloves, you are too nice. You should have your gentleman friends carry them for you. If they refuse, go for the crying. You’re correct. Most men will do anything to avoid that.
Video clip 1 – Interesting…yet, disturbing. Interesting being the gloves. I can’t see how that can happen to you that many times. I suppose you must have been very distracted by something/someone during those times that would alter/inhibit your sense of mental awareness.
Video clip 2 – Wow, you sure know how to control and work your lacrimal glands (tear glands). It is independent of the muscles that cause your ears to wiggle, so in no way are they connected. They’re located at the top corner of your eye, and right below the eyebrow. And if you notice, once you force those glands to secrete tears, they’ll diffuse over the surface of your eye, and end up collecting at the interior ends of your eyes (where they are released – as you can see in this clip when you actually do it – and with some tear remains left in the third clip as well).
The reason why you feel your scalp moving is because it indeed is the scalp muscles (around your ears) that are contracting, thus, causing your ears to wiggle. In this case, you’re also very good at controlling your nerves as well (neurologically), which receives signals that then control the muscle contractions. As for the feeling in the back of your throat? Well, that’s a whole nother story. I don’t know enough to tell you about that. But nevertheless, that’s quite remarkable, Anna. You’re the only one that I know of who can “fake cry.”
As for the benefits from faking cries…I can’t really think off the top of my head as to what you could use it for, except to make others feel bad or guilty about something they did? I know it would make me feel that way if I saw you “crying.”
Video clip 3 – Wait a minute, chewed gum grosses you out, yet you want it in your system, so you swallow it? That doesn’t make any sense (or should I say, any percent – 2 can play this game, Anna). And no, using a q-tip is not bad, nor does it make it worst.
These are great. I like the psuedo-personal feel of these. The perceived intimacy. I could listen to you talk about anything.
Regrettably. I was not a fan of the sound of your voice when I first heard it but I really liked your words, your ideas, your honesty. I quickly grew fond of your vocals and now it’s like music to my ears.
Seriously. I’d buy tickets to hear you talk about what you had for breakfast.
Maybe in this alternate universe they only have right handed gloves? Maybe it’s a mirror image kind of situation. Also, I think you’re going to have to teach me how to fake cry. And I think we’ll have to record it.
Great vlogs! I too have fake cried recently, which I did after losing a glove strangely enough. And then I cleaned out my ears with a Q-tip. Wow! We are so connected!
First off, how about mittens instead of gloves? Don’t they make them with like a string between them, so that way they are connected and you don’t lose them.
Secondly, I totally get the Ear Wax thing. It just wigs me to know my ears are dirty, and I clean them every time I get out of the shower. Plus, that feeling of the Qtip in your ear is just a sensory moment that has no match.
Have you got the vlog bug now?
Wait a minute, didn’t OJ also have just one glove?
After seeing that 2nd video clip, I just want to give you a much needed hug (for the both of us!)
I think Prototype may be onto something here. Exactly where IS that other glove, Anna??? And where’s your last boyfriend?
Is there something that you wish to tell us???
But Christian has nailed it. You most certainly should wear your gloves or mittens with the string attached.
Congratulations on winning the just how noncommittal can you sound when describing someone you’re dating award. Honestly that was totally next level, because you didn’t say dating, saying you were “seeing” him was clearly a ring on the finger, so you went with “this boy I’ve been hanging out with.” Impressive.
There almost no way to top that, unless I introduce the girl I’m dating as “this is the girl that I’ve been making eye contact with from across the room for the 6 months, and by eye contact I mean having her come over to my house and I make dinner and then stick my penis in her hoo-haw and sometimes we watch movies and go to the whitney. ” And if someone suggests I’m dating them I will take offense and correct them by reminding them it’s just eye contact. and sex.
Two things about the gloves. Number one, the only thing more interesting about always losing one glove is the fact that you keep a collection of right handed gloves.
Number two, Joe is wrong. I grew up in a cold climate and the only things that I lose more often than my gloves are my underpants.
You’d be surprised how often you can lose underpants. I went out with this girl that I’ve been having eye contact with and I set them down on the table next to me, and after we left a few blocks down I noticed my ass was turning into a block of ice. That’s when I realized I left my underpants at the restaurant.
Fortunately someone else had left a pair of underpants there, and we both looked at each other kind of weird when I slipped them on.
I’m sure you are better at acting than you give yourself credit for. :)
I just love it when you go back and read something you wrote that was light hearted only to realize it potentially makes you look like a douche.
Then again, maybe I’ve been around here long enough to earn a reprieve for any potential douche baggery.
Fuck, now that I look around this place, am *I* the longest running AD blogger commenter guy?
JaysonB – don’t worry, I feel the same way, especially on Alison’s blog. I should always wait until after the second cup of coffee before posting something.
There seems to be a lot of inherent douche-potential when posting on blogs anyway, but we’re all just here to have fun so what the hell.
I do have to say I love it when Alison and Anna post on each other’s blog. It’s the next best thing to seeing a down-and-dirty slap-and-tickle fight.
it’s funny because i did look at jayson’s original comment and wonder if i should approve it but then said to myself, ‘it’s jayson, the original ADF, of course i should.’ and i also wondered if i was revealing too much by mentioning a guy i was hanging out with.
and mel — if you’re reading this…i’ve long thought that the mel commenting on my blog was a mel i knew in my real, non blog life. but since i can’t see her saying the thing you said about my voice, i need to tell you how much i’ve appreciated your comments and been crediting this mel i know for all of them!
You’re welcome. I have a small list of blogs that I check daily. It changes from month to month. Some bloggers lose interest in blogging and others lose my interest. With the celebrity/personality blogs you get a lot of the this page is just for self promotion (I’ll be at the Chuckle Hut this Friday through Monday sort of thing) and that’s it. Others are a little too personal and embarrassing/creepy. You have a nice mix of Honesty, self promotion and “a little something for the fans”.
For example I check out your partner Olivia Munn’s blog. (AOTS being where I first discovered your work. [By the way head and shoulders over the rest of the content on that show, I kid you not]) But I have been thinking about dropping her from my rotation because it has become so much filler/fluff and that’s it. She used to do the vlogs and answer reader-submitted questions and stuff but not much anymore.
I used to have a blog. Really enjoyed it until it became popular (my blog) and in walked the d-bags and troll comments. I have the thinnest skin in recorded history so every thing hurt and it stopped being fun.
Sorry I didn’t turn out to be your old friend. But since you thought my comments were hers. She must be thoughtful, intelligent and insightful. Nice girl. You should give her a call.
and i also wondered if i was revealing too much by mentioning a guy i was hanging out with.
Well, as we all know, every attractive woman in the public eye is single. hahaha
Methinks the thing to do is to occasionally mention any relationship just to let it be known and then, if things go sour, you can unleash your posse of fanboys on the poor bastard.
BTW, about the Q-tip thing. I rip the cotton off (I’m manly like that) but my brother uses the little twist out file from fingernail clippers. And, just as I had warned him, he got a bit rambunctious with it, went in deep, and perforated his ear-drum. 8(
I promise to proof read for douchebaggery in the future. Swear.
See, if you would’ve just said, “the guy I’ve been seeing,” nobody would’ve noticed. But you can that the moment you started that story you realized you weren’t sure how much information you wanted to reveal, and then after every word you were evaluating if you should take yet another step back.
“So the other night I was, ” oh shit, should I talk about this guy I’m seeing? “out with this boy,” did I just say boy? Who does that? I’ve been hanging with Aliro too much“that I’ve been” Anna David, don’t you dare mention you’ve been dating, it’ll reduce your appeal “hanging out with,” if he watches this video he’s going to kill me.
Anna, your blogging style is sooo different than Alison’s style. You are like a hurricane of vlogs that hits you all at once, and Alison is like a wave of vlogs that slowly roll in, one at a time. I’m still not sure if I should admit that I like the waves of enjoyment that come over and over, or one big explosive event that I need to savor for a few days till the next one appears.
Does that sound weird?
Toddrod
I knew a scuba instructor who could blow bubbles out of his tear ducts while in the pool.
Little tiny bubbles. It was pretty cool.
toddrod and other fans of the aliro/AD combo: yes, aliro and i have a different vlog style. i believe in the less-is-more approach, otherwise known as the only-vlog-when-a-professional-has-done-my-makeup approach. and then i just throw them all up there. perhaps next time — and by next time i mean a week from today, ie the next time a pro will be doing her makeup magic — i will shoot them and then space them out.
If Anna and Aliro were versions of wayne’s world from the movie, “Wayne’s World,” Anna would be the cleaned up and scrubbed corporate version, if the cleaned up and scrubbed corporate version were cool and honest and not an excuse to bury corporate sponsorship in the guise of a shitty plot device.
Aliro would be the public access version, not because hers are more sincere or cooler, but because she’s not afraid to pan to what she proudly proclaims as both the “dirty apartment” and “dirty NYC socks.”
….honestly I think I should stop making analogies for the rest of my life. If analogies could be trainwrecks, then I would be one.
As your personal advisor, I suggest you consider the possibility that we might love you just as much when you don’t have any makeup on.
And do you really care about people who don’t?
Damn, this is gonna be the 30th comment. Way to go, Anna!
Aww…another week? I’m sad now. I mean, who knows if I’m even gonna be around by then. Makeup or no makeup, we’ll still see you in the same light and like you just as much, Anna. This is just torture…
= +10 pts to Alison for consistency
= -5 pts from Anna for torturing
okay, due to popular demand (2 comments by impt ADFers counts as popular demand!) and the fact that we’re getting together tomorrow to work on our secret project, more AD/aliro vlogs forthcoming… TOMORROW.
in other words, i’m going, as jayson would say, a little public access…
Yay!
Yay! Thank you, Anna! You had me at the corner with my head down on my desk earlier when you broke the news. But I’m glad you changed your mind! It seems like it’s been so long since we’ve seen Anna-Rose together, or you for that matter, Anna. Thanks for lifting my spirits. I’m happy now.
Yours Prototypically,
- Advanced Prototype 2.0
Way to go Anna! I was thinking that you were kinda mean to make us wait, and then I was thinking maybe you were high maintenance. Then I was thinking maybe you didn’t love us that much! Then I became introspective, and thought that I wasn’t working hard enough for your vlogs. Then I started to blame your other followers because sometimes they say things that make me go, “ew pervs!” Then you replied with this good news, and I’m back to normal now. Thanks!
Toddrod
OK… it’s “tomorrow” now! Where’s it at?!?
Toddrod