July 2008
85 posts
“When you’re good at something, you don’t like to show it off. And...”
– My father when I asked him what my problem is.
Glitter And Doom: Tom Waits In Concert : NPR Music →
Listening to this now. Excellent quality! I was there!
Also, dunno if it’ll be the same ad when you visit this page, but PBR is an NPR sponsor. Nice.
Recipe for an awesome day.
1 cup - pancakes
1 tsp - X Files movie
2 tbsp - $2 Bellinis and crab dip
Dash - Pizza Man
Stir and chill.
“Sometimes I think I am living in a nightmare. All about me, standards are...”
– Review of Step Brothers - Roger Ebert
“Under the guise of “irony,” hipsterism fetishizes the authentic and regurgitates...”
– Why the hipster must die - Time Out New York
out of the loop
It’s been a strange couple of days for me and the Internet. A giant storm knocked out my access at the office and at home yesterday. Thankfully, the cable is back up here at home. But it looks like we’ll be without the Web at work for a few days. Since that is my prime blogging/tumbling time, I don’t have much to add at the moment.
I cleaned up a bunch of large branches in the...
Post-petroleum economy.
That has a nice ring to it.
Pew Research Center News IQ →
Simple questions about current events and politics. See where you rank.
“When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the...”
– Kingsley Amis on hangovers via Annals Of Drinking: A Few Too Many: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Super High Me
Watched Super High Me with the roommate last night. Inspired by Supersize Me, comedian Doug Benson decides to film himself smoking pot all day, every day for 30 days.
No amazing social commentary here (except for some interesting bits about state’s rights versus the feds), but it is pretty funny. A lot of stand up from Benson and from some of his comedian friends.
It was a decent way to...
The Bleeps, The Sweeps, and The Creeps
Our IT dude down the hall has a cell phone or some crazy gadget with an extremely loud, beeping ringer. It sounds like he’s playing pong or someshit.
I wish someone would jam it.
Insensitive s'mores.
Rabidplaybunny87: Okay, so my neighbors officially hate me
GarbageStan23: why?
Rabidplaybunny87: Well, me, david and andrew were having a bonfire in the backyard, and we were making s'mores and all... and suddenly we hear sirens, and see a firetruck turn into the street in front of us.
Rabidplaybunny87: So we all went running to see what was up, and our neighbor's house was on fire!
GarbageStan23: oh shit!
Rabidplaybunny87: Yeah, and when we got there, the wife was crying into her husbands arms, and we were just kinda standing there, and then she saw us, and then like for 10 seconds, gave us the dirtiest look ever
Rabidplaybunny87: Turns out, we were still holding our sticks with marshmallows on it, watching the fire....
Rabidplaybunny87: talk about bad timing...
Top McCain VP Pick Killed "South Carolina Is So... →
Fantasy
I want a really hot girl to recommend a really awesome book.
An Air Car You Could See in 2009: ZPM’s 106 MPG... →
Compressed air? This is the first I’ve heard of it. Sounds promising. But does that mean Exxon is gonna start charging us for air?
United States Terrorist Watch List Counter →
A million terrorists and counting… are you afraid yet?
Highlights from the 2008 Home Run Derby Drinking...
This years’s MLB All Star Game is tomorrow night at Yankee Stadium, which means tonight is the Home Run Derby.
Drink for every home run.
Drink twice if a home run lands in the second deck. Drink three times if it lands in the third deck.
Drink if Alyssa Milano is shown. Drink twice if she’s drooling over Chase Utley.
Drink when Chris Berman says “He hit that to Brooklyn-Shea...
Some lyrics.
If you talk to me, I’ll tell you I like being alone, ‘til I’m alone and going crazy from the heat. I try to go out Friday nights, but I’m so tired from the week. And it’s just small talk with the women that I meet. What’s your day job? How’s the weather? Would you like another drink? That’s okay, I was just leaving anyway. Time to curl up with my...
31 Albums
So I got this idea from Tug, who got it from here and here. You pick an album for each year you’ve been alive. For the years before I was conscious of music (around 1984 or so), I picked albums that I later came to love. Although, it’s kind of fun to imagine my six-year-old self really getting off on Swordfishtrombones, it didn’t happen that way.
If you want to make your own...