mario kart will never be the same

somebody gave bobby brown a show?

bonus: it has whitney!

achtung baby!

i miss terry tate.

center city renaissance

That's an opinion shared by an army of out-of-towners, recent college graduates, and suburban empty-nesters who are swelling Center City's population and remaking its neighborhoods.

Consider the following:

Though Philadelphia as a whole is still losing residents, Center City has the third-largest downtown population after New York and Chicago. Since 2000, its population has increased 11.5 percent, from 78,902 to 88,000. Experts say it could reach 96,000 to 105,000 by 2010.

Retail occupancy in Center City is now at 90 percent - 3 percent higher than 2004. This year, the Urban Land Institute listed Center City among the nation's top 10 for urban retailing.

By year's end, says a November report by the Center City District, 8,235 new housing units - new construction and condominium conversions of older buildings - will have been completed since 1997. By 2008, an additional 3,574 will be done - with 7,204 more proposed.

i really like it down here. i feel safer in center city at 1am than i do at 9pm in the northeast. there's always something going on and everything is nearby. if you work down here, you don't even need a car. besides rent, it's not as expensive as everybody thinks it is.

i'm going to look for a more permanent condo home down here in 2006.

from the latest tv guide

NEW DEVELOPMENT?

Arrested Development fans may soon have reason to smile: Both ABC and Showtime have expressed interest in picking up the apparently doomed Fox series. The networks involved wouldn't comment, but media analyst Stacey Lynn Koerner thinks the show's best bet is ABC. "It has a large promotional base and stable of shows," she says. "On Showtime, the audience wouldn't even be as large as it was on Fox." A post-cancellation pick-up turned JAG into a hit in 1997 when CBS took it over from NBC. It could work here, too.

working on something

on what?

a program to keep track of what work pants and shirts i have in my closet. and which shirts go with which pants.

and a simulation of how many times a year i would wear each article so i can determine the expected wear/tear. and then i can figure out how much of each type of item i need.

too many clothes = too much money and too much investment into the "current" style.
too few clothes = clothes get worn/torn much faster.

i think this problem can be solved through pure brutal german mathematic calculus.

2005 in review, television

Highlights of 2005:

• Lost: "Everything's going to change..."
• 24: "I'm going to call the only person I can trust."
• House: Any sarcastic House comment.
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: "And then we went into the alley and I tore his ass up!"
• Arrested Development: "Her?"
• Rome
• Family Guy
• The OC

we've got the fifth season of 24 starting on the 15th. a goddamn two night/4 hour premiere.

lost starts back up on the 11th.

house and arrested development should start up again in the first week of january.

i'm excited to see when it's always sunny in philadelphia will start up again.

in the tv "offseason" this summer, i'm hoping to catch up on battlestar galactica and rome. i hear that's pretty awesome.

attn elliott smith fans

tons of rarities, videos, and live material.

new york new york

Yuppie girl #1: God, this train is so crowded.
Yuppie girl #2: I hate it when the train is packed like this.
Yuppie girl #1: I just want to shove people, but there's nowhere to shove them to, it's so crowded.
Guy: Whoa, peace on earth, goodwill toward men, everyone just settle down.

--1 train

merry christmukah

enjoy your christmukah, bitches.

2005 in review, movies

Quite a year it was. Interestingly enough, a good portion of these movies were from the International Film Festival. I'm glad I didn't miss out on it this year.

Presented in no particular order.

• The Life Aquatic
• Murderball
• Oldboy
• Survive Style 5+
• Sin City
• King Kong
• The Aristocrats

oh my god

diplomacy is like a risk player's wet dream.

there is no honor in this game.

derek would love it.

oh man

i didn't get home from catherine's birthday spectacular until 2am and i have work in a few hours. i had a good time and i think everybody enjoyed it.

srsly.

i think today is the finest i'll ever eat: cuba libre for lunch and pod for dinner. absolutely ridiculous.

hahahaha

tonight's arrested development was gold.

"And that's why... you don't teach your father a lesson."

movie review: king kong

peter jackson could've easily cut 45 minutes from this movie and made it earn 9/10 instead of 7/10 from me. instead, we get 45 minutes of peter jackson wanking with his lotr oscar statues. other than that, it was good except for jack black's overacting.

p.s. GIANT CENTIPEDES IN MY MOUF.
p.p.s. KONG ISN'T THE MONSTER. WE'RE THE MONSTERS!!!!

this makes me so sad

i don't think most people thought about dogs as a species.

noooooo

NOT PALOM AND POROM!!!

GOOOOOOOOLLLLLBEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!! YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS!

mario institute of technology

jesus christ almighty

what!

i think i threw up a little bit.

great scott!!

hooray for the internet

picked up ff4

took my final tonight. none of the questions were what i expected. a lot more proofs than i wanted. but i think i did alright.

i also picked up final fantasy 4 today for the gba. good times.

final fantasy 6 is where it's really at though. hopefully soon...

subtle comedy gold that should be stored in fort knox

540kb animated gif

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark#.22Jump_the_shark.22_references

halo night

turned into arrested development night. not that there's anything wrong with that although i do wish we had more halo time (aka battle rifle into face time).

:chicken dance:

finally

it took me a nearly 6 hour final push but i've finally finished advance wars: ds.

overall verdict on the campaign: b+.

i felt that a lot of the final missions were gimmicky. capture these in 24 turns, etc. it wasn't overly difficult. i'll have to try some of the war room stuff, which i feel is where the bread+buffer is refridgerated.

:(

Also according to the-op.com's board someone has been informed that the show will get to air up to its tenth episode and then the remaining three will go out on the DVD set. I hope this isn't true but I won't be surprised if it is.

http://the-op.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2213&start=195

also:
http://eyeweekly.com/eye/issue/issue_12.08.05/features/feature.html

also:

yahoo news

Fox benched the criminally low-rated for the duration of November sweeps, and last month cut back the season order from 22 to 13 episodes. The news came after eight shows were already in the can, leaving production just five new episodes to wrap up the Bluth family saga.

At least on Fox. Producer Brian Grazer told CNN last week that he is working feverishly to move the sitcom to another home.

"I think we'll get picked up by some other network, possibly," he said. "You never know.

"I can't tell you anything other than I'm hoping it works out in the way that we want it to. But I'm optimistic."

animal crossing

i know nothing about this game but all of the talk about going online and visiting other people's towns gets me all hot.

p.s. final fantasy 4 gba comes out next tuesday!

current music

"no cars go" and "woodland national anthem" by arcade fire. it's off their demo disk. the album is kinda uneven but those are my two favorites from the album.

i tried sigur ros but it's really hard to get into at work.

i played radiohead's ok computer this afternoon. wow, is that a classic. "climbing up the walls" has to be one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs ever.

well my football season is effectively over

"i love the eagles but fuck'em when they lose."

overheard from a homeless woman in front of the wawa

"michael love marry"

"look at banner, michael!" <3 gob.

another excellent arrested development with such an excellent bittersweet ending.

snow already?!!


WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 AM EST TUESDAY
Today...Mostly cloudy. Snow likely this afternoon. Snow accumulation an inch or less by dusk. Highs in the mid 30s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 60 percent.

Tonight...Snow. Total snow accumulation of 5 to 7 inches. Lows in the upper 20s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.


jon voight as the pope?

i can't imagine the guy in mission impossible being the pope.

is it wrong to laugh?

original myspace suicide

parody:
hitler
picard
vader
medieval
world of warcraft

truth

awesome commercial

only in san fran.

and it appears to be real.

oh tobias

not work safe

edit: flash version at video.google

that was an interesting episode of lost

hello?

omg

got my new speaker system and dell 2005fpw up.

this is ridiculous.

25 begins

eat it, 24.

very interesting

Don Wise, professor emeritus of geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is the nation's foremost proponent of ID. No, Wise isn't getting ready to testify on behalf of the school board in Dover, PA. Rather, he advocates for a different version of the acronym: "incompetent design."

Wise cites serious flaws in the systems of the human body as evidence that design in the universe exhibits not an obvious source of, but a sore lack of, intelligence. Seed asked him to chat about his theory, reactions he's received to it, and the anthem he penned to rally people to his cause.

So is there intelligence in the design?

Yes! No, no there isn't. The thing that perhaps is closest to all of us is our own skeleton, and there are certainly all kinds of stupidity in our design. No self-respecting engineering student would make the kinds of dumb mistakes that are built into us.

All of our pelvises slope forward for convenient knuckle-dragging, like all the other great apes. And the only reason you stand erect is because of this incredible sharp bend at the base of your spine, which is either evolution's way of modifying something or else it's just a design that would flunk a first-year engineering student.

Look at the teeth in your mouth. Basically, most of us have too many teeth for the size of our mouth. Well, is this evolution flattening a mammalian muzzle and jamming it into a face or is it a design that couldn't count accurately above 20?

Look at the bones in your face. They're the same as the other mammals' but they're just squashed and contorted by jamming the jaw into a face with your brain expanding over it, so the potential drainage system in there is so convoluted that no plumber would admit to having done it!
So is this evolution or is this plain stupid design?

"As someone with poorly aligned teeth, a bad knee, and sinus problems, I feel that this man speaks my language."

BREAK THAT SHIT DOWN, SON!!!

i adore the filth that comes out of her mouth

"sarah silverman: jesus is magic" opens this friday at the ritz.

<3

p.s. you know joe franklin threatened to sue her over her infamous joke in the aristocrats...

well then, perhaps at a later convenience

kthx.

so tell me how rent was

go

leftovers

whole wheat bread + leftover turkey + mayo + lettuce + spice mustard + flat pickle

=

delicious

aristocrats dvd on 1/24/06

happy thanksgiving

"ahhh, the sea. may our joys be as great as its depths and our lives as tasty as its residents."

sexbox360

well, me and scott were gonna roll down to best buy tonight but they were all out. :|

ahh well. i might buy a super-discounted laptop or two from dell and try to sell it on ebay or something. srsly.

i would love to afford to buy a rebel xt dslr camera someday. i love photography as a hobby but i don't do enough of it to justify spending $1000 on a highend camera. and using a dslr over my point+shoot is like comparing a ferrari to a pinto. le sigh.

is it?

i love this commercial so much

<3

this has gone too far

a girl in front of me paid for her coffee with her credit card.

$1.16.

attn: xmas is in the air

i just finished watching schindler's list

for the first time.

i
hate
the
whole
fucking
world
and
my
faith
in
humanity
no
longer
exists.

wtfwow

i found a WoW trial disk in this month's maxim.

p.s. cindy crawford!!

omg srsly?

i want some.

stamp collecting.

more karting

4 player kart action over the internet. it is some hot stuff. i raced against people from my gaming messageboard. i thought i was a good kart racer until i got destroyed one-on-one by another gamer. now i'm working on the singleplayer to get good again.

the key to being good is double dashing (turbo boosting during slides) through every single turn as many times as possible.

this is really fun.

mario kart ds

omg, it's as good as i hoped. excellent tracks, excellent controls.

it's a pain to get the internet part set up but once you get online play working, it's totally worth it.

more later.

oh yes

i want the bluth and annyong shirts.

would you like a banger in the mouth?

my stint as the sausage man last night was successful. i believe everybody enjoyed my sausages.

everybody.

i think i made a huge mistake

>:(

i swear to god, i blame america for not supporting this show. THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS. BECAUSE WE CAN'T APPRECIATE NICE THINGS.

god, help me

i made a thing on friendster.

add me plz.

history will not treat intelligent design kindly

kansas. :roll:

"alias is a show about spies"

all is well in the land of milk and honey, my friends.

i don't understand how this show continues to keep delivering without burning out.

you're kidding me

88|

septa strike is finally over

and i celebrated by walking home from work.

and derek thought me and anand were kidding

ds = double satisfaction

i'm about a quarter through advance wars: ds campaign and i have to say that it is indeed hot shit. i'm enjoying getting back into the aw mix. overall, i'm enjoying the ds. it's not as slick as the psp but i do love the ds games more.

i also let derek borrow aw2 for gba. i'm hoping he catches on and we can get some aw multiplayer going.

i am also anticipating some ds tunneling software. i believe aw:ds + internet would be hawt.

so delicious

i'll probably buy a ds this weekend. and advance wars ds.

i am considering myself as the mario-kartadore until beaten otherwise.

oh hell yes

a copy of the massive attack-portishead in bristol tsunami charity concert in .wmv?

88|

edit: i want to make babies with beth gibbon's voice.

septa strike, day 3

i re-tweaked my bad ankle yesterday.

this is not looking good.

just finished watching deep impact

when that bird flu goes human, we are so screwed. i'm not too worried about the flu. i'm more worried about what is gonna happen when everybody panics.

septa strike, day 2

i suspect a few poor souls started but never made it across the 30th street crosswalks. i tip my hat.

i'm starting to feel the burn a little bit. i realized today that i need some extra fuel for 3 miles of walking everyday. it is starting to wear me down a little bit.

checking in at 1.5 miles to work

septa strike, day 1

(aka halloween)

well today sucked. i woke up an hour early at 7:30am. there has been no hot water in my building since last night. for what i pay to live here, i fully expected emergency water heaters and a swat team bodyguards out front this morning. but no, that did not happen.

today, i thought it would be funny if i wore a full suit to work today. because i wanted to be a professional for halloween. because i wanted to be a manager for halloween. because i wanted to be within the dress code for once.

so i donned my suit and left my apartment at roughly 9:30 to walk from 19th street to 38th street. let me tell you that the comedy gold of wearing a suit today turned into comedy pyrite at about 31st street. i'm not doing that again in those shoes. but my halloween joke went over really well so i'm happy about that.

i would also like to point out that every crosswalk was hazardous to pedestrians. there's a fight at every light between turning cars and pedestrians. i thought i was going to die out there.

oh, vanessa is such a card

make it so

i love slate, again

Throughout the public evisceration of Harriet Miers, even her critics have tended to concede one of President Bush's main claims: Miers couldn't have been a complete loser to rise to the top of the bar and of her law firm.

Wrong.

Well, to be fair, a complete loser would have had to stretch to win election as president of her local and state bar associations. And loser perhaps isn't the word for the typical law firm managing partner back in Miers' era.

Mediocritythat's a better word for it.

i love slate because they have no sacred cows.

oh my god, send for help!

We drove to the ER, and the receptionist managed to keep a straight face when I told her that I had woken my parents up, and gone to the hospital because a spider had crawled into my ear. So I sat in the lobby for awhile. Every now and then, the thing would burrow deeper. It felt exactly like you'd imagine it would.

Then the nurse came to get me. My mom came with, since she didn't want to miss whatever happened, and we followed her into the sick room. The nurse took my temperature, checked my blood pressure, and went to wake up the doctor.

The doctor came in, obviously still half asleep, introduced himself, and asked me how I was doing. I said "Well I have a spider in my ear."

"Really? Truthfully, you really have a spider in your ear?"

"Yeah."

"I don't like spiders. I'll pour something in your ear to numb you and kill it."

He left, and came back with a syringe, full of what looked just like water. He squirted that into my ear, then used that weird looking glowy thing doctors use to check out what was going on in there. He said he definitely saw something, but didn't think it was a spider. So he got the nurse, and went back to bed.

The nurse used a syringe with a really long end to flush out what she said just looked like a big piece of wax. After doing this about 5 times, I began to think that maybe I had just gone crazy. Then this fucker came out:

I was expecting a tiny little spider. This thing is about the size of a small pea.

So now I'm going back to bed. It still feels like it's in there.

It will feel like it's in there for awhile, but that's just until the eggs hatch. Then you'll be fine.

Seriously, though, I work in a children's ER, and we see bugs in ears quite often. Most often, though, it's cockroaches. Sometimes, the child is so small, and the roach that comes out is so large, I wonder how it's possible. We're plum in the middle of the ghetto, so I assume that's why it's most often roaches. The roaches we have at the hospital are absurdly huge, so I can only imagine what's crawling around in the homes surrounding us.

About a year ago, a kiddo came in crying and screaming, and the mother was all nonchalant, deadpan; "a roach crawled up in his ear". We got it out, still alive, when we saw another surprise: another live roach underneath it. Not one, but two had crawled in, while he was asleep. We couldn't seem to get it out, only managing to pull off it's back half.

We had to send him home, with half a roach in his ear and an appointment the next afternoon to have it removed surgically.

My boss had this happen to him, but he didn't know it was there - it must have crawled in while he was asleep and had set up home in there. Whenever it wriggled it messed with his balance and made him fall over. After a week or so of this he went to the doctors and they looked in and saw the spider, so they got some tweezers and pulled it out. Then they went in again and very carefully pulled out the white egg sac that could have caused god knows how much fun if it had been left behind.

Yummy.

oic

ewww

"It's well known that few people actually sleep alone: Most beds are home to thousands of microscopic dust mites, which produce so much excrement they can add a pound or two of weight to your mattress every year, by some estimates."

disgusting

Thirteen-year-old twins Lamb and Lynx Gaede have one album out, another on the way, a music video, and lots of fans.

They may remind you another famous pair of singers, the Olsen Twins, and the girls say they like that. But unlike the Olsens, who built a media empire on their fun-loving, squeaky-clean image, Lamb and Lynx are cultivating a much darker personna. They are white nationalists and use their talents to preach a message of hate.

Known as "Prussian Blue" a nod to their German heritage and bright blue eyes the girls from Bakersfield, Calif., have been performing songs about white nationalism before all-white crowds since they were nine.

this is why we can't have nice things.

delicious

walker?

grad school sucks

don't let anybody convince you otherwise.

richard simmons...

who would've thought?

what

http://www.oceanicflight815.com/

Click on the bar code and type in "theislandiswaiting"

skype

it's pretty cool. internet telephony. pretty good voice quality. free internet to internet calling. you can pay a small fee for a real phone number assignment that people can dial to call you (about $30 a year) and voicemail service. you can also pay a small fee to make outgoing calls to real phone numbers (2 cents a minute, which isn't bad). it's like a pay-as-you-go service to replace a voice landline if you have one.

i'm thinking of getting on this so i can save a few bucks by downgrading my cellphone plan and use skype whenever i'm in my apt.

skype me. wvuong.

everything is going to be different now

well, not really.

solid b for this week's lost episode. they can't all be a plus episodes.

i love my new umbrella

i can twirl it around and sip a cup of tea like a british person.

it's like hip hop never seen a violin before

just a pretty face with a violin and a biggie cd. nothing really special or outstanding, if you ask me.

oh hay

only for those up to date to season 2, episode 3

i need to finish splinter cell 3 before...

ankle status

the purple discoloration on the outside of the ankle is starting to disappear. one random purple bruise showed up last friday though on the inside of my ankle. that's strange.

i'm a little bit stronger but i'm really slow on stairs. i can't wear my sketchers to work either; they're heavy and they dig into my ankle a little bit. back to ignoring the dress code at work this week! :)

it sucks that this healing is not fast at all. i'm feel pretty fortunate that i didn't rupture anything in the hours and days following though.

i think i might start up physical therapy/rehab for my ankle at the drexel sports medicine center. if i want to continue running, which i do, i'll need to strengthen what's left of my ankle or else i'll be really prone to frequent ankle injuries in the future.

people ask me if i would do it again. no. no, sir, i would not.

hey brother!

i finally found arrested development gob's magic show theme song.

edit: 99 cents for HOURS AND HOURS of personal amusement? hell yes!

oic

god, i love portishead. and lost.

blue

as in balls.

damn you, lost, for leading me on like that...

but i can't stay mad at you. :(

guess who has a torn ligament in his ankle?

i do i do!!

ankle update

i took today off because i didn't walk to walk on my ankle.

it feels better. i'm still pretty limited and gimpy on it. my knee is showing a lot more cuts and bruised than yesterday. my ankle area is now purple and slightly swollen.

from the internet, i've figured out that it's an inversion sprain and type 2 which means partially torn. good times.

:(

i did the parkway race this morning. let me recap.

in the first quarter mile, everything was slow and i tried to get to the edges so i can sprint up. well, i forgot the first rule of running and that is to keep your eyes on the road. while sprinting up, i got caught in a little pothole and took a tumble. cut up my left knee and sprained my right ankle pretty badly. i couldn't get up until two other runners helped me to the curb. i took a few seconds to collect myself and then started running again trying to keep pace. 3 miles on a bad ankle and a bloody knee. my mechanics were all messed up and had to really pound it to get it keep my locomotion going. it was pretty stupid to keep running but i don't think i made it any worse. adam finished two minutes ahead of me. once i finished and started walking, i realized how bad this was.

this was probably my last race for the next 6 weeks.

first mile, 10:30.

second mile, 21:30.

finish, 30:00.

i've got one ibuprofen in me and many more are expected.

no surprise

But the American public appears to back the school district.

At least 31 states are taking steps to teach alternatives to evolution. A CBS poll last November found 65 percent of Americans favor teaching creationism as well as evolution while 37 percent want creationism taught instead of evolution.

Fifty-five percent of Americans believe God created humans in their present form, the poll found.

it's because people, for the most part, are stupid. we are not objective thinkers. we are biased. we are racist. we are misinformed. we are afraid of change. we are so easily manipulated. and we need to be protected from ourselves.

and this is the reason why most "democratic" governments are not full democracies but rather partial representative democracies. why do we, the people, elect people into the electoral college to vote for us? why do we have a system where we, the people, do not directly elect supreme court justices?

because if we simply let a mob of people run this shit based simply on a majority vote, we would be fucked big time. because i don't see any reason why the "every home in america should be provided with hdtv and an air conditioner" bill wouldn't pass. imagine the "let's decide what to teach our children based on a majority vote" curriculum would include terrel owens, wheel of fortune, suv maintenance, and lottery tickets. when the majority chooses nonsense, the rest of us has to deal with it. because the stupids outnumber the critical thinkers by a whole lot and i'm seeing it more and more everyday.

note: when not-smart people say the smart people are arrogant and shit, well, there's a reason why and it's because they've earned it.

motions

the evening of october 9th is the tentative date of my pot luck dinner. this will be locked down within a week.

i will be running this sunday morning.

i will keep the last 3 episodes of lost on the dvr for eddie/derek/scott.

it also looks like every recorded episode of it's always sunny in philadelphia is truncated. :( i'll figure something out.

:O

p.s.

lost starts tomorrow night. adam is coming over for the premiere at 9. get back to me about it, eddie and derek.

caffeine

i need to cut back. i'm drinking too much coffee in the afternoon. i'm getting FREAKED OUT MAN.

a great season of television awaits

tomorrow, a new season of arrested development begins. house continues on tuesday. lost starts back up on wednesday. the oc is still dramabombing. and simpsons/family guy is rolling along.

i like prison break.

it's always sunny in philadelphia has promise.

if i watched all of this television, i wouldn't be able to do anything else.

perry bible fellowship is the most amazing thing on the internet

how strange

sup nintendo, how your 'shrooms?

starting up at drexel in two weeks

got the admissions thing today.

computer science masters, bitches.

it's pretty crazy how i can submit my application on 8/30 and get accepted on 9/14 for classes starting on 9/26.

i made a facebook thing

and i feel so dirty.

but add me to your friends.

still so dirty...

oh shi katamari

looks like it comes out next week!

jesus is magic

i cannot wait.

<3 <3 <3 sarah silverman <3 <3 <3

i think my apartment is haunted

fyi

fuck yo carpet

i found some real oxyclean, not that oxy deep bullshit, and removed the stain.

you're still on probation though.

torresdale represent

i went back into the great northeast yesterday to send my old buddy anthony off to iraq with my friend jack daniel.

not too many pix.

you guys should've called if you were going to take that long

Yesterday, Derek and I managed to finish up moving into our new apartment. From the 9th floor down to the 5th floor. We started the process at 8am and finally ended at 11pm. Yes, the entire moving process took over 12 hours.

p.s. bulboff has declared himself as el smashadore and welcomes all title defenses.

lol

Oh, sweet internet. Before you came along our teenage follies would remain forever private. Now, thanks to you, a teenager's mishap becomes available for the entire world to see.

prison break

not a bad show. very much in the vein of 24.

oic

if it's on the internet, then it must be true!

OH SNAP SON!

keith olbermann lays it all out there.

oh god

have you ever thought of all of that dust and air particulate matter that you breathe in when you're at an underground subway station?

yeah, so think about it.

mecha cat!

supreme court wtfmate

Moving quickly to fill the vacancy left by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's death, President Bush on Monday nominated Judge John Roberts to the nation's top judicial post.

how can you possibly nominate the new guy be the chief justice? that's like if at work, the new guy straight from college gets hired to be the new department head over the guys who've got dozens of years of seniority and experience.

you're supposed to give it to the most senior person or the best leader. not the new guy. that's a slap on the face to every justice.

this ain't bush league, son! oh wait, unintended pun.

attention: george bush don't care about black people

&lt;3 jack bauer &lt;3

24: the movie.

defending new orleans

"any concerted effort to protect the city from a storm of category 4 or 5 will probably take 30 years to complete. And the feasibility study alone for such an effort will cost as much as $8 million. Even though Congress has authorized the feasibility study, funding has not yet been appropriated. When funds are made available, the study will take about six years to complete. That's a lot of time to get the study before Congress, Naomi admits. Hopefully we won't have a major storm before then."

my faith in humanity is underwater

hay guys, let's shoot at the people who are trying to help us! hurrr.

and let's not forget the armed gangs that roam at night raping and pillaging.

na'ollins

copy and paste this into your media player: mms://video.pbs.org/general/windows/wgbh/nova/nsn-3204-02-220.wmv

i will have a margarita in your honor. i really wanted to visit the debauchery too. :(

party prepraration

i'm throwing a big party this saturday night. do you think 9.5oz of rum/vodka allocated per person is enough?

flying spaghetti monster rides again!

my new phone

hit me on wvuong. the voice over ip stuff is kinda neat. it's like having a phone at the apartment but not.

sweet jesus jones

eclipse 3.1

i installed eclipse 3.1 onto lappy the other day and i've been using it to write my wildcatter program. i've gotta say that eclipse 3.1 rocks. so refined and polished.

and 3.2 is shaping up to be nice too. too bad the webtools project still sucks.

Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory

solid gold.

hawt

i got my new inspiron 6000 (lappy686) and my wireless router up and running. we'll see how this works out.

all in favor

of benching TO for the year and then cutting him.

AYE.

sup kansas

lol. this is what happens to a state when the first thing that comes out of it is a plea for "guns and bibles."

truly a class act

i was pretty bummed out when i heard that peter jennings died earlier this week. i'm still pretty bummed out about it.

the last of his generation of news anchors. a constant through the last few decades. a class act and a great man. here's to you, peter jennings.

eldwin's wedding pix

dashing young men represent.

p.s. most of the pix suck because of the godawful lighting or more accurately, the nonexistence of lighting. and flash with longer exposure wasn't going to help either.

the power of lysol

i don't know what's in it but it is literally the second coming as my kitchen and bathroom are now lemony-fresh.

darkness is spreading!

i'm so proud of derek for rampaging through the first two seasons of 24 like a coked up homeless guy in a library.

jack bauer power hour 4ever.

do you remember paperboy?

i know i do.

ff12 lolz

come back dave!

this carlos mencia show on comedy central is a poor man's chappelle show.

WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME!

WHO ARE YOU AND WHO DO YOU WORK FOR??!?!

westbrook

come back, westbrook! we love you more than TO!

shit

i missed posting yesterday.

i totally blame adam, eddie, and derek.

announcing...

my apartment party for the evening of 8/27. block that out on your outlooks.

support the arts

eddie (and derek) created a tshirt based on adam's idea. buy one, and support the tshirt arts.

my idea for a series of tshirt involves cancer. and cancer isn't funny at all. in public.

just posting to keep the streak alive

nt. srly.

i'm rooting for the nerd


[20:08] will: why am i watching average joe?
[20:30] adam: average joe! you must be bored
[20:30] will: eating dinner
[20:30] will: it is the season finale too
[20:31] will: you know i'm a slut for fake drama
[20:31] adam: haha
[20:31] adam: yes indeed


oh my god

it's so hot out i thought i was going to lose a testicle out there.

willy wonka

it was a weird movie but i liked it. the humor was a bit on the dark side. johnny depp was... johnny depp.

gene wilder was the better wonka though. gene could sing.

posting

just to keep the streak alive

oh yes i want one

it's rasterbating on a larger scale.

and the competition is over

lance: hay guys, thx for playing. gg, rly.
not-team-discovery: :(

murderball, again!

so murderball was everything i remembered it to be.

pete and anand thought it was excellent. it was a triumph of the human spirit, in reinforced wheelchairs.

one thing is not like the other

look closely.

dan the band: the concert

well, we waited two hours. then they did an hour and fifteen minute set including two encore songs.

it was well worth $20 for their set. but the fact that we waited two hours SUCKED.

their set was hilarious. i can't even describe what happened for an hour and fifteen minutes. this is their album at amazon. check out their samples, especially "total eclipse fo the heart."

<3

lol oh my

so

something that nobody mentioned about bush's selection to the supreme court: the guy is 50 years old. if he isn't a moderate (which i don't think he is), he'll be screwing over generations of progressive politics. like 30 years worth of screwing.

just a thought.

the dan band

apparently, the dan band will be at the trocadero this thursday for a show.

yes, their only claim to fame was their fucking awesome rendition of "total eclipse of the heart" in the "old school" movie.

i may go.

this should be entertaining

to watch unfold.

p.s. this sucks.

still

on pace to have a post on every day of the calendar

winners don't do drugs. stay in school.

that's got to hurt his feelings

i never thought

watching cycling (le tour de france) on tv was so awesome.

my only thing is that we should invade france and force them to televise this in high definition + widescreen. seriously, guys.

oh, and take their women too.

heresy

i wanted this shirt. $20. ok, i can swing $20 for a design i like. i mean, it's death by flying toilet.

shipping address.

billing address.

payment in...

what.

$10 shipping. for a tshirt? that's 50% of the shirt right there! i may be doing well for myself but i can't pay $30 for a cotton tshirt. it's not like i'm the great gatsby.

cancel order.

the unspoken protocol

there is an unspoken, but widely understood, protocol that when you go to a gym, you are trying to best the person next to you. lift more than them. run faster than them. show off your physical prowess, even if you have to hurt yourself in the process. even more so if there are desireable persons in the same room, you are flairing your feathers. you are always competing with the person next to you whether you want to or not; the gym is a social ritual of genital measurement.

i walked into the gym today knowing this with intent to smoke the shit out of the person on the adjacent treadmill.

i got stuck on the middle treadmill with a hot girl on my left and a big muscle guy on my right. i had something to prove. i could not win against the muscle guy in a bout of fisticuffs, but hell, i'll take him in a sprint down the parkway. i hear this talent is cherished by hot girls somewhere in the world where this is a serious occupation. but here, i was going to flair my feathers.

i had a cheesesteak and a snickers bar today. i was ready to rock. amazing how fast the predator has turned into the prey.

six miles per hour at 1.0 incline. i brought my 'a' game and was moving along at six point one miles per hour at 2.5 incline after warming up. yes, my friends, i went six point one. this is not a petty thing per se, because i pace myself at a sustained six one on inclines. and even then, my incline was like 250% of his.

but wait, i looked at her screen and she was rocking along at seven and half miles per hour at no incline.

oh.

then she started doing sustained sprints at nine and a half miles per hour. let me break this down for you: that's pretty close to a 6 minute mile. that's an incredible pace. that's a pace that professionals run. like professionals in a part of the world where this is a serious occupation.

oh.

well, she certainly displaced more water volume than i did today.


p.s. all of this was exaggerated for your entertainment. but i still got totally smoked by the girl.

something is awful dot com

nine megs.

on pace

to post every goddamn day of this month.

new hobby of the month

sign language. i'm going to learn sign language. so i can communicate silently across long distances, even.

i just need to find somebody to communicate with.

attention

we have a korean, choi, in the homerun derby. in america. now, i've seen everything.

also: lots of <3 for the abreau homerun hitting clinic.

watermelon + vodka

we're definitely doing this for the party.

samus before the missiles upgrade

hot katamari action

can't wait.

othello

it's like the oc but with more royalty dying.

mango nectar

is the juice of the gods. i'm sure jesus is sipping some right now. here's to you.

we love katamari!

is out in japan.

le sigh.

running

i'm considering getting new running shoes.

i've been training to run 5k at roughly 2% incline on the treadmill lately. i think training at higher inclines would lead to a stronger 5k performance in the real world.

of course, i don't really have anything to train for. the next 5k that i know of in the city won't be until september.

lance armstrong

is a goddamn genetic monster.

his lungs use much more efficient use of oxygen than the rest of us.

his body produces much less lactic acid in his muscles than the rest of us.

his body removes lactic acid from his muscles much more efficiently.

he can push his heart out to 190 bpm.

only one more race and the greatest athlete of our times will professionally retire.

i must be the only straight male...

not afraid of admitting that this is on my tv right now.

interesting

let's talk about kitchen essentials

here is a short list that any "supreme cuisine" kitchen cannot do without:

• splatter guard: must-have if you do a lot of frying and you don't want oil on all of your kitchen surfaces afterwards.
• marindes: so important. worchester sauce, chinese marinades, thousand island dressing, cumen, garlic powder, bbq sauce, chili sauce.
• herbs and spices: if you are just starting out, get a basic spice bundle.
• black pepper grinder: freshly-ground black pepper is awesome.
• lots of kosher salt
• meat thermometer: must-have for oven work. especially one with a long probe that you can use outside of the oven.
• lots of tin foil

he's back!

who would've thought the parts of a lightbulb would make a fine lockpick?

yum

that's two days in a row that i made pancakes using lactaid.

10 minute rocketman!

he can do it because he's elton john.

awesome live 8 panorama

aftermath

so i walked down the parkway a little bit to take a look at the aftermath and i'm pretty surprised. it was clean. it was like there was no music festival yesterday. the city did an excellent job cleaning up the place.

yesterday, i was wearing sandals and was afraid i was going to get cooties on my feet from all the trash. (i did see several used condoms in the parkway. ewww.)

yeah so live 8

so i got in to see the tail end of it. by the time i got in, most of the people were leaving. i think most of the people left after the amazing linkin park/jay-z set.

it was amazing. it was like a sea of sweaty under-30 humanity. philly was on its best behavior. they definitely trashed the shit out of the parkway though. afterwards, we went to fado bar/restaurant and hung out.

i'm wondering where we put the usual parkway homeless. maybe we chloroformed them last night and dropped them off in trenton.

all in all, i don't think this concert will do much politically. you're stupid if you think we can eradicate poverty in the african continent when we can't do it here. noble, but ultimately naive.

edit: not racist.

hot

that linkin park/jay-z set was hot.

still in the apt. had to go the gym. on my way out... for like the final few sets.

oh god, it begins

i've got adam down there in the mix of things.

i'm too lazy/tired to head out and take a look.

there's a constant drone of overhead helicopters.

five day weekend?

hell yes.

pretreat your meat

i cannot stress this enough: marinate your meats before you grill them. i'm not talking about for like 5 or 10 minutes either. i'm talking at least an hour. you want your chicken/beef to soak in those flavors and keep them trapped inside during the grilling process. make sure you marinate all sides for even flavor.

these are my favorites:
beef - worchester sauce
chicken - trader joe's chinese marinade + italian seasoning

also acceptable is soy sauce + pinch of salt + lots of garlic powder. i also like bbq sauce as a marinade.

this is what i like to do:
put your meat in a bowl, add in marinade, use your hands to mix and evenly coat, let sit for 20-30 minutes, then move to the fridge for the remaining hour.

i like to think the meat soaks up the marinade and then is locked in during the refridgerator phase.

let's jog down the parkway on saturday.... oh shi

shit. i hope my building is barb-wired and management will hand out rifles saturday morning to defend the entrances.

i guess i'll probably stop by to see what's going on. i mean, how cannot i? i'm practically there. i know some friends are counting on me... i mean, my apartment, as home base for certain bon jovi expeditions. for this, i have stocked the booze cabinet.

also, on july 3rd, the minibosses will be in town. that's right, the minibosses. $10 at the first unitarian church down the block.

july 4th, i fully intend to check out the fireworks on the parkway.

if you can read this and not afraid of sunlight, you are welcome to join any of the festivities.

jeez

the sky is so dark, i'm expecting the eye of sauron to appear any moment now.

grand, just grand

my favorite desktops

hot hot ff3/6. somebody made these in the somethingawful forums. i can't find the exact thread but these are awesome.

this 10 year old would totally kick my ass

he's no match for me in a car though.

there is no conspiracy

John Fiedler, voice of Piglet, dies | Voice of Tigger dies

this is a coincidence, nothing more. there's no pooh killer or conspiracy.

listen, if there was, wouldn't they have killed the smart ones first? the one who could figure out who the killer was and solved the crime? not the weakling. not the dumbass. yeah, that's right, owl. owl was the smart one.

if i were to go on a pooh murdering spree, i would kill owl first because he's got the whole magic forest on lock, son. this is how a professional does it.

p.s. it's probably rabbit.

new category

in this category, i will be talking about cooking and how my cuisine reigns supreme.

allez cuisine, bitch.

i hate it when it rains

before living here, i used to think that a heavy downpour on center city was sort of poetic. like nature or some benevolent force rinsing down the streets of sin and scum and stuff.

now i fucking hate it.

especially in the summer with the heat and the humidity. do you know what humidity is? humidity is water vapor in the air. do you know what rides along in the humidity? smells.

septa vehicles and the people aboard them smell like wet dogs. the trolley station smells like urine and homeless people (there is likely correlation there). the streets smell like garbage juice. you know, the juice that leaks from garbage trucks when they compact. don't forget the exotic liquids that restaurants dump into the streets. the rain and heat reactivates the juice. the humidity carries it.

and this weather amplifies the homeless people smell. listen, i'm compassionate about their situation: i hook them up donuts or whatever from wawa occassionally. but i wish the city authorized a fire engine dedicated to roaming the streets and spraying down homeless people with soapy water. spray the shit out of them.

hawt

wut

did anybody see that jessica simpson video for that godawful dukes of hazard remake? 88|

it's like ashlee simpson totally tripped and fell into a different gene pool by accident.

oh shit, it's geoff

sup geoff, how's it going?

it's been a long time.

i don't see

any problem in waiting a few hours so i can go home and use the toilet. unless it's a dire emergency, i strongly prefer homefield advantage.

omg the onion is fucking grand this week

batman begins

so i cut work last thursday a few hours early to see batman begins. all in all, if you're a fan of the dark night returns animated series, then you would love this movie. it follows the animated series/comic word for word.

christian bale was a great batman and everybody else did well in their roles (caine, neeson, freeman, holmes, oldman). the only negative about the movie is that the action scenes were cut like a mtv music video. way too fast and rapid.

yeah so

i was supposed to run a 5k this morning for the prostate cancer charity but sleeping in was a higher priority this morning and so that was that.

i hope that doesn't make me a bad person.

murderball!

patriots continuing to spurt all over themselves

There is unrest on Planet Foxborough. Many of its inhabitants fear the Patriot Federation will be overthrown after a long, prosperous reign over the galaxy. The mysteries of the turbulence can be explained only by the wise Coach Yodachick, who has been through hundreds of wars.

Master Yodachick, does keeping the Federation together at this point represent a challenge greater than any other?

Great every challenge has been, my Padawan. One is not more imposing than the other. Change is constant. Come and go, senators do. Come and go, warriors do.

And what of those who remain?

Find new ways to invigorate the minds of our Jedi, we must.

oh

88|

kewl

there's something totally unreal about leaving your apt building at midnight to walk down the block to 7-11 to pick up some lactaid milk. walking back in the empty city streets and looking up and being surrounded by mostly dark office towers.

i think i'll stay here for another year or two.

science 1, conservatives 0

i have a six thousand year old planet to sell you.

i told you that this was going to happen

peter king and his homoerotic fan fiction:

After the game, the man who now has to be mentioned with the great coaches of all time, Bill Belichick, met Brady in a dank hallway outside the Patriots locker room and embraced him like a long-lost son. This was a terrific game for Belichick as well, gets credit for more than just the head-coaching victory here. Belichick, who spent the season doubling as New England's offensive coordinator after Charlie Weis ascended to Notre Dame last year was tonight's MVAC -- Most Valuable Assistant Coach -- after calling two gutsy touchdown plays in the fourth quarter that led the Patriots back from a 17-16 deficit with 14 minutes to play.

"You're the best quarterback I've ever seen,'' Belichick said in Brady's ear.

i swear to god i thought the next paragraph was going to lead back into the locker room and then chicka bow wow...

i told you fuckers that this was going to happen way back on february 5th. (don't read below if you're my sister)

[00:58] me: listen
[00:59] me: i don't want to spend the next 8 months listening to bostonians and those fuckers at espn masturbating on each other's faces whenever they talk about tom brady and belichick and then compare them to montana and lombardi
[00:59] bij: haha
[00:59] bij: yea yea
[00:59] bij: we'll see on sunday
[00:59] me: the circle jerk must stop
[01:00] bij: not if it means the eagles have to win
[01:00] bij: NEVER!!!!
[01:00] me: no football fan would be able to withstand the jerking action over the next 8 months
[01:00] bij: haha
[01:00] me: it'll be like the cowboys of the 90s all over again
[01:02] bij: haha
[01:03] bij: you can't convince me, u gotta work on someone else
[01:03] me: fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap
[01:03] me: you hear that?
[01:03] me: that's the sound of espn and sports illustrated spurting all over themselves

ugh. let's send peter king some hand sanitizer and a towel.

omg somebody bent my wookie

i swear we're not going to be able to continue our species

requires java

sunday update

mood: tired.

health: still hungover.

rank: i made squad leader in battlefield 2. soooo addicted. such an awesome game, especially if you play with people you know aren't assholes.

lol wacko for jacko

battlefield 2

you bitches better get on.

i swear

my comcast bill goes up like $10 every month.

i don't even watch hbo anymore.

fuck.

goddamn

it's been like 2 or 3 months since i returned a movie to netflix. stupid dvr. i'm getting back on the roll though. at least one return per week.

finished:
interview with the vampire - 4.211/5.0

now working on:
coupling season 2 disk 1

st. ides heaven

favorite song of the moment:
st. ides heaven (lyrics, sample)
elliott smith
elliott smith

it's a beautiful hook.

high on amphetamines
the moon is a lightbulb breaking
it'll go around with anyone
but it won't come down for anyone

aka missing

Seating chart

click on rows 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42 in order.

holy moly

these guys have balls. i don't even like crossing the street in manhattan.

apparently...

i have a myspace thing now. i have no idea why. and i have no idea how to use it. i'm still trying to figure out what to put in it.

you people should set one up too. so my friends list can actually have people on it.

edit: i just finished it. i'm done. i don't expect to ever touch it again. but now nobody can say that i don't have a myspace.

so i say to the lady if you wanted the parking space so bad... WHOA!

lost and arrested development

adam, eddie, and derek came by this weekend and we worked off 12 episodes of lost. hardcore!

and we watched a few episodes of arrested development season 1 and it was goddamn hilarious.

also, the chappelle show season 2 dvd set has been pretty good too. some of the outtakes are great.

i'm sorry

not to make a big nerd fight or anything but...

nothing beats the final battle + ewoks + freeing han from jabba.

i would like to posture that hoth battle, yoda, betrayal of han by lando into carbonite, and our first surprise taste of domestic family violence beats jedi's best.

just sayin.

alias season finale

now that's how you end a season!!!

man, in high def and 5.1 audio, it felt like i was in the car at the end. fucking a!

lost season finale

possibly the best 2 hours of tv ever.

also biggest season-ending cliffhanger. blue balls until september. :oops:

like today, omg my son!

excellent writing.

katamari ds

:dance:

this, mario kart ds, and advance wars ds plz

rice

after getting my haircut after work, i stopped by the chung may food market to pick up a 25 pound bag of rice. of course, having never bought a bag of rice before, i had no idea what i was doing. nevertheless, for $12, i was the proud new owner of a lot of rice.

i figure i'll catch the 48 bus on arch street to the apt. oh but the gods chortled and the 48 went rumbling by a block away. and the skies darkened and the clouds hung low. and so it was destiny that i walked 7 blocks down arch street hefting a 25 pound bag of rice.

oh the looks you get from people when you're walking down the street with a big bag of rice in your arms. it's cool when you're in chinatown. you get the nod of approval from the old people because they know you're taking care of business, etc.

but the second you leave chinatown, i got some weird looks. what? these are my groceries. 25 pounds of it. this is what i eat. this is what my people eat. it's not like i'm giving you dirty looks when you're hefting 25 pounds of frozen dinner or buckets of fried chicken. it's not like i'm walking down the street with 25 pounds of vaseline and plastic wrap.

anyway, i made it home before it started to rain.

with my precious precious white gold.

waiting for 24

TELL ME WHAT TIME THE SEASON FINALE STARTS!?!

8 oclock. ok.

oh my

lol

then rofl

two years in the making

i finally finished wind waker. and it was good.

i am looking forward to more hot link on (saving) zelda action.

oh snap half life 2 physics

star wars

it was good for a star wars movie. i'm not going to be as harsh about it as some people named derek are.

ranked:
5 empire strikes back
6 return of the jedi
3 revenge of the sith
4 a new hope
2 attack of the clones
1 phantom menace

i love e3 week

it's videogame overload!

TELL ME WHAT THE SQUARE BUTTON DOES!!!!

i want to be jack bauer and the square button better be a goddamn interrogate button

5k complete

26:40.

8 minute mile
8:40 minute mile
9 minute mile
~1 minute finish.

XX(

we love katamari!

katamari feel so good!

sweet seXBOX jesus

5k, the next generation

it's on.... again!

this time the charity is for poor kids or something. sunday, 8:35am.

5k

well i finished the 5k this morning. it was an interesting experience. imagine a sea of tens of thousands of runners/walkers. then imagine running through and with it. first, me and adam couldn't fight our way closer than a block from the starting line. second, we spent most of the first mile in a mild jog. it wasn't until the beginning of the second mile that it opened up a lot. third, i abruptly cut a lot of people off the way i was running through the crowds. fourth, i spent a lot of a energy bursting and sprinting through the crowds early in the race. at the 2.5 mile mark, i went looking for my mushroom boosts and i couldn't find it. :(

my personal time was about 29 minutes, which i guess is ok for this run. i think i could've taken at least 2 or 3 minutes off of it though.

i think i'll run another one in a month or so.

p.s. lots of hawt runner chicks there. hurrrr.

this is why other countries will surpass us

because we are allowing a vocal minority to take teach bullshit instead of science to our kids.

i love sa's photoshop threads

donate to my cause!

sweet jesus, advance wars ds

it's like nintendo said bitches, this is how we do.

only they don't do it often enough. :(

holy shit 24

tonight's episode was arguably one of the best episodes of all four seasons. 88|

tonight's episode was brought to you by the letters, o, m, f, g.

and the race is off due to rain

well people might actually run in the rain but i'm not.

my socks might get wet.

oh snap 5k bitches

it might be on. there might be a break in the rain tomorrow during the race.

we'll see. i didn't plan on running tomorrow. i mean, it is 2:41 am and i did just get back from dave and busters after a few drinks.

no 5k run

due to inclement weather tomorrow morning.

this sucks.

i was hoping to run too. i'll have to find another 5k to try.

snake handlers

i'm watching this "dancing with the devil" special on dateline nbc. exorcisms and snake handling.

yes, snake handling. and drinking poison. because it's in the bible. to test your faith. and if you die, it's god's will.

where? only in the south.

listen, if you're stupid enough to dance around with a poisonous snake, you deserve to get bit in order to expedite your removal from the gene pool.

TO on the INTERNETS

TO posted this on his web site:

WELL, U KNO I'M NT GONNA B THERE THIS WKEND OR THE NEXT IF THIS SITUATION DOESN'T GET RESOLVED BUT I'M PRAYIN IT DOES!... I KNO I'LL PROB C U N CAMP (HOPEFULLY) BUT CAMP IS THE WORST!!!

it makes my head hurt.

hahaha internet!

don't click if you're my sister.

new halo 2 maps

awesome four new maps. 2 large maps and 2 smaller maps. battle rifles everywhere!

can't wait to play against my friends.

BATTLE RIFLE TO THE BACK OF THE HEAD!

season 4 of 24 just delivered

into my pants.

gg.

omgxbox

SO FREAKING HOT! WANT TO TOUCH THE HINEY.

P.S. I'M BUYING ONE. EDDIE, DEREK, YOU BETTER BUY ONE TOO.

edit: updated link

judge judy

what is up with this impeaching judge shit?

i can't watch the news these days without tom delay threatening to impeach "activist" judges that are "unaccountable" and can "snub" the president and congress.

let me break this down for you. these people are basically bitching because they're not getting court decisions that are in their favor. it's as easy as that. fucking player haters. don't hate the player, hate the game.


dear tom delay,

checks and balances is wut we do, motherfucker.


OH SNAP AND A SWIRL,
the judiciary branch

Needles and Threats
Activist Legislators

almost like live journal

did you ever have an awful dream where you wake up in the middle of the night? you kind of wake up, turn over, and then fall back asleep. sometimes, you fall back into the same dream that woke you up.

but me? no.

i go back to sleep and i'm like "ok, this dream is now about... the beach." and there i am at the beach. sometimes elements from my first dream creep over into this new dream though. like the lifeguard is a zombie with red shorts and a zinc nose. it's interesting.

i've never had a night before though where i would be chased from dream to dream. like eternal sunshine or something.

ok, this dream is now about... playing football.

ok, this dream is now about... friends from college.

ok, this dream is now about... sitting in the park on a sunday.

ok, this dream is now about... me dreaming about falling asleep.

ok, this dream is now about... me dreaming about me dreaming about falling asleep.

war on spam

since i've put the anti-spam hack into the code, there's been zero spam feedbacks. which is totally :dance:

the only spam that remains is trackback spam. unfortunately, i don't think i can fight this without disabling the trackback system (which nobody uses).

yup.

free music downloads from amazon

there's some good stuff on there from bright eyes, arcade fire, interpol, and elliott smith... make sure to grab a few of those.

current album on repeat: yankee hotel foxtrot by wilco.

favorite tracks:

• I am Trying to Break Your Heart
• Radio Cure
• Jesus, etc.
• Ashes of American Flags
• Pot Kettle Black
• Poor Places

i'm listing more or less the entire album because it is so good.

the new pope

'new' is an inaccurate word here. a 78 year old 'new' pope.

looks like we'll be choosing another 'new' pope in 5 years.

septa...

the reason why purell is available in pocket sizes.

film festival: kontroll

copy and paste:

An award-winning festival favorite, this surreal Hungarian odyssey through Budapest's sinister subway system is a thrillingly fast-paced black comedy delight.

Rapidly becoming The Little Cult Movie That Could, the Hungarian black comedy Kontroll has amazed festival audiences from Toronto to Cannes, where it won the Prix de la Jeunesse award (the film has also won awards at fests in Copenhagen, Warsaw and Chicago!). How does an independent directorial debut set entirely within the bowels of Budapest's subway system become such an international sensation? For starters, by being one of the most exciting and ingenious genre hybrids to come along in quite some time: imagine a seedy but pulse-pounding fusion of Jim Jarmusch and Run Lola Run infused with a peculiarly Eastern European mordant wit, and you would be about halfway there. Writer-director Nimrod Antal's film unfolds exclusively in Budapest's subways and subterranean stations, focusing on a group of ragged ticket attendants routinely assigned the city's worst routes. Weary Bulcsu (Sandor Csanyi) leads the group, as they patrol the underground and routinely battle with belligerent passengers . . . though Bulcsu is more interested in the beautiful, enigmatic young woman who rides the rails clad in a bear suit. But soon Bulcsu has more grave concerns: a hooded killer is stalking the subway lines, murdering passengers by pushing them in front of trains. A feast of pure heady cinematic energy and pokerfaced humor, Kontroll's reputation as an international crowd-pleaser is only bound to expand with its screenings here. (Hungarian with English subtitles) -- Travis Crawford

it's like good will hunting but not as good. it's like clerks sorta but not as good. it's like an overhyped movie but not as good. very disappointingly boring.

it's just blah and unremarkable. maybe i don't get hungarian humor. or filmmaking. 7.1/10.0.

film festival: oldboy

copy and paste:

This jaw-dropping revenge thriller from the director of Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance took home the Cannes festival's Grand Prix award.

Oldboy is the ultimate Danger After Dark film. Astonishing in its inventive visual approach and merciless in its shocking narrative trajectory, this new film from Park Chan-wook (whose previous work Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance took this festival's Jury Award for Best Film two years ago) is the pinnacle of international genre cinema. Apparently Quentin Tarantino and his Cannes fest jury agreed: they gave Oldboy the Grand Prix award. Every scene in Park's film contains surprises, yet they are integrated into a fully conceptualized whole, and one is left floored by the degree of creativity on display. Adapted from a Japanese manga, the story is a neo-noir revenge thriller that plays like Prisoner of Zenda filtered through post-Fight Club sensibilities: family man Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik) is abducted and imprisoned by unknown forces, held captive without explanation for fifteen years. Upon his eventual release, Dae-su must reintegrate into a world now unfamiliar to him and learn why he was mysteriously incarcerated for so many years. With the help of a young woman he meets, Mido (Gang Hye-jung), Dae-su traces his torment to the wealthy Woo-jin (Yoo Ji-tae) but Dae-su can't recall ever wronging, or even knowing, Woo-jin. Yet there is a connection between the two men and the worst is yet to come. Park is at the peak of his game with Oldboy, and the results are unparalleled. To paraphrase an old Tarantino statement: to just say that Park knows how to make a good thriller is like saying Michelangelo knows how to paint a ceiling. Essential. (Korean with English subtitles) -- Travis Crawford

awesomeness++. this was one fucked up movie that stays with you long after you leave the theater. very gruelsome not for the faint hearted. a lot of omgwtf.

wonderful direction and cinematography. the 'hammer fight' scene stands out because it was one long amazing continous panning shot. just awesome.

anyway, this is a must see. 4.8/5.0.

film festival: arahan

copy+paste:

Adrenaline-pumping contemporary urban martial arts eye-candy from Korea, as a bullied young cop discovers he is actually a secret ch'i master.

With a slam-bang visual style that's every bit as exciting and hyper-kinetic as the movie's gravity-defying martial arts sequences, Arahan is action cinema as pure adrenaline rush yet the film is also quite clever and funny, lending it a degree of warmth and wit that elevates it above similar turbo-charged genre offerings. Director Ryoo Seung-wan always finds the humor within the film's non-stop barrage of impressive action setpieces, and this gives Arahan an additional layer of charm amidst the admittedly stellar fights and special effects on display. Bullied and frustrated Seoul beat cop Sang-hwan falls for the beautiful, mysterious Eui-jin, who seems to possess extraordinary martial arts abilities. Soon Eui-jin's mentors, the elderly Seven Masters, inform Sang-hwan that he too is actually a destined ch'i master with hidden abilities that can be brought out through training. Partially to get closer to Eui-jin, Sang-hwan takes up training with them and, after initial setbacks, he soon finds himself able to leap great heights, shoot ch'i energy from his palms, and perform other astonishing feats that confirm his position as a new master . . . and just in time, as a renegade exiled master has returned to wreak evil havoc unless Sang-hwan and Eui-jin can stop him. Old-school purists be damned: Arahan is a wirework and CGI effects spectacle all the way, but the results are exhilarating fun. Asiaphile critic Tony Rayns compared director Ryoo's style on Arahan to Evil Dead-turned-Spiderman auteur Sam Raimi, and the analogy is apt: both keep the action moving at breakneck speed, and both are driven to deliver maximum entertainment for your moviegoing buck. (Korean with English subtitles) -- Travis Crawford

a big bag of meh. cool fighting. cliche plot. koreans yelling at each other. 6.4/10.0.

i'm so sick

i'm dying! XX(

i hate you so much, electronic arts

this looks interesting enough to make me buy madden 2006.

i need to dump madden 2005... and 2004...

football season never ends

it's like christmas!


Date Opponent Time Network
Aug. 15 @ Steelers 8 PM ESPN*
Aug. 20 @ Ravens TBA ETN
Aug. 26 Bengals 7:30 PM ETN
Sept. 1 NY Jets 7:30 PM ETN

2005 Regular Season
Date Opponent Time Network
Sept. 12 @Falcons 9 p.m. ABC*
Sept. 18 49ers 1 p.m. FOX
Sept. 25 Raiders 1 p.m. CBS
Oct. 2 @Chiefs 1 p.m. FOX
Oct. 9 @Cowboys 4:15 p.m. FOX*
Oct. 16 BYE
Oct. 23 Chargers 1 p.m. CBS
Oct. 30 @Broncos 4:15 p.m. FOX*
Nov. 6 @Redskins 8:30 p.m. ESPN*
Nov. 14 Cowboys 9 p.m. ABC*
Nov. 20 @Giants 1 p.m. FOX
Nov. 27 Packers 4:15 p.m. FOX*
Dec. 5 Seahawks 9 p.m. ABC*
Dec. 11 Giants 4:05 p.m. FOX
Dec. 18 @Rams 4:15 p.m. FOX*
Dec. 24 @Cardinals 4:05 p.m. FOX
Jan. 1 Redskins 4:15 p.m. FOX


edit: 148 days until season kickoff.

tilex is so awesome

after taking a shower, just spray some on the shower tile, tub, and curtain. it has a mild alcohol solution/disinfectant that keeps stuff from growing on surfaces. that means you don't have to scrub the shower so often.

:D

this stuff works great. i'm on my second bottle (one bottle lasts about a month or so).

cameron, don't leave!

:'(

YOU SHOULD'VE STOPPED HER FROM LEAVING, HOUSE.

film festival: spider forest

film festival text:

An enigmatic mystery that follows a tormented car accident survivor haunted by visions of murder, this dreamlike thriller is a challenging audience puzzle.

You may be completely seduced by it, or you may be completely confounded (or, more than likely, both), but at the very least, it's unlikely you've seen anything quite like the boldly experimental thriller Spider Forest. Director Song Il-gon follows up his acclaimed 2001 debut Flower Island with this strange, mesmerizing mystery that presents the fragmented remnants of one man's violent, tragic past as puzzle pieces that each audience member must collate and interpret. The result is a complex meditation on memory and grief that plays like an Asian ghost story as filtered through Alain Robbe-Grillet. Regaining consciousness following an auto accident, television news producer Min (Kam Woo-sung) tells his police detective friend that a couple was murdered in the forest where Min's crash occurred. There are indeed two bodies there . . . but what else does Min's disjointed memory recall? As his recollections gradually come back, Min reflects back on why he originally journeyed to that cottage in the woods, and how this relates to his wife's earlier death, a demise that Min foresaw in a vision. Are these events of a supernatural origin, or just psychological torment located entirely within Min's mind? Or both? As the mystery unravels, writer-director Song layers on additional narrative density and possible interpretations; Korean shockers like A Tale of Two Sisters look positively linear by comparison. This visually arresting thriller explores how loss and grief can shape one's consciousness, and its intricacies will leave you discussing and debating for days. (Korean with English subtitles) -- Travis Crawford


[23:45] will: what the fuck man
[23:46] will: i'm buying you a plane ticket to seoul
[23:46] will: and you're going to tell the director of 'spider forest' to write a fucking ending
[23:46] korean dave: lol
[23:46] will: what the fuck. the ending was nothing but frustration.
[23:47] will: there was no "ending"
[23:52] dave: so other than ending
[23:52] dave: how as it
[23:54] will: it was a good movie
[23:54] will: it's just that the plot became recursive as it went on. revealing more and more of the truth and hints.
[23:55] will: but the problem was that the truth and hints pointed back towards itself
[23:55] dave: lol
[23:55] will: i'm not quite sure what i saw
[23:58] will: i'm using part of this conversation for my spider forest blog


it was a good movie. like mulholland drive. excellent direction and production. kinda predictable from the start. lots of plot twists, turns, and little details make this really enjoyable to solve and piece together as the movie went on.

for my first time at the festival, there was no clapping at the end of the movie. just a lot of omgwtf$10lolwtf.

seriously, i need director notes or commentary or screenplay or cliffnotes or something. I NEED SOMEBODY SMARTER THAN ME TO INTERPRET THE MOVIE AND TELL ME WHAT THE DEAL IS. 3.92/5.0

quick film festival thoughts

i wish i had an all access badge. this waiting in line business is not for me. i got to murderball twenty minutes before it started and there was a huge half-block line.

i ended up walking from 2nd to 19th street last night after survive style 5+ at 12:30am or so because the 21 bus decided to stop running. it wasn't that bad. not really dangerous.

the film festival crowd is mostly college students, old people, hipsters, japanophiles, and movie nerds. interesting blend.

i got some looks from people when i wore my iron chef shirt to the survive style movie. i was not trying to make a statement. this was purely a laundry and clothing availability logistics situation. unlike those battle royale tshirt losers.

film festival: murderball

stolen copy from philly fests:

Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at this year's Sundance Film Festival, this gripping film spends two years following the highly successful U.S. Paralympics rugby team on the road to the games in Athens.

Murderball, the former name given to quad rugby, is a highly competitive sport, played by men with keen minds and healthy egos, in supreme physical shape. They are all quadriplegics. All have lost the use of their legs and have limited use of their arms due to traumatic accidents and illnesses, but what they can control works perfectly. The testimony given by these guys is as frank as it gets: they relish talking about their prolific sex lives and enjoy comparing innovative lovemaking techniques. They play the game like gladiators in awesome, Mad Max-styled custom wheelchairs. Players get slammed hard, bounce out of their chairs, and quickly get righted and strapped back in. There is no time to feel sorry for oneself. This documentary has everything: thrilling competitions, grueling practices, hot romances, family melodrama, complicated lifelong friendships, hilarious moments and some of the most memorable characters in this year's festival. The rivalry that ensues between top-ranked Team USA (and its Captain, the scrappy Mark Zupan) and former team star Joe Soares, now the uber-demanding Coach of Team Canada, is exquisitely suspenseful. The matches are breathtaking, with exhilarating point-of-view shots filmed by cameras mounted on the chairs, and the material is expertly assembled by stylish, award-winning editing from Geoffrey Richman (formerly of Elkins Park) and Conor O'Neill. (English and Swedish with English subtitles) -- Jennifer Steinberg

awesome movie. this is a movie that everybody should watch and they'll be better for it. very entertaining and satisfying. the core of the movie was the stories of how these players lost the use of their legs and coped and adapted. i was expecting more murderball and less documentary but this still worked out very well. very funny at times and a little heart-breaking at the end. must watch. 5.0/5.0.

edit: one of the directors, the editor, and keith from the movie was there for q&a afterwards. very cool.

film festival: survival style 5+

stolen from festival copy:

Five fantastical tales of crime and mayhem intersect in this absurdist Japanese comedy that has more inventive storytelling and surreal imagery than a dozen Miike movies.

Wow. Cynics who think that cinematic storytelling has reached a dead end should sit themselves down in front of the mind-blowing and imaginative Survive Style 5+, a Japanese crime comedy that despite some post-Tarantino story elements actually has more in common with the inventive American comedies of the Kaufman/Gondry/Jonze camp. Initially the five paralleling storylines seem disparate, yet watching them ultimately intersect in inspired ways is one of the film's innumerable pleasures: a husband (the ubiquitous Tadanobu Asano) tries to repeatedly kill and bury his wife, but she keeps returning, even more indestructible; three young burglars break into houses and get into trouble; a London hitman travels through Japan with his interpreter/employer, continually asking people what function they serve in life; attending a hypnotist's performance with his family, a salaryman becomes permanently convinced he's actually a bird; and a driven advertising director has to reexamine her life after her increasingly hysterical ideas for television commercials are rejected. First-time feature director Gen Sekiguchi actually was Japan's leading (and award-winning) director of commercials, and he brings a stunning visual style to the film (the production design makes Wes Anderson's films look like social realism) as well as a completely boundless, anarchic approach to cinema's possibilities: you never have any idea where Survive Style 5+ is headed from minute to minute, and the trip is as riotously funny as it is unpredictable. Like most wholly original films, Survive is a bit difficult to summarize, so just take our word for it and see it, OK? (Japanese with English subtitles) -- Travis Crawford

this was a great movie. very weird and unpredictable, let me tell you. very funny, a lot of wtflol moments. the art style and vision was wonderful, excellent camera work. it dragged on a little bit with slow pacing, i guess that's the japanese directing style, but it moved crisply between the storylines. i wish they tied up some of the storylines a little better though. highly recommended, 4.5/5.0.

&lt;3 sa tard water &lt;3

re: sin city

neat.

not work safe: bewbs.

sin city

sin city was crazy. crazy good.

very twisted. it felt like it ran too long though.

seems like castration was one of its central themes though. a very unhealthy fixation.

also <3 alba <3

you know what's awesome

when you're watching the news and they're live at the crime scene downtown or at the court house or something, and you're like "damn, let me get my shoes on and dance live behind dan quasar on the 11 o'clock news."

my good friends

at shyturtle.net have a nifty new design. i wish i was talented.

just to let the three of you readers know.

edit: there's a one armed teenage girl surfing on abc now. shark attack survivor. a+.

i am so smart

:idea:

to counter the feedback spam, i've coded in a new required field you have to fill in. just put in 1234 or whatever and your feedback will be posted.

i'm guessing that the automated spam programs won't know what to do with the spam text field. it being required and all.

muhahahahaha.

:idea:

film festival

Survive Style 5+ -- 2005-04-09 22:00:00 -- Ritz East Theater 1


Murderball -- 2005-04-10 16:45:00 -- Ritz at the Bourse


Spider Forest -- 2005-04-11 21:30:00 -- Prince Music Theater


Arahan -- 2005-04-15 22:00:00 -- Ritz East Theater 1


Oldboy -- 2005-04-16 16:45:00 -- The Bridge


Kontroll -- 2005-04-18 21:30:00 -- The Bridge

spam

i'm getting tons of spam in the comments.

i need to fix this.

i like these shoes

maybe i'll get around to ordering them

kmart

do you know who is at kmart at 11am on a sunday? the unemployed and the unemployable. (and me, i guess.)

&lt;3 sa &lt;3

i haven't laughed this hard in ages.

wut

Traditional Vatican turns to e-mail to announce pope's death

The pope's death marks the beginning of a carefully scripted ritual that culminates in the election of a new leader for the world's 1 billion Roman Catholics.

It starts with a formal deathbed pronouncement in Latin, that the pope is "truly" dead.

The Vatican's chamberlain, now Cardinal Eduardo Martinez Somalo of Spain, verifies the papal death -- which in the past was done by striking the pope's forehead with a silver hammer. The chamberlain, or camerlengo, then calls out to the pope three times by his baptismal name. When the pope does not respond, the camerlengo then announces "the pope is dead."

He destroys the symbols of the pope's authority: the fisherman's ring and the dies used to make lead seals for apostolic letters. He seals off the pope's bedroom and study, takes charge of the Holy See's property and arranges the funeral and the conclave at which the College of Cardinals will elect a new pope.

*shrug* |-| well who am i to judge?

it is sad to see the pope go. being only 24 years old, he was my first pope. seemed like a nice guy. didn't agree with everything though. wouldn't have minded playing some mario kart with him. his 1979 1 million person mass did take place a block from my apt which is kinda interesting. he'll be alright.

start grabbing two of each animals

why am i posting so much today?

because it's raining and i have nowhere to go!

so what do i like on my ipod? i've been into indie rock lately.

• Arcade Fire "Funeral"
• Wilco "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot"
• Elliot Smith "Elliot Smith"
• The Shins "Chutes Too Narrow"
• William Shatner "Has Been"
• Franz Ferdinand "Franz Ferdinand"
• Mars Volta "Frances the Mute"
• Jack Johnson "In Between Dreams"
• Pavement "Terror Twilight"

edit

just finished splinter cell 2. omg. the ending cutscene, or lack thereof, sucked though. back to half.com you go.

also my previous post forgot the new zelda game. go gamecube go!

some videogame odds and ends

the sony psp is indeed hot portable game eyeball sex. dynasty warriors psp is poop though.

nintendo: i will buy your ds if you can get me mario kart and advance wars. like now. kthx.

splinter cell 2: pandora tomorrow is pretty awesome. it's like an excellent ten hour action movie. too bad it's kind of short. can't wait to pick up splinter cell 3.

madden 2006 is set for august 9th. i'm not sure i want to spend $50 on an updated roster. plz justify your existence, madden 2006.

i'm planning to get a new cellphone this summer. tmobile, i'll require a successor to my nokia 8390.

i'm excited about the new halo 2 map downloads. specifically, more rifle butt to the back of the head. XX(

the omega strawberry

i just made a smoothie out of a strawberry so big, it could only be described as a large abnormal cancerous growth of strawberriness. i think it had teeth.

what the christ, leonard little?

Testimony begins in trial; Little facing up to four years

Little is charged with speeding and felony drunk driving as a persistent offender. In 1999, Little pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of 47-year-old Susan Gutweiler in a crash in downtown St. Louis.

In that case, Little's blood-alcohol level was nearly twice Missouri's legal limit. Little later served three months in jail, four years of probation and 1,000 hours of community service. He also was suspended without pay for the first half of the 1999 season.

If convicted of the DWI charge, Little -- a Pro Bowl selection in 2003 -- could face up to four years in prison and another NFL suspension.

Little was stopped shortly before 4 a.m. last April 24 on Interstate 64.

so in 1999, leonard little killed susan gutweiler, a mother with a family. then last april, he goes drunk driving again. unbelievable.

what the hell is wrong with this guy? and where is the outrage?

120%: if he wasn't so good at sacking quarterbacks, he'd be in prison right now getting the butt sex.

house

you know what show i love that doesn't get enough love?

House

it's got great characters and a constant dropping of dramabombs. it's great how they're slowly developing the characters. excellent writing and cast.

lately, they've been dropping the dramabombs with the introduction of this vogler character. oh the drama.

also, <3 cameron <3

24 SEASON 4 IS NOT DISAPPOINTING YET

sure, it jumped the shark. it jumped the shark sometime in season 3.

but boy it has not disappointed yet. it's a very entertaining and quasi-predictable dramabomb.

wu-tang financial!

diversify yo stocks and bonds!

The Wu-Tang Manual: Enter the 36 Chambers, Volume One.... so awesome.

update

>:(

stab!

the american office

the office is on.

i swear to god i'll kill a man with my fists if nbc screws this up.

i love slate

cuz Slate always knows what time it is.

Activist Legislators
The boundless overreaching behind Congress' new Schiavo bill.

Culture Vultures
Terri Schiavo's persistent legislative state.

oh let her die already

Feeding tube removed from brain-damaged woman

she has almost no cerebral cortex left. don't let the video fool you either; it doesn't take cognitive abilities to blink and smile. just hope that she passes quickly.

oh and it should be noted that if i wind up in a vegetative state, yank the plug or morphine overdose me after 28 days. or before british zombie-forms overrun civilization.

also, lol @ President's Statement on Terri Schiavo

It should be our goal as a nation to build a culture of life, where all Americans are valued, welcomed, and protected - and that culture of life must extend to individuals with disabilities.

as long as you're not poor, dark skinned, gay, or muslim, am i rite? :roll:

my back hurts

send a saint bernard and a jug of rum

grrrr

Fifty-six players topped $100,000 for '04

There have been some rumblings in NFL circles that the Colts might try to pry restricted free agent tailback Brian Westbrook away from the Philadelphia Eagles. Even if those rumors were true, such a move would be difficult, since the Eagles have enough cap room to match virtually any offer sheet Indianapolis could make to the man who has become an offensive centerpiece. Westbrook certainly, though, has the diverse skills to be a big hit in an Indianapolis-style offense.

stay the fuck away from him, indy!!! we saw him first!

omg 24

twentyfourgasm. there, i said it. if you saw tonight's episode, you'd be all 88| too.

also re: trotter

;D

:dance:

i am back on the interweb

but i don't know for how long.

send liquid dish soap.

p.s. go norton ghost go.

come back trotter

come back!! :'(

also: welcome back, buck. i hope you can fulfill your two season contract with two years of football.

and HUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGHHHHH.

no death penalty for juvies?

fuck that noise; some kids gotta go.

Fishtown teen outlines her role in grisly murder

Justina Morley, the 15-year-old who lured a Fishtown teenager to his death in 2003, began to cry today as she demonstrated how her alleged accomplices attacked Jason Sweeney with a hatchet and a hammer.

goddamnitt

resign trotter already.

before the chiefs steal him.

before i leave

i've been informed that if you sleep with salma hayek, you indirectly sleep with ed norton junior.

and by indirectly sleeping with penelope, you indirectly sleep with nicole kidman by way of tom cruise.

i'm so confused. :|

so

antonio banderas is singing. |-|

i'm heading to the gym.

osca


[22:21] me: salma hayek or penelope cruz?
[22:21] bij: hayek
[22:22] me: if you sleep with penelope, it's like you indirectly slept with tom cruise
[22:22] bij: haha


off day

today is my off day from the gym. will diesel will spend the evening watching house and american idol.

p.s. i hope that doesn't make me any less of will diesel.

no wait: india, bitches

:D

mars, bitches!

that's right!

burrr

it's too damn cold to go outside and haunt around some.

church and state are sitting in a tree...

Board allows Bible classes to continue

STAUNTON, Virginia (AP) -- Public elementary schools will continue to allow Bible classes during class time while the local school board conducts a one-year review to determine if criticism of the practice by some parents is valid.

you know, i think it would be ok if these public schools did this shit afterschool off school grounds as a voluntary program. but if you're doing this during school hours, then that's not right. and it's obvious that federal tax dollars are being used here in a public school to un-seperate church and state.

and why is it bible class? why couldn't it be judaism, islam, buddhism, or hinduism? or scientology? it's not like the christians have a monpoly on morality. i'd be cool with it if it was a general religious studies class that went over all the world's many religions. that would be kinda hot. i wish i had that when i was a kid.

let's keep the people's champ

why not?

as long as he and to and mcnabb get along.

oh and he shuts up too.

ipod mini

i got an ipod mini yesterday and it is pretty hawt.

i'm just worried i'm gonna drop it and break it.

football season begins

Trade Freddie Mitchell

SI Don Banks' Mock Draft

comcast can die for all i care

oh wait, nevermind. tech support fixed it all by walking me through unplugging the power cord and plugging it back in. :roll:

attention

at least we're not 6 and 10. :roll:

you know what

at least the eagles didn't go out like bitches. seriously.

i salute the eagles for a great season.

this is why we can't have nice things

plz don't read if you're my sister.

[00:56] me: wanna come to philly this weekend?
[00:57] me: we're gonna riot whether they win or lose
[00:57] me: flipping over cars and bitches
[00:57] bij: most likely lose
[00:57] bij: nah, i can't
[00:58] me: nobody wants a patriots dynasty
[00:58] bij: yea there are
[00:58] bij: better than having the eagles win
[00:58] bij: :-D
[00:58] me: listen
[00:59] me: i don't want to spend the next 8 months listening to bostonians and those fuckers at espn masturbating on each other's faces whenever they talk about tom brady and belichick and then compare them to montana and lombardi
[00:59] bij: haha
[00:59] bij: yea yea
[00:59] bij: we'll see on sunday
[00:59] me: the circle jerk must stop
[01:00] bij: not if it means the eagles have to win
[01:00] bij: NEVER!!!!
[01:00] me: no football fan would be able to withstand the jerking action over the next 8 months
[01:00] bij: haha
[01:00] me: it'll be like the cowboys of the 90s all over again
[01:02] bij: haha
[01:03] bij: you can't convince me, u gotta work on someone else
[01:03] me: fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap
[01:03] me: you hear that?
[01:03] me: that's the sound of espn and sports illustrated spurting all over themselves
[01:03] bij: haha
[01:04] me: i need to post this into my blog

riot

i'm hosting a superbowl party at my apartment this sunday.

it will be kickin' rad. for realz.

also, eagles by 4 points.

it's all gold, baby

Belichick Devising Plan...

"I sat in on a meeting last week with Romeo and coach Belichick and, man, I could tell they were cooking up something big," he said. "There were charts and graphs all over the place. The chalkboard was full of all these crazy equations and theorems. And the desk was cluttered with all kinds of random stuff, like a book by Stephen Hawking, six Rubik's cubes, an abacus, some sort of engine and, for some strange reason, a blueprint of Donovan McNabb's home. I don't know what they're plotting, but I wouldn't want to be that guy right now."

Patriots Get No Respect

"When I asked him if he was going to watch the game, he said 'Yes,' but I don't think his heart was in it," said Harrison. "I figured he was just being shy, so I put my hand up to high-five him and he turned around and left. He left me hanging. Is it possible that he turned around before I even raised my hand and never actually saw it? Yes, I suppose that's possible. But a more likely scenario is that he was disrespecting me and my teammates. Well that's fine. That just motivates us more. Little Mr. Robbins will be on our bulletin board this week, and I'll be thinking about him when I go helmet-to-helmet on Todd Pinkston."

wok

my shack post

So when I was waking up this morning, I heard a short clanking sound from my living room/kitchen area. I didn't think anything of it because I thought it was my cellphone or construction behind my apt building. So I head into the living room to turn on the tv and check my email and stuff. I went into the kitchen to get a drink of water when I noticed that the bottom cabinet was wide open and the wok that I keep down there is now sitting on the stove on the bottom-left burner. :(

haunted

i think my apartment may be haunted. 88|

or i'm an idiot. :crazy:

more later, news at 10.

the only person at ctu i can trust

88|

I'M FREAKING OUT, MAN!

comcast dvr

comcast came by to swap out my digital cable box for a hot dvr cable box. it's a motorola 62xx series. so far it's pretty cool. $10 extra a month. i'm still getting used to the new remote. the numbers dialpad used to be up top where it is now below. it's like bizzaro remote.

i'm hoping this will make my tv watching more efficient. if i could record most of my shows for the week and watch them all in one day in a consolidated block, it would open up a ton of evening time over the week for me.

this is what i watch:

• sunday: simpsons, arrested development, extreme makeover home edition
• monday: 24
• tuesday: house
• wednesday: lost, alias
• thursday: the oc

there's also mythbusters. and don't forget the return of chappelle's show on the 16th of february.

CHARLIE MURPHY!

p.s. looking over that list, i must look like a tv whore. i guess i am.