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.