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