Monthly Archive for February, 2008
against a swirling cloud of regret and hesitance she remembers how the linoleum floor felt against her face–cold, unfamiliar, and dirty.
each of these was a welcome addition to a night of squalor, and for a moment, the ground felt like heaven.
the repeating patterns of the faux flooring was like a warm blanket. desperately, her mind tried to reconcile the squares and diamonds that she had overlooked for years.
at first glance they appeared three-dimensional, but with a second-glance, they were simply a pattern of the boring life that had become her norm.
tonight this was her refuge…
her tent on a warm summer evening.
her parents’ bed after a bad dream.
her emptiness at the end of a dialtone.
in the morning the dirt and grime of a bathroom floor would seem repulsive, but tonight they were all together allies…best friends and compadres in the war against the bullshit.
never take for granted your bathroom floor.
tonight mystery was happy to be with her new friend; she would let the morning deal with itself.
one year ago today, stonebraker and i talked about how scary it would be to live in a muppet-world:
Me: so alice in wonderland is a fucked up headtrip of a movie
Stonebraker: yes it is
Me: i cant believe that it’s a kids movie
Stonebraker: yeah it used to scare me as a child
Me: whatever, i watched it last night and it scared me
Stonebraker: muppets used to scare me…I’m NOT kidding
Me: lol. really?
Stonebraker: yeah, I get creeped out watching them now
Me: you know who scared me as a kid? those fuck puppets on mr.rogers in the neighborhood of make believe
Stonebraker: there’s just somthing not right about those muppets!
Me: yeah, how come every kids show we watched was like one big acid trip?
Stonebraker: could you image being stuck in a a muppet world?
Me: are you even hearing me any more?
i still enjoy listening to the strokes’ album “is this it?” b/c i like the track ‘hard to explain‘ and if you like one strokes’ song then you like EVERY strokes’ song…ya know…b/c they’re all the same.
good…but exactly the same.
is it just me or does john mccain’s brother “joe mccain” look like dick cheney in a bad toupee?
joe looks like dick cheney decided to go as john mccain for halloween…on second thought maybe they’re both just old white guys.
dear single women of america,
understandably it can be tough trying to figure out what the modern american man is looking for in a woman.
we men can too often appear insensitive, naive and unsure of what it is we “really want”.
and while i represent only 1 of 150 million men in the U.S., i can tell you—with complete confidence—that what we want is tina fey.
she’s beautiful, talented, intelligent, witty, smart, smart and…SMART!
also, she’s got the qualities that makes us giggle like school boys…because she’s SEXY SMART.
i offer up this video as proof and encourage the women of america to focus their sights on the guys who want you for your sexy-smartness…and that isnt even a word but trust me, we want it.
sexy-smartness…we dudes want it…bad.
thanks to supertiff for finding the official-nbc-sanctioned-video.
- the oscars were right about ‘no country’ and ‘diablo cody’ but how many songs from Enchanted does one man have to hear? #
- jazzed that i’ve got "once" lying around the house thanks to Netflix #
- netflix has Marion Cotillard’s oscar-winning performance in La Vie en Rose available on "Instant Play". Rad. #
the best part of ABC’s oscars night coverage was when the oscars ended and the crypt-keeper’s special decided to die a lonely death, because jimmy kimmel stole the evening.
his “special guest” was ben affleck and HIGH-larity ensued…oh and if you havent seen the “i’m fucking matt damon” video then you should watch this and then cancel your internet connection b/c you’re not making good use of it.
here’s jimmy and ben’s response to sarah’s LUST:
awesome.
so today i said goodbye to my beloved macbook pro.
i organized it’s software, documentation and power cords neatly into its box.
i wrapped it up in its protective paper cover and gently placed it in its styrofoam housing; lowering the lid and sealing the box for shipment was harder than i had expected.
nonetheless, it’s going off to a happy auction winner somewhere in illinois and i’m sure it will live out the rest of its life in happiness.
so now that my portable mac is safely in the hands of FedEX, I’m hearing through the rumor-web that tomorrow might bring updates that will make my once top-of-the-line mac a second-class citizen.
i started feeling bad about this and SMS’d my good friend stonebraker for support.
ME: i shipped my MBP off today. if there are updates tomorrow am i going to go to hell?
Stonebraker: well yes, but its not because of the updates, it’s because of all the other stuff.
the moral of this story is that (1) good friends are always supportive and (2) that you should always try to sell your mac the day before new models arrive.
while the highest cost of the failed bush policies are counted in the number of dead in iraq, other critical programs are being cut in order to fund the administration’s errant foreign policies.
From the American Association of Medical Colleges:
Bush Budget Cuts Will Cripple U.S. Teaching Hospitals and Erode Medical Progress
“The AAMC strongly opposes the administration’s proposal to slash Medicare payments to America’s teaching hospitals. Cutting indirect medical education (IME) payments by more than 60 percent, combined with other Medicare cuts affecting all hospitals, will have devastating results. Millions of Medicare patients—as well as the uninsured, the disabled, and the severely ill—rely on teaching hospitals for health care and community services. Such unprecedented cuts to these institutions will endanger their ability to provide the full spectrum of patient care and treatment, erode their fragile trauma and emergency services, and impede the progress they have made in advancing the health of all Americans through education and medical research.”
You can read the full article here and look at this special report for more details.
yesterday ralph nader committed himself to a third consecutive run for the presidency.
here’s senator obama’s reaction from the only paper of record, the NY Times:
Mr. Obama, campaigning in Ohio, said: “Ralph Nader deserves enormous credit for the work he did as a consumer advocate. But his function as a perennial candidate is not putting food on the table of workers.”
Mr. Obama also criticized Mr. Nader for equating Mr. Gore and Mr. Bush: “Eight years later, people realize that Ralph did not know what he was talking about.”
Obama is dead on with his impressions of a 2008 Nader presidential-bid. Remember when Ralph was a hero? These days he just seems angry and bitter. Damn shame.
- Saturdays go by too quickly… #
- tinkering with the greatest clutter-free and organized tech desk EVER #
- counting the minutes til Tina Fey on SNL #
- playing around with Twitter Tools for WordPress #
- so Ralph Nader is getting into the presidential race. OH GOODIE! #
- YouTube is DOWN and consequently my blog has no content. #
so we had an oscar-watching party tonight. hanre brought over an hors d’oeuvre platter with no less than three kinds of cheese and all sort of goodness to go with it.
because i insist on making everything a competition, i printed out oscar ballots and required everyone to mark their pre-oscar selections. (if someone refused, then they receive no cheese.)
sidenote: buster received no cheese tonight.
i lost. BIG TIME.
nonetheless, i’m man enough to admit when i’ve been beaten by the cool hollywood kids who have the “inside track” on these sorts of things.
here’s how my scorecard fared:
Original Song:
Prediction - Falling Slowly from Once
Winner - Falling Slowly
Notes: with “Enchanted” splitting the vote 3 ways, the best song won.
Foreign Language Film:
Prediction - Beufort (Israel)
Winner - The Counterfeiters (Austria)
Notes: This was a blind guess…
Animated Film:
Prediciton - Ratatouille
Winner - Ratatouille
Notes: Was there even any other animated films made last year? Also, I’ve never written the word “ratatouille” before in my life and I just did it 3 times.
Adapted Screenplay:
Prediction - No Country for Old Men
Winner - No Country for Old Men
Notes: If you liked the movie, you’ll love Cormac McCarthy’s novel.
Original Screenplay:
Prediction - Michael Clayton
Winner - Juno
Notes: OK, so my heart wanted to vote for the former stripper who wrote “Juno” but I was betting to win and…well…I didnt. From now on, I’m always going to go with the stripper.
Best Supporting Actress:
Prediction - Cate Blanchette
Winner - Tilda Swinton
Notes: Dude, Cate played a DUDE whose name was BOB DYLAN!
Best Supporting Actor:
Prediction - Javier Bardem
Winner - Javier Bardmen
Notes: Duh.
Best Actress:
Prediction - Julie Christie
Winner - Marion Cotillard
Notes: I speak no french but my spanish is awesome…also I know how to say “May I Have a Bourbon” in Africans.
Best Actor:
Prediction: Daniel Day-Lewis
Winner: DDL
Notes: he won the oscar off of the “…i’ve forsaken my boy…” line and deserved every ounce of the hardware.
Best Director:
Prediction: Cohen Bros
Winner: Cohen Bros
Notes: If you were up against “No Country for Old Men” tonight I hope they at least validated your parking.
Best Picture:
Prediction: No Country for Old Men
Winner: No Country for Old Men
Notes: Best of the films I saw this year, although, I havent seen “Atonement”. Yet, unless it has a gas-tank-weilding Javier Bardem in it, I doubt it could be better than “Old Men”
Final Score: I lost to Hanre by 3 and was correct on my predictions in 7 out of 11 categories. Not bad, but next year I need to bring my “A” game.
once again making use of the Crossroads plugin to share an old set of flickr photos.
OMfG…is this honestly the musical response to this?
the following is the dedication to “the god delusion” by Richard Dawkins.
in memoriam, douglas adams, 1952–2001
isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
best hillary photo/comment of the day courtesy of fake steve jobs:
Hillary attacks and kills Obama supporter at rally in Youngstown, Ohio
even though i havent yet seen ‘across the universe’ (it’s somewhere in the netflix q), i can easily say that joe anderson’s version of “happiness is a warm gun” is the gem of an otherwise so-so soundtrack.
take a listen and tell me that this tune doesnt stand up nearly forty-years after it was written.
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