one lonely success

on February 16, 2008

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stonebraker just sent me this photo from somewhere in seattle.

tell me that’s not the funniest thing you’ve seen all saturday?

also, i’m pretty sure this is exclusive to the pacific northwest b/c i’ve never seen a ‘hard creamer’ in any grocery store ANYWHERE.

smokers outside the hospital doors

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on February 16, 2008

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last week i heard a track from the new “editors” album ‘an end has a start‘ called “smokers outside the hospital doors“.

the song immediately got stuck in my head and i thought i would pass along the recommendation of the band/album/single to those passing by…check it out!

enjoy.

cupid’s arrow is flaccid

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on February 14, 2008

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here’s my 2nd official valentine’s day 2008 post:

sometimes, cupid’s arrow feels like a painful shot right in the testes (or ovaries depending on your preferred reading gender).

i kinda feel like this video courtesy of veronica who found this from some kid on the internet.

for the official-2008-vday-record, i’m feeling happy, smiley, confused, regretful, amazed, concerned, hopeful and introspective. each adjective has its home somewhere in my head and that’s gotta be a scary fuck place to hang out.

“…i mean, you crush me.”

a christmas carol valentine’s day (peace and love)

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on February 14, 2008

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so it’s still technically valentine’s day and mine was pretty rad—as rad goes. it’s like the ol’ song says:

“…it was good—as good goes.”

i cant tell you how many blog posts a person encounters while shopping on the 14th of Feb. even though i was prepared for the day’s festivities, i somehow found myself at a few local shoppes and couldnt help but notice the desperate looks of panic, fear and dread on the faces of my fellow shoppers.

dude, i’ve never been so happy to ONLY be shopping for a good deal on *toilet paper on Feb 14th.

so here are some old valentine’s day posts from the rusty/dusty/crusty onelonelysuccess archives:

if you’re a.) depressed, then read the archives from 2005

“if you love something give it away”

if you’re b.) happy and heart someone, then read the archives from 2006

“how i became a cheap bastard”

dude, there’s nothing better than citing one’s own blog on val’s day. if you’re reading this post, then happy valentine’s day and we here wish you nothing but:

PEACE

and

LOVE

but

especially

PEACE.

——–

*it was a good thing i bought a bunch of TP b/c buster decided that it would be ACE to tear into the aforementioned necessity and make valentine’s day confetti out of it.

it turns out that being a doctor is hard

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Med Eponyms for the iPhone

on February 13, 2008

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are you a med student/resident?

do you own an iphone?

have you ever spaced on the “Ottawa Ankle Rules” during rounds?

is your attending doc a dickhead?

WELL…if you answered YES to ALL of these questions, then you should check out the Med Eponyms app for the iPhone.

we here at 1LS give it 4.5 out of 5 Snowflakes.

enjoy.

the hazy cherry valley

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on February 12, 2008

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the weather here in socal is beautiful and even a typically smoggy place, like Cherry Valley, is enjoying blue skies. here are a few shots from earlier this morning—albeit with a little bit of morning haze. Full Flickr Set Here

Apple Aperture 2

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on February 12, 2008

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in the few months that i’ve had my dSLR, i’ve been using a combination of Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop CS3 to organize and touch-up (read: attempt to make something decent out of) my photos. Thanks to the handy NAPP membership that Josh gave me, I’ve slowly been moving away from the Lightroom-one-stop-paradigm.

Currently, I only use Lightroom to store photo metadata, etc and do all of my editing in Photoshop.

with that in mind, i’m looking forward to trying out the new version of Apple’s Pro photo app—Aperture. there’s a free 30-day trial upon on the Aperture site, and based on early accounts, the rewrites made to version 2 have made the once sluggish application slick and speedy.

merlin mann twittered the following about Aperture 2’s release:

Oh, so NOW I get all the fuss; Aperture is a prosumer porn organizer. Sheesh. All this “Pro Photographer” crap had thrown me off the scent.

also, this post can be filed under “n” for NERD.

even drunk on a bet you make it to canada

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on February 8, 2008

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so my friend erika is partying in canada tonight. i’m pretty jealous.

in fact, the majority of the kids who read this blog are in canada.

love u guys.

so i’m killing time watching lewis black clips on youtube until the party starts.

and if i fuck get diabetes, i’m going to fly up to visit, phil, duane and raymi.

ryan likes jessica

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on February 8, 2008

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i’ve always dug ryan adam’s because—like me—he’s a dramatic, emotional mess when it comes to women.

unlike me, ryan can write songs, play the guitar and get girls.

check out the latest courtesty of stereogum:

Word is Ryan and girlfriend Jessica Joffe, she who was credited as catalyst for Ry’s sobriety in that lengthy NYT piece last year, are over. And wouldn’t you know it, he’s handling things a little dramatically! And using the internet as a means for his public displays of contrition.

Things got started when someone calling himself Romantic Danzig sent Gawker a poem entitled “poem for Jessica Joffe because she blocked my email,” but since that wasn’t sufficiently personal (read: traceable) now he’s using that YouTube account we checked the other day to post the more succinctly titled piece called “Jessica.” It’s a freshly minted jangler about how he “ain’t no good,” the tune set to a map of the West Village (framed within a heart), a scrolling lover’s poem, a picture of Jessica gradually zoomed in upon until creepily pixelated, and a slow close-up of the letters “S-O-R-R-Y” written on a handful of white M&Ms (or, pills). What guilt trip?

it’s alright ma (i’m only bleeding)

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on February 8, 2008

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my blog still has the dirty taste of janet jackson top 40 music in it’s throat.

let’s wash it down w/ some dylan. here’s “it’s alright ma (i’m only bleeding)”

also, i insist on using the “title (parenthesis)” scheme for anything i do that’s creative b/c of this song.

Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Made everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It’s easy to see without looking too far
That not much is really sacred.

–Bob Dylan

again

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on February 8, 2008

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so when i was in the 8th grade, i had a girlfriend who was MUCH older than i. (She was 15!) after a few months, she was all about moving on to the cool “sophomore” kids. at the time, i thought this was the cruelest, most painful thing life could ever bring. about that time, the janet jackson song “again” came out and i can remember buying this song on a “cassette single” for $1.99 at Sam Goody and playing it over and over.

wow.

i wonder if in 20 years my current “first-world problems” will seem just as trivial. i’m betting they will and that’s why i’m so fuck glad to be an aware, awake and conscious grown-up.

nothing beats the waking life.

here’s your blast to 8th grade courtesy of janet jackson…even to this day i can barely look at myself in the mirror.

while this is a wickedly embarrassing post, it’s important that you know that i’m all about transparency here at 1LS. we take the good with the bad…this post = the bad.

p.s. also this is why i’m going to be a good dad.

p.p.s soon after this time in my life, i found my dad’s vinyl copy of “sgt pepper’s” and my love affair w/ top 40’s was over.

rewriting headlines

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on February 5, 2008

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so with tonight’s results in the democratic primaries (essentially a split decision), the super delegates have become even more important in the democratic nomination.

this scares me.

as we march towards november, we face the likelihood that the american people find themselves in a parliamentary race for the democratic nominee.

meanwhile, the AP will continue to re-write its headlines and the asterisk to every story will be barack obama.

stay tuned.

p.s. yes. we. can.

WE ARE THE ONES WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR

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on February 5, 2008

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with exit polls filling our inboxes and RSS feeds, there seems to be two broad thoughts that bring people from all corners of the united states together under the obama-fold:

1: the american people are starving for change. exit polling is showing that voters cite change over experience as their motivating factor and they do it by a two-thirds margin.

2: among progressives, liberals, and working americans there is a feeling of community and togetherness that we’ve never felt before. enough with the rhetoric of hate, let’s be done with partisan politics and let’s just come together under the candidate who is DIFFERENT.

as obama said in his speech tonight, “…WE ARE THE ONES WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR.”

this was without a doubt the most profound comment i’ve ever heard in the history of politics.

WE ARE THE ONES WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR.

i hope you’re enjoying history as much as I am.

Super Tuesday Report: FLORIDA

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on February 5, 2008

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best jab of the night goes to keith olbermann from msnbc:

“now this report from election officials of people improperly trying to cast ballots tonight…improperly because this was taking place in Florida…where they voted last week.”

i love you florida.

you have time

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on February 5, 2008

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best quote heard so far in super tuesday coverage:

“if you’re waiting for the california polls to close and you’ve got something to do…you have time.”

keith olberman at 4:30pm PST, 3.5hrs before CA polls close

yes we can

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on February 5, 2008

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less than an hour ago, i walked into the redlands’ senior center and cast my vote for Barack Obama to be the democratic nominee for President of the United States of America. i’ve written before about how energized, motivated and proud i am to support this man in his quest to stir up the political status quo. however, it was as i put pen to paper, that my mind quickly raced through the past year of listening and believing in the junior senator from illinois.

today, i voted for change; i voted for a new hope in america; i voted for an end to the culture of fear; i voted for those who have no voice and against those who use their voices for hate.

today, i voted for barack obama.

“But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. For when we have faced down impossible odds; when we’ve been told that we’re not ready, or that we shouldn’t try, or that we can’t, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people.

Yes we can.

It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.

Yes we can.

It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail toward freedom through the darkest of nights.

Yes we can.

It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness.

Yes we can.

It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the Promised Land.

Yes we can to justice and equality. Yes we can to opportunity and prosperity. Yes we can heal this nation. Yes we can repair this world. Yes we can.

And so tomorrow, as we take this campaign South and West; as we learn that the struggles of the textile worker in Spartanburg are not so different than the plight of the dishwasher in Las Vegas; that the hopes of the little girl who goes to a crumbling school in Dillon are the same as the dreams of the boy who learns on the streets of LA; we will remember that there is something happening in America; that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people; we are one nation; and together, we will begin the next great chapter in America’s story with three words that will ring from coast to coast; from sea to shining sea – Yes. We. Can.”

sometimes it takes 4 kinds of mouthwash

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on February 2, 2008