WEBSITE OF THE WEEKThis week I'd like to share with everyone a special website that reveals the inner secrets of your soul. It knows exactly who you are and where your future is going. It's a website of vast knowledge and knowledge of vast things. It boggles the mind and leaves one with a sour taste in one's mouth, for unexplained reasons. This ( Read more... )

WEEK REVIEWPROS: Amy-time, seeing a bunch of friends throughout the week, Sunsplash and the chaos that occurred there, getting closer to the end of the first summer reading, the meatball sandwich from Subway, kicking ass in laser tag and air hockey, buying the movie Swingers, the movie hop ( Read more... )

TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE: dwelling on the past, whether you want to or not

THE PLAGUE OF OUR CHILDHOODThere are still a few diseases that don’t have cures: cancer, the common cold, AIDS. But there has never been a disease as volatile and vile as the notoriously nicknamed “Cooties.” Honestly, has there been anything as dreadful? It’s a disease that ( Read more... )

MOVIE WRAP-UP: completely unhelpful movie reviews

NEW RELEASESKING ARTHUR: imagine a cute little puppy, which is beaten repeatedly with a metal bat, then run over with a semi-truck, then set on fire and left to burn in the back alley of a rundown third-world country-- and that's pretty much what King Arthur is. ( F ( Read more... )

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK: because I'm too damn lazy to do anything else

FIGHT THE DISCOMFORTS OF NOT KNOWING STUFF!If there's one thing I hate, it's the inability to remember that really awesome song that I heard in a movie trailer. Sometimes it drives me to the point of insanity, and that's a sharp point, one that cuts deep and leaves ugly scars, and ( Read more... )

WEEK REVIEW: a look at the life behind the mind of the writer

07.05.04 -TO- 07.09.04PROS: spending time with Amy, hearing the orthodontist tell me that it would be six more weeks, working at the coffeeshop a lot (keeps me away from my sister and equals money), taco bell, watching late-night television, sleeping ( Read more... )

TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE: dwelling on the past, whether you like it or not

THE BUNNY GOES INTO THE HOLEIf there was one thing, other than sex, that was most often described through the use of clever symbols, it was the act of tying your shoe. I was taught the bunny method, in which I was in charge of building the bunny's home and then showing the ( Read more... )

REAL NEWS: we bring you the real news, in our own real way

HOOKED ON PHONICS SELLS SECRET INFORMATIONIn a shocking discovery last Wednesday, the FTC found that Hooked On Phonics (not Huked awn Foniks), a program that used clever subliminal messages in their movies to increase the literacy rates of children, was selling private information for a ( Read more... )

I've decided to run this journal with a system, and it goes a little something like this ( Read more... )

MOVIE WRAP-UP: completely unhelpful movie reviews

5 MOST RECENT SUMMER MOVIES:THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW: a crazy giant wave takes over new york and turns it into a winter wonderland, chaos ensues as wolves escape from the zoo and become hulk-like monsters that chase survivors through an abandoned ship while others inside the library burn books ( Read more... )