Last night I saw Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. I'm a chronic movie nerd but I've never had the opportunity to see the legend. I can definitely see where contemporary directors get their influences. Though the complaint that the movie is too long is justified, it didn't necessarily dampen the overall experience. Tomorrow I plan to watch Hidden ( Read more... )

Only 7 more days until The Killers concert. Whoo hoo!

Since it takes two days to travel from Portland to San Diego it was decided to stop San Francisco and Berkeley. After a trip through the iron worm, we stopped. The night in Frisco was lazy with only corn dogs and a bottle of dry gin to keep us entertained. The second night was spent hitting Telegraph Ave., Berkeley and enjoying ourselves with ( Read more... )

It's pouring again "and I wonder, still I wonder, who will stop the rain". Being Canadian has done nothing to temper a man from the cold. 52ºF in the afternoon is unseemly at best, rude at worse. I thought the city of roses would be more polite. Plus there are the goddamn frogs. You think it was plague. I hear them day and night. It's a frog ( Read more... )

Finally, a day without rain. Don't get me wrong; I enjoy the wetness as much as the next guy, but three days is too much.

Portland is a town of speed freaks and hobos and I couldn't get enough of it. I awoke at 12pm to a hearty breakfast of something affectionately know to the locals as the Terminator.

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After four bloody days of European Bickering, Poor People, and Spanish..... finals had come to an end. Now sobriety can be a fickle thing. Some people get high off felt tip pens or a job well done. I get high off a large amount of marijuana and Mexican grown shrooms. I had maintained the line between sanity and madness for almost four weeks, ( Read more... )

I'm sorry, but I've finally lost it. I can't tolerate it anymore. These articles were the last straw. The camel's back isn't broken, it's pulverized into a fine dust. After reading the following articles:

Bush Hawk Appointed to World Bank

Alaskan Drilling Approved

Funding for Iraq War Increased

Why?

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Does this comic make me a worse person for laughing than I already am?


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