I was greatly disheartened to learn that the Brandywine Diner is closing. While perhaps one of the seediest diners you could eat at, it was where i spent many nights after a run at the local taverns.

One of the highlights of new years was watching Carson Daly's face in horror on NBC as he talked about a clip from new years 1965 and Wanda Sykes said "back then Aretha Franklin sang then then made her polish the ball".

How come everytime I go to my sisters for Christmas I have more fun with my nephews toys than they do?

durins tip of the day: parchment paper catches fire under the boiler.

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Tonight starts the Union College flag football league which I have taken part in the last 3 years even though I have never attended Union College, was never in a frat, and only know 1 person on the team. It feels good being a ringer.

Finally got down down to visit my old college pal James this weekend. His cousin is Rolling Stone photographer Karl Larsen and happened to be having a showing down there which we started at. Some very good photography, but I was not inclined to spend $900 on a 11x14.

Later that night we went to see the stand up of Lewis Black, which was ( Read more... )

durins tip of the day: if you are drunk at a wedding and the dj hands you a plastic blow up guitar to do the solo during 'you shook me all night long' and there is a videographer there, don't do it.

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Its been a tumultuous week and a half for me. I spent most of last weekend installing new vanities in my master and other upstairs bathroom - a process that should have taken about 3 hours until I realized that the drawers were larger in the new cabinets and therefore would not accommodate the plumbing. It took the better part of 2 days to ( Read more... )