I was feeling pretty confident about my culinary pursuits so far this summer, and then I spoke with Luke. "I cooked tonight! I had dinosaur kale with pecans, onions, and olives. It was delicious."

Um... yeah, someone pass the Easy Mac.

Critical Mass is incredibly fun. I wish I had gotten a chance to do it in San Francisco, but it tends toward anarchism there and rides are very hard to detect until they are already happening, even when you are a member of the sfcriticalmass listhost (I am). In that case all you get are random messages on Tuesdays wishing you a Happy Friday! and ( Read more... )

Some dude committed suicide by hanging himself from poles in one of the huge tents at Burning Man. "His friends say they thought he was doing an art piece, and the body was hanging, dead, for two hours before others realized what had happened." Can you believe that? Well yeah, I guess it's sort of easy to believe. I would take this as an ( Read more... )

RTA fare increases and service cuts starting September 16th. If you live in Chicago, this affects you. Good times.

Text message from Tom Gronk (1:04 pm): "I just saw gary oldman!!"

DUDE. This reminds me, I never got back to this thing with the Batman haps, which are tres important. On Sunday night Maggie and I found the set by accident again, and this time they were actually filming (though it might have been a rehearsal). There were people running around ( Read more... )

I renounced vegetarianism for good on Saturday night, mostly because Greek food is no good without meat and I can't be spending my hard-earned dineros on things that are not good. So I had lamb for the first time. It is good. Now I am eating lamb again. It is still good. More people could kill sheep and eat them, guys, go for it. It is SO GOOD!

-Wayne Tower is the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago at Adams and La Salle.
-The crew filmed some sort of public address scene there at 7 am today.
-The GPD cars and Gotham ambulances were out last night, as well as the Gotham City flag; the entire block was roped off and guarded by amused-looking Chicago cops.

Pictures and stories forthcoming.

This year, psychologists at Northwestern did a study that found that break-ups are "just less bad than you thought". The ever more present press releases of this kind make me think that academics in fields like psychology and cognitive science are either seventeen years old or have hit some kind of wall. My brief forays into cognitive science ( Read more... )

Seriously, people do some hilarious shit. And the hilarious things that happen naturally are probably the best argument I can think of against absurdity. The funniest things, to me, are things like this: a boy is fishing in the Netherlands and hooks a scuba diver. A German couple burns the girl's house down with the candles they lit to set the mood ( Read more... )

I have spent 8 hours working on this stooopid wireless connection ( Read more... )