I studied history in college, but I know very little about France prior to Louis XIV, and not much about that even. This is why I enjoy talking to my dad about his time spent in south-western France near the Pyrenees and Basque country. After dinner at Dish last night I finally took my father over to Amelie's where I could tell he enjoyed himself. ( Read more... )

I drifted off to sleep last night thinking about certain parts of Liber KKK. This had no relevance to my dreams. In my dreams I was writing The Wire fan-fiction, specifically the continuing adventures of Chris and Snoop. I really enjoyed watchinhg The Wire with my brother, and I got those "end of a series blues" when we watched the final episode ( Read more... )

So over the weekend if you drove around the Elizabeth area you might have seen me walking around aimlessly bumping my head to various awful musics that I enjoy. So lets recap!

Friday: Ate some wonderful Vietnamese food with my Dad and Step-mom. Later I walked up to The Manor and caught a showing of Ponyo, which was fantastic. I really enjoyed seeing ( Read more... )

So last night I fell asleep listening to my Hare Krishna album. This morning when I pull of Wikipedia I find out that today is Krishna Janmashtami which is a festival to commemorate the birth of Lord Krishna and his placement in a foster home. Weird little coincidences like this happen around me a lot...

My brother has been watching The Wire on dvd ( Read more... )

The last couple days have shown attempts at improvement. I stopped eating meat again for a couple of goofy reasons. I have woken up early the last couple days and run around the neighborhood some. I have also been doing some nasty leg lifts which really work out the abdominals. Of course the disappearance of meat and the addition of exercise always ( Read more... )

Sometimes I joke I am going to learn to be one of the "sky clad" sadhus. Heh, my brother and I were watching NatGEO (I love spelling it that way) and they said " these men who have stepped away from the responsibilities of work and family, smoke marijuana all day and are considered holy".

I would look cool covered in ash...but maybe I would make an ( Read more... )

My dad and I were talking about Glen Beck the other day, and we realized that almost everything that comes out of that guy is based in fear. By spreading fear or fanning the flames of already present fear, this guy makes a living. WTF?

Last night my brother and I watched Barton Fink, the last Coen brothers movie I had yet to see. I am not going to go into depth on our interpretations of the movie, but I will say that we enjoyed it. Afterwards we decided to "live la vida Goodman" and go by the Penguin for some munching (unfortunately too late in the evening to call it "drunching ( Read more... )

For some reason I find it really amusing that they are releasing Squeaky Fromme from prison. Yet another strange woman that I need a framed photo of...

I am eating a banana. I am also drinking de-tox tea. It seems like I pretty much live on bananas and what ever nonsense I can choke down when I get home from work. Yesterday I weirded out the Indian guy who I am training when I casually made a reference to Vaishnava Sadhus, yep I read too goddamn much. Several of my cool coworkers often ask me: " ( Read more... )