Last night's South Park was about the goth kids getting pissed off that all the preppy kids in school jumped onboard a new fad of dressing like vampires and drinking clamato juice. To their lament, soon they too were being mistaken as one of those "douchey vamp kids." This is probably happening "for reals" to some extent across the country due to ( Read more... )

1.  Come to my party tomorrow night.

2.  Don't copy my costume:

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I guess I should have bought a house instead of investing in the stock market.  It's looking like more and more people will be getting renegotiated mortgages with the banks taking the loss instead of the home owner.  This hurts the stock market, which hurts me.  This keeps home prices high, which hurts me.  I'm being denied the glee of seeing the ( Read more... )

       An old man driving a Cadillac possibly cut me off this morning as I tried to pass him on a turnpike exit ramp before the toll booth.  I say possibly because after he made his wide drifting turn into my lane, I saw that his directional signal was actually on.  The trouble is that his taillights were really tall and narrow and not very easy to ( Read more... )

Maybe it's time I upgraded to a camera phone because I feel like I missed an opportunity today.  Stop and Shop had a big rack full of "Disco Items," which as it turns out is just short for Discounted Items, but I would have had a lot of fun Photoshopping in a disco ball on one of the shelves interspersed with the sundry crap.  On closer inspection ( Read more... )

My favorite metal band ever is a little known MA metalcore group called Overcast. They broke up years ago, but they've reunited, and that might just be best news I've heard all summer. This news blows Michael Phelps out of the water. Now to decide where to see them (bearing in mind that MA sucks and the Albany show will blow the roof off of ( Read more... )

• Dilast has asked me what I have against the bus. I've thought about it and this is what I have against the bus. 
  
• The latest Case-Shiller report shows Boston prices holding pretty stead versus our neighbors on the west si-eeede.  Where's my fire sale?  I guess we don't have as many dummies that got in over their heads around Beantown. Additionally, ( Read more... )

The 2007 Emmy nominees are out and I'm surprised to find that there's quite a few good nominations. I don't watch a whole lot of TV, but there were a few shows this past year that I found myself looking forward to each week. They were:

• Dexter Season 2 (Showtime)
  
• Flight of the Conchords (HBO)
  
• Big Bang Theory (CBS)
  
• South Park (Comedy Central ( Read more... )

Last night I went to the free ArtBeat 2008 show in Somerville to see Freezepop, but was pleasantly surprised by the other acts I saw. When Tracey and I arrived, Rota Temporis from Italy was playing and it was pretty much insane. Medieval Celtic music. Three drums, three bagpipes, all leather wearing outfits that a cross between the costumes you' ( Read more... )

Today I tried to withdraw $1.20 from an ATM (plus $1.50 fee of course). Why? Because an incompetent moron wrote the software. Why should I have to type an extra ".00" at the end of my desired ATM withdrawal? I know it only dispenses $20s. It knows it only dispenses $20s. Yet it wants me to enter in an amount divisible by 20 dollars and it would ( Read more... )