I saw the movie Something the Lord Made yesterday, and I highly recommend it. It's about a white doctor and black carpenter who pioneered the field of heart surgery at Johns Hopkins back in the 1940s/1950s. I think it was originally an HBO movie, but now it's on DVD and I'm sure Blockbuster or Wal-Mart would appreciate it if you would help expand ( Read more... )

Today I was doing the laundry and noticed that a pink shirt managed to get in the white clothes. However, unlike its cousin red, apparently pink does not cause massive amounts of white-clothes ruinage. So I have respect for pink and its lack of potency. However, pink loses points for being associated with a terrible pop singer. And also for being ( Read more... )

Leroy Jenkins kept me up all night long. If you know what I mean.

For the first time in my life, I managed to have someone in my family tape a sporting event, manage to make it home and begin watching without knowing the result, and then watch the game in its entirety without finding out the score or giving up and going find out for myself. This was especially hard, considering that no goals were scored in the ( Read more... )

It's moments like this when I tell myself that I wish I wasn't the way I was. I never believe it, of course. I love the way I am and I don't want to be cured of my rabid fanaticism. What I really mean is, 'I wish it didn't hurt so badly sometimes.'

I remember waking up four years ago at 6:00 in the morning to watch the United States play Germany in ( Read more... )

In soccer, the early bird would be offsides:
I've been waking up at 8:00 every morning now to catch my full share of soccer, since that is when the first game begins. So far in the tournament, the first game of each day has been rather subpar. This is fine with me. In fact, it usually fits perfectly into my schedule. That first match gives me time ( Read more... )

The World Cup is upon us. Today's games just whet my appetite for more, and it's a damn shame that I'm going to miss a good portion of tomorrow's matches while I'm at work. I estimate that I'll be able to catch the first 30 minutes of England-Paraguay, and be back home midway through the first half of the last game, a battle between Argentina and ( Read more... )

Exams are over, and have been for a while now, but I'm not only lazy but also chronically late. So back off. I did surprisingly well (only one B - American History. For those keeping score at home, yes, that does mean I got an A in Janet's class. I win at life.

So with school being over I've finally been able to immerse myself in a life of fantasy.

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After going into Rachel's room, noticing a hammer, and noticing a wall (rooms tend to have those), I have decided that it would very much please me to throw hammers into a wall. A nice, pure, rhythmically and mechanically correct overhand throw straight into a wall. And for good measure, have it wobble in the wall, head buried in the brightly ( Read more... )

I would like to announce that for the time being, the party at my house on Saturday is no longer occuring.