OK, I just wrote about the Classic Ones. While I was there I was thinking about how the drunk grad students from last night were much more pleasant, perhaps because of the lack of pretentiousness and big laughs and big drinks. So I came back to the Varsity, the bar I was at last night, to use the free Wi-Fi (and the bartender from Sunderland is ( Read more... )

Help me Jebus, but I just heard the Most Pretentious Conversation in the Western World (tm) about an hour ago. So I'm sitting in a little curry place by Durham cathedral next to a table of six classics undergrads. Do you want to hear the merits of watching animated Disney movies in German versus Turkish? Nope, me neither, especially when the ( Read more... )

I have much to say about the trip to the UK so far. The flight went just fine, no airport stress (will be hard to fly in to London again...), excellent train ride to Durham, nice b&b in one of most beautiful towns (check that -- it's a city because it has a cathedral) I have ever seen ( Read more... )

I enjoyed my Miami trip this week -- got the important appointment done (learned a lot there) and did not feel at all like I was rushing around, killing myself to get some dumb call total done. That being said, I spent a lot of time with The Accountant in a spare office, you know, working on my fidness (my financial fitness...). I spoke with a ( Read more... )

Business is good. Getting better daily. So Much To Do!!!! Thank God for the Dirty Whore and the Syphilitic Bubo.

During the not-watching-the-superbowl last night, the topic of bad movie lines came up. Of course, I chimed in with my two "faves," as it were ( Read more... )

To remove your phone number(s) from telemarketers, all free ( Read more... )

... and found this. Dammit, now I've got Richard Dreyfus on the brain ( Read more... )

I wish I could find it, but I have a kick-ass cd of Beethoven's 9th conducted by a dude wearing glasses who's good with (I think) the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. Obviously, I haven't listened to it in many a moon. Anyhoo, it is the best cd to blast loudly while driving on a crisp sunny fall day with the windows open whilst smelling burning ( Read more... )

So here goes, although my media attention was not altogether productive an endeavour in a regard such as this. These may not from 2007, but they were in my head in 2007 ( Read more... )