1) It's bad if your dog eats even a small portion of a bag of uncooked rice. The dog will shit rice for days -- sometimes on your carpet. Make a note of that one.

2) Melissa and I will be back in CT from this Thursday until at least Sunday. My last living grandparent, my grandmother (affectionately referred to as "Nana Novak") passed away last night ( Read more... )

Went up to Austin last night. Mike and I caught a Format show from the street. Free show, but you only get to hear it. Still worth it. Then again, it's hard for something free to not be worth it.

Then, went on a wild goose chase for some Texanized thin-crust pizza.

Then, went back to the house of one of his friends and played a good-times board game.

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Fascinated with the Wal-Mart machine?

Love it? Hate it?

Someone leaked a powerpoint presentation from them.

It's this big study on the demographics and lifestyles of its customers. Hours of fun-filled terror!

I rode by my bike to work today. Roughly 4 miles.

It kicked my ever-loving ass.

Everyone: Take a quick bow towards
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I'm now more "that guy" than ever.

I just absent-mindedly stepped in wet cement at my apartment.

Looking where your walking is overrated, anyways.

I find the percentage of bands on this bill with the word "Blood" in their names to be staggeringly high.


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This is not me.

When I went home to CT in January, I played a show.

Most of you on this list weren't even in CT, so I present to you: A show that I wish you were all at.

Wit: (
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Every morning my cat carefully watches me make my breakfast -- the same way a kid watches his dad fix a lawnmower. It's as if he's remembering certain things for when he finally decides to make his own bagel and bowl of cereal.

This is my new band.


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