If it's good enough for the birds, it's good enough for me.

I've opened all the windows to let the house air out. Out with the old, in with the new.

If you haven't done it yet, listen to Beirut! The Flying Club Cup and Gulag Orkestar are both amazing, though I lean slightly toward the former.

The Magic tournament up in Vancouver was good times. I was covered in a feature match, so now I'm still not even remotely famous: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgevent/gpvan08/blog2#10Read more... )

This picture is not from a movie set:


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There seem to be upsides to choosing a Grammy winning president... maybe we can get a musical State of the Union address next year?

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"Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes ( Read more... )

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James and I had been talking about not seeing each other enough outside the context of our now defunct Dungeons & Dragons game. Since I've been interested in cooking more recently, I suggested we get together one night and cook. He responded that he's probably the least culinary person I know, and then I recalled that his idea of food is ( Read more... )

Band-Aids can actually fix EVERYTHING:

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