there's something
very satisfying
about sitting
in my office
at the college
listening to
pink floyd.

now, i'm not
about to listen
to this with
my door open--
not secure enough
for that, really--
but i like the
counterstatement
of music and place.

in other listening news,
i picked up a lovely
jazz cover cd yesterday:
jazz for couch potatoesit ( Read more... )

filing taxes
in two states
when you only
have income in one
seems kinda silly,
especially when
the one you live in
has a higher rate
{and it's not like
any of the income
was actually
earned there}.

that is all.

yes, the paperwork
is only going in
today.

it's a habit-thing.
honest.

so the venerable
< snicker >
real world will not
be filming in philadelphia
after all.

following protests,
mtv is pulling back.
it seems they wanted
to do remodelling work
on their intended home
using non-union workers.

that didn't sit well.
no real world: philly now.

{{not that i really ( Read more... )

ok, so here's your morning
time-[insert verb here]-er,
a fill-in-the-blank quiz
on 80's song lyrics.

i scored an 81.5,
by the way.

special props to shadorunr
for linking to the quiz.

my personal favorites:
51, 55, 66, and 72
{i love 72, but i've
never been able to make out
that missing word.
and now i know. . .
. . .and knowing is half the

here it is:
blue wizard is about to die
by seth "fingers" flynn barkan
and published by rusty immelman press.
the subtitle?
"prose, poems, and emoto-versitronic expressionist pieces about videogames (1980-2003)"

i mean, the title
harkens back to
gauntlet.
there's a nice
little poem on
smash tv.

the collection
even has ANNOTATIONSof details from ( Read more... )

just a little while ago ( Read more... )

been feeling like death ( Read more... )

julie schwartz
is dead.

what neil gaiman
wrote here was moving,
but what mark evanier
wrote here brought tears ( Read more... )

the "wardrobe malfunction"
was a publicity lightningrod
to deflect attention
from the truly hideous
lack of singing or starpower
in the halftime show.

it's an obvious tactic.

timberlake was clearly
coached by mtv to
"take one for the team"
to keep us from noticing
how bad the lip-synch'ed
"music" was.

how could p.diddy
be the one notin trouble ( Read more... )

ok, i liked
the muppets one
and the willie nelson one
and one or two others
{but only one or two}.

but hands down,
the one i liked most
was the shards o'glass one,
which has a fake website
here .

wow.

as to the game,
i graded papers
during it.

i spent much more
time actively watching
survivor: all starsand was pretty happy ( Read more... )