have you ever noticed that people in music (mainly rap) videos always have the most up-to-date and sophisticated gadgetry available? cars, cell phones, that sort of thing...always the newest shit on the market. the exception here is ipods. despite whatever gadgetry may or may not be shown off, you never see ipods in music videos. you might see ( Read more... )

my parents are going to be in new york on next month for like just 1 or 2 nights and we were thinking about going to try to visit them. chuck klosterman is gonna be doing a thing for his new book in nyc on one of those two nights we were thinking about being out there. guess who's going to nyc next month ( Read more... )

since arriving just over two weeks ago i've spent some time in your city (and a lot of time in your suburbs) and it's not bad...not too overwhelming, not too scary, maybe not quite enough hipsters, but by and large a nice place ( Read more... )

we're here and as of about an hour ago we have internet access (finally ( Read more... )

howdy ( Read more... )

i heard 40 seconds of the new killers song and it sucked.

told ya so.

in anticipation of this weekend's world cup championship game, msnbc/newsweek has audio commentary from...henry kissinger ( Read more... )

so i won't lie. we're moving to thriladelphia in five weeks and i have yet to secure either a job or an apartment and i am pretty much petrified. but last night i happened upon that show "it's always sunny in philadelphia" and, pathetically, it made me way more excited to move ( Read more... )

1.  summer.

2.  my job.

3.  napoleon dynamite.

4.  sunflower broadband.  we wanted to turn off our cable tv and keep cable internet service, and motherfuckers were going to charge us $15 to send a techniciatn out to put a trap on the line so we could get internet but not tv, and then charge us $10/mo. to NOT have cable tv.  it's actually cheaper for ( Read more... )

shitty day at work today, with tomorrow not looking promising.

BUT...the new woody allen movie will be out in a month (WAAAAAY sooner than i thought), so that makes me feel a bit better.

that being said, the movie doesn't look very good, even going so far as to drift somewhat into self pardoy and repeating something from five years ago that wasn't ( Read more... )