As part of my birthday celebration, a bunch of friends and I went up to Lake Placid. I'm sure you know Lake Placid was the host of the Winter Olympics in both 1932 and 1980 ( Read more... )

So, I finally got around to watching Lost in Translation. I had already seen it, years ago, when it initially came out. And I loathed the movie. After visiting Japan and reading all the plethora of references to the movie in all my guidebooks, I figured it might be worth it to see it again. It just took me five months to do it ( Read more... )

Appartently Dan G has been in the hospital for almost two weeks now. And its kinda serious (though, from an email I got today, it sounds like he's doing a little better).

I have the contact info if you wanna wish him well. I don't know who still talks to him and who doesn't, so...

So, yesterday I was pondering the reasons I didn't want to join a commune. Leading the list was the concern that, even though it is a free-love place and everyone is doing the pagan-nasty, I would be disregarded. How much would that suck? Moving to a commune where everyone is practicing the benefits of marriage outside the holy sacrament, and you' ( Read more... )

If you've seen any news lately, I'm sure you are aware of the second snowstorm we had in the last five days. I need to move south. This weather is driving me crazy.

This is my second post in a row about the terrible snow we've been having. I know its boring, but its pretty much dominated my life since last Friday.

I'm so bored, I'm so bored.
I've been trapped in my apartment all day.
The snow really sucks.
They need to plow the streets.
And it needs to stop snowing.
I've nothing to do.

Well, it's not really but a problem ( Read more... )

I've recently gotten interested in pick-up artists and their methods. Not for my own self-advancement, but rather just an intellectual curiousity (sounds believeable, I hope ( Read more... )

Today, I got a call from my dad. He was listening to the news on the radio whilst working, and he heard me! An interview I did made national news. I was really impressed. Not only was it broadcast via the airwaves, but it was also picked up the AFP news wire ( Read more... )

I was just reading a book wherein a woman died. She was the neighbor of the protagonist, and would pop in and out of the story. Basically, she just kept saying that she was trying to complete her memoirs. And then the main character and his wife noticed a weird smell in the hallway of their apartment ( Read more... )