It’s been a busy week. My buddy and roomie, Jenn, has been in New Orleans all week doing a big social psych conference. I’ve spent much of my time being delayed due to all the filming going on downtown for the new Batman movie. I got to sit on a train for fifteen minutes while […]
“No, I don’t have prom pictures, but I have pictures of me on the Great Wall of China.” – Mary Lou Retton (Olympic gold-winning gymnast) I’ll be posting less this week – doing some heavy rewriting on several projects. Ciao.
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I WANT TO BUY THIS PROPERTY…. This is why I go to work everyday.
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Coming back to the US after a year and a half in South Africa, I made a startling discovery: There really was a Starbucks on every corner. I should have been tipped off when I came back to the parentals’ abode for the holidays in Dec `03 to find my small, sleepy home town had
Matt Taibbi cuts out all the bullshit from Kerry’s acceptance speech… “When I was done cutting, there were only two lines left. I was born in Colorado. America can do better.” In other news, this guy is fucked. Too bad for him he’s not a rich football player. Maybe he can blame Liberal Intolorence, or
“Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” Chinese Proverb It’s after my strength training class on Monday, the day after my climbing class, and I’ve just lost about a gallon of water. Our MA school doesn’t have air conditioning, just a bunch of big fans, and on a 95 degree
From: Quotable Woman “If you weigh well the strengths of our armies you will see that in this battle we must conquer or die. This is a woman’s resolve. As for the men, they may live or be slaves.” – Boadaceia “How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?” – Zsa
“Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Contrary to what you’ve just seen, war is neither glamorous nor fun. There are no winners, only losers. There are no good wars, with the following exceptions: The American Revolution, World War II, and the Star Wars Trilogy. If you’d like to learn more about war, there’s lots of
I’ll be fascinated to know where we’ll draw the line. Concentration camps? Death squads? “We caution people not to write about bombs because if they’re going on vacation, their travel plans will be disrupted,” she said.
Some random miscellany: Plastic surgeons today warned people not to have cosmetic surgery to try to gain celebrity looks. And, in case there was any further dissent about the reason there are still more dead people in the middle east: Saddam controlled a country at the centre of the Gulf, a region with a quarter