November 2010
1 post
October 2010
7 posts
Martha Plimpton just sang God Bless America at the World Series.
i now regret not getting tickets to this game so much more.
me: so this weird bird followed me my whole way home.
jeff: how was it weird?
me: it kept swooping by.
jeff: wait, it is night.
me: yeah, it must have been some weird night bird.
jeff: or… a bat.
me: oh.
today, my dad and his friend dave went on their annual dove hunt. in dave’s prius.
the Times is about to start talking about the Rangers a lot more. see you Friday.
the wedding we just went to was on the set of 2004’s “The Alamo.”
the groom’s preparation area was the old-timey saloon. the wedding was outside, but the old-timey chapel was full of candy.
em v. en dash
my writing professor comes down firmly on the side of the em dash, but she did write our syllabus in comic sans.
September 2010
5 posts
Pavement!(!!!!!) quite a day.
school shooting lockdowns are eerie.
tonight, i played law school intramural flag football. it was the first time i had ever played. we won 32-0.
all day, i’ve been reading “burn a Koran” as “burn a Korean.”
i guess that will teach me to glance at news items on my phone. i’m glad i didn’t try to talk to anyone about it.
August 2010
3 posts
my impression of law school thus far is that there is a lot of free food.
bowling is not a good ‘get to know you’ activity for a large group of people.
“I’m going to call it right now. Step Up 3D: best movie of the year. (Hush. Just...”
– A very truthful and just honest review of Step Up 3D. (via elsam)
I’m about to see this for the second time because I just can’t get enough.
July 2010
15 posts
i was listening to yesterday’s All Things Considered and got disproportionately excited about the Weeels piece. i was also reminded how much i would like to take the Trans-Siberian Railroad.
"Hunt WITH your kids, not FOR them"
is a bumper sticker i just saw, riding home from the pool. at first, i was taken aback: it seems a given that people would not hunt their children. then i realized that it meant “hunt” as in “to look for when lost/ out past curfew.” i think it has something to do with how if you take your kids hunting, they will not stay out late without telling you where they are because...
today, an 18 year-old King of Uganda threw the first pitch at the Rangers/ Orioles game. no one seemed to be at all flummoxed by this. probably because everyone was too shocked that the Orioles were on their way to sweeping the series.
fighting
at trivia tonight, there was a lot of fighting. lots and lots. Kady and i had a meeting behind the bar and decided to ignore one third of the team. because we did so, we continued the longest winning streak since the beginning of this game. we play to win.
the big fight, though, was over “name one of the two vegetarian members of the Wu-Tang Clan.” the quiz master accepted RZA, but...
right now, VH1 Classic is playing an entire Fleetwood Mac concert from the mid-90’s. they just wrapped up Silver Spring. will and I have put all plans on hold for the time being.
tomorrow, my friend Will is coming to visit from Boston. i started trying to make him come to Austin in the summer of 2005, so i guess five years of persistence paid o. we plan to eat barbeque and mexican food, sit in bars, and go record shopping. other people (Kate!): come visit.
June 2010
42 posts
the awl on Eclipse and wigs. the wigs were sort of the most unrealistic part of the movie.
i’m not super into True Blood this season, but Zima jokes are always gold.
there is a season 4 episode of Buffy in which Kal Penn plays an obnoxious college dude who does not want to talk about Thomas Aquinas as he and his buds try to get Buffy wasted, then regresses into a caveman at the bar where Xander works.
he has a chin-length bob.
last night’s Party Down season finale featured another Greek crossover: Casey Klein/ Cartwright.
Watchgloriaj:
verymarykate:
Zac Efron
1. this is where I got the title for the Jason Segel article, if anyone is wondering. I quote VMK more than I should, considering it’s not as internet famous as I think it should be.
2. everyone should watch all of very mary kate right now. it’s saturday; i doubt you have anything better to do.
Is this about all those blimps I crashed? Because I keep...
One night not long ago, Jason Segel walked out of a restaurant on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles and saw a kid on the sidewalk, maybe 17, struggling to light what appeared to be a half-smoked cigarette. Segel, a smoker himself and a friend to fiends in need—”There’s not too many of us left,” he points out—proffered a fresh one from his own pack. The kid looked up, face full of...
“A kid at my old high school told me that once he was working at a sub shop with...”
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One of the coolest comments on the Bill Murray article by Nick Haramis. I have a feeling there are a ton of BM stories out there… (via bbook)
“No one’s going to believe you” seems to be a BM catchphrase. my friend Alex once woke up in an airport lounge at LAX to find BM sitting...
“In an astonishing display of endurance, the players fought for 11 hours and 5 minutes, breaking all records for length of match, games played, and aces served.”
“Just from the title 1Q84 it is obvious that Haruki Murakami is a naughty writer who likes to play word games.”
on translating Murakami into Chinese.
endasher:
almostepistles:
does anyone else not really get how to make iphone ‘multitasking’ work?
WAY TO PASSIVE AGGRESSIVELY GLOAT ABOUT GETTING AN IPHONE TODAY.
i suppose you could have just gotten the new firmware for a 3GS. sorry, if that’s the case.
neither! i was playing with someone else’s in anticipation of the arrival of mine sometime between tomorrow and the end of time....
does anyone else not really get how to make iphone ‘multitasking’ work?
Marisa Tomei is a co-founder of Hoopnotica, a hula-hoop work out website/ movement. i am not sure how i missed this, but wow.
