Archive for June, 2007
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
lauren: i still dont really like facebook
me: nonsense.
lauren: and i only log in to poke you back.
me: HA! I WIN THE POKE WAR! it took three months, BUT I WIN.
lauren: wait. because i acknowledged it?
thats grounds for losing?
me: yep!
sorry!
lauren: who died and made you gov'na of the poke wars?
me: ummm, ...
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
After I explained the Fundamental Theorem of Barbecue (by cooking a fatty and stringy cut of meat, such as pork shoulder, at a temperature lower than the boiling point of water but higher than the melting point of collagen, you can render away the connective tissue and produce a finished ...
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
Chris Benoit murdered his wife one day, his son the next day, and then hung himself a day after that. He was my favorite wrestler.
I was a huge wrestling fan when I was a kid, and then again in college and for a few years after. When my discernment was ...
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
I was dragged kicking and screaming to Facebook (thanks, babe), but once I got there, I loved everything about it: the functional aesthetic, how it told me everything I wanted to know about everyone I wanted to stalk, how the lie of everyone being in my "extended network" was finally ...
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
Oh man. I was going to have the best personalized license plate EVAR. I scoped it out on the DMV website, it was totes available, all I had to do was pay my county vehicle tax and renew my registration, and it was going to be MINE.
This was a couple ...
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Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
If I were gay, this would be the gay man I would be.
But then again, I am the guy who's plotting and scheming to see Morrissey in concert next month, and a gay man did recently say to me, "oh, you know you like it," where "it" referred to titillating ...
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Friday, June 15th, 2007
All this time I had been making a moral case against diamond engagement rings, resting my argument on the highly questionable practices of the De Beers cartel and the horror that was the Second Boer War. Now, I haven't had this conversation deeper than the academic level, but I do ...
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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
This guy reads Impro, life immediately gets better thanks to "the power of yes."
Man! Wait until he learns about "and." That'll blow his mind.
(Despite all the shiny new books on improvisation that have come out in the past few years, Impro is still my favorite and I can't recommend it ...
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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
me: i want you to have a mindblowing philosophical conversation with ME now.
Austin: is anyone sane?
me: you already did that one with ryan.
Austin: ok ok
me: he blogged it.
Austin: haha
me: i want my own experience.
Austin: i was going to phone it in
(obviously now)
you're going to have to wait for it
i don't ...
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
Speaking of amazing educational television that shaped my outlook and nurtured my curiosity as a child, Mr. Wizard died today.
YouTube, take us back:
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