Today is a perfectly lovely Wednesday. It is also Halloween. What is Halloween? I don’t know. If Valentine’s Day is a Hallmark holiday, Halloween is a Hershey’s holiday. My dad sent me some Halloween candy. I have eaten some of it. I brought some to work, but didn’t […]
If you had the pleasure (or torture) of tuning into MTV this weekend, you were no doubt treated to a barrage of their usual self-promotion, advertisements for upcoming shows you absolutely cannot miss. Differently, however, was the presence of indie rock stars Tegan and Sara, appearing before each promo discussing the upcoming show (or […]
If you take a look at my pictures sub-domain, you will find something surprising - pictures! It actually links to my .Mac account pictures page.
If you go there, you will find albums of Rome, Colorado, Penelope, and my young cousin Jessica. It’s pretty cool, so check it out!
Microsoft paid $240 million to invest in Facebook. Facebook claims it’s worth $15 billion. But, c’mon, HOW? Just how much money can Facebook truly be turning out? They have so little advertisement presence on their pages, and relatively few corporate partners. What in the world is bringing in all that […]
In case you missed it, it turns out, according to Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, that Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts is gay. Cool, said I. Plus, I could totally see it, what with the story telling of his relationship with Grindelwald. Seems like a schoolboy crush, for sure.
But John Cloud, writing […]
Hey, you with the check book, I need $189.3 billion for next year! Don’t ask me why or what or who or how! Who do you think I am, the answer-man? Hell no! I am the spender! The cash gatherer. Father knows best, and who’s your daddy? I […]
As some of you may know, that is the title of the upcoming CellBlock album. For those of you who do not know, CellBlock is my Hip-Hop MC moniker. I’ve been working on the track list and am pleased to feature an announcement here of the preliminary track list.
In no particular order:
Graduation/Parole - […]
I have been long absent from this blog; such is the wonders of jet lag (which really sucks, by the by. I haven’t slept without waking around 4 since we got back). But anyway, I figure I’d best break this streak by writing something, so what better to write about than some new […]
Rather than give you a play by play of our days in Rome, I thought I’d go over the sites and tell you how it was. I’ll rank each place in terms of our expectations - at, above, or below expectations.
1. The Coliseum: At Expectations
It’s a big stadium, essentially. You can get […]
It’s 5:30, Sunday Morning. Believe it or not, I am not normally (ideally, anyway) awake at this time of day. But thanks to a friendly thing called time zones, my body feels like it’s already after noon! Rome is 7 hours ahead of the US and that can mess with you. […]
Update! - The lawyer’s name from the NPR interview is Aliza Herzberg.
Isiah Thomas, former NBA star and current coach of the New York Knicks, has been found liable for damages from sexual harassment charges. His employer is forced to pay over 11 million dollars to the victim, Anucha Browne Sanders. Allegations include Thomas […]
This is a long word that means “the act of describing something as worthless.” I like derivations like floccinaucinihilipilificatious, the adjective version. “Your floccinaucinihilipilificatious comments are not helpful!” It’s such a lovely word, I’m surprised I hadn’t heard it before.
Wikipedia has a nice entry about the word, including times that it […]
Yah, bring your knife at me - you cut everything else. I cannot imagine a more ridiculous budget than that which they passed some time ago. They have no respect for the future of the state, for anything that government is responsible for funding, for institutions that serve as bastions for all that […]