October 31, 2003
Hey, she looks familiar ...
Holy shit, Win. You weren't kidding about Mistress Quinn.
October 28, 2003
Nothing Special
This is just a post to say that Nolan rocked the Velvet Lounge In DC.
Oh . . . and fuck Dressy Bessy!
October 27, 2003
Bourbon With A Dash of Pig Fat
I've posted some movies and some pictures from the Bourbon and Bacon party this weekend.
Never seen someone take a shot of bacon grease? Now's your chance!
He-e-e-e-e-y
Somebody told me at Tim's Western party that I don't post enough. I'm bored. I've looked at the entire NYT. I'm not interested in sugar and the only thing I have to say about that string is that you can have all the liposuction you want but you still shouldn't eat cookies. I want to say something but I don't have anything important to say.
Clearly, my duty is to say things that aren't important.
It's time for a recent pop culture hot sheet.
H-e-e-e-e-y: Colin Farrell on the cover of GQ. Woof.
Yawn: Hugh Jackman in "Oz"--did you see the picture on the cover of the NYT Arts page today? My crush on him is SO over.
H-e-e-e-e-y: Britney & Madonna.
Yawn: J-Lo & Ben.
H-e-e-e-e-y: Gary Trudeau using a giant grabby hand to symbolize Governor Schwarzenneger, whom he dubs "Herr Gropenfuhrer."
Yawn: The Senate and partial-birth abortion. Do these people even know what they're talking about?
H-e-e-e-e-y: Halloween excitement.
Yawn: Cubs fans. Leave that dude alone, you still would have lost.
H-e-e-e-e-y: Eve on UPN.
Yawn: Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey. Stop doing that talking thing already.
H-e-e-e-e-y: Lost in Translation.
Yawn: "Oh my god, I can't wait for the next Matrix installment." I'd rather roll around in a pool of my own vomit. And the biggest yawn goes to me, because I'm probably going to go see it.
You cannot stop the science!
This is pretty interesting. While I know diddly squat about right & left handed chemistry, evidently this new sweetener comes about due to the L vs. R thing. I want it in my caffeine free Pepsi right now! Not only does it not degrade teeth like sugar, taste exactly like sugar, and fights diabetes, it also makes women more fertile. I've always liked science with a multitude of applications.
October 25, 2003
I've been saying it for years....
i like these scientists much better than the castration-happy ones.
hard science (tee-hee)
don't you dare try and debunk this one, evan.
This is more efficient than the phone
Chicago jeauns: Rooney and Travis this Tuesday (10/28) at the Riv. Anybody? Anybody?
October 24, 2003
Deficits...? Psah...we'll just give ourselves a raise
This is disgusting.
Both the House and the Senate have decided that right now is a good time for a raise. Yeah, deficits bigger than ever, social programs losing funding...they're definitely doing their jobs well.
So I sent this to my representative:
House & senate pay raise
Message: Representative Schakowsky, I want to understand why you voted yes for the pay raise in the house? In light of the biggest deficits in a generation, you feel that it is a good time to raise your own salary? Is $158,000 not enough money already? Compensation for senators and representatives should be taken out of control of congress. It's a conflict of interest. I am ashamed that I am "represented" by someone who would put themselves above the need of the people. Shame on you and all who voted yes.
I heartily suggest you all do the same. That is if you want to. The ones that don't can wallow in their rut of political apathy.
"Tuck" Everlasting...Understatement of the Year
can't really speak to the science here (or anywhere, for that matter), but i'm moved by how intuitively sensible it is that we might live longer without our genitals.
October 23, 2003
nolan' for columbine
just caught them last night at siberia & had a great time. it was great to see cinemashow and the rock he brought. the boys crashed at the casa and logged some shih tzu time. the three of them stunk (positively reeked) of iowa road awesomeness, and it made me miss all of you guys.
how about a preholiday chicago meetup? or post: maybe an "old man graver" birthday shindig? i dunno, i call not my turn to organize.
Scientists conduct first-ever fish census
http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2003/10/23/fish/index.html
I'm guessing this is because they need to determine how much funding the schools will get. Heh heh heh.
My Underpants
I put my underpants on backwards today.
In fact, they're still backwards right now.
I'll spare you the photo.
Lonely, bored and deranged in Moline,
Wadsbone
October 22, 2003
Elliott Smith, 1969-2003
For anyone who hasn't heard, Elliott Smith was found dead today. Cause was stabbing, apparently self-inflicted.
It's a little early for chest-beating and garment-rending, but I'll say for now that this is the first time I've ever felt personally affected by the death of someone I never met, large-scale tragedies duly excepted. So this is what it's like. huh.
I know not everyone's a fan, but I'll post the AP wire notice below just in case.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Elliott Smith, a singer-songwriter whose dark-tinged, introspective songs and plaintive singing voice won universal critical acclaim, has apparently committed suicide, his publicist and coroner's officials said Wednesday. He was 34.
Smith's body was found by his live-in girlfriend Tuesday, Los Angeles County Coroner Records Supervisor Marsha Grigsby told Associated Press Radio.
He sustained a single stab wound to the chest that appeared to be self-inflicted, she said.
Smith's New York-based publicist also confirmed his death.
Smith released five widely acclaimed solo albums that garnered modest commercial success. His song "Miss Misery," recorded for the film "Good Will Hunting," was nominated for an Academy Award in 1998.
Smith's songs were often compared with those of Alex Chilton, Nick Drake and the Beatles, his favorite band. They were marked by intricate melodies written over unorthodox chord changes.
Lyrically, they addressed such dark subject matter as drug addiction, troubled relationships and loneliness -- though Smith tried to distance himself from the label of confessional songwriter.
"I don't feel like my songs are particularly fragile or revealing," he said in a 1998 interview in the Los Angeles Times. "It's not like a diary, and they're not intended to be any sort of super intimate confessional singer-songwriterish thing."
Smith was born Steven Paul Smith on Aug. 6, 1969, in Nebraska; his mother was a singer and his father was a psychiatrist. He spent most of his childhood with his mother in the suburbs of Dallas and then moved to Portland, Ore., in high school to live with his father.
Smith studied piano and guitar as a youth and began composing songs when he was 13. He began calling himself Elliott in middle school, he later explained to a reporter, because Steve sounded too "jockish."
Smith graduated Hampshire College in Amhert, Mass., with a degree in philosophy and later joined a Portland punk band called Heatmiser. On the side, he recorded several solo albums -- "Roman Candle" (1994), "Elliott Smith" (1995) and "Either/Or" (1997), all on independent labels -- that won him a devoted underground following.
In 1997, he moved to New York City, where film director Gus Van Sant approached him with an offer to use several of Smith's songs on the soundtrack to "Good Will Hunting." The movie was a hit, bringing Smith's music to a mainstream audience.
Smith subsequently signed with Dreamworks Records and recorded two albums with bigger budgets that featured denser arrangements than his early work. "XO" (1998) and "Figure 8" (2000) continued Smith's critical winning streak, and took him to the middle reaches of Billboard's Top 200 albums chart.
"I don't really have any goals as a songwriter," he once said, "other than to show what it's like to be a person - just like everybody else who's ever played music does."
Smith had recently spoken in interviews about his struggles with alcoholism. "When I lived in New York I was really a bad alcoholic for a few years," he told Under the Radar magazine in an interview published in June 2003.
In an effort to quit drinking, Smith told the magazine, he had undergone treatment at the Neurotransmitter Restoration Center in Beverly Hills, which administers an intravenous solution meant to clear the bloodstream of toxins.
Now that's science
No, a cure for cancer hasn't been found yet. But they have invented nano-velcro! Now you would think that something with the word velcro in it would be used in consumer products, like velcro for shoes for those of us who have trouble tying their laces.
But no, to quote the scientists, nano-velcro "bond most solids together so powerfully that the materials themselves would break before the pads of hooks came apart." Now someone stop me if this suddenly makes sense, but what use is velcro that can't come apart?
October 20, 2003
How is possible?
Lady breaks her legs jumping up and down to complain about loud music
Now, I sympathize with her plight. I don't have any problems really right now, but a band used to practice under our bedroom in our old apartment on Foster on weeknights past midnight.
On the other hand, I think it's really funny that this woman broke her own legs. She must be fat. If you want to, we can get into how I feel about most fat people. Too bad she didn't go through the floor.
New photo from the AP
They just released this picture of the tiger that attacked Roy on stage.
Scary stuff, man.
Robotics? Seriously, Robotics?
I saw this gentleman on my way in to a UM football game this saturday. Thanks to the marvels of technology (i.e. my new camera phone) I was able to snap a clandestine photo of him and share the joy with you.
Three(ish) words: Worst letterjacket ever.
October 16, 2003
A prison sentence will be your recompense.
Remember This!
One Guy pleaded out today and will serve a minimum of 3 years of a ten year sentence. He also implicated the other guy in the jacking of my wallet and busting of my grill. That means that the other guy will probably plead out when his case is called. This took way to long to finally resolve, but I'm glad it's over.
October 15, 2003
the NEW "Not a Joke" Thread
This thread is exclusively for non-jokes.
October 10, 2003
I'll blow you (up) later.
so its the hip new slang to say someone is blowing up your cell?
I'll ... uh... pass.
October 09, 2003
October 08, 2003
October 06, 2003
Big news!
Well, for anyone who doesn't yet know... our very own Colin2317 and Jenny are now engaged. The ring was presented last wednesday night in an alley... because Colin really knows how to be romantic.
So, lets here it for Colin and Jenny!
HIP HOP HOORAY... HO.... HEY... HO.....
So, when's the party?
Tigers also prowl the projects
A tiger found in a Harlem public housing high-rise. Can someone please explain to me how you can a)be poor enough to live in public housing and b)have enough money to raise a tiger? I knew a guy who raised them way outside Wichita and he had lots of land. But in an apartment? What the hell was this guy thinking?
October 05, 2003
snl roundup
arnold schwartzeneger impersonation - not good.
queer eye for the straight girl - awesome.
that dance thing - huh?
the spitting of the wine - that's kevin nealon unfunny.
the guy they got who will obviously be given tracey morgan's roles - not bad, was trying too hard in the movie speech (and why crouching tiger?) but did make me laugh and i think he has a lot of promise. and did anyone else notice that he has the same head shape as tracey morgan?
fred armistad - can't stand him. i think it's the voice. that character in the long hair cooking sketch was enough to make me bang my head into the wall for the second time this week.
cartoon - maybe you have to understand baseball to get it...
overall = c+ (the plus is for queer eye for the straight girl)