December 2008
Month archive / 54 posts
Consumption: December 2008
Paper cuts are awesome! Wait, no. Wait. Let me start over.
It's snowing like a person who copulates with the woman who gave birth to them.
Listening to The Dismemberment Plan's "The Ice of Boston" with a renewed appreciation. last.fm/music/The+Dismemberme…
If I spend the rest of my life bombing daycare centers, my criminal record still couldn't dream of catching up with the soprano saxophone's.
The post office would be much more effective if it just changed its purpose to wasting time.
Tropic Thunder will go down as the mediocre comedy in which Tom Cruise gave his first ever actually kind of entertaining performance.
Best Buy smells like phys ed.
Doggystyle
Doing the annual Dumping of the RSS Feeds, starting with a clean slate on New Year's Day, and maybe moving to Google Reader.
Consumed expired milk. Relevant updates forthcoming as necessary.
This month, Cambridge and Philadelphia are my parallel universes. As part of the bargain, my desk chair in the latter is now made of cat.
Trying to decide which moments I'd like to revisit with the Ghost of Christmas Past.
Merry Christmas, everyone.
Loading up the iPod for the long drive home. Arguing that The Jesus Lizard counts as Christmas music.
Just spent over an hour digging my car out. Christmas, you better make this so worth my while.
My belated Secret Santa gift was worth the wait. I now possess a nice big print of this creepily magnificent image: marcraila.com/images/DollEyes.jpg
Oh, the things I hope future civilizations will learn from what we've done.
Zombie Haiku!
one thing on my mind
only one thing on my mind
I'm going to eat you
Fondly recalling a chilly night several years ago involving friends, snow, a steep hill, an air mattress, Pam cooking spray, and cheap wigs.
Peter Sellers should come back to life and hang out with me.
The Swell Season
Sweatin' all the bitches in the biker shorts.
Rejoicing at the arrival of a tin full of mouth-watering Tastykake treats, courtesy of the insanely awesome folks at Happy Cog Philadelphia!
Watching the He-Man pilot. Each character and vehicle is carefully identified by name to avoid confusion in the toy store. hulu.com/watch/48639/he-man-a…
Good sign that taking this job was the right decision: The boom box in the bathroom is playing Naked City.
Let the Right One In is beautiful, but I wish it was even less eager to indulge genre fans. Of course, then it wouldn't have reached the US.
Wondering how Glenn Close was cast as a hotcha seductress in Fatal Attraction. I found her frightening long before she went nutso.
You clever cat! How did you know I wanted you to stick your ass in my face?
Your Own Personal Moses, Part 2
Your Own Personal Moses, Part 1
My Xbox 360 is black so you know it was more expensive. It needs some chrome, though, like Priest's car in Super Fly.
There are certain people I admire to whom I would offer constructive criticism if I wasn't pretty sure they don't like me.
There's still room for inventiveness in irony, but nobody told nerdcore hip hop.
Two years after I proved I did not, in fact, owe the IRS another $35,000, the state of PA catches wind of the first half of the story.
Just got an unsolicited and unquestionably honest review of the Blackberry Storm from one of the Italian curmudgeons.
Waiting for a pizza and being entertained by a curmudgeonly conversation among several very Italian men.
Finally scored a Charlie card for cheaper MBTA fares. Almost starting to feel like a resident.
At the Web Pro Education Summit.
Watching Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas and contemplating opening my wrists.
Kermit the Frog's nephew Robin is such a goddamned goody-goody.
Watching the Muppet Show and Sesame Street worlds collide in A Muppet Family Christmas.
Dancing in Boston's clouds.
To hear a good record recently released 15+ years after its predecessor, check out the new Cynic: amazon.com/Traced-In-Air/dp/B…
Freqhammer
Catching up on Harmonix history this morning, I played Frequency for the first time. This is the little Freq (avatar) I created for myself.
Reading Inc's profile of Harmonix, which covers the company's history pretty comprehensively: inc.com/magazine/20081001/just-pl…
My natural curiosity about how stuff I like gets made is serving me well this week.
Giving up on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia after watching two whole seasons waiting for it to get as good as people say. Not even close.
Just got introduced to all of Harmonix via a company-wide e-mail with this Windhammer photo: flickr.com/photos/chasingfun/…
A new job is less disorienting when Twitter makes every day Bring Your Friends to Work Day.
On day three of combing through mountains of truly exhilarating top-secret documentation, looking forward to putting my mark on it.
Windhammer
Backstage, an hour before show time, the cramped green room buzzed and shuffled with conversation and preparation. Rhinestones and tassels adorned leather and denim, which adorned bodies aged eighteen to forty-eight, travelers hailing from as far as West Virginia. Many were veterans of the air guitar stage, and some had competed as recently as the previous night. Having failed to capture the titles in their home towns of New York, Boston, and Washington DC, they… See more →
Winding down after a nice dinner with @kevinmhoffman and @dtderu.
All right, Harmonix, let's do this thing.