October 2009

This is great, but I do wish the knights were each represented with an N, as they are in proper chess notation. pushes up glasses

"Die, Die My Darling" contains 125 utterances of "die." 107 of them are in the final forty seconds of the song.

This day, anything goes.

Kicked off the weekend chatting on the subway with a congenial, intoxicated man who assured me that he was USMC and I was Billy Gibbons.

Ugh.

Experimenting with listening to birdsong while I work (birdsongradio.com), as recommended by Julian Treasure: blog.ted.com/2009/10/the_4_ways_s…

Suddenly overcome with nostalgia for the euphoric debauchery that was the Kutztown Halloween parade.

According to the conductor, this train will be stuck in New Haven for "awhile." Thank you Amtrak for yet another memorable experience.

We are programmed just to do. Anything you want us to. yfrog.com/j76lgj

Good morning, Wednesday. yfrog.com/0olm4zj

The guy working the café car on this train talks like Johnny Cab from Total Recall.

My contribution to @notcoming's 31 Days of Horror, in which Saw VI is my introduction to the Saw franchise: notcoming.com/reviews/saw-vi

Having never seen any of the Saw films, I thought it would be a fun experiment to start with Saw VI, the most recent installation, and see what I could piece together of the previous five films based on my familiarity with other long-running horror franchises. This idea presupposed that the Saw series had the same general lack of serialization of, say, the Friday the 13th series, whose twelve installments were really bound together only… See more →

When I was growing up, holidays offered early indications that communication design was in my future.

Determined to avoid disappointment on Christmas morning, I made what I wanted perfectly clear to both Santa Claus and my parents, constructing lists that were not only categorized and prioritized, but cross-referenced with several catalogs.

My approach to Halloween was no less meticulous. Putting together appropriately macabre costumes certainly appealed to my creativity, but as a child of the… See more →

My contribution to @jasonsantamaria's Candygram series, detailing my childhood Halloween strategy: bit.ly/3tBWC6

A trench coat outlet would clean up in Salem.

Still not sure whether to envy or pity people who have figured out this adulthood thing.

Host your own Windows 3.1 launch party! youtube.com/watch?v=OvcHNKUA6…

Today's summery weather has tricked my MacBook into thinking it is a lawnmower.

My verbal interpretation of heavy metal guitars has shifted from "chug-a-chug" to "rub-a-dub."

My AM brain's rational understanding that snooze bar sleep is not quality sleep is what makes it such a coldly effective saboteur.

There were empty seats at the Múm show tonight. I wanted to fill them with people I care about.

Feeling less like a stalker now that the girl walking in front of me on this dark sidewalk has turned a corner.

If it doesn't conform to a standard, the smallest size you offer is not Medium.

The Fox News executive washroom is actually a multi-million dollar virtual reality Joe McCarthy blowjob simulator.

Refusing to wear my winter coat in October.

Scroll Magazine #2 is out now, with a short piece by me. Make like @mSutters and pick it up, pick it up, pick it up. bit.ly/2NiMoo

"Ask yourself this: do you think Wikipedia ever hired an SEO consultant in order to get its high rankings on Google?" bit.ly/2kPy7d

Getting addicted to these Pomplamoose VideoSongs: youtube.com/user/PomplamooseM…

Hey cowpiesurprise.tumblr.com, if you must have my unique username of 11 years, tell your little Tumblr pals not to reply to you on Twitter.

Jesus is my Morning After Pill.

Seriously, though, fuck Amtrak with an eternity of rusty razor wire.

The lights on this train go out when it gets below a certain speed. I hope it's taking its cues from Back to the Future and not Speed.

The last seat available on the train is usually the one next to me.

♪ Well, her husband, he's a violent man, a very violent and jealous man. Now I have to leave this town, I gotta leave while I still can.

In 1993, Washington DC’s fertile indie rock scene gave birth to a band called The Dismemberment Plan. Musically, it skirted genre conventions inconspicuously. Lyrically, it found wisdom and poetry in the commonplace. The whole package was a rare, fun, magical blend of sophisticated and approachable, and the band built a respectable and devoted following with it.

Ten years later, not long after releasing its fourth and arguably best album, The Dismemberment Plan decided to call… See more →

Hulu missed out on a golden opportunity to be annoying when they didn't called user queues "Queulus."

Rock Band for iPhone coming this month! digs.by/VL3

Just heard National Geographic refer to itself as "Nat Geo" in a promo for a Cops clone on its TV channel. Getting out my red pen.

Conceptually trite and kinda sickeningly precious, but the visual thinker in me still likes it.

Are current Daily Show correspondents paying attention at the commercial break when former correspondent Brian Unger is selling BMWs?

We put a man on the moon but we still haven't solved that two-strangers-approaching-each-other-avoiding-eye-contact thing?

Corporate types visiting this week, which is why I overheard one side of a buzzword-laden phone call in the can, which is why I'm frowning.

Kind of like a very, very funny video Twitter feed: 5secondfilms.com

LPs are ruining music. GIve me the days when you had to conquer a continent to hear a new tune.

Contrary to what many of my favorite records led me to believe, a bad mood does not make me suck less at guitar.

T-shirt by Dimmu Borgir. Eyebrows by Vampira.

The limitations of a new system are more conspicuous (but not necessarily more numerous) than those of a conventional system.

Um. Oh my god.

Irked as I am by most cases of misspelling, camel case, and word/letter numeral substitutions, it's a wonder I can stomach Xbox Live at all.

Dreamt I moved to Utah with @ChamberMonster. It brings to mind the title of a certain Meat Loaf power ballad from 1993.

Hoping it wasn't really the iPhone camera shutter sound I just heard coming from that bathroom stall.

Freddy Rumsen : Sterling Cooper :: Dave Mustaine : Metallica

"Who the fuck is this asshole, and who the fuck are all these assholes following this asshole?"

Heading out to the free Mission of Burma show at MIT.

Just realized I don't think I saw a single ice cream truck this summer. Really, Boston?

Good conversation with @iamrumz and @jyllish. Good set from Besnard Lakes. Good night.

Watch the video. I wish we’d see games with this caliber of distinctively gorgeous art direction more often.

I’m not sure if I’ll pick this one up, but the first Lego Indy game was ridiculously fun.

Undecided on cereal, I went with some Honey Nut, in honor of my man Omar.