November 2012

Got ready to leave @studiomates for the day. Noticed the huge puddle next to my desk. Realized why @frenchpinky was barking so relentlessly.

Where is Corey Hart?

Really fun presentation put together by Starlee Kine and friends tonight.

All expenses in my personal budget are classified as either “Living” or “Being Alive.”

Happy to see some of my @Harmonix pals get their due in this article about adapting “Gangnam Style” for Dance Central 3 polygon.com/2012/11/26/365…

My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Code Orange Kids (16), Neko Case (14) & Taraf De Haïdouks (12) tweekly.fm/twitter/robweycher…

My old roommate Gary.

My contribution to @thepastrybox this month wonders if design should get in the way sometimes. the-pastry-box-project.net/rob-weychert/2…

I have an information retention problem. I absorb a lot of it, all of which is presumably stored somewhere, but not nearly as much of it remains available for unassisted recall as I would like. Not surprisingly, the stuff that is best remembered has been reinforced, usually through some kind of repeated application or extensive immersion. In other words, if something is retained in my long-term memory, I probably had to work for it. Fair… See more →

Attention Simpsons fans! I am selling my collection, including the first ten seasons of the show and more: r.ebay.com/nf9deP

Filed for future studies in value theory: The Rolling Stones are playing in my neighborhood next month. Tickets range from $99.50–$754.50.

My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Colin Stetson (28), Pantera (21) & Archers of Loaf (18) tweekly.fm/twitter/robweycher…

If you find daily, soul-crushing tragedy in the mere fact that the world is imperfect, you’re not likely be much help to anyone.

Looking forward to the day we’re horrified we once told our musicians, “We’ll pay to see you play and buy your t-shirts, but it ends there.”

Taking a spa day. At night. And at home, where there is no spa. I guess I’m just taking a night.

Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan give historical, scientific, and philosophical context to abortion. 2think.org/abortion.shtml (via @fender_splendor)

My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Fleetwood Mac (31), Corrosion Of Conformity (23) & Pig Destroyer (19) tweekly.fm/twitter/robweycher…

This, my friends, is an extraordinarily well-formed argument. Everyone, everyone, everyone should read this. patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyf…

How is it that video game advertisers have come to decide that “addictive” is an alluring adjective?

Looking forward to Rebecca Black and Nicole Westbrook inevitably joining forces for an amazing Black Friday jam.

As usual, @seanoneal’s take on the new ARK Music Factory video is funnier than the (already hilarious) video itself. avc.lu/SVTbxb

“I was willing to forgo a potential sexual liaison… in order to never hear this banal collection of fuck-fluff again.” avc.lu/Ur4mzY

Started reading a couple of articles about Mitt Romney today and stopped after a paragraph or two because he simply doesn’t matter anymore.

Depending on your perspective, peanut butter toast and a large beard are either great friends or mortal enemies.

Exhausted, but stayed awake to hear Romney concede. Now I’ll stay awake longer to hear from my president.

If I had a nickel for every time I had to tell LinkedIn to stop e-mailing me, my Super PAC would be unstoppable.

Voted!

My belated second annual Halloween Misfits cover, along with a short treatise on what makes punk rock great: robweychert.com/writing/devilo…

With all manner of unnecessary vitriol flying to and fro, social media can be a nasty thing during an election year like this one, but the most unfortunate thing I’ve seen in my social graph lately had little to do with politics. It had to do with punk rock, and a friend’s expressed preference for The Misfits’ post-Danzig era; that is, the seminal horror punk band’s mercenary reformation without its creative mastermind, Glenn Danzig, more… See more →

My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Misfits (122), Samhain (53) & Danzig (44) tweekly.fm/twitter/robweycher…

Dessert wasn’t part of the plan, but then I saw the words “pumpkin milkshake.”

The one thing Hurricane Sandy took from me was internet access, so I’m only now seeing photos of the wreckage. So sad. theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/1…