List of reasons to commit a crime...
10.30.03 (9:39 pm) [edit]Fellow attendees to the t-bloggian Embassy:
I'm working on a writing project and need to think up all of the core motivations for committing a violent crime. So far I have:
revenge
love
money
feed an addiction
fill a basic need
What else can you think of?
They'll definitely be swing dancing in hell
10.30.03 (5:20 pm) [edit]Honestly, I thought this craze was dead. No, not the "showing you're a sensitive guy by agreeing to take swing dancing lessons with your girlfriend" craze, though I think that craze is mostly dead as well.
What I mean is the swing dancing craze as a whole. WHY DO PEOPLE SWING DANCE TO MUSIC THAT ISN'T SWING?
Yesterday, while at dinner in LA's Thai Town, I saw people swing dancing to all types of music but I was forced to make a comment when I saw people swing dancing to a TANGO. What the hell is wrong with people.
If I have to see one more saddle-shoed, bad-jeans-wearing, retro-rockabilliy-shirt-s porting white guy swing dance, I don't know what I'm liable to do.
Poopy Tom Hanks: redux
10.21.03 (10:33 pm) [edit]So, after flipping of game 3 of the World Series in disgust at having to see that smug, self-satisfied, TV-whoring, attention slut Derek Jeter and the rest of his merry band go up 6-1, I clicked over to Orange County the movie.
Starring: Poopy Hanks' son: Colin Hanks.
Who is, himself, very poopy. He looks like he has to take a poop in almost every scene. His on-screen girlfriend (sissy spacek's daughter) is also quite poopy.
That is all.
Evite nazi
10.21.03 (8:15 pm) [edit]I've never arranged a party using evite.com but I've received my share.
Until recently, I never realized that the person who sends the evite can see how many people have viewed the evite as well as how many times they've viewed it.
So, all those times I've waited to see who RSVP'd before RSVP'ing myself...BUSTED! I'm such an asshole.
Screensaver to help find a cure for cancer
10.20.03 (11:23 am) [edit]I'm behind the times with this whole distributed computing phenomenon that SETI started. So I searched around for other screensavers that use your idle computing power to aid other people's research and I came up with computeagainstcancer.org. Not bad. You can actually earn money by participating or have that money automatically donated to a charity.
Just started to use it today at work. Let me know what you guys think.
One man's quest to become the most boring guy in the world
10.18.03 (9:05 am) [edit]=http://www.npr.org/programs/w...This guy is reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica
Give me a g.d. break. A guy in my grade school was rumored to have done this and it did nothing to cure his real ill: he was the most boring person alive.
I didn't think you could get more high and mighty than Giuliani
10.13.03 (11:07 am) [edit]http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2003/news /story?id=1636571
Bloomberg said they should have arrested Pedro for throwing Don Zimmer to the ground. Um...how about arresting Don Zimmer, then, for attacking Pedro.
See my earlier blog on this. Ridiculous.
Sim, simma. Pedro knocked down Don Zimma
10.12.03 (9:00 pm) [edit]Let me just say that I think the Red Sox were more wrong than the Yankees in yesterday's brou-ha-ha (though the bullpen brawl is still being sorted out), I don't think that Pedro knocking down the 72-year-old Don Zimmer, when Zimmer tried to punch him in the head, did anything wrong.
You suit up, charge at a player on the field, and try to punch him, I don't care who you are or how old you are. You're gonna get hurt.
Why I don't like Tom Hanks...
10.09.03 (8:19 pm) [edit]I was reminded the other day why I don't like Tom Hanks: He looks like he has to take a poop. That's right, Tom "Poopy" Hanks has that look -- you know the one -- the squinty smile...
And he's not the only one:
Renee Zellweger (sp?)
Helen Hunt
Who else?
President Schwarzenegger
10.08.03 (9:32 pm) [edit]I promise I'll stop with the Arnold blogs soon.
A friend at work reminded me about a moment in DEMOLITION MAN in which Sly Stallone -- while adjusting to the future -- makes note of the "President Schwarzenegger Library".
Let's hope that life does not further imitate art.
"I will not fail you. I will not disappoint you, and I will not let you down."
10.08.03 (9:59 am) [edit]As quoted from Arnold's acceptance speech.
Too late, buddy. You've already let a lot of people down. You used to be an entertaining actor who occasionally made watchable movies.
Then you ran for public office.
Oh well. We'll get what we deserve, I suppose.
silver lining
10.07.03 (9:25 pm) [edit]At least this way, we'll get a break from bad Arnold movies for a while.
live election returns
10.07.03 (8:34 pm) [edit]vote2003.ss.ca.gov
Cool live election returns page in your web browser. Unfortunately, I fear it brings bad news.
REM In Time
10.04.03 (11:05 pm) [edit][image]hhunter_337189123.jpg[/image]
R.E.M. IN TIME DETAILS
Hello from Athens, GA!
Here are the details on "In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003." The compilation of R.E.M’s hits will be released on Warner Bros. Records on October 28th in North America and Oct 27th in the rest of the world and will feature two new tracks, "Animal" and the current single, "Bad Day." The tracklisting for "In Time" is as follows:
Man On The Moon
The Great Beyond
Bad Day
What’s the Frequency Kenneth?
All the Way To Reno (You’re Gonna Be A Star)
Losing My Religion
E-bow The Letter
Orange Crush
Imitation Of Life
Daysleeper
Animal
The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
Stand
Electrolite
All The Right Friends
Everybody Hurts
At My Most Beautiful
Nightswimming
Warner Bros. also will release a special edition of "In Time" which features a second disc of rarities and b-sides. Disc two will include the following tracks: Pop Song '89 (acoustic b-side of Pop Song '89)
Turn You Inside-Out (from Tourfilm)
Fretless (from Until The End Of The World soundtrack)
Chance (dub) b-side from Everybody Hurts
It's A Free World Baby (from Coneheads soundtrack)
Drive (from Live Greenpeace)
Star Me Kitten (featuring William Burroughs from X-Files)
Revolution (from Batman And Robin soundtrack)
Leave (from A Life Less Ordinary soundtrack)
Why Not Smile (Oxford American version)
The Lifting (demo version b-side from Imitation Of Life)
Beat a Drum (demo version b-side from Imitation of Life)
2JN (b-side from Imitation of Life)
The One I Love (live from The Museum Of Television and Radio)
Country Feedback (live from Wiesbaden, Germany, 2003)
In further news, R.E.M. will continue their tour of North America this week with dates in Chicago, Cleveland, and Detroit. We are also pleased to announce that while they are in New York for shows at Madison Square Garden and Jones Beach, the band is scheduled to perform on the Late Show with David Letterman (October 2nd) and The Today Show (October 3rd). Please check remhq.com for further information on the tour and upcoming appearances.
Rush Limbaugh and the 1st amendment
10.04.03 (9:15 am) [edit]By now you've all heard of his racist and ignorant (as if racism doesn't imply ignorance, but I mean ignorance regarding the topic he was commenting on: football) comments that this ass-hat made recently.
Those brave souls who could defend him suggested that he had a 1st amendment right to his opinion. Exactly. Couldn't agree more.
But if you read deeper into the bill of rights you'll notice that the proper forum for opinions such as those is AM radio. Go back to talk-radio, Rush.
As an aside, I remember when he first hit the scene in my home town. All the knuckle-draggers in town put "RUSH IS RIGHT" stickers on their cars. Then the lefties put "RUSH IS WRONG" stickers on their cars. Then the apolitical hippies put "RUSH IS A BAND" stickers on their cars.
My parents kept their "MONDALE/FERRARO" sticker on their car.
Arnold touched me where I vote...
10.03.03 (10:04 pm) [edit]Who wants to make t-shirts and sell them on the street?
"Arnold grabbed my breasts, then he grabbed my vote."
