it's a few years old now, but I still love it.

I got this chart just after Christmas 09.

How much of it still applies?  A lot I bet.

Originator

As much as Justin Timberlake has lent to the genre, the SNL Digital Short should always be remembered for it thunderous birth, the first time we all reveled in the blatant comedic-genius of Andy Samberg.

On the release day of the newest Narnia movie, I give you "Lazy Sunday".

LOL, Love Truth

Randomness is my favorite

That's why I found this picture and scheduled it for a totally random day in the future*.

*future being a relative term as this is no longer "the future" to you, it is most likely "the present" and very soon "the past" and hopefully someday the "remember that one time when Ryan posted something REALLY funny" and hopefull never (::fingers crossed::) the "that's the last time I read this shit".  Either way, I found this pic on 1/4/10.

** the date wasn't really random.  I decided to pick a day that added up to 42.

In celebration of today being National Cheese Day in France

I present you with a pic of the arm or a young lady who must REALLY like cheese.

Old but True

This may be one of the smarter tattoos I've seen

The pen drawing is really pen drawing, the only tattoo is the polaroid outline.  Good job making a flexible tattoo.  I might have to get something like this.

Bwah, this guy got ripped off.

real cross-word puzzles are symetrical across a diagonal axis, if not across both axis.

Noob-tattoo.

Five Things: Blast from the Past - Songs

Here's an old blog from two years ago.

At this point, I'd been wrestling with the possibilty of single-fatherhood, was hating my living situation, had seriously let down my brother, and had intentionally isolated myself from the woman who would later let me come to my senses and spend the last 19 months with her.

Wonder how much I have changed and how much it's just that my environment/viewpoint has changed....

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Posted: Leap Day, 2/29

I’ve just been rocking out a lot lately, so I thought I’d share some. Here below are my favorite lines from the first five songs in my playlist.

Rest My Chemistry by Interpol

“And I’ve made stairways/ such scenes for things to regret/ oh, those days in the sun/ they bring a tear to my eye/”

While My Guitar Gently Weeps by The Beatles

“With every mistake we must surely be learning/ still my guitar gently weeps/”

Martyr for My Love for You by The White Stripes

“And I bet we could build a home/ but I know the right things for me to do is to leave you alone/”

Tear You Apart by She Wants Revenge

“It’s only a crush, it’ll go away/ it’s just like the others, it’ll go away/ or maybe this is danger and he just don’t know/ you pray it all away but it continues to grow/”

I Saw Her Standing There by The Beatles

“Well she/ looked at me/ and I could see/ that before too long/ I’d fall in love with her/” While often times my fews on the viability of love and it’s further institutions can easily be contrued as “cynical” or “anti-”, I think the songs above illustrate that even when we tell ourselves we are stepping back and resolving our own demons, we cannot help but encounter unknown possibilities. Maybe there is truth to the old maxim “it’ll come along as soon as you stop looking for it”. Or perhaps it’s just obsession. Certainly we all know people who are addicted to one behaviour or another. I’d hate to think of someone as “my new drug”, but in hind-sight, I think we can all easily call to mind at least one person from our pasts who would fit that describtion. Sometimes a fling is just a fling, but sometimes a fling is a fucking harsh life lesson. In fact, I will venture the following hypothestis; it is easier to stand tall and firm in the snarling face of adversity than in the comforting warmth of awful embrace.
When it’s all said and done, I wonder who will think of me as their “Best Mistake”.
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By the way, the rest of the songs follow a vague narrative arc. I don’t think this applies to any one person so much as the natural cycle of my own love-life.
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Then again, it could all be “true love” and I haven’t realized it yet…..

Actions to Avoid

Too Much or Way Cool?

Even I'm not this big of a comic-book nerd, but I'm not sure if this guy's piece is really overboard or totally cool.   I mean, Rorschach was a total whack-job, but in the end he was right, much like Jose Canseco. 

Good Quotes

“Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” ~Albert Caumus

“Before you insult someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you insult them, you are a mile away, and you have their shoes.” -Frieda Norris

Love is a Puzzle

I'm happy we put the first we pieces together.

Happy Valentines.... wait, you got me what?

This could be a deal breaker. 

I mean.... not a walk-out-of-the-room deal breaker.

But probably, I'm only going to call you when I feel like I'm missing a "bat-shit crazy chick" in my life.

Random Admission

Let's start with a quote from a blog I read the other day:

"I guess he throws himself into everything he does that way, always over the top." -- BeAwesomeInstead

Sometimes I'm Ted.  To really accomplish something, I have to drink the Kool-Aid.  I have to be all in, or I don't think it will pan out.

As we all know, when you leap before you look, you get burned.  But sometimes being burned proves you're alive.

Sometimes I'm Ted.

Blast from the Past: I Still Can't Fight It

Today I'd say my love for coffee is stronger than it's ever been.  Even on days when I don't need or want any stimulants, I still love coffee. Now that Lola Cafe is literally a three minute walk from my living room, I'm sure this is a love affair that will continue until one of us can't stand the other one.  Even then, it will probably be coffee that breaks up with ME.

P.S.:  I still want this on a T-Shirt. Or a headband, karate-kid style.

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From 8/28/08

One day, decades from now, I imagine I’ll be sitting around, telling stories to my grandkids about how we all used to queue up in lines in this little storefronts to by 20 ounces of caffeine and sugar and cream for $7 a pop. The kid will think these tales are outlandish because by then caffeine will be illegal and Starbucks will be thought of as a millennium version of the crack-house or opium den. I also think by then coke will be legal again and it’ll all make no sense..

Finally, a guide that makes sense

Dear Future Self,

   If you find yourself in need of this chart below, I do not blame you.  We had a good run of it, lots of laughs and great stories to tell later on.  I promise, self, that I won't shake my head in dismay that you've found yourself (us) in a place where you are once again debating size, cut, clarity, color, etc.  Not to your (our) face at least.   Since I'm pretty sure this day will eventually come, let me give you a little help now, while I'm still of sound mind & body.

Sincerely,


The Guy that Loves Being Awesome

If you don't love this movie, I don't know what's wrong with you.

 (500) Days of Summers rocks.






P.S.:  High-Five Anie

Hooray for street-art

(P.S.:  high-five, babe.)

mmmmm mmmmm hood

I love street art.

I love design

Mix the two and I'm ON IT!

holy crap this is a detailed tat

I'm into cameras a lot, but not THIS into cameras.

I do, however, really like the contrast between the tattoo and the hazy depth-of-field background elements.

Newfoundland, really??

This is pretty gross, but it's about Newfoundland, and that's pretty rare, so I decided to run it.

Know when to make things racy and when not to

Sad Robot is sad

and this is how they should all be.

damn robots

Robot-Apocalypse: It's Happening and YOU'RE paying for it

Now this cannot be avoided.  Semi-intelligent, can go on for 24-hours straight and carries weapons.

Start your stock-piling now.

From FastCompany:

Robocalypse Alert: Defense Contract Awarded to Scary BigDog

BY Kit EatonMon Feb 1, 2010

You remember BigDog, don't you? It's that loud all-terrain prototype robot quadruped that peopled your dreams with Terminator-esque nightmares when you saw the video. DARPA just awarded a $32 million contract to build it.
The contract's been won by maker Boston Dynamics, which has just 30 months to turn the research prototype machines into a genuine load-toting, four-legged, semi-intelligent war robot--"first walk-out" of the newly-designated LS3 is scheduled in 2012.
LS3 stands for Legged Squad Support System, and that pretty much sums up what the device is all about: It's a semi-autonomous assistant designed to follow soldiers and Marines across the battlefield, carrying up to 400 pounds of gear and enough fuel to keep it going for 24 hours over a march of 20 miles.
To remind you of the tech we're talking about, here's BigDog in a disarmingly "cute" promo video, kicking it on a beach in Thailand:

LS3 is a direct descendant of BigDog, and it'll be battle-hardened and clever enough to use GPS and machine vision to either yomp along behind a pack of troops, or navigate its own way to a pre-programmed assembly point. Yup, that's right, LS3 is smart enough to trot off over the horizon all on its lonesome. That opens up all sorts of amazing military possibilities, like resupply of materiel to troops who are deployed in difficult remote locations, as well as the standard "If LS3 can offload 50 pounds from the back of each soldier in a squad, it will reduce warfighter injuries and fatigue and increase the combat effectiveness of our troops" as described by BD's president Marc Raibert.
And its clear that these, and other, potential benefits have been proven to DARPA enough that it's prepared to fund what seems to be an extremely future-focused piece of military hardware. But LS3, of course, stands for much more than its simple "squad support" label would suggest. It's placing artificially-intelligent robots right next to soldiers on the battle field, which is a natural extension of the way robots are currently used in combat--essentially as smart remote control units for situations too dangerous for a human to risk. And in that sense, LS3 is a significant piece of kit. Because it won't be too long before someone considers the benefits of replacing its 400-pound load with a heavy gun, and LS32 becomes an AI-equipped armed battlefield robot. More terminator-dog than K9, you see.
Here's BigDog auto-tracking a human, just to give you an extra robocalyptic chill:

[BostonDynamics]

Sappy, yeah, just deal with it.

I saw this quote on Micillo's blog recently and thought I'd borrow it.

The part that strikes me is where it says "is not self-seeking... keeps no record of wrongs".  This is clearly something I didn't have the first time around.  I was programmed to always try to have the advantage, to always be hostile, to be defensive lest I "get played".  Tic for tac, battles won and lost, and in the end, I wasted 4 years of my life.

If I can do one thing to contribute to my future happiness, it should be to never again worry about tallying wrongs.  If I feel that is something I have to do, I'm better off alone.

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I know a lot of people use this quote, and it has become a sort of generic filler for love.

To my mind, however, I remember this quote as the one Marshall Ericson knew he wanted to have read at his wedding. 

I really have no concept of what I'd want at a wedding.  I've always imagined it was a day for the bride to be special and celebrated, and then we move on.  Maybe, however, there's a crack in my cynicism now, and I'd imagine it as a day to exalt in the joy of having found "the one".  (I guess you can't literally "na na boo boo" everyone and expect to get gifts for it)

To be continued....

Sure, they look cute now...

...but trust me, nothing good can come of robots bonding with plants. It'll be the worst parts of The Matrix and The Happening combined.

Blast from the Past: Gnarls

Really, who doesn't love Gnarls Barkley? 

Admittedly, this video is a little weird, that's why I'm posting it on a Saturday.

Gotta say, I still really dig the message. I'm sure that whether I admit it or not, I'm probably still doing the same thing.
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From 8/26/08:

Just watched this video for Gnarls Barkley (aka the best shit you can’t classify)
The concept is a little slow to get going but the truth makes up for any lackluster starts.
Check it out here

The Endorsement

I've been loving this album all of this week and last week.

History
I freely admit, I've been a Wu-Tang fan since the summer before my junior year of high school when a teammate passed me Wu-Tang Forever to listen to on the bus-ride to school.  After that, I was hooked and bought every Wu-Tang CD I could, blowing literally 1/2 my Burger King earnings on CD.  To this date, Supreme Clientele is still one of my favorite albums (and the only one I actually have on vinyl, a souvenir of my first trip to NYC in 2000).

Conversely, I didn't really get into the Beatles until about 2007.  It was a mix of The Grey Album, the Eleanor Rigby clip in "Accepted", and my eternal love of "Paint it Black" by the Rolling Stones that got me into looking up old British Invasion songs, and thusly Beatles songs.  Right away I was a fan of "I Saw Her Standing There", and added it to my front of my playlist, (a good addition to all the Kinks & White Stripes songs I'd been working with).

Current
Then about 2 weeks ago, @Agent_M posted a link to "Enter the Magical Mystery Chambers", and two great things in my life were mashed up in the most delicious ways.

Right up front, you have to know that this cannot be compared to The Grey Album, mostly because you cannot compare this album collective of Wu-Tang songs from different eras to the The Black Album's continuity and polish.  However, you can compare this album to ANY hip-hop album coming out anytime lately and see if the new can stack up.

The instrumentation on "Got Your Money" is great, the mixes are clean, and "Uzi" is such a mish-mash that it reminds me of the video for Triumph (2000), and I feel like I've instantly combined my 27 and 17 year-old selves.  Every other songs is so mixed-up in the most wonderful of ways.  Instead of trying to make everything fit smoothly, the songs, such as "Run" create a new identity complete different from the originals.

And really, who doesn't love the skit of ODB singing "Love Me Do"?  There's a pretty simple formula:

ODB + Anything = Woot!  Success

The other day @Agent_M told me that this NOT the greatest thing he'd ever linked, but I left it as "agree to disagree".  Thanks, dude.

Future
Much like The Grey Album, however, I wouldn't expect this to be available for much longer before EMI drops a cease-and-desist on it's distribution, especially after the write-ups in New York Times and GQ.  Get it while you can.

From the Times:

Q. Where did the inspiration for “Enter the Magical Mystery Chambers” come from?

A. This project came about unintentionally, really. I’d done a Large Professor remix album and an MF Doom one, and then I was starting on a Wu-Tang one. One of the tracks that’s on there, “R.E.C. Room,” I made a couple of years ago. I had this easy-listening record of this orchestra playing cover versions of lots of different ’60s stuff. It had this instrumental version of “Girl,” and the whole thing was just stunning. But I didn’t want to just take a little bit of it. I took the whole song, and sped it up to the right tempo, so it has the complete arrangement and feel of the original Beatles song. Then I made the “C.R.E.A.M.” remix. And then I was like, O.K., I’ve got two tracks now that have Beatles samples with Wu-Tang a cappellas. A few days later I found Ol’ Dirty Bastard talking on YouTube about how he was influenced by the Beatles. And I just thought: This is it.

Q.Could you walk us through the samples on one of the more complicated tracks?

A.“Uzi (Pinky Ring)” has got a lot of samples on it. There’s “Glass Onion,” then it went to an Arif Mardin version of “Glass Onion,” then when Ghostface comes in it goes to “Getting Better,” then RZA comes in and it’s a Ramsey Lewis version of “Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey.” Then Inspectah Deck comes in and it’s a cover version of “Hey, Jude.” Then Method Man comes in and that’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” And then GZA’s at the end, and that’s “Why Don’t We Do It In the Road.” I’ve seen on blogs, somebody say something like, I’ve only heard two Beatles samples that I recognized in here. And to me that’s quite a good thing – you have to listen extra hard to hear them. I was purposeful not to take “Love Me Do” and put Wu-Tang with it.

Q.While you were working on this, did anyone make the comparison between what you’re doing and Danger Mouse’s “Grey Album”?

A.Well, it’s obvious that those comparisons are going to get mentioned. I’ve got a copy of that. When it came out, a friend of mine gave it to me, and I thought it was cool. I didn’t listen to it loads of times, to be honest, and I don’t know it particularly well. I did listen to it in the final stages, because I knew that there were a couple of samples he had used, that I had also used. On “Encore” he use the same sample of “Glass Onion” that I use on “Uzi.” But that’s really it.

Combine Two of My Favorite Things

I love this book like nobody's business.  Shocking part; it took my at least a dozen attempts in my young life to get through it.  I'd say this is probably because it's a book about children, but meant for adults.  My aunt must have thought I was already that developed when she gave it to me nearly 20 years ago.  At that time, I thought the only connection I had to that book was because my name means "the little king", which I took be a prince, and not a short ruler. 

I digress....

I borrowed this amazing image from Micillo

Before this, I never knew how they made the leaf shape on top of my coffee

Thanks Arizona Coffee for pointing it out.

(BTW, the second video on that site is fantastic)

#Zombietalk: Not a Plan I Recommend

but if you can make it work, my hat's off to you, sir.

whoa, I may need to get this.

Nerd-Cool Imperialism's Decline: A Chart

Aside from the asexual-reproduction aspect, this visualization is pretty cool.

Never thought I'd quote this person

but I read this quote somewhere else and it struck me as 100% true.

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." "
— Marilyn Monroe

I have always thought that everything happens for a reason.  I don't know if you'd attribute that to deep-rooted Catholicism, or a poor-boys wish for there to be something better in the works. 

In my mid-twenties I started truly living on my own for the first time, and while dating people, making easy friends, moving from one circle to another, I questioned why things seemed so right with some people, but in the end I wasn't really interested.  I came up with the theory that I was just supposed to come into that person's life to have some affect on them, then we were always supposed to move along. 

In the end, maybe we are all just swimming around in the big ocean, and you may follow my route for a while, or my wave may push to towards or away from your goals, but in the end, maybe all this random floating and sailing will let us both end up in the best places possible.

Like Blackthought said "we knew from the start that things fall apart, and tend to shatter". 

I should put something like this on the back of my business cards

(BTW, if anyone needs anything designed/printed, check out eeko studios.  Their stuff looks amazing)

Irony indeed

You should probably do whatever you can to avoid option #3. 

Not everyone gets a "When Harry Met Sally" second-chance.

Round-Up spray in my food.... bleh

Anyone else watch Food, Inc and feeling pretty queasy about the way soybeans are grown?  I know I never ate tofu really, but the concept that health-minded people are (unknowingly) consuming things that have been sprayed with Round-Up (yes, that's the same stuff you put on your weeds) is right up there with dipping your meat in bleach before you grill it.


Now I read this article on TreeHugger and just found out that cotton & corn crop are also predominately grown from genetically-modified seeds owned by Monsanto Corporation (makers of  Round-Up), on the scale of 90% of the nation's total.

Mmmmm, nothing says Fourth of July like grilled corn that was repeatedly sprayed with herbicides....



But it gets better.  A December 2009 independent study showed that three different types of GMO-corn from Monsanto have proven to cause organ damage in mammals.  To quote the report:

The data “clearly underlines adverse impacts on kidneys and liver, the dietary detoxifying organs, as well as different levels of damages to heart, adrenal glands, spleen and haematopoietic system,” reported Gilles-Eric Séralini, a molecular biologist at the University of Caen.

This study confirmed precisely the results of a different 2007 study.

Oh yeah, these GMO's have already been approved for us to eat.

Yum

Random Admission

Here's something I don't prescribe to; making lists of lists.

Recently I've been reading ProBlogger.com, and usually their articles are a mixed bag of real insights and "duh, I already know that, how did someone pay YOU to write that stuff?".  But lately I've seen a few posts, such as today's "47 Lists of Bloggers to Watch".  I mistakenly thought it read "List of 47 Bloggers to Watch" and clicked on it.

Nope, it was a list of previous lists.

That's an index, sir, and not a new work. Please stop parading it around as if it were new.

This guy knows his self-fulling prophecies

Can you resist this?

Me either.

I need a dog.

Hope it's not the end for HIMYM in disguise

From The Hollywood Reporter:

Just two weeks after "How I Met Your Mother" hit its 100th episode, series creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas have inked a rich new deal with the show's producer 20th Century Fox TV and are taking out a new comedy project, their first since "HIMYM."

Under the duo's new three-year pact, which begins in June, Bays and Thomas will continue to run "HIMYM" while also developing new projects.

Set in Pittsburgh, the hybrid multicamera romantic comedy revolves around a young couple and their friends.

" 'HIMYM' is about people in their late 20s and early 30s going through that second wave of growing up, and the ups and downs and the humor of that," Thomas said. "This is a logical extension."

Added Bays, "The new show is similar tonally to 'HIMYM' and investigates the next chapter, the next stage of adulthood."

The project is certain to spark interest when it hits the marketplace this week. But even if it takes off, Bays and Thomas vowed they will never abandon "HIMYM."

After a slow start, "HIMYM," which was based on the duo's personal experiences, has grown in into a bona fide hit for CBS as well as 20th TV, which has netted rich syndication deals for the show.

Also, it's clear now why I liked HIMYM from the start (besides Doogie):

Bays and Thomas landed at 20th some eight years ago when the twentysomething writers headed to Hollywood after a five-year stint on "Late Show With David Letterman."

Random Thought

Today I am 10,110 days old.

How did I nearly miss such a binary-occassion?

Bad enough I missed my 10,101th day.

I'm losing nerd cred here I think.

HIMYM Cracked?

The other day I was searching for any listing of music mentioned during How I Met Your Mother in an attempt to see if a sensible playlist could be made (am I a ridiculous fan of this show yet??), and stumbled across this blog from You Got Red on You:

Season 3 seems like the year when it’s all coming together for Ted. We are introduced to the yellow umbrella, which supposedly used to belong to the girl that Ted will eventually marry. Mid-season we also learn that Ted’s future wife was at the same St Patrick’s Day party that Ted attended, even though the two never met at this party. On the day following the party, Ted returns to the club looking for his lost cellphone, and leaves with an abandoned yellow umbrella, to shield himself from a sudden shower of rain. In the next episode we meet the supposed owner of this umbrella: Stella, who was at the party in question, who Ted tries to woo from the moment they meet, who Ted proposes to at the end of season 3, who accepts his proposal and who Ted is set to marry in season 4. With one little snag, of course: Stella leaves Ted at the altar, moving in with the father of her daughter instead. Oops.
But wait a second! The yellow umbrella is never mentioned while Ted and Stella are dating. And let’s face it, Stella and Ted’s kids don’t exactly look alike.
So, what’s with all these potentially misleading hints (and I’m not even including “The Goat” in all of this)? Who was the owner of the yellow umbrella, the future wife that Ted supposedly never bumped into at the St Patricks party? Going by previous story arcs, the writers most certainly did more than simply plant misleading seeds. Which makes it all the more interesting that, for no reason at all, Ted actually does bump into somebody at the party: a girl who certainly looks like she is related to Ted’s kids. They exchange a quick “Excuse me” – “No problem”, and also share a quick but meaningful look. That look:

Okay, so it’s just a freeze frame in DVD quality. But I’m having fun here, and TV time is too precious to ever be wasted on unimportant scenes!  I have no idea if the writers really were thinking this far in advance, let alone would cast a part as important as this one way ahead of time. But HIMYM has proven to be very well planned out, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they did (Ted is drunk in this scene, too, which can be used to explain away a few discrepancies later).

 So, hmmmm.

I am still of the camp that Victoria, who made the cake at Lily & Marshall's wedding will be "the one".  It would make sense.  Maybe she came back from Germany and has been hiding from Ted.  I mean, if the mother is better than Rachel Bilson, and can't be Robin, Lily or Winnie Cooper, than I'm not sure who's left by the cupcake gal. 

Then again, maybe I'm just hoping it ends that way because I love cupcakes.  Maybe the dude above is right.  If so, this would have to be the most awesome rare-glimpse lead-in ever. 

Or maybe it ends that Ted and the mother never married, and/or Ted & Barney took their bro-love to another level.  Who knows.

Hopefully tonight gives some insight.

3 Second Rule Chart

Turns out the stairways wasn't to heaven

sadly, it's so hot here that I've seen several street signs that look like this one.

Enjoy the winter while it last.  You know what's coming soon.....

If you need help, I'll be behind you.

Pick you Poison

I love coffee and caffeine, and have no plans to eliminate either one.  But sometimes it's good to have a little bit of knowledge in your pocket.  I, however, never would have thought Starbucks > Redbull.

Random Admission

Sometimes I wish my girlfriend liked comic books, sorta like Rosario Dawson does.

But for now I'll call it even that my girlfriend at least doesn't view my fandom as a character flaw.

(please note, I did not say "I wish I had a different girlfriend", at any time.)

(except maybe Rosario Dawsom; maybe I'll put her in my five)

What would you take?

I recently solved a problem that's been bouncing around in my head.

If you had 60 seconds to escape a fire, what would you grab?

I would take:
- Anie  (hopefully she can walk, but I might have to fireman's carry her, since she likes to wake-up slow)
- my phone, to call my brother
- my copy of The Little Prince with the inscription from my Aunt
- the rosary from my Grandmother than hung next to my bed when I was a kid
- the racecar toy I played with as a kid
- the baseball I bought as Yankee stadium; these last to so that I could pass them on to my son. 

Every single other item I own can burn brightly.  It'd be a sucky loss, but I'd get by. 

Sometimes it's a raw deal

The Beatles' weren't exactly right.  Love isn't ALL you need.
Shelter & Water are important, too, I think.

We all have our reasons to care

Clearly, by "martini" I mean "Manhattan", but you get the idea.
Now go do something about it.

everything in moderation

I love cookies.
This is an illustration of a hazard I must avoid.
Nobody likes the sloppy morning-after.

If I met this girl in real life, she might steal my heart.

if she has a penguin shirt on and/or quotes The Little Prince, I would lose my shit and prolly run away with her.

Yes, cupcakes are that legit with me.

Jon Stewart > Glenn Beck

When someone does a better "you" than you do, it's time to pack it in.

That's exactly what Jon Stewart (yup, the Big Daddy dude) does to red-state minstrel Glenn Beck right here.

I dedicate this one to my good, confused frenemy @Bruherd.

Link, in case the video won't work

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
The 11/3 Project
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis

Why I Love Letterman

I read this morning that Leno is trying to take the villain-heat off of him by re-igniting his rivalry with Letterman.  Leno's shot last night, "how to get Letterman to ignore you?  Marry him!".

This is pretty typically lame, as per my expectations of Jay Leno's humor.

Compare that to what Dave said about himself on his own show in October, and you'll see why Leno can never pack enough punch in comparison.

I might ride this to the market....

Whoa, take a look at that bad-boy in action.

According to TreeHugger, the Nijland (crazy Swedes and their product names) can carry up to 1,100 pounds of cargo, and it as easy to ride as a bike. 

I could see myself riding up to the Safeway or AJ's, and hitching this monster to a post to get my weekly shopping done.  Even better, maybe I could hook a sail to it....

New Banksy in Park Slope, UT

Man, I wish I was at Sundance this week. I'd probably spent the whole week alternating between awestruck by the filmes, and sleuthily scanning the crowds to see if I could spot the man who made this last night:

Why we should be concerned about Global Climate

The Summer Olympics did a good job trying to hide how polluted cities in China are.  Many of us probably wanted to ignore it and think "yeah, well that's China, that's not here".

Well, take a look at what's really happening.

Yup, those of us living in Phoenix, LA, San Diego, etc, have been breathing in that lovely, unfiltered pollution as it blows around the world.

Thanks China, and thanks Bush & Obama for not pushing for tougher global standards.  My lungs love you guys!

How did I not know about this awesomeness coming?

While spell-checking a name for another post, I found myself on IMDB and couldn't help but click the Malin Akerman link.  Afterall, she is unbelievably gorgeous without seeming unnatural.  All in all, she's a pretty good contender to be my third wife. 

Well that link led me to a film called "HappyThankYouMorePlease".  This little ditty is written & directed by Josh Radnor, aka none-other-than Mr. Theodore Moseby himself, and stars both Malin Akerman and every-fan's-dream-girl Kate Mara. 

The synopsis of the film goes:

Captures a generational moment - young people on the cusp of truly growing up, tiring of their reflexive cynicism, each in their own ways struggling to connect and define what it means to love and be loved.

That's where I get both excited and miffed, because that's pretty much the exact road I've been on for the last 4 years, since the dissolution of my first marriage, new-found freedom, disillusionment with societal expectations, trips, falls, cliff-dives and soaring new heights.  I'm excited to see a project along the same lines, but not in the flavor of HIMYM The Movie, but wondering why nobody reached out to me to write this bad boy.  I could have wrote the shit out of this film.  I could dictate a painfully awkward scene with one side of my mouth, while telling a "hell yeah that was an awesome time" story on the other side. 

I guess the real reason I decided to write this was because I hadn't fully grasped before that what I've been experiencing is a "generational moment".  I imagined that my loss of cynicism, and my opening views were a product of my own journey and my own abilities. 

Hmmmmm