Archive for April, 2008
april’s photo essay
28 April 2008So, I’m moving in a month. A lot of my stuff is going to be living in NJ with my parents (I’m trying to get them used to me just abandoning them with stuff I don’t want to deal with for when I have children) so I’ve started packing it up and taking it home [...]
Don’t call it a comeback
28 April 2008InSound’s top selling albums as of tonight:
HOW’S THAT TASTE, WEEZER??
Almost Famous, Part II
28 April 2008Following the pitchfork review, fifteen THOUSAND people went to peej’s band’s myspace page. And today:
On insound, where the cd is for sale:
And on Amazon, where you can download it:
Almost Famous
25 April 2008 Jordan called me at 8:30 this morning, something he has never done in our 13? 14? years of being friends. “What happened?” I asked immediately, convinced it was his parents or my parents or his sister. It wasn’t, though– it was my brother.
“Peej’s band just got Best New Music on pitchfork!”
Okay, I listen to Kelly [...]
Another opening of another show
23 April 2008One of my friends recently commented to me via email that she didn’t have a very exciting day job. I told her that even if I were to accidentally save someone’s life by administering the Heimlich in our cafeteria while Dan Brown’s editor looked on, I still wouldn’t have anything on my brother’s work day, [...]
new happy place
22 April 2008I watched this video 8 times before 9:15 this morning. And kind of teared up a little, but was mostly overcome with giddiness. As Work Friend Sarah says, “I thought that the best part had to be the giant squid. Then Steven Hawking showed up.”
Trust me on this one– and happy earth day!
via Aunt [...]
Gender Inequity in ‘Whoville’
18 April 2008“…And while we’re at it, how come a girl doesn’t get to blow up the Death Star! Or send ET home? Or defeat Captain Hook! Or Destroy the Ring of Power!”
~Peter Sagal on the 96 daughters who don’t save Whoville in the Horton movie, via NPR’s all things considered.
pope my ride
15 April 2008So, the Pope’s in town. (I just looked for a generic NYT article to link to here but they seem to be cranking out a new one every five minutes or so and I am overwhelmed with options. So, you’ll have to trust me, even without Google News Search backing me up). I got an [...]
game on
15 April 2008The Ninja Replacement Score for Literature: for how many characters in a book would replacement by ninjas be considered an improvement? (Best score: zero; Worst score: All)
hello, lovah
15 April 2008David Wright on Letterman!