Archive for 'The Gene Pool' Category
all the time in the world
7 July 2010Kids, I’ve got some free time on my hands. I won’t go into the details for a variety of reasons largely related to the legal document I signed granting me all this free time and my hunch that it’s somehow contingent on me not getting all Internet Jerry Maguire about it, and also my struggle to find [...]
The Year of the Tiger
22 February 2010I have no clue whatsoever how to play golf, despite those many semesters of high school gym where I devoted as much of my energy as possible to playing it without getting sweaty because no one showered after gym in my high school, and then joining a sorority where I would forge a very close friendship with a [...]
that’s my boy
2 November 2009My older brother leaves me a lot of excellent voicemails between the hours of 2 and 6am. The younger one almost never does; the only time that comes to mind was when he talked Ted Leo into calling me and singing “Me & Mia” into my cell voicemail, an amazing gift that I didn’t discover [...]
Thanks for ruining my metaphor, compact fluorescent lighting technology
5 October 2009Good news, someone is maybe/ probably coming tomorrow to rid my apartment of everything that’s been living there that isn’t me or my turtles. It’s been a long and interesting tango with the bedbugs and I will not be sorry to see them go. Particularly since, as bedbugs are drawn out of hiding by your [...]
Always the last place you look
9 June 2009When I got an email today that said “Check out your brother on ESPN.com,” I assumed that they meant Bud and that ESPN had gotten ahold of the pictures of him doing the flyover at that UNC football game last year or something. That would have at least sort of made sense. And yet:
Oh yeah. [...]
Erin’s Wedding, Part II: Toasted
21 April 2009I have a somewhat crippling fear of public speaking. This is unfortunate for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that I Sell Things for a living and my job constantly requires me to convince roomfuls (roomsful?) of people that I know what I’m talking about, which is hard to do when [...]
Erin has successfully been married off
20 April 2009Cousin Erin’s wedding was on Friday. It was amazing. The weather was amazing. Erin was amazing. It is amazing that I am still exhausted from the effort. I plan to write many extensive and amazing posts about it, but until then:
This is officially my favorite picture of myself, ever. Story of my life, right there.
Peep Show
13 April 2009Easter was yesterday. I didn’t go to mass, but I think the Risen Jesus would still be happy with how I celebrated. In short form:
I did a full-building egg hunt for my friends. Here I have helpfully drawn (pun!) your attention to Egg-Searcher Jesse and the object that has been giving him the slip for [...]
South by Southwest
23 March 2009Little Brother Peej and his band of lunatics played South By Southwest this weekend. I know this because my Google News Alerts went insane in the space of 3 days, and because I got this text message from Older Brother Bud:
Yo. Our little bro plays South By Southwest today. We are each therefore cooler than [...]
So, something important happened yesterday
21 January 2009Other than that thing we spent all day crying about, I mean. PJ’s CD was re-released by XL!!
You should all go buy it. Even those of you who bought it the first time. In case you think I’m biased towards the record, here are what some people who don’t have the same last name as [...]