People are stupid. There is no denying that. Remember newspapers are written to an eighth-grade level (except, as Bobby pointed out, USA Today, which is probably more like fourth grade).
Speaking of 4 of things, and words that make no sense in the past tense (pet), here is one that should exist but doesn't, probably because it makes too much sense: fourple. Double, Triple, Fourple. We don't need no big stinkin' words y'all (that was my Texan impersonation).
Golden Compass looks interesting, I think I will see it at some point.
I had the longest argument with anyone in my life (several years) about whether Led Zeppelin was the best band ever. The obvious other one was the Beatles. It took me a long time to figure out that question is non-answerable without one more adjective, that is, the best rock band ever, or the best pop band ever. They are completely different genres in my opinion.
I always thought Kashmir was really great (much like Riders on the Storm) if you are completely high, but otherwise, mmmm, not so much, since that album has a ton of fantastic music. Really everyone just went all weepy about it when they figured out Jimmy Page was playing with a bow.
Wednesday, December 12
Consolidated pithy comments
Frets On Fiire
I saw GlovePIE the other day and my first thought was that this guy is a bit of a loon. Part of the license agreement says that the software may not be used by missionaries, or within the nation of Israel. I can appreciate standing up for what you believe, but it's a fucking software license agreement man.
But it set some wheels turning in my mind, wondering if I could hack together a way to use it with Frets On Fire. Then, today, I saw this.
I am definitely getting Guitar Hero III now.
Edit: Looks like they're even gonna fix the mono problem. Sweet.
Wii News
Two days ago I got 120 stars. I'll say no more in case you guys plan to get all of them.
Also today I just got Guitar Hero so after I get up to scratch we're having a party.
Some side news:
Check out this terrible story. I absolutely love the second to last sentence though.
More dumb people.
Tuesday, December 11
Saw Golden Compass
It was sweet. Zero looks just like Iorek Byrnison.
Yeah dude, I think that Brawndo thing is totally real.
Apparently the Zeppelin show was amazing.
If they tour you know I'll be there. Here's a clip of the show.
Also, I probably should like it more, but I think I'm the only person in the world who has no feeling whatsoever toward the song Kashmir.
"Like out of the toilet?"
When I first saw the advertisements online for Brawndo, I was excited. I thought, perhaps, that this was the first wave in an interesting (and deeply ironic) new marketing push for Idiocracy, in an effort to engender the same sort of cult following that Office Space achieved. It would certainly be well-deserved, as that movie was criminally underpublicized. But there's been dead nothing since then, and the commercials don't even mention Idiocracy, so this can't be right.
My next thought was that perhaps the product was being put to market to capitalize on the popularity of Idiocracy, which is obviously idiotic. I think about fifty people in total saw this film, including the director and the editors. Marketing didn't even bother.
And so I am led inexorably to the conclusion that one of the aforementioned fifty people was an executive of some sort who saw the product in the film and genuinely thought it was a good idea.
Lord, give me strength.
Monday, December 10
You can't be me, but you can do your best, and that's what's important ... mostly
The smile on my face from the cheese/fancy lady comment is almost enough to make up for the profound horror of the Arnold video. Actually, no it isn't. I feel icky having seen that, even knowing such a video exists. Ick yuck ick. Make it go away!
I just had a great idea for a website! You know the idea of companies or people buying carbon "credits" to offset business as usual, with the idea that someone somewhere else puts out less carbon? Check this out - VEGAN credits! I'll be a vegan for a day, and David can gorge himself on Apizza Scholls, GUILT-FREE (no pork though, David)! Put the idea on a website, and all that vegan guilt goes away. God, talk about making the world a better place! Can you imagine a world with less grouchy, dairy-deprived, over-soyed, depressed vegans? I think we all can. And it's like eBay, the website gets a per-transaction fee from the deguilted (so-called! ha!) vegan. Want a real croissant? Someone, somewhere, will eat one less croissant for you, for a fee.
You might say I am a genius. You might say my idea could save the world and engender levels of goodwill among men...and the ladies...heretofore unprecedented in the history of not just this world, but of all conceivable worlds. You probably should say that, actually. But thinking it is good enough, because, let's face it, I realize not everyone can rise to my level of greatness. So, well, thanks for doing the best you collectively can. It's not much, but I appreciate the meager, meager efforts that I'm going to assume you all are doing, or going to do, or have preemptively done, in my honor.
Holiday Ale Party
So Gloria's dad is coming next week and we thought it would be fun to throw our own Holiday Ale party. Expidite the lines and prices and just have everyone bring a six-pack. Seeing as its holiday beer, that should be more than enough beer for everyone. Gloria also would like to have cheese tasters also, because she's a fancy lady (however I know all of you like cheese...except david). Anyway, I'll make a list of Holiday beers I can think of, and everyone should pick a beer to bring, either from the list or anything you want. Tell me what you got, so that way no one gets the same thing.
Ok, help me make a list of the store Holiday ales:
Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale
Widmer Snow Plow
Deschutes Jubelale
Pyramid Broken Rake
New Belgian 2 Below
Bridgeport Ebeneezer
Alaskan Winter Ale
Full Sail Wassail Winter Ale
Hell if you can get a bomber or two or some brewery Holiday beer, that would be awesome too. I'll try to recruit some people so we have a decent turn out. So the bottom line is, people are invited so long as they bring a six-pack of holiday beer, so if any of your friends want to come, tell them that and I'll gladly have them over.
Sunday, December 9
Believe It Not
So after I left you guys at Amazon, I went to Voodoo Doughtnuts, went to the Max and then decided to run for a few stops. I had a lazy day so I figured I'd get a little exercise. The max was about 8 minutes away, so I'd catch it later. Well, I ended up just running more and more until I was home. I beat the max and ran the entire way without stopping for more than 10 seconds or so....
I've never done that before, or at least its been a LONG time. I'm not really sure why I kept going, I just kind of...did. Sometimes I test myself to see what shape I'm in, but I think I need to keep this up. I'm not a health nut, but if I could get it to feel this good, maybe I should keep up this active lifestyle.
Friday, December 7
Well
Bill O'Reilly
(the funniest part is at the end, after he had seemed to discount what he was saying as satire, when he adds "I still they are satanists who live on those websites").
And, since I'm getting political... again... Keith Olbermann. You have to love anyone that has the balls to say, on national tv,
We have either a president who is too dishonest to restrain himself from invoking World War Three about Iran at least six weeks after he had to have known that the analogy would be fantastic, irresponsible hyperbole — or we have a president too transcendently stupid not to have asked — at what now appears to have been a series of opportunities to do so — whether the fairy tales he either created or was fed, were still even remotely plausible.
A pathological presidential liar, or an idiot-in-chief. It is the nightmare scenario of political science fiction: A critical juncture in our history and, contained in either answer, a president manifestly unfit to serve, and behind him in the vice presidency: an unapologetic war-monger who has long been seeing a world visible only to himself.
Wednesday, December 5
One More Thing
Definitely click on the gas icons and read the captions, they're pretty funny. I love that they even point out the liquor stores and when they close. Good people.
Chinese, Santa, Terell, Beer
So as most of you know, Chinese is by far my favorite cuisine. Growing up in the Bay Area really spoiled me for good Chinese food. Since moving to Portland I've been trying to find a restaurant that can live up to my expectations. Did some digging today, and I think I may have found a contender. This place called Wong's King has a number of ecstatic, bordering on histrionically positive reviews on Citysearch, The Mercury, and pretty much everywhere I looked. Some of the reviews even said it could stand up to restaurants from San Francisco, Vancouver and Hong Kong. It won an award for being one of the top 100 Chinese restaurants in the country, and the head chef won some kind of cooking award in China. Basically, all of this has me really pumped up to try the place. Anyone else interested?
Oh also, apparently their Dim Sum blows Legin out of the water.
So Saturday...what are we doing? SantaCon, or Terell's B-Day? Or some of both? Is there any consensus here?
Also, what's the status of the Holiday Beer Party thing we talked about on Sunday? It seems pretty unlikely we'll be having it tomorrow, so is there a future date in mind? We should try and do SOMEthing tomorrow, since all the college kids are done with finals (and we still know a few of those).
SantaCon Info
I'm excited to see who these Santa Wranglers are.
Saturday, December 8 2007
12:00pm - 9:00am*
santa con
skidmore fountain-noon
Tips for this year:
Bar stops are a few minutes shorter this year to make room for more reality hacking, culture jamming, mindfuckery and handjobbery. So bring cash, five dollar bills, for the bars, rather than large bills or credit cards. It will speed things along.
The route is shorter than previous years, but still fucking impossible to do in high heels.
Bring a flask, bring a flask, bring a ma'fuckin' flask.
You can view the route as a google map here. It should be up and running by Dec 1. If it ain't up yet, just be patient.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=108945842417085794828.00043d511ea562ea60ac6&z=17&om=1
If you get tapped by a Santa Wrangler and offered a chance to run on a "splintercon group," go. It will be fun, and you will be back with Santa in half an hour or so. Splintercons are planned through almost the entire event, and are the way we will be able to do things that we can't do as one massive group.
Tuesday, December 4
SANTACON!!
Get ready here we come!
http://www.drunkenrampage.com/event_pages/december/December.html
David. Dan. Go get a suit.
Why? Santa.
Where? Santa.
When? Santa.
Sunday, December 2
Volunteering
I'm not trying to go crazy with the volunteering but, its something I used to do a lot more of when I was younger and I recently read about a couple cool opportunities where we could really help out.
This drunk driving service I could see us driving for and even using ourselves.
www.rideonportland.org
I have done a couple plantings with Friends of Trees, so I signed up for their mailing list as well as another organization called Growing Gardens (Gloria, I think you'd like this one). They help low income families and schools set up gardens to help provide affordable food.
But seriously the Ride on Portland Service is really awesome.
Saturday, December 1
Volunteers
Remember to print out your volunteer registration form so they will let you in. I think they sent out an e-mail for it.