oaklandish

just watched a dude light and start smoking a joint as he walked through the parking lot a lee's donuts. i know oakland goes easy on the reefer, but that's still pretty ballsy.

luncheon

overheard at lunch:

KID1 "how do you know?"
KID2 "because i'm smarter than you."
KID1 "you're not smarter than me, chickenhead!"
KID2 "i'm way smarter than you."
KID1 "you're not... bigger than mom!"

seen at lunch:

me and a little duck heart tvotr

we saw TV On The Radio last night at the fillmore. i'm not saying i *cried* but the performance of Province certainly sent the proverbial shivers down my spine.

they finished off the encore with Wolf Like Me and the joint was jumpin'. pretty far out to have all the people around us sing/screaming "howling, forever, oh oh!" to cap off the evening.

if you haven't heard them, go buy all their records. if they come to your town, go watch them play.

that is all.

rough obituary

i doubt there were very many other possible outcomes...

fair warning

today i got an email from a guy informing me that he would be sending me an email...

which he sent...

one minute later.

convincing

such a shame they couldn't play like this at the world cup... someone go punch sunil gulati in the face until he removes "interim" from bob bradley's title.

dream

last night i dreamed i was hanging out with michael jordan. he was sitting in a rocking chair, watching tv with a cast on his left leg and his right arm in a sling. i was telling him how i waited in line to get a pair of jordans and how i'd wanted them since 5th grade. he acted pretty stoked, but it seemed he was just more glad that i was buying his brand than anything else. then someone came in and called him "bobby" and i got really confused and then the dream changed or i woke up or something.

according to freakydreams.com this is what it meant:

"Words like chair: Position, style or attitude. Being conformable with something or someone.
Words like leg: Is associated with support and movement. Joy and happiness.,but an injured leg denotes unprofitable occupations.
Words like arm: Strength. To dream of seeing an arm, means victory over enemies but family quarrels."

in summary, i'm comfortable with michael jordan and i like his style, i hate my job and i'm gonna smash my enemies while i argue with my family... sounds good!

do over

since all that red we were pimping during world cup 2006 didn't help any:

seriously?

al gore returned to congress to talk a little about global warming. ultra-genius and Texas Rep. Joe Barton, the leading Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee cried foul on the proceedings and stated "global warming science is uneven and evolving" and that there was no link whatsoever between carbon dioxide and climate change.

really? you really believe that? what might lead you to think in such a way? perhaps it's the close to $2 million in campaign contributions from energy companies and their political action committees.

my plan is to go kick him in the balls and declare that his pain is in no way connected to my action, the science on nutshots is uneven and evolving so we can't rely on any data that was collected and i certainly can't be held responsible. of course this is assuming he even has balls.

gentleman's lattes

we just watched Idiocracy. i won't say much as i don't want to spoil it but i can highly recommend it. a few crude jokes, but they really serve the purpose of the movie well. add and move it to the top of your netflix queue, post haste.

gouda

money's always been a bit of a problem for yours truly, matthew bernard thompson. the summer before my freshman year at university, i managed to save $2500 dollars, no small feat given i was making just over $4 an hour or so. for my next trick, i managed to spend that entire sum within the first 2 months at school and walk away without one single, solid object or achievement to show for it unless you count one freshly-pierced ear. yes, my fledgling money-management skills were most certainly something to be sneezed at.

i'm making a little bit more than $4 an hour these days, so it's an absolute blessing that i'm married to a woman with loads more financial restraint than myself. i quite literally get jumpy when i have some extra cash so it's a darn good thing i have her to talk me down from the ledge.

this is me when i think about money:

baby squirrel loves warm macbook

aaaaawwwwwwwwww! happy friday cute bomb.


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brilliant!

go drink some guinness with friends.

twittererizing

another horrible timesuck neat little utility has sunk its internets barbs into my daily life, twitter. simply put, it's a microblog, but the potential is interesting.

this article explains it pretty well. in fact, it will either intrigue you or put you off entirely. if you do join up, be sure to add me as a friend. hey, alright, party time.

bttls

maybe Battles are what Beach Boys might have been if they'd been using coke instead of reefer...

muppet bolt

hiatus

i was selected for the jury. it's a heavy case, kind of all i think about and i can't talk about it ssssssooooooo... don't expect new content here on anything like a regular basis.