High School Singers With Too Much Free Time

The Video from the Ipod Commercial

Tell Me You Love Me

Can we all just agree that the character of the husband in couple trying to have a baby is supposed to be Nate from Six Feet Under? He's got the same attitude and the actor even looks like him. Nice going, HBdOuchebag.

Don't Forget To Vote Today

Yes, I know that your opinion doesn't matter and that your voice can't be heard, thats not the point. The point is that the public at least appear to remain engaged in the process, so that the government can retain at least a shred of accountability. It used to be about getting people "our age" to vote, but I grew out of that.

What I Learned From Painting the Bedroom

• Presidente beer is amazing
• Wallpaper is horrible, horrible stuff to remove.
• If I do something wrong, its ultimately Nilda's fault.
• Constantly sliding your bare feet on the floor to paint the floorboards will give you a blister.
• I haven't purchased an actual cd in years.
• Recovering the Satellites is a pretty good Counting Crows album.
• Nilda hates Mates of State, and I still don't know why.
• I still prefer my old crappy cds to radio commercials.
• Lavender is not blue. Or manly.
• Bounty paper towels are definitely the way to go.
• Reaching for the crown molding is much easier than bending for the floorboards.
• I will never paint a room in this apartment again. Ya.

I Ate Bad This Weekend

Friday lunch - Quiznos beef dip
Friday dinner - pizza
Saturday breakfast - eggs, sausage, hash browns
Saturday dinner - Brazilian churascarria
Sunday lunch - Taco Bell
Sunday dinner - chinese food

Yes, the wedding is over.

Resolutions

I'm not allowed to go to www.nintendo8.com today. Its part of the surge to get more work done. At least it helped me break free of my crippling spider solitare addiction.

Intendo

This website lets you play most of the original Nintendo games online. I highly recommend Dr. Mario, 1943 and Tecmo-Bowl.

Open Letter to the Asshole Who Just Called Me at Work

There's no "Nitten" here, douche bag. What kind of a name is "Nitten," anyway? And did you really think that asking for "my girl" would clarify the situtation? Check your fingers when you dial, dickwad.

Love,
Brian

On the Road Again

Its not incorrect to say that Jack Kerouac wrote "On the Road" in a blistering three weeks in April 1951, on one scroll of paper. Closer to the truth is that Kerouac's scroll turned into "On the Road" after considerable work by editors and Kerouac himself, adding commas and changing names, changing it from a history into literature. In honor of the 50th anniversary of "On the Road," they've finally published the original scroll. Guess what Brian just bought.

Rove Resigning

No one believes that Rove is actually resigning to spend time with his "college age" son, or that the Chief of Staff is making him leave. At first, I thought he was leaving because he knows there's going to be a huge issue of Congress' subpoenaing of him. But his being in office or not would not impact the subpoena, so that can't be it.

Now I think that Rove is leaving because he wants to work on a campaign and needs time to distance himself from the White House. Either he's too young to retire and wants to stay in the game, or he still believes that he can create a Republican party that will rule for 50 years. Either way, we haven't heard the last of Rove.

Why Nilda wants to go to Africa

Keroauc Awareness Month

This is the 50th Anniversary of the release of "On the Road." The NY Times released its review of the book from September 5, 1957, heralding it as "an authentic work of art" and "a major novel." (Anyone who reads the Times knows how much of a compliment that is). It is considered the most famous review in history. "On the Road" should be required reading basd on its cultural significance, but it meant everything to me when I was 20.

Just Say No

I saw this VH1 special about drugs that freaked me out. Worst of all were these pictures showing how meth destroyed their bodies. The most dramatic case was Theresa Baxter, who looked relatively normal in her mug shot from 2002, after an arrest for identify theft and fraud, to her mug shot 2.5 years later, where, at just 42, she lost 40 pounds, lost all but 2 teeth, has terrible wrinkles and a cyst on her cheek. She says she cannot stand to look in the mirror. Meth is bad shit.

Physicists v. Mathematicians

I'm reading this great book the Uncertainty Principle. Physicists and mathematicians have had a rivalry, going as far back as Einsten. Mathematicians say that physicists don't and can't do the hard equations, while phycisists think that mathematicians deal strictly with meaningless theory and don't contribute. There was actually a nerd rumble back when Bohr first proposed his theory of the atom. There were protractors and compasses everywhere. It was awful.

Fun With Nilda

Is the following line from "The Dark Crystal" or "Dune"?

- Damn the spice!
- Skeksies want to make peace Gelfings.
- Essence! Drink her essence!
- And how can this be? For he is the Kwiztaz Haderach!
- Fight, Kyra, fight!
- Usul no longer needs the Weirding Module.

Brian as a Contestant on Top Chef

"It's cornflake chicken, Chef."

Most Important TV Shows

These are just some of the television programs that, to me, changed the medium, altered the way the public perceived television, or set the bar for a specific genre:

Ed Sullivan
The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
The Real World
Seinfeld/Friends
MASH
The Sopranos
Diff'rent Strokes
Cheers
Dragnet
Saturday Night Live
Sesame Street
60 Minutes
The Simpsons
Star Trek

Can you tell that I'm into "most important" lists right now?

Business Time

Here's a video of stand up from the guys from Flight of the Conchord. The show's just all right, but the songs are hilarious. Shout out to Andrew for the idea to check them out on youtube. Sorry I had to kick your ass tonight. Do you think I like to hit you?

No People

Here's a really interesting article on what would happen to the Manhattan if all the people suddenly vanished. Without pumps to remove the water, the subways would flood within two days (Manhattan has 13 natural springs and was covered in rivers when initially settled). Within a few decades. The buildings and subways, after being subjected to the freezing and thawing process, would all collapse within a few years, and vegetation would push out all the concrete. Long story short, New York would return to mature forest within 50 years.