January 2008

Guillermo del Toro has officially signed up to direct The Hobbit.

01.31.2008

Exactly what I wanted — and suspected — after watching Pan’s Labyrinth on my birthday last year. Called it. PS: I’ve been waiting for this one for thirty years.

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Marc Ford at Cafe Boogaloo, Hermosa Beach

01.31.2008

From last night. Great blues, cool bros, good drink, stellar grub.

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Acronyms

01.31.2008

FWIW. JTYWTK. HTH. GTG, BBL, TTL, TTFN. CYA!

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The Most Expensive Drink at Starbucks

01.30.2008

I’ve gotten close to this one, sans-syrup.

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The Headfountain

01.29.2008

“Youth has no age.” – Pablo Picasso

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Shell Shocked by Jace D. Albao (b. 1969) The television’s calling this the Summer of Love. The biggest load of horseshit I’ve heard in a year. And I’ve only been home an hour. There she is, or so they say. My seven-month-old daughter, in a crib, under a dangling party of giraffes and butterflies. Nice [...]

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How many five year olds could YOU take in a fight?

01.29.2008

This short survey will tell you approximately how many five year old children you could fight at once. Results are based on physical prowess, training, swarm-combating experience, and the flexibility of your moral compass. Here are the ground rules: You are in an enclosed area roughly the size of a basketball court. There are no [...]

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It was so interesting that I couldn’t stop reading it.

01.29.2008

A book report from 1980:

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Under the house

01.28.2008

So as part of the remodel and purge, I finally decided to get the audio party started yesterday, pulling the trigger on the surround sound home theater system thing. Whoah. My world has changed. A couple of the boys came over last night and we tested it out with a Zeppelin DVD remastered in Channel [...]

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Bloody Omaha

01.28.2008

Steven Spielberg, eat your heart out. Three graphic designers created D-Day in a few days on a shoestring budget with some powerful tools and a little ingenuity. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Andreas and I figure we should recreate Woodstock in the same manner. We’ll just set up [...]

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Way up high

01.28.2008

Looking east from the front lawn yesterday.

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Cats and dogs

01.28.2008

“Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.” – Billie Holiday

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She is so dense.

01.27.2008

An assignment from 1978:

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I’ll remember that.

01.26.2008

Interesting fact: The highest opening play in Scrabble is MUZJIKS for 128 points.

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Casey Kasem gets pissed

01.26.2008

Here’s a classic I’d forgotten about. Casey Kasem performing a long distance dedication on his radio program and finding himself at odds with the audio engineer’s song decisions. I had it on cassette tape in the mid-nineties, before the Internet. I’ve since lost the tape. YouTube keeps the memory alive: You need to a flashplayer [...]

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