Monday, November 2, 2009

damn bovines

{ Sent at 3:13 PM on Monday }
me: today has actually been going by quickly
how did that happen?
michelle: i dont know--but youre right!
me: i blame daylight savings time
michelle: dont blame it--thank it!
its dark soooo early now though
I hate it
me: yeah wtf
stupid time
cows don't care what time it is
but cows are also a bunch of jerks!
so now i don't know who to trust

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Short.

me (to Doug): how did that jay-z song go?
welcome to new york, home of the rapping tomato?

Friday, September 25, 2009

My New Dream

Fantastic Fest is happening right now in Austin, TX. Aside from really wanting to be there, it got me thinking, and not for the first time. It is being put on by the Alamo Drafthouse, which is a crazy cool independent movie theater that shows everything from big Hollywood hits to weird genre films to tiny indies.

I think Staten Island needs a place like this, a catch-all for awesome. My vision is a 2-3 screen theater, where one or all screens are sunken in behind a stage for comedy and musical performances. The lobby would be fashioned with a fully stocked beer bar, including at least one house brew. There would also be a good-food-with-reasonable-prices restaurant/ café, so you can spend an evening with dinner-movie-bar all in one place.

A yearly film festival, midnight movies, genre nights, classics, new releases, comedy, music beer, food, even merch (a la the Drafthouse's Mondo Tees. It would be a great way to get people to Staten Island, and a great alternative to the (mostly) crap that's there now. It's what we need, and I can envision it being wildly successful.

Here's my problem – I wouldn't even know where to start to get something like this rolling. Ideas? Permits? Locations? Money? Where do you begin? I need a partner, someone with a little bit of savvy and expertise, who shares my vision and knows what to do about it. If anyone knows somebody like this… please tell them to contact me. I need to get this done before Mr. Burns sells Staten Island to New Jersey.

Monday, August 24, 2009

2 Steps Back.

I want to write more, but somehow everything I think I want to write about is so horribly depressing, whiny, and emo. I'm fast approaching 25 (less than 2 weeks away), and yet my inner blogger is stuck in high school. Maybe I'm not ready for this. Maybe I should go back to Livejournal.


...


No, I think that's a bad idea.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

2009 Read List

I've been meaning to do this for years, and always forgot until maybe July or August. This year, I only forgot until February! Anyway, this post will be constantly updated as a compendium of books I've read so far this year. I'm a moderately slow reader, and really only have time to do so during my commutes each day, so it may be a while between updates.

Now for the list:

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Oh yeah, I remember going to Japan.

Here, finally, is a selection of pictures. If you want to see them all, you're crazy, but just ask.

Japan!!!!!

How was the trip? Awesome is an understatement.

Monday, June 22, 2009

Yet again, I prove that I'm bad at this.

It's about that time again—time for me to revisit this blog and promise that I will use it more faithfully in the future. It used to happen once every few months on my old Livejournal, and I'm afraid I've let this new one fall by the wayside as well.

Well, I'll have you (all 3 of you) know that I'm working on tagging and captioning my Japan pictures, and I aim to have them up within the next 2 weeks. With them will hopefully come some stories, not only for your sake, but for mine as well, so I can remember everything that happened, and have some do's and don'ts for when I make my triumphant return.

I'll be starting to teach myself the language soon, beginning with Hiragana and Katakana, continuing with vocabulary and grammar, and slowly but surely trying to learn as many Kanji as possible. Stay tuned, for it will all be here in due time, I promise!

Thursday, May 7, 2009

The One Crazy Thing Each Day Project

So tomorrow I am off to Japan. I'd like to make it my business to do at least one crazy* thing each day. I figure if I'm going to spend 3 weeks in Japan, I might as well make the most of it.

Stay tuned to this blog for pictures, video journals, and possibly even some writing, documenting all the insanity that is Japan!






*Where "crazy" is defined as "something I would have no business doing on a normal day in America".

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

A Quick One, While He's Away

me: I see the way she looks at you.
Doug: With her eyes?
me: Mostly.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

On Being a Vampire

me: You should stab her with your pencil.
Miriam: I want to. It's already got my blood on it. [She cut her arm with said pencil earlier]
me: Yeah, and then she'll turn into a vampire.
Miriam: I'm not a vampire!
me: Well then somebody's been feeding me misinformation!

Friday, March 20, 2009

It's All in the Wrist

The following took place about 10 minutes ago, between me and my neighbor at work.

me: Do you have any Benadryl?
Miriam: Why, are you OK?
me: I'm fine, I just noticed some red spots on my wrist, and they're pretty itchy. It might be an allergic reaction to something.
Miriam: Oh. Well, where have you put your wrist lately?
me: Nowhere that my hand hasn't been!

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

A new perspective

So now I'm thinking this thing should be used mostly for snippets of conversation: short dialogs, littered with the feelings of a particular time, allowing me to not have to go back through my google chat search function to remember what that funny thing someone said was. I can then look back fondly on how insane and inane my friends' conversations were, and possibly use them in a future written work. To wit:

Tony: sigh
life is soooo hard
me: yeah
totally

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Revelations

I told myself I wasn't going to use this blog as a chat log, but sometimes things are too stupid to pass up. Case in point, this recent chat with J:

me: do you know, that all this time, i've been really stupid
Jessica: I'm glad you just realised such
me: yes
i realized yesterday
Jessica: haha how so?
me: so i reserve a lot of books from the library, and generally get them sent to the one on victory blvd
even though i know full well the st george one is closer
just force of habit
Jessica: oh geez
me: and i always get pissed when i cant return the books on time because the library closes so early most days
Jessica: when you could get there quicker if it were closer
good job
me: right
so
JUST YESTERDAY
it dawned on me
that i work in the same building as a branch of the nypl
Jessica: omg
me: it's the science, industry, and business branch
but apparently they do holding and returning and all the normal stuff too
although their main function is as a reference library
and hence, i'm a moron
Jessica: hahaha
how long have you been working there?
A+
me: 1 year, 8.5 months
yeah