Stone Cold Pimpin'

I went to Center Stage Theater to review the dance recital "3 Cities: 3 Choreographers" and encountered the choreography of S.B.'s Misa Kelly for I think the first time. What's even cooler (in lieu of my review that I am still writing as on this post) is that a lot of the work is online. Used to be that dance was impossible to see outside the live experience, but YouTube changed that.

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In 1995, I went to Seoul, Korea, with this new friend I'd met in Japan called Jonathan Crow and another English teacher called Katy. The full photoset of all five days (well, three main days) is now up on Flickr for your perusal.

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Men at Work was the first concert I saw back when I was a wee lad. Tonight at SOhO I got to see Colin Hay play solo and I got a photo with him at the end. Cool! In this setting he's very funny and tells a lot of amusing anecdotes. For a sample of what that sounds like, check out this mp3 of a TV interview with him on Andrew Denton's Enough Rope show from ABC Australia.

Set List:
Going Somewhere
What Would Bob Do?
Who Can It Be Now
Melbourne Song
Conversation
Norwegian Wood
Get Over You
Maggie
Death Row Conversation
Beautiful World
Looking for Jack
Down Under
Overkill (yes! my favorite!)
Are You Looking at Me?
Waiting for My Real Life to Begin

Only 15 songs, but understand that with all the storytelling, this was a two hour plus concert. If you get a chance to see him play in this kind of setting, I highly recommend it, even if you're not much of a Men at Work fan.

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At the end of March I visited my friend Olivia in Vancouver, BC. It was my first trip to Canada, and prob not my last.

You can see the full set here.

Then from Vancouver, I flew to Portland, OR and stayed with my friend Chris. This was my first trip to Oregon and also, not my last.

Dig that funky Portland scene here.

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Sure have been gone a long time, folks! And I should keep up with posting, after all I have thousands of devoted fans I can't let down. Well, maybe not thousands, but hundreds. Okay, maybe not hundreds, more like my mom and a few friends. But still I can't let them down!!

I took Spring Break in Vancouver and Portland and the Canada photos are already up. I've been busy writing and teaching.

I'm always nervous to get behind a candidate, but I've come around to Obama over the last months. I've more and more impressed with his speeches and his attitude. The man seems genuine. I've also stood back, impressed, as he's used every negative moment as a chance to go on the offensive. Last night was the unbelievably shitty and moronic travesty of a debate on ABC. But tonight I saw this footage:

Lastly, I went to go see Dengue Fever play SOhO tonight and it was excellent. More photos soon. My friends Sami and Doug were there, along with tons of peeps that I know, so it was a good night out.

Here's my favorite song from the night, the groovy and hypnotic "Seeing Hands," which could have gone on 20 more minutes for my taste.

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For 11 days I covered the festival for the News-Press, attended all the red carpets (except for one, as I was teaching) and got photos with celebs (well, two). I interviewed nearly everybody, although I'm too swamped to post. Best interviewee: Norman Jewison. Worst: Tommy Lee Jones. Check out the damage here.

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This is such a stupid story, I have to share. Yesterday I was slicing a one-day old baguette from Trader Joe's for dunking in soup--it was dinner time. I was sawing away at it--it was a bit hard as you might imagine--and my hand slipped and I actually broke skin on the edge of the bread. Thirty seconds later I was bleeding. What the hell??? I have had paper cuts in my time, but never a baguette cut.

Then tonight I was finishing off the same loaf and again sawing away (that final moment of separating base from loaf is the worst and again I slipped and I banged the edge of my thumb on the bread. It gave me a blood blister and before I could even think, even more blood was coming out, all over the knife and of the cutting board.

This has to be the deadliest bread I have ever come across. I'm glad it's gone.

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My Canon camera, like most, has a "movie" setting. Half the time I use it intentionally, and half the time I flip it on by mistake. Either way, over the year I have grabbed 5 seconds here and there, sometimes longer (but not that much). The above compilation doesn't make any narrative sense and is completely random. So enjoy!! (Warning: Includes mature language, i.e. swearing).

Bonus! 2006 Year in Review also uploaded: Part One and Part Two.

And!! I have uploaded a Flickr photoset for 2007, one photo representing each month.

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That's right folks, I traveled to Honolulu for five days. I have documented the atrocity for you over at Flickr.

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A photo of Louis Menand all chillin' out 'n' shit. In front of books.
I have kept a diary on and off (but pretty much on, full on) since 1985. Holy Christ! That's pretty much all my formative years and then some. So I'm always interested to read others' diaries, or in this case a lengthy New Yorker article by Louis Menand on diary keeping. Here's some choice passages:

And the superego theory, of course, is the theory that diaries are really written for the eyes of others. They are exercises in self-justification. When we describe the day’s events and our management of them, we have in mind a wise and benevolent reader who will someday see that we played, on the whole, and despite the best efforts of selfish and unworthy colleagues and relations, a creditable game with the hand we were dealt. If we speak frankly about our own missteps and shortcomings, it is only to gain this reader’s trust. We write to appease the father. People abandon their diaries when they realize that the task is hopeless.

Continue reading "Louis Menand (and myself) on Diary Keeping" »

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This Sunday I directed what will be the first video off of AM's new album, Soul Variations. We worked a near 12 hour day, but we all had a great time, and the video will premiere at the end of this month in various locations (more on that later).
Thanks to:
AM for having a rockin' song that, even after playback number 236, still had me tapping my toes. I feel this song!
Heather Carney (not in the photo) for her excellent dancing and solo performance and giving me the chance to finally work with a dancer/choreograper.
Jackie Brubaker for looking absolutely glamorous and never getting tired of my directorial demands.
Karla Shelton for running the show with her velvet whip and keeping us all in line.
Rob Dafoe for shooting and lighting the whole thing and for stepping in when I was about to rush a certain shot.
Tal for the use of his studio and his patience.
Nik, Sami, and Cynthia for once again helping out on their former teacher's projects.
Druyan (not in shot, but taking the photo) for takin' photos and for transporting out reflecting pool for a very cool shot.
My friends Scott and Kat for putting me up overnight so I could have an easy drive to our LA location.
and finally
Mom and Abel for being Mom and Abel! 

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When I was down in La-La-Land last week I picked up a bag of David Lynch coffee. I don't have a coffee maker, but dammit, I wasn't going to pass up a chance to try Lynch's own blend. So I have decided to actually get a proper coffee maker. Trouble is: all the other times I've had a drip coffee maker the resulting brew has sucked big time. And I had washing up just for one cup. AAAAAAannnnnnnd my place is small, with no counter space. So what can I get? I came across this Metafilter discussion on coffee. I love the 'net! Now I have lots of options.
French press or Moka Express (Stainless Steel only, never aluminum!) or--my favorite by the looks of it--the Aerobie Aeropress.
Other tips: use a burr grinder, not a blade grinder. (Damn! That's what I have!)
Correct brewing temp is 195-205 degrees. (What am I supposed to do, take the water's temperature?)
Kona coffee is really good and the real thing is real expensive.
But why not roast your own beans? Hmm, this is starting to get complicated...

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Last weekend I went to New Orleans' French Quarter for Scott's 40th birthday party. NOLA was comparatively quiet compared to Mardis Gras time and also because the city is still rebuilding (or not rebuilding, it seemed to me) after Katrina. But, still, I was able to get my fill of Cajun and Creole cooking and do my share of drinking.

Here's the Flickr photoset

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Yes, so, as some of you know, my main passion is filmmaking, and apart from some music videos, I haven't blogged much about my work. But tomorrow (Friday, July 20), we will be premiering Revenge of the Falcon, my short comedy, which although didn't take too long to do, actually has been brewing in one form or another since October 2005. In fact, we had to remake the film from scratch because...well, just because, all right? Some of you know what I'm talking about.

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Some stizooopid stuff happened with the server this weekend (mostly involving a corrupted mt.cgi file which made me think for a second that I had lost four years of blogging), so I've spent way too much time fixing things. On the other hand I also used the opportunity to tweak a few things on the blog. You may or may not have seen them.

1) Comments now work, but require authentication. I was getting spammed the hell out by doofi unknown and I think this shut down comments for a while. As long as you have an email address and go through TypePad, you can comment now!

2) I added a favicon. It's my bleedin' face! I was tempted to write "OBEY" underneath it. If you don't know what a favicon is, do a Google search.

3) Rotating banners and new pimped out logo. I added that last weekend, but you may have not noticed it. I will start adding more banners soon, at the moment it's just ten photos.

4) Added links to myspace, facebook, amazon, and last.fm on the right. Go on and add me, be my friend and experience the discomfiting silence of social networking. I have nearly 200 friends!! And I spent most of the weekend at home!!!

5) I have added the photo of the Virgin Mary cheese sandwich apropos of nuttin'. Actually, it looks more like Marlene Deitrich than Ms. Magdalene, but still she was delicious!

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Actually, I've already been. I went last week for the first time in my life (!) and I have the photos to prove it. Start here please.

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For some years I've been wanting to get back into drawing + painting, but never found the time (supposedly). But recently I bought a Moleskine pad and have started again. I will try to fill the pad asap and post my work regardly of how good /bad I feel it is.

You can follow the postings here.

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Yep, that's right, I was asked by SBCC (my employer) to hold a seminar on blogging this Friday. I spoke for about 3 hours to a mixed (mostly older) crowd of people. Fun and easy.

For those who attended the seminar, thank you once again. If you click on "Continue Reading" you can see the full entry and a series of links to all the sites I showed. If you would like the "Rules of Blogging", drop me a line and I will send it to you.

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Last Thursday night I came home from the Los Lobos concert at USCB to find that while away, the pipe on the toilet had just exploded from being old and for over an hour water had been filling my apartment. My bathroom was two-inches deep, the bedroom was soaked, and water was seeping through the floorboards down into the living room below.
I thought I was going to become homeless! But in the end I was very, very lucky. Only a few thrift store records got damaged (and of course the one CD that got destroyed was a public library CD). But for just under a week I've been living without carpet, and with industrial fans going 24/7 along with a dehumidifier to get rid of the water.
I did well, as I'm not that messy and not much was on the floor to get wet. And all my computer/writing/business/film/art stuff was in another (dry) corner of the place.
Yesterday, they installed new carpet and today all my stuff got moved back in from temp storage. Phew.
It was traumatic, still, I have to tell you.

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Anyone who knows my CD comps knows I have really broad tastes, and love nothing better than to juxtapose, say, DMX with French chanson. So it should be no surprise that my iTunes and iPod are usually in perpetual shuffle play. One reason is that my two favorite radio shows growing up were living shuffle plays: Space Pirate Radio in SB and John Peel's show on Radio One in the UK.
The other reason is that juxtaposition is a way of hearing things differently and sometimes "new" even when they are old. Today I listening to the opening section of The Fall's "Hip Priest" right after The Beatles "Eight Days a Week" and believed I heard the same drums. Does that make The Fall more Beatlish or The Beatles mroe Fall-ish? Or was I hearing something new for 30 seconds before the memory kicks in?
Also, and I'd like to hear feedback on this, I think there is a secret shuffle play algorithm installed in both 'Pod and 'Tunes. I call it:
THE STEELY DAN ALGORITHM
My iTunes holds 100GB of songs, that's 30,000 songs so far. There are at most 50 Steely Dan songs in there. My iPod holds about 5,000 songs, of which maybe 20 are Steely Dan (A Decade Of, and bits of Aja and Can't Buy a Thrill).
Yet every day I get at least one Steely Dan song come up in shuffle. Why is this? The odds are incredible. So I'm thinking that one of the programmers of the shuffle play code has a line in there about Steely Dan. IF "Peg" then PLAY. Or whatever code looks like.
Anybody else have this problem?

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Bleary and blurry on a Monday morning after the closing night party. 10 days of working, writing, partying, and, well, go check it out!

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Yes, I spent 10 days in the UK and Eire in January. Things, er, didn't exactly go to plan. I uploaded separate sets for Ireland and Liverpool.

(This photo uploader was created by a Flickr member called .CK.

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Yep, days will now get brighter! Fortunately, we're southern enough that even our shortest day is bearable.

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Well, first of all, we have some semblance of democracy back in this country. Tuesday night I spent with my friend Chris watching films, eating vast quantities of meat, and trying my best to not look the t3h Internets and TV. And then the phone call came from Jon: "Santorum is out of a job." Yes!
Then later a text: "Dems take the house." Damn! I slept better that night than I have in a long time, only to find out that that other fukker Rummy had resigned. Wow!!
I treated myself that afternoon to the Borat movie, which had me in stitches, particularly during a certain wrestling sequence. It is, as Jon says, a movie about tolerance in its own strange way.
And then I have been spending most of this and last week reading (and finishing) John Hodgman's book, "The Areas of My Expertise," which is the funniest thing since the Onion put our their first compilation book. I have been giggling for some time now.
Okay, that's me for now.
I really wish I could be publishing my writing for the Santa Barbara News-Press (I have about four to five articles per week these days, bless 'em), but I can't even access my own stuff with a password. Ack!

UPDATE: I have also been in tears over this Internet meme.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Better cat madness here.
OMG ANOTHER UPDATE LOL: There's now a blog about all this.

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So anyway, last Friday was my last day at my day job. Last Saturday was my birthday party. Kinda a celebration, you might say. I have uploaded the photos to Flickr and the Audio of the birthday party gig is now up in the Audio folder. So you can jump in straight to the embarrassment of hearing me warble, here you go:
SET LIST:
Lust for Life
20th Century Boy
Love Is the Drug
Queen Bitch
Werewolves of London
Laura
Sympathy for the Devil

Yep! Thanks to my band--Jeff Sparks, Mark Getten, Rob Taylor, Zach Madden, my backup vox Diane (see above!), everybody else who went woo-woo at the right moment, and our mystery sax player. Thank you all! You rock!!!

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Hi gang, I just got back from the UK after a well-earned week's holiday. You can check the photos over at Flickr, featuring stops in Liverpool, London, and Essex.

Also, you can see two quick videos from my journey, all in low quality sound and vision. The first is TRAIN, which words better as a loop. The second is CLUBBIN, which details my trip down stairs in a club into an awaiting throng of dancing women, set to an irresistible distorted house beat.

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My friend Phil spent his Xmas break in a location I haven't thought about since 1982, Falkland Islands. I have no idea what goes on there--I imagine sheep and puffins shivering in some southern sleet--so I was excited when Phil returned to fill us all in:

Most of all it seems a very sociable place. No doubt social connections in any small town or village are pretty tight, but when it is as cut off from the outside world as Stanley, they must be stronger. It feels like everyone knows everyone else, particularly among those who grew up on the islands. As my dad said after visiting, at times it can be like being in the enclosed social world of a soap opera. On our last night we ate at the Brasserie and it seemed like the place was full of people we’d met over the previous fortnight, much like the limited social hubs (the Queen Vic, the Rovers Return) in any soap.

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I've uploaded to Flickr this last weekend's trip to Las Vegas and the Adult Video News Convention, a calvacade of porn stars and knobbly toys. Warning: may contain photos of me giddy with joy.

UPDATE (1/12/06): As of this morning, only four days after posting, my shot of me and Mika has become the most viewed photo at my Flickr site, blasting out other photos that took a year to garner the same number of views. Sex sells, what can I say?

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On Saturday, December 3, my bleedin' PowerShot A70 broke. Though I could still view old images, the viewfinder in camera mode showed a blur of black and violet. Balls! This will be a regularly updated entry to see how long Canon takes to fix this problem.

UPDATE! 1/3
FedEx note on my door sez they tried to deliver a package, but maybe this is something else I ordered (shoes). The exciting answer tomorrow!!!

UPDATE! 12/29
A little email (followed by a letter the same day) informs me that the camera has been fixed and shipped. So I will have to borrow a camera to get that New Year's Eve action. Balls.

UPDATE! 12/21
Canon loves me! They really love me! They've officially decided to fix my camera FOC (free of charge). Niiiiice. "You will receive the camera within 7 working days of this date." I put that date at 12/30, just in time to catch a photo of me sicking up too much vodka for New Year's. Excellent.
But we'll see, won't we?

UPDATE! 12/19
UPS delivered the package to Elks Grove, IL this morning. Get to work, dudes.

UPDATE! 12/13
Returned home yesterday to find the letter from Canon containing my UPS sticker. I sent out the camera in the box today. Let the thumb twiddling begin!

December 4
Took the camera down to Russ Camera, just to see if this was a commonly diagnosed problem. It was.
"It's the chip!" the lady there said. "Are you out of warranty?"
Yes, I am!
"Did you buy it with a credit card?"
Yes, I did!
"Ah, well, some credit card companies actually extend any warranty for you. You should give them a call."

December 5
I give my VISA card a call and find out that yes, there is an extra year tacked on to all orders paid. Cool.

December 7
At work, I call Canon and I don't even have to worry about warranties. Because this sounds exactly like a bad chip, and the A70 was known (was it?) for bad chips, they will fix it for free. But they need the camera's serial number.

I rush home after class and in the final five minutes before their customer support goes home for the day, I relay the serial and I'm told that they will send out a packing label for me. Upon receipt, it should take 7 - 10 working days. I imagine a backed up tech lab with piles of faulty A70s. A harried chip-replacer says to himself "Goddamnit! I must be seven to ten days behind. And it only takes a minute to replace!"

December 10
Still no packing slip in mail...hmm...

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It all started with this article over at MSNBC.com, called How to Get That Perfect Shave. I can't remember what I was searching for originally, something about types of aftershave for sensitive skin. No matter.
When I first started shaving back when I was 15, I didn't know anything, and my dad had been using blue disposables and Barbasol for years. My total beardage was a thin whiff of a moustache. If I left it on, I looked like a tool. If I shaved it, I immediately broke out. Great options.
Years later I decided that perhaps electric shaving would be better, so I got one of those three-head whirly-blade things for Xmas, and for about a decade I used that. With sensitive skin, this was better, but still not effective, and there were always sections to go over again and again. Then I got the Gilette Mach3 (for a birthday gift, but used only much later) and after reading the article above, starting using that in conjunction with Aveda's shaving creme and Nivea aftershave balm for sensitive skin.
But I still felt I was missing out of the retro fun of a brush and a safety razor, and sent out a poll to my male friends. Unknown to me, 2/3 of them had already gone back (or had never left) to the traditional, old school method of shaving.
So finally, I invested a little chunk o' change and got me the goods.

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Hey, to the twat-faced coward who dented my driver door sometime early this morning...I hope your shlong drops off. And if you already don't have a shlong, I hope you grow one. Arrrgh.

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Yeh, so, uh, how long did that take? Four days, people. Four days to get up on a new server, reconfigure my database and my email.

At one point I was running two help desk chats at the same time with two different companies (ipowerweb, my host, and spamarrest, my spam blocker) while being on the phone to Verizon Online (my ISP). Major frustrations included:

1) Not having a reliable FTP program--or server, I dunno. It would drop the upload connection every couple of minutes, making transferring 250mb of info (not a lot, I know) take something like 4 hours.

2)Not understanding that, though my settings stayed the same, I would still have to erase all my accounts and reload them. This took a while to figure out.

3)Following the tutorials for backing up and re-importing a MySQL database to the letter, then finding an error message on upload. "Line 2048: Error: Unclosed quote" or some such malarkey. Holy crap! Ipowerweb techies of the highest level had to step in and figure it out.

4) Worrying that I missed four days of important, business-related email. Seriously.

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You might not even notice (I hope not), but I am going to move servers on iPowerweb.com to take advantage of their new admin software VDeck. Mostly this means for you people that my email may bounce back to you. If so, you can always send it to my gmail (if you know me, you know this address...). In the meantime, here's a photo of a kitten performing opera.

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For breakfast, I have started eating natto on brown rice, with some miso soup on the side. Am I crazy? No, in fact. For one thing, I really am a big fat twat these days, so I have to work on my diet, and that means eating healthier. I love cereal and milk in the morning, but after a while I don't think the combo of dairy and sugar was doing it fr me. And of course I'm influenced by friends Jon and Ruriko, who dabble in the macrobiotics (but not in a doctinaire way, just check the flickr photos of us eating ribs and RibsUSA). But anyway, that's what my mornings are all about.

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Petracovich - Others (18 mpg)
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After many months of editing, learning new software, and purchasing a new external harddrive (and not in that order), I can proudly present the music video for the artist Petracovich. "Others" is from the new album "We Are Wyoming." Big thanks out to Michael Long (who provided the artwork seen in the video), everybody at Muddy Waters coffeehouse, producer/cameraman/renaissance man Paul Mathieu, extra camerapeople Jon Crow and Annie, and of course Petracovich herself, Jessica Peters, who graciously allowed us to do the thing in the first place.

The file is big (18mb) so please give it time to load. Enjoy.

UPDATE (9/24/05): We have solved some encoding problems (i.e. missing footage!!) so it's all good to go.

UPDATE (9/25/05): It seems some people are still having a problem with the video freezing up around 1:16. If so, please try saving the movie to your hardrive and then open it with Quicktime, instead of having the browser play it. No, I have no idea why this should be. Also, make sure you have the latest version of Quicktime for your system.

UPDATE (9/27/05): The video has now been reencoded as a letterboxed mpg. I swear this time y'all can get it to work.

UPDATE (9/29/05): I've talked with my provider and they say there's nothing going on their end. The video loads complete and fast. I tried it here at work on a Windows XP machine. So did another guy at the office. So I really don't know why some people are still getting the "half-video" deal. Dump your cache?

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Sup, my peoples? After one month of procrastination and two months of Blogger buggering up my entries, I finally knuckled down last night and installed Movable Type 3.2 on my system. With help from Patrick Benny, I got the thing up and running. Then with help from this Flash tutorial I transferred all my Blogger blogs to this one big blog.

I know the site looks very rudimentary right now, but I'll get the graphics going soon. Right now, it's all about the text, baby!

Also! When I first started blogging, the blog was called "Up Among the Golden Spires". I thought that mixing politics and dumb web links wasn't what I wanted, so I split the blogs into five separate pieces (Blogger didn't have categories like MT does). And my main page "Stone Cold Pimpin'" was born.

Question: Should I go back and call this one big blog Up Among the Golden Spires or keep with Stone Cold Pimpin'?

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I went to lunch yesterday and was about to call the missus, when I noticed a new entry in my cell's phone book. A mysterious "J" had appeared above Jessica's name, above Jeff's name. Who was J?
I took a look at the phone number and it wasn't familiar: a strange area code, 888, and a repetitive number: 448-4444. Curious, I called it.
A woman answered, and before I could say howdy, she was telling me how much she wanted to suck my fleshplunger and fully drain me of my milky lifeforce. Well, she didn't use those words, but you get the idea. Apparently I had called a phone sex line.
Not having lent my phone to anybody, I soon realized that just by chance, and by sitting on my phone in my back pocket, I had entered the number, saved it, and given it a name, all with my clever buttcheek.

Hence the title of this blog entry.

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Yesterday I had my first chance to play the cult PS2 game Katamari Damacy. This is the Japanese game where you roll a giant sticky ball (a 'karamari') around a virtual world and pick up various things, from candy to pencils, to cats and humans and beyond, creating a snowball effect until, supposedly, you've rolled up a ball the size of a star. This is a very addicting game and I loved the quirkiness of it. If I had a PS2, this would definitely be on the list. There's a lot of chatter about KD, but for a website, you can check out the KD Desktops found here.

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Well, begosh and indeed be