Reminiscing

Due to the music that just came through my MP3 rota­tion, I remem­bered a time about eight years ago. I don’t know if it’s the drunk­est I ever got, but prob­a­bly on my top five list: At a par­ty DJed by DJ Pic­ton I was so drunk that on the karaoke stage I for­got the words to “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road.”

Why don’t we do it in the road?
Why don’t we do it in the road?
Why

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Where am I when the movies are good?

Chat­ting with today I real­ized that I had to be dragged kick­ing and scream­ing to some of the best movies I’ve seen all year.

Own­ing Mahoney, Marooned in Iraq, The Dancer Upstairs–these are all movies I would­n’t have seen if I did­n’t have to for a work-relat­ed thing I don’t do any­more, and they’re prob­a­bly the three most inter­est­ing movies I’ve seen this year. I prob­a­bly would nev­er have seen The Hours or Phone Booth either if I … Read the rest

That XP Worm is pretty nasty

It’s an amaz­ing world we live in. Last night I helped a woman in Tehran rid her com­put­er of the lat­est Inter­net worm/virus. It was a lit­tle bit of a pain because appar­ent­ly Microsoft­’s Win­dows Update soft­ware does­n’t work with pirate ver­sions of XP, which thanks to the trade embar­go is what most copies of it in Iran are. But I’m tena­cious and clever and have a faster con­nec­tion, so I was able to be help­ful and walk her through … Read the rest

I sold my guitar yesterday

My bounced-pay­check woes still have yet to be resolved, So I sold my gui­tar so that I could get food and even more impor­tant­ly kit­ty lit­ter. Pawn­shop gave me $50 for it (as a sale—it would have been $40 as a loan), which is not too bad. I bought it for $100 in 1990.

Basi­cal­ly I refuse to take on any new unse­cured debt. You can’t get out of debt by bor­row­ing mon­ey. Also, lets face … Read the rest

Hooray for the postal services

Last night Y. report­ed that she received the care pack­age I sent her. Pret­ty good, actu­al­ly: San Fran­cis­co to Tehran in 7 days. So now I’m a con­spir­a­tor in trans­port­ing restrict­ed goods into anoth­er coun­try. The copies of Cool Beans include mate­r­i­al the Iran­ian gov­ern­ment would def­i­nite­ly not approve of – I’m think­ing about the the pho­to in the Lon­ers With Bon­ers inter­view, but I’m sure there are zil­lions more instances. I also sent her Read­ing Loli­ta in Tehran, … Read the rest

I don’t get it

All the time I see guys in my neigh­bor­hood walk­ing with their girl­friends and instead of hold­ing hands or hav­ing their arm around the girls waist or shoul­ders, they’re drag­ging this poor girl around by a ham­mer­lock, their arms around the girl’s neck.

WTF? Do some girls think that’s cool? If I were a girl and some guy did that to me, he’d get one warn­ing before I put him in the hospital.

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