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  • Hands Free.

    As I hope all of you living in California know, July 1 is the beginning of the hands free cell phone law. You cannot talk on a cell phone with it pressed against your ear, you can however take your eyes off the road to text, email, blog, check traffic, etc. Yes, I actually do [...]

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  • Do They Sell Mens Clothes Where You Shop?

    … or, You Are Wearing A Girls Shirt.
    Now that we have all the title possibilities out of the way.
    Just the other night Kyle and I were discussing the ridiculousness of the V-neck. It’s pretty much a plague the likes of Von Dutch hats. Sure the V is comfortable, and shows off all that cool chest [...]

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  • Supersize The Homeless.

    So the other day I stumbled across this promotion McDonalds (or McDonwalds, for those of you that need it) was running for it’s Angus 1/3 Pound Burger. If I may digress in this post, the film “Angus” is one of the better films you have never seen. It has a stellar soundtrack and the movie [...]

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  • U.S. Open Wrap-up.

    I found it fitting not to publish this until the Open actually concluded, and seeing as Tiger just wrapped it up on the 19th hole today, this is long overdue:
    I was able to spend Father’s Day with my very own Father at the U.S. Open. It was a great day of golf, on a gorgeous [...]

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  • Try Giving Them Some Credit.

    Our country is so incredibly lost in how it treats young people. It’s no wonder young people in America feel lost or the need to act out. No one possibly thinks these people are capable of greatness.
    What happened to all the faith being in young people? What happened to giving everything to the future generations [...]

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  • APB.

    Anyone who can be in contact with Jessie Poland, please let her know I want to marry her. Mostly because of the words she sings (and probably didn’t even write).
    P.S. Jessie Poland is the real name of Charlotte Sometimes.
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  • Wake Up, Mr. West.

    Last night I had the absolute privilege to see the best musical performance of my life.
    I can only describe it as a one man hip hop opera. One man on stage, the band/orchestra in the pit below, and one broken spaceship.
    Kanye West just constantly impresses me with each and every thing he does, and it [...]

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  • In Case You Were Concerned.

    I am in Sacramento, CA, at the airport, wondering why no one uses Bonjour when they are on free open networks.
    Let’s examine that. How fun would it be to see 30 people randomly pop up on your Bonjour list in iChat and randomly IM you. Aside from the fact that it could be that creepy [...]

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  • The Not-So-Prodigal Son Returns.

    I am home, I flew in this morning, I went to work, I went to a stellar show at the Troubador. We Shot The Moon, William Tell and Everybody Else all put on a rather great show, I only wish I wasn’t the guy leaving before 11 because I haven’t slept a whole lot. I [...]

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  • All Quiet On The Western Front.

    See what I did with the title there? That is some sort of writing instrument, I dunno which, but it’s clever, like me. It’s also mysterious and exhausted, also like me.
    So the blog has been a little lacking in interesting things lately, that is mostly because my non-blogosphere life has been a little too interesting [...]

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  • Y2Khai.

    A number of years ago in college, the fellow members of our secret society were in a computer lab, doing secret society things, when one of us stumbled upon a CD-R with the words “Y2KHAI” written on them. Since we were in a lab full of Apple’s we popped it in one and one of [...]

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  • Boston, I Am Yours.

    It is official, I will be in the Commonwealth a week from today. You might be like… “Isn’t that kind of a late warning?” Yes, yes it is. I just purchased my tickets yesterday, so I really didn’t feel it was official until then.
    I fly in on the redeye Thursday night, and have a quick [...]

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  • Those Liberal Californians.

    Today the State of California Supreme Court overturned a ban on same sex marriage. While I personally have had a rather vague opinion on homosexuality and even same sex parenting (I simply have beliefs on all sides of this debate), one thing no one can argue these days is that if we offer benefits to [...]

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  • All Of Politics Are A Fad.

    Joel posted an interesting take on the shape of Politics in his life, I was going to reply, and I thought I would do so here. You should probably read his post if you want this to make the most sense.
    I support Obama, I hope every day for him to be our next President, and [...]

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  • Twitter Has Taken Over My Blog.

    So I have noticed now that I Twitter, and now that I added Twitter Tools to my blog, my daily digest posts of my daily Tweets are taking over my blog. It’s kind of lame actually, to me at least. I really wish I could have Twitter Tools do a weekly digest, so my blog [...]

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  • Escape.

    I sat down tonight to watch the first episode of the new season of This American Life. TAL is a program about people and their stories, it first aired as a radio program on public radio (which is where the sometimes infamous parrot story originated) and last year was turned into a television show by [...]

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  • AT&T Hotspots, Free For iPhone.

    AT&T just opened up all their hotspots in the US to iPhone users. B&N, The ‘bucks and more, now free. You might remember a while back they gave free service to anyone who has their internet service, and pledged to open it up to mobile as well. They have finally done that latter. I am [...]

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  • I Don’t Know What This Is.

    However it’s fairly cool. Oh, it is this.
    I believe what it does is take people’s Twitter’s from all over and randomly pulls in ones that use certain words in them. I still don’t know “what” Twitter is, but if I ever find out, I might think this is really amazing or something.
    This might kill 2 [...]

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  • Triple Header, Dual Coast.

    I use iCal to keep track of my schedule, and I also use it to subscribe to my favourite sport teams schedules. It’s a handy little feature available for almost any team, and having these calendars sync with my iPhone gives me a constant connection to what said teams are up to. I have these [...]

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  • Twitter Wars.

    So I was thinking about my recent adoption of twitter, along with Chad Pearson’s recent adoption of putting peoples names in his iChat status message, and I realised we could create some sort of uniquely annoying war. We could just randomly post untrue silly things about people (as @ them) and just create an amazingly [...]

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  • Political Piledrivers.

    Last evening, the next President of the United States, the leader of the free world, appeared on WWE’s Monday Night Raw. Yes all of the potential President’s, somehow, were conned into appearing on a wrestling show. Every last one of their campaign managers should be fired.

    Next up, the decision on the Democratic nomination, live from [...]

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  • So This Is Twitter.

    Okay, I know I should know this, I know I should be using it, and I know I should have been on this train like months ago. Regardless, Chad Pearson has convinced me to give it a go, and I am officially Twitter’ing.
    For the record, I still have no idea what this all means.
    Edit: I [...]

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  • This Is A No Blog Weekend.

    So I’m down in San Diego for the weekend; celebrating my Mother’s birthday (got her an easel, acrylics, watercolours and related supplies), spending time with the niece, moving furniture around, saboteur’ing with some friends. I haven’t been on the internet most of the weekend, and hardly have even seen my computer. So this is me [...]

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  • Run-On Wednesday.

    Here is what I am doing with my life in complete random run-on sentence form for the people who care about what I am doing with my life.
    I go shopping for yogurt and bread buy way too many things decide that I need to go green and buy reusable bags because they will fit more [...]

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  • iPhone Optimized.

    A few months back I made the switch to an iPhone optimized admin version of Wordpress, so my Mobile posting would be easier. A few weeks back I added an iPhone version (basically just a stylesheet) of this entire blog you are reading. Those of you on iPhone’s already noticed the last one, unfortunately no [...]

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  • Lobbyists, Obama Won’t Take Your Money.

    Daily Kos has a great post about Barack Obama not taking his money and why it has made him even more “prObama” (I made that up months ago, if it ever catches on, take note). The reason why? He is a lobbyist, albeit not one of the evil, trying to control politicians, lobbyists, but a [...]

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  • Sometimes I Take Pictures.

    A few weeks back I spent a Saturday laughing hysterically, breaking into foyers and pointing my camera at a friend of mine. The goal for the day was some new publicity type shots for William Tell. William finally put a few of them up over at his MySpace (which he revamped) along with a new [...]

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  • Red Sox Mid-Season Exhibition Games.

    Today we (Kyle, Brandon, Josh x3, Yoori and I) took the trek over to Dodger Stadium, which while it’s parking and entrance set up are the best designed public use facilities in Los Angeles (which still doesn’t say much), the rest of the stadium set up is turrrrrible (like Charles Barkley). Apparently someone there thinks [...]

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  • Thanks, Lindsay.

    Lindsay made some post on her blog about her new “Etsy” store, and I being a man, had no idea what this was so I checked it out. I still don’t know what it is, but I am now stuck deciding upon my next table purchase. Normally I would not provide links to something I [...]

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  • Things Change, Dawson, People Change.

    James Van Der Beek has been making strange resurgences in my life lately. A few weeks back it was randomly coming across Varsity Blues on TV, in HD (so we had to watch). Just a few nights ago it was some drunken late night Dawson’s Creek viewing, and debating if we were on Dawson or [...]

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  • The Papal Stage.

    I’m don’t support a lot of things about the Catholic church, but they have the best backdrop ever. Purgatory has definitely done more good in religious inspired art, then in scaring people into not sinning.

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  • I Definitely, Didn’t, Not Find The Cloverfield Monster.

    I know, I know… the boy who cried “I found the Cloverfield monster” strikes again. Don’t believe me, that’s fine, but remember how that whole “boy who cried wolf” thing ended. The destruction of New York City, that’s how.
    You tell me, if this isn’t the Cloverfield monster, what is it?
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  • I Don’t Really Know The Point Of This.

    I like the Daily Mail, it’s a website I frequent a lot, but never directly check daily. Perhaps I should, but then the thrill of it would wear off. I like thrills, such as the thrill of scouring the internet about Project Runway Season 4, after the entire season has aired and you just watched [...]

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  • The Dreamers.

    Long Beach is filled with dreamers. Not dreamers like you or I, but dreamers who digress towards an inappropriate dose of things that cannot be measured. Or so we should be so arrogant to believe.
    I dream for success, for a certain level of fame so I can ignore it all with humility, for some plaque [...]

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  • The Whatever Bias.

    So last week I was reading this article on MSNBC.com, and I sort of found it an interesting read while at the same time something tripped me up about it. Finally over this past weekend I realised what it was: This is news? Let me get this straight, some guys theory based on the fact [...]

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  • Reason #371200 Why I Love David Letterman.

    Last night on Letterman, he discussed Eliot Spitzer’s penchant for “banging whores”. Now Letterman has no problem with the practice, he just doesn’t want him doing it on the state’s time. He also took up issue with Spitzer debating what he will do now that the truth has come out, rather than step down immediately [...]

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  • The Interstates.

    I love the fact that in our nation, you can get on one highway and drive to the other coast. It’s brilliant. I hate the fact I can’t drive to work (25 miles) on one highway, but hey Los Angeles only ever completed like 1/4 of the highways planned for it.
    The Interstate system was developed [...]

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  • SEO v LOL.

    SEO, means Search Engine Optimization. Every competent web person is usually savvy with this term, and will tell you what you can do to increase the likelihood that someone finds you on the internet (or better yet, how you can pay them to optimize your page). Then there is the famous “Google Algorithm” and how [...]

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  • Life, As It Were.

    A swirling mass of denim and associated items, digital cameras, way too many energy drinks, Rock Band injuries; that is my life as of late. It isn’t always the adventure it sounds like; which is more than it should be. For every moment when I realise I need time away from something, there is a [...]

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  • Archival.

    Over the weekend I added some various, random, writings that span all the way back to 2002. For those of you not in the know, 2002 was when blogging was invented*, and I was right there changing the world.
    If you peruse these archives, you will find; early morning drives, Cheetah conservation, vague reminiscing, 11 o’clock [...]

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  • Friday Discussion Question.

    I know only like 4 people read my blog, and like 2 of them regularly comment, but I am having a discussion post anyway. Maybe I will do this every Friday; maybe I will do this every leap day. Who knows, really.
    I had every intention of this blog being more about my life and what [...]

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  • Reason #239781 Why I Love Google.

    Today Google gave all homeless persons in San Francisco a free phone number and voicemail. I have always been a pretty big supporter of Mayor Gavin Newsom (even with that whole affair scandal, he handled it pretty well) and the strides “The City” (On the west coast, this means San Francisco) has made as of [...]

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  • Random Recs 2.26.08

    Coconut Records - Nighttiming - So I got addicted to “West Coast” way late in the game, and the full album finally came last week, and yeah… I’m pretty much in love with this record.
    Wearing A Watch - After some six years without, I am back to telling time on my wrist.
    Scissors For Lefty - [...]

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  • Certain Things.

    There are certain things for me that will always; render a photographic image in my mind, create a yearning for particular things, begin a private screening of out takes of life events in moving picture form, trigger an onslaught of emotions past. For me these things are typical; for me these things are atypical. Songs, [...]

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  • How To Flirt.

    Who else finds this one of the most absolutely hilarious things ever?
    How To Flirt
    My thoughts upon first viewing:
    1. “Hi” is a pick up line?
    2. Being from Long Island is a “big red circle with a line through it”.
    3. Shouldn’t a video that will be posted online about “how to flirt”, just show some guy and [...]

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  • Emocentric.

    e·mo·cen·tric
    adj.
    1. One attaining the view that music (specifically emo) is the center, object, and norm of all emotions.
    2.
    a. A limitation in behaviour and/or preferences to music that is played by persons in tight clothes with a heavy emphasis on emotional themes.
    b. Only affected by the feelings invoked by “emo” [...]

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  • Teaching Without.

    Pretty amazing story about a teacher in the greater San Diego region who graduated High School, got an athletic scholarship to, and graduated from, college, became a teacher and taught High School for 17 years; all without being able to read, write or spell.
    John Corcoran
    “When I was a child I was just sort of just [...]

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  • Life Lessons 2.9.08

    Excerpts from the lessons we all should have learned much sooner:
    #27356
    Singing “Every Rose Has It’s Thorn” at karaoke when the only words you know are the title of the song, is never a good idea.
    #81279
    Upon the bridge of “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling”, when executing “The Move” (you know the one), try limiting your knee [...]

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  • Freedoms In Education.

    I was always one of those people that went through our public eduction system “spitting and cursing”, so to speak. Granted I had my troubles behaving, and I was a class clown of sorts, but more than either of these I was a rabble-rouser. I very early on found myself wanting to challenge the system [...]

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  • Glow In The Dark.

    Is it wrong that I’m looking forward to this tour more than anything this year? It is the absolute perfect line up to quench my inner urban self. I am officially forming a crew to journey with me to this event, bright all over printed hoodies and sweet kicks will be mandatory, call or write, [...]

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  • Helvetica.

    A few months ago I went to one of the West Coast premieres of a film called Helvetica in Laguna Beach. The film was directed by Gary Hustwit and is about, you guessed it, one of the most popular fonts ever, Helvetica. Kyle, Vincent and myself made the journey down to parts of the OC [...]

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  • Random Recs 1.24.08

    Cloverfield - Of course.
    Weatherbox - Their new album American Art is quite lovely. Rocks a little heavy, lyrics like a prose.
    “Tom Brady is a Yankee at heart” Shirts - I will be making these, he just deserves it. He is everything a Bostonian isn’t.
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  • Cloverfield’ing.

    So I saw Cloverfield last Friday. It was pretty much exactly what I was hoping for. The writing was spectacular, the character development was far deeper than what you normally find in Monster/Horror films, the cinematography was a work of art. I know a lot of people in the theatre I was in wanted it [...]

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  • Randall Paul Jenkins, Live.

    So last night I debuted the “RPJ, Live” portion of this website. I am not yet one for the immediate Twittr phenomenon that is sweeping peoples lives, frankly that scares me, however I figure bringing a few of the things about me I do regularly update on the internet into one nice little page would [...]

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  • Mini.

    I drive a red Mini Cooper S, it’s a lovely vehicle, apparently it works just as well on 2 wheels as the 4 I usually keep it on.
    Two Wheels
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  • The Fourth.

    So the journalistic sub-genre of sports has been all a buzz this season about the San Diego Chargers Quarterback Philip Rivers. I am a proud supporter of “The Fourth” and of course am a huge Bolts fan, so it wouldn’t be shocking to learn that I sport the powder blue 17 on most Sunday’s. Granted [...]

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  • 826LA East Opening.

    So a few weeks back Jordan Percy and I attended the opening gala of 826LA East/Echo Park Time Travel Mart in Echo Park. For those of you not familiar with 826, it is a writing/tutoring center that gives free help to students during the day, and hosts some pretty lovely workshops for the young at [...]

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  • Playoffs?!?!

    Yesterday marked my second adventure in San Diego Chargers playoff football. The first experience left me quite disheveled, and had they lost this time around I may have banned myself from attendance. Thankfully, Philip “The Fourth” Rivers lived up to his nickname (so what if Kyle and I failed at our many attempts to have [...]

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  • Revisionist Theories.

    So as some of you noticed a few weeks back, I had some issues with comments after I updated WordPress to version 2.3.1.3.4.5.4.3.2 due to my horribly coded blog. This led me to the dark moment of using random templates, which I tried to at least keep fresh by rotating through the templates every few [...]

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  • The Best Of 2007 List(s).

    Let me start by saying this:
    There were plenty of amazing albums/songs/books/films/shows this year;
    There were plenty of mindblowing Indie darling albums that are at least 87 million times better than all the albums I list below. Problem is, I didn’t listen to those albums, I listened to these albums. Best of lists are no good for [...]

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  • So This Is Christmas.

    I am very late in wishing everyone a very happy “you and yours”. While we are here I might as well wish you a Happy New Year as well because I am bound to miss that one too.
    I headed South to San Diego once again with a car full of luggage, presents and one Grandmother. [...]

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  • Weekend Reminiscing.

    I spent quite a few hours this weekend with my good friend Chad Pearson who was out here visiting from the ATL. Somehow I have a ton of friends in Atlanta, where did that come from? Chad convinced me to buy way too much vinyl, and then was kind enough to let me purchase some [...]

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  • California, and it being on fire.

    So once again California is on fire.

    Just on Saturday I was down in San Diego, remembering events from 4 years past (not the fires), and then suddenly Sunday events from 4 years past (the fires) were happening all over again.
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  • Random Recommendations 9.20.07

    So I thought it would be fun to start throwing out random things I am currently supporting, and see how it makes the rest of the world feel.
    Everything Bagels - I’ve been going back to an old friend here, and it’s making every day start out right.
    Kanye West - Love everything this guy does, I [...]

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  • Random Recommendations 8.28.07

    If you are into music and read my little piece of the internet, you should already be listening to the following;
    Earlimart
    Cartel
    The Honorary Title
    The Starting Line
    All their newest releases from the past month or so. They are all fantastic. You like how I sprinkled some Indie into the pop that is my life?
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  • Holidizzle Paradizznatch

    This week I got the message loud and clear that the Metropolitan area of Atlanta loves me and has some quality people in it’s environs. Thank you those who called, thank you those who drove in a van to play shows. If you are from Atlanta and missed out on “The ATL loves Randall” week, [...]

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  • Tips for Lip Biters.

    So you might all remember a few posts back I tipped my hand about one of my (read: every male on this planet) weaknesses, the lip bite. Well tonight as I was looking at the random and strange ways people get to this little piece of the internets I call my own, I stumbled across [...]

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  • Silverlake Is A Bloggers Goldmine.

    I just got back from Spaceland in Silverlake, where Juliette (Lewis) & The Licks played their first LA show in quite a few years. It was a celebrity bloggers paradise, but since none of them could get on the list, I’ll have to do my best impression (and put witty things in paranthesis).
    In attendance were:
    Michael [...]

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  • Take a Safari.

    Today the official Personal Computer supplier to Randall Paul Jenkins (dot commmm), Apple made some big announcements. Most of those involve Leopard, which is the next amazing version of OSX. The new Finder looks amazing, and I cannot wait to start using all the previously announced things that people like myself geek out over.
    The really [...]

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  • Michael Bay Is The Working Man’s Director.

    Some people out there think Michael Bay makes bad movies, those same people also support the work of some of the most self-righteous egotistical persons I’ve ever met. I think my point has been made. Michael Bay isn’t about the whole “Hollywood” mentality, or the “I’m an artist” attitudes. Michael Bay is real, makes movies [...]

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  • Q: Who are you guys shooting for?

    A: The Times. All of them.
    Ice Cube’s new film “First Sunday” is shooting on my street. Incidentally, according to IMDB, I moved to Baltimore, MD. Baltimore is a gorgeous city on the shore of the Pacific… oh wait, that’s Long Beach. Anyway, Ice Cube rolled into town and is making some comedy about a crime [...]

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  • JT/JFK Day (AKA Memorial Day).

    As we have another 3 day weekend full of sunshine and barbecues to celebrate the persons who have died fighting for the country we call home, some people want to talk about politics and what is wrong with this country. I simply present the stories of 2 men whose lives have had an impact on [...]

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