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Gee, I Wish I Could Bike To Work

Jun

18

2008

I bought my first $50 tank of gas tonight. $50.45 for 10.970 gallons. For those lazy at math, that’s $4.59 a gallon. I fear later this summer as gas continues to spiral up, my credit card is just going to melt one day.

It’s Time For Another Good Idea, Bad Idea

Jun

18

2008

Courtesy of the Tenant Services folks in the building where our Production Office is located: Good Idea: Throwing a picnic for the tenants to kick off the summer and show your appreciation of their business. Bad Idea: Serving Chili at the picnic, to a building full of people whose office windows do not open. I’m ...

The Onion Strikes Again

Jun

17

2008

Being friends with mostly theater geeks in High School, I rather enjoyed this (particularly the last line about the location of the Technical awards): High School Tony Awards Honor Nation’s Biggest Drama Club Nerds

To Keep You Entertained While I Work Another Six Day Week

Jun

16

2008

Please enjoy these photos of my father and stepmother’s tour of the “Five ‘Stans”: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. Dad’s still figuring out how Flickr works, so his captions (which contain a fair bit of historical context for what you’re looking at) are actually posted as comments. Although some of the comments, like this ...

California Celebrates Naked Commercialism

Jun

16

2008

In my inbox this morning, on the morning of the first gay marriages in California, I found the following item from Chemistry.com, a spinoff of Match.com: Yes, that’s right. Chemistry has decided that the best way to market themselves to their generally liberal and potentially queer audience is to nakedly commercialize one of the most ...

Crickets

Jun

14

2008

Ah, the dulcet tones of the Production Office when there’s a 10am call and a projected exceedingly late wrap – The fridge sadly cranking along, two keyboards clacking away as two sets of hands type bored IMs to friends lucky enough to not be stuck at work at almost 11pm on a Saturday night. You’ll ...

Signs You Have Lost Your Damn Mind

Jun

10

2008

You work a fourteen-and-a-half hour day and as you blearily walk to you car, you think, “Man, that could have been a LOT worse.”

Weekend Wrap-Up 3

Jun

9

2008

I hopped the redeye to Cape Cod Friday night, and watched some Jons get married on Saturday. It was wonderful in so many ways. The place Joel found us (thanks, Joel!) was fantastic, right on the water looking out into Nantucket Sound. It was a really gorgeous place to stay, it was incredibly fun to ...

Thoughts That Cross My Mind

Jun

2

2008

After blotting calamine lotion on my ridiculous number of flea bites, leaving a pattern of dark pink spots on pasty white skin: “God, I look like a gay leopard.”

Well Done, L.A. Times

Jun

2

2008

They have located the most innocuous-looking lesbians in America for their story about how same-sex marriage will be a huge economic boon to California. I am amused at how much their dog looks like an angry, surly old man, though. “Goddamn kids and their gay weddings. Now they’re going to spend their lives looking at ...