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A Brief List Of Things I Am Doing Instead of Posting 2

Jun

1

2008

1. Killing fleas. 2. Washing all my bedding. 3. Working. 4. Itching. 5. Working. 6. Eating. 7. Itching some more. 8. Working some more. 9. Driving. 10. Killing a couple more fleas. 11. Applying calamine lotion. 12. Working. 13. Going to the gym. 14. Itching. 15. Wishing Chaplin were not so susceptible to fleas. 16. ...

The Best Six Bucks I’ve Spent in Some Time

May

30

2008

Strike Comme Ça, S’il Vous Plait

May

27

2008

Why can’t strikes here be like French strikes? They’re going to have a TV strike, but it’s been announced well in advance and is only lasting one day. I’d rather that sort of strike than the sort I fear we’re about to have. The sort where I look at my pile of old shoes and ...

Vacation, All I Ever Wanted

May

26

2008

Now that Memorial Day weekend has passed, can we please, please, please agree to abandon the term “Stay-cation”? The media have grown awfully fond of this term in the last few weeks, as a way to describe people who are putting off vacation plans and staying at home because it’s so ridiculously fucking expensive to ...

On Behalf of the Laker-Haters 1

May

25

2008

Be they basketball non-fans like myself or (shudder) Clippers fans, I would like to just say to all the asshat Laker fans whose chronic dickitude has become overwhelming during the playoffs this year: Ha-ha! Also, I hope you lose the next three straight, like you did in ’04 against the Pistons in the Finals. I ...

There Goes That Idea

May

24

2008

All the good ellipticals were taken at the gym this evening, so I elected to try doing some jogging on the treadmill to see if my idea to improve my gym triathalon time would work. I got about three steps and my ankle gave me a very decisive (and rather painful) verdict of “Fuck you, ...

Partly Cloudy With A Chance of DOOOOOM 1

May

22

2008

Today’s forecast was partly cloudy, 0% chance of rain, as it normally is between mid-March and late October in Southern California. I thought it was weird enough when I looked out the window around noon, and there was a freak rainstorm downtown with raindrops so large that I thought it was hailing. But out in ...

What Credit Crunch?

May

20

2008

I got a USAA checking account for their bad-ass Deposit@Home feature, where you scan in checks instead of mailing them in or having to go deposit them somewhere. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize you had to have a “Credit Product” (ie. car loan or credit card) to access this feature, so I had to sign up ...

Oh, Yeah… 2

May

18

2008

I suppose I should say something here before it starts, since I will likely be sucked into a black hole for a couple months once it does: I’ve got a new job starting Wednesday. I’m leaving the HBO pilot I’m on as a PA up in Santa Clarita to work on a Fox pilot as ...

Tri’ed and Failed

May

18

2008

Did another gym triathlon this morning, and instead of being able to at least make the same time, if not make up time, I actually did ten minutes worse, coming in at exactly 2 hours. I think almost all of that increase can be blamed on using a different type of elliptical machine. I’m debating ...