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The Procrastination Conundrum

Oct

16

2009

I have found that the quickest way to get me to do something I’ve wanted to do but have been putting off for a while is to give me something else that I absolutely have to do, but I really don’t want to do. Example: I’ve been meaning to organize, reduce, and clean up my ...

It Never Rains In Southern California

Oct

15

2009

But when it does, Conan O’Brien shows a pretty close approximation of what happens next: Hat tip: LAist.

Along My Bike Ride Today

Oct

11

2009

I saw it in the distance. And I thought,”What the fuck is that sitting on the sand? It looks like a boat. It…is a boat…”: Okay, so it’s a boat just sitting in the middle of the sand on the middle of a very busy beach. I have a few questions. 1. How exactly did ...

Clown’ll Eat Me

Oct

9

2009

I’ve been really tired all week, but somehow I’m still managing to stay up until 2 or 3am. Chaplin seems to be biologically programmed to wake up at about 8am and knock shit over until I drag myself out of bed, so things are not going to be fun until I can convince my body ...

The Value Of A Newspaper These Days

Oct

7

2009

The LA Dodgers are playing the St. Louis Cardinals in the baseball playoffs right now, and as per usual, the mayor of St. Louis and the mayor of LA are making the traditional Stupid Food bets. There are two twists to this one: First, the bets are, of course, occurring on Twitter – Villaraigosa‘s items ...

When Pet Owners Get Cameraphones

Oct

4

2009

We use them to annoy the living shit out of our pets by taking 8 bajillion pictures of them, often about three inches from their little faces: A few new shots of Chaplin are up at Flickr.

A Handy Time-Saver

Sep

29

2009

Click this link to the Air Quality map for the greater Los Angeles area. Hover over zone 2, Northwest Coastal L.A. County. If the AQI Value is anywhere over 50 (yellow), that’s bad, and I am probably cranky and complaining a bit about my athsma, but mostly just being bored and unemployed and watching too ...

D.C. Photography

Sep

28

2009

Photos from my trip to D.C. last week are finally up on Flickr, divided into two sets, and thus two slideshows for your time-killing and/or general perusal. My set of wandering around D.C. with Jill, with quite a bit of stuff from my trip to the Air and Space Museum: Get the flash player here: ...

To The Gentleman In The Vehicle Next To Mine As I Was Departing The Bar This Evening 1

Sep

27

2009

You’d think someone who does enough cocaine that they’ve bothered to purchase a coke spoon would realize that turning the overhead light off in their busted-ass Benz while they’re snorting a giant pile of cocaine would probably be a wise idea. Or perhaps you’re just doing so much coke that you really don’t care who ...

Yep, Still Unemployed

Sep

26

2009

Another pair of unemployment funnies around the internets for your time-killing pleasure. From Indexed: From Garfield Minus Garfield: