I read this on Butch Walker’s myspace blog. I don’t know where he got it, but he said it was written by David Eggars. It’s extremely long, but I think well worth the read. I found it inspiring and it expressed a lot of things I feel.
Finally getting around to doing this music meme from Annika’s blog.
Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Arrested Development is one of the best TV shows ever aired in the history of television. Consistently brilliant. It’s one of those shows that I kept hearing about over and over again until I finally broke down and started watching it from the beginning. I’m glad I did. Genius.
Stolen from Annika!
Instructions: Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three events, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
Events
Births
Death
Got this via email today, and I found it quite amusing. I will be adding these terms to my lexicon.
The Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this year’s winners. Read them carefully. Each is an artificial word with only one letter altered to form a real word. Some are terrifically innovative:
To anyone in L.A., you lucky people have the chance to go see the brilliant Eddie Izzard:
Eddie will be performing on Weds, March 29 to Saturday april 1 at 9pm(March 2nd – 5th) at:
The Coronet Theatre
366 N. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Tickets available starting Saturday, March 25 2006 at 12:00 noon PST.
TO BOOK CALL (US): 310.657.7377. NOW!
Secondly, if you really want something to puzzle your brain, check out this site. I’m totally addicted. this is not some simple internet game to pass the time. This takes serious brain work, detective skills, and thinking outside the box. In fact it takes thinking outside, inside, on top of, around, and next to the box. In fact you might need to break the box. I’m seriously addicted. At the time of this post I’m on level 11.
and the only prescription is more cowbell. Awesome.
If you don’t know what this is all about, then just go to Youtube and search for “more cowbell.” If it has Christopher Walken, Will Ferrell and cowbell, then you’ve found the right clip. An absolute classic.
Sadly, even though Saturday Night Live has had more exposure and free publicity than they’ve had in years from people posting popular and funny bits from the show, they’ve also been extremely aggressive in having unauthorized content removed from the internet due to copyright infringement.
I don’t usually post all these personality test type of things, but I stumbled upon this one recently (thanks, Beth!) that I thought nailed me pretty good. In only two questions. Crazy, scary accurate (with a dew exceptions as usual). This seems to be the consensus of almost everyone I know who took the test. Yes, I know it could just all be coincidence, standard disclaimer, bogus, blah, blah, blah. So, get to know me! Also see the link in Beth’s comment to a much more in depth description of my results.
Apparently I’m a 9 which means:
So my latest entry on the Austin Metroblog has apparently been dugg. If you don’t really know what that means, don’t feel bad. Mostly it means some people have thought the story was worth sharing and while others post their witty, insightful, literate criticism of the piece. The troll comments are so amusing, I’d like to take them and use them as quotes like books and movies do.
“d00dzorz,. that;z u3er 1aMe!” – Trolly McTrollkin, New York Times
“This guysis like suzh a nerdburger that he should like totally marry the comic book guy from teh Simsons” – Noah Socialskills, Mom’s basement
You have to expect that kind of thing any time anything is put on the Internet for mass consumption. All in all, I find it pretty cool that someone “dugg” me and many people seem to have appreciated the post.
Thanks to Annika for leading me to discover Metroblogging, I have now begun blogging for the Austin Metroblog. Here’s hoping I can keep the pace.