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Happy New Year everyone! We had a most excellent and relaxing time, wearing pajamas for about 24 hours straight. Good food and drink, very decadent all in all. On Friday night, we went to see the Disco Biscuits, a band that many Phish fans are now relying on to provide the live experience they crave. They were a lot of fun. The Postal Service is raising the price of stamps again, going into effect on Jan 7th. You can read more about it here. (Thanks Duane) Take a look at my nephew! And if you want more cute babies, go to Hi Baby! (Thanks Adam) My new favorite way to slack is to play InkLink at Shockwave.
We saw Doonie last night! It was great. We miss you, Mr. Doon. Good time. Doonie reccommends a photographer named Robert Parke Harrison, whose strange and wonderful images are in a new book, and also featured in a show here in NYC. These girls from Chatham, England look a lot like the girls I went to high school with on Long Island.(Thanks Beppa) About 4 years ago I heard that Quentin Tarantino was making a film called The Vega Brothers. A search revealed that there are still rumors around about this movie, which would star John Travolta as the Vincent Vega character from Pulp Fiction, and Michael Madsen as the Vic Vega character from Reservoir Dogs in a prequel-type movie.
Back from Xmas vacation. Syracuse had a ton of snow, and it was snowing the whole weekend. Very pretty. Santa was pretty good to us this year. We went to see a movie - Cast Away, with Tom Hanks, which we enjoyed. Had Duane starred in the movie, he would have taken the belt off the dead guy, but then the movie would have been called Cute Smartypants in Fiji. It's a boy! Gareth Timothy Roche was born at 8:09 am EST, 9 lb, 9 oz and 21 inches long! Congratulations to Rennie and Matthew, who are right now the most tired people in the whole world. Big baby with a head of dark hair! He looks like his mother, who is very tired after 3 hours of 10-minute long contractions. Yay! Just call me Auntie Brooke! We are heading up to Syracuse for Xmas, so this will be the last entry until Wednesday. Merry and happy! This great magazine, Slow Food, is dedicated to the enjoyment of eating real food. This article is very interesting - it describes how you can order spices, seeds, and food from American Indian tribes across the country, off their websites. Fascinating. Try them out: Hiking poles are good for you. Happy Winter Solstice, the shortest night of the whole year. And, of course, Happy Chanukah! You know how movies and television shows will feature phone numbers that always start with the digits 555? This site is compiling them. Totally useless, and mildly amusing. Feeling down during the holiday season? Bolster yourself by taking a look at this guy who is selling every possesion he has, often to the lowest bidder. Christmas ham or lox on a bagel? HalfJew! (thanks Kristen) This job I have leads me to research that is so boring it makes my eyes bleed. However, yesterday I found this pathetic list of the ways bankers relieve stress. Things like this make it almost worthwhile. Doonie's little brother Tom is making music these days - check it out. I don't watch football, but I thought this was a riot: the Encyclopedia Britannica explains the obscure allusions that Dennis Miller makes while commenting on the games. I want to work outside! I want to live in a commune! I'm just a big hippie. Let's make some people really mad: Late addition: today I got an email from Deb that contains the text of this web page on Michael Moore's site that deals with just how Bush became president. I forwarded it to everyone I know, and my grandfather wrote back the following:
"Michael Moore is nothing but a trouble maker!! I wish I did! I told him sending some money to the Sierra Club might help. Memo that Duane received at work today:
Hi all Duane tells me that Joanne still works there, but she just moved desks. (Thanks sweetie) Thanks go to Nuno and Rey for throwing a fantastic holiday party! Very much fun. Sorry we kind of ran out of there without saying goodnight, but Duane and Brian were falling asleep while standing up. We left at 4:20. A good time was had by all. Girls: do not go to Dr. Scott Postell at Long Island College Hospital. He's a jerk. If you need a friend, you should try Fred.
I found this from an old email: I usually don't encourage talk about television commercials, but this one just may be worth mentioning.(thanks Libby) Now that we have a man who wants to drill for more oil in Alaska for president, I urge you to join the environmental group of your choosing; perhaps the Sierra Club, or the Audobon, maybe the World Wildlife Fund, or the good old Alaska Conservation Foundation. I slept for 9 hours last night. Oh so good. I have decided that caffeine is pure evil. Last night, out to dinner with sister and father, I had a decaf cappucino after the meal. I'm not sure if they really gave a regular, or maybe it's just me, but I got 3 hours of sleep last night. Highbrow: A response to Nicholson Baker's essay about libraries destroying newspapers for no reason. Lowbrow: Create-A-Fart.(thanks Uncle Bob) End of tour words and photos by Mike. Wow! Treasure hunting using your GPS! It sounds like fun. The Most Famous Cinema Lego in the World! Lego versions of The Matrix and Monty Python's Holy Grail. There is also the Star Wars trilogy. The Find the Spam website has been around for a long time. I remember seeing it the first time I surfed the web. The Fluxus movement has it listed as a link, but I don't think Beck's grampa would think that it really works. This article and book about Yetties is already outdated - nobody is riding those Razor Scooters anymore. Bittersweet Motel will be playing in NYC again - January 30 through Feb 1, at this Jewish community center called Makor. Check the website for details. Hotmail is down! I can't look at my email. So annoying! Stupid Microsoft. I really need another web-based email thingy. It was 20 years ago today - John Lennon shot dead. Read what sad Julian has to say about it. Where should you travel to if you're a hippie. Here's a great portrait of George W. Take this quiz: Are the quotations from Al Gore or the Unabomber? I scored 50%. Pretty scary. Papal Indulgences, on sale! The Broome County Library is open, but not functional. So typical of Binghamton. Great site on the geology of the Grand Canyon. When in doubt, use baking soda. I got two turntables and a microphone. The folly of our culture sometimes leads people to do very bad things around the holidays. It may be hard to believe, but you can't deny these things, especially when there is proof. I heard a rumor that Doonie owns such proof, which actually does not surprise me all that much.(thanks Duane, ya big cutie) It's a shpedoinkle day! Especially for these people.(thanks Joshua) Perhaps the dumbest article I've ever read. And now, from Grampa Bernie:
"You said that you were looking for contributions for your FAVA BEAN??? I love my Grampa! Sorabji seems to be a guy who lives on the web. You can page him a random message if you want, or take a look at his receipts, just like Derek from yesterday, except it looks like he's taken the time to type them in. Anyway, there are 2 great things about his site - 1) the Punchline Server, which updates every 5 seconds with another punchline (I entered "No soap, radio!", "Because he didn't want to fall in to the hot cocoa!" "Nobody eats parsley." and "He really sits AROUND the house!"). 2) The Payphone Project, an enormous data warehouse of public telephone numbers. It is truly amazing. You decide if it has any purpose. (Thanks, Joshua)
I love Lynda Barry's comics. I also love Roz Chast, who does cartoons for the New Yorker, but I couldn't find great images of her stuff on the web. I should also point to this great Edward Gorey site, since his drawings are so strange and wonderful. He died earlier this year. Random weirdness: What did Derek buy at Wal-Mart? Two Brits walk around with disguises and props, trying to blend in. Happy December. I can't believe that the year 2000 is almost done. I can't believe that we're still finding red feathers in our apartment from the Halloween party (thanks Donna). I'm never going to eat fast food again. At least we now know it's real chicken.(thanks Randi) More on fast food: search for the fat/calorie content of those chicken nuggets. Pretty amazing. Continuing the motif: the funny and sick cartoon Red Meat now has a "build your own" page. That Bug-Eyed Earl has quite a following. |
