December 2007
83 posts
Current Tokyo fashion meter: post-pre-post-pre-post apocalyptic.
Waking up after a big night out and little rest, it looks like 2 pigeons got divorced on my head. Luckily that is exactly the current style.
You don’t need a car, the bars are open until 5 AM, and bowel regularity is a favorite conversation topic. Why the fuck do I not live here?
November 2007
69 posts
“I’m all, “Where’s your Sociology textbook and Boone’s...”
– John Moe : Meeting My Son at The Quad Before the Kegger
Critical Japan trip miscalculation: after 2 of 6 days, all of my go-to clothes reek of smoke. Only decent solution: take up smoking again.
Thumbs up to the Cerulean Tower Shibuya hotel. Although with this heated bidet, I don’t know how they expect me to ever leave my room.
I thought my hotel neighbors were playing awesome music all night long; then I realized the sound was coming from the iPod in my jacket.
Apparently I had planned to read 2 novels, prepare 3 presentations, watch 8 TV shows, and sleep for 4 hours on my flight to Tokyo today.
I wonder how residents of Nuuk, Greenland feel when their favorite American sitcoms joke about “flyover states”.
B-Minus Banana Republic Energy Drinks: PowerPointPunch, It’s Pronounced “Cocky”, MedioXXXre.
My son begins all of his sentences with “Actually Sometimes”. Not sure if he’s learning grammar or quoting an obscure 80’s band.
Do goths love gothic fonts? If so, they sell a lot of black nail polish in Jalisco, Mexico.
Comments Enabled (Downhill from Here)
This girl’s got comments now. (Yes, I think of this ha’blog as a feminine entity, like a sweet, sound ship that guides me through the internet’s choppy froth of bullshit and unexpected images of chunky ladies fisting sea lions.) Thanks Herb and the ‘Sandwich for the nudge, and to Nick for doing the disqus thing so I could copy you.
Had an idea for the world’s most accurate pedometer. Only downside: you would have to always wear corduroy.
As part of a peace accord brokered late last night, I got to sleep in, but that means a family trip to Quilt Emporium. I suck at negotiating.
My wife handles a Pack-n-Play like an Eagle Scout pitches a pup tent.
Visiting the place, I can see why they named a soap opera “Santa Barbara”. I can also see why they cancelled it.
“It’s like he snorted a bunch of pulped Christmas cards and fragments of them...”
– Jonathan Coulton : Robert Redford Is Not a Native Speaker of English
WatchEveryone and their grandma-with-a-gun has seen this, I’m sure, but not me until just now. This would be the montage they would play at the internet’s funeral, and everybody would cry. JC’s also got a nice Q&A in the Freakonomics NYT blog.
I spend half of my time angry at the infantilization of our culture, the other half trying to beat Guitar Hero II on Hard.
KSTDT #2
Me: I'm cold because I have no pants.
Sen: I'm hot because I have yes pants.
When did The New Yorker start arriving daily?
“This was another fake commercial - for “Almost Pizza” — it looks...”
– Eat the Press has a substantial sum-up of the UCB SNL show.
Wow. Combover faux-hawk. I’ve never seen so much desperation on one scalp.
The Ten Videos to Change How You View the World →
Solid selection of TED faves.
The (low) value of the dollar hits home in the chintzy glint of the new presidential $1 coins. They look like Skee-Ball tokens.
You have superpowers but a tiny penis. Don the revealing unitard or shun your gifts? “Scruples: Simpson Expansion Pack”, drops 2008.
Best. Onion Title. Ever. →
scottsimpson: Los Altos Vignette #312: Peet’s crew struggles to agree on pricing for “a shot and a half” of espresso with a lady who only has a $100 bill.
scottsimpson: No thanks, hockey. I just can’t get behind a sport where the “crease” plays such a pivotal role.
scottsimpson: Story time at the library rudely interrupted by my son’s screamed version of Warrant’s “Cherry Pie”.
scottsimpson: Good & Plenty, if you were a lady your name would be Ruth, and I would love your beehive hairdo.
scottsimpson: In that truck driver’s defense, Rackspace _was_ having sex with his wife.
scottsimpson: The purple shirt looked bold-but-cool in the store. Now, at work, it just looks … bold.
men who look like old lesbians →
I only went five pages in, but I have to assume Paul McCartney and Bruce Jenner are deeper in there somewhere. (via)
scottsimpson: “Live Concerts from All Songs Considered”: new NPR podcast with tons of great live shows (indie focus): http://urltea.com/22uu?iTunes
scottsimpson: I wonder how many times a day the universe is saved by video game players around the world.
scottsimpson: I’m an unashamed proponent of reading in the bathroom. However, I would agree that I probably just went too far with that atlas.
SNL iPhone Sketch that Never Aired →
scottsimpson: Screw 96-roll megapacks: for a monthly subscription fee, Costco should run a infinite roll of toilet paper from their warehouse to me.