March 2009
35 posts
another conversation with hans
hans: dude. someone just blew my mind
hans: remember the runway that the indian airplane landed on?
hans: kate and sawyer made it.
hans: when they were prisoners at the others camp
hans: the were on that island
me: ugh
hans: this sint' one of those quarentine things is it?
hans: where everyone saw it but me?
me: yes dude
hans: eff you guys
Excerpt from 'Where the Wild Things Are' script
MAX:
There were some buildings…these huge buildings and they could walk. So they got up and they left the city. Then there were some vampires. The vampires wanted to make the buildings into vampires so they flew in and attacked them. They bit them. One of the vampires bit the tallest building but his fangs broke off. Then the rest of his teeth fell out. And he cried because he would never...
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Sam Amidon performs my favorite traditional folk song-reworking of his, 1842. And on my birthday, at that.
There are other musicians who perpetuate traditional folk songs (ie Will Oldham: Ohio River Boat Song) that were once only passed around in front porch circles and down through generations by the grandsons listening from the stoop, but none dedicate their entire talent to this purpose and...
Just the other night a hometown football game My wife and I ran into my old high school flame And as I introduced them the past came back to me And I couldn’t help but think of the way things used to be She was the one that I’d wanted for all times And each night I’d spend prayin’ that God would make her mine And if he’d only grant me this wish I wished back then...
savings in 2009
over-the-air HDTV vs cable HDTV: $0/mo vs $24/mo; $288/year
refinanced car loan: $165/mo vs $215/mo; $600/year
allstate vs esurance: $95/mo vs $190/mo; $1140/year
eating lunch at work (gas savings): $0/mo vs $12/mo; $144/year
eating lunch at work (food savings): $60/mo vs $120/mo; $720/year
that’s already $2,892 saved a year over what expenses i had just a few months...
Early November, 2007 - Wheel of Wendy’s: Me and Chris Olson funnin’ with the spin-the-wheel menu item chooser, which was apparently funded by Big Chili. Forgive the quality, this is from a Motorola phone.
Friday night physics.
Woman Calls 911 Over 'McNugget Emergency' →
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — A woman in Fort Pierce, Fla., called 911 three times to report an emergency after McDonald’s had run out of McNuggets, according to a police report.
Latreasa Goodman, 27, was issued a written notice to appear in court for misusing the 911 emergency communications system, West Palm Beach television station WPBF reported.
According to the report, Goodman called...
Life would be better if...
You are a magician! SO KOOL!!
Thanks!!!!
…if I got more responses to emails like this at work.
One way to think of the current economic contraction is that we’re all “giving...
– John W. Schoen, CNBC