No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
- Michel de Montaigne

My thinking expression.

My thinking expression.

You can't have much more fun than that.

You can't have much more fun than that.

Parking lot love

Parking lot love

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My brain feels like this vibrating, spinning, blinking thing right now. I think I just heard it scream.

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.
- Marilyn Manson

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
- Ernest Hemingway

And I ruuuuun.

OK, I am not nearly as out of shape as I thought. I ran 3.2 miles - a fricken 5k tonight! AND SURVIVED. Sure I didn't do it real fast - I averaged a little under 5 miles an hour for about 40 minutes. I can't be sure about the exact numbers because 1.6 miles in some chick dropped a basketball that jammed under the back of the treadmill. I freaked out for a second thinking it was about to explode, not knowing that she had done that behind me. Huzzah!

Reel Big Fish - Whatever their new album is called.

So, saw the new RBF album when I was shopping down in Quincy - couldn't pass it up at $10. Should've passed it up at $10. Their absolute best bang for the buck is still their double live CD. This one is just a batch of uninspired covers. Which is odd because they do some of the most inspired covers I've ever heard. Sadness..

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Raising Sand

I really like this album, but I'm conflicted on it all being covers. I have a special love for covers, but should they win a Grammy for album of the year?

Such a haunted and ethereal album for most of the tracks. It's like what would waft into the room from the other plane during a seance. The upbeat tracks are splendid.

There's just something that grabs me about the line "Please read the letter that I wrote".

Comic media and wasting time on Netflix

So I've started making my way through The Tick live action series streaming on Netflix. I'll have to pace myself since there are only nine episodes.. It was the series that had to be made, if only because it would be criminal for Patrick Warburton to die without being the character he was born to play. The show isn't anything that special - I don't picture a Flaming Carrot or Mystery Men TV show being very distinguishable from this. However, Bat Manuel was ticking off some nerd-sense as I was watching. Turns out the same actor is the mayor in the 180 degrees different Dark Knight that you may have heard of. I can't imagine the filming of that movie going by without somebody asking him to do his Bat Manuel role. I would kill for the outtakes from that.

Did you know?

Quincy, IL has more comic shops than book stores.

To do tonight.

Work out.
Laundry.
Respond to people on Facebook.
Output.
Have Netflix streaming horrible movies the whole time.

Brainstorming a song - work in progress.

Don Draper, I Love You

(backup singers repeating title of song to counterpoint lyrics through)
Don Draper, Don Draper, you beautiful man.
Smoke like a chimney, you sexist dog.
It’s perfectly normal to live in that fog!
Life in the 60s so carefree and fun!
Madison Avenue is the ride that you’re on!
“Will I sleep with a jew?” is the question for you.
Yeah, nail that groovy hipster!
Betty needs some lovin’ too.
(I don’t want to give you a bad rap, but I hope alcohol is a cure for the clap.)
Is there space in your world for me?
Would you pay me off to flee?
JFK, Nixon? Given my druthers I’d pick Tricky Dick over all the others.

The start of a song for the future - futurist folk music.

Everything is Super Green

Science solved our problems.

Hunger is no more.

The net has caught our minds.

So why are we so bored?

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
- Hesketh Pearson

...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I love the Wikipedia 'Random article' button.

Because I never would have looked this up.

Vanity post.

So the Y was just crazy last night and I wasn't going to be able to get my preferred elliptical in any reasonable amount of time. So, against my own judgement I hit up one of the treadmills. It may not sound like much, but I was able to run 2 miles again. There must be something different between the Oak Park and Indianapolis machines - whenever I checked my heart rate in Oak Park I didn't hit more than 155 or so. Down in Indy it was telling me I was up at 180. BIG DIFFERENCE!

Also, I think I'm successfully making a habit of 30 pushups, 50 situps every morning and evening. There's something that feels fundamentally fulfilling about being able to do that consistently. Ideally I'll be pushing those numbers up over time.

Faith No More - NESTLES

Creative pustule nearing bursting stage.

Given more time to myself, I'm more and more gravitating towards my typewriter and seeing what I can bang out there. Surely I can be creative more than 140 characters at a time.

I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
- Jack Handey

In a mad world only the mad are sane.
- Akira Kurosawa

If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.
- Emerson Pugh

This has been a preparedness drill.

I didn't watch the game last night. I was on the road for the first half, and I just wanted to redo that but with more running drivers off the road for the second half. However, I flipped over just in time for The Office opening after the post-game.

That 2 or 3 minutes was some of the best time I've ever had watching TV. I can only imagine how much better it would have been if I had just had an hours long drinking session during the game.

For your own sake, please consult hulu.com and watch the opening.

Then proceed to not talk to me about the rest of the episode, because I went to bed.