i think this picture says it all…
guess which one is mine and which one is robojoe’s? (hint: his looks better.)
October 31st, 2006
happy halloween!
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October 30th, 2006
saxondale in america!
it’s true! saxondale’s finally made it to america! but i didn’t like this part of the article:
He’s a corny geezer, and she’s wearing enough lip liner to sketch a portrait, and their language is from a teenager’s back seat, but the heart still swelled a size when the couple shared a trembling stare after sharing that affirmation. NBC—which, happily for critics, less so for GE shareholders, is lately desperate enough to try anything—just made a deal to bring an Americanized version of Saxondale to the air, a la The Office. And if the show’s warmth—its glee in combining the silly and the sympathetic—survives the trip across the Atlantic, that would rock my world, too.
i don’t want an american saxondale, i’d just like another series. thank you very much.
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October 30th, 2006
ghost!
it’s halloween! well, almost. robojoe and i decorated the front of our housewith a dozen little ghosts. this one’s a little funny looking.
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October 30th, 2006
smashing
this weekend was simply smashing. i got all of my homework done, raised some money for kalx and was social for an evening. i deserve an award.
the highlights must have been the clarendon hills reunion (see the picture) and the jack london squares reunion. all i can say is finally! the lowlights? anything with thee kendrak attack. honestly, i don’t take it seriously enough and it’s clear that most people don’t like it. i do like playing music and writing songs, i’m just not confident enough to do the solo thing, nor am i talented enough. i admit, this is half-hearted fishing for compliments, but i know that it won’t really matter. despite being a crowd of people i know, the throwing was more aggressive than normal. i had at least four hard shorts to the head, which still hurt a few days later. i don’t think elbert knew what he was getting into when he agreed to drum for me. i think i’m going to effectively kill tka in december at the next doughnut party/maude’s first birthday party. it’s time to think about something more serious or just give up this music thing all together. for the three or four people who actually liked my music, i’m sorry that i’m packing it in. for everybody else, you win!
other than that, i was a little upset that we never had the moped v. mini-bike race, but watching people trying to start the moped was enough entertainment.
as for kalx… thank god the fundraiser’s over!
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October 27th, 2006
free advice no.45
sorry for being late on the free advice again. my life is a little too hectic to tie the free advice down to a single day. but today, with some diving inspiration, here is your advice folks. let’s play a round of tennis!
Dear [Kendra],
I had a one-night stand with my ex. I took Plan B, life carried on as normal, I told my husband what had happened. It was tough but we got through it.
That month I skipped my period. I went for a lot of early scans, which date the embryo to the day. The dates and the fact I took Plan B made me as sure as I could be that the pregnancy was a result of my husband rather than my ex. I lied about the dates, though I had confessed to cheating. We decided to continue the pregnancy.
Then we found out, at 20 weeks pregnant, that the baby has club-feet and dislocated hips. My ex was born with these conditions and there is an extremely strong genetic link. There is no history of either of these conditions in my or my husband’s family.
So the baby is probably my ex’s. My husband doesn’t know that my ex had these conditions, and it’s unlikely (though possible) he will find out. Finding out the baby is not his will destroy our relationship — which was floundering at the time I conceived, but during the pregnancy has become an incredible, strong unit. Not a unit that could withstand being founded on a lie, though.
The baby is due in a week. I don’t know what to do. Have a DNA test done and find out for sure? Never mention it and hope the baby doesn’t look too obviously like my ex? I can’t imagine spending my life with my husband raising a child who isn’t his and never telling him — but I can’t imagine raising the child on my own either, and I am pretty sure that’s how it’d end up. I don’t want my husband to leave me.
My ex is now happy with someone else and has made it clear he’d rather forget we ever had a relationship, let alone the interactions we did earlier this year.
Facing a Big Choice
dear fabc,
wow. you’ve worked yourself into a huge mess that must have taken lots of effort. kudos to you for that.
first off, looking on the wikipedia entry on club feet doesn’t prove your ex is the baby daddy. it could just be irony, though not very funny. the only real proof that the baby isn’t your husband’s is a DNA test to prove paternity. should you do that? i think it’s largely up to your husband after you tell him about your doubts.
get that? you need to tell him. it won’t be easy and will probably suck, but alas… you need to do it. own up to fucking up. i’d be a little suprised if your husband doesn’t already has suspicions of his own and it’s insulting to him to act like everything’s peachey. almost as insulting as it was to sleep with your ex!
also, don’t act like this pregnancy has fixed your marriage and made it solid as a rock. it was floundering, you cheated (without protection?!?!), confessed, got pregnant, and are now as good as you can be? give me a break. it sounds like just another recipe for a bitter divorce. is it fair for the kid? no. is it fair for your husband? no. is it fair for you? actually, yes it is. you created this mess. i know it’s harsh, but you need a kick in the ass to get going. your ex has moved on and is happy? good for him if it’s not his kid.
you’re about to be a parent. grow up. and treat your husband with some respect.
i hope this helps.
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October 26th, 2006
running on spot
i’m pretty sure i mentioned this somewhere else before, but the best song to walk around to is the jam’s “running on spot“. it’s not their best song to be honest, but it’s great to walk around to. (as is “boy about town”, obviously.)
here’s a video of the jam performing it live on danish tv. it’s cracking good.
oh, and speaking of weller-when-he-was-good, here’s the video for style council’s “solid bond in your heart”, which is probably my favourite style council song. note- style council’s drummer steve white is the brother of former oasis drummer alan white. i had a dream about going out for pizza with alan (to roundtable!) and telling him i thought he was allright and we could be friends despite being in oasis when i was 16. here’s a video of paul weller playing “carnation” with oasis. white left oasis because he wanted to figure out his love life and was replaced by zak starkey. zak starkey is in every single british band running on fumes. the who, ahem. did you know andy bell from ride is also in oasis? hmm… liam gallagher is still a nipple. and paul weller isn’t as cool as he was in 1982.
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October 26th, 2006
stuck in my head
just now, walking down the hall, i started singing ye olde clarendon hills song “you & i”. why? i have no idea, but i do. i miss that band…
speaking of which… thee kendrak attack is resurfacing this weekend at the clubhouse in emeryville. i need a costume idea, and fast. i also need to get more candy to throw/be thrown and come up with a birthday suprise. so many things to do.
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October 25th, 2006
boomers waxing on their ipods…
slate has a piece today about how the ipod changed everything, because life without it sucked. actually it didn’t because the walkman was around, and people had portable cd players, but they’re not cool like the ipod. the article mentions steven levy’s book about the ipod, the perfect thing. michael agger’s critique brings up the baby boom element. they’re obnoxious as ever:
Levy, a senior editor at Newsweek, is a prime example of the boomers who think the iPod is revolutionary. But really, they’re grateful, because it’s made them feel cool again. As the first generation to embrace rock, Levy’s cohort faced a musical conundrum as they aged: Do we graduate to classical music or keep listening to the Doors? Both choices have their downsides, but the iPod provided a third way out. Under the guise of converting CDs to MP3s, you could plausibly dig out your copy of Trust and discuss Elvis Costello around the office. The adult engaging in such behavior wasn’t doing something as juvenile as listening to the music of his salad days; rather, he or she (but mostly he) was getting hip to the white-ear-budded technological wave. From there, it was only a short step to listening to the Arcade Fire.
it’s not just boomers. it’s all the indie rock kids who don’t give two shits about the music, but rather like the sound of their own poetic waxing on indie music. it’s just another form vocal diarrhoea. i should write a review about defiance ohio’s new album with an excess of adjectives, but i can’t be arsed. it’s more fun to listen to the music and moan about pretentious people.
hmm, maybe i should get back to my bread and butter so to speak. i’ve been trying not to be so bitter about everything, but it’s better to put it here than to spew it at robojoe and maude.
Technorati Tags: slate, ipod, steven levy, pretentious, baby boomers, music
October 25th, 2006
no point
i just stabbed myself pretty handily with a needle and it hurt like hell. some blood, though thankfully not on the book i was sewing. just on my cutting mat. don’t worry, the exacto knife was unharmed.
what’s the point? i’d have to say there isn’t any. i’m just trying to not drop off the bloggy-face. the problem is i’m tired and worn out. is this mild depression? maybe. is it worth blogging about? surely not.
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October 23rd, 2006
fight for the kid!
i know it’s never a good idea to read berkeley daily planet, but here’s christian “the kid” pecaut’s mayoral candidate statement from today’s paper is a good read. he’s crazy. one politically active berkeley citizen once described him as needing an editor, and it’s true. here are some select excerpts:
Landlords: Remorseless, lying, blood-sucking parasites. More property, more vicious. Give back every dollar stolen from the tenants, immediately, in cash. Rent is Theft.
Bates: That ghoulish “smile” betrays your duplicity. Giggles like an idiotic school boy when he can’t lie his way out of responsibility. City Manager Phil Kamlarz does the same when caught ripping off the public and lying about it. Real estate profiteering is payoff to Tom and his BCA cohorts for 34 years of fucking Berkeley over.
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UC Berkeley: 90% of the students are conniving cruel imbeciles. Spoor of a big ascendant nazi-bourgeiosie. Extermination disease programs called “cancer research” and “synthetic biology”. Save Darfur campaign is fake bred there: China’s oil supplies are the real target.
Environmentalism: Earth Day inaugurated by Richard Nixon to celebrate Laos and Cambodia burning. Lenin’s birthday same day. COINTELPRO Jackpot! 30+ Years Strong. Enshrined mechanically here in Berkeley with the solar powered parking ticket dispenser.
Diversity: Public Works Director Claudette Ford was hired because she was black, female, and obedient to the shadow appropriations scam. Anyone who criticizes her controller’s malfeasance is racist! Same with Taj, the City Manager’s anti-democracy stooge who covers up for the Ashby Takeover Force and the BHA racket.
Police: A blunt spoon gouge of cruelty, incompetence, arrogance, and systemic theft-punishment, with growing slush funds from the drug trade and nouveau Gestapo. Stacked wih torturers and murderers trained in Iraq. 5%+ pay increase every year for 5 years = $80,000 starting salary.
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Anti-War: Every single opposition group, without exception, is controlled by the US Military and their paramilitary/propogandist thugs. Directly in the case of ANSWER and World Can’t Wait. Everyone else indirectly through uncritical acceptance of official counter-intelligence propoganda. Besides the spontaneous protests in 2003, there has been zero genuine organized resistance to the war in the United States. Zero. Lockdown.
Progressive Convention: Didn’t attend because I already exposed the whole operation as illegitimate in my last commentary, “I Will Put an End to Fake Democracy in Berkeley”. No one dared or bothered acknowledge or respond. Everyone went to the forum. No reporter or anyone else bothered to remember or care. Why attend?
there’s way too much to actually quote, so i suggest you read it.
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October 21st, 2006
s-a-t-u-r-d-a-y night!
keep on rocking on saturday night, saturday night…
but not me! i had to skip c-leb/dr bronner/lebron salon’s birthday party to stay home and do homework. doesn’t that suck? both she and peppy called bullshit on that, which is true i suppose, but this week sucked. i had my first essay due last night and i homework assignment which i got an extension for. it’s due tomorrow, but i’ll be living at kalx pretty much all day, so… i need to do as much as i can now, so i can sleep loads and get up and have an awesome awesome show for the fundraiser tomorrow. goooo kalx!
i know it’s my fault that i’m this busy, and i’m not looking for pitty or anything like that, but i don’t like feeling guilty. i pretty much have to work full time to support myself and go to school full time. it’s not completely out of the norm, but i guess it is for my social circle. i better get my act together this week because thee kendrak attack is playing a party a week from tonight for lbz/elbert’s big 3-0. yeah, kiddies! don’t miss out!
the sad thing is my new ds lite is sitting on a table, all charged up, and i’m not playing it because i want to be responsible and do my homework. boo. i am listening to the who it’s hard, perhaps their worst, no, second worst album. (face dances some how edges it out for the worst.) i forgot that i had this in digital form, but i must say… i like it. it shames me, but i do. i also like the new who song “real good looking boy”. i liked it before i started hearing it before every single a’s game when they show the video of how awesome the a’s have been throughout history.
ok, time to kick lexis nexis’ ass and then i can get my farm on.
Technorati Tags: kalx, homework, library science, nintendo, the who
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October 20th, 2006
kids these days…
robojoe’s new favourite show isn’t something cool like heroes, instead he’s hooked on wonder pets. it’s a guinea pig, turtle, and duckling who go around singing and helping other living things. here’s an example where they help a puppy pee outside. they also rap. what’s gonna work? team work! don’t laugh, this is sewious[sic].
also, on the ‘tube, are kids singing the theme song. that one is cute. this one is great for the expression of the baby on the table. allright, off to feed my wonderpet.
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October 19th, 2006
sturrock sacked!
sheffield wednesday manager paul sturrock has been sacked!!!! all i can say if finally! if i though the a’s needed to get rid of macha, which they did, the owls definitely should have sacked sturrock. it might be a bit early, but the owls have been shit all season. they’ve only won one game! argh!!!!
hopefully things will be better come 2007/
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October 18th, 2006
music on the brain
i’ve got music on the brain, like normal, but i figured i’d spread the joy. taking a cue from the zenfopro, here’s something to dance to… not really.
- “moskau” – dchinghis khan yeah, it’s the best mongolian/german schlager-disco group from the 1970s. i know it’s pure kitsch, but i still bop to this song.
- “sugar baby love” – the rubettes one of my co-workers recommended the film breakfast on pluto and commented on how he hated this song when it was new in the 70s, but liked it in the film. well, i bet i would have found it obnoxious then, but i really like it now. it’s pretty bubble gum.
- “chewy chewy” – ohio express speaking of bubblegum… this song is great. it might be one of the best songs of the whole genre of music, which i’m going to say will be big in 2007.
- “(i’m) stranded” – the saints one of the classic songs to come out of the late 70s punk movement. totally recognizable, but not as obvious as…
- “1 2 x u” – wire which is still a damn good song, even if everybody who likes all the hip cmj bands will play this on kalx. which reminds me, i should play it at the fundraiser.
- “sign of the times” – petula clark my old boss always referred to petula clark as [petSula]. he loved it any time i’d play her here. i like her a lot, and this song is good despite being in a commercial.
- “she keeps me humble” – a house the same co-worker who recommended breakfast on pluto recommended a house. they were an irish band from the 90s that were eclipsed by the whole britpop thing. shame too, since they were good.
- “we’re hot looking” – the ne’er do wells what would this list be without a denery/imlay band? nothing. this is one of my all time favourites, but aren’t they all?
- “spindle” – plow united a great song from a forgotten punk band from philadelphia. a shout out to my school i guess.
- “wooden bullets” – this is my fist off of their new album, i like this song a lot. you should get it from little type.
- “take me back to tulsa” – bob wills and the texas playboys. western swing is one of those things i hated as a kid but like as an adult. i can’t help but smile when i listen to bob wills.
sorry, this list is pretty crappy.
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