Wow
Ilove LOST. I won’t spoil it for those who haven’t seen tonight’s episode but WOW. Wow. This show is everything television should be. Great story. Great acting. The right amount of mystery and suspense and humor and all the sad tender moments that bring a tear to your eye. Wow. I hope this writer’s strike ...
Slow Food
Keri and I have been getting into the Slow Food movement as part our lifestyle change. Tonight’s dinner and dessert are good examples of what you get when you skip the fast food and cook the slow food yourself. The salad is made of fresh romaine, sliced radish, diced red onion, chopped locally grown mcintosh ...
the secret
If you haven’t seen The Secret yet then you are missing out. I’ve seen it at least 20 times already. If you have seen it and don’t “get” it, I urge you to open your mind to what the message is. Ignore some of the campiness of the film and try out what it’s all ...
Less than a year to go!
Tonight, Bush gave his last State of the Union address. Yahoo! I can’t wait until this idiot is gone from office. I didn’t even bother to watch the speech this year since we all know it’s just the same old same old “the state of our Union is strong” crap. What country is he referring ...
LOST RETURNS!!!!!!!!
It has been a long long long 8 months waiting for my favorite show to come back but it is finally here! Lost returns this Thursday night at 9 on ABC. Watch it! It’ll be bittersweet tho, only 8 episodes for the season with this damn writer’s strike still going. Come on studios! Pay the ...
BorbaTix and Pawsox
Three cheers for John Borba! John is our good friend and old next-door neighbor from Snug Harbor in Monterey. He’s coming to visit us this spring and has sprung for tickets to a Pawtucket Red Sox baseball game! It will be our first time watching our home team, the PawSox, play from McCoy Stadium in ...
Thoughts Becoming Things
Recently I wrote an entry, Futurespeak, which discussed how ideas and thoughts become things. Specifically, I used some science fiction and fact to illustrate the point. Today, I came across this news story here (edit: article removed from web).
Basically, scientists have been able to completely create artificial bacteria DNA. “Eh. So What?” you might ask. ...
The Path to Peace is Non-violence
We live in a diverse world that cannot be viewed in narrow-minded black and white terms like Good or Evil, Right or Wrong. To do so is to only see the extreme in every situation and contrary to the definition of humanity. We are all ONE people and thus we are all of these ...
Decisions decisions
I went to the library today intending to pick up another Stephen King book but then I thought, “Well, I’ve already read 2 of his books recently…” so I started browsing and picked up a book by Haruki Murakami that looked good and I hadn’t read. He’s a great author to check out by the ...
Ahem ahem…
News on the Pawtucket front, I spent the day cleaning and working on web stuff. I’m looking forward to tomorrow when we hit the gym again and I’ll pick up another book to read at the library. Currently rereading Stephen King’s On Writing which is a memoir/writing how-to of sorts full of amusing anecdotes and ...
Monkey Chant
Here’s a live performance of Glenn Kotche’s Monkey Chant. For those of you who don’t know, Glenn Kotche is the drummer for the band Wilco. When he isn’t touring with the band he’s out opening for other bands and playing these crazy cool percussion pieces. Keri and I were fortunate enough to see him open ...
Poem
Del Monte Blues
A napkin-noted deluge of thoughtjust smothered my brainwith fond (and not so fond) memoriesof being drunk and running the drunken hallwayswhile alarms rang in the elevatorand our arms, loaded with stolen silverware and ashtrays,slam bang the do-not-disturb doors
we take the salt-n-pepper shakerswe jump the balconiesand I am the fool who foolseveryone looks my ...
An excerpt….
CHICO BOUND LOOKIN FOR THE ZZ ZAK MO FRESH All this happened way back when I was still a drummer in a band (4 or 5 years ago). Band practice ended as usual around 930 pm after some 3 hours or so of loud pounding heavy metal/jazz/rock/alternative music pumped out by the one and only ...