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I just finished watching the Alex Rodriguez press conference. It's a sad, sad thing to have a baseball player you've loved since long before he was on your favorite team let you down so thoroughly.
On to better things...
My brother and his friend Dave showed up out of nowhere on Friday night to spend the long weekend in Jersey. I was checking my email and started hearing this tapping on the window next to me, but, because the patio light was off and I only had a small desk light on, I couldn't see anyone and got freaked out. Turns out it was Din! My mom had just gone to bed, but, needless to say, she ran right downstairs to greet them.
Anyway, it was good to have Brendan back for a bit, and his friend Dave was a cool guy. I drove them up to Woodbridge (about 40 minutes from us) this morning at 3AM so they could meet up with their other Marine buddies to drive back to North Carolina. Their friends were late, and I didn't get to sleep until 5:30 this morning, so, seeing as I woke up at 10:30, I'm pretty out of it today. But I was happy to do it. :)
They're playing The Adventures of Robin Hood for free in a few weeks at one of the theaters in Red Bank. I'm so excited to see that on the BIG SCREEN.
I started reading this most fucked up book the other day: I'm about halfway through and so far the main character has:
~Moved to the rotting cesspool of 1970s New York City from London.
~Taken up with a 17-year-old go-go dancer, gotten her pregnant, and forced her to get a backroom abortion, which resulted in first her hemorrhaging from her uterus and then sterilization.
~Ditched said girl to wander around the rest of the U.S.
~Gotten kidnapped by a group of militant feminists in the middle of the desert, who gave him a forced sex change and planned to implant him with his own semen in the hopes of conceiving the True Messiah.
~Escaped said feminists before implantation, only to be kidnapped by a crazy one-eyed, one-legged "poet" who is hunkering down in a filthy compound to weather Armageddon. He has 7 "wives" he has brainwashed into believing his semen cures them of their evil womenness. He pathologically hates lesbians and thinks a Greta Garbo-type actress made him sterile; he spends nights flying with his "wives" in a helicopter looking for said former movie star so he can kill/rape her.
And that's in just over 100 pages...O_o
I finally named my iPod: Autolycus, in honor of the peddler/singer/highway trickster from The Winter's Tale. I had thought of Balthazar after the singer in Much Ado About Nothing, but there are several Shakespearean Balthazars, and Autolycus is way more evil amusing anyway. Now, if I can just figure out why it isn't syncing with Last.FM anymore...
On to better things...
My brother and his friend Dave showed up out of nowhere on Friday night to spend the long weekend in Jersey. I was checking my email and started hearing this tapping on the window next to me, but, because the patio light was off and I only had a small desk light on, I couldn't see anyone and got freaked out. Turns out it was Din! My mom had just gone to bed, but, needless to say, she ran right downstairs to greet them.
Anyway, it was good to have Brendan back for a bit, and his friend Dave was a cool guy. I drove them up to Woodbridge (about 40 minutes from us) this morning at 3AM so they could meet up with their other Marine buddies to drive back to North Carolina. Their friends were late, and I didn't get to sleep until 5:30 this morning, so, seeing as I woke up at 10:30, I'm pretty out of it today. But I was happy to do it. :)
They're playing The Adventures of Robin Hood for free in a few weeks at one of the theaters in Red Bank. I'm so excited to see that on the BIG SCREEN.
I started reading this most fucked up book the other day: I'm about halfway through and so far the main character has:
~Moved to the rotting cesspool of 1970s New York City from London.
~Taken up with a 17-year-old go-go dancer, gotten her pregnant, and forced her to get a backroom abortion, which resulted in first her hemorrhaging from her uterus and then sterilization.
~Ditched said girl to wander around the rest of the U.S.
~Gotten kidnapped by a group of militant feminists in the middle of the desert, who gave him a forced sex change and planned to implant him with his own semen in the hopes of conceiving the True Messiah.
~Escaped said feminists before implantation, only to be kidnapped by a crazy one-eyed, one-legged "poet" who is hunkering down in a filthy compound to weather Armageddon. He has 7 "wives" he has brainwashed into believing his semen cures them of their evil womenness. He pathologically hates lesbians and thinks a Greta Garbo-type actress made him sterile; he spends nights flying with his "wives" in a helicopter looking for said former movie star so he can kill/rape her.
And that's in just over 100 pages...O_o
I finally named my iPod: Autolycus, in honor of the peddler/singer/highway trickster from The Winter's Tale. I had thought of Balthazar after the singer in Much Ado About Nothing, but there are several Shakespearean Balthazars, and Autolycus is way more evil amusing anyway. Now, if I can just figure out why it isn't syncing with Last.FM anymore...