last time i was feeling mildly antsy i made a bunch of self-portrait stencils with sun beams and monsters storming the philadelphia skyline. tonight my exacto-knife felt uninspired and it's a bit cold to be outside spray-painting bristol paper and my fingers. so what up livejournal ( Read more... )

Wednesday Nov 28 ( Read more... )

My first week full time in the ICU just passed, I was working night-shifts 7pm-7am. The other night, I had this brutally-Irish guy with tattoos of shamrocks and leprechauns perched on kegs and shit stuck his head out of his girlfriend's car window to vomit after a night of drinking, and smacked into a pole (at what was, judging from the extent of ( Read more... )

Today my patient was an 18 year old kid who took a shotgun blast to the face. When I left this afternoon he was going to the OR to have his eyes removed. I couldn't find anything to confirm this in his chart, but the back-story I got was that he witnessed a gang-related crime and fell victim to West Philly's strict "No Snitching" policy; the ( Read more... )

Today on the train, I concluded I might be a little racist. I generally would never consider myself a racist person, in fact there's a new Rhoads 5 hire who's black who I actually think is quite cute (granted, after getting to know her I decided I wasn't terribly attracted to her, but am hesitant to downgrade her crush status, mainly because she's ( Read more... )

I was walking to 30th Street Station today thinking about the vast infiniteness of the universe. I tend to think about this often. It used to keep me up at night when I was a kid; specifically, I couldn't fathom what would happen when we die. I thought about life like a VHS tape. The idea that the screen goes black, or blue or fuzzy is inevitable, ( Read more... )

I don't know how I feel about having this warm, expensive status symbol currently sitting on my lap. This is partly because it isn't yet exactly mine, rather American Express'. It will be mine in a couple of weeks, granted, but more because right now it is just a guilty, expensive appeal to my vanity and obsessive tendencies ( Read more... )

CNN makes me nauseaus. I've been listening to an internet feed off of Sirius Radio for an hour now, and so far I've only heard about this dude with tuberculosis and wayward whales on the west coast. I'm turning Howard Stern back on.

http://www.thepunchbowl.net/issues/spring07font.pdf

The Professional Issue of the Pennsylvania Punchbowl is finally available in electronica!

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I visited loyola chicago this weekend. It was like a batch of fresh baked cookies in my soul.

a cartoon by me is up at http://www.thepunchbowl.net. it's a joke about one of the penn application essays. maybe it's a bad sign that i'm explaining it.

Matt