So I have a sudden renewed interest in portmanteaus.  Wikipedia is seriously lacking in examples of them, which is funny since Wikipedia is a portmanteau.  They are used so much in our culture it really deserves much more Wiki pages than let's say, the lead singer of Fuel.  I mean celebrity couples alone should warrant an entry (bennifer, bennifer ( Read more... )

Everyone here crowds outside my room, since I have the awesomest hotspot for Internet access in the seminar building. There is a window that opens up into the hallway, for no apparant reason, I want to open it and start up a conversation with the others like some bad 80's puppet based sitcom, maybe on our days off. I need to clean up my room ( Read more... )

Today was spent gathering foreign money and then spending as much domestic money as possible. I went out to Twelve Oaks to Godiva to buy a box of chocolates for my Branch Manager in Japan ( Read more... )

So far, 2007 has been hot and cold. Plenty of Nights hanging out with "The Family", and plenty of days, sleeping until 1:00 and not getting shit done. I'm trying to cram all that American Life has to offer in this next month, but lethargy can only get me so far ( Read more... )

There's a ereason why I should never nap. I always have the weirdest ass dreams ( Read more... )

Today was a rough one to get through, three hours sleep is getting tough to get by on. Especially when you wake up sweatier than Mama Cass after two buckets of the Colonel. Took one of those pep pills that I bought a few weeks ago and it kicked in around three, way to go metabolism. Went and bought the Disney re-release of Robin Hood (the ( Read more... )

Big Red at work was discussing with me how certain places ilicit bowel movements in people more than others and how these places differ from person to person. For him, it was Harmony House; for his friend Scott, it was Best Buy. For me, it is usually when I attempt to access my computer for the first time every day ( Read more... )

I'll post some more Bang! pictures later, but first, a little sad news. Robert Altman died today at age 81. Most of you probably know him only from M.A.S.H. and the live-action Popeye, but he made a wide array of films over his career. I've never met anyone who could say "I'm a fan of every Altman film, like someone might say of Speilberg, ( Read more... )

I got my copies of Shakespeare by Any .  .Other Name book from Amazon today.  Three copies for a total of $1.20 is not a bad deal for a $30.00 book.  I watched Wolfen on Tivo today.  It starred Albert Finney (Daddy Warbucks), Diane Venora (Al Pacino's wife from Heat) and Edward James Olmos (Stand and Deliver and BSG).  It's story was set in early ( Read more... )

Today I watched "A Prarie Home Companion" and while it seemed too thrown together for me, I was wondering if it was paying a homage to the "Grand Ole Opry" or making fun of it. Plus, hadn't this been done with "Nashville". Worked out a lot today, trying to kill the cold by killing my body. During this time I downloaded a bunch of random songs ( Read more... )