07.31.2006 | links for 2006-07-31
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NYT on the neighborhood surrounding McCarren Park. I'd just gotten used to living close to the park, and it was quite lovely, but I hereby officially announce that I'm moving to a new place -- still in Greenpoint, just farther north.
07.25.2006 | Two Unrelated Lists
>> Things To Be Vaguely Excited About:
- The wireless Mighty Mouse.
- A new R.E.M. anthology that does justice to the IRS years.
- Matthew's spot-on review of Lady In The Water, which we (and Lia) agreed has to be one of the worst films ever made.
- The hard drive failure. (I'm taking the computer in to the Apple store tomorrow morning.)
- I'm being sued by a guy I got in a fenderbender with in a parking lot five years ago.
- My family cat back in Florida ran away to die, and my dog may be on her way out too.
- My hot water's been out for two days.
- I still haven't found a new apartment, and lost out on another good one this morning.
- Am horribly behind on my Movie Binge reviews.
- Waiting for my test results.
- Doctor's appointment on my goddamn day off (Friday).
07.22.2006 | links for 2006-07-22
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Awe-inspiring map of Springfield, the Simpsons' hometown. Crackton? Armistead Mopeds? So best.
07.21.2006 | links for 2006-07-21
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Is it wrong to be so weirdly excited about the new MIAMI VICE movie, despite (because of?) its scientifically awesome teaser? I have also always wanted to own a white linen suit. (The article is about the show's influence on fashion, and is entertaining.)
07.20.2006 | links for 2006-07-20
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A couple who built a front porch and a prairie meadow on top of their West Village brownstone. It actually looks gorgeous and I am jealous.
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"The BK Stacker is simple and built with the very ingredients our restaurant guests love best—meat, cheese and bacon," notes Denny Marie Post, Burger King's senior vice president and chief concept officer. "We're satisfying the serious meat lovers by le
07.18.2006 | links for 2006-07-18
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Excellent article on the San Diego Comic-Con from the San Diego perspective. It's the single biggest convention the city gets -- over 100,000 people a year...
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Such nice beds, though they're a little pricey. Of course, anything looks good to someone who's been sleeping on a mattress on the floor for the past year.
07.17.2006 | links for 2006-07-17
07.16.2006 | I Turn My Camera On
>> So yeah, obviously I bought the iSight (my sister and I video-chatted with my parents from the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue, and the coolness of this event was enough to convince them to pay for it, so hurrah!) (and I bought Delicious Library, but that's another post entirely). And to share the wealth, I've set up an honest-to-God webcam! Remember those? Remember how you all had them but took them offline in like, 2001, when you realized they weren't cool anymore? Well, apparently I didn't get the memo. So yeah, feel free to watch. I'm sure it'll be great. I will announce a contest, though: The first person to catch me picking my nose that e-mails me the JPG will win a prize. Seriously. (I will not provide any prizes for people who catch me singing along to iTunes and looking like a complete idiot, because I do that all the time, but I urge you to send me those JPGs too -- maybe I can do a Greatest Hits photo-montage if I get enough. Embarassment? I don't know the meaning of the word.)
07.14.2006 | Needful Things
>> Delicious Library is only $25 at the moment, and it is so, so very pretty. Somebody, please, talk me out of stopping at the Apple Store on my way home to buy an iSight camera. (You can also feel free to talk me into it, if you think it's a good idea. My parents have one, after all, and I'm sure they would love to video-chat with me...)
Ooooh. Come to think of it, maybe I could make them pay for it... they probably wouldn't really object.
(That said, I do hate freeloading off my parents -- God knows that I love stuff, but despite my general lack of funds I've done a pretty good job so far of not relying on my parents for much of anything. That may change when I have to move apartments next month, but overall I'm way ahead of at least one of my siblings in the parental-mooching sweepstakes.)
Ooooh. Come to think of it, maybe I could make them pay for it... they probably wouldn't really object.
(That said, I do hate freeloading off my parents -- God knows that I love stuff, but despite my general lack of funds I've done a pretty good job so far of not relying on my parents for much of anything. That may change when I have to move apartments next month, but overall I'm way ahead of at least one of my siblings in the parental-mooching sweepstakes.)
07.13.2006 | links for 2006-07-13
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A guide to winning at Pac-Man. Superb. I honestly don't think I'd ever noticed that the ghosts behave in different ways. Does this apply to Ms. Pac-Man too, which is much more common in the bars and restaurants of NYC?
07.12.2006 | links for 2006-07-12
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Make Nintendo sounds in GarageBand. Maybe I will finally use GarageBand now!
07.09.2006 | links for 2006-07-09
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I joined YouTube purely so I could make a playlist that aggregates all those amazing redubbed G.I. Joe PSAs in one place for future convenience. My ten favorites are on the first page, in no particular order.
07.08.2006 | links for 2006-07-08
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The entire first GHOSTBUSTERS movie rendered as an animated GIF.
07.07.2006 | links for 2006-07-07
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Beautifully done MySpace profile for Rupert Murdoch. I especially like the StarFox navigation skin.
07.07.2006 | Let The Swashing And The Buckling Commence
>> From the Film Threat review of Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest:
8:05 PM cannot possibly get here soon enough. (We're seeing it at Kips Bay, which is the most nautically/piratically named of New York City theatres. UPDATE: I'm stupid, we're not seeing it there at all. Damn my memory.) Bill Nighy has a squid for a face, dude! Bill Nighy! Squid for a face!
(Seriously, the reviews for Pirates are exactly what I want them to be: "This movie is big and dumb and loud and pretty, but has no point." Um, no duh. I thought we were all on the same page here. Remember when summer movies were summer movies? Not metaphors for Christianity? Remember when we got to watch dinosaurs eat people every couple of summers? Man, that was great.)
Certainly, the settings are just as lush, Davy Jones' cursed fish-men are interesting to look at, and the kraken is really, really big, but did we really need two lengthy action sequences involving people trapped in rolling contraptions? Or three giant squid attacks?
Did he seriously just ask that question? HOW MANY GIANT SQUID ATTACKS CAN THEY PHYSICALLY FIT INTO THE MOVIE, DUDE? THAT'S HOW MANY WE NEED.8:05 PM cannot possibly get here soon enough. (
(Seriously, the reviews for Pirates are exactly what I want them to be: "This movie is big and dumb and loud and pretty, but has no point." Um, no duh. I thought we were all on the same page here. Remember when summer movies were summer movies? Not metaphors for Christianity? Remember when we got to watch dinosaurs eat people every couple of summers? Man, that was great.)
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