Archive for March, 2006
Thursday, March 16th, 2006
File Under TMI
The physical act of love and/or lust does not require a soundtrack but it doesn’t hurt either. At least not the four or five times that I’ve had it. Anyway, I’ve listened to thousands of songs in my lifetime and there’s only been three that conjure up sexy thoughts in my brain. I [...]
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Thursday, March 16th, 2006
Single of the Week
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
“Love Connection” from Etiquette
The last track on the album is my favorite. Catchy keyboard hook countered with bored vocals and sexy lyrics makes for a hit. The rest of the album is bleepy bloopy electronica along the lines of The Notwist or The Postal Service. I don’t love [...]
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Monday, March 13th, 2006
The Joy Begins
My Calvin & Hobbes Collection arrived today. It is already so worth the money. Buy this thing. I promise you won’t regret it.
Calvin: Bad news, Dad. Your polls are way down.
Dad: My polls?
Calvin: You rate especially low among tigers and six-year-old males.
Calvin: If you want to stay “Dad”, I’d suggest you adopt some key planks [...]
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Monday, March 13th, 2006
Credit Card PSA
Are you constantly receiving unwanted credit card offers? Would you like them to stop? Check out OptOutPrescreen.com. It’s the official Consumer Credit Reporting Industry’s website to accept and process requests from consumers to Opt-In or Opt-Out of credit card and insurance offers. I used to get about a dozen of these offers [...]
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Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
Young Lions
I attended a Young Lions event as Pinknest’s guest last night at the New York Public Library. The event was titled “The Science of Love”. The program for it is shown below. I expected it to be kinda lame but I was pleasantly surprised when it turned out to be mostly intelligent and [...]
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Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
A Big Treat
Still giddy with joy over paying off my student loan*, I decided to treat myself to a special gift. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Collection, every C&H ever published bound in a stately boxed set. The price was a little steep but I expect it will more than make up for it in [...]
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Monday, March 6th, 2006
I Love British Commercials
Some of them anyway. Enjoy this live-action British Promo for that classic family sitcom from us Yanks: The Simpsons.
