Edamame 2002: i can’t even begin to understand this. they’re painting with baby shit! straight-faced, no-joking, baby-crap-as-art exhibits. stuff like this gives art a bad name. and a smelly one, too. [via: pixelsurgeon]

day after thanxgiving… every year, i get stuck at work. another one of the many joys of working at a small biznatch.

my turkeyday: up early with the pup, work on the bike, wait for colin to call, rake and mow the lawn, wait for colin to show up, horrible driveway incident, rode the vienna dirt jumps by meself, got the nuts up to hit one of the jump sections there, nailed it time after time with a giant grin on my face, went to the greek-in-laws, ate lots, home, tired, sleep.

now i’m at friggin work. feels like i’m the only one in the world not still in bed.

happy birthday to my beautiful wife!!

i’ve been ebay crazy lately. sold an old mac modem for about 10x what i thought it was worth. bought a complete skateboard for $38. now i’ve got kristy scouring the boards for a sewing machine and i’m keeping an eye on the ebayMotors DC section. (just to get an idea of prices… the camry’s still livin’ large)

that’s all for now, i love having work to do at work!

at my friend gardiner’s urging, went to go see The Hackensaw Boys Band on saturday. how can i turn down anything he describes as ‘punk bluegrass’? damn right. i keep staring at this guy across the crowded room, looks just like an old friend from my hometown. naw… that’d just be weird.

i feel a tap on my shoulder, turn and it’s him. man, i haven’t seen justin in about 5 years. i’ve known him since i was about 14, hanging around together alot as skaterats. we played with his band (13A) lots. i was super-psyched to see him.

turns out that he’s in the friggin band! playing spoons, washboard, tin cans and lots of other homegrown percussionish things. they’ve been on tour for the past year and a half, opening up like 60 shows for cake, a bunch for modest mouse and de la soul too. things are going really, really well for them.

biases aside, i thought they were awesome live. they’re an 8 piece of all traditional instruments, playing straight-up no joking appalachian bluegrass. super fast and energetic. check out a sample: Ruby Pearl

went urban riding with jason and colin on saturday morning. long chatty social ride. we kept running into all kinds of other bike people. being the nice guys we are we’d stop and talk, getting colder and colder… and jason had to do some shopping. he’s just a slave to fashion. he took some nice pix tho.

came in to work late today after an all nite battle with the stomach flu monster. or something like that. i haven’t really felt right since monday’s bean burrito lunch and bean soup dinner. those beans truely are a magical fruit!

anyway, so i’m sick… a little out of it, finishing up this mornings dc-baltimore-show list and i get an email notifying me that someone has left a comment on one of my pages.

my cynical nature kicks in first… “what the hell would dave grohl be doing reading my site? and why is he so into a little person rock band?” then i think… well it’s possible. i know people that know people that know him. (got that?) i check the IP address and get no info back, so i giddily fire off an email to friends, showing off…

tom traced the IP and writes back with this;
“Looks suspect, unless DaveG moonlights in a bread factory — Pepperidge Farm Inc. UU-63-93-198-40 (NET-63-93-198-40-1)”

damn. must be those sucka little king dwarves getting up on the self-promotion tip. how weird is that? “lets write comments about our band, but say that they came from dave grohl”.

fool me once, shame on me. fool me twice, won’t get fooled again.

man, i’ve got so many little projects going on right now it’s silly. one of them involves hitting the town tonite. lessee how this goes…

oh, and before i forget, i saw a septic truck today that read “#1 in the #2 business”.
classic.

i just was asked by one of my superiors to make a ‘wishlist’ for the office. it really is xmas. the question looms..

what do you love in your office? hardware? software? coffee service?

fill up those comments, folks!

once, one of my christian co-workers tried to pry out my religious beliefs. at the time, i was in the middle of a hectic project and rabbit-running between computers. not the best time for conversation. i retailiated with short blasts of sarcasm. he just kept prying.

another coworker, a devout catholic, took pity on me and told Mr. Christian (no, not sister christian) that i was a humanist.

i’d never heard of the idea before this, but as he explained the precepts of humanism i realized that he’d nailed it dead to rights. that sounded like everything i base my life on. you don’t know how weird it feels to have someone assign an ideology to you and have it fit like a glove. treating people decently not because of a glorified afterlife, but because they deserve it.

i’d actually forgotten all about this, but recalled it all after stumbling onto the American Humanist Association’s page via alifeuncommon.org

it is out of my desire to help my fellow humans that i offer you this opportunity to buy:

• an upright freezer
• a bubblejet printer

i know, i know. i feel like mother teresa. its wonderful.

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i’ve heard nuthin’ from the sucka MC since friday. he hasn’t touched my eBay feedback profile and i’m hoping he doesn’t.

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