aright

heyyyyy yall whats up. i'm doing alright. Scott Brown happened this week. we watched the poll results come in while eating moose burgers. seriously.

ground moose is really good. we enjoyed the moose burgers. they were good. i ate two that night and then ate two the next day.

i'm dropping the ball on blogging.

ok i gotta get some momentum.

i still haven't seen avatar yet. "DAVE COME ON DUDE JUST GO SEE AVATAR IT'S PLAYING RIGHT AT THE MALL YOU CAN GO SEE IT ANY NIGHT YOU WANT WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL"

well look conscience -- it's not as easy as all that. going to see avatar requires a certain toolset that i just don't have right now. look at everything that it takes to see avatar:

you have to

1. drive to the movie theater
2. buy a movie ticket
3. buy a drink because you didn't smuggle in a water bottle
4. buy a popcorn because you might as well cause you're already getting this stupid overpriced sprite
5. pick a good aisle that's close to the screen but not TOO close. this one? eh let's try the one behind.
6. sit through the commercials before the previews. evilllll.
7. watch AN ENTIRE ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-TWO MINUTE MOVIE WITHOUT GETTING UP from your seat because you'll miss something

you see? that's a lot. i just haven't had it in me. (having said that, if you wanna go see it, i'll go see it with you, just lemme know, i'll rally). maybe i'll go this weekend?

yo i gotta get us some links. hold up.

ok. there's a rare johnny depp movie playing monday night at the brattle that i'm planning on seeing -- Arizona Dream (1993). cool, right? i def gotta go see it.

yo i also got a brief update -- i made it three days a week this week getting to sleep on time. can you believe it? THREE whole days. impressive stuff. i then blew it last night by watching "Chopped" on food network for an hour instead of crashing.

aright one more link, let's see, let's see...eh i can't come up with anything good right now, i'll work on it.

well, i hope that your 2010 is going well. my 2010 is going pretty well.

ok i really gotta go to sleep. gnight.

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sitting backwards in bed

that's what's up, what it is, what it do.

forgotten melodies of indecipherable songs.

fragmented visions of bridge gnomes.

cemented in a custard bowl.

whoa.

Whatever happens happens

by Rena J. Mosteirin

Dec. 9, 2009

A poem for Dave made from davesplat:

Whatever happens happens

A lone basketball hoop in rural Alaska,
plant it / clove by clove / in November,
I brought a pumpkin pie but there was already a pumpkin pie,
I added some hot banana peppers
and he played some sample tape from this collection.
I sat in my awesome crazy creeks and cheered.
Now it’s really late and my ears are ringing. Thinking about
new ways to winterize / in my own little triangle,
performing research on crickets
boiling them in bbq sauce
the score got a little out of control
he showed up and proclaimed
whooooooooooo’s comin with me?

blogger rested

(i'm paying homage to John Updike here...rabbit at rest etc)

well it looks like i took a week off there. a good week of rest. had to reflect on the best of 2009 right? ehhhh maybe not, but i just kinda let the week fly by with no blogging. whoosh!

well, it's super late now and i should be going to sleep, but i thought that blogging needed to be done.

tomorrow i'm getting a carwash. i've wanted a carwash for a while now. my car is so salty and nasty. it's literally covered in like 4 snowstorms worth of salt. grossness. gonna feel so good to get it washed off.

then jeff and i are going to the harvard dartmouth basketball game. let's go green! so long as i live in boston i will go to the harvard dartmouth football game every other year, the harvard dartmouth basketball game every year, consider going to the dartmouth harvard hockey game but end up skipping it, and will most likely not realize that there is a dartmouth harvard baseball game going on.

i'll also likely be sleeping when harvard races dartmouth crew every spring. the year that dartmouth won (in 2006) i was soundly asleep. whooooops.

ok enough ivy league athletics talk, my goodness.

quick aside -- gilbert arenas. you're a bonehead. not sure how to feel about the whole situation, it's just bad all around.

oh yeah it's nfl playoff weekend. let's go pats!

ummm what else. it's been cold, but sunny, which is cool. i've watched a couple episdoes of deep sea salvage, which is a cool show. the celtics lost tonight but i didnt watch it cause i had other stuff going on thankfully.

ok well that's some good rambling i'll blog more and actually write something more interesting this weekend. i have a really good coetzee quote which i'm gonna put up. and Rena's poem, i promise.

in the photo below you will see a giant whoopie pie. it's the largest whoopie pie i have ever seen, or will ever see. i don't remember where it was from in maine, and there was a really funny website that went along with it, maybe i'll try to dig it up.

blogger on rest

taking a lil break here we'll be back momentarily (tmrw?)

ok fine ill write a lil bit but then i gotta go to sleep.

first of all i gotta get it off my chest -- bc basketball lost to maine yesterday. it's going to be very, very hard now for the team to make it to the ncaa tournament. simply devastating. i watched it online and i can't really bear to talk about it, so i'm not going to be writing ANYTHING bc for a while, unless they start winning like every conference game, which isn't looking so good at this point.

i am considering lifting my moratorium on not reading thedartmouth.com. the ban could be lifted this week (but will be reinstated if i read more negative news articles).

oh by the way HAPPY NEW YEAR! it's a new year! and a new decade! can you believe it? pretty nuts.

oh yeah and yesterday i made jerk scallops, jamaican cole slaw, and jamaican corn pone. it was major. i'm gettin pretty good at this cookin and bakin stuff.

here's a cool photo. i should really do my songs/bands/albums of 09, but it's gonna take a lil thought.

ps -- i watched inglourious basterds and loved it. good movie.