do this, do that

hey folks! wow what a nice day outside! 70 degrees. i guess it's gonna get cold soon, but til then, i'm lovin it.

right now i am torn between sitting on my back porch and playing basketball. maybe i will do both! i got a lot of exclamation points here, but i just need to exclaim how excited i am!

ariiiight. so i watched basketball for like 48 hours. the first day (thursday) was the most exciting day of basketball i've ever seen. wow, and i mean wow. favorite moments -- murray st winning at the buzzer, and the end of the ohio game, just watching the ohio guys act like they've been there before after they totally dusted georgetown. good stuff.

well, i slept in today and feel good. i've eaten my banana, drank some water, and shaved. i got up at 10 (so i dont even really think i got 8 hours of sleep), but i'm feeling great. i have better saturdays when i get up at 10 rather than noon anyway.

so much i wanna do! i wanna go clothes shopping, grocery shopping, get a car wash, i dono, do other stuff. not enough time, you know? it's cool tho. that's the beauty of life. it's up to you to do what you wanna do. i love free will. i will defend free will all day. nothing is predetermined i tell you! nothing! life is what you make of it.

aright folks i'm sitting in my bedroom behind my light blocking curtains. there's a whole world out there. i gtg. later.

here are a couple photos of the flooding in my area from this week. awful stuff. some people had some pretty bad headaches.

gut research favorite sleeper

gut research favorite sleeper
gut research favorite sleeper
gut research favorite sleeper

this has been me most of the day. watch the video and you'll understand



brackets are complete. i'm sure mine are mostly horrible. last year i had one bracket that had one quarter entirely correct except for one pick (cal over maryland, i'll never forget it).

this year none of the bc blogs are doing pools, which is too bad because last year they were really funny.

well, at least i can be happy about my brackets for another 12 hours or so. then the agony begins.

happy march madness everyone, it's one of my favorite times of year, Dave

blame it

gotcha feelin loose

here's the dave booda version with generik. so sick. enjoy.

bad bad bad

all by myself.

folks, what's happenin. it's a beautiful day outside. after three consecutive days of rain, the sun has come out.

there has been some serious flooding in the region, and i'm sure a lot of people have had to deal with some situations that were not ideal. luckily, i kind of live on a hill, so i didnt have to deal with it.

my mom said it's the worst flooding she can remember since 1997, when my towns high school flooded and was shut down for several months. the high schoolers had class at my middle school from like 7am to noon, and us middle schoolers had class from 12-5pm. those were the days. sleeping in til 11am, watching sunsets from class. good times.

i had a good weekend. friday night i just hung out and made chocolate pudding, which turned out really well. saturday day i did some things, then went over to a friends where i heated up some gnocchi and pasta sauce, then cooked a nice lemony green beans dish. yummy.

saturday night i got invited to a house party right down the street from me. i met up with a couple friends there. it was a 1920s themed party. it seemed like everyone had a costume but me! it was fun though, playing loud music, dancing, hanging out, joking around. some good, clean fun. stayed until 2am (at which point it turned to 3am), then went to sleep after 4am.

barely left the house on sunday. people were coming over to my place all day which was awesome, i barely had to go out in the rain! the brackets came out sunday evening and i started researching (still got a long ways to go though).

the flooding was kinda nuts yesterday. multiple roads were blocked off, and i blew it and went the wrong way more than once. there were a bunch of towns nearby that got it real bad. i didnt see too much craziness, but the traffic was pretty ugly.

we won our basketball game last night. i scored 4 points. i also airballed a free throw and missed a wide open layup. but i made the call to play man defense instead of zone, because i thought we needed more energy and better rebounding, and sure enough they only scored 5 points in the first half. this was the team that beat us in the first game when i wasnt there, so it felt good to get revenge. we have a rematch next week with a team that weve already lost to, so i want revenge next week too.

gotta focus up and get to the gym a bunch. i haven't lifted weights in several weeks. part of that is because i dont want to beef up too much. i've also been trying to do cardio so that i have some decent fitness.

ok i'm gonna start compiling some links for a links post. i'll give you some highlights. i'll try to post more this week.

cya! -d

eternal and graceful

water in head, fire in belly. cool head, warm belly. heat up, cold down.

to be continued...

one hand

the whispers of burning thoughts float through inky night. behind, burning cinders and embers in wide open saucer eyes show the blue flicker of an oil lamp.

chocolate pudding

i made chocolate pudding. it's in my stomach. it feels very heavy. it was good though, and i made whipped cream and put in too much cinnamon. yum. foodnetwork magazine style, yet again.

well, it's daylight savings i hear. i even know how to set my watch now, so i'm super prepared for it.

hey, boston university plays vermont at noon tomorrow for a chance to go to the big dance. let's go terriers! beat the catamounts!

i watched the movie FishTank (2009) last night. wow i was blown away. a stunner. very good movie, very well done. recommended. but i have weird tastes, and i can't say it will be your cup of tea -- even if you're British!

i'm getting kind of lazy about putting links up. uhhhh maybe i need to be more adventurous in my browsing. what probably happens is that i've become too picky and am too self-conscious about sharing stuff. i gotta get over that. after all, there is a lot in this world that's impressive!

oh yeah i watched this little short movie that had daedalus, nobody, jrocc, and ras g. i had heard of daedalus, jrocc, and ras g, but not nobody. the movie was really good. it's called "Secondhand Smoke". it's a documentary about tasking each of these musicians with $5 to acquire 5 records that they are supposed to make a song with. it's only like half an hour but they did a good job with the editing and crammed a lot in there.

i've been watching and playing basketball. we got schooled last night. next game's monday. gotta man up.

boston college season is over. thank god. moving on (but cautiously optimistic about next years chances).

looks like it's gonna rain here all weekend. week. i gotta get to bed. adios amigos.

blogger overloaded

hey folks. i've become overloaded. let me try to piece the circuits back together.

i did as little this weekend as possible. it was incredible. hung out with a couple friends, barely went to a couple places, cooked a bunch of food. except i cut my thumb sunday while cutting vegetables. doh! first time i've cut myself in a long time, i gotta be more careful! sheesh.

i did quite a number on the ol left thumb, but it's gonna make it. i hope it's 100% by my basketball game on thursday.

i've been watching healthy amounts of basketball. that's probably the majority of what i will be doing for the next couple weeks. good times...

the weather is warming up, slowly! believe it or not, i played basketball outside on saturday. it was awesome! i threw down and worked out and it was pretty good. windy, but plenty warm.

i don't have many impressive links to put up, but they're out there. i've mostly been reading my old faithfuls. steady stream of internet news. hmmmm if someone gives me some topics of stuff that they're interested in then i'll dig up some impressive links, how about that.

i'll cya, D

i would recommend that you procure Eschew #2 from Rob Sergel, either directly or from his website.

down music

hi everyone.

it's a beautiful day. the sun is shining. the birds aren't chirping, but they're coming back to their homes in the trees.

looks like i went another middle of the week with no posts. hmmm not a good sign. i can give you something of an update though!

everything's good, i've been staying busy. my two best friends are both out of town for the weekend, so hopefully i'll be able to catch up with some other people.

there was a mini reunion for other alums from my year in my area a couple days ago, but i didn't make it. i did sign up for my 5th year reunion though. crazy! can't believe it's here already. i wonder if we're gonna set the record for the most people to attend...we'll see!

weather has been nasty, but today i guess it cleared up. i swear i saw a thermometer say 50 degrees today, and that ain't bad!

we won our basketball game last night. we're 3 and 3, .500! pretty good. i played the full 40 minutes and i'm actually in decent shape. nice...

celtics game tonight, then another one on sunday. i imagine i'll be watching some college hoops too. i saw providence lose to pittsburgh on a buzzer beater last night. bummer! i hope at least one new england team makes the tournament, but it may not happen.

i got a poem for you. i really hope i haven't already posted this on here. i can't find the title of it, and i honestly don't know if these ellipses were in the original version, but i like the poem.



Let us dig our gardens and not be elsewhere:
Let us take long walks in the open air...
Let us bathe in the rivers and lakes...
Let us indulge in games...
Let us be more simple: simple and true in our minds above all. Let us be ourselves.

—Robert Linssen

eating, and then eating

i really need to be going to sleep but i had to post again. i couldn't leave weird weirdness on my front page, i needed something else, or at least something freshly weird.

i had a great weekend. there was a party, olympic hockey watching, hanging out, and cooking. a lot of cooking. i made lemon bars which were delicious. i made corn fritters for the first time.

both food network recipes. i swear i'm gonna get a subscription to that magazine, it's changed my life.

we also did ridiculous braised ribs with mushrooms. insane. after i ate mine i literally had to collapse sideways on the couch for a while. to top it all off, orange chocolate bread pudding.

Orange-Chocolate Bread Pudding Recipe

Corn-Industry Fritters Recipe

Braised Shortribs with Mushrooms Recipe - we didn't use short ribs we just used enormous bone in ribs. also, just a sidenote -- on the foodnetwork website this recipe is listed as "easy". i shudder to think what "hard" is.

Classic Lemon Bars Recipe

the food was insanely good. ok i wanna do more of a recap but i gotta go. night.

here's a small hard to read flyer for a show i wanted to go to but didn't go to. dj die young and coralcola are really cool tho and i hope they keep on doing this night because the first one was really cool.

dj die young

Coralcola

joyful sound

this blog has been too normal recently. or maybe it hasn't. but in either case, there's a need to get weird.

i think that walruses secretly like sailboats.

absurdist theater is only funny if you're acting in it.

leaves fall upwards.

dualities and self-selves and the mirrorings of the multiple personalities.

4 lenses and a central processor and rose-colored glasses.

the bird outside your window is trying to wake you up. it wants nothing else. it wants you to think, "stupid bird! can't i get some rest?!"

the typography and the serifs and the font-face are contingent on the deciphering of mayan symbols. times new roman is times new sicilian is times new milan.

under your keyboard are little specks of light that follow the traces of your fingertips as they hover over the keyboard. the specks of light follow your every movement. as you delete and space and capitalize, they shift in wavelength to adjust to your grammar.

in the suburbs, the run off is collected and recycled to the sky. in the suburbs, there is no ocean.

thanks spambot!

wow, sometimes technology just touches your soul. take this for example -- i got a personalized spam comment, addressed to me (the blogger), and the blog (davesplat)! can you believe it?

some spambot actually took time out of its busy day to drop me this very nice line. i'm flattered. (ok i probably shouldn't be including this stupid stuff but i thought it was kinda funny. i'll give you a real post soon)

"Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "the photography of Geordie Wood":

I want to thank the blogger very much not only for this post but also for his all previous efforts. I found www.davesplat.com to be greatly interesting. I will be coming back to www.davesplat.com for more information.



Posted by Anonymous to Dave's Blog About Impressive Things at February 23, 2010"

ooooooooh

ooooooh no posts since monday. come on dave...

how's it goin yall? it's a beautiful day!

i stayed up super late last night watching the celtics lakers game and then packing. i'm going to vermont for the weekend. going to ski mt okemo for a couple days hopefully. it's been forever since i went skiing, and it's been forever since i went to this place in vermont with Chris.

i'm really excited. i need to get away. i'm leaving tonight and not coming back til sunday, so i'm not really gonna have much time to relax, but it looks like it's not going to be too cold and i think the snow will be good.

i'm not bringing my computer, so i had to sneak a post in today. it's going to be good to get a break from my computer. it will be shutdown in my room, awaiting my return.

i can't believe how wired i am. given that there is a multitude of web sites that i check every weekday (not just limited to boston.com, nytimes.com, finance.yahoo.com, thedartmouth.com, news.google.com, and my google reader), i take it for granted that every weekday i'm going to be consuming a lot of content. still, i wouldn't mind spending a week on a beach if all i had to give up was my daily news fix :) . it might have to happen!

so i've been watching olympics. shaun white is a legend. his 2nd run was nuts! i've watched a bunch of events, typical stuff -- skiing, hockey, more skiing, skating, more skating, luge, biathlon, all that good stuff. good times! watching it on an hdtv is pretty cool too.

nytimes has published a couple articles about the luge course. a couple days before the tragedy nytimes published a piece talking about the dangerous (and deadly) olympic events, and how concerns (several) had been raised about the canadian luge course. they followed that up with an article this week citing a german luger who was badly injured on the course last year. he filed a complaint in writing and said that an entrance to the womens ramp was not boarded up and he pretty much told the vancouver team that they needed to do something about the whole situation.

it's very sad. i'm not sure how the olympic committee or the international community really feels about it now, but i can't help but think that if it had been someone from a better known country we would be hearing about it more (sad but true[?]).

ok i have an impressive thing for you. you know when it snows in boston and then you see all those plows and then your driveway gets plowed in and then you're like wtf? turns out that in other parts of the country THEY ACTUALLY APPRECIATE THAT.

D.C. digging Boston's plowmen - The Boston Globe

Something like 40 guys got called down to D.C. and have been digging out the city. and that's something that's being sincerely appreciated by the good folks down in our nations capital who are dealing with the 3 feet of snow that got dumped on them. pretty cool.

i also read an article on boston.com about this huge new painting in the mfa, i think it's the "the passage of the delaware" or something.

oh yeah Tiger Woods press conference just happened. as they say, go get it tiger!

aright yall. i'm gonna take off. have good weekend.

-splat

bourbon praline cake

watched a couple movies recently.

"Import, Export" -- really good. kind of a bummer, but really well done.

"Big River Man" -- reminded me of apocalypse now. absolutely epic. i thought it was a mockumentary at first. absolute madness. superb editing.

"Bald" -- ridiculous. somehow entertaining. i'm glad i'm blessed with a full head of hair.

i've taken it easy big time this weekend. i needed it. sleeping 8 hours! woooooo. it feels good. tomorrow hopefully i can be relatively productive. happy president's day! yeeeehaw!

i watched most of nba all star weekend. WEAK SAUCE. DUNK CONTEST WAS WEAK SAUCE. WHAT THE HELL. COME ON. i get amped for this weekend but dunk contest was turrrrrrible.

rookie sophomore game was cool. paul pierce winning the 3 point contest was cool. that was about it. dunks in the all star game are cool too.

there's another basketball court up the street from my house that i'm looking forward to playing at maybe in april? only one of the hoops had a net tho. i gotta locate all the courts in the area.

i was talking with my friend today and he said he's sick of winter. i don't think i'm there, but i am looking forward to hanging outside more come springtime. looks like i'm finally going skiing in vermont this coming weekend, which will be nice. it'll be good to get away.

i've been watching a bunch of olympics. i saw Hannah Kearney from Norwich VT win the gold! stole it from the canadians! i think it's incredible. there are like 3500 people in Norwich. i think the police cruiser drove by my place once during the half year i lived there. congratulations Hannah!

saw the short track speed skating last night which was a crazy finish. also saw the cross country skiing today which was awesome.

wow there are too many sports. america's cup is over. good guys won! hopefully i'll get to watch some of it. i gotta find out if it's gonna be on tv. watching it on the computer isn't the same and doesn't do justice.

ok enough sports. i gotta be more prolific here! PROLIFIC. p for prose. r for reading-worthy. o for original. i for intelligent. f for free-writing. i for incisive. and c for creative! that's right. getting myself psyched up about writing.

oh yeah Valentine's day today, errr yesterday. went to brunch at the vegetarian/vegan place with family. got eggs florentine. eggs were real but the bacon wasn't. i almost asked if i could substitute turkey bacon for the soy bacon.

oh yeah my mom got me a mixer. amazing! and i used it the first day i had it!

i made bourbon praline cake. the recipe's online! Bourbon Praline Cake Recipe : Food Network Kitchens : Food Network

it was epic. not sure if it was the hardest thing i've ever made, but it wasn't easy. but it actually came out great! it was sooo good. i made it at chris's. he had makers mark and i used that (but i would have rather just used 80 proof bourbon). i didn't have kosher salt but i did have fine salt. i also didn't have a springform pan so i just used a cake pan and it came out fine. buttering and positioning the parchment paper was a little awkward but it worked out.

i didn't take a photo of the finished product but it was delicious. very heavy on the toasted pecans and the praline layer was fantastic. one of the best things i've ever made! i'm feelin pretty confident in the kitchen now after that showing. i'm gonna keep on steppin my game up. maybe i'll make somethin tomorrow! this is like my new thing. weird.

chris made pulled chicken in the slow cooker and he also made cole slaw and those were both fantastic of course. i'm sooo lucky that chris cooks a bunch. he's my inspiration! good times. i gotta eat healthy tho, been in feast mode too much haha.

here's a photo of the dessert as well as the flyer from that slooowed down music night i went to a little while back. i'm listening to a really good c+s mixtape right now.

ok yall bye.

top tens of 2009

did these for 2008. thought i'd do them for 2009 too.

please don't trust these lists. they are simply meant to serve as "highlight" lists of a good year in music. album art is below. -D


Top Ten Albums

Slim Thug – Boss of All Bosses
Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3
Mount Kimbie – Sketch On Glass
Juelz Santana – The Splash Effect
Drake – Born Successful 2
Martyn – Great Lengths
Passion Pit – Manners
Nadsroic – Room Mist
Drake – So Far Gone
KiD CuDi - Man On The Moon: The End Of Day


Top Ten Artists

Drake
Jay–Z
Gucci Mane
Starkey
Mount Kimbie
DJ Michael “5000” Watts
DJ/rupture
Passion Pit
James Blackshaw
KiD CuDi

the America's Cup

aright folks here it is, the best post of the year! aright maybe not, but these are some of the best photos i've seen in a bit, and the sheer massiveness of these sailboats is awe-inspiring.

here's the original nytimes post with the content in question:
America’s Cup Rivals Race With the Wind at Their Wings - NYTimes.com

hmmmmm i love it -- "Thirty Knots, With the Wind at Your Wings". as we all know, idratherbesailing. or, i'dratherbesailing. either way, i'd rather be sailing.

i was actually considering a trip where i went somewhere with the intention of doing some sailing, because i haven't done any in a long time. but that's beside the point.

can you believe these America's Cup boats? these photos are epic in an undescribable way. i would pay to see these boats in person. they're absurd.

the article blew me away. currently, the start of the race has been postponed off the coast of Valencia twice. it was postponed the first time because there wasn't enough wind. it was postponed the second time because there were 4-6 foot waves (the race officials don't want the masts to break, which has happened before).

i'm completely enthralled now, lemme go see if there are any ways we can monitor this incredible race. -Dave

An Unintelligible Blurt

here's the most recent one. i'm averaging about one random spam comment on one random post a day now. i've been hit!

An Unintelligible Blurt

by "Anonymous"

"sunita antibody rescheduled lifont control illiteracy orgto stephen additionally spiral citys lolikneri havaqatsu"

blogger so dear

i think blogger so dear is the name of a wake forest college sports blog. i like the name though. i read a couple posts every year by "blogger so dear" whenever bc plays them.

ya know what? i'll give you the link. i got nothin against wake, so why not?
Blogger So Dear - The Wake Forest blog where Charlie Brown is still trying to kick that football...

soooo it was supposed to snow today. where's all the snow? wasn't snowing when i woke up. come on snow? that's the best you got?

i guess it snowed like 18 feet in philly and dc tho. let's just hope i don't have too much trouble driving around.

oh yeah, we won our first basketball game last night. i started, scored zero points, but hassled their big man and stayed upbeat and tried to be a team player. i hit the floor for a loose ball and banged up my knee, but it was so worth it.

the truth sinks in -- this is the first competitive sporting event of any importance that i've won in 4-5 years. wow! that's a long time. now i really wanna win all of the games!

soon i'm gonna be playin like MJ...or Doc!

ps -- ok that was kind of a lame post but i swear my next one's gonna be cool and will contain IMPRESSIVE items :)

what that sound like

soooo i've been listening to a drake mixtape all week, namely "Welcome 2 The Future" courtesy of dj white owl. below is the album art for your reference.

i'm memorizing songs and stuff. it's bordering on obsession at this point. i need to take a break and listen to some other stuff. moving on.

it's been kind of a crazy week. actually i've had a lot of crazy weeks recently, so it's not anything too new. but i better get used to it because i have several more coming.

tomorrow is the super bowl. what's the best part of super bowl weekend? that's right, the super bowl party! as in get together with some good friends and whoever's house that has the biggest tv, eat a bunch of food, and talk about how lame the commercials are. what could be better?!

i'm planning on making a corn and tomato salsa, as well as a garlicky white bean dip. i'm excited for both of them, i think i'm gonna make em today and just hold onto them til tmrw. actually now i'm not so sure that that's gonna happen, i might just end up scrambling and make them tmrw.

oh yeah i played in my first men's league basketball game this week. it was so much fun! i had a blast. i only scored 4 points and missed a bunch of shots, but it was the first time i had played full court ball in an indoor gym in a verrrry long time. the game came down to the wire and we lost a heartbreaker, but we did come back from 8 points down in the last 90 seconds. great game.

i'm really excited for the rest of them and it's going to motivate me to go to the gym a lot and get in shape and stuff. i'm gonna try to play every week too! exciting...

i didn't sleep in too late today, got up a decent time, it's always good to get an earlyish start on the day! i finished the book i had been reading ("summertime" by j.m. coetzee) and read the first couple pages of "anathem" by neal stephenson. however, anathem is almost 1000 pages, and i'm not sure i can commit to it. it would take a couple months and his last three books have been disappointing. having said that, every review of the book is very positive. still, a daunting challenge.

bye, Dave

Spotlight

spotlight ain't nothing without you!

wow it's been at least 10 days since i posted. simply unforgiveable. but hey, at least i'm alive and kicking.

let's see. it's been a good 10 days, i can tell you that much! it got majorly cold at some point, but i still have all my fingers and toes with me. i still haven't been skiing, looks like that's finally gonna happen on feb 13 or 14 which im excited for.

celtics have been losing a ton of games, bc basketball is slumping, so nothing too much to report there. i watched the nfl playoff games and those were pretty good.

my challenge in life right now is time management. anyone got any good ideas on it out there? it's a tough thing to balance.

i've been slacking on staying in touch with a couple people, and i promise i will get in touch with you this week.

some impressive things that i've recently witnessed -- a night of sloooowed down music at enormous room (i'll put up the photos later), a last minute party in belmertown (boy the front of that house really needs to be redone), a night out at Rendezvous with complimentary niceties courtesy of sous chef Ben (can't wait to go back), and a brief encounter with the sound system at phoenix landing (serious thump and oomph).

here are some new places to eat in the area. i haven't been to any of these (shame) but maybe one of ya'll wanna go there with me? or lemme know how it is if you try it out.

a couple of these places are kinda fancy, but they're newish and so they're just going on the list of places to eventually give a shot. here we go:

Zing Pizza - interesting. i don't get to porter very often but this might have to a destination, maybe for a saturday.

Tupelo - Comfort Food with a Southern Drawl - probably not gonna check out this place for a while. the place that used to be in this building never got on my good side.

Ten Tables - now in cambridge! i never went to the one in jp but maybe someday i'll check out this one.

Pescatore - seafood place in somerville. is seafood my favorite food? possibly, i need to eat more good fiiiish.

Verrill Farm - Concord, MA - this one's super close by and i just know that if i showed up i'd find a thing or two that i would really enjoy.

The Friendly Toast - i really wanna go here, the place looks insanely packed on the weekends for breakfast tho so i'm gonna have to find another time

yummmm. hungry yet? ok i'll be in touch. -D

here's an intense photo for you. hard to believe that this is even real. this guy's a serious fan and alum!

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.

dont get caught in the matrix! you will only think in binary and see in neon green.

the photography of Geordie Wood

go look at more photos at Geordie Wood Photography. really incredible stuff.

here's a recent article about his work -- Geordie Wood Finds His Way | Mamiya Blog





all photos ©Geordie Wood

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.

cowdog

hey i gotta write some more but right now i just gotta get a couple links out there (and i gotta put the poem up, procrastination ughhh...)

first, here's an article about just that, procrastination! something that we all know well. i feel that a lot of people i know would call themselves procrastinators, but i really think it's a universal thing. and can you blame us? we all have enough things to worry about.

anyway, this article is about putting off pleasurable things. it makes me wanna visit local landmarks and use the couple gift certificates in my wallet.

Findings - The Psychology Behind Putting Off What Can Be Enjoyed Now

now here's a bumout of an op ed also from nytimes. it starts with the premise that we (the world!) never bothered to name this decade. can you believe it? on december 31st, 1999, noone knew what we were gonna call the decade ahead of us. all people cared about was that y2k was gonna break every computer and the sky would come crashing down.

now it's almost december 31, 2009, and we have no idea what to call the past ten years. TEN YEARS! we've had a while to think about it but never came up with something intelligent and acceptable. heck, we could have come up with something unintelligent and it probably would have stuck. now, as much as ever, we have way too many things to worry about to care what our grandchildren will call this past decade.

this article is about how this decade did not create jobs and how this decade did not make peoples houses more valuable.

The Big Zero

i like this photo just cause of that guy's beard. that's some beard!

o ya o ya

bc lost. it's cool tho. good season, lotsa fun.

celtics lost. bad loss. rondo missed free throws. baron davis dominating our scene.

holidays still going on. still having fun.

here's a cool link and a photo of the big swimming pool on the top of Titan

NASA reveals first-ever photo of liquid on another world - CNN.com

i'll write more luego. hasta pronto.

game day

"Though some may question how motivated USC will be to play in a non-Bowl Championship Series game for the first time in eight years, there is no mistaking Boston College's intensity. There were fights during practice."

EMERALD BOWL / A matchup that sparkles

im pretty excited to watch this game. t minus 9 hours. i'm gonna make jerk chicken again. i got a food processor for xmas so im gonna go to whole foods and hopefully buy some REAL habanero or scotch bonnet peppers and make some legit fiery jerk rub.

let's go eagles! beat the trojans!

christmas day 2009

and i am still not capitalizing words.

i'm typing on the keyboard of my parents computer. i am not used to it, and my long arms and large hands and dry cracked fingers are awkwardly placed.

i just read 60 pages or so of the new j.m. coetzee novel "summertime". it's very metafiction. i wrote a long, confusing paper on coetzee's book "in the heart of the country" and how it was metafiction and how it jived with another story called "in the heart of the heart of the country", not by coetzee. i used too many quotations.

at one point i remember being in the river ranch in vermont and having countless books and printouts surrounding me in the living room and my bedroom. i began the paper by typing up the quotes in a word doc that i wanted to use in the paper. it was a lot of work. i distinctly remember barely leaving the house for a week. this was during the winter of 2005.

now, i continue to read coetzee. this book is fiction, but it is simultaneously a biography, and also i believe metafiction. of course coetzee would not offer something as conventional as an autobiography. this book is very, very good. buy a copy if you enjoy reading about dreary south african settings and details of relationships.

i may have uploaded this photo before, but at least it contains water.

merry christmas!

merry christmas everyone! it's a white christmas and there is plenty of good cheer. i had a fantastic birthday and i am so grateful to everyone. thank you so much.