We are the Littles

Bill Hader to star as Tom Little in the much anticipated big screen adaptation, The Littles: Dinky's Revenge.

Cakesicles!

What's better on a hot Summer day than a nice Cakesicle?
I like me some cake and all but cake on a stick seems way too obese.

Workin' 9 to 5, well 8 to 5 actually

What is good about my job?
I get to walk to work
I've read more books than I can count since I started here
Fun co-workers
Every day is Solitair-o-rama

What is bad?
Having to hear my boss deucin' it in the bathroom. I want to tell him he needs to change his diet, because it shouldn't be that difficult, but that might be weird.

Why I almost became a vegan yesterday . . .

I had a few eggs in the fridge which weren't getting used so I decided to boil them for egg salad or whatever. I had put the eggs in the water and started to heat it up and I heard a weird, high pitched, what I can only describe as a chirping sound. I know it was just the water, heat, air, bubbles, making the sound, but it freaked me out. I actually took one of the eggs out and held it up to my ear to make sure I didn't somehow have freakish eggs which had wee chicks in them. They had been in my fridge for awhile so I, for a second, wondered if they had gone bad - and when I say "gone bad" I mean come alive.

Guitar Hero Update

It is great.
My band's name is Neo-Nasti.
I'm a pretty rad fake guitarist, but it's starting to get crazy hard.
The cooler one feels at Guitar Hero the nerdier they actually are.

Got a rocket in my pocket

I walked past a little old 80 something year old man today who was wearing a cap that said "Sharks" on it. Obviously this is some sports team, but when I first saw him all I could think was that he was a former member of the gang from West Side Story and that it was sad to see that his dancing/knife-fighting days were over.

Enormous Hominids

If you missed the first season of Human Giant, I'm sorry. It was rad. The second season should be happening in the Fall on MTV. This is one of my favorite clips.

Human Giant - Blood Oath

Even Stephen Steven

Waiters who are nauseated by food

dj Darryl Von Rokk | MySpace Video

Once

Two thoughts on the subject of "once":

1. The movie Once is fantastic - simple, sweet, sad and I, like probably everyone who sees this movie, went directly to the music store to get the soundtrack after the movie was over (it's sold out everywhere, took a little treasure hunt to get my hands on it).

2. It only takes once to fall in love with Guitar Hero. I tried it at the store and was immediately hooked. I know I'm late on this band wagon, but better late than never. I've never been a video gamer, but after a little taste of Guitar Hero awesomeness I now own a video game system and the game is in the mail. Next month they are coming out with Guitar Hero Rocks the '80's game - can't wait.

Wave of the future, wave of the future, wave of the future...

The Long Beach airport is weird. It makes me think this is what flying probably used to feel like in the early days of commercial flying: tiny airport, weird cafe, walk on the runway, go up stairs to plane. I feel I might see Howard Hughes any minute, well, if not, maybe Leonardo. A fascination with flying is sort of in my blood - my parents both flew and growing up my dad would run outside when he heard a low-flying plane. We used to go to the airport and lay on the ground underneath the flight path right before the landing strip to experience the power of planes flying directly over our heads a la the Baberaham Lincoln/Dream Weaver scene in Wayne's World. I'm eating the B-66 Destroyer burger - apparently veggie burgers like a good fight.