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What It Is: 8/4/08

What I’m reading: Finished A Reader’s Manifesto, by B.R. Myers, and The Beast in the Jungle, by Henry James. Started Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko, by Blake Bell.

What I’m listening to: Just shuffling on my iPod, while I figure out how to reinstall my Sirius radio in my car in a way that will prevent my dog from chewing through the antenna cable again.

What I’m watching: Spaced, some Angels-Yankees, and . . . the fourth season of The Wire! At last!

What I’m drinking: Plymouth G&T.

Where I’m going: Nowhere, although I’m considering going up to Saratoga in two weeks to see Gillian Welch play the folk festival.

What I’m happy about: Getting to see my brother last week, and getting out to that Bruce show.

What I’m sad about: The weird noise coming out of the water heater downstairs. Especially after that episode of Mythbusters.

What I’m pondering: Lots of big, intricate sentences by Henry James.

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Set List

Bruce put on a heck of a show last night, even though the awful NJ traffic left us with a 9:30pm start, rather than the unofficial 8:30 start (the tickets are for a 7:30pm start; hah!). My two observations about the band:

  1. Nils Lofgren may be shorter than Seth Green (but he had an awesome solo in Because the Night)
  2. Max Weinberg bears an unfortunate resemblance to Harold Ramis (but he drove the entire show)

Here’s the set list from the concert:

Summertime Blues

10th Ave Freeze-Out

Radio Nowhere

Prove It All Night

Two Hearts are Better than One

Promised Land

Spirit in the Night

Light of Day

Brilliant Disguise

Pretty Flamingo

Blinded by the Light

Cadillac Ranch

Candy’s Room

Night

Because the Night

She’s the One

Living in the Future

Mary’s Place

Incident on 57th St.

The Rising

Last to Die

Long Walk Home

Badlands

First Encore

Jungleland

Born to Run

Bobby Jean

Dancing in the Dark

American Land

Second Encore

Jersey Girl

Rosalita

I had a blast, especially since he kept the preaching to a minimum (unlike the time I saw him in 2003, which I don’t seem to have written about), but that late start meant that I walked in the door at home at 2:10am. Now I’m up at 5:30, taking care of the dog and I’ll bring my wife down to the bus stop in an hour. It’s humbling, given that I just watched a 59-year-old man perform for 3 hours and 15 minutes without a break.

Good thing I’m not heading into the office today!

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Off to the Promised Land

Sorry about the lack of posts today, dear readers! I was getting tons of work done so I could get out of the office early, meet up with my brother, and head over to Giants Stadium for the Springsteen show! More later!

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What It Is: 7/28/08

What I’m reading: Finished Against the Gods, Camp Concentration and Bottomless Belly Button this week, but haven’t decided what to read next. Maybe Archy & Mehitabel. I oughtta catch up on the past 2 issues of Monocle.

What I’m listening to: 22 Dreams (Paul Weller), and West Indian Girl and 4th & Wall (both by West Indian Girl)

What I’m watching: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (eh), Yankees-Red Sox and Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.

What I’m drinking: Red Stripe

Where I’m going: Allegedly, I’ll be going to the shore on Tuesday and the Springsteen show at Giants Stadium on Thursday.

What I’m happy about: That I truly am Jersey. And that my brother’s visiting (hence the Springsteen/shore stuff)!

What I’m sad about: That I truly am Jersey.

What I’m pondering: Can I get shots for this?

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Is this on?

I’m just testing out this WordPress app to see if I can really write posts directly from my iPhone, bitches!

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Spoof

My dad’s MSN e-mail account got spoofed yesterday. In addition, my dad’s aversion to travel got spoofed yesterday. As did his not-so-PC racial attitudes. All in one stroke, as you can see from this e-mail I received from his @ddress last night:

How are you doing today? I am sorry i didn’t inform you about my traveling to Africa for a program called “Empowering Youth to Fight Racism, HIV/AIDS, Poverty and Lack of Education, the program is taking place in three major countries in Africa which is Ghana , South Africa and Nigeria. It as been a very sad and bad moment for me, the present condition that i found myself is very hard for me to explain.

I am really stranded in Nigeria because I forgot my little bag in the Taxi where my money, passport, documents and other valuable things were kept on my way to the Hotel am staying, I am facing a hard time here because i have no money on me. I am now owning a hotel bill of $500.00 and they wanted me to pay the bill soon else they will have to seize my bag and hand me over to the Hotel Management. I need this help from you urgently to help me back home, I need you to help me with the hotel bill and i will also need $600.00 to feed and help myself back home so please can you help me with a sum of $1,100.00 to sort out my problems here? I need this help so much and on time because i am in a terrible and tight situation here, I don’t even have money to feed myself for a day which means i had been starving so please understand how urgent i needed your help.

I am sending you this e-mail from the hotel Library and I only have 2 hours, I will appreciate what so ever you can afford to send me for now and I promise to pay back your money as soon as i return home so please let me know on time so that i can forward you the details you need to transfer the money through Money Gram or Western Union.

Thank you very much for your time.  Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Substitute “Roumanian/Israeli Archie Bunker” for “dad” and you’ll understand just how funny this e-mail is.