Today marks the third anniversary of my dad’s quintuple bypass surgery, ably performed by Dr. Peter Praeger. I can’t speak for the doctor’s line of heart-healthy food, but he did a heck of a job on Pop. Many happy returns, Dad!
What it is: 4/14/08
What I’m reading: Locas
What I’m listening to: She and Him, Vol. 1
What I’m watching: A marathon of The Deadliest Catch, in preparation for the premier of the new season.
What I’m drinking: Guinness Extra Stout (bottled)
What I’m happy about: That Starbucks’ new Pike Place roast isn’t anywhere near as offensive as its old coffee. I mean, I still wouldn’t choose to stand on line behind a bunch of people ordering orange mocha frappuccinos, but at least I know that if I DO have to go to a Starbucks, at least I’ll be able to get a decent black coffee. Oh, and here’s an article on their retro mermaid logo. This is not a mermaid.
What I’m sad about: That DirecTV’s installer messed up the installation of my new dish, so a bunch of my HD channels are badly digitizing/artifacting. Now I gotta work at home today so they can get someone out here to realign it. But it’ll be pretty sweet to have all those extra HD channels.
What I’m pondering: Why LeBron James is getting so much MVP consideration, given that his team is barely over .500 in a terrible conference.
My favorite Dummy
Portishead’s first studio record
I’m also all for something a little less depressing than the solo album by their lead singer, Beth Gibbons
Moore and more
500,000 songs on an iPod? Just. Bring. It.
Have fun storming the castle!
Sitting in White Castle for lunch today, I thought of starting an “Overheard in White Castle” category for this blog, but realized that every entry would be a variant of what I had heard on line:
Customer 1: You never ate White Castle before?
Customer 2: Not sober, no.
Amazon Sightings
As part of my morning web-trawl, I check Amazon to see if they have any good daily specials; I’ve found some neat buys that way. Today’s is not one of them:
I guess that’s a step up from this odd attempt at selling Vista Service Pack 1:
“more fun”?
It almost makes me want to buy the new album from Madonna Jessica Parker
They should lay off the spicy food
I promise I’ll get back to real writing soon.
I plead the Sith
Darth Pimp and his Storm Hos:
There’s nothing I can add to this one.
And we’ll see who’s smart.
If the internet is so goddamned smart, then why hasn’t someone mashed up this
with this?
Erin Go Barf
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
In honor of the drunken Irishman in your life, here’s an article (with slideshow) about Irish whiskey!