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Some thunks.

Now, I concede that I haven’t written a real post in a while. I’ve been a little gunshy.
Bad dreams again of late, I’m afraid. I hate it.
I’ve been taking excerpts from other folks, posting PSAs, and jotting little links that hopefully provide you, dear reader, with some of the insights and […]

And one for Ernie

Ernie, I’m sure, will have a field day with this.
NEWS FROM ICN®
The Dating Game meets Survivor… Elimidate meets Fear Factor… welcome to Object of Desire! In this series of bizarre challenges and situations, Asian American young people compete to win an all-expenses-paid date with their “object of desire.” While the contestants duke it out in […]

APA - News re: Upcoming Olympics

c/o International Channel Networks
American Olympians may be strong, athletic, driven and competitive, but diversity also describes the 2004 U. S. Olympic Team. Some ethnic backgrounds represented include Japanese, South African, Israeli, Chinese, Hungarian and German, just to name a few. This August, be on the lookout for these promising U.S. Olympic athletes:
Kevin Han — […]

Speech Text - Obama

Speech Text: Barack Obama

Borrowed from http://www.command-post.org
From the DNCC via email, the full text of Barack Obama’s convention speech:

On behalf of the great state of Illinois, crossroads of a nation, land of Lincoln, let me express my deep gratitude for the privilege of addressing this convention. Tonight is a particular honor for me because, let’s face […]

Convo with the Kissing Bandit: 07.27.04

KB: FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCKITY FUCK FUCK PANCAKES!
Moi: What up, g? Sipping too much of the haterade?
KB: FUCK FUCK FUCKITY LAWN GNOMES FUCK FUCK!
Moi: No, seriously. What up?
KB: FUCKING WEDDING INVITATION WHERE MY EX WILL BE THERE!
Moi: So? You look hot. No big deal. Besides, it’s been *forever*. Right?
KB: FUCK. BUT I GOTTA SIT AT […]

Fricking A.

Broken links re: updates on advanced services.
Search out for most of yesterday morning.
And error msgs with trying to send my email.
Google peeps: Please for the love of gawd, come down from your coke high and your IPO giddiness and fix shit.

APA Casting Call in the Bay!

Beau Bonneau Casting is seeking:
FULL Filipino Babies between 2 and 6 months of age and
FULL Filipino Grandmothers that must be 50 years of age and over
to be in a PG&E Print Ad. If selected, they must be available either
August 18 or 19. They will be needed for 2 or 3 hours that day and […]

Watching the DNC on CNN Today

Can I just say that I love Mo Rocca!
BOOYAH.
Way to have a sense of humor and joy with regards to smart politics.
“There are 90 Kennedys here … here to listen to Ted Kennedy speak today. I’m currently walking through the Samoan Delegation right now. That means that there are 15 times as many Kennedy’s […]

In The Bucket of WAY FUCKING COOL

MoveOn.org is co-sponsoring an album featuring powerful and political songs — most of them unreleased until now — from some of the best artists around. It’s called the “Future Soundtrack for America.”
For a donation to MoveOn PAC of $25 or more, we’ll make sure you get the album before it hits the record stores. […]

Huh.

So Google puts out some details on it’s IPO, promptly has a whole bunch of giddy drunk developers spill champaign on their servers, make-out with each other under a YahooGuy Pinata, knock over the power-supplys for their office, blast TMBG throughout the campus and start running naked in the streets in delight.
And then … like… […]

APA - PSA

Forwarded over from the sexy goodness that is Manja.org
http://manja.org/haroldandkumar/
July 24, 2004
Dear Friends, Fans, Haters, Players, and True Money Makers,
Hey! This is Kal Penn (aka Kalpen Modi) and John Cho
writing to encourage you to go see our upcoming comedy from New Line Cinema, “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle,” opening nationwide on July 30th.
This film […]

Poetica Spontenaium - 7/26/04

Years ago
I scratched out some words
Tumbling clumsy like I do
After too much champaign
which is any champaign
such a kick from champaign
In,The.Ass.
which after so much champaign
used to be significantly smaller
after a boy that I definitely didn’t know well.
And he wrote me cards that lured me
like potatochips to my pms.
To no one’s surprise,
I was drawn in by need […]

This one’s for you.

eructation \ih-ruhk-TAY-shuhn\, noun:
The act of belching; a belch.
Ignatius belched, the gassy eructations echoing between the walls of the alley.
–John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
The explosion, at this distance, sounds like a faint, feeble eructation.
–Peter Conrad, “Bangs to whimpers,” The Observer, March 7, 2004
Oddly enough, whenever I think about burping, I think about Scott […]

Interesting…

Sturdy suggests that the main function of the male’s response is “to advertise that ’she’s with me.’”
I wonder how the Zebra Finch responds in recognizing its mate when the Giants are on TV.
I bet it sucks.