tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18758797145716515722024-03-13T11:48:36.076-04:00The Life and TimesPlease enjoy my updates of musings, illustrations, photographs and inspirationsAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14627078727179344916noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875879714571651572.post-36326587669726005872014-06-19T23:34:00.002-04:002014-06-19T23:34:30.504-04:00OH, hello<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am writing from Singapore. This place is the future. I have so many fun adventures every day, however I'm totally failing at capturing them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I ate fish head yesterday and it was really good. No, I did not eat the eyeball. My teammate Steven did, he said the most surprising thing- it's apparently hard and chalky on the inside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My teammate from Korea asked me if I had any pets. I told her about Frankie my dog. I asked her if she did, and she said, no her family was not a pet family. She said they'd end up eating them with a straight face. That girl is so wicked cool.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love it here! It was intimidating at first taking the longest flight ever however the cool thing about travel is you realize people really aren't that different around the world. Most people are simply going along living their lives and are down for a friendly conversation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's enough for now :) </span>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14627078727179344916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875879714571651572.post-9793189914677349092014-01-23T03:19:00.002-05:002014-01-23T03:19:40.068-05:00Boxing as a Whole<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love the concept of boxing, as long as it is the workout and I am not actually punching another human being. It dawned on me to think about other ways I prefer a portion of a whole. Other portions of things I enjoy-</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 4th quarter of a football game, rarely watch a whole one</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PG, short versions of friend's escapades, no more please</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Uncountable random songs with just a good 15 second breakdown or moment of greatness </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Acquaintances in short doses, no more than four (hours). Keep the Tahoe weekends for close fam and friends </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A bus ride to save time. 5 min into the ride I regret the freedom of my bike or simply walking</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Feeling the itch to share useless information out into the void! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Much has changed since I last updated this blog. A few more laugh lines near the eyes, the unfortunate move to Michigan, a happy return to California, and a spaghetti meal consumed just now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is just a short show and tell from my surfing days. While surfing the internet I came across a collection of <a href="http://www.thegalerii.com/historic%20photos/miscellaneous/buffalo/buffalo.htm" target="_blank">vintage buffalo images</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What interested me the most are the images of numerous buffalo in the wild. I've only seen bison in Golden Gate park, and there's maybe 5 tops visible at any given time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wish I lived in the Old West (as a man so I'm not a prostitute). It must have been so magical to fend for yourself, believe in ghosts/God/whatever other magical thing, and explore the unknown. Hopefully I would not have been a buffalo killer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14627078727179344916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875879714571651572.post-37196039915118457182011-03-24T19:18:00.002-04:002011-03-24T19:22:19.924-04:00Old ads from Saturday morning cartoons<span style="font-family: verdana;">I hate to be doing this- every generation makes such a hoo ha about nostalgia, but this is great. Really brings back fun memories and early consumer desires. </span><br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/anjyiO754hU" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YSO3VyXS3PA" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PUueISKfIus" frameborder="0"></iframe>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14627078727179344916noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875879714571651572.post-27272624432708986092009-04-03T16:49:00.001-04:002009-04-03T17:03:45.693-04:00Poems on a slow Friday<span style="font-family: verdana;">Killian asked me to write him poems since I told him I was bored at work. Here they are, in all their glory. </span><br /><br /><br /><div style="margin: 1ex;"> <div> <p><span style="font-family:Apple Chancery;font-size:85%;">A poem to celebrate Killian Escobedo</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Apple Chancery;font-size:85%;">K is for killer butt</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span> </p> <p><span style="font-family:Apple Chancery;font-size:85%;">I is for Indigo eyeballs</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span> </p> <p><span style="font-family:Apple Chancery;font-size:85%;">L is for loving soul</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span> </p> <p><span style="font-family:Apple Chancery;font-size:85%;">L is for loyalty</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span> </p> <p><span style="font-family:Apple Chancery;font-size:85%;">I is for injustice fighter</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span> </p> <p><span style="font-family:Apple Chancery;font-size:85%;">A is for awesome</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span> </p> <p><span style="font-family:Apple Chancery;font-size:85%;">N is for Never a dorky person</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Apple Chancery;font-size:85%;">E is for elephant penis</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span> </p> <p><span style="font-family:Apple Chancery;font-size:85%;">S is for super duper</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span> </p> <p><span style="font-family:Apple Chancery;font-size:85%;">C is for caring </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span> </p> <p><span style="font-family:Apple Chancery;font-size:85%;">O is for original</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span> </p> <p><span style="font-family:Apple Chancery;font-size:85%;">B is for blossoming love</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span> </p> <p><span style="font-family:Apple Chancery;font-size:85%;">E is for Escobedo</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span> </p> <p><span style="font-family:Apple Chancery;font-size:85%;">D is for declaration of joy</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span> </p> <p><span style="font-family:Apple Chancery;font-size:85%;">O is for opportunity awaits <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Apple Chancery;font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Apple Chancery;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here's one written (sort of) in iambic pentameter.<br /></span></span></p><p>It's entitled "Ann takes a long time leaving especially when she's riding her bike"<br /><span style="font-family:Apple Chancery;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Apple Chancery;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />He waits for her, as patience alludes quietly,<br />She bumbles and swears as metal hits flesh.<br />Oh! How leaving the house lengthens days<br />And slowly we die as Ann leaves the house<br /></span></span></p><p><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And finally, a limerick</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">There once was a couple on Treat</span><br /><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">Who drank every beer that they meet</span><br /><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">He got really fat,</span><br /><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">Her liver went splat</span><br /><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">Now they lay under six feet</span><br /></span><br /></p><p><span style="font-family:Apple Chancery;font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p> </div> </div><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14627078727179344916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875879714571651572.post-41072388779777809752008-12-23T16:22:00.001-05:002008-12-23T16:26:34.017-05:00It's Christmas time!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tBGurebwXKI/SVFXVulZ-6I/AAAAAAAAAwM/090-trEb0to/s1600-h/upside-down-christmas-tree.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tBGurebwXKI/SVFXVulZ-6I/AAAAAAAAAwM/090-trEb0to/s400/upside-down-christmas-tree.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283099868676094882" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I love this time of year but you know what I am already dreading? The last day of vacation and having to get ready for work the next day. Merry Christmas, everyone! Fuck that PC shit. MERRY CHRISTMAS. </span>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14627078727179344916noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875879714571651572.post-36852046355142007132008-12-04T13:13:00.000-05:002008-12-04T13:19:03.302-05:00This makes me want to barf<blockquote> <p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Halliburten is getting sued! Read this nasty shit- </span><br /></p><p>"The lawsuit also accuses KBR of shipping ice in mortuary trucks that "still had traces of body fluids and putrefied remains in them when they were loaded with ice. This ice was served to U.S. forces."</p> <p>Eller also accuses KBR of failing to maintain a medical incinerator at Joint Base Balad, which has been confirmed by two surgeons in interviews with Military Times about the Balad burn pit. Instead, according to the lawsuit and the physicians, medical waste, such as needles, amputated body parts and bloody bandages were burned in the open-air pit.</p> <p>"Wild dogs in the area raided the burn pit and carried off human remains," the lawsuit states. "The wild dogs could be seen roaming the base with body parts in their mouths, to the great distress of the U.S. forces."<br /></p><p><br /></p><p>See original here-<br /></p><p> http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/12/military_kbr_lawsuit_121508w/<br /></p> </blockquote>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14627078727179344916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875879714571651572.post-28223703719032628732008-11-24T23:07:00.000-05:002008-12-01T14:14:16.525-05:00project i did for class<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxbWafQf1cqqY691M-_ufTOiaBHBVaikqtVjPUbyrMXI4em3he2KqpCV2-Gwo6E7NL_ibewmxp5bZmS3KdgbQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">FYI it's super jumpy posted. It's better looking otherwise but you get the jist of it and I wanted to share anyway. This was done with Flash. </span>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14627078727179344916noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875879714571651572.post-53191984835924992272008-11-18T19:49:00.000-05:002008-11-18T19:56:26.988-05:00Facsimilie<span style="font-family: verdana;">Look at this email I received in response to a PDF menu I sent to someone-</span><br /><br />"My computer couldn't deal with the fonts embedded in the PDF so the menu is unreadable. Is it possibe to fax it? My fax number is xxx-xxx-xxxx"<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">I did notice her area code to be Santa Cruz, so I guess I shouldn't be that surprised.</span> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br />I love and hate fax machines. I love them because I think they're ridiculous. I hate them for a plethora of reasons including the noises it makes, the slow, slow whirring sound of paper being fed through it, and I really hate when you get a busy signal or accidentally call a live number not a fax number. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">LEARN TO USE PDFs AND SCANNERS, PEOPLE!</span>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14627078727179344916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875879714571651572.post-7866354815656815002008-11-11T17:08:00.000-05:002008-11-11T17:25:01.983-05:00I like the sexy one on the left<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tBGurebwXKI/SRoF7fcBsZI/AAAAAAAAAwE/jXot3DZy8FY/s1600-h/middle_school_pregnant_teens.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 350px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tBGurebwXKI/SRoF7fcBsZI/AAAAAAAAAwE/jXot3DZy8FY/s400/middle_school_pregnant_teens.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267529233772687762" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I came across this retarded article while looking up weather.<br /><br /><a href="http://climate.weather.com/articles/teentv110301.html?page=1">TV shows cause teen sex! </a><br /><br />OMG!!!!!!!!!<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">Even though blaming the current administration is old and tired, I blame Bush. Under Bush, abstinence education trumped common sense.</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> He put abstinence education in the budget in 2002, then in 2006 for the first time in 15 years the amount of pregger teens rose 3%. Correlation? Yah. </span>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14627078727179344916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875879714571651572.post-78718537751488560952008-11-05T17:37:00.000-05:002008-11-05T17:49:13.022-05:00Yay!<span style="font-family: verdana;">Man, I can't remember the last time I was this happy. It's like a weight has been lifted. I feel like my little part in the process, no matter how small, was historic. Just thinking about last night when they said he was the 44th president was just.... beautiful. Everyone was jubilant. I CANNOT think of anytime recently that I have felt so wonderfully happy and joyous. It really has been a dark time and a lot of us sadly began to think that was status quo. It will stay dark for a while, but I am looking forward to our country being fucking AWESOME again. </span>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14627078727179344916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875879714571651572.post-12572800108585730542008-11-04T12:42:00.000-05:002008-11-04T13:28:19.626-05:00I voted this morning<span style="font-family: verdana;">It took quite a while to vote, a little over an hour. Voting in San Francisco is always kinda funny- there was about a whole alphabet of items to vote for, 22, all the way up to the letter V. Most of them serious but often times there are joke items like naming the sewage plant after George W. Bush.<br />My waiting experience was nothing like what my sister Camille experienced in New Orleans. She voted early on a weekend, and it took <span style="font-style: italic;">4.5 hours of waiting</span>. The mayor was asking people why they were voting early, and she said most of them wanted to make sure that their vote counted. <br />What an exciting day!!! I hope Obama wins. I wore my Obama shirt under another shirt today for good luck. No on discrimination, oh I mean prop 8, no on 4, and no on naming the sewage plant in San Francisco George W Bush! (Albeit funny, it's too negative for my taste.) </span>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14627078727179344916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875879714571651572.post-78081382989745828492008-10-30T17:34:00.000-04:002008-10-30T18:27:57.972-04:00i have too much time on my hands.<span style="font-family: verdana;">Occasionally I like to check out what's going on in other areas of this vast country. Here are three highlights from a quiet afternoon of web surfing really random websites. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Bill O'Reilly's website. Here's a fantastic piece of journalism, posted as a link smack in the middle of his website.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3283462/Blondes-make-good-girlfriends-but-brunettes-are-better-wives.html">"Blondes make good girlfriends but brunettes better wives."</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Utah interests me because we drove through SLC once and I recall their newspaper being 1000% fluff. The websites not as bad as I thought it would be but check out a local news station website- they </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.kutv.com/content/news/local/default.aspx">POST the images of criminals! </a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">I thought this fluff piece from Tennessee was especially awesome-</span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081017/PROMO/81017076/"> man plays banjo during surgery.</a> <span style="font-family: verdana;">I think it served a purpose since it looked like some sort of brain procedure. <br /><br />Enjoy. Or, not! <br /></span>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14627078727179344916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875879714571651572.post-24583944997463389782008-10-30T13:58:00.000-04:002008-10-30T16:09:47.732-04:00Halloween party on Friday<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tBGurebwXKI/SQn2VdplffI/AAAAAAAAAo8/x_ctC3Glj4o/s1600-h/Halloween.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 311px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tBGurebwXKI/SQn2VdplffI/AAAAAAAAAo8/x_ctC3Glj4o/s400/Halloween.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263008488155872754" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">We are going to have people over, start your night with us around 8PM for drinks and tunes.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">PS</span> We want to be boring and end early. Think cocktail not rager. So come early (earlier than 8 even) or not at all! WUAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br /></span>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14627078727179344916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875879714571651572.post-31912463968175645622008-10-29T13:07:00.001-04:002008-10-30T13:58:01.851-04:00Halloweeny<span style="font-family:verdana;">Killian and I are going there. We are doing a couple costume.<br /><br />Granted, it's mainly because I procrastinated too long and I don't know what else to be. So anyway below is a picture of us in our costumes, I'm Luigi.<br /><br />darnit, they took my previous picture off the net. (I didn't really want that pic on my computer here at work.)<br /><br />Here's another not as funny one-<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tBGurebwXKI/SQn1eRjCPzI/AAAAAAAAAo0/RfLKbsZJ0CE/s1600-h/mario-luigi-costumes.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tBGurebwXKI/SQn1eRjCPzI/AAAAAAAAAo0/RfLKbsZJ0CE/s320/mario-luigi-costumes.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263007540014366514" border="0" /></a>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14627078727179344916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875879714571651572.post-45877273432523159222008-10-28T12:48:00.001-04:002008-10-28T16:27:56.570-04:00An update for my friend cyberspace<span style="font-family:verdana;">UPDATE. I still don't like the new TV on the Radio. Sometimes first impressions are right, but I would never say that's true all the time with music. This time my shit music monitor was spot on. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">For music that doesn't suck, check out <a href="http://www.myspace.com/deerhunter">Deerhunter</a>. </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">They are most definitely reverb happy, which normally annoys me, but it's still pretty good. </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Last night Killian and I saw David Sedaris at the War Memorial Opera House. He told some funny jokes- </span><br /><br />"<span style="font-family:verdana;">what do you call nuts on a wall?" Answer- walnuts!<br /><br />"what do you call nuts on your chest?" Answer- chestnuts!<br /><br />"what do you call nuts on your chin?" Answer- a dick in your mouth!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tBGurebwXKI/SQdEA8IZ8CI/AAAAAAAAAos/1Yacjq12ZRA/s1600-h/funny-picture-photo-child-toilet-massdistraction-pic.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tBGurebwXKI/SQdEA8IZ8CI/AAAAAAAAAos/1Yacjq12ZRA/s320/funny-picture-photo-child-toilet-massdistraction-pic.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262249472537784354" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14627078727179344916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875879714571651572.post-44555623367242273732008-10-21T17:09:00.000-04:002008-10-21T17:15:01.107-04:00oops<span style="font-family:verdana;">I've been using Vuze at work which I'm thinking might not be a good idea. I was looking for Stereolab albums and I found one. Well, turned out it wasn't one. It was 16 ALBUMS totaling 1.58 GB. Well at least I'm in Stereolab heaven. And I'm seeing them tonight! Woo Hoo!</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.thehoodinternet.com/edan_stereolab.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.thehoodinternet.com/edan_stereolab.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14627078727179344916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875879714571651572.post-24694697833770046572008-10-13T13:56:00.000-04:002008-10-13T14:27:46.070-04:00You learn something new every day<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">I learned today "Miss Ann" is a term for a "woman of European descent who runs a household which employs female workers of African descent to perform tasks such as cooking, cleaning, ironing, etc." Basically it's a term for a racist white bitch who took advantage of cheap black labor in the south, maybe even during slave times, and is a very negative term. </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Dammit! </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Until now I was only always embarrassed by the term "red-headed step child," since I literally was a red headed step child growing up! NOW me, super white ANN, fits the definition of TWO shitty cliches. Granted I personally don't employ black people but I am super white and my name is Ann, that's bad enough.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div></div>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14627078727179344916noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875879714571651572.post-32738657817583895752008-10-07T12:52:00.000-04:002008-10-07T13:06:10.129-04:00New actually original google tool<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/xevious22/BeerGoogles-1.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/xevious22/BeerGoogles-1.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/10/googles-mail-go.html">Good idea for those bad idea nights</a></div>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14627078727179344916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875879714571651572.post-52429781300793079662008-10-03T12:27:00.000-04:002008-10-03T13:00:28.577-04:00Knock knock knocking on heaven's door<span style="font-family:verdana;">I am sort of a morbid person, that kinda happens to you if you lose someone close to you when you are a kid. But lately I feel like death is getting closer and closer to me! EEERRRIIEEEE!<br /><br />There have been two fatal shootings on Treat Ave, my street, in the last two months. So, that sucks. Then, this 28 year old guy got hit by a drugged tranny at 21st and Mission at 8AM in the morning last weekend. The poor dude was just walking to work! 21st is my cross street. Finally, this SF girl was killed in New Orleans, where my sister lives. That's tragic. I only recently went to NO and get this- the girl was 25 like me and her birthday was Jan 22- she was two days older than me. And only yesterday Killian and I were discussing a cross country road trip, which is similar to what this girl was doing.<br /><br />Luckily there are some LESSONS LEARNED- don't deal drugs on the street, don't join the Hell's Angels, don't walk on Mission Street and always be aware of traffic (don't turn iPod up too high) and finally, don't ride my bike through the Ninth ward in the middle of the night.<br /><br />I don't really think I'm going to die today or tomorrow (knock on wood) but tragic deaths like these remind me to make the most of this life! Kids, wear your helmets, don't get too wasted and start fights, don't join motorcycle gangs, and always watch your back. Let's make it to at least 45 when its more about cancer and heart attacks.<br /><br /></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://digitalphilosophy.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/death.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://digitalphilosophy.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/death.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14627078727179344916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875879714571651572.post-7331530871790940282008-10-01T12:48:00.000-04:002008-10-01T13:53:12.586-04:00BRUCE DERN IS THE BEST<span style="font-family:verdana;">I was originally going to write about John McCain, but why bother when people like actor BRUCE DERN are so much cooler?</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.tvguide.com/images/pgimg/big-love-dern32.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.tvguide.com/images/pgimg/big-love-dern32.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Last night I watched "The Trip," a movie by Roger Corman about LSD starring Peter Fonda, costarring Dennis Hopper and </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001136/">Bruce Dern</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> (of the HBO series Big Love and a personal favorite, The Burbs). It chronicles Peter Fonda taking acid and Bruce Dern is supposed to lead him through the "trip" but Peter wanders off and has lots of sex with a girl that's both a new love interest and his ex-wife. TRIIPPPYY!!!!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.guidetoliteraryagents.com/blog/content/binary/dern%20small.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.guidetoliteraryagents.com/blog/content/binary/dern%20small.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />If you read Brucy's IMDB, you will learn the sad story of how he has been underutilized in his acting career. For example. Its been argued (by who I have no idea) he should have played the role of The Great Gatsby rather than Robert Redford. But, sadly, looking at the guy you see why.<br /><br />Interestingly, his grandfather was a governor of Utah, which makes me think he's from Mormon decent. But that's speculation I have no idea. </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">Bruce Dern's daughter is Laura Dern, of Jurrasic Park and Blue Velvet (with, again, Dennis Hopper).</span> <span style="font-family:verdana;">And what else? His god-mother was Eleanor Roosevelt and his son-in-law is Ben Harper. What a weird but awesome family.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br />This morning I was looking for a picture of McCain and I was struck by how much McCain looks like Bruce Dern in the pictures below. They don't look that much alike otherwise.</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> Maybe you disagree, I dunno, the more I look at it the less I see it but that was my initial reaction. <br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.spookytoms.com/TR-BruceDern.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.spookytoms.com/TR-BruceDern.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Bruce Dern</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://wonkette.com/assets/resources/2007/10/mccain40.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://wonkette.com/assets/resources/2007/10/mccain40.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >John McCain</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The reason I was looking for a picture of John McCain is because of </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/10/01/iowa-newspaper-editorial-board-to-mccain-havent-you-lived-your-entire-adult-life-with-taxpayer-funded-health-care/#respond">this.</a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br />This is the conclusion of your much needed introduction to Bruce Dern. Did you ever think in your wildest dreams you would know so much about the man? You are welcome.<br /></span>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14627078727179344916noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875879714571651572.post-44029138197588289922008-09-25T16:21:00.000-04:002008-09-25T18:25:37.408-04:00First impression of "Dear Science," TV on the Radio<span style="font-family:verdana;">Wow I can't believe this album is getting such positive reviews. It's pretty uninspired and pop-ish. "Family Tree" is like a wannabe Coldplay epic and "Dancing Choose" is a Dan Deacon ripoff. It makes me cringe a little it's so bad. They do this thing on a few songs where the music is discordant, which can be cool in certain situations. Here, to me, it just sounds wrong. Judge for yourself but my first impression here is "blah."<br /><br />It's lacking the flirtations with darkness the other albums touched on. You can tell the studio quality is super high, which I think takes away from the great, gritty sound of the singer's voice and makes the instruments lack soul. I wanted to like it because I've enjoyed their other two albums but I can't talk myself into it. It has a good song here and there, "Golden Age" is fine, and</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> the instruments get good on "Lover's Day," in an Arcade Fire, crescendoing way. </span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> "DLZ" progressively gets more interesting but the sort of singing/rapping reminds you of rap rock from the 90s. Too soon for that trend, I'm afraid. Overall a forgettable album. Pitchfork gave it a high number as well as Spin. They are plain wrong. Don't buy it, I'll give you my burned version if you want to give it a try.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I want to stress this is my first impression, because too many times to count in the past I've hated albums at first but then enjoyed them later on. So, I promise to listen to the album a few more times and then give an update. Not that you care, but I'm curious for myself to see if I'll change my mind. </span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q231/frickinawesome_2006/tv_on_the_radio.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q231/frickinawesome_2006/tv_on_the_radio.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14627078727179344916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875879714571651572.post-24480783493627652992008-09-21T15:00:00.000-04:002008-09-21T15:56:36.193-04:00Here's some gangsta shit<span style="font-family:verdana;">Instead of going out last night, I decided to watch a marathon of The Wire episodes I had on Netflix. The Wire, if you haven't seen it, is a great show about crime in Baltimore, Maryland that ranges from street level gang shit to corruption in local government.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">So basically I was busy watching a cop show when I notice there are flashing lights hitting the blinds on my windows that face the street. I think it might be a tow truck, not caring much. But then I hear a megaphone of a woman saying "step out of the vehicle." I jump up and look out the window to see a black Acura with people in it right in front of our apartment, and 6 COP CARS in a row with their lights flashing (no sirens) behind the first cop car. The cops have their guns pulled. </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br />I lose it. I run to the bathroom convinced a stray bullet is about to enter my apartment, and Killian, like the really smart guy he is, wants to film the event through our front window with his iPhone. The woman continues to tell the people to step out of the vehicle, and they aren't complying.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">A little background- in the last month and a half, there have been two murders on Treat Avenue, my street. It's extremely unnerving because Treat is normally the calm amongst the storm that is the Mission District. There were two murders up our street recently and that's been creepy (one was the leader of the Hell's Angels in SF). And in addition to those two, there have been a lot more shootings around. I've seen countless cop cars patrolling the area. And I think most people have become more jumpy and aware of things; it's much quieter on the streets in the evenings.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">So back to last night- I'm listening to the policewoman on the megaphone telling these people to get out of the car, and it was intense because you could tell she was trying to sound calm and authoritative but they weren't getting out of the car and who knows what was happening (I was in the bathroom, and I finally convinced Killian to get the fuck away from the window) but her voice would get excited and nervous and you could tell they didn't have control over the situation yet. I peek out and see a bit of the street from our bathroom window, and I see a cop running up the street with his gun drawn.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">So that goes on for a while. Then loudspeaker voice finally starts sounding like people got out of the car and are complying, so we go to our front door (which has a window out) and peek to see what's happening now. Five kids are getting handcuffed and the cops are looking in the car. Then Matt walks right up the stairs with his bike, and is in disbelief that he just came home to this. He said in addition to the 6 cop cars down the street, there are additional squad cars blocking the street up where we can't see.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">So by this point we are outside standing on our porch, and the excitement is dying down, the kids are being put into squad cars. There are some cops checking the vehicle, and one opens the trunk of the car. All of the sudden, like 4 cops jump back and some draw their guns because there was a fucking kid in the trunk! He was lucky they didn't shoot him because you could tell he scared the shit out of everyone. Apparently he was in the trunk because there was no room in the car. THAT was funny.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">What we deduced is the kids stole the car and were joy riding or something around the Mission. They may or may not have been gangsters, to me they just looked like high school kids being retarded, but unlucky for them bad timing because with all the recent murders, the cops are not taking any chances. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">At first I started thinking, hmm, maybe we should consider moving, but then I thought, last night they put a total of 9 cop cars on one stolen vehicle that may or may not have been something really serious. So now I'm thinking, we are probably in the safest place!<br /></span>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14627078727179344916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875879714571651572.post-10656992836149884122008-09-16T17:55:00.000-04:002008-09-16T17:56:26.298-04:00Finally the world is right<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?o=2&f=/n/a/2008/09/16/international/i114733D04.DTL"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Everything is now okay.</span></a>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14627078727179344916noreply@blogger.com0