Glenda
Run for your life, the ride is on fire.
San Francisco, CA
Female
NovemberNov 24 Tuesday Tue 09
NovemberNov 16 Monday Mon 09
110 things that every New Yorker should know about the Bronx Zoo ∞
The Bronx Zoo is 110 years old and is, I believe, the most famous attraction to go to in my neighborhood next to the not-so-famous botanical garden.
NovemberNov 12 Thursday Thu 09
Top Star Wars Lines Improved By Replacing A Word With "Pants" ∞
As if you haven't seen this before, but people get awfully serious about quoting Star Wars. 287 quotes? Man.
NovemberNov 5 Thursday Thu 09
Joba Chamberlain & HIs Father at the World Series ∞
"... then you see this very simple and very real scene of a 24-year-old pitcher sharing the hug of a lifetime with his dad and you remember that those father-son relationships — one of the only things that really matter — are at the very heart of this great game that we love."
The Wu-Note Project ∞
Wu-Tang album covers redesigned to look like Blue Note albums.
OctoberOct 24 Saturday Sat 09
Dirty Little Secret of Success ∞
A longing for love and approval. That's the dirty little secret of success.
OctoberOct 9 Friday Fri 09
Alex Payne — So You're Moving to San Francisco ∞
I agree with 85% of this article. Not surprising.
SeptemberSep 13 Sunday Sun 09
AugustAug 6 Thursday Thu 09
"So, it's sorta social... demented, and sad -- but social. Right?" (Judd Nelson as Bender in Breakfast Club, obviously referring to Web 2.0)
AugustAug 5 Wednesday Wed 09
Found a half-empty bottle of Belvedere & minis of Remy Martin XO. Clearly(!), this is the precursor to one of those rap fantasy videos.
AugustAug 4 Tuesday Tue 09
"Why There Are No Girls in San Francisco" is the BEST BLOG EVER http://tr.im/vrJA - DEFINITELY confirmation bias on my part. (via @Buzz)
Why There Are No Girls In San Francisco ∞
Singlehandledly already the most brilliant blog, like, EVER... a New York vs. San Francisco blog.
AugustAug 1 Saturday Sat 09
Paraphrased OH: "I'd like to watch a movie about about a mathematician for once in which they don't turn bat sh!t crazy."
JulyJul 31 Friday Fri 09
Dear Systems Administrators: For the record, *I* happen to appreciate you all very much, because I feel you... http://www.sysadminday.com/
JulyJul 30 Thursday Thu 09
Media moguls rethink Web advertising in downturn ∞
"Internet advertising must evolve from displays and become integrated into the content of websites." In summary: PEOPLE, I'VE BEEN DOING THAT FOR 11 YEARS ALREADY.
JulyJul 29 Wednesday Wed 09
Business Guys on Business Trips ∞
You know, this wouldn't be funny if it weren't, for the most part, HIGHLY true. (I actually love the part where they talk about ads. OMG SO TRUE.)
Just put up a new show on http://CraneKick.net. Real heavy on the independent hip hop if that's your steez: http://bit.ly/4nEEOW Enjoy!
JulyJul 28 Tuesday Tue 09
Bashing Goldman Sachs Is Simply a Game for Fools ∞
So, I know that you people care about technology and not about any of that finance wiener crap that happens on the East Coast. I guess, I dunno, substitute "Goldman Sachs" for "Google" and maybe it'll be funny in the same way.
JulyJul 27 Monday Mon 09
Advice to employees on the proper use of the System Administrator's valuable time ∞
I realized yesterday that I generally roll deep with Systems Administrators. In an alternate universe, I probably *am* a Systems Administrator. That being said, SysAdmin Appreciation Day is this Friday, July 31st. Abide by these rules.
JulyJul 26 Sunday Sun 09
RIAA Radar ∞
Hands-down the best site I've ended up on in a long while. A searchable database that can tell you if artists, labels, and albums are flagged by the RIAA or not. Pretty simple. Helpful for those like myself that dabble in the audio.
About
The Word without the Press.
Movies
Star Wars, Donnie Darko, Switchblade Sisters, Celestial Clockwork, A Bronx Tale, Pretty in Pink, Dogma, Morvern Callar, American Beauty, R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet 1-12, Major League, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Scarface, Good Will Hunting, Double Indemnity, Glengarry Glen Ross, Eddie Murphy Delirious, Rushmore, Momento, Ironweed, Dead Man, Stand By Me, Shawshank Redemption, Juno, Running on Empty, Better Off Dead, St. Elmo's Fire, A Beautiful Mind, Decline of Western Civilization II, Waking Life, Immortal Beloved, Boiler Room, Ghostbusters, Fight Club, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, The Breakfast Club, Million Dollar Baby, Summer of Sam, The Bourne Identity, The Matrix, Eternal Sunshine, Requiem for a Dream, Pi, The Big Lebowski, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, every movie with Harrison Ford and Bill Murray in it, and I'm pretty much known to cry while watching baseball movies. ANY baseball movie... even the comedies.
Music
Jeff Buckley, Faith No More, Fugazi, Hey Mercedes, Thrice, Hot Water Music, Seam, Blake Babies, Unrest, Knapsack, Jawbox, Small Brown Bike, The Receiving End of Sirens, The Clash, Edsel, Atreyu, Guided By Voices, Wu-Tang Clan, Notorious BIG, Juliana Hatfield, Sunny Day Real Estate, PJ Harvey, Curve, Pantera, The Roots, Talib Kweli, Face to Face, Bottom of the Hudson, The Pixies, Slayer, Ill Lit, Brian Eno, Brandston, Kraftwerk, Moving Mountains, X, Bad Religion, Duke Ellington, Iron Maiden, Tom Waits, Pavement, Mary Timony, Testament, Medicine, The Police, Guns N' Roses, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, The Smiths, Jay-Z, Eric Clapton, Eve, Tito Puente, Kiss, Lifetime, Jimmy Eat World, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, Joy Division, Gang Starr, A Tribe Called Quest, Psychedelic Furs, The Misfits, Social Distortion, Wilco, Television, Henryk Gorecki, Slowdive, Storm Large, Johnny Cash, Interpol, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Superchunk, Led Zeppelin, The Fall, Future Sound of London, Trisomie 21, Depeche Mode, Big Pun, Big Daddy Kane, Public Enemy, Sinead O' Connor, Snapcase, Eddie Palmieri, Asamov, My Bloody Valentine, Sisters of Mercy, Attrition, J-Live, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Agent Orange, Bikini Kill, Nine Inch Nails, Front Line Assembly
Television
Robot Chicken, Lost, The Office, Scrubs, 30 Rock, 24, Sports Center, Discovery Channel, History Channel, VH1, Project Runway, Arrested Development, America's Next Top Model, Baseball Tonight, Yankees Baseball
Books
Written (or not) by Hunter S. Thompson, William Kennedy, Douglas Coupland, Jumpa Lahiri, Jessica Hagedorn, Fran Leibowitz, Truman Capote, Bret Easton Ellis, Pagan Kennedy, Kathy Acker, Douglas Rushkoff, Roger Angell, Neil Simon, Nan Goldin, Duane Michals, Bukowski, Spalding Gray, Ben Fong-Torres, Camille Paglia, William S. Burroughs, Norman Mailer, Mark Twain, Richard Brautigan, Rollins, Raymond Carver, Marge Piercey, Noam Chomsky, David Foster Wallace, Jose Rizal, Tobias Wolff, Glen E. Friedman, Anne Sexton; Human Nature and De Corpore Politico, When I Grow Up, Gilgamesh, 1984, Catcher; tons of fringe stuff, mostly non-fiction, bios and memoirs, programming books, reference manuals, business books; books about grammar, psychology, art, music history, baseball; song lyrics. Been a while since I've been a fan of any author.
Activities
general tomfoolery and nonsense, margin walking, talking shit about pretty sunsets, walking it off, deconstructionism, troubleshooting, amateur psychology, gross civil disobedience, fighting fires, riding and dying, kinda coding kinda not, eating pizza, finding the needle in the haystack, memorizing minutia and totally not on purpose, last-minute road trips with no destination whatsoever, existential crisiseseseses, sloppy guitar solos, crapping out on chords, fighting crime, skipping stones off people's souls, not taking myself too seriously, taking myself too seriously, Fight Club
Interests
keepin' it real, diversity, identity, ironic use of 80's butt rock tunes with cowboy metaphors and/or songs that rely on Norse mythology references, polar opposites, the tie that binds, what's behind door number 2, New York State history, botany (aka "plantsecks"), dermatology, duct tape, aeronautics, airports, dogs, smuggling root beer across state lines, and I have this bizarre fascination with Americana that I don't really understand or get, but whatever.
Bison, Jun 20, 2007:
Thanks for the add! Hope you enjoy the songs.