Why do all Spiderman costumes have muscles now?

It's ridiculous. When did Spiderman become the Hulk?

Spiderman costumes should just basically be underoos/long johns. Hell, ALL superhero costumes should just be underoos/long johns.

Fake muscles in Halloween costumes are the modern day equivalent of having a picture of the character you're supposed to be dressed up as on your chest. I always HAAAATTED those costumes as a child. It's like, "LOOK, I want to dress up as DARTH VADER, not have a PICTURE of him on a plastic bib!"


Why are adults so stupid when it comes to designing kid stuff?

Some guy writes a song about my love life.

Saves me the trouble of having to write one myself.

"Thank You For Leaving Me (When I Was Down)"
"Thank you for leaving me when I was down
Now I can pick myself up off the ground
Now I can cry without you around
Thank you for leaving me when I was down
Thank you for leaving me when I was down
Now I know what your love was all about
Now you can fly without me around
Thank you for leaving me when I was down"

Giving Drupal a shot.

Well, PostNuke, Mambo and Joomla have annoyed me to no end in terms of their lack of a simple, intuitive user interface. These Content Management Systems (CMS) are ridiculous; are these keyboard jockeys SO out of touch with mainstream users that they don't know how to do a simple WYSIWYG interface? #@$*(&#?$^!!

Featured on the Nerve Video Blog today!

Nerve Video Blog

They've featured my Asian Response and Some Kittens Can Fly! on their video blog page today by the inimitable Jessica Gold Haralson.

Special Thanks to Mike VanHelder and Luke Crane for the referrals!

Apparently my name is funny...

Dumpster Diving and Freeganism.

I've always been a big fan of dumpster diving/trash picking. This city in particular provides wonderful finds in furniture, clothes and collectibles. Half the furniture in my room has been dumpstered and I've found things like an 1891 copy of Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and a first printing of To Catch a Thief.

So about a month ago I went on a Freegan tour in Murray Hill.

http://www.freegan.info

The Freegans state their mission best on their website, but to sum up they recover food and items that are wastefully thrown out by major chain stores and food distributors.

Grocery chains apparently receive set deliveries of inventory, regardless of their sales numbers each week, so they have to make room for the fresh foods by simply throwing out food which may still be good.

The Freegans lead these tours in various neighborhoods and recover tons of foodstuffs, then hold Freegan feasts made from the scavanged supplies.

On my first trip out I got eggplant, tomatoes, zucchini, pasta sauce and lady fingers. I ended up making ratatouille and tiramisu!

Last night I went for my evening run and then embarked on my first solo mission in my neighborhood of Chelsea. Their website lists a bunch of stores in different neighborhoods with good finds. I had planned mainly on getting bagels from Murray's; bagels and breads are one of the food items you can pretty much count on being able to get daily. I ended up getting not only fresh and warm bagels, but from the Eckhard drugstore across the street I found 24 bottles of fruit punch Gatorade (expired), 3 boxes of Granola bars, Colgate toothpaste, a bag of Butterfinger miniature Crisps, a flashlight, a curling iron and a bar of Cadbury chocolate. I left an additional six pack of Gatorade and one of those huge cans of Maxwell House coffee, still vacuum-sealed.

So, what do you all think? Is this cheapness taken to an extreme, or a viable means of stocking one's pantry?

What shall I have for lunch? Oh, I know... Hanson!

So I'm temping at this ad agency, and the entire office just erupted in laughter at the mass email sent out by HR, announcing that Hanson will be playing the Brown Bag Lunch event here at noon.

My mind is on overload. Oh WHY haven't I bought a hand camcorder yet?* I'm just going to have to tape it with my phone.

Bwahahahahaha!

(Full disclosure: I like Mmm Bop )

Update: But you know what? They rocked out. Solid, SOLID classic American rock band and their vocals and harmonies are tight. Nice guys too.

Video coming soon.

The best part, however, is the fact that this ad agency is located on top of the the Manhattan Mall.

* Because you just got robbed, moron.

My computer was stolen.

Saturday night, Sept 1st, my practically new Macbook Pro was stolen from a friend's apartment where I was staying in the East Village. We just went out for a few hours for dinner and drinks, and when I came back the gate over the window had been picked and all my stuff was gone.

Cops came, detectives came the next day. It doesn't really look too good. Not much they can do except check pawn shops and put out the serial numbers.

The financial loss is bad enough, but it contained all my creative and business work of the past 6-7 months; videos, photography, music composition, writing, databases, etc...

Just not my year.

Another reason never to leave my room.