what?

I'm not sure I get it... and his web cam updates itself... and I have no idea how to find that photo, or the context therein

can you explain?

44 hours until the airplane... and still no presentation... shit!

If it is any consolation Alison I actually do most of the cleaning and cooking in my house when my mom and dad are gone. My sister is busy with a job, my brother is lazy... therefore it is a job for me to do. Oh Well what am I going to do about it?

Wow, alison. Even Briggs picked up on that rant:

That guy looks genuinely panicked

Hey Tom what time are you guys going to see Shaun of the Dead?

new panthers record

Panthers: Things Are Strange
They're at their best when they bring the rock as directly as possible, but their Vice Records debut features several tracks in excess of seven minutes. Do the math.


damn.. i could have bought the new Bjork, Speakerboxx/Love Below, and even the new Converge each for 11 bucks- if anyone's got a hankering for some new music hit up Blackbyrd right away, as there's some muthafucka who's dishing off (Radiostation ripped) new cds, and the byrd's actually sellin' 'em cheap.

yo..... shaun of the dead sometime this weekend.... tony and eric i think u guys said u were down, but the invitation is open to all.... if no one wants to go ill go by myself, but in that case ill probably see first daughter instead.... holmes and blucas are you FUCKING KIDDING ME????!!!!!!!!! damn hes enough to make a girl forget all about boreanaz

well, the first tens seconds aren't entirely unimportant...the title screen, if i remember correctly shows a flock of birds haplessly circling in the air, uncertain who to follow. an obvious visual metaphor to our own confusion over whose news to accept.

Control Room was definately a significant step above War Room, but not half as entertaining as Startup.com

so... can I borrow it sometime next month? that would be so awesome. I'll make my whole family sit down and watch it. I'm tired of the whole choosing to remain ignorant so you don't have to think differently thing that my dad does so fucking well.

slightly angry, yes... but who totally ignores their daughter when thinking of people to go to baseball games with when it was the daughter who bought the tickets for them, and the daughter with whom tons of baseball was played?

yes, I'm bitter... but I'm no emasculating dyke, I promise you that.

*roar!!*

I've got it on tape, if you, or anyone else, would like a peek. As soon as my bro has seen it, it's free for use. The first 10 seconds or so are missing (and that's the part where they reveal the murderer, and the room in which the murder occurs), but the rest of it is there (commercials and all!)

ranty ranty ranty

I missed control room??? damnit! It would've been so good to see too... damn.

oh well, I sat by a fire and was somewhat "put in my place" by my dad instead.
I swear he's angry with me for taking a Women's Studies class. And he keeps getting into arguments with me about certain things... like the whole welfare rule where women don't qualify if they live with a man... where my reasons (though sound) are thoroughly un-supported/accepted by him. It's driving me crazy. What the hell do I have to do to help him see the other side... short of emasculation? or is that what he's worried about? that I'm some insane hairy-legged dyke living under his roof and trying to push his wife away from him. Right, 'cause that's what I am. I know he wishes I wore frilly pink dresses like I did when I was three - like I hated wearing when I was three - but who the fuck wears frilly pink anything at my age? and I'm not three, and it just isn't the same if you're not three, no one looks cute in a frilly pink dress beyond the aproximate age of 7, and even then you're pushing it. Fathers can't expect their daughters to remain innocent and girly for their whole lives if they're also going to succeed. (sure, you can be girly and succeed, but not innocent... and that's where the problem really lies). Fuck, it just pisses me off. And I know I can't "campaign" against the norms of my family... it totally wouldn't fly. But still, who the fuck takes their 8-month old granddaughter into the kitchen to watch the women clean up and tell her that that's what a "good girl" does, what about his grandson? I hate traditionalist families, I hate how caged they make me feel.

um, sorry, I guess that's a rant. but I needed to do it, so thanks.