i am freaking out over all the options of digital cameras out there. i just got a fairly big tax refund, which essentially covers my plane ticket to italy plus a little extra, so i can afford a camera for $350 or under.
someone just tell me what to buy, please, and make it easier for me.
godammit. that was a decently good show. if only fox would give their shows more than two weeks to succeed. and if only they wouldn't put good shows in the death slot of 9pm friday nights.
having said that, i'm going to risk saying this: arrested development isn't doing it for me lately. i thought some of the episodes were fairly brilliant, but the past few weeks have been a big fat EH.
not so with 24, though. it's finally picking up. i can't wait to see michele explode in a big ball of blood and skin blisters.
This is kind of awesome. Wilco's new album has leaked; their fans have let them know about it. Instead of bringing the legal hammer down, the band has set up a website, suggesting that fans who want the music early donate there -- proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders.
Pitchfork story here; website for donations here. Go Wilco!
In other news, I'm off to sunny Florida until Thursday, for work. I'll still be neck-deep in internettery though, so watch this space for lots of cliched jokes about old people, stolen elections, and the students of Miami Dade Community College (for whom I'll be working). W00t!
happy monday! i hope you didn't die from having your head blown off by the wind anytime this weekend. i almost did, and boy, was that fun. tommy and i went to see the cherry blossoms at the tidal basin on sunday, and it was like being in a wind tunnel the entire time. we really could almost lean forward and be supported by the wind. i later saw on the news that the area wind blew down like, 400 year old trees and chimneys, so i'm just glad we escaped any bodily damage. anyway, tommy is off to miami tonight, that jerk. i mean, it is for work and all, but at least he'll be in a part of the country where the temperature has skipped above like, forty degrees in the PAST SIX MONTHS.
browsing some travel articles from sunday -- i had meant to link this one last weekend, an article from the washington post on hiking in slovenia. i did that last year, and higly recommend slovenia as a neato destination. it really was one of the most fantastic natural settings i'd seen in my life, which was completely random, because who the hell thinks about going to slovenia? but really, it was completely alpine-y, and about 10x better than the hiking parts of switzerland at a rate of about 10x cheaper. also, everyone speaks english in slovenia really, really well. in fact, a waiter at one restaurant made a multi-layered joke that a couple people in our group didn't even grasp until thinking it over. funny people, those slovenians.
article on trompe l'oeil building facades along the italian riviera. kind of interesting. good old new york times travel section. you can count on them having at least one italy article each sunday.
i also liked this little feature from the post on how not to dress like an american retard when you're in europe. i like it mostly because the whole enterprise is completely futile. you're gonna look like a retarded american and there's no getting around it, no matter how much black you're wearing. it's just somehow inherently obvious. i mean, look at the post's male and female examples. do they look chic and stylish and non-american? no, they just look like yuppies gone wrong (or mormon missionaries gone wrong, for the guy).
enough euro-bitching. i have lots of work this week, so, luckily for you, posting will be light!
So first the Brazillians refuse to allow nuclear inspectors. Now -- surprise, surprise -- they're under siege by rabid vampire bats which may or may not* also possess radioactive superpowers of some sort.
This is why we can't allow foreign countries to have nuclear resources -- the guy at the reactor with the swatting-broom gets tired, a few bats fly through the core, and suddenly no one in your country's got any blood left. We need inspectors in there NOW, to confirm, once and for all, the rumored non-white "other"ness of Brazil's current insane fascist dictatorial regime of idealistic socialists, and their consequent unfitness to harness the atom.
You're either with us or against us, Brazil. If you think radioactive blood-sucking bats are bad, wait till the CIA gets warmed up.
* definitely do, run RUN
