August 2008
34 posts
a break from the norm.
so i’m used to posting ridiculously funny things i find on the internet, but this one’s definitely a little different. it’s a photo montage about a son and the last days of his 98-year-old grandfather’s life. i recently lost a grandmother and, i don’t know, this just really effected me more than i thought it would. check it out: http://www.dayswithmyfather.com
July 2008
34 posts
attn: hollywood
so i was working again late tonight, and last night before i went to bed “serendipity” was on TV, so this probably had something to do with my next thought. i got a great idea for a hollywood romantic comedy. hollywood, listen up. working title: the magic hour an account executive at an ad agency struggling for recognition and working late. a cleaning lady struggling to make ends...
survey MADNESS
i never do surveys. but i always do what mari does. so this was obviously a big quandary for me. THREE NAMES YOU GO BY: ~ Phil ~ Landphil - Monorail Cat Dumpster THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD: ~ mrbungle46 - jumplittlephil - phil loves boxes (i worked in a mailroom once) THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF: ~ my beard - my eyes - my hands THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU DON’T LIKE ABOUT...
some random thoughts.
i heard a story on NPR about how the “scrabulous” app on facebook has been disabled due to a lawsuit from hasbro. i imagined millions of lame facebook users crying in agony that they couldn’t play scrabble online anymore. i had a good laugh about that. cue a hundred join “SAVE SCRABULOUS OMG OMG” group requests. did i mention i hate facebook? i do, i do. a new...
fucking mondays
i feel like i should somehow set up a program that automatically generates a post every monday morning that says something like “fuck work, fuck mondays. i am so stressed!” and then every week i wouldn’t feel like a broken record every time i say it, because it would just get all that out of the way. i have a dentist appointment today to check out all the damage to my teeth from...
my job in a nutshell
sorry for all the videos lately, but i keep finding awesome ones. this is my job in a nutshell. this is what it’s like working for an ad agency and dealing with insane clients.
showtime pizza band
next time you go to chuck e. cheese, make sure to request this hit:
kudos to the murphster for finding this and yacht rock.
bert & ernie: so fucking brutal.
a-one and a-two and a…
incorrect interpretations
pardon my vagueness below, as i don’t want to be one of those guys you read about in the news who got fired for writing a blog. one of the latest assignments i’ve been tasked to work on is a big promotion for one of our clients. the product deals with digital photography and we’ve roped in a big-name sports celebrity to tie in with our promotion. the gist of the promotion is...
you must chill.
sometimes when i’m stressed at work, i feel like john cusack. my demanding co-workers are jeremy piven. and i have hidden the keys.
recreational reading.
alpacatroopers
i don’t know why i laughed as hard as i did at this. maybe i’m getting delirious. woooooooooo!
the quandry of being anti-social and on the...
no matter how many times you check craigslist missed connections, you actually have to physically leave your house in order to have any chance at getting one. and leaving your house to go to work doesn’t count.
why are spreadsheets such fucking assholes?
who invented these fucking things? they are literally the polar opposite of fun. think of the most fun thing imaginable. now think of spreadsheets. did you feel your heartrate increase? did you feel the sweat on your brow? did you feel that sudden urge to run? that’s called fight or flight. if it were up to me, i’d choose flight every time. but it’s not. it’s up to...
and we're back.
i’m starting to learn that mondays are going to suck no matter what. i have all these awful reports due, all the work that accumulated magically over the weekend, and 2 hours of calls built-in automatically. there’s just no way around being slammed. that said, i mentally prepped myself by working for a few hours yesterday, to help get myself ahead of the avalanche. it worked out...
i'm drunk and i love superdrag. fuck you!
when i was 15/16, i thought this video was the fucking essence of badass rock’n’roll tomfoolery. and now i’m 27/28 and i still think that. BOOYAH!
sober edit: dude, watch it at 0:36. fucking best ROCKSTAR move ever.
six feet under.
six feet under was the greatest television series ever. i haven’t seen every television series ever made, but i have a feeling that few would hold up to this show. i first got turned onto it many years ago while i was living in harrisonburg with all my dudes. from first the first episode, i was completely hooked. five seasons later, i continued to follow the lives of the fisher family,...
MAIL!
yesterday i was super stoked because i received a care package from dan, my bro-ham at equal vision records. to this day, getting something anticipated in the mail is easily one of the best feelings in the world. i got four new cds, two t-shirts, and a DVD. the t-shirts are awesome.. they’re two from one of my favorite bands on our label, the snake, the cross, the crown. when i told dan...
things are looking up.
i followed my mom’s advice. after i closed up the work computer, i chilled out for a little while, watched an episode of six feet under, and then promptly went to bed before 11:00pm. this morning, i treated myself to an extra 15 minutes of snooze, luxuriating in the feeling of not being so tired i want to die. my first sign of good fortune was the moment i remembered i left my car parked...
rough day.
today was fucking ROUGH. my monday got off to a great start, as i woke to realize that i completely forgot about a follow-up appointment relating to the accident. i had totally remembered all about it on friday, and over the course of the weekend, completely forgot again. it’s not a huge deal and i can reschedule, but it just set the tone for the day. as i arrived at work, i realized the...
hahahah
my new favorite iphone commercial:
word clouds
i turned my latest blog entries into a word cloud using wordl!
i can't stop listening to pop music
about a week ago, nothing was on my usual radio stations - NPR and WRVA (i’m addicted to talk radio, what can i say?) i just did a random search to see what was on and i happened across Q94. normally i never listen to this stuff, but lately, it’s all i can listen to. it’s so cheesy and crappy and summer-y - i can’t resist. some of the hits: - that new song with rihanna and...
3g iphone. YAY!
so last night i couldn’t sleep. i went to bed at 10:00 and i think the excitement of getting up early to buy the new iphone kept me awake. i tossed and turned until at least 12:30am, which made my 6:00am wake-up call extra brutal. you know when you wake up and you’re so disoriented you don’t know if you’re awake or dreaming? i definitely woke up with my alarm, fell back...
fucking WORK.
so today i got absolutely slammed with work. i’m totally overwhelmed. tomorrow’s already going to be worse, because all my bosses are out and i’m left holding down the fort. i had to work till 9:00pm tonight. fucking ridiculous. when i got home, waiting for me was my netflix movie. what did i get? a documentary about suicide. coincidence? i think not! someone in the cosmos...
i didn't start this blog to make friends...
… I BLOG TO WIN!
brilliant.
i hate facebook.
co-workers keep finding me on facebook. (yet another reason i hate facebook). do i take down all my wasted at the bar / getting awesome / PBR helmet photos? or do i remain unapologetic, announcing to the facebook world: THIS IS WHO I AM! I SHALL NOT CHANGE! the CEO of our company’s husband just added me. i don’t even know how to handle this. i hate facebook with a passion. the only...
new iphone
oh man oh man oh man. just a few more days till the new iphone comes out. can you feel the excitement? sadly i have zero dollars to my name. literally, my credit card is smoking from all the damage on it lately. with the new unplanned computer purchase, my finances have kinda spun a little out of control. i think after a paycheck or two, i’m going to be able to get things back on track,...
4th of july
my 4th of july was nothing short of epic. in fact, it might have started off too epic, because it peaked too early and i never quite recovered. this year, for my first time ever, i went to hadad’s lake in the middle-of-nowhere outskirts of richmond. for those of you who have been to hadad’s lake, an explanation is unnecessary. for the rest, i seriously doubt my words can do it...
run!
sharks are fucking assholes.
final beach dispatch
sorry i’ve been away for a few days. i know this might shock you to hear this, but sometimes i don’t put the blog as the #1 commitment in my life. i am now home from the beach and mostly unpacked. i wanted to leave you with one thing from the beach that i will never forget. on my last day at the beach, i had a moment that i can only describe as magical. i finally feel like i can...
dispatches from the beach, vol. 5
hello friends. so, for those of you worried, i didn’t really get a gecko tattoo. not yet, anyway. last night i decided to get a little wild’n’crazy here at the beach house. some of my cousins were throwing back beers, so i decided enthusiastically to join in. turns out i was a little TOO enthusiastic. perhaps i should have turned down those late night captain morgans shots. ...
dispatches from the beach, vol. 4
hello from kitchen bed in the heart of OBX, baby! so today i decided to finally commemorate my outer banks experience. down the street there is a sweet-looking tattoo shop called “ISLAND DYES”. i thought, wow.. this place has got to be credible. out here in the middle of nowhere. surely they must do great tattoo work. so i decided to splurge and get the tattoo that i’ve been...