mummenschanz

This is what the pbf and I did tonight. Thank you for inspiration Chloe and the Robs.

first video post

I'm not sure how these are going to work or how often they will come. Perhaps the wife will get into the gig too... for now, they're going to be more of a way for me to throw out some ideas quickly and to relax doing something for myself. And, I don't do music, so unless someone writes music for me, it'll just be music thrown on... though this song surprisingly matches my cut well!

A Myriad of Color in My Beard

I hate the word myriad. I worked on a freelance job once and did lots and lots of video editing for this guy to his narration and he used the word myriad multiple times... he was an annoying person and was very very very late with paying me. Though once he did we were able to buy a washer and dryer!

I tried to wait until no shave november to start growing in my full beard, but I just couldn't wait. Here it comes!

One of his tags is meg(a)lomania

Enjoy the brilliance:
www.youtube.com/gregcondon


Also, I think it's time for Wife and Man to start videoblogging! only, I'm not talking about staring into a camera and talking... naturally, I mean more. would you watch?

crack head

After three clicks on WebMD's symptom checker, I diagnosed myself with Cocaine Abuse.

http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/cocaine-abuse

The Box

I'm really digging pandora.com. I'd heard about it before, but Rob and Son reminded me about it and boy am I glad. Good stuff.

My boss is back after an extended sick leave. He ran into me yesterday on the street while I was walking around on my lunch break... Naturually, I was scowling at the world around me, and he asked me why as he rubbed the spot between my eyes with his finger. Then he treated me to coffee and asked how life's going. He's acting like a changed man... and he's lost enough weight to look like one.

Can I just repeat myself by saying I love fall? I say this every year... over and over... always singing that old Rugrats song "Fall is here, Fall is here, It's the most wonderful time of year". I guess Faall does to me what spring does to most people. It feels like a renewal... a time to start fresh. A chance to cozy up to myself and those I love. It gets the motivation moving and the creative juices flowing. Hooray Fall!

Real estate is for the dogs

Anybody watching 20/20 right now, or am I the only one wasting my evening? If I didn't feel bad enough that I couldn't afford to buy a home, their doing a story on dog houses that are worth lots (LOTS) of money. One dog house with a flat screen tv and dvd player, an airconditioner, and a little pool that was worth over $80,000.

My dad and I started making a doghouse for our dog once... I'm not sure if we ever really finished it. I don't think so. If we did, the dog never used it.

Now there's another 20/20 with Jena Bush!!! YaY! An hour about a Bush.

what am I doing?

*EDIT*
Actually, the hour with Jena Bush wasn't so bad... I mean, they really really should have contextualized more regarding what Unicef is doing in Jamaica, but it wasn't so bad.

aluminum and oil drums

Last week was eventful! Saw an old friend from high school, got my first full week of teaching finished, went on a lovely date wityh the pbf on Saturday, bought some artwork-materials listed above and got groceries. Exciting times for the Doubloons indeed!

Yes, Please.

For those that would like to buy me presents...

I need a watch. That would be nice.

Also, I need these AWESOME theory trading cards:
http://www.theory.org.uk/david/theorycards.htm

At the site you can buy them, they use the line - Theory Trading Cards provide concise answers to questions such as, "What is the essence of Michel Foucault's oeuvre?" "What are bell hooks' most important works?" and "What is Theodor Adorno's astrological sign?" (http://www.altamirapress.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=%5EDB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0759103836)

This is especially funny if you know that Adorno said, “bent little fortune tellers, terrorizing their clients with crystal balls, are toy models of the great ones who hold the fate of mankind in their hands. . . . The hypnotic power exerted by things occult resembles totalitarian terror. . . . The horoscope corresponds to the official directives to the nations, and number-mysticism is preparation for administrative statistics and cartel prices.”

And it's funny that bell hooks would have a card at all because she goes by (her lowercased psuedo name) bell hooks in an effort to say that the work is what's important, not herself.

Passing

A woman whose writing I loved passed away last Thursday. Madeleine L'Engle wrote, among many things, "Walking On Water: Reflections on Faith and Art" one of the most inspiring and thought provoking musings on the subject. In her NY Times obituary she is quoted as having said,

"Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith, faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelovant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically."

Crazy days...

Every Friday in September I will be teaching for 12 1/2 hours with two 30 minute breaks. I am scared poopless for this. It's not sitting at a desk or reading, but literally on my feet working with students for an obscene amount of time. I'm very nervous but it's only for September so send me prayers and money to make me feel better!

The day my chivalry died

I was riding home on the train yesterday and this guy sitting next to me starts telling the lady sitting across from us that she needs to uncross her legs because it's turning him on... I take my headphones off to see where this is going... then he tells her that she might as well just take her clothes off for him. I see other guys standing around, and an older lady too, and I think in my head that this could be a real new york moment... If I speak up, they'll all speak out too. So I say, "Dude, she don't need to hear that!" and i shock myself with how ghetto I've sounded, but I don't let it show on my face. I look around expecting to see the other guys ready to jump in with me, but they look indifferent. I look to the girl whose aid I have come to... she too looks indifferent. I look back to the guy sitting next to me and he says "Stay outta my business." So I say, "just leave her alone, she don't need that." Then the train stops, the lady stands up, looks at the guy, says "Fuck you" and walks off the train. Everybody else is acting like nothing's happened so I put my headphones back on. The guy then starts talking to me, but I can't hear him because of the music. All I can make out is something about his business. So I take my headphones off, mad at him, mad at the other guys standing around, mad that my chivalry was not noted, and I look at him and say "Seriously?" and I put my headphones back on and go back to reading. The guy got up and walked away through the train.

Fall is here

Okay, fall, the season, is not here yet, but fall the semester is knocking on the door. It's too bad the season's not here now because it's my favorite! a snap in the air and color on the trees.
The semester though is making me nervous. I'm taking 2 classes, TAing for a grad class, teaching a pre-college class, and working my regular job! Be nervous for me. Or be excited for me... you're choice.

Just watch Mario Lopez's face...

here. Oh man pageants are hilarious!

Kennel Cough Redux

Bebe gave me her Kennel Cough. Not really because it can't be passed to humans. I do have a nasty cold starting up. Hopefully it will be out of my system before NYU starts! Airborne tonics nonstop.

Natural Born

kiiiiller?
outlaw?

We're home!

Kira, I swear I sent you that email before I saw your comment.

Back from the trip to TN. On our way to the airport our muffler fell off the car... we were dragging it so we had to get the car towed. It was drama that ended with us catching a cab while our car was still being hooked up to the tow truck and then having to get a second cab that missed the airport exit. We made it to the airport in time for our flight though, and then it was delayed an hour.

The trip was fine and now we're recovering... so is our dog because she got Kennel Cough.

Perhaps there will be some fun photos from the trip sooner than later.

We saw Eisley in concert monday night at Joe's Pub. They were great... great venue too. They're coming back and opening for MuteMath in october... would that be a good show? I don't really know mutemath's music.

My turn

This weekend, I'm the one out of town and the wife is the one home. I'm in San Diego... the baseball stadium is two blocks away from my hotel and there's a crowd there waiting for Barry to break the record.
I have a ticket to the zoo tomorrow. Should be fun. I'll have to slip away from the boss to get there.
Today I walked over to the harbor and saw sail boats, an aircraft carrier, a battle ship and other really big boats. Also walked through the historic gaslamp quarter. I think, after the zoo, i'll have done all the city has to offer (other than the beach, but I don't like beaches). Guess I'll have to focus on the conference then.

I was sooooo sick from the plane ride when I first got here, that I vomited in my hotel room! I was motion sick or had a migraine or some combination of the two.

When the Wife's away (a photo post)

0 comments eh? Either there's a lot of White Stripes haters out there or our blog needs a shot in the arm... nothing like a photo post to do that.

The wife's in Vermont teaching hippies how to speak... or actors living in the hippy state how to speak. I'm home with a sore throught and congestion. I was told to do airborne while she was away. Yesterday morning I did airborne powder in water, then last night I did sierra mist and tequilla, today I am doing sierra mist and airborne powder (not a bad mix!) and tonight I might do airborne, sierra mist, and tequilla... maybe not. I'm also snacking on a block of extra sharp cheddar all weekend and last night while I was drinking tequilla, watching an emotional 20/20 about drawfs and giants, and eating cheese, I started thinking about the government cheese my grandparents used to get... tastiest cheese EVER MADE!!! I've heard the same thing from other people that have eaten free government cheese.

So the wife has the camera that we got for christmas with her in VA (is vermont VA? no, that's virginia... VM? VT!!!?) so I dug out the old one. It had pictures from thanksgiving and christmas on it! OBSERVE!


Thanksgiving Day!


Christmas Day!


Pillow Day!

So what's a weekend look like without the wife? Are you sad husband? You're drinking tequilla alone! I'm not sad. I miss the wife, of course. Her presence is better than her absence, but I enjoy time alone occasionally. It means I can eat THIS for breakfast:


And BeBe and I can throw the newspaper anywhere we want after we read it.


And now BeBe is going to learn some new CS3 tricks so she can change that lucky charms box from purple to red (though really, that's not new to CS3):

my birthday gift

For my birthday, the wife got me tickets to see the White Stripes at Madison Square Garden. I haven't been to an arena concert since Aerosmith when I was 16. The sound was beyond loud at that show and I couldn't hear for a day... that left me worried about those kinds of shows, but MSG and the white stripes know how to not be stupid with the volume.

Porter Wagoner opened the show with Marty Stuart accompanying him. Poter is old (he had to be helped on and off the stage) but he still rocks the rhine stone suits. Porter will be on Letterman tonight just so you know... He was really awesome. He kept thanking the crowd and thanked Jack White and talked about how great it was to play Madison Square... he sang Dooley, and that was awesome.

Then Grinderman, Nick Cave's new band, came out and really crapped up the stage. The wife sang, in the tune of their song I Am Grinderman, "this is pretentious bullshit" and then she said in a cheery voice, "but they are creepy and I'm afraid they could rape me!"

Then the White Stripes played. It was awesome. I like them because the music is simple but dirty, and then not simple at all. It's really crazy how much sound they get out of a two person band. They played Jolene. That made the show worth it to my wife, and brought it all back to good 'ol Porter (via Dolly).