rabbit kicks snakes a*$

...or why i will never, ever walk under a tree again, ever.

oh please oh please oh please

suc may have their national championship taken away because of reggie bush and his greed. ha ha! [say in nelson voice]

video game violence?

so bunky and i have gotten a little hooked on the new xbox game viva pinata. it's vaguely japanese, in that it is a mix of strange and cute. however i'm getting a little worried that it's starting to affect us in the wrong way. our new favorite phrase? "i'm going to whack that guy until the candy comes out." hmmm...

arron afflalo's game winning shot against suc

new year...

...new version of blogger, new mp3 player, new laptop on the way.

so, i finally switched to the new version of blogger. or, as mooncrazy said it, "jumped to hyperspace." [have you ever really thought about how much "star wars" has influenced our culture?] let's see how this switch goes. i have recently found myself concurring with mooncrazy's recent rant on the topic; blogger is not very high on my list of favorite people right now. what with all of its recent problems, it's like blogger's getting treated like a discarded wife now that google's gone all mid-life-crisis and got youtube as its, younger, hotter, more popluar trophy wife. get it together, google. i'm just sayin'.

so as not to sound like a complaining harpy, i'll turn this post toward the more positive topic of my new mp3 player that was a gift from my bunky for christmas. as you may recall, i killed my ipod a few months ago. i thought it had come back to life for a brief period, but that was apparently a cruel trick inflicted upon me at the hands of the ipod gods, because it's definitely dead now. so, anyway, bunk surprised me with a shiny, new creative zen vision m for christmas. very generous, wouldn't you agree? especially, considering he also got me a new food processor which could liquefy a small planet in about 30 seconds. apparently, i'm spoiled! :) anyway, i'm just getting used to the player. it's no ipod, but that's not a bad thing, because this player is compatible with the rhapsody monthly subscription service. that means i don't have to buy too much new music because i can put as many songs or albums as i want on my player as long as i keep my subscription current. it's a good way to discover new music that you like (like, arctic monkeys) and yet not waste money on something that you didn't like (umm...belle & sebastian) and fill out holes in your record collection (can you say everything otis redding ever recorded). they don't have everything, though (dmb, beatles). the zen also can display photos and videos, which i didn't have the ability to do before, so i'm looking forward to playing with those features.

so, what have i been listening to on my new player? right now, i'm stuck on the new john mayer album, "continuum." i tried to like john mayer before (circa "heavier things," but couldn't really get into him. this new album, however, is great. first, it's an album - all of the songs are good, not just one or two. second, it was fairly accessible, fairly quickly. i don't have a lot of patience and if something doesn't catch me right away, i'm done. jm seems to be branching into a more bluesy direction. hespent some time with bb king recently, and you can tell. skip the radio-friendly "waiting on the world to change" single, although it's good (and i really like the line "and when you trust your television, what you get is what you got, cause when they own the information, oh they can bend it all they want") the standout tracks on the album are: "gravity," "the heart of life," "bold as love," "in repair" and "i'm gonna find another you." his live album (as john mayer trio) is also very good. his singing has a different quality, not the pretty, lyrical voice on his album, but a grittier, stevie ray vaughan (but on key) quality and he just generally rocks harder. anyway, give the "continuum" album a listen, i don't think you'll be disappointed.

i can knit

so i've picked up the trendy new chick hobby of knitting. see stich and bitch. i had been knitting scarves like a madwoman when i decided, "why should my friends and family be the only ones to suffer from my new hobby, when i can torture my dogs, too?" and thus began the search for an easy dog sweater to knit. i found this one online. i like it a lot; it is quite simple and only took me about a day. granted, it was all christmas eve day on the couch watching christmas movies, but it was a day nonetheless. max was the first victim. here he is modeling his new garment...


squinty mc squintersons


side view

multy, you're next. mwaaa haa haaaa!

life is good

a client sent some see's candy to the office and i ate BOTH the chocolate butters. i'm just sayin'.

bollywood thriller

this is the best thing i've seen all year...



thanks to reynolds for bringing this into my life.

square wreath

we were at the flower market this saturday and i found a square, boxwood wreath. one trip to moskatel's later and this is the result...



[this makes more sense if you know that i also have square dinner plates]

go students

video of the end of the game from the student section

how dumb are the u$c song girls?

they are so dumb, one of them was caught cheering for the wrong team...again...



although maybe she's actually really smart and just cheers for the better team! go bruins!

scoreboard

here's us celebrating our victory in front of the scoreboard...



this may very well be our christmas card this year!

the celebration

go bruins

ok, so, apparently, my mobile blog post sent from the rose bowl is going to take a while to show up (as long as my tom jones concert posts did, i.e., a few days - thanks for nothin', blogger.com), so let me just say this in the meantime:

we are the mighty bruins,
the best team in the west [well, l.a., anyway].
we're marching on to victory,
to conquer all the rest.
we are the mighty bruins,
triumphant ever more.
and you can hear,
from far and near,
the mighty bruins roar!

u-c-l-a, u-c-l-a, f$%@ SC!

yeah, bruins! 13-9! usc's not going to the national championship game! ha!

[photos to be posted soon!]

Fsc!

It's a great day to be a Bruin! 13-9 baby!

Sent from my blackberry from the Rose Bowl!

F@&^ '$C!


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shame on you, ucpd

a ucla student was tased repeatedly by ucpd officers for allegedly failing to show i.d. in powell library. this is just sick and wrong. at the end of the video, when a witness asks one of the officers for his name and badge number, he's told to shut up or he'll get tased, too. this is the police state that we live in now...

United in Denver is lame

Sitting on the tarmac in Denver waiting for a gate. What's the use of being early if there's no gate available? And now we've learned that the plane that is supposed to leave our gate is having some maintenance issues. We're not the only plane waiting for a gate either - I can see another one on our right. I wonder if it will be like a showdown for a mall parking spot during Christmas when the gate opens up. Personal to United - buy some scheduling software! And soon, cuz I hafta pee!

Sent wirelessly via BlackBerry from T-Mobile.

countdown

...to dia de los muertos. got the altar all ready. here's a taste...









click here for the full set.

google searches

i love that my site meter lets me see what search terms were when someone ends up at my page from a search engine, like google, etc. here are the most recent search terms that landed people at my site. how many do you think were disappointed by what they found?

moute kicks boute
pears can just fuck right off
hear live parakeet singing
maltese peasants
wthiwwjp
lorenzo mata t-shirt
stream bitchin camaro
trackwheel broken ipod
history maltese dessert
"proudest monkey" "grey street" "rapunzel" "august 25"
"crash into me" "with bela fleck"
uscis reg flag
Kevin and bean podcast
what does signifying mean in mustang sally
billies maltese family

i think the "maltese peasants" searcher was probably most disappointed although maybe the "hear live parakeets singing" person was probably a close second. the "wthiwwjp" searcher hit paydirt when they found my links to videos of japanese people doing strange things on tv shows. i love the internets!

chernobyl valley

i always knew about rocketdyne and the rocket testing going on in the santa susana hills in the east end of simi valley. how could you not know? when they did the rocket tests, it sounded like they were launching the space shuttle from your backyard! but i didn't know that there was a nuclear reactor up there and they were doing nuclear tests as far back as the early 50's. nor did i know that simi valley apparently had our own chernobyl in 1959. you can read the reports from the santa susana field laboratory advisory panel here.

maybe this explains the manson family.