Wine and donuts

The other contender for the blog title was "Another Month, Another Blog Post." I went with the lesser of two lames. And, in case you're wondering, yes, that is my lunch. Wine and donuts. Well, they're not technically donuts. They're some kind of Spanish... thing... that is like a donut. They are ring-shaped fried dough covered in sugar. To me, that is a donut. Regardless, I know you are jealous. And I may have an avocado for dessert. Plus more wine. Obviously.
Anyway, enough of this pointless nonsense and on to the real pointless nonsense that I am hear to talk about. Celebrity heights. No, that is not the name for my new television series that plans to capitalize on '90s nostalgia with a high school drama where all the characters are washed up '90s stars. Think Beverly Hills 90210 (from which I will steal the scripts, changing all the name to be more "urban" and adding the occasional dinosaur attack) meets Where Are They Now? Keep an eye on E! Entertainment News for more information. If that channel actually exists anymore.
Anyway, the kind of celebrity heights I am talking about are the kind discussed on celebheights.com. Now at first glance this may seem like a useful resource, but one glance at the comments section reveals a hideous underbelly of time-wasting nonsense. Think of it like the Wikipedia of celebrity heights. There is a picture of the celebrity alongside someone whose height is known Every registered member is a self-proclaimed expert in the area of celebrity heights and they have endless arguments in the comments section for each celebrity's entry. There is endless back and forth over when the person was measured, spine compression, posture, stance in the picture, etc. and how much all of these factors affect a person's height.
Can you conceive of a more stupefying waste of time? And for the purposes of this discussion, we're going to ignore the answer, "Reading a blog where someone complains about people's obsession with celebrity heights." I mean, I've wasted some time in my day. Yes, MTV is going to have a reality show based on it, but only a select few of the celeb height elite will be chosen for that. Think about the future, people! Your career and place in society probably has better chances if you spend your time learning to juggle instead of spending time on celebheights.com
That's all for now. Hugs for everyone!

Another absence, another return

Hey. Long time no see. Yes, I'm still horribly lazy. Yes, I'm writing this blog entry when I should be doing other things. In the interest of maximizing my procrastination time, I have created another blog, http://dogsandpork.blogspot.com. This one is more or less solely for photos and will be a blog where I don't swear and talk about various quasi-legal activities so that I can share it with my family potential employers, etc. It's going to be mainly photos taken with my camera-phone, so don't expect Ansel Adams. There will be lots of pictures of dogs and food, mainly.
I will still continue to update this blog in the sporadic manner to which you are accustomed, but I'm busy with my "real" writing jobs over at Vagablogging and Suite 101's Instrumental Music section. I expect to be fired from one or both at any moment, so click now before these links become nothing more than testaments to my shameful laziness.

SAD

The weather over the last month and a half or so has been a bit crap. Chilly and rainy. The last two days have been indescribably gorgeous, or at least for six to eight hours a day. My phone was broken, but it is indescribably working again, probably out of sheer joy at such a beautiful, sunny day. I am going outside.

Got gout?

I came here to write a blog entry about Psycollider and how it's ironic that I'm writing this from Linux, which I installed largely for the purpose of playing with SuperCollider, and now there's a more functional version for Windows, but I was distracted by the sign from God that is featured above this sentence that seems to have no end.

Yes. That's right brothers and sisters! God can save you from that gout! He will cleanse you body and soul. I call upon all the faithful to purchase our lord's goods at faithmeds.com!

Yes, you're probably thinking I'm insane, but how can you read an ad like that and pretend we are in a world where sanity exists. And let's remember that you, the readers of this blog, whoever you are, are the target audience for this. You are all obviously people that would buy faith healing for your chronic, most likely alcoholism-induced gout.

New Year, New Layout

I was unhappy with my old layout for a while, but I had this fantasy that I was going to work some CSS magic and create my own custom template. I should have known better. Maybe I will still do a custom template at some point. Maybe not.
Resolutions for 2007: Post more. Read more. Get a real job. Get out of Madrid more. More music. Mejorar mi español.
I'm also planning on writing more letters. If you still haven't gotten a postcard or something from me and would like one, send me your mailing address. Swing by and message me on Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/apathyonastick if you don't know my email. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone who reads this blog. Congratulations. We've all managed to survive another year.