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New York
So I’ve neglected this blog for a long time. Oops. I literally get 5’s of people wanting me to update it more often, but I just haven’t been feeling creative. There have been two people who have been especially persistent about it; lovely kiwi Bebe and the also lovely and always masturbating Marina. These two are always pushing me to update.
So last night I sent a tweet to the both of them:
@bebe33 @Marinaisgo You must each pick one topic for me to blog about. Aaaaand go!
Bebe responded first with
@noarmsjames Something about your experience of NYC
And what Bebe wants, Bebe gets.
April 15th is a very important day, it’s my birthday! It’s also the birthday of the host of a little podcast known as Keith and The Girl. Like 5 people listen to it so you probably haven’t heard of it. So anyways, Keith (the host) is a huge fan of mine; I’m probably his favorite person in the world. So Keith learns about my birthday and decides that they should throw a huge party in my honor in NYC. Being modest I at first declined, but he is very persistent.
Now when I say huge party I mean huge! Two venues, 3 stand-up comics and a band. Somehow Keith got his 5 listeners to get a huge group of people to come to NYC for the party. It was huge!
I’m not going to go through a play-by-play of the whole night, but I’ll share some observations.
I’ve been to NYC many times. It has a special feel to it, one I can’t describe, but it’s unique to NYC; no other city big or small has that feeling.
Being a very old city, NYC is extremely wheelchair inaccessible. Everywhere we went that night had stairs, big flights of them. Thanks to extremely helpful KATG fan (and a good friend to boot) Kale and my best friend Bean we managed to navigate the stairs with minimal difficulty. Usually a non-accessible place doesn’t bug me, but with almost everywhere in the city being that way you can’t help but feel a little unwelcome.
NYC is also the only place I’ve been where people will literally stop in the middle of the sidewalk just to stare at me. They don’t care how blatant they are about it.
Pat Dixon is the worst comedian in the world. FUCK PAT DIXON!
KATG fans on the other hand are amazing. I’ve never felt so welcomed by a community. Everyone I met and talked to were great, and I can’t wait to hang out with everyone again.
All in all it was a great trip and a great way to spend my birthday. I wish I had one really great stand-out story from the trip, but the whole thing was amazing, and it went too fast.
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7 comments July 9, 2009
I Have A Headache
And aspirin hasn’t touched it. So I thought it would be a good idea to stare at my computer screen and write. I don’t know what to write about. So I guess I’ll just go and see what happens.
I had a good friend of mine who left the PHX four years ago come in for the weekend with his girlfriend. It was a lot of fun. While they were here I had a couple firsts.
I went to my first Hookah bar. It was really cool. I enjoyed smoking from the hookah. The only downside to this was that because of the anti-smoking laws here we had to be outside, and it was windy. There were a few times I was convinced the wind was going to blow the hot coals onto me. Call me crazy, but I don’t like being burned.
I finally tried Sushi, and loved it. They took me to Ra Sushi. I really liked it. My friends girl used to work at one in another state, and wasn’t at all impressed with the food, but I liked it (aside from the bones in my Salmon). Our waitress wouldn’t acknowledge me at all, which should piss me off, but isn’t for some reason.
All in all it was a great weekend and I was sad to see them go.
I’ve also realized that I am indeed getting old. Besides the receding hairline that’s getting harder to ignore, I’ve noticed some other changes in me.
I can’t party like I used to. When I was in my early 20’s it was easy to recover from a night of partying, now I need a full day (at least) to be back to normal.
I don’t get young people. While at the Hookah bar I was looking at the people there, mostly kids in their late teens to early twenties, and I just don’t get them. I couldn’t relate to them anymore, and would feel real uncomfortable surrounded by them myself. I’m sure they’re okay, but I don’t get ‘em.
I don’t like much new music. Most of the music in my collection is from the ’90’s and early 2000’s. On Sirius about the only station I’ll listen to music-wise is Lithium (90’s alternative). I think most of the music today is crap, and the only stuff I’ll get that’s new is from bands that I listened to years ago that are still putting out stuff now.
While we’re on the subject, everyone should go out and buy Filters latest album “Anthems For The Damned”, which is amazing (like almost all their stuff).
I’ve rambled on long enough.
Until next time kids.
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4 comments August 28, 2008
I Can’t Read
Well, I mean I can, and I can write too! My problem is every time I try to read a book, by the time I’m done with the first page I’m tired. Not like a little tired, like exhausted tired. You know that kind of fatigue you feel after Thanksgiving dinner (I suppose you vegetarians and vegans don’t know. I just don’t understand veggers. You give up meat for your “health” and end up looking like chemo patients, all pale and frighteningly thin. I mean if you wanna look like that, why not just develop an eating disorder? You’ll get the same look and save money on food. And also, if you don’t wanna eat meat then why do you have all this mock meat? If you hate meat so much why are you making bullshit that tastes and feels like meat? Moron. You know what really gets me though? The ones who do it ‘for the animals’. Seriously, how many animals do you think you saved by giving up meat? Let me tell you…NONE! Not one cow, chicken, fish, or pig was saved. Your sacrifice was for nothing. And while we’re on the subject; why are all male veggers such pussies? Every guy vegger I’ve seen is an emo, pseudo-intellectual, “indie” music (news flash: When you’re signed to a label and have fans everywhere it’s not indie anymore) loving, transparent, emaciated, borderline homosexual? Does lack of meat turn off your testosterone flow while turning up the estrogen and simultaneously making you an unbearable prick? I mean, it might be cool when you’re 16 and all the dumb teenage girls think you’re so deep, but when you’re 30 it makes you a douche, and a worthy candidate for an ass kicking.)?
Shit, I don’t remember what I was talking about.
Oh well.
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2 comments August 17, 2008
Oh Linux, How I Love And Hate You
Last year I gave up on Windows and switched to Ubuntu linux, a move I’ve been quite happy with, and one I suggest all of you Windows users make. Mac users are fine, your OS is pretty stable.
What I love about linux is the freedom it gives you. You can tweak and change anything and everything. What I hate about linux is that you can tweak and change anything and everything. If you don’t know what you’re doing you can really fuck up your system, just like me. I was fiddling last night and completely lost all sound. No one seems to know how to fix it. I rule. I feel lost without my music and movies and stuff. I’d never cut it as a deaf guy.
Well I’m off to compile the sound drivers by foot. If that doesn’t work then I have to re-install everything.
Fuck you linux…
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4 comments August 14, 2008
