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Comment span

due to the face that the server my blog is hosted on has been getting repeatedly comment-raped lately, comments have been turned off until further notice. For those interested MT-Blacklist and the combination of the obscured number one needs to enter in order to post enabled virtually no spam comments to get through, however ther server was running at a load of more than 300...So what looks like what will be happening is : a new apache module is being installed that only lets an IP address read a file a certain number of times before it denies the request.

Cross your fingers.

excerpts from 2004

Excerpts from GQ's
"The 2004 Overrated List"

-Rappers who act
-The Apprentice
-Friendliness
-Ben Affleck's political support
-Olives
-Sobriety
-The Da Vinci Code
-Crystal meth
-The 18-34 demographic
-Old School
-The opening night of anything
-Soft-shell tacos
-Zach Braff
-Saying "God bless you"
-Brian Wilson as a tragic figure
-Hockey
-Hurricane tracking
-Green-tea ice cream
-Jimmy Fallon

We Salute You

Today we salute you stressed out college students during finals. As you sit in your lonely cubical in the library, doped up on starbucks & aderol, you think to yourself, am I ever going to need to know this in life? The distractions are tempting and you have suddenly diagnosed yourself with ADD. I'm sure by now you know exactly what everyone is doing because you have checked your buddy list 800 times. Christmas break is just days away, and your prozac prescription will be in tomorrow. So crack open an ice cold bud light after that last exam, because for most of us christmakkuh will be spent in rehab.

What was I thinking?

Can I shoot it? Pleeeeassse?

J.T. one of my friends from Syracuse has been deployed to Iraq (actually it happened several months ago) and I recently found out he was taking some pictures. I know this whole 'war' thing fucking sucks, but what really grinds me is that J.T. actually changed his army reserve unit and requested that he be deployed to Iraq to make a difference. Word from the grape-vine is telling me that he really hates the conditions over in Iraq, he thinks that he might be redeployed despite being a reservist and that the whole army thing is no longer living up to what it was suppossed to be.

I'm putting together a 'care package' to send to him probably next monday. If anyone wants to include a card or some food/supplies let me know (email not comments) and your stuff is welcome in the box.

I forget what this entry was origionally going to be about so there will probably be another later tonight.

Gawker

I found the following website curtosy of Gawker which is always good for a laugh of two. Anyway the point of this was to say, thank goodness for a 512mb cache in FireFox. I wa looking at the comments last night and she took them down today. Probably the most memorable one that I have is:

Oh. Mah. Gawd. Honey, I've met some pretentious twats in my life, but I'm afraid you take the cake. I assume you come from nouveaux-riche stock, as no *real* trust-funder I know would be so crass as to refer to themselves as a "Prada princess."

Oh, wait: you live on the Upper WEST Side. Never mind. All makes sense. Call me when you relocate to somewhere a tad more classy -- Park Ave or Darien perhaps -- 'kay, hon? In the meantime, have fun dancing on the banquettes at B8 and Marquee with your similarly vulgar trustafarian galpals.

With friends that grew up on Park, Darien, Grenwich (sp, but I don't really care) and New Caanan (?) I gotta say that the "Prada Princess" has no class and she definitly isn't in the same class as the people areound her. In the words of Ashley, "Theres no way she came from old money. She'd live outside the city and have a flat inside the city, but thats beside the point. If the twat were classy she'd be wearing something beter than Prada."

This week, our unlicensed astrologers tell your fortune based on your favorite emoticon.

:-!
After a night of heavy drinking, you'll realize just prior to boarding your plane home that you're still drunk. This is a good thing, since you're not nearly as good of a singer when you're sober - especially in public.

:-*
Your significant other will return from a 21st birthday on the town only to flash your roommate.

## : -&
Blues music is good for grinding to. Blues music is not good for grinding to with three of your best opposite-sex friends.

once again, thanks to the DailyOrange for making me laugh when I needed it.

:-
You will attempt suicide 35 times, one for each page of history, English and poli-sci papers you have yet to write. Too bad paper cuts are so tiny.

O:-)
"Do you want to come over and play Risk?" is nerd-speak for "do you want to come over and watch movies?" "Do you want to come over and watch movies" is everybody-speak for "do you want to come over and get it on?"

:-P
You are having no idea how good this is tasting right now.

8-)
Shivering outside in 25-degree weather while acting in a student film, you'll realize that television, radio and film roommates are the most dangerous type of roommate. Except for chainsaw design roommates.

>:o
You get away with parking illegally overnight, only to promptly get pulled over and ticketed for making an illegal left turn the next morning. Good thing the cop didn't know about the 12 stolen mailboxes in your trunk.

:-[
The change machine will only produce three quarters for your dollar, leaving you in a mad scramble under the washers in search of more money. Too bad all you come up with is a fist full of soapy lint.

;-)
Be forewarned - vanilla extract contains a lot of alcohol. But that doesn't mean you get to act drunk after eating a fresh batch of cookies. Unless you're drinking heavily at the same time.

=-O
Your Mexican fiesta night will turn into Mexican disaster night after your rice pot explodes. Weeks later, the fiesta is still going when you find grains under the toaster, behind the stove and in your roommate's laundry.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21)
Don't get too stressed out over finals. After all, in the grand scheme of things, whether you pass your chem exam or not doesn't really matter, which your second moon of Capricorn will help you to discover.

25 Degrees

Its 25 fucking degrees outside now. I am so freaking glad that im only going to be here for another 6 months or so. After this winter I think I will consider moving to places outside of New England, like Seattle, SoCal or D.C.

On a lighter (or no so light) note, I burnt through probably about 15 dollars of gas over the weekend trying to find a music store with a copy of “69 Love Songs” by The Magnetic Fields in stock. I tried every freaking store I could find however no luck. After a brief nap I realized that I hadn’t tried SoundGarden, and lo and behold, they had a copy. From now on I won’t even bother checking the larger stores I am going to go straight for SoundGarden.

My list of ‘DVDs I want to purchase’ grew by three this weekend.

Currently in heavy rotation

The Postal Service “The District Sleeps Tonight”
Makes me want to go back to D.C. I haven’t been there in a few years. Interesting dichotomy between the pace at the beginning and the pace at the end. Reminds me of high school.

The Perishers “Sway”
Nice piano tracks in the background.

Anna Nalick “Breathe”
Sort of depressing, but it moves in a way that doesn’t make it feel that way.

The Killers “Mr. Brightside”
Nice, upbeat. Featured tonight on The O.C. but its been in the play list for a month or so. The lyrics are nice (and applicable to some of my relationships)

The Killers “Smile Like You Mean It”
The title says it all

The Magnetic Fields “Take Ecstasy With Me”
Shortie but a goodie.

Kylie “I Believe In You”
This one sort of slipped into my play list and stayed there. I can’t really find a reason to remove it, so playable it stays.

The Magnetic Fields “Sunset City”
Nice backbeat and lyrics to go with it. Not terribly vocally challenging, but it still feels good.