July 2010
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Vague Optomism!
I’m sitting cross-legged on the floor of my bedroom in my underwear. I’m not wearing clothes because taking them off was all I thought about on the drive home from work, which required my car to cut through 94-degree, marshmallow-thick air. It’s not the heat, but the humidity that kills me.
Nevermind the A/C has been running all day to keep our McMansion at a comfortable 71...
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“This would also explain why demagogues benefit from keeping people agitated. The...”
– Joe Keohane for The Boston Globe, “How facts backfire.” Interesting read.
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Josh On Brand Building With Social Media
Me: Approve tweet? (y/n) "Morning." "Morning." ::sniff:: "Any shoots today?" "NOOOPE!" #happyfriday
Josh: But lots of editing.
Me: Do you want me to work that in there?
Josh: No. That is how I greet the first text I receive each day.
Josh: Yes. Work it in there.
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Baseball!
I meant to post this, like, a month ago. Instead I’m confusing the “post” button with the “delete” one.
I have a new idea of a good time, and it is Aeros games. Went last night with @jmpapoi. $10 tix were $4 if you mentioned their twitter feed. It’s been probably more than a year since I had a proper hot dog and a couple years more since I’ve been to a ...
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The Other Best Google Voice Message Transcript....
Transcript: This but as a little blue okay. Ha ha and And an.
This isn’t the first time this has happened, by the way.
June 2010
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WatchToo cool. Thanks to Craig Shimala for posting these awesome videos and introducing me to my new one-of-my-favorite bands, XX.
“The first part is random strikes I happened to capture on the same night as the triple strike on Willis Tower, Trump International Hotel and Tower and the John Hancock Building (vimeo.com/12816548). In the second clip you can kinda hear my neighbors on their...
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coke-offerage 101
BoneThug69420: how was the show in columbus?
me: weird
we parked in front of this house where two guys were hanging out on the porch
fratish, but not a frat
10: 50 PM
one had clearly been drunk and stoned for hours
told us all about the huge house parties they have had and would have that night
and how he'd bring a big crowd of people if we could get him and one or two others in free
we had little lose by adding people to our guest list so we put him on
shockingly a no-show
10: 52 PM
He was fucked up, shirtless, freckly, inked and had his front door open to a den stocked with every illicit chemical a heart could desire.
When we finished, we walked out of the bar and saw red-and-blues lighting up the street.
And their dogs
10: 53 PM
we went to grab a bite to eat and came back to van afterward. A few of this guy's friends were on his porch being quiet and sullen. He was notably absent.
I asked what happened and they said he was arrested.
"What for?"
"Felony possession."
This guy had somehow lured Gerard into the house and offered him coke.
10: 54 PM
This angered me when Gerard told me later, as I had only been offered marijuana.
BoneThug69420: ha, well clearly he thought gerard could handle the hard stuff better than you could
let's face it dude, with your hair and the headband and all that, i'd take you for a marijuana man too
10: 55 PM
however
i would never offer someone gerard's size cocaine
for fear of him going batshit crazy and breaking every bone in my body
me: I wasn't wearing the headband! I had a real small t-shirt on. I looked like a coke freak or a junkie even.
BoneThug69420: that's just coke-offerage 101
me: clearly
Is that a gen ed at Harvard?
10: 56 PM
BoneThug69420: it is, but i tested out of it.
me: Merited.
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Best Google Voice Message Transcript. Ever.
Call from < boss >
Transcript: Hi Hey Hey. Okay hey.
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Killing To Punish Killing: You Can't Even Get...
All that can be achieved by sentencing Ashford Thompson to death is doubling the body count of his crime. It’s a hot-blooded mistake in the name of vengeance.
I’m not recommending we let him go, of course, or overlook the horror of his crime. I am strongly opposed, though, to lowering the community to his level by sentencing him to death and having a government that kills its own...
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Briefcase Guy
I was walking into work the other day when I noticed a briefcase on the floor in the hallway. I meant to ignore it, but before I could start up the steps, it was nagging at me. I turned around and contemplated it.
I work at a small company that leases office space in a building whose other tenants seem to mostly be law firms, or one firm spread out over a few floors. It’s logical, then, to...
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Jetsettr
I’ve made back-to-back weekend trips to Chicago and New York City this month. The delusion of entitlement ought to last right up until I can’t afford to feed myself from a vending machine.
(Photos from Chicago are pending the arrival of my camera if Chava ever sends it. I didn’t have it in New York and enjoyed the liberty [forcibly] afforded me by paying attention to things with...
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Flashdance
The identity crisis continues. I recently got all clowned out to take photos with Brown Fox for marketing purposes. Band photos are the most ridiculous thing, especially when you’re at the bottom and no one really cares about you. You can’t understand how awkward it is to ask someone to follow you around with a camera (for free) until you’ve tried it.
The results:
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The Quintessential #colinmorrisblunder, part 3
PART THREE
Incredible. Jenn and I had been nervously waiting for Shannon outside the bar for at least fifteen minutes. Shannon, who is selfish when she’s drawing robots, apparently wasn’t checking her @ replies or direct messages. Jenn and I dashed inside the bar again, showing our ID’s to the same bouncer for the second or third time, and looking over the shoulders of each...
May 2010
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The Quintessential #colinmorrisblunder, part 2
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I spent the next hour draining my cell phone’s battery (I literally used about 80% in 60 minutes) trying to salvage the situation via SMS. It’s not that I prefer to text when a phone call would be appropriate, but I didn’t have Shannon’s number and I was constantly updating three conversations with new information every 15 seconds or so. I’ll post a...
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The Quintessential #colinmorrisblunder, part 1
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It seems whenever I’m in Chicago a project or series of tasks resembling daily life there presents itself. This is one of my favorite things about being the city because it keeps me from feeling like I’m just visiting on vacation.
In the rare case where no struggle presents itself, I unwittingly create one just to keep things interesting. Saturday night, I...
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Same Old For Now
I’m going to New York City today to visit MC Mike, who will probably take me to cooler bars than we’ve been to together before. I’ve been so caught up in other stuff, like travel, spiders and crowd-sourced crisis management, I’ve hardly taken time to get excited about what an awesome trip this’ll be.
For better or for worse, I forgot my camera at Chava’s when I...
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But
I’d talk to you in person or on the phone instead of through the internet, but a mysterious pain in the side of my tongue has made talking pretty unappealing for the last two days.
I’d be happy to finally have substantial recording gear within arm’s reach in my bedroom, but I’m too tapped from everything and can’t figure out Cubase.
I’d post a picture of all...
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“You know, one thing that bugs me about Feist is the jumping up and down. I wanna...”
– Chava Garcia
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Crowd-Sourced Crisis Management
You may recall I recently found myself in a considerable pickle wherein I was Chicago-bound with no accommodations for my foreign travel companion. Her budget was limited by an ATM that ate her French credit card earlier in the week, and most hotels in the city were booked through the weekend. Hostels had been booked for weeks.
I am now relaxed and enjoying my vacation in my favorite place on the...
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On Going Everywhere... Soon
I have worked harder and longer at music than anything in my life. There is in fact nothing to which I have applied myself with even comparable diligence. I’ve known it longer and more intimately than anyone reading this. Except maybe mother, in which case, thank you for cleaning the bathroom.
I play it down. I try not to blab about it to others, because to blab about my relationship with...
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Dear Chicago: HALP
I should be pumped about a trip to Chicago, but instead I’m having a bit of a panic attack because I still haven’t found a place for my friend Vanessa to stay. Or she hasn’t found a place to stay. Can’t say she’s really tried . She doesn’t seem concerned. She also doesn’t seem to understand the prospect she’s facing, which is two nights of...
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On Movement, And Being Everywhere At Once
We have a houseguest. I like this because it means I have a new shower curtain, and mother cleaned my bathroom even though I cleaned it just two days ago.
I came home very late tonight, caked in a layer of sweat that had dried on the way home from a concert, and took a shower. My shower is a floor-to-ceiling bathtub deal with an opaque curtain. When you’re in it, you have no way of knowing...
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Exciting news. Stay tuned until I can hammer out the details. Thanks.
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Are You Here For The Scalping?
I can’t sleep because of a relentless tickle in the back of my throat (#pause), so I’m sitting up with the windows wide open, breathing deep sips of some of the summer’s first muggy night air, coughing and moaning about the coughing. And yet this makes you my captive somehow.
I got up to go to the bathroom a few hours ago and noticed light creeping up the stairs from the touch...
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I Too Tend to Pwn This Conversation →
#seconded
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Do You Want Free Fries With That? No? Have Some...
EB was in town last weekend and we decided to support some of our favorite Highland Square establishments. Actually it’s a bit of the tail wagging the dog to characterize Highland Square businesses as such charity cases: Two matinee tickets at the Highland Theater cost $10, and delicious sandwiches a few doors down at @MrZubs (more info from Yelp) only cost $8.25 with the Vitamin Water we...