t'isnt lyme disease! 'twis garlic flu!

i have come to the conclusion that my illness is not lyme disease, because i don't believe in lyme disease. i don't mean that i don't believe in the fundamental beliefs inherent in lyme disease, i mean that i don't believe it exists. my ailment is...

garlic flu.

my family eats so much garlic (seriously, 8 cloves in one loaf of garlic bread? wow. ) that this is not a suprise. if my hypothesis is correct, i am patient zero in the man-garlic mutation process.

yes, my friends, i am slowly becoming a head of garlic.

one of the more disgusting symptoms of garlic flu is that all the foods not banned by my medication taste remarkably like raw garlic, and are therefore disgusting. yuck.

a missive

Mary-John and Emily and Maggie .... COME BACK SOOOOOON!

march boot camp 08

wow, this feels like a really long time ago. these aren't all the pictures i took- i just got tired of uploading them, so i stopped after 5.

itsss.... BIBLEMAN!!

go to imdb, look up Bibleman- its a Christian Kid's show... not currently on air, but very very hilarious. also not great doctrine... but HILARIOUS!

a favorite quote...


Cypher: ...The Prince of Pride hit you with an ego-stimulating, heat-radonic seismo-ray...!

Bibleman: ...Creating an egoplasmic distortionary electro-field, which caused me to focus on myself instead of God! *Insidious!*

piglet would love it. or maybe haycorns are different.

this coffee tastes like i always imagined acorn coffee would taste like.

and yes, i have actually wondered what acorn coffe would taste like before. haven't you wondered? i mean what else did you think squirrels drank in the morning?

verdict: the squirrels are right. yea!

my superpower

Stronger than parentheses! More expressive than a double hyphen! Able to simulate conversational dramatic, emphatic or awkward pauses in written expression in a single bound!

Look! There, on the page!... between those two words! That thing that signals neither a shift in topic nor a separation between two connected phrases... is it a comma? is it a semi-colon?... no, its an ELLIPSE!

eureka!

i absolutely love the feeling you get when you solve a technology problem that seemed unsolveable. its just... oh yes.

makes me feel like one of those awesome geeks that are always in movies... the ones who are supposed to be geeky but wind up being the coolest character in the entire movie. i won!

Thomas Cole

This is "The Garden of Eden" by Thomas Cole, one of the painters from the Hudson River School movement. We saw this at the Amon Carter Museum a few years ago - its so much more amazing in person... the colors glow, everything is bright. If you ever get a chance to see it, go. A photo can't express how amazing it is.

beavers:1 tree-huggers: 0

the other day i was accosted by a violently adament tree-hugger with a bunch of flyers about how if students and businessmen would just stop double-spacing, we could save trees. at first this sounded logical... and then...ohhhh, wait a minute! avoiding the temptation of explaining the obvious illogicalness of his cause to him, i rushed past, avoiding eye contact. but now, in retrospect, i have a suggestion for him.

leave my double-spacing alone! i like the way it looks! instead, lets take a moment to think about what things on this planet are threatening the dwindling tree population. hmm... well, obviously the mass distribution of flyers which will probably never be read makes a glaring appearance on the list, and strikes me as highly ironic considering the large stack of them which my eco-conscious friend was brandishing. but lets think a bit more creatively... tonight, emily and i found the real source of the global paper scare-

THE BEAVER :
no, no, no... not that Beaver! this one:

consider his beady eyes and freakishly tiny ears... his near alien flappy tail and incredibly scary teeth. this, my friends, is a cold-sapped tree-killer. so i urge you...
save a tree, burn a beaver.

playing for change

check out this video - it's pretty amazing.

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2539741