September 30th, 2005 | by nick | published in current events, just like in civics class
I usually don’t turn to vapid fashion magazines for political facts that galvanize my opinion on a given topic, but in this case, Details came through in the clutch. Amid articles like ‘She’s Pregnant: Is it Time to Go?’ and descriptions like ‘your wallet should be thin, effortless and elegant, just like a woman,’ I [...]
September 26th, 2005 | by nick | published in nouns: people, places or things
The longer I live, the more subcultures I find. Most are harmless pastimes - reciting sports trivia, playing 16-inch softball, performing improv comedy - I find academically interesting, yet hold no real fascination for me. Occasionally, however, I come across a few I simply can’t get my head around - bull riding, NASCAR, sudoku - [...]
September 22nd, 2005 | by nick | published in mostly music
After years of going to concerts, I’ve noticed quite a few instances of the I’m Pretty Much Ready to Go Home phenomenon.
I’m at a show - either highly anticipated or run-of-the-mill, it doesn’t appear to matter - and after 45 minutes or so, I’m ready to go. I could be listening to (read: enjoying) [...]
September 18th, 2005 | by nick | published in current events, just like in civics class
Sit down. Relax. Want a drink? No? How about you just lie back and make yourself at home. I’m going to ask you to put aside your political affiliations for a moment.
No, no, come back. Sit down. This is going to be fine … nothing painful, I swear.
Think back to the good ol’ 2004 [...]
September 15th, 2005 | by nick | published in meta-studies in pop culture
The magical interweb has fundamentally altered my perception of reality. Browse below and you’ll agree - a small sample of ten minutes of good, hard surfing will get you enough jaw-dropping experiences and inside-joke fodder to last at least, oh, a year. Or a month, if you’re ADD.
Hot chicks. Playing Dungeons and Dragons.
That’s it: Hot [...]
September 13th, 2005 | by nick | published in verbs: doing, moving, shaking
So last night I came home after a long day at the office and the gym and other such yuppie activities - and realized it was nearly 11 p.m. And for some reason, the Taco Bell from 4 in the afternoon wasn’t holding me over. I took stock of the cabinets: some canned peas, some [...]
September 12th, 2005 | by nick | published in mostly music
There are only a few people trustworthy enough with a fall playlist to make suggestions for track addenda … and one of them spoke up. Thus appendix A of the Official 2005 Fall Playlist.
The Young Dubliners, ‘Bodhran.’ As the first track off their album Red, ‘Bodhran’ sets the mood with Irish fiddles over an [...]
September 9th, 2005 | by nick | published in current events, just like in civics class
For the last two days, I’ve been following the ongoing discussion about linguistic appropriateness in regards to Katrina coverage, specifically, the use of the word ‘refugee.’ Apparently the Rev. Jesse Jackson feels the word is racist – ‘It is racist to call American citizens refugees,’ he claimed – but for the life of me, I [...]
September 6th, 2005 | by nick | published in mostly music
I’ve started a few posts, but most of them ended up as rants against placing blame on the true causes of Hurricane Katrina, or banal discussions about this one episode of MTV’s ‘My Super Sweet 16’ that ended with the line ‘try and beat that party, bitches.’
Actually, maybe I will post on ‘My Super [...]
August 31st, 2005 | by nick | published in current events, just like in civics class
I received two forwards today. While the first was of the run-of-the-mill ‘if you don’t send this to ten people in the next 1.4 seconds, you will die in a wheat-threshing accident’ variety, the second made me stop and think for a moment.
You’ve probably received this one: Apparently to stanch the flow of blood [...]
August 30th, 2005 | by nick | published in nouns: people, places or things
Back in the wayback days - May of this year, I think - I attended a professional conference at which a man named Jason Pearce gave a presentation on blog technologies, Flickr, wikis and other such new media nonsense.
So it’s only fitting that yesterday I turned to him for advice. And not only does [...]
August 28th, 2005 | by nick | published in late-nite ramblings
I had a conversation yesterday that piqued my interest. I was walking out of a training session, discussing my former involvement with sixosix magazine with a classmate, and it turns out she’s pretty much doing the same thing we all are: trying to figure out just what the hell is going on. You can use [...]
August 26th, 2005 | by nick | published in nouns: people, places or things
Once upon a time, in a magical fantasy land just around the corner from my apartment, there was a coffee shop. And this coffee shop was good and quaint and had well-behaved customers and made a mean cappuccino. There were comfy chairs and a few well-thumbed copies of the Reader and a perky barista who [...]
August 21st, 2005 | by nick | published in late-nite ramblings
It was a strange weekend, in that I was true to my new ideal of getting up early to be ‘proactive’ or ‘a go-getter’ or whatever smarmy adjectival phrase you want to assign to the idea that weekends shouldn’t all be spent sleeping and partying.
I was up by 7:25 and to a (non-compulsory) training [...]
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