Am I the only one that feels like a lot of the facebook application "invites" from friends read and feel like spam or a chain letter? Very annoying.
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This is a really good way to break your headphones: leave the headphone's ear buds in a cup of water for an hour or so. That is all.
Most of you know that I'm a huge Apple fanboy and like ANYTHING Apple, although in my defense I'm not a completely blind Steve Jobs & Apple Co. apostle: I find the Mac guy vs. PC guy commercials a bit overused and cliched at this point. That said, I "digg" (hah, I'm such a dork) this Apple print ad for their new MacBook Air (or as my homey John Mayer asks, "By the way, can we all just start calling it the AirBook?") which demonstrates their creative mastery of all fields: industrial design, UI, as well as marketing and advertising in TV and print ads.
Dear Make-A-Wish Foundation,
I had the flu a few weeks back. Can you please fulfill my wish for an AirBook?
Thanks,
Boy Meets Blog.
Clay sent me this notice that Matthew Rodriguez is having a show at a gallery here in New York.
Matthew Rodriguez is amazing! Matthew Rodriguez is so talented! Matthew Rodriguez is also probably really good looking too.
SNOW DAY?!
Thoughts on the new layout. Like? Dislike? Favorite? No favorite? Hungry? No so hungry? The only complaint I have is the prominence of the title "Boy Meets Blog." When I first created this blog I never intended for that title to be a static and enduring. I originally planned on changing it frequently like I used to do with my old blog during my xanga days. This new layout makes the title even more dominant. Not sure how I feel about it. I do like the type font however.
Saturday: Thunderstorms. Sunday: Only in Midtown, snow blizzard.
What's next on Monday? Tornados?
You've been warned. You will be absolutely horrified by what you are about to see. This more than anything else should compel governments and world leaders to come together, put aside differences and self-interested agendas and come up with a solution to address global warming.
Me: Yea, I'll be out for sure with a couple of my friends.
Me: And maybe a few girls if stars align.
Ben: Yeah. That shit is unpredictable. You need like a modern day oracle.
I posed this question to my roommate. Would you rather see "The Hottie and the Nottie" or "Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert?" In case you aren't familiar with these masterpieces, here is New York Magazine's synopses.
The Hottie and the Nottie: Paris Hilton marks her return to the college-comedy circuit.
Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: The teenage singing sensation, live in concert.
I think about $90 was stolen from me today at the gym. Ugh. It makes me so...angry. Rage is the word.
During meetings I have a habit, like many, that stretches back to my childhood days of drawing on the margins of my school notebooks with my bic ink blue pens. Lately I've been drawing the New York Times building that our imposing conference room faces and I'm sure many of you do the same. Well, our sketching SUCKS BIG TIME comparatively to this master pen dude who draws these images (some are NSFW) with his blue ballpoint pen only.
Yea, now you wanna show me that coffee cup you drew the other day?
Celebrities never learn from the previous election that the public doesn't really give a flying hanging chad that the cast of Oceans 11 is endorsing X candidate or that Sheryl Crow is going to eat a cup of stuff for Y candidate. And yet their own crushing self of importance compels them to feel the need to LET THE PUBLIC KNOW. The liberal ones have been good so far by generally keeping mum on politics. It's bad enough when so called political pundits and experts open up their goddamn mouths. In a recent interview I read Hollywood's leading gadfly George Clooney even stated something to the effect that he wasn't going to discuss the primaries because the public doesn't care what he has to say. And then BOOM! The celebrities from the A (Scarlett Johansson) to the Z (that uhm, girl from that uhm, movie) list have come out of the floodgates in this ....political music video for Obama...the reeeeeeeeeeeeeeemix. Okay, it's not terrible but while listening to it, I thought that the parts with Obama speaking were the most powerful sections. Okay, the part with Diddy's former butler or whatever playing the violin was terr-ib-le. It almost made me vote for Hillary Clinton, but then I slapped myself hard across the face. Twice. And said to meself "Are ya' ca-razy??"
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And now Boy Meets Blog stands on his soapbox. Feel free to close the browser window and move on to the latest Britney update on TMZ. I'll understand.
Hillary Clinton isn't the worst candidate out there. There could be far worse. Look at the Republican line up for instance. And after eight years of the Bush Administration which has felt less like an eight year presidency and more like eight years in an insane asylum run by the inmates, the victimized public will accept anyone that can put together a complete sentence and is a nano step left of the Republicans. We're like a starved child who'll desperately eat anything remotely digestible that is placed in front of us. And in any other election, Hillary Clinton would be my pick because there is no other option. Because that's how it's always been done. Because I am a Democrat. She is a Democrat. And indeed, for most of the past few years this was the inevitable conclusion. But then a viable alternative entered the marketplace of candidates. Another option. Someone that represented a real paradigm shift. Someone anti-dynasty. Someone anti-norm. That someone is Barack Obama. I believe in this man. And I believe he can begin the repairing of the rift and fissures that are deep in this country caused over the past years. Essentialism is a dangerous slippery slope, however he is the first candidate I've ever seen who truly understands that this country is a plurality of color, ethnicity, and disparate histories, and he can bridge these differences. It's time now for someone who has experienced the pain of racism, prejudice, and hate to sit in the Oval Office to affect policy and leadership change. That is a truly inimitable experience unmatched by any of the candidates in either party. And for these reasons, along with the fact that no one has yet to convince me why I shouldn't support Obama, Boy Meets Blog is officially endorsing Barack Obama. And I hope you do as well. If not, I hope you think long and critically about why exactly you don't support him.
Update: Snoop Dogg aka the smoothest talking cat on this planet could really convince me to jump of a bridge if he wanted to. Whattapimp.
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I was initially skeptical when I first heard rumors of its development, but the more and more I see of Iron Man the more and more I'm ready to push aside little kids and comic book store owners to secure my aisle seat in the middle of the movie theater with my jacket draped on the seat in front of me so Yao Ming doesn't block my view at the opening weekend of Iron Man. It looks so bad ass.
I've had three straight days of getting the "where you from?" question from strangers. Most recent interrogation was by one of the security guards in my office building who asked me as I just walked away from him "Chinese? Japanese?" Am I looking particularly Asian-y lately or something?
By one person's estimation Phil relived Groundhog Day for a total of 4 years. The original script originally had him experiencing the same day over and over again for 10,000 years. Yikes.
Cheeseburger in a can. I doubt you will be able to find this at your local Whole Foods or Trader Joes. This is the complete opposite of the nutritional and dieting advice I read once that a simple matrix to follow in a grocery store is to shop only along the outer edge of the store and to avoid the aisles. The thinking goes that the fresh produce and meats are available on the edge while the inner aisles contain all the unhealthy artificial foods, such as...cheeseburger in a can. But I've been wondering. Can a normal non fast-food cheeseburger be healthy? Assuming you lightly pepper and salt the fresh ground beef, that in of itself isn't bad for you, right? And a proper burger has the bread, so there's the grain food group there. Add a few hefy piles of lettuce leafs and couple thick tomato slices, and we've got the vegetable group taken care of. Overall, a cheeseburger appears pretty nutritious and healthy to me.
In honor of this year's Super Bowl where hopefully the Patriots will place an undefeated ass whuppin' on the New Jersey Giants, I just wanted to post this Pepsi commercial featuring Cindy Crawford from the 1992 Super Bowl. What a hottie, even with those high rise shorts. Only she could make them shorts look sexy. I hate the Super Bowl, but I still heart Cindy Crawford . [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=AcroQsUN60s]