Columbine RPG documentary

I went to college with Danny Ledonne, the creator of the video game Super Columbine Massacre RPG and also the writer and director of the forthcoming documentary Playing Columbine.

DeNiro: A Good Source of Riboflavin

300

by the Latino Comedy Project

Tim Minchin - Peace Anthem For Palestine

Jim Carrey - Call to Action on Burma and Aung San Suu Kyi

An old friend of mine is very involved with the U.S. Campaign For Burma. She posted this video on Facebook, so I figured I'd pass it along.

Wellness Festival

The organization Gillian works for, Laurel House (which provides important services to Stamford's mental health community), is hosting its 17th annual Move-A-Long on Saturday, September 15th at Cove Island Park from 9AM to 12PM. The event literature encourages participants to "walk, cycle, run, scooter, bike, or roller blade around the park’s recreational path. The Move-A-long is an annual one-mile challenge" that benefits the many members who help run and utilize Laurel House's programs.

In order to make a donation or sign up to walk with Gillian and the rest of her team click HERE.

If you have any questions or want some fliers or literature about Laurel House, its programs or the Move-A-Long, you can email Gillian at gilliantanz@laurelhouse.net.

Barack Obama on The Daily Show

Sneezing Panda

Rest in Peace Shithead

Midnight Rumble

I haven't posted anything in quite some time, mostly because I haven't had anything to post. Or maybe just because I haven't felt like sharing lately. Either way, this evening I have been moved to share something. Seriously, I was physically moved.

While laying awake in my bed, trying to fall asleep (a sport at which I increasingly suck at), I heard a strange noise and was inclined to think that Hobbes had kicked the bed. Although Hobbes doesn't normally spasm in his sleep, I leaned over the edge and looked down at his peaceful body. As I marveled at how something so annoying could appear so adorable, something across the room, sitting on a shelf, made a follow-up noise. Sure, I would have liked to blame this too on Hobbes, but it seemed that my qualms would have to be directed at Mother Nature instead.

I have just experience my first Earth Tremor or, for those less studious, what's called an "Aw Shit The Ground Beneath Me Is Moving Without My Permission" event.

After both Darcy and I ventured out of our rooms to make sure neither the 42in LCD HDTV or the beer glass collection had tumbled to the ground, I now will make a second pass at unconsciousness. Wish me luck...

Microsoft Surface Parody

Enjoy!

A Weekend of New Pics

First off, thanks to everyone who donated to the Maria Fereri's Children's Hospital Walk The Walk! Gillian reached her fund-raising goal and I hear the event was a great success. However, it's not too late to contribute if you haven't already. See the post below for donation details.

On Saturday night we held our first party in the new apartment. Such events are often referred to as housewarming parties. It was a scorcher. Good friends (some new), good food (I made burgers from scratch and Darcy made his first salad), and good times (the new 42" LCD and Nintendo Wii were huge hits)!


Our friend Brandy was also in town this past weekend for a dance competition and had enough downtime to grace us with her presence (although she couldn't make it to the party). On Sunday we spent the afternoon on the beach with good beer and a frisbee and watched a gorgeous sunset. Click on the album below to view all the pics from the beach and Father's Office, the place we went for food and drinks afterward.

Brandy's Santa Monica Extravaganza

Yesterday (Monday), I was fortunate enough to participate in a test drive study for the new BRP Can-Am Spyder, a 3-wheel motorcycle. It's a pretty cool vehicle and another album link is below if you want to see more pics...

BRP Can-Am Spyder

That's about it for now. No job as of yet, starting to panic a bit... looking into A/V companies just to pay the rent...
hope you're all well...

Stick 'em up...

and empty your pockets... It's that time again to donate to everyone's favorite Diabetics! The children of the diabetes and endocrine wing at Maria Fereri's Children's Hospital are walking in a circle to raise money for their disease. If they raise enough money they're going to buy Diabetes a shiny new bicycle for Christmas so he can ride out of town and never come back.

In seriousness though, Gillian and my close friend Jen (who works with the kids at the hospital) are both walking the walk along with some other pretty fabulous people and they could really use all the support they can get. Below is a link to Gillian's page where you can donate right there or surf around a bit and donate to the whole team (Jen's Journey). If you've used the internet before I have faith that you'll figure it out. But, if you have trouble and really want to help the hospital buy that new bike and send Diabetes packing, let me know and I'll walk you through it.. but not in a circle...

Gillian's Donation Page:
CLICK HERE OR LOOK LIKE A CHEAPSKATE!

Who's On First

I'm posting it because not enough people even know this exists anymore...

Music Vid from Madagascar

My friend Liz spent some time in Madagascar last year. While there she was courted to be in a music video. She plays the dutifully domesticated white woman...

TINONDIA-TSY MAMPIRAFY
Uploaded by ombilahy

My Map of Santa Monica

Google has added a new feature to the slew of tools they offer to the everyday internet user... My Maps is just another step towards organizing the world's information...

Below is my map. a work in progress...

Click Here

MC Rove

New York Times Editorial

The Rovian Era

Published: April 1, 2007

Turn over a scandal in Washington these days and the chances are you’ll find Karl Rove. His tracks are everywhere: whether it’s helping to purge United States attorneys, coaching bureaucrats on how to spend taxpayers’ money to promote Republican candidates, hijacking the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives for partisan politics, or helping to organize a hit on the character of one of the first people to publicly reveal the twisting of intelligence reports on Iraq.

Whatever the immediate objective, Mr. Rove seems focused on one overarching goal: creating a permanent Republican majority, even if that means politicizing every aspect of the White House and subverting the governmental functions of the executive branch. This is not the Clinton administration’s permanent campaign. The Clinton people had difficulty distinguishing between the spin cycle of a campaign and the tone of governing. That seems quaint compared with the Bush administration’s far more menacing failure to distinguish the Republican Party from the government, or the state itself.

This was, perhaps, the inevitable result of taking the chief operative of a presidential campaign, one famous for his scorched-earth style, and ensconcing him in the White House — not in a political role, but as a key player in the formation of policy. Mr. Rove never had to submit to Senate confirmation hearings. Yet, from the very start, photographs of cabinet meetings showed him in the background, keeping an enforcer’s eye on the proceedings. After his re-election in 2004, President Bush formally put Mr. Rove in charge of all domestic policy.

In that position, as David Kirkpatrick and Jim Rutenberg reported in The Times, Mr. Rove took a lead role in selecting federal judges and the hiring — and firing — of United States attorneys. Mr. Rove’s staff maneuvered to fire the prosecutor in Arkansas and replace him with a Rove protégé, and also seems to have been involved in the firing of a United States attorney in New Mexico who refused to file what he considered to be baseless charges of election fraud against Democrats.

Mr. Rove’s efforts to maintain one-party rule go deep into the government. Last week, we learned about a meeting set up by Mr. Rove’s staff with officials of the General Services Administration that was wildly inappropriate and perhaps illegal. The aim, as outlined by Mr. Rove’s deputy, Scott Jennings, seems to have been to take advantage of the billions of dollars in contracts put out by the agency every year to return Republicans to the majority in Congress in 2008. It included PowerPoint slides on vulnerable House and Senate seats.

This sort of behavior should not be all that surprising. It was not that long ago that the Bush White House embraced the priorities of the Republican governor of Mississippi and virtually ignored the far greater needs of Louisiana’s Democratic governor after Hurricane Katrina.

Mr. Rove retreated a bit from the public eye in the heat of the Lewis Libby trial, but after avoiding indictment, he seems to have regained his confidence. Take a look at YouTube to see his bizarre, humor-challenged gyrations as “MC Rove” at an annual media dinner in Washington the other night.

The investigation of the firings of the United States attorneys seems to be closing in on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who should have been fired weeks ago. But Congress should bring equal scrutiny to the more powerful Mr. Rove. If it does, especially by forcing him to testify in public, it will find that he has been at the vortex of many of the biggest issues they are now investigating.

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Below is the video referred to in the editorial. It is more excruciating to watch than you could possibly imagine.

grand canyon pics

sorry it's been so long. no excuses other than the standard ones...

i just don't have it in me for a long diatribe about the grand canyon. so the short of it is that we rolled Darcy's s2000 off the trailer down on route 40 and then sped like hell up to the giant hole. I'd now be lying if I said I had never been in a car at 130mph... we got there just in time for dusk. anyway, here are the pics.

grand canyon

apt video tour

Since my last post of pictures of the new apartment generated so much buzz (this statement is chock full of sarcasm...) i decided to comply with the requests of all of our readers (Gillian) and post a video tour. hope it helps give you an idea of the space i'm occupying so that when we speak you can imagine me sprawled out on the floor of my enormous closet. :P



again, i implore you to use the comments function and let me know that whatever minimal effort i put into posting is being minimally appreciated...

Apt. Pics

Apt Pics