Rants and musings, without care for substance.
Posted in books, oddities, things i'd like to see on Aug 3rd, 2008
I like books. I like reading. My grandmother would be proud of me. She owned a lot of books. Tens of thousands of them. They filled an entire room, spilling over onto the stairs in her New Jersey home. She would routinely give books as presents as I was growing up. For decades she bought [...]
Posted in film, television, things i'd like to see on Jun 10th, 2008
Why hasn’t Doogie Howser, M.D. been made into a movie yet? With all of the other television shows that the studios have been making these days instead of coming up with new material, why not? It could be dubbed “The Later Years” (paying homage to Fred Savage) and depict Dr. Howser handling a few cases [...]
Posted in music, things i'd like to see, web sites on Mar 7th, 2008
I downloaded Ghosts I this evening and gave it a listen. I also listened to some of the tracks on the site itself (click “Listen”). Completely instrumental, I like the assortment. It doesn’t have the polish of Reznor’s typical studio album that you can only assume was the product of months in the studio mixing [...]
Posted in Tech, things i'd like to see on Mar 3rd, 2008
As of early last week, all tickets for Rock ‘N Roll Revival XIX — which opens this Friday night — were sold out. That’s six shows seating around 1,000 people at $12/ticket, grossing over $70,000. That doesn’t include merchandise, concessions, flowers, or another of the other things that people will buy. Not too shabby for [...]
Posted in advertising, gadgets, oddities, technology, things i'd like to see on Jan 14th, 2008
Heading north on Russell Street just before Ravens stadium there’s a billboard that proclaims “Marriage works” while depicting a cheery-faced couple. What are the advertisers trying to sell here in Baltimore? A church? the institution of marriage itself? As far as I can see from the street there isn’t a sponsor listed. Lots a people [...]
Posted in television, things i'd like to see on Dec 6th, 2007
A recent comment about a snowball brought back a memory. When I was younger and on holiday break I used to watch David Letterman. I didn’t understand a lot of the political humor at that time or get all of the jokes, but it was still entertaining to watch the celebrity interviews and the banter [...]
Posted in boozing, food, healthcare, music, things i'd like to see on Dec 3rd, 2007
I don’t really care if people smoke or not, but it does irritate me to come home after a night out and have to throw my clothes outside or start a load of laundry immediately to prevent the house from smelling like stale cigarette smoke. Not to the point of not going out, but enough [...]
Posted in complaints, culture, healthcare, things i'd like to see on Dec 2nd, 2007
Reading about that lingering bar smoke aroma that emanates from our clothes, it reminded me that I left Bateman’s Friday evening, my clothes reeking of stale cigarette smoke. I was only in there for 30 minutes and I didn’t see a single person actively smoking. It was all residual. This is a sharp contrast to [...]
Posted in culture, things i'd like to see on Nov 20th, 2007
Having dinner with my family one night the conversation turned to what to do in the event of an explosion. Not a freak gasoline fight accident, but a bombing in a public place like a mall, airport, or museum. The consensus was that after the initial blast that we ought to wait a minute to [...]
Posted in culture, film, things i'd like to see on Nov 19th, 2007
I saw Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead at The Charles Theatre this weekend. Two brothers plan to rob their parent’s jewelry store and it goes bad. Without giving away any details, this is a violent film that didn’t live up to my expectations. My expectations in this case being I saw the preview and [...]
Posted in Tech, music, things i'd like to see on Nov 4th, 2007
I was reading Maxim and saw that you can buy an Airbus that seats 900+ passengers for the low hundreds of millions of dollars. Talking to a buddy in the production services industry (read: a company that provides big ass speakers for concerts, among other things), we thought it would be cool to have a [...]
Posted in oddities, technology, things i'd like to see on Nov 1st, 2007
Every once in a while I’ll stumble upon something that I want to know more about. It could be the most remote thing that has absolutely nothing to do with what I’m doing or what I’m usually interested in. Then I have to stop what I’m doing and figure it out. It is akin to [...]
Posted in complaints, things i'd like to see on Oct 30th, 2007
I’d like to see store policies that make sense. So many of them don’t. For example, I take issue with the return/exchange policy at Party City.
We will gladly accept returns and exchanges within 30 days of purchase with original receipt. Packages must be unopened. Returns on seasonal items such as Christmas, Easter and Halloween Costumes [...]
Posted in boozing, culture, plans, things i'd like to see on Sep 13th, 2007
A close friend and I have always talked about opening a bar. We’ve got a name picked out and everything. I think everyone dreams about running their own place at least once, having conversations that start with the phrase “if I owned the bar…” and ending with some absurdly crazy thing they’d like to have. [...]
Posted in healthcare, life in general, things i'd like to see on Aug 21st, 2007
My throat has been bugging me for two weeks now. It isn’t even a cough most of the time, just a slight tickle in the back of my throat that won’t go away but it happily soothes with throat lozenges. It started a day or two after the FAH gig at Nottingham’s; I had been [...]
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