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We bit the bullet. This morning at 10:00 AM PST, we bought tickets to the upcoming Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco in August. The lineup is truly amazing, from our perspective, but they get you with $25+ in service fees per ticket. Absolutely ridiculous. The headliners include Radiohead, Jack Johnson and Tom Petty.. [...]

While this probably means very little to most of my readers, the diatribe has now been upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress, version 2.5. As a reader, there’s probably very few things that you might notice about the site — but from an author’s perspective the entire admin UI is much cleaner and nicer. I [...]

It’s funny, every time I hear the song “Two Princes” by the Spin Doctors on the radio I recall this one memory from my childhood. The song was released in 1992, at which point I was about 14 years old. The memory is of my mom, my sister, my grandfather and I driving home from [...]

I have to thank my old roommate Rachel for sending me this great Easter card. I’m not a huge fan of the bunny-laden holiday (with the exception being those delicious Starburst Jelly Beans that only come out this time of year), but I found this very entertaining:

I have a lot of pet peeves.  Grammar mistakes, both spoken and written, are among the worst in my book.  Someone taped a note up in my building stating that “…the carpets are going to be ripped up and replaced with the week.”  Well, that sign went up at the beginning of this week.  It’s [...]

I have to thank my mom for creating and sending me this great Jib Jab card featuring the one and only Bogart the Leprechaun. I must’ve watched this 10 times today.. It’s a must-see for all of those Bogart Fans out there.

I had read a month or so ago that there was a possibility of an Arrested Development Movie.. but I think that this listing on IMDB makes it much more credible. This would be great news! My bet on the storyline? I think that Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s character (Maggie Lizer) is going to make a return citing [...]