I had a most pleasant surprise last night. First, I went to a new place to hang out with friends and, although difficult to find, it was amazing. Its a rooftop bar/restaurant/sheesha place with a great view, atmosphere, prices, and it wasn't crowded at all. Second, my friend Grant invited his friend Elliot, who turned out to have lived in Richmond for 5 years in the recent past, and loves good music. Even though he had to be at arabic class at 8am he invited grant and me back to his place after we left the 'Carlton' at 2am. When we got to his place we just drank jack and listened to Pink Razors/Refused/Murder City Devils until 4am. He even gave me the back issues of Harpers magazine that he had! I love it when new friendships have parting gifts.
As i've said before, sometimes i like to check the stats of the blojj to see who is visiting from where, etc. one of my favorite things to look at is what keywords people search before they randomly end up on my page. These were on the list:
| descriptive words FOR FOOD HAMBURGERS |
| picture of hamburger as a butt |
I like to think of a person putting on all caps to 'yell' at google because the past 3 searches did not yeild the desired results. I just can't imagine what they were searching for before they resigned to imaginarily yell at a search engine. I guess if the only 'descriptive word' for hamburger that you can come up with is 'food' you are probably easily frustrated.
I also like to think of someone with seasame seed 'buns'
My good friend is getting a bit concerned for her well being in b'more. so what can i do halfway around the world to help?
make lite of the situation with jokes.
Love,
Scary Rapist"
The fireworks started again and I was able to get a photo. I also found out that they are for the 32nd annual Cairo Film Festival which starts tonight. The kids love it because the films aren't censored. I can't believe this is my view:
My love for getting things done was reinvigorated today. I finished my articles, did the dishes and cleaned my room -all between the hours of noon-5pm. Oddly enough it starts to get dark here at around 4:45pm. I was rewarded for my efforts by an impromptu fireworks display that could be seen from the balcony! I have no idea who might be celebrating independence at 530pm on a tuesday, and I don't care.
Thanks to ambrose manor for turning me onto the church sign generator. if you make one that is hilarious please send it in a comment, i'll post the best.
I stayed home from work today so that I could write 4 articles. I'm not happy about having to work, but my day was made better by my wonderful roommates making a delicious homemade egyptian breakfast and sharing it with me. This is them making tea. As is customary in this part of the world, it takes at least 3 people to complete this task.
From left to write: Sabrina (french), Maher (egyptian), and Hassan (jordanian).
Last night I ordered pizza hut with my roommate.
I'm used to having my name misspelled, but notice the Mr/Mrs section of the receipt:
These comments deserve their moment in the sun and they're not showing up on the recent comments section.
I stayed up until 2:30a.m. to provide a cleaner, easier to read layout.
To all the nerds in the house: This is a three column layout and I want to alter the code to make the middle column narrower and the text/body column wider. I'm having a difficult time locating that particular line of code in the html, so if you can help, let me know.
People in hollywood 'huff' something.
The top three things I think that they 'huff' are:
1. Spray paint
2. Glue
3. Dongs
Effing Hardees. Apparently when some fast food places found new customers by offering healthy alternatives (ranch soup with salad bits), Burger king, Hardees (carls jr if youre on the west coast), and KFC decided to go the opposite direction (famous bowl). They indulge the 'hardcore consumer' with bigger, better, more intense food and let them pay for it with a credit card, because a research company found out that consumers will spend almost 30% more if they use a credit card at a fast food 'restaurant' (artery clogatoriam). This is the latest commercial from Hardees. It starts out normal, you know, with people eating invisible food, but if you still have an appetite by the end you are not human.
Crazy hip hop artists at music awards shows, remember how awesome ODB was?
I do...
I dedicate my 201st post not to Lil Wayne, but to his takeover of all media. I read he was on the CMA's the other night! I'm also surprised that mad magazine is still in production, but one hopes that Alfred E. Neuman in black face will help sales. One also hopes the back page folds into some sort of butt joke. When asked by reporters if he was concerned about possible backlash from the NAACP Mr. Neuman replied, "what, me worry?"
Lame joke, I know, I went for the easy kill.
I was listening to this swedish wonder this morning. He talked about his first kiss like it was the most amazing thing in the world and how he'll never forget it. I thought back and after a few minutes, I remembered. It was an awkward goodbye after an afternoon of playing mad libs. She had eaten sunflower seeds and drank milk the entire time and the kiss tasted super gross. I still rode my bike home so happy, i knew i had passed a milestone in my life. when we broke up I was so sad that i ate an entire box of fruit loops without any milk. Then i played sonic the hedgehog while gently crying.
I hadn't thought about that until today. Then i remembered that I randomly saw her many years later at my friends wedding reception. True story - I never talked to her because i was in a hurry when i shaved that morning and accidentally missed a spot directly under my nose. Once I realized my mistake it was too late and there was no way to fix it. I didn't want her to think that i dressed up as hitler for my friends wedding. The SS uniform was sheer coincidence.
"What really counts in life is that at some time you have seen something, felt something, which is so great, so matchless, that everything else is nothing by comparison, that even if you forgot everything, you would never forget this." -Soren Kierkegaard
The first thing that came to mind when i read this was last Slaughterama when I skipped the show and hung out with my best friends behind hollywood cemetery and watched the trains go by. It was so perfect and beautiful that I remember thinking that most people wait their entire lives to experience something like that. It was also the first night i had homemade cheese, thanks to chris.
I later experienced the complete opposite when drew turned into vomit monster all in my bed (and possibly in my mouth).
I wouldn't say that everything else is nothing in comparison to that nights events, but it was certainly something i'll never forget.
I didn't forget about the ol blojj I just havent had much to report. I've just been in thinking mode lately, I had an impromptu party one night with friends, and I tried to watch the movie 'the leopard' at an art gallery last night. The chairs were too uncomfortable to sit through 3 hours of an italian epic I had no interest in seeing so I left. I did find an egyptian hefe-weizen, which was delightful, and I made pasta. Anywhere you go, there's downtime. any job you get is still a job. Your friends are always going to ask you what you want to do tonight, and not have any suggestions so you'll sit inside and talk. There's nothing new under the sun.
I do appreciate the amazing weather right now, I found a bicycle advocacy/riding group (now i just need a bike), fresh fruit and orange juice every morning on my way to work, and a diverse group of friends.
Despite all that, I'm counting down the days until I'm in the states. You appreciate america so much more when you're in a third world country. Not almost getting hit by a car 20+ times a day is one of the things i miss. Amazing food is another.
I've been trying to find a gym here for a while but all the gyms are about 60-100 usd a month and located primarily in hotels and cater to foreigners. I can't really afford that and all I really use are the free weights so its hardly worth it. Its not like i'm going to use a hot tub because i always think that its some post coital stew. Anyway, I found a gym today that's only 10 usd a month and located above a barber shop on some back street downtown. It's great. Its like a private prison gym, you know the kind reserved for the well behaved inmates, only its outdated by about 20 years. I half expected to see one of those machines that has a giant lap belt that just shakes you or maybe even kettle wieghts. Instead all i found was 1 guy working out to the sound of ringtones. He even set his phone on the bench in the middle of the room so the 2 other people in the gym could hear it. OH! The 'locker room' was a bathroom where the bathtub/shower was converted to have 2 shower heads right next to each other, so you'd be standing in a bathtub with another guy taking a shower.
MIA demands for every show:
Thanks to the Smoking Gun for getting this
Matt:
Totally story unbelievable.
I was in a group that covered "Eye of the Tiger," the Top Gun theme, and "The Immigrant Song" all at once. It sounded like what you'd think. Water large.
November 11, 2008 10:08 AM
"Grey Old Tea"
^^All you Gramanarchists need to pay for attention. Pray for detention. Stay for the intervention.
It would be Grey Old Tea right?
Correct? Affirmative? Give me a reading Houston.
I like that Darth Vader, phonetically spoken in Arabic would be "Dahth Fahder." It cracks me up every time.
Captcha word of the day is:
"patesha"
It sounds racist. Is that weird?