Weight Snapshot – birthday edition

Hi ya'll. As I said earlier, I am slimming down. It is a long process. I am hoping to hit my target weight of 160 lbs in one year's time. (gulp) Here's some progress, courtesy of Microsoft Excel. There was some expected slowdown around the holidays, but I've been able to pick it up since then.

Mix #22

This past summer I was changing medications and in a semi-severe depression, but there were some bright spots here and there. Star Trek came out, a good friend sent me several albums (Akron, Mastodon, advance copy of Grizzly Bear, Sonic Youth, etc). Then my dad almost died of a heart attack and I flew out to Phoenix. He has since made a full recovery with an altered ...

Between two Andys

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis from Between Two Ferns

Games to beat – pile of shame

Gamers call all the games you own but haven't finished your 'pile of shame'; that pile of discs and carts that go neglected for months and years. Mine looks like this: Silent Hill 2 Final Fantasy 12 Metroid Prime 3 Metal Gear Solid 3 God of War Shadow of the Colossus and then there's the older pile of games - games I'll probably never pick up again: Shadows of the Empire Rogue Squadron Zelda: Majora's Mask Turok 2 Banjo Tooie The 7th ...

I am terribly uncultured.

Last night, Josh and I went to a self-imposed 'lyceum event' (remember those from college?) to see Jaap van Zweden conduct the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4. It was my first time seeing inside the I.M. Pei-designed Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, which is nearly 30 years old (much like myself). Seeing the inside of the Meyerson was of particular interest to me, having recently ...

Babysteps

I read a lot but don't write that much. I'm over not getting that job, I think. It sucked ass being rejected like that. But it's character building, right? My focus now is to be an assistant editor at one of the good shops, and work my way up from there. It's now been a year and 6 days since I was employed full time, ...

Gandalf, in his younger days

This photo of Sir Ian McKellan is circa 1967, by photographer Ken Duncan, and found whilst browsing the incredible digital collection of the New York Public Library.

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Josh's Tunes

Mostly crap.



Flickr

Once a year or so we take photos.