October 2003

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10/31/03
Oooo...Spooky.
Here are a couple of things to entertain you on Halloween.
All that plus Weakerthans pictures.

10/29/03
talk about the weather, or how the weather used to be.
Holy interactivity Batman, I've got a forum.  Go talk and stuff.
The Weakerthans show was great.  I loved the opening bands, Mico and Maritime.
Other than that...  Josh is our newest winner!  He Guessed yesterday's quote.
That there quote be from Fighter of 8-bit theatre Episode 341: The Perfect Plan.  And how right he is.
Ed, we must stop them before they get to close.
Um...That's all for now.

10/27/03
Oh, what tangled webs we weave when first we play the quiet game!
Me, being the wondrous webmaster that I am, have put up all the pictures from the past month's events.  You can view the last two sets here and here.
Do I have anything else to say?
Did I mention that there will be Dueling Bakers at the Slipper Room on 11/10?
I have now.
And I have already told you all about the corn maze, so...
Oh, some guess the quote updates...durrr..
Tricia guessed: 10/19 is rachel at blue coyote correctly
Craig excitedly surmised: 10/22/03 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. I ALMOST thought it was from "Life, the Universe, and Everything" but it didn't fit right, and it just clicked now. HOO HA!
Until next time, keep your toes wriggling.

10/26/03
You're goin' down. Chainsaw.
So, twas a busy weekend.  Sort of...I guess.  Friday Tom and I went to see Intolerable Cruelty.  I thought the movie was great and I laughed heartily many a time during the film.  I recommend that any Coen Brothers fans go see this one.
Saturday was Bill & Helen's Halloween Party.  I went with Burke, Rachel, Tricia, Cathy and Chris.  It was a lot of fun and I took some pics that should be up soon enough.  Though I did offer my sober skills and had to drive Watts home and since Burke drove me there, I had to drop off the crew and then drive Watts back to my place.
Sunday, aka today, I dropped Watts back off at Tricia's, who was watching after her pirate buddy.  Then Burke and I went to see Texas Chainsaw Massacre.  I enjoyed it, thought the characters reacted like real people who were being chased by a chainsaw wielding maniac.  There were no witty one liners, just lots of screaming.  The movie was quite intense, I was really drawn in.  Now, this may shock some of you, but I've never seen the original, so I can't compare it.
Let's see, I spent a big part of my evening posting Lauren & Dave's wedding pictures.  See, I'm getting caught up.  Tricia's surprise party and Bill & Helen's party don't have half the pictures the weddings did, so they'll be easy.
Craig had a hypnotic picture on his page, so I posted one up on top too.
This Thursday, MvM will be playing at Connections in Clifton and Friday at Screwy Louie's in Kearny.
Thursday is also, the Horror double feature at the Daress Theater.
Tuesday is The Weakerthans show.  Yay!
That's it.  Here's a pic of the coolest toy ever.  And a wav from something.

10/25/03
I swear I'm going to bite you hard and taste your tinny blood if you don't stop those self defeating lies you've been repeating since the day you brought me home.
I'm usually not into posting the multiple thousands of quizzes out there, but this one is the best ever:
 

Odd, e was always my second favorite irrational number next to pi.  Maybe it's time to rethink that.
Oh, and it's important to remember:  never mix up your inhaler and your handgun.  Remember that.

10/22/03
I think I have it. A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself.
Or just as mad.
Or just as mad.
And he does both.
So there you are.
Stark raving sane.
Ok, so it's 1 AM and I finally got wedding pics up, 5 pages of them.  You can see them here.
Craig posted some other wedding pics here.
I'm tired.  I'm going now.

10/20/03
I never drink...wine.
Today is Bela Lugosi's birthday.  Happy birthday you wacky old guy!  He would be 121 today!
Step 1:  Post the pics from the MvM show.
Step 2: ?
Step 3: Profit
Next come the plethora of wedding pics.  and don't worry, if you do not have my superior education and intellect, I will not get mad at you if you don't know what a plethora is.
And Craig admits he is a geek, not that he was hiding it.  He got the quote from 10/13.  I guess that means I'm a bigger geek for posting it to begin with.

10/19/03
He's such a moron!  M-O-R-A-N!
My brain is a bit fried right now.  I spent the past couple of hours working on the 200 or so pictures I have in Photoshop (for reference, it took about 10-15 minutes to upload all the pics with my cable modem).  I discovered that I do not like any of Photoshop's designs for web galleries, but I did figure out that the gallery tool is very useful for resizing multiple pics.  Having to resize them individually is one of the reasons I was procrastinating posting all the pictures, since I have about 150 from the weddings alone.  Anyway, all the pics are now resized and on my website, I just need to make pages for them, which isn't so bad.  I am determined to do them in the next couple of days.
The weekend was a fun one.  I sacrificed going to Contempt so that I could surprise Tricia for her 30th birthday.  Well, it was Cathy's idea.  It was held at Picatinny Arsenal's (where they developed the Tomahawk missile) Rod & Gun club.  We had to go through security (Tm had the following conversation there with the guard: "Do you have a map?"  This is a military base."  Oh, right.") and a concrete barrier slalom and I drove past the club itself, but eventually we got there and hid in wait.  Tricia was quite surprised and fun was had by all.  It was a casino night theme and Cathy actually got dealers and tables there.  There was blackjack, roulette, and craps.  And thankfully it was all fake money because I lost $3000.  Though I discovered that craps is a lot of fun, mainly because I think it was so complicated.  At the end of the night, Tricia, Cathy, Kate, Roy, Kathi, Chris, Liz, Ken and I retired to a bar that my fried brain can't remember the name of right now.  Then all went home.
Saturday was quite relaxing during the day, though I did run out for some Clay Oven action and picked up The Matrix Reloaded.  That night, I picked up Rachel and met quite a few people over at the Blue coyote Bar & Grill in Hopatcong for Tricia's birthday part II and  the Yankees game.  Again, fun and mocking was had by all.
Today (aka Sunday) involved me lounging around, watching the above mentioned Matrix Reloaded, napping and having fun with all my pictures from the last month.
I did forget to mention that, on Thursday, PO, Jen, Tom and I went to see Kill Bill Vol. 1.  The movie was pretty good, but it had all the violence of a GWAR concert.
I am kinda fried right now, so I think I'm gonna mention a few things, then check out.
Thursday, October 30th there is a Devil's Night double feature at the Darress theater in Boonton.
Also on Thursday, Oct 30th and Friday Oct 31st MvM is playing somewhere.  hopefully ROSS will tell me where so that I can let you guys know.
Sunday 11/2 a group of us lead by Craig are hitting the Corn Maze in Chester.
And Monday 11/10/03 Anathema Device and Atomic Box are playing at The Slipper Room in NYC.
If you are interested in any of these events, just inform me.
Other than that, here's your weekly pic and wav.

10/13/03
Remember when you said "Mine?" And I said "Forever".  You said " Only forever?"  It's forever, now.
Yes I've been very busy and haven't updated much.  Part of it was the two weddings but most of it can be blamed on the Warcraft III Expansion Set.  Curse them for making a fun game WITH a cool story.
Anyway, both weddings were great.  Saturday was Denise and Craig's which was great with the exception that about half an hour after the ceremony was supposed to start, the priest ran in and yelled "Sorry!!"  The reception was held at The Tuxedo Club in tuxedo, NY (oddly enough).  It was wonderful and as soon as I get my lazy ass into gear I'll get the pictures up.
Lauren and Dave's wedding was just as great.  they had everything at The Manor in West Orange.  Their ceremony was cool, they had a nice knot tying ceremony. It was lovely and the reception was lots of fun, with some impromptu belly dancing and Dave trying to get out of the chicken dance.
Again, I'll try to pull myself away from the video game long enough to mess with the pictures.
And in all this exciting typing, I forgot to mention that we celebrated Bob john's birthday on friday, even though the actual day was a week before.  It was a fun night for all and we learned all about John Dempsey.
Lets see, what else...
Friday is Contempt at Remote Lounge.  Be there, or be Rhomboid.
Saturday is onelinedrawing in Hoboken.
And, looks like I'll be going to Chiller on halloween.  Yay!
Ok, not sure what else to say...i hear the Night Elves calling to me...
Here is something amusing AND disturbing for you.
Here, in order of appearance, are two weekly pics and, in keeping with that theme, your wav.

10/7/03
We can't level, you crazy bastard, we're in advertising!
OK, after a harrowing experience and paying tech support, I've finally gotten my Norton Internet Security running.  Sigh, I was quite pissed last night when it didn't work, but now...WOW!
The ad-blocker is great!  Webpages load so much faster because it doesn't just block pop-up ads, it blocks all ads.
Plus it has a spam filter for email, which is one of the main reasons I bought it, since I was getting inundated with spam (30 new emails when I get up in the morning...).
So, just in case, since I know most of my friends look at this, if you email me and don't here back from me in a timely manner (which for me is usually a day or two), that means you somehow got picked up by the spam filter, so either email me at yahoo or hotmail or IM me to let me know and I'll fix it.  (If you don't have my yahoo or hotmail address contact someone who does)

10/5/03
Who are you?
Explorers in the further regions of experience. Demons to some. Angels to others.
So, I haven't really updated all week.  yeah, I'm a bad parent, plus I haven't really done anything all week.
This weekend was uneventful for me.  Friday, I actually stayed in and watched Conan.  Saturday, afternoon Zak and crew came over for some non dying D&D action.  Later I went to Tim's and practically fell asleep while watching Gunbuster.  it was actually 0retty interesting, I was just a bit tired and reading subtitles didn't help.  Today, I had the B5 game crew over.  That was pretty much my uneventful weekend for October.
Tomorrow I'm going suit shopping fro this weekend's weddings.  Yup that's plural, I have one on Saturday and one on Sunday.
Congratulations Denise and Craig and Lauren and Dave!!!
And I guess congratulations Clive Barker, whose birthday it is today.
And Friday was Bob's Birthday so HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOB (John)
Hopefully I'll eventually post the MvM pics I have at some point.
And, since it is now October, here are the searches from last month that brought people here:
 

And there you have it.
Nothing else to really say....
So here, have a pic in case you're hungry and here's a wav for you Skinny Puppy fans.