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crabbage

Been doing a lot of baltimore history research lately. Somehow that brought me to the L.P. Steamers website where I found this fun unappetizing page demonstrating how to eat a crab. I just ate some crabs. I don't use any tools when I eat, as these pics show. Some people opt to open seperate the hood with the knife and do all kinds of fancy taps. I like the second step:

Sometimes, you get lucky and some crab meat pulls out with them. Just enjoy it.

Isn't it one of the few meals you gamble with?

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Verizon DMVsl

[hawking wireless from neighbor c]

Verizon DSL is sooo terrible, dear people searching the internet wondering whether they should get hi speed comcast cable or verizon DSL. I don't know for sure that comcast doesn't equally suck, but I made the choice based on the premise that cable is a shared service by all the people in an area, so there are periods of slow down. However my conversation with the billing customer service rep at Verizon won points for lowest corporate customer satisfaction of all times.

I tried to explain that I had spent countless hours on the phone with both mac and pc incompetant tech support and that it was draining my cell phone usage. She kept insisting that she couldn't refund my money. "i'm not asking you for a refund. I am asking for a little understanding". Then she said she would be able to provide a refund for the days that we weren't receiving service--so long as I called to tell them when it was up and running. She could look back as far as January to detect when we were without service."So why do I have to call you when you have such accurate records?". "Do you know any company that would just credit service back to your account without you telling them?"

She actually said that. And shes right. I could think of 2 places. The IRS, and your opponent in Monopoly when they have landed on your property and you are unwittingly watching a commercial and start to roll the dice.

Dem Bones

After 4 hours of tennis on wednesday my knees had something to say about it. I've never really experienced any kind of joint grief from a sports injury, but its that nagging pain that gets me in a bad mood.

My beloved fiesty maternal grandmother(and family) used to have serious knee problems. My younger brother and I would be in the backseat waiting while my mom would have to assist her into the car groaning. She would teeter on the first leg and then settle in and lift the other one in with her arms. At the time, we were too bratty to be empathetic. We thought the dramatic sound of it all was kind of funny. It wasn't, but it was funny when it happened to me yesterday. But it won't be funny again in 30 years.

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notice the eyeball is a speakbubble.

memento

last night as I was going to bed, before having a really rotten nightmare about a being lost at a paper mill cult camp, I had an idea for my blog. A little brilliance at twilight that I decided to write on my hand for the next morning. And continued to think about it and build on it in the darkness looking at my ceiling. Then I panicked that in the early morning rush I would wash it away, and forget about it so I took this picture, to remind me. I know it has something to do with ripping off Nolen(as if I know him)s blog and being drunk. But now when I look at the true vagueness of it, I wish I would have forgotten it and imagined it as another version of one of my very thought out plans down the tube.

Points of Interest

When I first read about Aristocrats, I was excited they were redoing the Disney movie that combined the '101 Dalmations and Lady and the Tramp for cats', into people- featuring Phyllis Diller. What a dream! But then I read further and remembered reading about this in Vanity Fair. Comedy Club after hours were devoted to the long dirty joke that had the punchline, "we're the Aristocrats!". And thats what its about, and sounds equally enjoyable.

In other comedy news: Perry Bible hits the Comedy Central website!

In other comedy news: this guy is taking votes on a tshirt.

In other tshirt news: this guy, and this guy

In comedy and music download news: Don Quiuotes Marijuana

In baltimore and music news: Baltimore club musicmakes its way to San fran, naturally with some white indie person mentions.

In music news: I've finally uploaded my online summer playlist complete with beautiful built in css after being reminded by the stupid haiku contest today.

The calm after the gorilla

I really should have given this shot a whole day before I began uploading new shots in my photostream. It was getting a steady dose of comments and faves and I pushed it back. It could have maybe received interestingness fame!

The shows over. Back to life. Back to reality. Back to the here and now of whatever they say. They went well. They went bad (bladder control issue, but hey its a pool!)but the show left me reminiscent. I haven't had this feeling for a long time, maybe since graduating from college or high school. Rewards for stresses, relief plus congratulations, plus new friends and saying good-bye and exchanging emails.

"Twas this the wake-up call to get me out of the ever un-appreciative stressball world of advertising where no person is your friend unless you work late and weekends and opt out of other stress-inducing (but ultimately rewarding) projects to save yourself a little sanity?", says the tiny growing bump on my neck.

"Maybe this time!", I say.

It felt good to be involved with a project that gave creative licenses to so many people with everyone being able to share a common goal. It wasn't hard but it was a lot of work and I did resent(sp?) it more than a couple times. I wish I could manage to pull this kind of working together environment in other parts of my life. Clear goals are usually the hardest thing (for me) to determine. Thats why its hard to build.stuff.

I didn't think I was going to be able to accomplish the scheduling, tasks, stress (I am really a performance stresser)- but I did. And that felt g-reat. really great. Especially with so many projects that just dissipate and dissapoint-like the comic book split. So I shall move forward with the FM momentum. Next baby step- a photo exhibit! flickr group photo exhibit!! Very exciting. It seems promising.

Last thing in this huge entry. One of the FMers (and flickrers) moved down from nyc to be with his girlfriend and it didn't work out. He had been a Brooklyn resident for so long. His comment of Bmore was so true, "Baltimore is so easy. If you want to do something you can. You can do it and nobody is stopping you even the people who are maybe trying to do what you are". That was an inspiring reminder.

The gorilla in the storm

Last night's performance was stopped early.
Excerpt running for cover of the lobby:

sync swimmer 1 to sync swimmer 2: So did they like your scene? Was there thunderous applause?
maid of the mist: There was thunder!
Then the sky ruptured in the form of a bass drum snare and high hat crash.

The show was called at the cue during "Singing in the Rain", 'Let the stormy clouds chase'. Community theatre-so good, you can't get it on cable.
Check for pics here. More to come.