it has been way too long.

what?

a great thing happened this week

an old friend of mine came to town to interview at a hospital as a candidate for their med school program. but we actually didn't talk very much about that. we went to the bookstore, where all we looked at were cards, we got indian food which was not too spicy (anyone who orders the medium is a fool, and is going to end up on the street corner with frostbite in their extremities and the seventh circle of hell in their mouth), we went home to feed the cat where my friend was very generous to insist that his room is just as messy as our house (no way), we went to the nickelcade (the japanese game with video instructions, the biking game from which my entire body still hurts because the bikes are made for children, the dance dance revolution for your hands, a little gambling, a 3 nickel shooting game, more gambling, more nickels, tekken, more gambling. the amount of nickel-gambling was almost terrifying. we couldn't stop, and then when we were out of nickels, we waited around the machine on the off chance that some might just fall. thank goodness all we had were nickels. then we went to cash in our tickets. i told jake i would get him a prize, and i was just going to get a parachute man that we could throw off the bridge or something and then spend the rest on candy, but GUESS WHAT. the parachute men were NOT regular parachute men. they were star wars figurines, with parachutes! weird, because i don't think anyone ever had a parachute in star wars because they were all in space, but still cool, and even though i didn't have enough tickets the guy let me get one of each because i told him that for my birthday this year i went to the star wars exhibit at omsi. the COOLEST.), then we went to the bagdad for a delicious beer. all in all, a terrific time. nothing bad happened, everything good happened, and we both walked away feeling awesome about being friends.

dave hill dave hill dave hill

i also found this. it's amazing. i think the pet psychic and the comicon ones are the funniest.

update: that link doesn't seem to be working, so here is the address: www.davehillonline.com

mint chip milkshake

the other night i was kind of in a crappy mood, for some different reasons. first was that it was friday night and instead of going to an awesome party, i wanted to stay home and watch law and order. so i did, and that was pretty good. but then everyone came home all drunk and loud and made me feel bad for not going out on a friday night. they didn't actually say anything to make me feel bad, i just inferred that i was a loser. so, i got dressed up and took myself out. to carl's jr. for a milkshake. but it really wasn't as lame as it sounds. first, carl's jr is pretty far out there - it's kind of a drive. i actually didn't even know exactly where it was, or if i would be able to find it at all. so i got in the car and put on dookie and cruised around for a while feeling a lot like a teenager, you know that feeling when you are upset for no reason that you can really figure out so you try and pin it on a bunch of different things but it's not really sticking so you just listen to green day. then, right at the drum solo in emenius sleepus that i thought was awesome when i was like twelve, i found carl's jr. fortuitous! so i got one of those mint chip milkshakes that they have been advertising in that commercial where "milkshake" comes on and those two guys are rubbing cows. every time i see that commercial, first i laugh and then i have a desperate urge for a mint chip milkshake. so then i drove home and put on st. etienne's good humor, which i also listened to as a teenager but which goes a lot better with a milkshake. it does a really good job of making you feel like you're going to pull a thelma and louise, even when you're on your way home to not be mad anymore.

since that nothing has really happened. i went to work once, went to a show once, and finished the second season of carnivale, damnit. that show is so good and they cancelled it. people are retarded! oh, that's what happened. a guy i work with said that his mother has been teaching special ed for a lot of years, and he once heard her call someone a "fucking retard" on the phone, so it's okay for me to say it. oh, also another thing that happened is i finished the first two books of neil gaiman's "lucifer," which is AWESOME. i've been to the library twice since then to see if maybe they'd gotten it in and forgotten to email me, but they hadn't. and the library's not exactly close, either. i also finished the first volume of brian k/ vaughan's "runaways," which was really good. "y the last man" is pretty much one of my favorite series. i think vaughan is becoming my favorite writer - i feel like the true test is when someone who has done well on their own is asked to write for an ongoing series, or at least to write a plotline for an existing character, and it works. i read a volume of vaughan's mystique, and it was really good. i've also read some of grant morrison's x-men, which was terrible. i don't blame them for kicking him off the project early. you just don't mess with stan lee's work like that.