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Saturday, October 31st, 2009
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| Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
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5:49 pm
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AT&T 3G service here is terrible. My posts keep failing Also there is an iMac in this room weird. 
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5:09 pm
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| Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
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4:36 pm
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| Friday, August 21st, 2009
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12:29 am - Southern by the grace of god.
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I'm going out of town tomorrow. Suede is making sad face at me because she knows she has to go to doggy jail while I am gone. Not only that but I sent her outside for potty break and then forgot she was out there for like an hour until she made a barky noise at the door. I am a terrible person.
The boarding place is super nice and they even have a bunch of televisions mounted on the walls so the canine inmates can watch movies. And they really do play dog movies too. Beethoven, Air Bud, etc. Should I still feel guilty? I have no way of knowing whether or not she likes it there. She seems very happy to come home though.
Anyway, you guys are in for some moblogging tomorrow. I am heading to the southland, ooh ooh. I will listen to Lynyrd Skynyrd and eat Chick-Fil-A with coke in a Styrofoam cup. I'm not going to Atlanta, which completely breaks my heart but I hope I can in the fall because I miss it terribly. I won't be seeing my friends in Atlanta, but I will be seeing my dad and his awesome dog. I will see if I can get one of them to guest blog.
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| Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
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12:49 pm
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2009 might be another 'year of the gays'. Remember like 5 years ago when Queer Eye was huge and Bravo really put its foot in the 'omg, I have to have that' cable channel lineup? Maybe that will happen again, but this time it might be more about issues and society instead of redecorating your apartment and giving you a sassy haircut.
There are TWO confirmed gay characters on Mad Men and now Barney Frank comes out as the most hardcore, smack down politician. I like that he wasn't interacting with a television host, or just making a speech somewhere. He is actually yelling at this woman and comparing her to a dining room table.
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| Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
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10:35 pm
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| Sunday, August 16th, 2009
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5:25 pm
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| Monday, August 10th, 2009
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10:45 pm
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Haha. OMG. This woman is a huge mistake.
When are the unauthorized biographies of her going to start coming out about her time as Secretary of State? I hope before she's out of the cabinet.
I don't have any clips handy, but if you've ever seen the Real Housewives of New York, imagine that clip being part of the show and you'll see that Hilary could fit perfectly with those scrappy, self-esteem-unbalanced crazy ladies. Seriously.
Look at the last shot of her face at around 0:27 where she rolls her eyes and is aghast, appalled, self-righteous and disgusted all at once. Oooh, how our nation's head diplomat is such a firecracker.
Also, President Obama is literally Hitler.
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9:21 pm
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Oh shi-. Two bloggings in one day. Take THAT, Clint Sand!
Speaking of Clint Sand. I asked him to guest blog and he said only if it was 140 characters or less. That is horrible. I'm going to work on getting my mom to guest blog, she is difficult and confused though so she might not understand the concept.
This blog is about televsion. I do not have television service. No cable or antenna. I haven't had it for about a year. I canceled because I became frustrated with the cable company and since then have watched hulu or been all "arrrgh, me Weeds be on, ya scaliwag!"
Here is what I watch.
The Office
I can't help it, I love it. It's one of the three network shows that doesn't suck. I am genuinely invested in Jim and Pam.
30 Rock
Everyone watches this because it is the best thing ever. When will America's love affair with Tina Fey end? Probably never.
Glee
Glee isn't actually on yet, but when it does start airing this fall I will be watching it. I watched the pilot episode in the spring and literally I almost cried like 5 times. It is amazing. It's sort of cheesey but incredibly loveable and relatable. Here's the episode:
It's so fantastic.
Weeds
I also watch Weeds which has gotten so absurd this season I am having a hard time taking it seriously. Shane getting shot last week sort of made me more interested, but I'm not so sure that show should be renewed for another season. It's done.
True Blood
This season also sucks. A lot of critics are saying it's so great and it has a huge audience, on par with the Sopranos finale audience (I didn't watch Sopranos). I'm finding that each episode is basically a cliffhanger and nothing ever seems to get resolved in any meaningful way. Last night's episode did have some resolution but ended with another cliffhanger. I find it annoying. Also, Eric is the best thing about the show this season. Last season I found him annoying and stupid, this season I find him totally hot.
Those are all the shows I watch.
Mad Men
Everyone is freaking out about how great this show is. Should I get the last two seasons and watch them? The set design looks awesome, but I'm not sure if I would really be into it. What do you think?
Lost
I have never seen Lost. Should I get the past episodes and watch them? Is it worth it or just totally confusing?
This post is part of LJ Blogothon 2009. I will be blogging a lot in August 2009 in an attempt to bring back the retro and old style ideas of posting thoughts and experiences on the internet. I hope you will join me in doing it also. It will be super fun times! Click here for all my blogothon posts.
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8:32 pm
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I suck at blogging, but I am not giving up.
Today I drove out super far away to look at a piece of furniture from CL. It did not live up to expectations. It was too wobbly and had some chunks out of it. I am a super snob when it comes to upholstery, but case goods are generally safe even if they're old. Especially if they're old, actually. Most things built up through 1970 or so are made of actual wood and not particle board or MDF with wood veneers. Or in some cases, it's not even a wood veneer but a piece of formica or something equally annoying, glued onto tops and backs. Most furniture from the 80s and later is complete and total junk.
The most interesting CL I have found is Central New Jersey. Those people have insane tastes and there are a lot of pictures of furniture inside storage spaces and warehouses. Miami is a decent one too, but it's not really the kind of stuff I am looking for. Big cities don't usually offer what I want. I need stuff from the suburbs. People in cities don't have enough room for the big furniture I'm looking for. People in established, older suburbs usually have high quality older furniture to get rid of but you have to beware of these old people who think their 1976 colonial revival dining set is worth $300.
My obsession right now is finding the right rococo queen or king headboard. I want something with swirly, crazy carvings, preferably asymmetrical. One of the characteristics of baroque sculpture is a sense of movement in things like fabric and water.
Want to see some examples? It will be fun!
( A ton of pictures and my commentary. You will probably hate this )
Next time I'll post a bunch of Hollywood Regency interiors so you can be all "ooooh" "ahhhh". Instead of "wtf is she thinking?"
Oh, note to self - conversation pits!
This post is part of LJ Blogothon 2009. I will be blogging a lot in August 2009 in an attempt to bring back the retro and old style ideas of posting thoughts and experiences on the internet. I hope you will join me in doing it also. It will be super fun times! Click here for all my blogothon posts.
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| Friday, August 7th, 2009
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9:56 am
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| Thursday, August 6th, 2009
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6:04 pm
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John Hughes is dead. And as someone says in the comments "2009: The year pop culture says 'fuck you'". Does this mean the 80s are officially dead? Or will there be a new revival? I was too young to be a teenager in the 80s, but in the late 90s we all wished we had been.
I really hope someone will interview or get statements from Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall. There was a Saved by the Bell reunion cover on People magazine this week. That makes me gag. I'd prefer to see a brat pack reunion. For the most part they've all gone on to really do something with their careers and lives and don't seem to be all fucked up like some child stars have.
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| Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
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2:59 pm
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I never thought I would say this in my whole life, but today I declare that Bill Clinton is a badass.
Update:
Oh my god, 12 minutes ago : HE DID IT!
Bill Clinton!
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| Monday, August 3rd, 2009
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7:26 pm - Blogothon!
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Hey bloggers.
I've been pretty busy today working on the large and prosperous enterprise known as The ED Tshirt Shop. Things have been going pretty nuts lately. I'm getting a lot of international orders and those usually take twice as long to pack up due to customs forms and weird mailing requirements.
( I know you just came here for the pictures )
That used to be my pool room. Yeah, I don't know why I have a pool room. I fell so in love with this house that when the negotiations were being made I said 'change nothing, I want it all'. That included the pool table and ping pong table and a ton of furniture.
Now I use the pool room to operate from. I have a system for the most part and it's not too bad. One of the biggest problems, aside from international shipping being a huge hassle is that I need a ton more mail trays. My new system is to go in with one full of mail for drop off and then ask for another one, thus taking two out each time I go in. I don't go in very often though, so I've only got 3 so far. If you ask a postal employee for something with the right tone of voice they will immediately give it to you. I am going to work my way up to 'could I have the keys to a mail truck?' and then thank them kindly as I speed away laughing in my new patrioticly decorated vehicle. Right, so if I had 5 more mail trays that would be optimal.
Speaking of tshirts, we're currently having a contest where you can WIN A FREE ED SHIRT.
I made two trips to the post office today and will need to make another one tomorrow. I like to take Suede around with me in the car for errands. She gets a lot of compliments. Today after the post office, I went to get lunch and when I came back outside I started talking to her in that voice that people use to talk to their dogs, "Hi sweetie! How are you? I'm back! I bet you missed me. Were you good while I was gone?" and some lady was apparently parked right next to me and she goes, "Don't worry, she was good. I was here the whole time." Haha, Suede. If there is an open car around, Suede will be in it.
This post is part of LJ Blogothon 2009. I will be blogging a lot in August 2009 in an attempt to bring back the retro and old style ideas of posting thoughts and experiences on the internet. I hope you will join me in doing it also. It will be super fun times! Click here for all my blogothon posts.
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| Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
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11:11 pm
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9:00 pm
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Tonight I found some chairs on craigslist and went out to the middle of nowhere to pick them up. Want to hear the story? Great.
I live in an awesome 70s house. It was built in 1971 and the previous owners lived here for 37 years. When I first saw the pictures of it online it didn't look real. There was a weird grainy quality to the MLS listing pictures that made it look like a scan from a Sears catalog. The fact that all the furniture was totally 70s added to this effect. When I saw it in person I totally fell in love with it. I was fortunate as well because they agreed to throw in a lot of the furniture with the house, as they were retiring and moving to a condo on a golf course.
This has caused me to be completely obsessed with period 70s furniture. I want to keep the house looking like a 70s movie set for as long as possible.
( Here is a picture of my living room. I've posted it before )
It's not as crazy as I would like, but it looks stylish and pretty 70s. I would prefer to do something much more dramatic, but the common ceiling for the dining room, living room, den, kitchen and breakfast nook makes that a little difficult.
Anyway, so I am constantly looking on Craigslist for 70s style furniture. There are some amazing deals and some amazing idiots listed on CL, so it's always hit or miss. Tonight I saw a listing for these chairs:
( Click here for the ad )
I emailed and offered the guy $40 for both and he agreed in email. He wanted me to come pick them up right away, so I drove forever and ever until I got there. The place was easy to find, and I figured I would pull in the drive way and put the seats down in the back of the car so there was plenty of room. I took my time doing this so that the guy would maybe notice me in his drive way and I wouldn't have to ring the door bell. I finally walked up and rang it. The guy who answered the door looked exactly like Pruitt Taylor Vince. Jesus. It was at that moment that I began to wonder if going out to the middle of nowhere to some stanger's house, without telling anyone might have been a very bad idea. When I saw the hand gun stuffed in the waist of his pants, I realized that absolutely it was. Ugh. Then he said the chairs were in the basement.
Let's assume this guy is not a serial killer, despite looking like the character actor who has played a psychopath and serial killer on tons of movies and tv shows. The episode of the X-files where he plays a demented dentist who gives people lobotomies while they're under anesthetic stood out in my memory in particular. If he's not a serial killer and he's had about an hour advance warning that someone is coming to get these chairs, why would he not bring them up from the basement? Why leave them there for the buyer to retrieve? Ugh. I looked around his house for clues. It was really clean, there was US Marshall wallpaper on his computer monitor. And a radio on the desk. That made a little sense, I guess. And he was definitely not trying to hide the fact that he had a gun. I admit that I was totally freaked out and thinking more and more how this was an awful idea.
But I am an idiot so I went down in his basement after he did. There was nothing in that basement except two chairs and the end table in the ad. That freaked me out. I picked up one chair and immediately started booking it up the stairs and out the front door. I left the cash on his entry way table and went directly to my car. He followed behind me and helped me load them in. I did not get killed, obviously.
Yes, I have learned my lesson and I will never do this again. But I like the chairs! What do you think?
( Here are some chairs )
I have brown tufted leather sofa, chair and ottoman in my den so they would probably go best there. I don't have any good pictures of the rest of the house, but I will try to take some soon to help with blogothon.
Now I have to figure out what to eat for dinner.
This post is part of LJ Blogothon 2009. I will be blogging a lot in August 2009 in an attempt to bring back the retro and old style ideas of posting thoughts and experiences on the internet. I hope you will join me in doing it also. It will be super fun times! Click here for all my blogothon posts.
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6:06 pm
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Hello livejournal.
I thought that for the month of August I would try some blogging. What do you think?
Maybe we should make August 2009 blogothon for a cause, 2009. The cause being Livejournal's complete and total descent into obscurity. This place has been a wasteland for the past year or so and it is a huge disappointment for me. I really think that facebook will fade away in the next 3 years or so, taking twitter with it. Then maybe LJ will bounce back. Or maybe twitter and facebook will give way to new sites where people don't even post one sentence status updates and instead just 3 or 4 characters which mean nothing.
Yeah, so who would like to blog with me this month?
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| Thursday, July 16th, 2009
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5:32 pm - Longcat shirts
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| Thursday, May 28th, 2009
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5:19 pm
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