Plain View #38 3/30/06

Grizzly Man

Dear Frankie

The Olden Days

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I went bowling last night. I think I did pretty well. Well for me. My best game was like a 120. It was good fun. Plus Kirby was there and said he tried to bring single white females, minus the white part, just single females.

I bowled my first strike while Duran Duran was playing. Nothing quite like Duran Duran and bowling.

Netflix is great. I love watching movies. Tuesday I watched "Pulp Fiction", last night was "So I Married an Axe Murderer", and tonight I watched "Basic". That is right, two movies with John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson.

Today was one of those days that moved really fast. At 2:30 pm it felt like 10 am. And now it is about 7:40 and it feels like 3.

Friggin' Awesome.

It's always when I have the least to do at work that I forget to post. Go figure.

This weekend was a blast!

Friday night Dan was back in town to play poker with the guys, so while J9 worked on her final show and Liz went to be early, Grace and Ruth and I went out. We went shoe shopping, had a nice dinner at the Elephant Bar (slowly becoming one of my absolute favorite places to eat), and finally ventured into The Continental Room in Fullerton. This place looks huge and important from outside, especially because of the grand entrance that includes a dressed up bouncer and a red velvet rope, but when one walks in, it smells like any other club and is actually quite tiny. The crowd packed this place and the numbers increased as we stayed there. There was a tiny stage at the far end of the room that was decorated with voluminous red curtains, and a band on the stage was crackin out some beautiful cool-jazzy type music (sorry I don't know the name of the specific genre). Fun times. We came back to the house and watched a bunch of episodes of the Office with Justin until 2am. The Office has moved up this year to become my favorite tv show.

Saturday night there was a party at Gron's to celebrate Jenine's completion of her MFA (I guess they're saying it means "mother-expletive-artist") at Cal State Long Beach. We had a great time watching tv, eating good eats, hanging out around the fire and under the new backyard tent thing, and catching up with the gang. It was the first time we had seen Danine (together) OR Wiz since October, so it was great to talk about Boston, art stuff, and pregnancy to cover all the months we have missed with each other.

Sunday evening we all met up at CSU Long Beach to go to J9's big show. There were tons of alumni from our university milling around since another guy we knew had his final show too. It was weird. But the shows were great (except for the one across the way from some poor soul whose "show" consisted of a room full of condom boxes, two fans, and a bunch of condom-balloons flying around in circles). Some of us headed out to George's Greek Cafe after the show and had some great food and our final few moments with Dan and Jenine. It's sad to see them moving away from us, but it's an exciting time for them, and plus we'll have a place to stay in Boston from now on. We'll see you in the fall!

Congratulations to our dear j9! We'll miss you both but know you will stay in touch.

I've found a neat, weird little art website called man. vs. magnet. It features mostly short animation clips by a guy named Matt Smithson. I really like his visual style.

Be sure to check out the clip he made to go with Radiohead's "Fitter Happier," plus all the other stuff.

We've added some new bloggers to the brendoman.com lineup.

Milk without cookies

Melanie's husband, Andrew, has been with us for a while now, and she had been posting on his blog, but now she's moved to her own. These are friends of Kyle and Erika, who are friends of mine from Truman. Welcome, Melanie!

Ward Words

Lucas and Kelly are some more friends from Truman. If I'm not mistaken, Lucas used to run with Eric Wright. The Wards had a blog at LiveJournal that was always loads of fun. I invited them to come join us here. It gave me an excuse to write a LiveJournal importer for b2evolution, which we just used to import their old posts into their new blog.

Maybe all three of these guys will want to post more here introducing themselves.