Have just returned from a fun and productive week in the Bay Area, crashing with my favorite West Coast couple, the Ms, catching up with both CC (of soon to be CC 4 President fame) and CC (of taking too many classes and stressing out fame), the cousins, the feuding cousins, taking in a Giants game (4-2 over the Astros) with the Ms, JT,and WS, and playing sparring partner to MM on his new video gaming system (Madden 2007). Fell asleep during Shrek 3 at the Capitol drive-in down in the Jose, grabbed a nice meal with RW at Weird Fish, crashed the "Dress Sexy" graduate school party at EV on Stanford Campus, later than night crashed the extremely depressing Karaoke night at the Acapulco in San Jose, and forced Chicago CC down to the W hotel bar for a drink among the suits, prior to catching up with VG and MK. Also, crashed a corporate retreat at Zott's for an afternoon beer and caught up with MF to discuss adventures in Africa. Oh, and the TIE Conference. That mostly sums it up, minus the interviews.With that behind me, and kid sis graduating Wesleyan this weekend, I leave you with the mish-mash:
- Professor ND sends me this interesting link to artist Chris Jordan's composite photos commenting on consumption in America (photos above and below). Definitely worth a look. Very cool stuff.
- The blog Daily Film Dose has an awesome post on notable long tracking shots in films. Many you have seen before, others you have probably never heard of. Most are worth a look, and the folks over there have gone to the trouble of digging up YouTube clips for almost everything. Definitely worth wasting thirty minutes of your time.
- "Yesterday in downtown Boston, the sun was shining and the sky seemed especially blue. Dad and I walked through the park in Boston Common on our way to lunch and I remember saying, 'What a nice day, something good is going to happen.'" Classic Simmons, documenting his reaction to (and possible causing of?) the next ten years of futility for the Boston Celtics.
- GB forwards this NYT article on how to make a good burger. Pretty simple, so people get your grills ready.
- Finally, New York Magazine on Miranda July's new collection of stories.
Enjoy the long weekend, folks.
2 comments:
Who are all these people you keep talking about?
Anyway, I just back from a vacation that beats your vacation. Spent a week in Catalonia with my girlfriend on someone else's bill. The typical day was like: get up and eat some of these European cheeses and breads they have here, go swimming in the ocean, lie on the beach and read a couple of pages, go swimming in the ocean, eat paella and crabs and drink lots of red wine, lie on the beach, go swimming in the ocean, eat Spanish ham and sausages and drink a couple of bottles of red wine, take a siesta, climb a mountain overlooking the ocean, eat lots of oysters and mussels and drink some red wine, go swimming in the pool, and eat some olives and cheese on our balcony overlooking the ocean. There was almost no-one else there so we had our own private nude beach. If you don't believe me I have photographic evidence that your vacation sucks eggs. I will gladly show it to you, just as soon as I figure out how to use Flickr.
KS - Sounds like the perfect week away. If I could be born again, I'd like to be born Catalan. And on somebody else's bill.
My interest in seeing nude pictures of you on a Mediterranean beach is minimal.
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