"Fraudience"

A columnist on salon.com made reference to this new phenomenon in televised performance.

I take it to mean an audience that was bought and paid for by the network sponsoring the show.

Lame.

Good ol' American journalism

How to tell a looter from a scavenger.

Late Registration

I bought the album yesterday.

Kanye is wonderful.

The Hurricane

Katrina is "dismantling" Gulfport, and apparently there was extensive damage in New Orleans overnight.

I wonder how the French Quarter held up. The levee system seemed to be working, but several pumps failed in the lower 9th district.

MTV Video Music Awards

Two words:

Who cares?

It's hot

Why don't I have air conditioning in my house? What is my landlord's deal?

A matter of wording

"Hurricane Katrina Punishes South Florida"

...Because you're bad, aren't you South Florida? Very bad!

Yes, you're a naughty, naughty place.

When college freshmen girls attack!

Ohio Freshman Accused in Hot-Iron Assault
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — A college freshman was charged with assault after authorities say she beat her new roommate with a hot clothes iron, hitting her so hard she fractured the young woman's skull and broke the iron into pieces.
The 18-year-old victim told authorities her roommate attacked her following their first day of classes after accusing her of putting a hidden camera in their room.
Heather Haase suffered a skull fracture, bruises, cuts and a burn on her arm in the early morning attack on Tuesday, university police said.
Her roommate, Sharronda Barkley, also 18, told officers Haase injured herself when she fell out of bed and hit the iron, according to a police report. Barkley was being held on $25,000 bond Thursday. A judge ordered her not to return to Bowling Green State University or have contact with Haase.
Freshmen arrived last week at the university, 20 miles south of Toledo. Barkley is from a Cleveland suburb; Haase is from a small town in northeast Ohio.
"You have two young ladies that go off to college with an expectation of obtaining an education and hopefully having a good time, and they're not here a week and one of them is severely injured and the other ends up in jail," University Police Chief James Wiegand said. "That's not the way it's supposed to go."

Pat Robertson: U.S. should take out Chavez ....

... For a nice meal and maybe a movie.

Back at work...

..And so far, so good! I have seen many of my wonderful classmates and friends, and many new (HOTTT) faces. There's this one guy.... heh heh....

Anyway, it's amost lunch time, so I must rustle up some grub.

Summer movie-going continues out of state

...And all in different locations.

9. War of the Worlds - Palazzo
10. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (again) - AMC 30
11. The Skeleton Key - GKC Beverly Cinemas (IL)

If I was in a band...

I would name my band one of the following:

1. Money Talks
2. The Dollar Bills
3. Shameless
4. The Sellouts
5. Greedy Band
6. The Exploited
7. Me First & the Gimme Gimmes

Oops. These are all taken.*

How about Pay Me... or More and More and More?

*Or are what Coldplay used to call themselves.

The drums... the drums...

...must be something from my past. Magalenha.

Via a Boeing 717...

I'm back in #$%@-ing LA, man.

Some thoughts:

I will strive to eat more vegetables this season.

I will attempt to avoid those who displease me.

I will struggle to be pleasant in the AM.

I will try not to think about parking.

Oh no.

When I think about coming back to LA next weekend, I can feel the anger rising....

Rain, rain, go away

Come again some other day... but preferably when I'm out of town.

A changing perspective

I just checked out my yearbook from my senior year in high school, and I quickly realized that many of the so-called "popular" and "attractive" boys and girls were anything but. When I looked at each of their pictures, I couldn't believe how homely and boring the exclusive in-crowd kids were. The most beautiful people were often among the fringe/alterna- kids.

Another thought... M. _____ has a profile on myspace/friendster. The thing is, he is incredibly hot, but he has no fashion sense, and he seems really troubled... like he needs to be Queer-Eyed straight away and sent to a therapist. Reading his blog journals, in which he describes in detail how depressed and sad he is (to the point of making himself physically ill) all I could think was, "What a waste of a face." Shallow, yes. Unreasonable? No. You would think beautiful people like him wouldn't have these kinds of problems, what with all the booty flying at them from all directions.

It made me wonder if this guy had a lack of social skills, serious family issues, or something worse like psychological problems. I take for granted the fact that I have a great family and no serious medical difficulties (knock on wood). Not everyone can say they have that.

*Sigh* What a shame.

Out to Lunch

I'm on vacation. 'Bout time.