Zen.Anger.Perspective.

HAPPY 2012!!!!!

2012-01-23T23:54:00.001-08:00

...24 days late! Well THAT'S no way to start this blog off for a new year! Yeah, I think we're pretty much done here.

RIP, Remington Electric Razor

2011-12-14T17:37:00.000-08:00

You've had a long life. Since the week I went off to college. Bought you at K-Mart. You have served your -- for me -- rather meager purpose well. You made me a man and I thank you for that.

December smells like a rose!

2011-12-01T23:51:00.001-08:00

This is absolutely the longest I've gone without writing on here since I started this thing. Almost three months, kids. Yeah, who am I kidding...this blog's relevance is LONG gone. It fulfilled a need during a certain time of my life, and I'm happy for that. I'm also proud of a lot of things I've written here...if I could only find them. OY, the task of sifting through all of these! But it's been almost six years since I began writing here; the first three are probably where I did some of my best writing, and certainly where I did my MOST writing. After Facebook came into the picture in the middle of 2008, though, my productivity level on here steadily declined. This is not me closing the book on this blog; that may come some other time, but not now. I'm just saying that I'm finally OK with not giving a shit about this site anymore...for the time being...in this forum. If I can focus my ADD-riddled brain, I may take the name and concept elsewhere; who knows. But why write where no one is looking? Well, actually, I can certainly still use this as a place where people can view my precious words from the past. ANYWAY...so the title of this post refers to not only it being the first of December, but that I've spied several solitary roses blooming this week. I've seen this other Decembers...always very odd. New life...in the darkest month.

ONE of these days...

2011-09-06T19:54:00.001-07:00

Maybe...hopefully...this blog will be what it used to be. Entirely too much going on. OTHER writing...PAID writing. YAY! So when you come onto this blog and say, "Christ, this is the crap that he's writing?!"...well, no, I can do MUCH better than these recent posts would lead you to believe. Again, DIG DEEP into the blog's past for my GEMS! Were there enough words in ALL CAPS in this entry?

The beach is ALMOST mine!

2011-09-06T19:53:00.000-07:00

THREE more days until they are FREE and VACANT!

Dunkin Donuts at 1am is my savior

2011-09-03T23:41:00.001-07:00

September: Day Two

2011-09-02T10:16:00.000-07:00

Yeah, i'm not liking this new blogger look. The finished product looks the same, but when you're writing the blog, it is VERY confusing and cluttered looking. That's all i've got at the moment.

SEPTEMBER! Fresh starts!

2011-09-01T22:40:00.001-07:00

I love the summer -- always will -- but I really, really, REALLY do so love the invigorating fresh start that September will always symbolize. Cheers!

Meteorological summer is over!

2011-08-31T23:33:00.000-07:00

Mother of GOD, I again ask where the hell the time went?! August WAS my month, though, so it's all good. Besides, summer's not over for me until, well, usually around Thanksgiving, so get out there and continue to soak up the sun! Don't tell anyone, but September's perhaps the BEST month of the year for beach trips!

Don't you love when it all comes together?

2011-08-30T23:52:00.000-07:00

I move like Jagger

2011-08-29T23:52:00.000-07:00

And don't you forget it!

How many posts can I write about IRENE, I wonder...

2011-08-26T14:22:00.000-07:00

Irene is going to give me an aneursym...

2011-08-26T14:17:00.000-07:00

It's just TOO damn exciting.

I love when Bloomberg speaks Spanish

2011-08-24T23:50:00.001-07:00

Have I ever mentioned that? Oy, vey, there's too much goin on this week...

East Coast EARTHQUAKE!

2011-08-23T14:43:00.001-07:00

Today was a first. Never felt an earthquake before. It was a 5.8 centered in Mineral, VA. Entire East Coast felt it...apparently because it was such a shallow quake..."just" 3.7 miles beneath the earth's surface. The rumbling and swaying lasted for what seemed an eternity...probably only 90 seconds, tops. Pretty amazing experience.

It's a great day for America!

2011-08-22T21:47:00.000-07:00

I've SO missed you, Mr. Craig Ferguson, along with your gay robot skeleton sidekick, the enigmatic Mr. Geoff Peterson. Please don't leave me for so long ever again!

Irene's a'comin'!

2011-08-21T23:55:00.000-07:00

Oh, yes she is!

Found $5 tonight!

2011-08-20T23:51:00.000-07:00

At the supermarket. After I paid a grand total of $3.98 for a pint of Ben & Jerry's and some Oreos...BOTH half-price. So I came home UP $1.02! Gotta love it!

My heart always breaks a little...

2011-08-20T23:50:00.001-07:00

...when the first Chrissy-less THREE'S COMPANY ep rolls around on TV Land. It's like losing a friend.

Might I recommend Hudson River Park in NYC?

2011-08-18T23:03:00.000-07:00

There's SO much being constantly done to expand waterfront access all around Manhattan. Bike paths, grassy fields, places to eat, kayaking lessons, benches, free wifi, tennis courts, trees, flowers, plants...and on and on...not to mention the stellar views. It's quite impressive. Get out and enjoy it!

It's RESTAURATEUR...no N!

2011-08-17T22:11:00.000-07:00

Don't feel like a dumbass; I just learned this, too...and I consider myself a word and spelling genius. What the HELL?! Screw that, I'm still pronouncing it with an N...

It's not every day your hometown is the top story on the news...

2011-08-16T23:49:00.000-07:00

...and for a TRIPLE HOMICIDE. ?!?!?!?! Lovely.

Three weeks till Labor Day!?

2011-08-15T23:26:00.000-07:00

Hmm, time to get crackin' with my Summer '11 To-Do List...

Hi there!

2011-08-14T23:48:00.003-07:00

More soon...promise...

Michele Bachmann wins the Iowa straw poll!

2011-08-13T23:51:00.000-07:00

That is all.

Just in from viewing METEORS on FRIDAY, AUGUST 12TH...

2011-08-13T00:12:00.000-07:00

Stupid meteor shower, along with a raging inferno in the distance caused me to forget to blog before 3am, which is when it stops listing the current day. So I AM writing on the 12th, dammit, continuing my run of daily August posts, as pathetic as some of them may be...

Welcome to my blog! Are you new here?

2011-08-11T22:10:00.001-07:00

If so, I'd highly recommend going back to my posts between 2006 and 2008 for some real treasures. Because, you see, after I joined Facebook in May of 2008, my blog posts became increasingly short and scattered. What I'm saying is that my CREATIVE JUICES were satiated MUCH more on Facebook with its immediate reaction from a very large group of people...and the blog began to suffer. I've been trying to strike a balance lately, but it's still not anywhere near what I want it to be. So, um, yeah...dig deep for The Real Deal. God only knows what i've written and forgotten...

Sandra Bernhard's, like, HOT at 56

2011-08-10T23:11:00.000-07:00

When did this happen?! Seriously, she's never looked better. Am I the only one who's taken notice?

Random SIMPSONS Line That Just Made Me Guffaw...

2011-08-09T23:36:00.000-07:00

"I trust that your wife is...still dead?" My WORST mood is always lightened by watching that brilliant show.

You know who I don't remotely miss?

2011-08-08T21:39:00.000-07:00

Oprah. Not that she's dead; I mean her daily talk show. I think my not missing her is yet another sign of the resilient American -- no, HUMAN -- spirit. Run on!

WHY must The Weather Channel get all FANCY?!

2011-08-07T23:15:00.000-07:00

I do NOT need Adam Berg doing "how weather affects sports" skits, complete with awkward kicking of a fake football, and canned stadium audience cheering. UGH. Point out a cold front and shut the hell up!

Lucille Ball would've been 100 today

2011-08-06T23:15:00.000-07:00

One of the true greats. And a real looker, too. As a kid, I drove by her house in Beverly Hills with the family while on vacation. A white colonial, on a corner, manicured lawn and gardens...and totally approachable by The Common Man. No gates, long drive or impenetrable brick wall. I found this to be remarkable. ANYONE could just walk up and ring the bell...of LUCILLE BALL! And they DID...as my family and I watched. Ms. Ball didn't answer. Shocking. It's a wonderful memory. Happy 100th, wherever you are, Lucille. And thanks for all the laughter; it's needed more than ever these days.

$15 to cross the Hudson in a car?!

2011-08-05T23:47:00.001-07:00

I'm wondering if the Port Authority of NY and NJ can be bigger assholes? The people MUST rise up and STOP THE INSANITY!

I endured 8 minutes of JERSEY SHORE...

2011-08-04T23:43:00.000-07:00

...and was numb.

This "blog every day of August" thing is gonna be difficult, i fear...

2011-08-03T23:16:00.000-07:00

My mind is far too scattered at the moment.

Surely i'm not the ONLY one...

2011-08-02T23:56:00.000-07:00

...who grows immensely flustered trying to correctly fold a map back up?

Who DOESN'T enjoy discussing a colonoscopy over dinner?

2011-08-01T23:11:00.000-07:00

Today I mainly had THE ANGER

2011-07-31T23:44:00.000-07:00

There was little zen or perspective. But enough of that; onward and upward! This is yet another pretty pointless post, written mainly to say "hey, i'm still here!" UGH...WHEN will it all come together?!?! WHEN, DAMMIT, WHEN?!

OMG!!! CLICK ON THIS LINK!!!!! YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS!!!!!

2011-07-10T10:58:00.000-07:00

BREAKING NEWS! Click on this link -- THIS LINK RIGHT HERE!!!!! -- to see LEAKED VIDEO of both OJ and CASEY ANTHONY TOGETHER IN ONE ROOM...CONFESSING to their respective lawyers in a SHOCKING JOINT UNBELIEVABLE CONFESSION that DOESN'T REMOTELY sound like VIRUS-SPREADING SPAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RIP, Betty Ford...

2011-07-10T10:54:00.000-07:00

...a Republican I admired. GASP.

Well, I made it through July 7th unscathed...

2011-07-08T09:39:00.000-07:00

I have a history of bizarre occurrences on this date. Vivid surreal dream about a dead relative, car accident, neighbor boy lighting my parents' lawn on fire with a firecracker...things of that nature. The scariest thing to happen THIS year, though, was going an entire day without posting on Facebook...

THE FETISHIZATION OF CAYLEE ANTHONY

2011-07-06T20:06:00.000-07:00

That's how I'd describe the whole sordid mess. I'm as outraged and sickened that a child's dead as anyone...but strangers sobbing in Times Square? Some Facebook-inspired "turning on the porch light at 9pm" thing? Putting up Caylee's picture on Facebook in tribute? Bizarre...VERY, very bizarre. Oh, yeah, and there's like THOUSANDS of other murdered kids getting ZERO "airtime"...

TWO months till Labor Day!

2011-07-05T23:50:00.000-07:00

The heart of summer beckons!

And NOW it's July...

2011-07-01T23:30:00.001-07:00

Hi, I've had 6 hours of sleep in the past 48 hours, yet am somehow still awake at 2am...

2011-06-26T22:59:00.000-07:00

What the hell's wrong with me?!

Chasing lightning bugs with a camera

2011-06-22T23:56:00.000-07:00

It's a rather infuriating exercise. And I probably looked like a lunatic to the neighbors...

...

2011-06-21T23:51:00.001-07:00

Holy Christ, this blog needs direction...

RIP Clarence Clemons

2011-06-18T23:54:00.000-07:00

Irreplaceable.

Presidential game ON!

2011-06-16T23:58:00.000-07:00

Ooooo...things must be officially heating up in the Presidential race: Barack's changed his Twitter profile to an inspiring red, white & blue 2012 graphic!

What to put on your HOT DOG

2011-06-15T23:42:00.000-07:00

MUSTARD! Who are you FREAKS who put ketchup (or, if buying ShopRite brand, CATSUP) on hot dogs?! It goes on BURGERS ONLY! You put MUSTARD on dogs. End. Of. Discussion. Something's not wired right in your brains...

Oh, my GOD, this is getting ridiculous...

2011-06-13T23:59:00.001-07:00

Dear God, I'm STILL "holding the date"...

2011-06-12T23:32:00.000-07:00

Nightmare Social June is now over, so I will have more time to come back to these posts and, um, actually write something worthwhile...just not tonight.

Again...holding...holding...

2011-06-08T11:30:00.000-07:00

These first 2 weeks of June are proving to be IMMENSELY irritatingly busy...

I'm doing the "write anything just to Squat The Date" thing again

2011-06-07T09:53:00.001-07:00

I'll get back to this soon. Promise. I intend to write a LOT this summer...

I'm fond of maps

2011-06-05T23:58:00.001-07:00

Seriously, if i'm ever bored, I just whip out a map and go to town studying it. I especially love them when I have nothing in mind to write about on a blog that seems, hard as I try to deny it, to have worn itself out...

These "unboxing" videos on YouTube are like porn to me...

2011-06-02T23:18:00.001-07:00

I think we ALL know how titillating it is to get home and open a new electronics product, right? AM I RIGHT, people?! Now transfer that to VIDEO as you watch someone else open a product you're interested in buying...cue Homer Simpson salivating moan! My eyes are fixated on them ripping open the plastic covering or box, fingering through the accessories, and showing us UP CLOSE the shiny new product! I CAN'T STOP WATCHING!

It's JUNE!

2011-06-01T23:25:00.001-07:00

Time for REBIRTH! Summer! Plots and schemes, beaches and baked beans!

Weiner's in a pickle

2011-06-01T23:24:00.001-07:00

Aren't I punny?

So we got Bin Laden and it's May 31st...

2011-05-31T21:59:00.000-07:00

Sums things up since my last post! I'll likely erase this and put up a more substantial post. I damn well better because THIS is pathetic. But I just wanted to make sure there was a SINGLE blog posting for May 2011. Christ, managing all these online ventures is EXHAUSTING...

My Royal Wedding prep...

2011-04-28T23:47:00.000-07:00

Sitting in the nude -- legs elegantly crossed -- wearing a crown and white gloves while sipping hot tea from a dainty gold-rimmed teacup...

Gary is RISEN!

2011-04-24T23:43:00.001-07:00

Today was Easter. The latest Easter in, oh, at least 19 years. Yes, I checked. And not by googling; no, sir, I did it the old-fashioned way...sifting through the past 19 years of my daily planners. Doesn't EVERYONE just have them laying around in an easily accessible place? No? Well, you don't know what you're missing! But I digress...

Just wanted to "touch base" with my blog; I noticed it's been like SEVEN WEEKS since I said a damn word. OY! So I thought Easter -- REBIRTH! -- was appropriate. I mean, I keep directing The Twits on The Twitter to this blog to check out my writing, so it's kind of ABSOLUTELY IRRESPONSIBLE of me to have nothing new and substantial to show them, right? So here ya go! New words! WORDS! Until next time, friends and foes...

A curious March Friday

2011-03-04T23:42:00.000-08:00

When so little happened on the surface (unless you count climbing a ladder to furiously wipe fossilized bird shit off my parents' living room window), yet SO much information was being received and processed in my head. Annoyingly vague, isn't it? I end the day with PERSPECTIVE, though...yet again. And that's what this blog's all about, no?

The changing penny

2011-03-04T23:41:00.001-08:00

I just noticed tonight that the Lincoln Memorial has vanished from the reverse side of the penny. I am deeply troubled by this...change.

Dipshit-free for a YEAR today!

2011-03-02T23:34:00.000-08:00

God, that feels great to say!

I came in like a lion...

2011-03-01T22:58:00.000-08:00

And intend to stay that way!

TWO posts in the month of February?!

2011-02-28T23:11:00.000-08:00

And piss poor ones at that. Sorry, blog...I'll make my way back to you in March, I promise! I beg of anyone looking for good writing, humor and/or provocation to dig deeper into my archives before Facebook and Twitter ruined me...

My crazy mind!

2011-02-01T18:00:00.000-08:00

So I had this yearning to hear RAY OF LIGHT out of nowhere. Then I put the record on and it hits me. What hits me? Well, that's none of your business. THIS post is about the AMAZING HUMAN MIND. And how it puts things together without you even realizing it. Until you do. Love it.

Note to TV newscasts...

2011-01-31T21:45:00.000-08:00

I don't give a flying fuck what "Judy from Syosset" thinks about a certain story via the internet. You have 22 minutes to give us the day's top headlines, and you're gonna fill the air with THIS nonsense? It's a TOTAL waste of time.

Lentils, NOT Yentls!

2011-01-30T23:21:00.001-08:00

Mom asked how I liked her dinner. "It was good; I like yentls." WHAT?! I don't THINK I have a head injury...

The state of the Union is STRONG!

2011-01-25T23:35:00.001-08:00

And isn't it always?

Beach day! On the coldest day in 6 years...

2011-01-24T23:28:00.000-08:00

Where ELSE would I have gone on a day where the low in the CITY was 5 degrees and the high was like nineteen? Bloody fantastic late afternoon of roaming Seaside and taking fantastic pictures (if I do say so myself).

Jack LaLanne...DEAD at 96

2011-01-23T22:11:00.000-08:00

I really thought he'd live to be 115. If HE can't make it to 100, who the hell can?!

1, 2, 3, FOUR social calls today!

2011-01-22T22:48:00.000-08:00

What the HELL?! Seriously, a VERY strange Saturday. A delightful one, but strange. MONTHS go by and no one calls me to do anything. Then, BAM! I'm not complaining.

So with the LAPTOP, I should be writing MORE...

2011-01-22T02:38:00.000-08:00

And yet for the 2nd night in a row, I miss the 3am deadline to "timestamp" today's date...which is now technically the 22nd, but I haven't gone to bed yet, so it's still the 21st. And, yes, it's nearing 6am...OY! So i've just been like a kid on Christmas morning with a new toy...the "writing more" part WILL come, but for today, I spent a lot of time just experimenting and playing and sitting around the house in different places just for the hell of it with a WIRELESS LAPTOP! So, again, this is the entry for JANUARY 21...

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

2011-01-21T01:39:00.000-08:00

Today was finally Christmas morning for Young Gary! And even though it's 4:40am, this post is meant to be THURSDAY, JANUARY 20TH'S. And on THURSDAY, JANUARY 20TH, I got -- FINALLY! -- a new laptop...and my life has now changed. Seriously. Like I can't even express in words. My YEARS-long computer NIGHTMARE is OVER! Can I possibly have more capital letters in this post? Oh, and almost equally exciting was me setting up the computer all by myself...AND getting online on someone else's wireless unsecured connection just for the hell of it. It's ALL totally new to me, but I figured it out like a champ! OK, I should really go to bed now...even though I'm enjoying the latest snowstorm at its peak, and kinda should stay awake to shovel it when it stops in like an hour. Eh. So summing up...WOW! A LAPTOP!

May I recommend MODERNHIKER.COM?

2011-01-19T23:17:00.000-08:00

Well, I just did; deal with it. It's always fascinating to me how both the mind and random internet clicks work. I don't even remember how, but earlier today I found myself staring at Mount Baldy's snow-capped peak soaring in the distance behind Los Angeles, which led to me wrongly googling Mt. Wilson, which led to this modernhiker.com site. You see, I'd seen this general view of LA in a newspaper a few years back and was flabbergasted. I was so taken by it that I cut out the picture and hung it up on a bulletin board in my bedroom, where it remains today. I've only been to LA once -- a long, LONG time ago -- and don't recall such a breathtaking view. And even in the endless TV shows and movies set in LA, you NEVER see the City of Angels from this Denver-esque vantage point. WHY is that? Perhaps the smog ruins it too many days of the year? Who the hell knows, but it makes me more determined than ever to get to Southern California ASAP to wander -- to HIKE -- and take endless photographs. I was surely a Hermosa Beach surf dude in another life.

Precious Baby Furball's 25TH (!?!?) Anniversary

2011-01-18T23:13:00.000-08:00

I can't believe the little bitch would've been 25 now. Another dire sign of life's quick ride. Oy, vey. I mean, it doesn't seem like last month, but TWENTY-FIVE years since I came home from an 8-mile bike ride to find a puppy running around the house?! Actually, before I found the puppy, my brother ruined the surprise by blurting it out. Bastard. She lived to a ripe old 17-and-a-half, so no complaints about the length of her furry stay. I still miss her, though. Though she's still with us. In a box in the dining room...

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

2011-01-17T21:37:00.001-08:00

If only America could get the holidays closer together. I quietly reflected at Best Buy and The Gap.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was 39 when he died...

2011-01-17T21:37:00.000-08:00

I get angered by the Golden Globes

2011-01-16T23:49:00.000-08:00

I mean, BURLESQUE is nominated for best picture...need I say more? Totally pointless. Like most awards shows...and Miss America, which left my mouth agape just last night when I stumbled upon it...

I again find myself yearning to visit Barrow, AK

2011-01-15T23:34:00.000-08:00

Or at the very least following people on Twitter who live there. Is that odd?

The password is...COMPARTMENTALIZATION

2011-01-14T23:44:00.000-08:00

The way I feel about social media. And life in general. Another potential autobiography title...

How in the name of God is Maalox just GIVING away their products with a $5 coupon?!

2011-01-13T22:29:00.000-08:00

I got my container of Maalox tablets tonight for $.49 with the coupon. FORTY-NINE CENTS! Is it cyanide-laced? I just don't understand the MASSIVE coupon.

I get excited by finding vintage ShopRite Can Can Sale commercials on YouTube

2011-01-12T21:00:00.000-08:00

It's the sale's 40th anniversary, you know...

DAMMIT, I "missed" a day...it's actually 3am on the 11TH...

2011-01-12T00:01:00.001-08:00

So damn aggravating. LITERALLY a minute late in continuing my "write at least once a day" vow on here. Because it registers as the 12th, Pacific time. Ugh. Anyway, just in from shoveling snow and walking through it. Doesn't everyone do that at 2:30am?

One-third of the month's gone already?!

2011-01-10T23:43:00.000-08:00

Huh?! What?! Oy, vey, those damn hourglass sands...

The Christmas '10 parties are finally over!

2011-01-09T23:34:00.000-08:00

I think...

Massacre in Tucson at Gabrielle Giffords' political event

2011-01-08T23:59:00.001-08:00

A horrible day in America as 6 are killed and 13 are wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, in Tucson. It's been a day where Sarah Palin's widely seen "Crosshairs Poster" has gotten a LOT of blame for what happened...even before anyone knew ANYthing about the gunman or motive. And so a friend of mine on Facebook was livid over this blaming of Sarah...and this friend is NOT a Sarah fan. The following is my 2:30am Facebook response:

I've had several beers and am rather tired, so -- along with this being rather complicated -- I may not articulate this as best as I could. I'd also like to say up front that while I'm a registered Democrat, I'm 1) a pretty damn reasonable ...human being who 2) knows dumbass politicians exist on both sides of the aisle and 3) would vote Republican if someone REASONABLE came along.

I think there are elements of truth to what you say. I understand to a degree where you're coming from. The shooter was the shooter. Period. Sarah Palin, I am SURE, did not wish any other human being to be shot in the head...I guess. I mean, I don't know WHAT that crazy bitch thinks, but my BEST guess is that she didn't wish death upon Democratic rivals...and certainly not upon innocent bystanders, including children.

But words have consequences. As do posters with crosshairs on opponents. Someone of her stature -- running for VP and possibly (God forbid) President of the US -- should not be doing such an unbelievably irresponsible thing. *And whether she did the "crosshair artwork" herself or had a graphic designer come in, she clearly eventually saw it and could've vetoed it...LONG ago. Yes, she SHOULD have "approved it" or not; it was a pretty damn prominent image in her campaign, and not something she wouldn't have seen. She was INCITING. She and her REPUBLICAN ilk have been slowly, surely, steadily INCITING a culture of fucking loons to literally take up arms and "take the country back."

NOW...when all the facts come in, it is quite possible that the gunman was a liberal leftist with ZERO interest in anything Palin had to say. Palin could have NOTHING to do with THIS particular lunatic...but that's beside the point. Should we then go "oh, OK, Sarah, you can put your crosshair poster back up, you weren't remotely responsible THIS time"...and then wait for the day that she IS? Today's events highlight the dangerous possibilities going on with the CONSISTENT whipping up of rage with violent words and imagery by ONE SIDE of the political aisle.

I put up the Crosshair Poster on my page today...but pretty much stopped there in terms of "blaming Sarah," though i'm sure to many it appeared I was RAGING against her. But I realized the risk of "jumping the gun"...and I put it up mainly because it was instantly a news item, and not just because people were instantly linking Palin to today's events, but because SHE obviously felt some link herself...since she TOOK IT DOWN from her site. If you've got nothing to feel guilty about, Sarah, why are you taking down the image? She was covering her ass and/or feeling regret over an IDIOTIC poster.

OK, I think I covered all my points. I'm exhausted, though, and need to finish my latest Yuengling. Thank you for your time and God bless America!

Bill Zeller's suicide note

2011-01-07T23:59:00.001-08:00

Bill Zeller was a brilliant 27-year-old Princeton grad student with a lot of friends. He also spent his entire life hiding the fact that he was sexually abused as a kid...which directly led to his suicide this past week. I hate to remotely glorify suicide, but this epic note is incredibly powerful. I can't figure out how to include a damn link, so you'll have to exhaust yourself copying and pasting. I'm so sad that Bill felt he couldn't trust anyone to talk to, and i'm sorry this is how I came to know him. None of this should've happened.

http://documents.from.bz/note.txt

"Sweet Disposition" by The Temper Trap...INCREDIBLE song!

2011-01-06T20:36:00.000-08:00

Been hearing this song for months and not investigating it. But last night I SPRINTED outta the bathroom to see whose ad it was. Diet Coke. Commence Googling. And the mystery was solved. Just an awesomely evocative ditty.

So productive a day that I don't have the strength to blog about it...

2011-01-05T23:35:00.000-08:00

...yet.

Day 4 of 2011...you a new person yet?!

2011-01-04T20:01:00.001-08:00

Don't join a gym this month; wait till February

2011-01-03T23:51:00.000-08:00

Use weights or do yoga at home. Walk or run around the neighborhood. Because if you listen to my great advice, you'll avoid the idiot masses herding into gyms across this great land in the first days and weeks of the new year. But by February, a whopping majority will be back to parking their ass on the couch. So if you're not one of these quitters, just wait them out.

I hacked my 1998 Gateway computer with a hammer last night

2011-01-02T23:28:00.000-08:00

It felt REALLY good. I went at that fucker like a madman! I'd still like to drop it off a high roof, too...

HAPPY '11!

2011-01-01T00:35:00.000-08:00

GET IT DONE!

A blizzard. A laptop. A new digital camera. Egg nog.

2010-12-30T23:14:00.000-08:00

What are...4 things that have kept Gary occupied over the past 5 days?

BLIZZICANE!!!!!

2010-12-27T00:01:00.003-08:00

It's 3am and I have done NOTHING all this Boxing Day except monitor and participate in this EPIC blizzard pummeling the NYC metro area. I've been like the Facebook and Twitter weatherman. Flakes began falling around 10:45am...got heavy in the afternoon...and STAYED heavy. I've shoveled 4 times...then went for a 12:30am stroll through town taking pictures. This storm has impressed me on SO many levels...and i'm VERY hard to impress. Duration, amount of snow, wind, last-minute-track shock value, lightning and thunder (though I didn't see or hear it), falling the day after Christmas. Just HISTORIC. I've loved every minute of it. And it's STILL snowing heavily. I measured 25" and 27" in 2 seemingly level and non-drifty spots. Just amazing. A wonderful day.

2010-12-27T00:01:00.001-08:00

Another Rockwellian Christmas down...

2010-12-25T23:38:00.000-08:00

Now waiting on a BLIZZARD! I have SO much to say about Christmas in general, but again...it's 2:40am and...well, i'll say this: i'm very lucky...and realize many aren't. And i'm not even really talking about material possessions; i'm talking about how MISERABLE Christmas is for a lot of people because they're missing deceased loved ones. Odd coming from me...who felt for SURE at age 15 that Christmas was FOREVER ruined due to my grandmother being buried on CHRISTMAS EVE. But, no...life went on...and got better. Really. It's all tenuous, though. I've just survived another Christmas sans agony, and i'm very grateful. Merry Christmas.

Christmas 2010's here!

2010-12-25T00:19:00.000-08:00

3:20am on Christmas "Eve" now. Santa's surely about to bust down the door. Enjoyed some rum-spiked eggnog after "midnight" mass...at 10pm. And i'm STILL putting ornaments on the tree...