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Product Placement

A list of stuff I’m into these days:

  1. Dark chocolate.  Lots of dark chocolate.
  2. Staying out far too late, drinking and dancing like it’s the summer of 2005.
  3. Shiny red nails and backless gold dresses and fake eyelashes.
  4. I don’t know how The Dark Tower will possibly work on TV, and I’m not sure if I want to find out, but I’m reasonably confident I also won’t be able to stay away.
  5. Pumpkin beers.  Some are good.  Some are super terrible.  I will try any of them.
  6. My new planner, though I have to wait almost two months to use it.
  7. Person of Interest.  I’m not sure if it’s right to describe Jim Caviezel as sexy, but damn.
  8. This scrub smells amazing and is making my skin softer than is reasonable to expect this time of year.
  9. Downloading an obscene amount of questionably terrible music from my youth in anticipation of a dance party this coming weekend.  You should come!
  10. Power, Corruption & Lies. And this track from Substance that I’ve somehow glossed on for years.  And downloading a bunch of industrial music that I’d forgotten about.  And this Four Tet album.  And music music music music music music.

Things I Love Thursday #5

  1. I seriously lose my shit at least once a day over Damn You Auto Correct!
  2. This week’s On the Media, which may have been the most fun On the Media yet.  I would like to specifically draw your attention to these two segments, the latter of which led me to Zero Views, another recent obsession:
    • Know Your Meme:
    • Zero Views:
  3. I’m in pretty good shape with both holiday shopping and crafting – most of the remaining purchases are necessarily last minute, and most of the remaining crafting could slide into January if necessary.
  4. I won free Chipotle lunch for my entire office (or for up to 30 people) by dropping a calling card – they’re not really business cards if they don’t come from your employer, right? – in a drawing last week.
  5. As a result, I keep thinking of this:
  6. M I Fivvvvvvve. What will happen to Ruth? If Ros has that thing implanted behind her ear, does that mean they can hear her in the bathroom? Will I blow through the remaining seasons by the end of the year?
  7. Getting caught up on Fringe.  I heart Walter Bishop and I hate fake Olivia.
  8. Oh so finally done with this issue of Vanity Fair, which inexplicably took me nearly an entire month to read.

We’ve been watching John Adams this week, and I just wanted to let you, my internet comrades, know that it’s a damned fine miniseries. It’s moving and well-acted, and has both of us interested in refreshing our memories of American history.

vacation update!

Exciting adventures:

Breakfast in the sun

Kasey’s going away party

Showering outside at Mel’s Memorial Day party.


Going to a Cubs game with Shane and some long-missed Chicago friends (Heather is sad because she can’t have cotton candy).


Shane is growing a beard in a bad beard contest. I don’t think it’s so bad.

Things I have read in the last month:

Things I have watched in the last month:

  • Shopgirl
  • Brokeback Mountain
  • Hustle & Flow
  • Prime
  • Hero
  • The End of the Affair
  • Wonderfalls – 1 DVD
  • 24 – last 4 episodes of this season
  • Twin Peaks – beginning of season 2
  • The X-Files – end of season 1

Friends that are moving/moving away:

  • Kasey to Philadelphia – already gone
  • Sam & Brian to a new! house! in Champaign
  • Sarah & Greg to a house! (albeit rented) in Champaign
  • Nicole to Texas – this weekend
  • Erin & Ben to St Louis – June 10
  • Karin to Philadelphia – June 17th-ish
  • Ryan to St Louis and Americorps – end of the summer?
  • Angie & Chris to parts unknown – TBA

It’s been a lovely summer already.