lists.

shiny things, 6.18.07:

• the northbound 151 bus during rush hour, north of oak street.
  
• pop smear by the verve pipe: it's still one of the most musically diverse albums ever, and one of the best.
  
• having the smoke machine turned on while you're onstage, belting "when you're good to mama" a capella in front of a packed bar.
• wesley willis actually getting some of the facts right in his song "richard speck."
  

not-so-shiny things, 6.18.07:

• the northbound 151 bus during rush hour, south of oak street.
• leaving the security card that gets you into your work building, and onto the office floors, at home.
• jokes that aren't actually funny.
• the fact that i'll never, ever get to see a wesley willis concert.
  

thank you, captain obvious.

dear washington post,

according to headlines on bloomberg news (the station that is ALWAYS on the tv screens in the elevator in my office building), you printed two things in your newspaper that make me want to dub you captain obvious.

first of all--"bush used his power to circumvent the laws."

okay, people. it's 2007. bush has been in office for six and a half years now, and they're just now making that a headline?

and then, if that wasn't obvious enough--"study shows politicians benefit family members"?!?

yes. yes, they do. next thing you're going to tell me something like "the sun rises in the east," "the sun sets in the west," or "ted stevens doesn't know jack about the internet!"

and, also--who funded that study? they should be smacked, too...why would they pay to study something that's so obvious as "hey! nepotism exists!"

i saw both of these headlines in the short time it takes to go from the ground floor, up to the 46th. trust me, that's a short time--that elevator moves so fast that my ears usually pop.

so, in conclusion--you're a news outlet. post news. don't post...stuff a two year old would know.

love,
me

i'm still a twelve-year-old boy.

there are some special cases out there. i'm reading a copyright infringement case called JCW Investments v. Novelty, Inc. (289 F.Supp.2d 1023).

a company who makes a doll called "Pull My Finger Fred" is pissed off at another company for making dolls named "Fartman" and "Fartboy," dolls that look eerily like "Pull My Finger Fred."

there's something really, really funny about companies arguing about farting dolls, and about a court writing a serious opinion about  farting dolls. i'm giggling like an idiot in my office. 

for crying out loud, the opinion has a short history of the pull-my-finger joke!  how awesome is that?!

heh-heh. pull my finger. huh-huh. fartman.