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Apartment Foto Friday #6

A female friend once said that my apartment was a “bitchmagnet.” I don’t know if this isnecessarily true, or if my friend is just easily impressed (or if she’s justeasy). However, I suppose this is a goodthing…
Tom Cruising America (A Blog About Political Pirates and Dangerous Dogma)

This holiday season Tom Cruise will star in an epic movie based on the true story of a bunch of high ranking German officers plotting to assassinate Adolf Hitler. While historical movies about Nazi Germany generally don…
Inanity

I’m not sure if Lily Allen and Kate Nash are two different people. They are both female singer/songwriters from the UK. They’re approximately the same age and they both released music at approximately the same time. T…
Shalloween

One of my worst qualities is that I’m not a very confident guy, and this is reflected in how I dress myself. I don’t know anything about what is good or bad in clothing or fashion, which is probably the direct result of…
And 6,673 Starbucks cups later...

There goes the profession!!
Apartment Foto Friday #5

(Website News: This is just a quick side note before thisweek’s edition of Apartment Foto Friday. Thumbchips and Other Conjectures(a.k.a. manilajones’ Xanga Site) will be on hiatus next week as I will be outof t…
The Day That Love Failed Me

I don’t understand the mind of an arsonist. Actually, that’s not entirely true. I can understand some arsonists. I can understand someone who is so broke from the economic recession that he burns down his home in orde…
Career Day

Trips to San Diego always evoke mixed feelings within me. I dread going to that pitiful, sorry excuse for a city just as much as I hate interacting with the posers who live there. If you’ve ever been there, you know th…
The Church of Dead Babies

The other day my friend told me that the band Lifehouse initially began as a Christian rock called Bliss. This news made me feel horrible, and I’m not exactly sure why. I kind of already felt guilty for liking softcore…
Apartment Foto Friday #4

Contrary to popular opinion, my favorite singer of all-timeis not Avril Lavigne. Nor is it Liz Phair,KT Tunstall, Pink, Kate Nash, or Natasha Bedingfield. (Get over it.) And my favorite band is not the ElectricL…
Blithering Idiots

Why is everyone in the media afraid to say that Sarah Palin is a blithering idiot? This is not a rhetorical question. I want you to answer this question out loud no matter where you are or what you are doing. Why is e…
Straight Up Sewa' Side

I didn’t listen to rock music much when I was a kid, so I can’t say I know a whole lot about it. However, I do know this: Nirvana was a big deal in 1991. Teenage headbangers found that the Seattle-based grunge sound w…
The iPod Conundrum

One of the most important events in the history of the modern era was the release of the iPod in 2001. But before that, the very first mp3 player I ever owned was a Rio digital music player in 1999. It was 32mB big and…
Apartment Foto Friday #3

Here is a picture inside my apartment's refrigerator. The contents of my refrigerator today look remarkablysimilar to the contents of my refrigerator from college. The most glaring difference is that I drink al…
The Blogdratic Equation

I’m a dreadfully boring kind of guy. There’s nothing dynamic about my life, and it’s reflected in my formulaic approach to writing blog entries. First, I pick a superficial topic off the top of my head that most people…

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