A Leg Grows in C Minor

No, not the strange 1998 Todd Solondz film, which I happen to love. (And when Phillip Seymour Hoffman walked by me TWICE a couple weeks ago you can bet I wanted to tell him how good he was in that film.) But anyway... Today I am happy. I blame it on Spring and nice weather, mostly. It's also my time of the month to be happy (don't ask), and I went to a bookstore today, which I love to do. So it's the right time of the month and the right time of the year for my happiness to start. Usually when Spring starts, I start wanting to exercise, explore, try new things, etc. Today I went to the Financial District in Manhattan. One usually wouldn't find joy at the place where the Stock Market crashed, but I like that area for some reason. There are lots of stores and little bakeries, and South Street Seaport is only a short walk away. As I said, I went to a bookstore. I spent almost an hour just reading random books and wandering. Then I went to Victoria's Secret a...

So I wanted to buy Mike and I tickets to NYC Comicon 2009 for our 3 year anniversary. I thought it would be a great treat for both of us. What I didn't realize was that I would enjoy it more than he would. Oh he had a great time, for the most part, but he was getting sick and didn't realize it, so he was a little crabbier with the crowds while I had my head in the clouds. Apparently there are 0 good youtube videos of the amazing time I experienced at NYC Comicon, so I am not posting a link with my title and you guys will have to judge based on my AMAZING (Zim voice) pictures. I'll run down the 3 days we were there with as little exposition as possible: Friday -We arrive there around 2pm: not too crowded! -We run around the main area looking for cool stuff/celebrities -Pictures pictures pictures (mostly of cool geeky costumes) -We run into Jimmie being suitably geeky -We only find a Donnie Darko 2 t shirt and an angry-ish Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) -We rush the Penny Arcad...

Anime can be fucking weeeeeird. If you ever watch Cat Soup , make sure you are not doing any drugs. It will make you feel like you are on drugs regardless of how you watch it. In another non-sequitur, I saw Mark Curry last night, aka Mark Cooper, aka Hangin with Mr. Cooper. I did a recent blog on how all celebrities are short. Well believe me, they are not ALL short. This guy is at least 6'5. He was wandering around after doing stand-up at Gotham Comedy Club last night (I was waiting for Mike after one of his improv shows at the same place). He nodded at Joe and I, probably because I was blatantly staring at him. I hadn't seen him since like 15 years ago when that show was still on the air, so it was nice to see that he's still around. I'll keep the musings short this time, since I promised New Years pictures and never delivered. We had an amazing New Years, most likely the best I've ever had. Our friend invited us up to an office party at his law firm, w...

Sorry folks, I've been away. Not just away from the computer, but away from Brooklyn as well. Since most of our friends and family live upstate, Mike and I decided to take a trip back home for Christmas. And we got invited to a sweet party for New Years, so I've been a little busy. I hope everyone's holidays went well this year. Mine were especially fun, as I will relate shortly. The day we went back, there was a huge snow storm. My family couldn't drive the hour to pick us up at the train station, so luckily Andrew and Julie were kind enough to let Mike and I stay with them for a night while we waited the snow out. After paying a cabbie 60 bucks (!!!) to get through the storm, we finally made it to their place. We had a fun time watching strange Russian animation, listening to new music, and Puzzle Questing it up (an old hobby for Andrew and I) so I'm kinda glad my dad couldn't come. The next day my mom had a party (as she often does) before Christmas, ...

I just woke up from a horrible nightmare. This is common for me, I have them at least once every 2 weeks now. They used to be about once a month, but now they are much more frequent. I have potential reasons for these things, but first let me tell you about my dream. I was in a giant house with my brothers and some other people. Like a GIANT house. There were tons of flights of stairs leading to different landings. We were on a mission (I'm always on a crazy mission in my dreams). This time I had a special stun gun, and I was looking for a giant spider that liked to torture people. Since this house had so many rooms, my brothers and I were basically shouting and stomping around to see if we could raise enough commotion for the spider to come out and attack so we could stun it (and maybe kill it or imprison it...my dream thinking didn't get that far). So I was running up some stairs with my brother Keith, and we were both a little afraid because it was kinda dark and qui...

If there's one thing I learned since moving to NYC, it's that celebrities are tiny people. Usually both thin and short. When I met most of the cast of Ugly Betty , that was what I noticed first. I met Amanda, Mark, Hilda, and saw Betty (I don't know their real names, I don't even watch the show actually) and they looked like the littlest people alive. America Ferrera (I lied, I know her name) must be like 5'0. Last week I went to a broadway show called "Spring Awakening" that starred Hunter Parrish (Silas on Weeds ). On stage he looked thin but tall. Once we spoke to him afterwards he was shorter than me (I was leaning back in the pic) and definitely thinner than me. The day after meeting Hunter, I found "no parking" temporary signs on my street. These signs are posted all over the place when a filming is going on. I looked at what was filming, and lucky me, it was Flight of the Conchords , season 2! I've mentioned here before that ...