Author: Chuck
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I Love the Fri Jul 28 2006 21:27:13 GMT-0400 (EDT)’s
Usually I like being over-worked, because it distracts me from my normal self-involved maudlin navel-gazing. But apparently my inner blogger is fighting for attention, because the weirdest bout of unexpected nostalgia popped in my head this morning. I was in the shower, convincing myself that the code I’d written last night would work while washing…
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Vast Wasteland
It’s counter-intuitive, but having a TiVo encourages a healthier relationship with the television box. You’re always hearing from TiVotees who go on about how they watch less TV than they did before they got one, but now I’ve got proof. Over the past month I’ve been subjected to more TV at my parents’ house and…
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Decompression
The day after crunch mode ends on a project is like a bullet train hitting a concrete mammoth. “Brick wall” seemed too mundane. You’d think I’d be used to it by now, instead of finding myself sitting in a hotel room with nothing to do and too bored even to nap. There’s still plenty to…
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Blur
Hard to believe I’ve been in LA for a week already. On one level it feels like it’s just been a day or two. On another level, it feels like I’ve been here for months. That would be a side effect of the wicked crazy crunch we’ve been in. Any notion that I’m no longer…
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10 Things I Hate About Georgia
I always remember myself as having had Scout Finch’s childhood. Even though the reality was mostly me indoors watching cartoons or playing with my Star Wars men, the parts that stand out were wandering around creeks and catching lightning bugs and riding my bike down Main Street to the old red-brick buildings of downtown to…
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Dance Like the Internet is Watching
Where the Hell is Matt? has apparently been making the rounds on the internets for a while now. It’s a guy traveling around the world and dancing like an idiot. And it’s surprisingly cool.
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R.I.P. Hank and Dean
The rest of this post is a spoiler for the season 2 premier of The Venture Brothers:
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Thirty-Five
My birthday was today, and I got exactly what I asked for two weeks ago: a birthday card from and signed by my daddy. He wrote my name on the front and my age and year on the inside. And it looks like his normal handwriting (which, he’d have to admit, was kind of scratchy…
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Cursed
Somehow I’ve pissed off the travel gods. Today they decided to delay my connecting flight back to Atlanta for two hours before cancelling it. So I’m stranded in Dulles, Virginia. I could put a bit in here about how Dulles airport is the most hateful place on the planet Earth, and how the mouthbreathing pederasts…
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I Have Opinions About Things
One of the advantages to spending so much time in waiting rooms and on planes (all right, the only advantage) is that it gives me a chance to get caught up on my readin’ and watchin’. And now, bloggin’. Nacho Libre I’m baffled as to why this one is getting walloped in the reviews. It’s…
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Go Team Venture!
“The Venture Brothers” is definitely the best show on [adult swim], and if it weren’t for “Lost,” it’d be the best show on TV right now. I got the Season One DVDs when I was down in Georgia, and I’ve finally gotten around to watching the extra features. The extra features aren’t enough to buy…
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Top 10 Signs That Superman in “Superman Returns” Might Be Gay
BBC News: Superman ‘not gay’ says director Defamer.com’s painful beating-the-joke-into-the-ground 10. Wears blue tights, red cape, boots, and codpiece. 9. Flies around Earth at super-speed, turns back time long enough to deliver snappier comeback to Lex Luthor than earlier “Oh no you didn’t, bitch!” 8. Starts a weblog. 7. Outfits Fortress of Solitude with hot…