happy fall.

we went to bakersfield. i am sick. i will be working tomorrow and it will not be fun. i am also watching the wire. the last season. it is really good. i am playing a show in long beach on saturday. it's just me and keith. it will be in a park.

the wire is subtle, pulpy, and brilliant. so good.

i want to be here now.

via a pretty arbitrary random espn article on great stadiums:

"40. Dodger Stadium
Location: Los Angeles. Opened: 1962. Capacity: 56,000.

Because if this stadium had a voice, it would sound like Vin Scully and it would tell you about Sandy Koufax, Steve Garvey and Kirk Gibson and a sun-dappled jewel in the Los Angeles hills."

nice, whatever.

i think i'm getting sick, though i really hope not. i'm knee deep in half-marathon training: getting ready for the race and loosing my gut in the process. i am running a lot and it feels nice.

today i hate recycling. here are some notable facts.

* In cases where recycling truly does save resources, such as with large scraps of aluminum, this will be reflected in market prices, and voluntary recycling will take place. Thus, there is no need for the government to mandate it.
* Tree farmers plant more trees than they cut down.
* Government mandated recycling is more expensive than putting the garbage into landfills, which means that this recycling uses up more resources than it saves.
* Some small towns with landfills are happy to import garbage from other cities and states because it provides jobs and tax revenue.
* Today's modern landfills are much cleaner and safer, and much less likely to leak and pollute than the landfills of the past.
* Regarding the claim that the U.S. is running out of landfill space, Tierney wrote, "A. Clark Wiseman, an economist at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., has calculated that if Americans keep generating garbage at current rates for 1,000 years, and if all their garbage is put in a landfill 100 yards deep, by the year 3000 this national garbage heap will fill a square piece of land 35 miles on each side. This doesn't seem a huge imposition in a country the size of America. The garbage would occupy only 5 percent of the area needed for the national array of solar panels proposed by environmentalists. The millennial landfill would fit on one-tenth of 1 percent of the range land now available for grazing in the continental United States. And if it still pains you to think of depriving posterity of that 35-mile square, remember that the loss will be only temporary. Eventually, like previous landfills, the mounds of trash will be covered with grass and become a minuscule addition to the nation's 150,000 square miles of parkland."

In a 2007 article, Michael Munger, the Chair of Political Science at Duke University, wrote, "... if recycling is more expensive than using new materials, it can't possibly be efficient... There is a simple test for determining whether something is a resource... or just garbage... If someone will pay you for the item, it's a resource... But if you have to pay someone to take the item away... then the item is garbage."

couple things:

1. i'm itching to move. just down the street, but still.
2. i'm itching to shoot episode 2 of the tv show. the first episode was just me and jack.
3. i'm itching to punch the man on youtube who sent me this note on the video of me and jack in the tub: "cute hairy daddy. but why does he take a bath in a swimsute?" i deleted it and will soon delete every video of my son on the internet.
4. i'm playing a show with keith in lbc on september 27th at a park.
5. i'm needing to take the gre soon.
6. nothing else.


I could survive for 51 seconds chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor

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death by caffeine:

126.98 cups of coffee. 68.2 nodoz.

we shot some stuff for the tv show last night.

that is all.

one of my favorite people on one of my favorite movies:

bourdain on ratatouille
" "I think it's quite simply the best food movie ever made,” Tony wrote today in an email. “The best restaurant movie ever made--the best chef movie. The tiny details are astonishing: The faded burns on the cooks' wrists. The "personal histories" of the cooks...the attention paid to the food...And the Anton Ego ratatouille epiphany hit me like a punch in the chest--literally breathtaking. I saw it in a theater entirely full with adults--and the reaction to that moment was what movie making was once--a long time ago--all about: Audible surprise, delight, awe and even a measure of enlightenment. I am hugely and disproportionately proud that my miniscule contribution (if any) early early in the project's development led to a "thank you" in the credits. Amazing how much they got "right."

tickle device? maybe?

On Sunday night's 60 Minutes, famed journalist Bob Woodward talked about his new book The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008, about the Iraq war. During the interview, he made a vague reference to a breakthrough supersecret weapon or capability the US military has that he claims is comparable to the advent of the tank and the airplane. From CBS News:

"This is very sensitive and very top secret, but there are secret operational capabilities that have been developed by the military to locate, target, and kill leaders of al Qaeda in Iraq, insurgent leaders, renegade militia leaders. That is one of the true breakthroughs," Woodward told (60 Minutes correspondent Scott) Pelley.

"But what are we talking about here? It's some kind of surveillance? Some kind of targeted way of taking out just the people that you're looking for? The leadership of the enemy?" Pelley asked.

"I'd love to go through the details, but I'm not going to," Woodward replied...

"If you were an al Qaeda leader or part of the insurgency in Iraq, or one of these renegade militias, and you knew about what they were able to do, you'd get your ass outta town."

via boing boing, via somewhere else.

we're working on the tv show tomorrow night. if you want to help, give me a call. we're doing it in silver lake at the other house. it is staring myself and jack. we might need someone to play a female social worker who tries to tell me i am a bad father to my son suri. the character's name is nimphadora and the character will be sprayed with a hose during the episode.

monday. jack cried a lot last night and i couldn't get to sleep for a long time because my body was so wired from running 71/2 miles right before bed. i am training for a half marathon and trying to become less fat. the dodgers keep winning. this is good. and i have work to do.

i bought some molasses for my pulled pork i made last night. i also put it on my corn bread and added it to my cereal this morning. buy some. it is actually healthy for you. and it is very old timey for those old timey aches and pains.

Cancer is so limited...

It cannot cripple Love

It cannot shatter Hope

It cannot corrode Faith

It cannot destroy Peace

It cannot kill Friendship

It cannot suppress Memories

It cannot silence Courage

It cannot invade the Soul

It cannot steal eternal Life

It cannot conquer the Spirit.

If an incurable disease has invaded your life, refuse to let it touch your spirit.

Your body can be severely afflicted and you may have a great struggle.

If you keep trusting God's love, your spirit will remain strong.


Why must I bear this pain? I cannot tell,

I only know my Lord does all things well.

And so I trust in God, my all in all,

For He will bring me through, whate'er befall.
Anonymous

EACH STEP OF THE WAY

I'm following Jesus,
One step at a time;
I live for the moment,
In His love divine.
Why think of tomorrow,
Just live for today;
I'm following Jesus,
Each step of the way.

The pathway is narrow,
But He leads me on;
I walk in His shadow,
My fears are all gone.
My spirit grows stronger,
Each moment, each day,
For Jesus is leading
EACH STEP OF THE WAY.

Amazing grace! how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.

AMAZING GRACE...nothing we did to deserve it!
But what HE did for us that day on CALVARY!

day three. yesterday was a long one. i've a bunch of stuff to do. busy, busy. nothing else. bye.

day two. we went to a dodger game last night. they won. it ruled. we ate sausage biscuits. they won and ruled too. today i have to go to class after school. i will get out at 10:00 pm. this will not rule and will be torture.

first day of school. i will be going to a dodger game tonight. tomorrow and saturday i have class. i am also training for a half marathon. and reading my antonia and watching john adams. and almost season 5 of the wire. this is going to be my lost weekend year--except all the cool things john lennon and harry nilsson did will be replaced by credentialing classes, apprehension, and night terrors.

have a nice day.

first day with no students. tomorrow is the first day with students. that is all.

i had this weird thing happen last night where i woke up and i couldn't breathe. i kept gasping and it felt like my lungs were filling with river water. i wasn't sleeping because it weirded robyn out too.