Author: Sean

Erik, MikeD, and I met some of the folks who worked on the Make My Day television show at One and One last night. Mary, who worked on my episode and stalked me at my birthday party, and I were the last folks standing.

Like me, the crew is upset that the show has been shelved, but there are some rumors that it still may make the airwaves. Unlike me, they have gotten to see the finished product. I’m told I don’t look too stupid, so I’ve got that going for me.
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Site of the Day: Weird real estate picture, third one down.

Iron City beer is now in shiny aluminum bottles. This is somehow signifigant. Just ask Pabst, we all will be cool for a moment someday.
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I don’t have much to say this morning, so here are a couple ofl time-killing Sites of the Day. First, an engaging article from TMN by Matthew Baldwin about Tricks of the Trade, very similar to The Two Things.

Second, a blog of fun links, Thighs Wide Shut.

This Oscar-nominated French animation packs the screen with mood invoking sepia-toned sprawl. Wordless, the story layers visual cues to reveal plot. Unlike other foreign films, not one detail is symbolic or a red herring, all images play a role in the outcome.

The unlikely protagonist, an indomitable grandmother teeming with unconditional love for her grandson, seeks to rescue the boy after he is bizarrely kidnapped while riding in the Tour de France. She and her scene-stealing dog sidekick travel to the Paris-New York amalgamation city of Belleville. Helped by the triplets, an aged 1930’s vocal group, Grandma gets shit done.

Rating: Recommended

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Site of the Day: Know your and other people’s gods.

Last night I joined fellow cool New Yorker Colleen at Riviera for dinner (West Village sports bar, lots of TVs, decent sandwiches) and along with gymnastics, football, women, Ireland, and weddings, we talked about Alexander Hamilton. She is reading his biography and he is a topic near and dear to her heart. Although she couldn’t get me to agree that he is the deckest individual to ever walk the Earth, she did convince me that he is the first cool New Yorker.

Like Miss and I, he arrived from somewhere else. Born a bastard in the West Indies, he moved to the city at age fifteen with no family or prospects. After success at several clerkships, he wisely eschewed Princeton to attend Columbia, then called King’s College after the King.

But the monarch was soon to be booted, thanks in part to Alexander who was an adjunct for Washington. Hamilton helped draft the Constitution and was the only founding father not to become president.

While shaping the young country, he founded the Bank of New York, despite disapproval of the state. The bank was instrumental in making New York the financial center it is today.

A cool exit always helps to seal a reputation and Hamilton died tragically but with style, getting mortally wounded by his rival Aaron Burr in a duel in Weehawken.

This is the sort of things crazy New Yorkers talk about in West Village bars. It’s not drugs or sex, but it beats weddings and it’s the best I can hope for at my age.

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Site of the Day: “Hello, my name is Tamara! As you can probably tell, I’m a Christian who loves Jesus and cares for all humans, even the wicked. What you probably don’t know is that I’m hot.” Use your booty to save the wicked.

My beloved brother Jerry is in town often on business and sometimes I’m fortunate enough to have him join me for Trivia Night at The Edge (thanks to Val for taking the shot). Our trio came in fourth place because we didn’t know where the tallest building in the world is: Tai Pei, Taiwan, what “gymnos” the root of “gymnastics” means: nude, and what year 2001: A Space Odyssey came out: 1968, a year before we landed on the moon. Sometimes I feel like Laverne’s slow cousin that Lenny violated when I miss questions like that.
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On another rant, if one more person from a town like Bumbfuck, Tennessee tells me that he or she has a cousin who works on copy machines at an office that sells plumbing supplies to a contracter who installed the toilet of the house that is owned by a family that lives next door to an F! B! I! (said like Keanu Reaves in Point Break) agent, AND that person said that there would be TROUBLE during the convention. Well, I’m just going to suddenly pop that person’s eyeballs out with my thumbs. My government is working around the clock to keep me scared, you don’t need to help.
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Site of the Day: The Making of Lauren – Hot in a weird way.

I’d like to be healthier. Hugh “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards” MacLeod of the Gaping Void wrote a great bit about New Yorker neurosis and self-improvement that hits home like bullet, but screw it. I’m on health/self-improvement kick anyways. It’s, of course, in reaction to a weekend involving a great deal of tequila and McDonalds.

So this week for my health I’m going forward with restraint, exercising every other day, and avoiding hard spirits. For self-improvement, I plan to organize my finances, clean out my closet, and write something other than self-indulgent blog entries. I may even sweep the floor.

Some folks won’t make resolutions that they know they will break. I disagree The joy of sinning isn’t possible without commandments to disobey. It’s more fun to cut school than it is to be unemployed.

Oh, and on side note, I’ll be at The Edge tonight. Please stop by.
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Site of the Day: Oxymorons for all.

Last night I partied like it was 1998 and the dot com dollars were flowing. The development group in my office went out to Tia Pol, an amazing little tapas joint on 22nd Street and 10th Avenue. The owner Mani serves delicious food and a sweeter smile. I fell in love with her and the frittata.
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Site of the Day: Todd Googled Tricia. Why, I don’t know.

A beer for the first person to identify these people. And no, they are not some random middle age folks I plucked off the Interweb.
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RIDDLE OF THE WEEK:

Answer to last week’s: Because for any shape other than a circle, at least one dimension is shorter than the longest dimension, and the cover would eventually fall in
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Site of the Day: Dumb things people have done while drunk.

Every Tuesday is Trivia Night at the Edge. While I was getting some sugar from the bartendress, Ben and Erik mugged for the camera.

Why not meet me there next Tuesday?
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Site of the Day: The next worse movie in America, Alone in the Dark, starring Christian Slater and Tara Reid.

How does the machine learn so much about me and still not know I loathe figurines?
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The current hottest women in America, Olympic high jumper Amy Acuff

“One of the big misconceptions is that every athlete is 100 percent serious about being there,” cover girl Amy Acuff, an American high jumper and two-time Olympian told the paper. “A number of athletes in the Village — people who know they don’t have a chance — are there to have a party.”

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Site of the Day: And I saw my reflection in the snow-covered hills, ‘Til the landslide brought it down.