Author: Sean

Last night I enjoyed a club soda with Vivian, Alex, and Tammie at Scratcher. That pub disallows smoking but a few yards down the street sits the Fish Bar. After the smoking law passed, the Fish Bar’s co-owners fired all their bartenders and agreed to work all the shifts themselves. By having no employees, they are complying with a loophole in the anti-cigarette law that grants them the permission to allow smoking—an important tip for you addicts out there. The Fish Bar also had quiz night on Mondays and free cheese and crackers on Fridays after work.

Happy Tax Day.

Girls. Brunch.

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I haven't had a beer or a cigarette in over seven days.

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Lomo pictures and a new article will be uploaded to the site later today.

Editor's note: I can't get the scanner to work, so no Lomo pics until I do. No loss because they really aren't that good, but I did just get the damn thing. The article has been sent to my editor and will be up this week. She rocks.

On the left is the cover from Erik and my 1986 concept album “Jesus Built my Synthesizer”. On the right, Erik, Kate, Mary, and I at the local rock show seeing the band Spoon. A beer to the first person to name the venue. If you ever want to see hyperactive, bosomly well-endowed girls bounce in a scary fashion, go to a Spoon concert. It wasn’t hot. It was scary.
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Green Pants, Day 5 – No one has noticed or cared. I realized this morning that I had also warn a navy blue shirt every day: Blue Dickies t-shirt, blue sweater, long-sleeve blue-button down, short-sleeve blue button-down over a long-sleeve t-shirt, and a blue Fred Perry shirt today. I like blue. I may wear the pants again next week.
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Late update: Tyler just sent me this, Retired Maj. Gen. Don Shepperd about the situation now in Iraq The dog has caught the car.“.

Erik and I had our weekly conference at the 4th Street Bar last night. It’s starting to become a tradition and I’d like to keep it exclusive and not invite any of you. Well, maybe you. Anyway, we both enjoyed a dozen hot wings each, but he also imbibed a few pale ales. I myself drank three club sodas because I am on medication for what I like to call a sore throat, but what is really the clap.

I had forgotten my camera so we stopped by my place to get a shot that captured the essence of the evening. What Eric is holding is obvious. I am carrying club soda, antibiotics, and organic yogurt. The yogurt helps ease stomach discomfort caused by the antibiotics.

I am not a man of mystery and I have few secrets, or do I?

The pants I’m wearing in the picture? Day 3.

Two chicks and pizza.

“You want a prediction about the weather, you’re asking the wrong Phil. I’ll give you a winter prediction. It’s gonna be cold, .. it’s gonna be gray, .. and it’s gonna last you for the rest of your life.”
– Bill Murray as Phil Connors in Groundhog Day. Going through my head this morning for some reason.

For fun, I’m wearing the same pants every day this week. I am changing underwear, though. For now.

How to be pic of the day? Stand beside me when I have good hair, buy me dinner, or sleep with me. Marty Z did all three.

I got my Lomo yesterday. I love new toys.

WEEKEND RECAP: Friday, I went to dinner with Dan and Kelly at Nobu. Amazing meal to be described later. Tony Bennett and Britney Spears were there, but not together. After dinner I caught the tail end of Erik’s official birthday party at Boat. Today’s pic is wild man Bill doing that which he does. During the day Saturday, I thought about writing an essay about how to spend a day doing nothing, but instead I spent the day doing nothing. Well, I did got to the gym with Kelly and the be-yotch made me do that weird leg spreading machine. As a result, today I have a brand new and unusual pain in my thighs. Mike had a big party that night to celebrate his book release. Those pictures will be up sometime today. Sunday was a day of rest and gyros. For dinner, I went to Jaya Thai with Dan and Kelly, and then afterward finished the easy crossword on my couch.
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Losing an hours sleep and feeling jet lagged for a few days due to “Spring forward” sucks. No need to mention it again.
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Snow in April sucks. No need to mention it again.

I had nothing for the site today, so I took about twenty pictures on the walk to work—all from the hip. Most of them were blurry and of either cars or the sidewalk, but I do like these four. They are less than an hour old. …
Defacing money is illegal, yet when I went to buy my coffee this morning, I saw this. Who is Lauren Prince? Whoever she is, when I find her, she is going to pay. Pay me one clean dollar bill, that is. The cool thing is if she Googles herself now, she will end up here. I wonder if she still uses purple pens or if she grown beyond that now.

Yesterday was the E-dawg’s birthday so I took Erik out to Joe’s Bar for a beer. This was my first time in a bar since the no smoking law went into effect on Saturday night. It was so bizarre to be in a dingy pool bar and not be surrounded by a thick cloud of tobacco smoke. Actually, it was rather nice. After we left Joe’s we picked up the two chicks in the bottom picture. Erik took the one with the ugly hat and I got the crazy one. OK, the last part is fiction.

Yesterday, April 1st, I wrote that I was taking a month hiatus to be more diligent at work. When asked for details, I told people that I wanted to focus on my music. This all was, of course, an April Fool’s joke, also known as Malicious Liars Day. Fifty-seven people visited the site yesterday. Seven people were fooled and one person recognized the obvious deception. That means forty-nine people, or 86% didn’t give a shite. Was the joke on you or me?
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Today’s pic is a left-over shot from the winter in honor of Spring. A beer to the first person who can identify the fuzzy man in the trees.
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After reading this article about the fallacies in the media, and many others by a variety of conservatives and liberals, I’m resolved to be very against the war. It’s an easy opinion to come to living in the ultra-democrat New York City, but for me it required a lot of research and thought. Forget email or online petitions. I could write a program to counterfeit those in a matter of moments so they really are worthless. A better gesture is to send a real physical letter to as many of your representatives as possible. I’ve been looking on the Web for a site to assist with this and that is where I found the site of the day. With respect to author of that site, I feel there could be an anti-war letter generating site that is even easier to use. The user could enter their address and be walked through registering to vote if necessary. The final out put would four letters that highlight the main unarguable points of the anti-war stance, addressed to the users senators, representative, and the President. The letter-generator would have to stick to the main points so it would be palatable to the broad diversity that exists even within the anti-war community. If done in a user friendly fashion, with features such as also creating the envelope text, I think this tool could lead to a decent sized letter writing campaign. It’s not the cost of a 39 cent stamp that creates apathy, but the time involved that prevents busy people with their own problems from making an effort.

I’d like to build this thing, but my Perl is a little weak and I haven’t been able to find representative data service. Does anyone know of an XML feed from congress? Seriously.