jamie lawrence-howard • highly absorbent redundant and superfluous verbiage • clogging tubes since 9.1.98
one side benefit to switching from my pc back to my beloved mac is the reawakening of my mac fanaticism.
yes, i’m an apple fanboy. have been since 1986 and the mac pluses i bought for my journalism classroom, except for my recent brief sojourn away from the fold. and there’s nothing like the evangelical community that surrounds the company and its products.
and evidently next week, there will be lots of new reasons to be fanatical and celebratory.
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all this speculation about the supreme court nominees has me all het up.
not about the nominees themselves. about the speculation itself.
Continue reading “the supremes”
i’m from floral city, florida, in a small county called citrus county. it’s in northwest central florida, on the gulf coast. i left when i was 17 and, other than visits to my mom when she still lived there, have pretty much never looked back. i did go back twice for high school reunions, which were fun, but those were just one-night visits.
there must be something in the water, though. i’m glad i’m out of there.
even living in new york city, i seem to see lots of negative news about various locations in citrus county. it may be that i just notice them more.
but i don’t think so. the number of odd news items you see seems out of proportion to the small size of the county and its population.
take this latest example, for example.
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yesterday, that is.
the mets won, and that was the bright spot. even though it doesn’t ultimately matter in the postseaon scheme of things, the mets will go out on a high note, above .500 and with several young players that we’ll be seeing for years.
but the red sox lost, and even though it looks at this point like they’ll get the wild card, i really wanted the red sox and the indians to get together and win some games and send the yankees home for october. maybe next year. but i guess having the yankees in the post season is good for the tv ratings and thus good for baseball, so i’ll be a bit magnanimous and congratulate the yankees. grudingly. they got the job done again–i suppose you can’t deny that.
and the gators lost big time. 31-3. or i guess that should be 3-31. to alabama. that’s college football, which i like but not as much as baseball. not nearly.
it’s going to be a long winter.
i got tickets to tonight’s mets game through a contact at work. thanks, contact at work! they are great seats–field box level, right up front, off to the third base side a bit, so you have to crane your neck a bit, but who am i to complain?
and, even though the game means absolutely nothing to any of the teams in postseason contention, i’m still glad i’ll be there.
the united states is a third world country.
at least in my opinion it is. but what about more objective measures? how do we stack up?
let’s take a look.
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yesterday i mentioned, well, more than mentioned.
yesterday i exhaustively told you what i was going to be up to that evening. which now was yesterday evening.
and today i’ll tell you what i actually did yesterday evening, and what i thought of it. longest most boring lead on queerspace.com blog history, that was. but oh well.
doubt was terrific, and so was komegashi.
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not the abstract concept. the broadway play.
kirk and i have been wanting to see this for quite a while. cherry jones is one of my favorite actresses, and she is an out lesbian to boot, which makes it just that much better.
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i know you’re not supposed to hate anybody. and i really don’t actually hate oprah.
let’s just call it an intense dislike of everything she stands for and everything i’ve ever seen her do and every appearance she’s made in my brain.
other than when she was in “the color purple”. she was great in that. but it was before she was “oprah” in all capital letters which i don’t use on this site.
other than, that, can’t stand her. and here’s the latest reason why.
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dell has introduced their latest “ipod killer”. it’s called the “dell ditty”. as dave barry is so fond of saying, i am not making this up.
i am also not making up this unfortunate website which dell has apparently created to promote this unfortunately named product.
honestly, i thought this was a parody site. i’m still not sure that it isn’t. if i’m missing some joke here, please let me know. is this loser guy in a track suit supposed to make me want to buy a dell ditty? even al sharpton doesn’t wear these anymore.
and can you picture the conversation if you actually had one of these things?
“is that an ipod?”
“no, it’s my new dell ditty.”
[hysterical laughter]
“well, it’s not my fault. my grandmother gave it to me.”
and the comments here will make you pee your pants laughing.
a bloomberg for mayor (republican of new york, the current mayor, mike bloomberg, the rich guy with the tv channel, for you non-new yorkers) commercial this morning on the tv in the gym. no sound, just the closed-captioning.
woman speaking to the camera in the commercial, explaining why she voting for bloomberg.
“he’s not a flip-flopper.”
has this man lost his mind?
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we have yet another hurricane coming. and we have lots of time to prepare for this one as well. people seem to be taking it seriously, and evacuating. at least, that’s what the media is telling us.
there are a few problems with that angle, though.
Continue reading “here we go again”
number something or other in series of a number yet to be determined, where i don’t have one big thing to say, so i just write a post consisting of lots of little things to take up space.
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i really want to learn to speak french. i really really do. but i think my brain is getting in the way.
i took french in high school. two years, in fact. and there’s a basis of french vocabulary that i retain from that.
but getting past that base is proving to be pretty difficult.
Continue reading “french class reboot”
how did anyone ever get any work done back in the fifties and sixties? back in the days when everyone had three martinis for lunch?
i have no idea. having had a three martini lunch today.
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i guess it was the widget. or maybe redoing the html and taking away the frames.
but i’m now the number one jamie howard in google. both without quotes around my name and with quotes around my name.
just a week ago i was number eight without quotes, and three pages back with quotes around my name. who knew?
it’s not much of an achievement. in fact it’s no achievement at all. and i’m still ambivalent about it, although it must mean something to me because i check for it now and then.
it’s masak nenas
photo courtesy of kelly
well, it was delicious. the menu describes it as “your choice of shrimp, chicken, or beef,” (i chose chicken) “with pineapple chunks, bell pepper, mint, and scallions in a spicy curry sauce.”
actually, to be completely accurate, the menu should read, “your choice of shrimp, chicken, or beef with pineapple chunks, bell pepper, mint, and scallions in a spicy curry sauce, in a hollowed-out half pineapple garnished with a paper tiki umbrella from our bar. it’s not flaming, but you are.”
as bill maher might say, i kid the malaysians. it was a very tasty entree, and the accompanying green tea and ginger bubble tea was sublime. the restaurant is called satay malaysian cuisine; our friend kelly took kirk and i there before we went to see rasputina on thursday, and it was a good choice.
i’d been cranky about going to see this band. frankly, yesterday’s post was more an attempt to kick myself in the ass to try to enjoy an evening about which i was, at best, dubious.
well, who knew.
not only was rasputina not bad, they were very very good. in fact, i’d go so far as to say they were pretty close to brilliant.
i used to care a lot, as faith no more once cynically said, about music. i was a nightclub dj and went out every single night for years on end. but music lately?
i’m getting younger.
well, give me a chance to explain before you laugh. I guess i should say i’ve decided to get younger. well, no, that doesn’t work either.
i can’t will myself into reversing the aging process. but i’ve started thinking like an old person. not all the time, and not on all subjects, but enough that i’ve noticed.
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i voted in new york city’s democratic primary this morning. i voted for kris glen, among others.
i did not vote for strip club dude. who?
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