Obvious Diversion

I got to shake the hand of my congressman today, Representative Jim McDermott, and I was absolutely proud to do so. Some votes you aren’t too enthusiatic to cast, but voting for Jim is a pleasure.

While waiting in line for the secret festival at the Seattle Internation Film Festival, I noticed a dog in line with the rest of us with his own badge and everything. What did “Buddy” and I see? Sorry, it’s a secret.

If Match Game were still on television today, Amy Sedaris would be Charles Nelson Reilly. Amy Sedaris is a comedian and actress, the sister of popular author David Sedaris, the star of the short-lived Comedy Central show Strangers With Candy, and a frequent and amusing guest of Conan O’Brian and David Letterman. For some inexplicable [...]

I have a brand new unopened set of Bose QuietComfort 2 Acoustic Noise Cancelling headphones for sale if anyone is interested. I’m sure they’re fantastic, but they’re nothing I would use. They look like this: If you’re interested in buying them, shoot me an email and we’ll work out a paypal payment and I’ll ship [...]

If you sang a song from Bjork’s Medulla at a Karaoke bar, would the backing track just be silence? As much as I like Bjork, Medulla makes me want to crazy glue my ears shut.

I received a really nice gift from a near stranger a little while ago of a Kigurumix that was brought back from Tokyo. It’s a toy person in a bear costume who dances when you play music. It seems to have about a half dozen different dances and comes with a second green hat to [...]

Thanks to commenter “notebook addict”, those seeking a notebook to fill the void left by the death of Oh Boy 9 to 5 notebooks may have their answer: The Anvil Modern Paperie Notebook Scribble As notebook addict says: Try these: http://www.amadonweb.com/anmopanosc1.html — made at the same factory as the Oh Boy! notebooks. (I just ordered [...]

They Might Be Giants played a free show at Easy Street Records in Seattle the other day and I checked it out with my brother and Jon. It was for their new kids album Here Come The ABCs as well as a Here Come The ABCs DVD. They Might Be Giants also operate their own [...]

I’ve been looking to outfit my new apartment with energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs, commonly referred to as CFLs, but my efforts have been unsuccessful. Like any technology, CFLs can range from anywhere from awful to excellent but my attempts to figure out which are which before purchase have been less than fruitful. What sort of [...]

I recently spent a few hours driving down my parents old I Dream of Jeannie stove to it’s new owners south of Seattle. It gave me a chance to see the mountains and forests of Washington. On the amazingly winding road I took back, I could have stopped a hundred times to take a picture. [...]