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My Weekend and Myspace

August 20, 2007 2:49 AM

o, as I expected, I did pretty much nothing this weekend. In fact, I forced myself to go for a drive tonight just so that I could say that I actually left the apartment this weekend.

I did some reading--I finished Over Sea, Under Stone, the first book in the Dark is Rising series, which is apparently about to be made into a movie or something. It was decent, although really short. I think I'm going to read the rest. Man, I love young-adult literature. I rule!

I also watched some TV. There's this show on GSN called "Without Prejudice?". Basically, a group of five people get to decide which of five contestants is going to get the $25,000 prize based solely on how much the panelists like the contestants. The panelists get some basic info about the contestants and then get to judge the shit out of them. It's pretty awesome, although the format is kind of drawn out and boring. And the host, Robi Ludwig, puts a "Dr." in front of her name, but Wikipedia reveals that she got her "degree" from some ridiculous nonschool.

In any event, the show's ok, and the panelists are really stupid. Still, I can't help but think about how much better the show would be if I was in charge. First of all, no panelists--just me. Second, I wouldn't just have discretion to award some lump-sum prize. Instead, I'd be able to assign various punishments or rewards to people based on their merit. So, for example, if I were to conclude that you're a douchebag, I'd take all of your polo shirts, sunglasses, hair product, and other assorted douche paraphernalia, sell it, and then dump you in the middle of the Amazon. If you end up being a good person, I'd give you the proceeds from selling all the bad people's stuff. If you're a hippy, I'd have you shot. Twice.

Man, that would be awesome.

The other thing I did this weekend was get addicted to Myspace. Although I signed up a long time ago, I hadn't really looked around too much. After a random IM conversation with an old friend on Saturday, though, I started looking around to see if any of my friends were on. As it turns out, nearly everyone that I've lost touch with over the course of the past ten years is on Myspace, so I went around adding a bunch of people. It's pretty cool. If you're on Myspace, you should add me. Or tell me how to add you if you don't know my real name.

One other thing. While randomly searching Youtube (another thing I do when I'm bored), I found this awesome video of the Arcade Fire:

Goddamnit, they're awesome!



1 Comments


Elise said:

The dark is rising series only starts to get really good with the second book, appropriately titled "The Dark is Rising." I believe that's also why they chose to make it, and not the first book, into a movie.

You should definitely read the rest.

August 21, 2007 6:56 PM



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