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It's official. After the events of the past couple of weeks, the holidays can seriously fuck off. I've become such a cliche.

In trying to end this entry on a positive note, I am almost certain that by Wednesday (Thursday at the latest) I will have the official official first draft of the one hour version of my one man show. Workshopped the ending with...
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I know I am knee deep in the writing of my first full length solo show, Bi-Poseur, but I can't help but shake off this new idea for something that I think would kick most ass. I've only told three people about it, but I feel like if I tell more I'd jinx it.

So for now, it's a secret. Although I feel like I...
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Shout outs to everybody in the SG Weight Loss group. Thanks for helping me keep on going, twenty pounds later.

Here's to twenty more!

And then here's to a healthy height to weight ratio!

Aside from the job situation, and the still living at home with my family situation, I guess it really feels like that I am getting parts of my life together. It hasn't felt this...in place in a long while.

It's a great feeling.

Modern Warfare 2 has got to be the most exasperating, excruciating, convoluted video game plot I have ever experienced.

I yelled at the TV more at the lack of a cohesive story than I did dying. And that's saying something. What am I doing? Who's this asshole? What does this have to do with anything? Why am I here? What's my motivation?

This - coming...
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New Left 4 Dead 2 trailer. You best believe it brings the motherfucking HYPE.

(Crossposted from my Live Journal)

I suppose everybody who's still posting here is all prefacing entries with the kind of "it's been a while" kind of frame. Because it has been a while.

Anyway. I'm writing this as kind of a reminder to myself. And way to get back on the LJ/blogging tip.

Folks have been talking about leveling up lately, and while the sentiment...
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Back in September, when I was doing an impromptu guest set at my friend's former residency in Berkeley, this guy goes up to me and sternly goes, "I want you to play MSTRKRFT, Passion Pit, and Justice."

It was just the intensity and specificity he carried when he said those words to me stuck. He must really like his MSTRKRFT, Passion Pit, and Justice.

That...
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So I've been DJing for a little less than a year, on and off. It's been something I've wanted to do since 2000 in high school. Lacking the maturity to DO WORK SON (tm) I gave it up until last year, when one of my very good friends Mel took me under his wing and showed me the ropes, which culminated spinning at Fanime this...
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So I was stood up on Tuesday.

Not-date it is.

Without even a phone call, I was left waiting at Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe in Emeryville for 45 minutes, assuring the waiter that I had somebody coming. I threw in the towel with a "It appears that I have been stood up!" to which the waiter says, "yes!"

I called three times, it may seem...
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