back from hiatus.

i was waiting to return with a splash and here's what i came up with:

i'm sure hermes is completely pleased with this gratis product placement.

also, i totally met ludacris last night. HE TOUCHED MY ARM.

carry on.

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i watch the olympics for the patriotic ads.

i bow down to the brilliant sports marketing machine that produced the following:





jesus. no one does inspiring, patriotic, i-should-really-get-off-my-ass-after-watching-the-olympics-for-six-straight-hours quite like the badass folks at nike. i heard the second ad before i saw it and the music itself was enough to get me to stop what i was doing and pay attention to the entire ad. in this, the third decade of my life and more importantly, the era of dvr, that's powerful shit. i am proud to be an american.

...unless they are kind of losing or not in the running altogether, in which case i will root indiscriminately for pretty much any asian (team) in the running. those chinese kids really know what they fuck they're doing. my money's on them. unless it looks like they are going to lose.

cnn strikes again.

a terribly awkward sentence in an otherwise sad article about the american olympian battling testicular cancer:

He also has the support of his girlfriend... who played the key role in discovering the cancer.

alas. i have the maturity of a four year old boy.

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how many things are wrong with this picture?

in some instances, not necessarily this one, but in some instances, INFINITY is the right answer.

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some sage advice.

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something is in the air.

or the water.

on the subway ride home today, i swear i saw TWO guys sporting perms. one was gelled for that totally practical and always believable soaking-wet-all-day look. i know two is just a coincidence and three is a trend, but... really?

also, you would be surprised at how many pictures come up under "guy perm".

my latest bad habit.

as of late, i've been stuck at the gym longer than i'd ever want to be (e.g., more than 28 seconds) due to my gross absorption into some random show on the tvs there. tonight, it was celebrity family feud (seeing the cast of the office made me yearn for the return of primetime). even worse, on saturday, it was a lifetime MOVIE. it sucks to not want to leave your elliptical machine for TWO HOURS in order to see how a teenage couple who got married at 18, work out the trials and tribulations of him working construction to pay the bills and her going to harvard (naturally).

i'm pretty sure i smelled funny after hour 1.