intensely fascinating article in ny times magazine about chinese gold farmers in world of warcraft. Interesting tidbits: Nick Yee, an M.M.O. scholar based at Stanford, has noted the unsettling parallels (the recurrence of words like “vermin,” “rats” and “extermination”) between contemporary anti-gold-farmer rhetoric and 19th-century U.S. literature on immigrant Chinese laundry workers. Min’s English is… Continue reading Untitled
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wembley 1 (edited to add 2)
http://www.muselive.com/forums.php?m=posts&p=764927#764927 look at that setlist. microcuts… /wish just now i took a nap and dreamed that muse was staying at my house in san jose. i showed matt a picture from http://community.livejournal.com/musewhores/140970.html#cutid1 of the stadium filling up before the show (that thread was awesome, got updated with pictures as the hours went on; i’d checked… Continue reading wembley 1 (edited to add 2)
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Postage went up to 41 cents? I’ll have to go buy 17 2-cent stamps. I have a monstrous backache because my bed is broken. The particle board around the nails that hold up the metal railing that holds up the wooden slats that hold up my mattress is completely disintegrated. I have a few options:… Continue reading Untitled
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1. “florid orgasmic gizmo daydreams”. 2. legos: http://www.brickartist.com/gallery.html that guy is cool. and funny. 3. i like farmer’s markets. 4. blizzcon is aug 3-4 in anaheim. there’s no way i’m not going this year. i had too much fun in 2005. 5. muse is coming back to california: san diego on sep 22. i have… Continue reading Untitled
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1. i can’t stop eating pistachios. 2. it’s like last.fm and yelp for books: http://www.goodreads.com this is a really cool website. here’s my profile. i’ve barely started. you should all join it. 3. yesterday, i felt cheery. not happy exactly. cheery and chatty. i thought medication was kicking in. it’s been 5 weeks. today i… Continue reading Untitled
arcade fire
the arcade fire was fun. i like concerts. the greek theater was a good venue to see the arcade fire in, because there are a bunch of singalongs. 10 people onstage. in the top right, two horn players: one was on trumpet/french horn, and the other was on saxaphone/french horn. he’d let his giant sax… Continue reading arcade fire
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starcraft 2
obviously, http://www.starcraft2.com/ boy do i love blizzard cinematics ingame footage 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHAkYAvEP1A 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ol-mUx8Vx4 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNLXrSpdZMI very funny to listen to the crowd react with love and awe to every little move =) the minute-by-minute updates from the floor of the worldwide invitational in korea http://pc.ign.com/articles/788/788627p1.html
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insurmountable distances. never know what to say. it’s so sunny and so cold. npr does gold farmers, sensationally (murder!) i hear “like pixellated scraps of chex mix in your head …lights,” sorta, but that can’t be right. jazz max? chess ticks? fujiya and miyagi. spraypainted red. it’s spray pain ted red. thou shalt not. watched… Continue reading Untitled
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Yesterday, as I was waiting for him, I thought to myself, “I really need a haircut. This is a lot of split ends and it’s kind of disgusting and dry and straw-like. How weirded out would Ramon be if I asked if he wanted to come with me to get a haircut? Eh, probably a… Continue reading Untitled