Friday Night Magic at Amazing Discoveries is alway a lot of fun. The competition is stiff and the stakes are high. Tonight I’ll be returning to esper control after aggro-ing it up the last few weeks. But perhaps the most awesome thing about FNM tonight in particular is that this will be my awesome girlfriend’s first sanctioned Magic tournament. She has trained the last few weeks and she’s pressing forward into new heights of geekyness. Village inn after for some EDH mayhem! I love Magic.
It has been quite some time since I have considered posting an entry about my life. To say that the last couple of years has been timultuous would be a massive understatement, given the circumstances of the events of the last several years I felt that the thoughts that consumed my life were really not suitible for a public blog. Interestingly my own crisis seemed to have coincided with the global economic crisis, though my recovery seems to be much faster.
- I have given up filmmaking for the forseeable future. At some point I will pick it back up again, but I have decided to spend my time and energy on things that are more practical.
Do you ever look around and wonder, “What happened to all the normal people?”.
In today’s ultra-stylized popular culture, more and more people seem to adorn themselves with tattoos, body piercings, designer fashions, and high-tech gadgets. Every time I turn around I meet someone who thinks they are the next big thing. Musicians, Filmmakers, Artists, Designers, most of which are wannabe’s chasing down this “Rockstar” image. I even see this behavior in fields you wouldn’t expect, like Entrepreneurs, Technology Professionals, and even Gaming Nerds, who are the last group of people that I’d expect to have an overdeveloped sense of ego considering their place in society. The Internet allows them all to create and nurture this image, and the expectation is that they are “undiscovered” geniuses, and that some day they will “make it” in whatever field they are pursuing. Of course most of these people end up just being miserable, and never amounting to anything. But what is it about our culture that has created this narcissistic compulsion in people?
It’s not what you think.
In having actual conversations with me about women, you will inevitably hear me mention “the hot French girl”. Yet for some reason she has yet to grace the pages of this blog. So since I spent hours last night scouring the internet in vain trying to find a way to contact her, I figured I should relate the story to you, in hopes that someone might be able to help me reconnect with her.
It was July 3rd, 1998. Melissa Madonna, an old high school sweetheart and good friend of mine had just broken up with me. I was a mess. I was working at “El Grecos”, my Godfather’s family’s restaurant and I remember the conversation we had where she told that she never loved me. I lost it, left work with steam rising from my head. Her younger brother worked with me, I’m sure he’d never seen me like that. I was crazy mad. She was staying with some old high school stoner friends so I raced over there, and we had it out in the street. Yelling, crying, it wasn’t a pretty sight, for over an hour we carried on. In the end, there was no solution. it was over.
The following is reposted from http://www.kiplinger.com/features/archives/2008/10/10_things_going_right.html.
The markets may be in turmoil. The economic outlook is grim. But not all the news is bad.
It’s not the war… it’s not the housing market… This excellent, thought provoking interview describes the root of our current economic crisis and what could be yet to come.
Take a break from your BS myspace posts and listen to something with some substance for a change.
Unbelievable…. you know… I kinda wish I was a chick …. not just so I could buy a pink leather laptop without making people think I was gay… but also so I could ignore guys’ messages, give guys’ fake phone numbers, and then throw myself at those same guys at a club after I turn 37 and realize that no one wants to have sex with me…. or not..
As I have become less and less entertained with the standard myraid of bullshit on MySpace, bulletins and other such nonsense, I have been checking out the featured books when a title catches my attention. This evening my interest was definitely piqued.
First, it seems that J.R.R Tolkien had been working on a prequel to the lord of rings series and the hobbit before he died. Now, his son Chrstopher Tolkien has put together this new book from his father’s original writings.
ARE YOU HOLLYWOOD?
–written by Joe Joe Pellegrino / Joe Alexandrow