From my dinner:

Negotiations move along smoothly, the outcome is favorable.

Huh? What negotiations. I feel like I’ve intercepted some sekrit message.

I want to go see Pirates of the Carribean, maybe tomorrow or Friday afternoon. And for those modern day pirates, I bring you the Ergonomic Keyboard for Pirates [via defective yeti].

News story of the day:

Hulk doll’s monster willy

SHOCKED six-year-old Leah Lowland checked out a mystery bulge on her Incredible Hulk doll — and uncovered a giant green WILLY .

Curious Leah noticed a lump after winning the monster, catchphrase “You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry,” at a seaside fair.

And when she peeled off the green comic-book character’s ripped purple shorts, she found the two-inch manhood beneath them. [The Sun Online] [via Dispatches from Revland]

The Reverse Cowgirl talks about how Bukkake Makes Everything Better in the Blogosphere. Well, actually she talks about how she keeps from getting too bored with blogging and her thoughts on rules of blogging.

Because blogging is not a fucking conversation. It’s a fucking  primal scream . May others unwrite the rules of blogging as quickly as the rigid bloggers post them. I’m going to be blogging for a while more about the creative process as it happens. Gee, if Jarvis doesn’t link to it, does that mean  Idon’t exist? Here, at least, it and I will now. [The Reverse Cowgirl]

Personally, I think blogging is whatever the author feels like it is. My blog is for myself. I do think it’s cool that people come by every day to read my babbling, but it’s really just a way for me to share some of what is running around in my head. My blog is that strange guy wandering down the street muttering to himself just loud enough for you to hear bits of.

Bertolt Brecht: “Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.” [Quotes of the Day]

Phew, is it Wednesday already? Tonight’s gonna be pretty kickass, so I hope to see some of you out there. I’ll be opening up things at 10, then we’ve got Scott McLeod, and of course the one and only Mr. Peter Ellis closing things out. It should be pretty cool. Oh yeah, and now it is free before 11. How’s that for a bargin?

Changmian and Dubcoast present

*~The Analog Lounge~*

The relaxed side of things. Join us every Wednesday for a mix of
music styles in the lounge at Vertigo, with lots of mellow mixed in.
This week we bring you one of the Deklab guys, Scott McLeod. He’ll be playing some really funked-up house/tec-house. So come on out and help us welcome Scott to his first night at the Lounge.

Special Guest:
Scott McLeod [Deklab] Boston

The Analog Lounge with resident dj’s
Gregory Blake (Changmian) Boston
Special Pete (dubcoast music) CA
Peter Ellis (ttb) Boston
Pete Yagmin (Changmian) Boston

Wednesdays
@ Vertigo (upstairs)
126 State St. Boston, MA
617-723-7277
10pm – 2am
21+ with ID
$5 cover (gets you into both the Lounge and Anitya)
No dress code
www.changmian.com
www.dubcoast.com
www.vertigoboston.com
www.mapquest.com (directions)

Upcoming Guests:

July 16th – Matt Dimond, Boston
July 25th – Ali Ajami [Chug Records, Avalon, SquareOne/Axis], Boston
July 30th – Dave Wagz, Boston

To view our calendar online (with support for you iCal and Mozilla
calendar folk):
http://ical.mac.com/gblake99/The32Analog32Lounge

This week at Anitya: Alpha Channel *LIVE SET* (D-Space Studios/Soular Records) CT

Are you a DJ in the Boston area? Are you interested in playing out some Wednesday night? If so, drop me a line at lounge@ezoons.com.

My parents were up today to help out around home and afterwards we went out to eat at Blue Ginger. It was extremely good. For an appetizer I had Grilled Quail Satay with Green Papaya Salad and Peanut Lime Sauce, and for my entree I had Grilled Beef Tenderloin with Citrus-Meat Jus, Beef Cheek-Potato Hash and Dijon-Mango Puree. It was all amazing. Definitely one of the better places I’ve been to in the area. If you live in the Boston area I highly recommend it. I want to go back and try more stuff there.

Britney spears has announced that she’s not a virgin.

Britney acknowledges she’s not a virgin
Singer thought Justin ‘was the one’

NEW YORK (AP) — After years of saying she’d wait until she was married to lose her virginity, Britney Spears is acknowledging that she had sex with her ex-boyfriend, Justin Timberlake.

“I’ve only slept with one person my whole life,” the pop star tells W magazine for its August issue.

“It was two years into my relationship with Justin, and I thought he was the one,” she pauses, then adds, “But I was wrong! I didn’t think he was gonna go on Barbara Walters and sell me out.” [CNN]

Yes folks, this is major entertainment news. I’m surprised CNN didn’t put it as the lead story in the entertainment section.

Do the current crop of aggregators recognize http redirects? I guess you’d use a 303 status code to say where the new location for the RSS file is. Anyone know? Anyone have any good suggestions on pointing people to the new location of my RSS feed, there are still some stragglers.

Most of the time I find needing to use supplimental oxygen a pain in the ass. I have to lug around this tank, which isn’t really that heavy, but it’s just always there. It just gets in the way. Every once in a while though, I get to use the oxygen to my advantage. Normally I’m pretty stubborn and hate to admit to needing any help. But I admit it, sometimes I also use it to help get what I want. This morning was one of those times. I’d been up way too late last night working on blog crap and ended up sleeping late. Unfortunately, with the air conditioner on I missed those wonderful words shouting out “Street Cleaning. There is no parking on the odd side of the street…” at 7am this morning. I instead woke to hearing a “BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP” sound from outside from a tow truck. It was street cleaning day and I was pretty sure I was parked on the wrong side of the street. I glanced out the window and sure enough the front end of my car was being lifted up by the tow truck. 20 seconds (and much cursing) later I was dressed and out the door with my tank on, gasping for breath (though I was really out of breath), and asking if he could let my car down so I could move it. The guy looked up at me and I could see him glance at the tank, he paused a moment, said “yeah, go ahead”, and let my car down. I’d like to think he’d have let me have my car anyways, but I’m sure seeing me panting for breath with plastic tubing shoved up my nose didn’t hurt. Phew. Then I drove around for 30 minutes looking for a spot to park my car (and calling my parents to tell them not to show up till after 2 so they’d have someplace to park).

Have I mentioned lately how much I hate street cleaning day?