el calamar gigante’s blog

but why is every contractor/painter/etc... so fucking lame.
i try to even pick good ones that have amazing reviews,
but I would be embarrassed to put my name on the work they do.

I think they should re-legalize dueling, but just for members of congress. I would have c-span on 24-7.

via the AP:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080709/ap_on_go_co/toxic_trailers

"Democrats say the manufacturers should have taken more tests when medical complaints surfaced and done more to protect the displaced Katrina victims living in these trailers. Republicans say it is the government's fault for not having standards for safe levels of formaldehyde in trailers."

should just not be allowed to have kids

if you look at some kids,
they are really fucking assholes
(is that wrong to say?)
and you know
in almost every case it comes down to the parents
who, remarkably, are also assholes.

i know, some people like assholes,
but you know,
the charm of an asshole
wears thin
very
very quickly.

there should really be some sort of test before you're allowed to have kids
where you have to prove you're not a total jerk,
(this isn't an intelligence/genetic thing either)
just prove you're not a total dick wad
and then go at it.

oh well,
i can dream.

a religious nutcase?

I hope not.

I really hope not.

i'm sort of reinvented this blog as a llog or
a list-log
or just lists.
since i make them all the time
and they seems to be very natural for me.
and i don't want to exert unnatual effort in my life anymore
effort, stregnth, work and power yes
but in accordance with is natural to me
in accordance
with my special something

lists are basically what all language is about
the skeletal poverty
of language
upon which we drape our desire and fear.

at least parts of the following...

1. Y: the last man vol.. 10 - BKV & PG
2. Speech and Language Processing - J&F
3. camp concentration - disch
4. runaway - alice munro
5. making comics - mccloud
6. TY Ruby in 21 days

1. the creaky staircase at green apple books
2. riding the L to the end of the line and walking along the beach collecting stones and sea glass
3. mist like an savage animal racing down the streets @ night
4. writing all day at a cafe
5. shooting pool at the hearth with friends
6. UCSF pediatrics
7. ichiban-kan and the rest of nihon machi too (especially 'on the bridge')
8. the friendly people @ isotope comics
9. the great american music hall
10. the best thai food anywhere
11. as always, Clement Street
12. SFMOMA
13. Oceanic art at the deYoung
14. the general architecture
15. walking everywhere

Les carabiniers
The devil's backbone
Live free of die hard
Legally blonde 2
Pirate's of the carribean 3
I am legend
Bourne supremacy
Bourne ultimatum
The bad sleep well
Stealth
Underworld
Fifth element
Northanger abbey
Lucky number slevin
Stardust
The good german
The replacements
Failure to launch
Election
3:10 to yuma
The simpsons movie
Thx 1138
Deathproof
Palindromes
Dear wendy
The queen
Juno
Eastern promises
The assassination of jesse james by the coward robert ford
Shakes the clown
Fear of fear
Pride and prejudice
Michael clayton
Wondrous oblivion
Old school
Gattaca
Focus
Strangers on a train
Five easy pieces
Broken flowers
Dirty harry
Happenstance
The steel helmet
District B13
Bullitt
The center of the world
The gift
The thomas crowne affair
The card player
Groundhog day
The descent
Lock, stock & two smoking barrels
The one armed swordsman
No country for old men
High plains drifter
Aguirre: the wrath of god
Stoszek
Live nude girls unite
Maxed out
Frenzy
The trouble with harry
The other boleyn girl
Marnie
The darjeeling limited
The taking of pelham 123
The libertine
The great happiness space
The driver
The american soldier
Solaris
Planet terror
The Mist
Blades of Glory
Sunshine
Kiki's delivery service
The bird with the crystal plumage
The street fighter
Four flies on grey velvet
Blood and black lace
13 going on 30
The giant claw
Blue crush
Strangers with candy
Clan of the White Lotus
Carnival of souls
Cloverfield
Wedding crashers
Iron man
The taste of tea
La Boulangère de Monceau
The sword of doom
Zebraman
The hawks and the sparrows
Ikiru
Andromedia
The replacement killers (with the sound muted)
the calamari wrestler
un flic
Deathnote
The Host
Persona
Stalker
lone wolf and cub: baby cart in hades
miss potter
1000 eyes of dr. mabuse
breathless
Deathnote 2
Indiana Jones & kingdom of the crystal skull
Gladiator
Sex and the City
Prince Caspian

mobile blogging....?

does it count if I'm in my living room?
What about the backyard...I could step outside.