Below are the most recent 7 friends' journal entries.

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
lonelyholiday	11:19a	On a day when I'm completely freaking out over a project that SHOULD have been done Monday, this horoscope is JUST NOT FUNNY: People find you irresistible when you're feeling unsure of yourself. Today, someone interesting is watching you with delight as you bumble through a project. Don't be self-conscious -- this could be profitable in the romance department. Seriously, 1. These horoscopes that talk about "someone" at work drive me crazy because THERE ARE ONLY THREE OF US on a normal day (and only me today, hahaha). 2. Why do I want someone who watches my frustration with "delight"? That's lame, horoscope. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
lonelyholiday	10:38p	Oh, I almost forgot... I mentioned the other day that "Knights of Bostonia" has become one of my favorite State Radio songs, and today we put the studio version up on Myspace for a first listen. Check it out, and then try to tell me you don't want to be a Knight of Bostonia, too. <3 (Comment on this)
Monday, July 13th, 2009
lonelyholiday	5:07p	Songs of the day. For some reason, I'm really liking these lyrics today, even though they're pretty gloomy, and I'm not feeling that way at all: Show me how close you can get Show me how close you can get Show me how fast I'm gonna lose it How bad I am out-numbered Song: Cross the Road by Magnolia Electric Co. On the other end of the spectrum, I also just had an at-my-desk dance party to Pittsburgh fight songs. My secret cheerleader days are coming out. This year's Penguins fight song. Steelers fight song from Super Bowl XL. (Comment on this)
Sunday, July 12th, 2009
lonelyholiday	4:38p	Links: Volume 104 Blind Man Sees With Subconscious Eye The bit about navigating the "obstacle course." WHOA! Pittsburgh Fans Remain Shockingly Athletic This is crazy! Good To See Everyone Kept Their Pants On... And more of my Pittsburgh pride... As I emailed Laura, what a thrill to hear Obama talking about all of OUR guys! Dumb as it is when they're national CHAMPIONS, I'm always surprised when people outside Pittsburgh pay any attention to our little ol' teams. Especially the friggin' president! He just said "James Farrior!" haha! Rock History: The Police "Message in a Bottle" 1st time live Oddly, this link came from Bill Simmons. I have listened to this song a billion and one times, so it's neat to hear the FIRST time it was played live... Awfully polished already. Never a Dull Moment This one takes a funny turn at the end. I hate to say that and ruin the surprise, but I fear you'd skim if I didn't specifically tell you to read the whole thing. Ted Leo @ Bonnaroo 6/14/09 Great description of Ted: He’s a guy that can rip through some crazy riffs, bleed from his forehead and still you’d believe he could have a nice conversation with your grandmother. Such is the duality of Ted Leo. (And just because I love 'em.) Mavis Staples on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me You should scroll down and listen to just the Mavis section. She's unexpectedly (to me) hilarious! (Comment on this)
Saturday, July 11th, 2009
lonelyholiday	11:58p	I just rediscovered this post, and it is probably the single best thing (or at least most satisfying) I've ever written. Funny how some specifics have changed over the years, like we changed credit card processors, so some of those CC-specific things just work differently, etc. But people's general idiocy remains the same. WAIT, I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE THAT WAS EXACTLY FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY! I wasn't looking for "this day in history," as I sometimes do, I was just looking at old work-related posts! Crazy. (Comment on this)
lonelyholiday	5:54p	I read Bonk by Mary Roach last weekend. I'd put it in third place of her books, after Stiff and Spook, but I did have a favorite part. The passage and its footnote both delighted me equally, so I'm re-creating them here, before I send the book back out into the world. Dr. Ahmed Shafik wears three-piece suits with gold watch fobs and a diamond stick pin in the lapel. His glasses are the thick, black rectangular style of the Nasser era. He owns a Cairo hospital and lives in a mansion with marble walls. He was nominated for a Nobel Prize.* I don't care about any of this. Shafik won my heart by publishing a paper in European Urology in which he investigated the effects of polyester on sexual activity. Ahmed Shafik dressed lab rats in polyester pants. There were seventy-five rats. They wore their pants for one year. Shafik found that over time the ones dressed in polyester or poly-cotton blend had sex significantly less often than the rats whose slacks were cotton or wool. (Shafik thinks the reason is that polyester sets up troublesome electrostatic fields in and around the genitals. Having seen an illustration of a rat wearing the pants, I would say there's an equal possibility that it's simply harder to get a date when you dress funny.) *Nominations for a Nobel prize, I found out when I contacted the Nobel Foundation to try to verify Shafik's, remain secret for fifty years. You make the claim, and nobody can prove otherwise until after you're dead. Add one to your resume today! And look what I found! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
lonelyholiday	9:02p	"Today's obviously a Tuesday." I already posted one funny video today, and here is a second. Also, I just made too much spaghetti. I hate that in-between point when there's too much for one serving, but not enough to leave for a second. I will be stuffed. (1 Comment |Comment on this)