No Middle Name

Still trying to process the trip to Burning Man 2006. Once the salient points congeal I’ll write a bit more. For now, you should check out our friend Fitz’s take on the trip: http://zentropolis.com/

The gang cozies up in Plan A.

The man burns.

So . . . little . . . time . . .

See our art car growing

More Burning Man prep photos, including the Evolve Revolve

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So, today I was reading my MarketingSherpa Email and found that the photos from the event I attended this past spring were posted online at Flickr. See the blog post (open access until July 15). Looked quickly through them and yup, there I am – just before taking off with the slightly crazy eLoqua crew to gallavant around Chicago.

I’m willing to wager that we’re living in the most thoroughly photographed age of all time. Digital photography means you can shoot as many stills as your memory card will hold. Future historians will have no trouble reconstructing scenes from this time period. At worst, they’ll have to sift through all the drek to find the gems.

I laughed to myself while watching fireworks last night — I peered over at the bleachers, and saw a sea of little LCD displays snapping the fireworks. They outshone the glow necklaces the kids were wearing.

Our small world is getting even smaller . . .

I’ve not written in awhile. This is because I must FILL THE EMPTY MOMENTS with extra-curricular activities. I have finally started tutoring English and am back on the soccer bandwagon (Go Yellow Snow! Most horrible team name to date!).

Also, it is once again weddingpalooza season. Four weddings this year. Two this spring. Every other weekend from January to May has been and will be filled with bachelorette parties, wedding showers, rehearsal dinners, and the weddings themselves.

I just finished reading “Straight Man” by Richard Russo. Highly recommend it.
Purchased The Killers’ “Hot Fuss” CD. Good shit.
Am currently obsessed with consumating.com
I added my mini-profile to the right-hand column of this blog.

Also got offered a ride by some random woman on the Metro the other day. Quite odd.

Returned from warm Orlando, where I was standing on my feet for 8 hours a day, 4 days in a row, hawking Science magazine. Overall, not a bad trip. Would have preferred frolicking in Disney World, tho.

I’m making a new page here to chronicle my search for information about Iquitos, Peru. I’ll be traveling there sometime in 2006. Perhaps I’ll get a glimpse of the ugly chanchos (wild pigs) that tried to chase me down and eat me a few years back. I’m seriously considering upgrading my camera and perhaps purchasing a videocamera for this trip. If I had my previous encounter on video, it would have been PRICELESS. “AIEEEEEE! RUN! {camera bouncing up and down, teethclacking and snorting in the background, camera brushes past a baffled dutch man, cut to brown sandaled feet cracking twigs and hopping over fallen logs, insane giggling of the camerawoman who can only think of how absurd it is to be fleeing for your life behind two 5 foot indian guides while 400 or so spikey-hair pigs try to chase you out of their territory}”

At the very least, I can get some cool footage of leafcutter ants. Those things are awesome.

Currently reading: Reading Lolita in Tehran. Listening to: The Postal Service

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Collapsing on a bench sounded like a good idea to me too. Three days of Christmas is fun, but a lot of present-opening.
For Christmas I got:

• An iPod Nano – whee! Photos and songs in the smallest thing ever. I am pleased. I have also found the They Might Be Giants podcast, and am enjoying.
• Work clothes. Because now I have “blue jeans days” given to me as a privilege, not a right.
• The Maxx comic books – was missing a few from my collection. Er, more than I thought, actually
• A Russian babushka knicknack. Mom, what WERE you thinking?
• Strunk and White, Elements of Style – the illustrated version
• Candy, books, jewelry, and a CD or two

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When I went home for Christmas, my first-grade cousin Chad showed off his newly decorated room. Go Sox! Had to have been a ton of work for my uncle, who sketched the whole thing out on graph paper, then did the paint job himself. The lights glow in the dark, and the scoreboard is done in chalkboard paint so you can keep score with the game. One of the windows is adorned with the numbers of retired players, the other with the pennant years (velcroed on so they can make room for future wins, of course).

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Thanksgiving 2005 – Herb and I started our turkey-eating a week earlier when we had some friends over for a pre-thanksgiving Thanksgiving. I’m just about done with the bird meat for now.

Highlights of my pilgrimage to NH included getting up at the crack of dawn with my mom to be with the other black-Friday shopping idiots, hanging out with my pal Marcela, and going to the Nashua Holiday Stroll with my mom, dad, brother, and his girlfriend.

The sillier moments involve alcohol. Marcela’s friend managed to puke out a nose ring after several rounds of drinks. My mom had ONE glass of wine and then decided a donut hole needed to go for a swim. I can now attest that munchkins do not get soggy in beer. They must have some magical coating.

Alison and Herb do it up as Jay and Silent Bob. Not bad for a last-minute change of plans.

For comparison, a production still from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.