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I got a tumblr and other assorted things…

September 27, 2011 – 4:39 pm

Because I am totally cool guy who is trying to be a person who works full time on the internet and writes all the time, I found another thing to distract myself by starting a tumblr. It’s mainly for shorter posts that I don’t feel are worth posting here like this one I posted this morning:

I found an old ipod shuffle (I would say “my old ipod shuffle”, but I honestly have no recollection of ever buying or being given one) and it has the weirdest, most vintown playlist ever on it.

  1. Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl by Broken Social Scene
  2. Banquet by Bloc Party
  3. Rebellion (Lies) by Arcade Fire
  4. Last Nite by The Strokes
  5. lisztomania by Phoenix
  6. Whoever You Are by Geggy Tah
  7. Going Back To Cali by Notorious BIG
  8. Game Got Switched by Ludacris
  9. Off The Wall by Redman & Eminem
  10. Fuck You by Cee-Lo Green

And that’s all. There is still 42 MB left to fill. I can picture the timeline when I started working on this (late summer/fall 2010, post-Scott Pilgrim (track 1/when Fuck You was still cool)), but don’t remember why I stopped.

Regardless of why, I am going to be listening to this for the rest of my trip.

You know, stuff like that. One might question my desire to have a tumblr, blog, baseball blog, twitter, facebook and google reader as well as my business websites, screenwriting(?) and freelance writing; and that would be a good thing to question. On the surface it seems insane, but someone once told me that writer’s block is when there is something that you need to express/write about and can’t for whatever reason. This is my attempt to get everything I want to say out there in one way or another and thus never suffer from this disease. I’ll let you know how it works out.

Here’s a quick update on how to follow me properly: read more »

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An interesting time at the ballpark

May 18, 2010 – 6:45 pm

miller_park350x200Last Sunday I worked during the day and came home. Like I often do when I get home I checked my email, checked facebook and checked out my Miller Park Drunk twitter account. I saw that one of my friends on twitter, wezen-ball a real clever baseball blog, had an extra ticket to Sunday’s Brewers game, but had no one to go with. Now, I’d never met him before, but I thought we had a decent rapport from our online interactions (and his girlfriend is one of MPD’s biggest fans) and I figured it’d be a good experience so I asked him if he wanted me to come with. Three hours later I was meeting him outside of Miller Park and we were on our way to our seats for the Milwaukee Brewers vs Philadelphia Phillies game.

I have to say that I had a really good time. He was really intelligent and I was able to talk to him about certain baseball related topics that I wouldn’t be able to talk about with most of my friends. (This isn’t meant as a dis on my friends, of course, but there are some things that only guys who are big enough nerds to blog about baseball for fun would understand.) We also did a fair share of talking about blogging and what it’s like, and what you get out of it. During the game he checked his twitter account and came to find out that one of the contributors from Yahoo’s Big League Stew (my favorite baseball blog), Answer Dave, was at the game and because of wezen-ball’s popularity he wanted to leave the press box to come and sit with us. And he did. read more »

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Little Dawnie all growed up

February 22, 2010 – 3:35 pm

This is a crazy video that would only exist in today’s world. It’s Dawson from Dawson’s Creek posting a video of Michelle Trachtenberg (aka Dawn from Buffy) rapping Nicki Minaj’s part of Robin Thicke’s “Shakin’ It 4 Daddy”. The best part? I like her doing it better than I liked Nicki Minaj’s original version. Crazy.

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Twitter is weird

September 29, 2009 – 1:03 pm

I’m not the biggest twitter-guy in the world. It seems like such a fad, but I use it because it’s popular to promote my websites MLBTips and Miller Park Drunk. From time to time I forget about them and then I log back in to find some messages. This is always weird to me. Some of them are just robots and marketers. The rest? Crazy people. I logged in today with my MLB Tips account and found this message.

LGBT_Activist @MLBTips – Please RT – SF Giants game opens tomorrow with Drag Queen singing the National Anthem – bit.ly/1scEND

Now, let’s just ignore the bad twitter etiquette of saying “Please retweet something”. Why would a user who specializes in MLB gambling tips give a crap about the LGBT movement? And if I did give a crap about said movement, why would I want to promote a drag queen singing the National Anthem? (In San Francsico, shocking.)

Look, I don’t have a big problem with gay people. If you want to bang eachother, go right ahead. Just don’t try to bang me. Drag queens on the other hand, you are making me uncomfortable with your deep voices and your low cut dresses. Straight dudes don’t find you hot, but again just don’t try to bang me. You want to be a chick? BE A CHICK. Save your money from your highly successful nails/hair business and get a fucking sex change. It’s not that hard. Then you can wear all the D&G dresses you want. Until then, wear some frickin’ khakis.

But yeah, a baseball gambling website doesn’t give a crap either way. It just wants you to gamble on baseball using our affiliate link.

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Twitter

September 25, 2008 – 2:39 pm

I joined Twitter this week and I still haven’t really figured out what it’s good for, but I definitely like it . For those unfamiliar with twitter it’s basically Facebook or Myspace status updates (“Vince is chasing rainbows.”) and that’s it. You can follow other people and see what their doing in the feed. Right now I have only one of my actual friends and a bunch of random celebrities and semi-celebrities. My buddy Graeme signed up with me and without it I would have never known that he missed the bus to the airport and had to drive. Did I need to know that? Doubtful. Did I need to know that James Gunn, writer/director of Slither, is in a cab in NYC on the way to the airport and that he had a great trip? Absolutely not, but it’s cool to know. We live in a world where we get information all the time and I love knowing every single thing about the things I want to know about the moment they happen. Why should it be different for my friends?

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