A world wide web of LIES

No one’s going to make a t-shirt of this one, but that’s ok.

*Whut?

Yo dawg I herd u like robuts…

…so guess what we did »

Here are totally random things that make—or have in the past made—me unspeakably sad to think about:

• A dude crying in the shower (not me)
• A single, delicious ear of corn on a plate
• Eating at Hardee’s—delicious burgers, but:
  • the starkest decor ever
  • utter chaos behind the front counter (bonus sadness if there is one employee trying to maintain politeness amid the chaos)
• This pic (from Zeta Gundam):
  
• The Smashing Pumpkins song “Spaceboy” (not related to above pic that I know of)

This list to grow exponentially as I kick my happy-pill prescription!

I keep forgetting to do this list, but this is one of those weird phenomena that I have noticed. Say there is a band you like. No, not them, that other one. Similar names are the death of me, especially when I love one band and hate the other. I spent years of my life not liking Chavez, because I saw a video by Gomez (which I hated), and the names were permanently mixed up in my mind.

SOOOOO, in no particular order (except alphabetical), and varying levels of similarity…

• The Arcade Fire / The Fiery Furnaces
• Cake / Cake-Like
• Chavez / Gomez
• Deerhoof / Deerhunter
• fIREHOSE / Firehouse
• Jawbox / Jawbreaker
• The Mars Volta / Volta Do Mar
• Mew / Muse
• Modest Mouse / Mouse on Mars
• Múm (from Iceland) / Mum (NOT from Iceland)
• OMD / OMC
• Panda Bear (from Animal Collective) / Grizzly Bear (not from Animal Collective)
• Polara / Polaris
• Stroke 9 / The Strokes
• Super Furry Animals / Animal Collective
• Supergrass / Superdrag
• Television / Telephone
• The Verve / The Verve Pipe
• The Vines / The Shins
• Wolf Eyes / Wolf Parade / Wolfmother
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs / Hot Hot Heat / !!!
• Honorable mention: the seven hundred or so bands during the 80s that had all one word names that started with a C.
• BONUS ROUND: XTC album “Black Sea” / X album “Under the Big Black Sun”

It seems like there were more, but my memory is terrible—which is why I am always mixing these groups up in my head to begin with.

Dear Photoslop,

Stop showing me this dialog!

From experience and googling, I have noted the following possible actions that bring up this dialog:

1. opening a picture
2. closing a picture
3. saving a picture
4. looking at Photoslop
5. not looking at Photoslop
6. having an old version of OS X
7. having a new version of OS X
8. installing a brand new copy on a brand new computer and trying 1–5 for the first time ever
9. existing

I have not yet begun to complain! »

What about on the other end?

Oh.

I only had the 50mm on me, otherwise I would have tried to get a wide-angle shot, for the full effect (even more parking lots).

A good ol’ fashioned pic dump for the people.

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A challenger appears?

Maybe not, if he can’t handle a simple ride in my camera bag. But he is now known as headache-bot. We have so much in common!

Today’s lunch: Bobo’s BBQ