"Summer Lovin, had me a blast" written by Hodown on estrip.org

Category: fun

08/06/07 10:46 - 75ºF - ID#40404

Summer Lovin, had me a blast

The latest blog title is an homage to the new Danny and Sandy starring in the Broadway revival of Grease. They were discovered on a reality TV show and voted to star in the musical revival by America. This says to me that it will be a monster hit because everyone from the Midwest who comes to NYC will go see it because they watched the TV show. Inside Im crying a little at the stain this will leave on the original version of Grease.

Also it seemed like a good title because it's summer and everyone seems to be in love.

Ok so now on to the good stuff. Pictures:

I'm in love with Joyce's dress.

The Raschals. Mark adores Cate and I j'adore their blog

My new hair cut. My hair loves me for getting it cut (and colored).

Girl love. Enough said.

Carolyn is in love with both a boy and summer nights. They boy couldn't be with us, but this is how she looks when she thinks of him. Aww.

The Beer Garden. Sausage and Beer. If you don't love that combo clearly you are a pinko commie.

Scientistist love artists.

Friend love.

blurry, but you can get the general idea. Someone loves to give me kisses on the cheek.

Loving Central Park on weekend afternoons.

And finally a picture of Jon.

Permalink: Summer_Lovin_had_me_a_blast.html
Words: 252
Location: Jersey City, NJ

08/06/07 10:10 - 75ºF - ID#40403

Nerdcore Hip-hop

Although I can by no means take credit for this discovery (some other e-stripper mentioned MC Frontalot ages ago) I did jump on this bandwagon long long ago. Therefore I'd like to call myself an innovator.

Actually I'm just glad that this rad music is finally getting the recognition it deserves.

Permalink: Nerdcore_Hip_hop.html
Words: 65
Location: Jersey City, NJ

08/02/07 04:20 - 92ºF - ID#40357

Me and Joyce

Joyce is my waxer at J Sisters

I got a wax today in anticipation of going to the beach. Afterwards I always feel like I've either hooked up or have been molested. I can't quite figure out which one. Joyce probably knows my va-jay-jay (thanks for the term Oprah) better than any dude. She really gets in there looks at things. I can't imagine doing that for a living. Getting all up in strangers junk all day.

And now for part two of this post (and not nearly as graphic):
As I mentioned before I'm going to the beach, and I'm going with a boy!! He's probably the nicest dude I've ever met. I keep waiting for the downfall of him being nice, but so far it hasn't happened. So for now I'm just going to enjoy actually hanging out with a non jerk dude. It's pretty awesome.

Permalink: Me_and_Joyce.html
Words: 155
Location: Jersey City, NJ

Category: cell phones

08/01/07 09:39 - 70ºF - ID#40337

Voicemail and Viscos

Last night I decided to call Paulie to have a little chat and tell him about whats been going on and give him the boy update etc. So I call and get his voicemail. I think I peed my pants a little after listening to it. It's this message like "Hi Im not going to listen to your message, call my parents house if you want something and FYI I won't be back for 6 days." Just the way he said it was so typical Paul. Then I decided to call Mikey to see if Paul was camping or whatever, and really do you ever need an excuse to talk to a Visco? So I call Mike and it was at that point where I lost it. His voicemail was all "Hi this is Mike I can't take your call because I'm either busy or doing something where its inappropriate to answer my phone". I was like what are you doing that's is so inappropriate Michael Visco?

Moral of the story:
For a good laugh call a Visco when you know they wont pick up and listen to their voicemail.

Permalink: Voicemail_and_Viscos.html
Words: 189
Location: Jersey City, NJ

Category: technology

07/31/07 11:12 - 78ºF - ID#40324

Robots

The other day I was discussing my dislike of getting my picture taken. The dude was like "Think of it as your gift to future generations" or something along those lines. My response was "It won't matter when the Robots take over".

According to the NYT the Robots will be taking over a lot sooner than I thought:

Permalink: Robots.html
Words: 69
Location: Jersey City, NJ

Category: arm wrestling

07/30/07 10:51 - 75ºF - ID#40308

Best 2 out of 3

I had totally forgotten about my arm wrestling victory last weekend until I read my friends blog:

In case you don't want to click over there or are too lazy to do so (hey I wouldn't blame you, it takes a lot out of me to even blog in the first place) below are the pictures and the back story:

Every Sunday there are free shows at McCarren Pool

with sometimes good bands and always interesting people watching. So post McCarren pool we decided to head over to this bar with cheap beer and good nachos. We had snagged a sweet booth. Well sweet for everyone but Carolyn who got stuck sitting in a chair at the end of the table. She wanted to relocate to an outdoor table, but I felt that:
1. The outdoor table was smelly- it was near the garbage
2. The outdoor table was too hot. Not all of us lived in Brazil and love 90 degrees and 75% humidity.
Thus we decided to settle our dispute the way any respectable 20-30 something women do: arm wrestle.
I found this idea so fun and funny that the first bout Carolyn throughly creamed me. However I was prepared and had my game face on when I suggested best 2 out of 3. I won easily, but somehow we still ended up outside near the smelly garbage.

This is my game face. As you can see its quite intense.

Sweet, sweet victory.

Permalink: Best_2_out_of_3.html
Words: 252
Location: Jersey City, NJ

Category: books.

07/26/07 11:48 - 78ºF - ID#40260

Book Clubs

I've never been a fan of book clubs. I feel like I have a very specific taste in books (books that have a lot of angst and danielle steel novels, but no chick lit) and I could never see wasting my time reading a book someone else suggests and then sitting around talking about it. Mostly its the reading a book someone else picks out part that bothers me. That is until this week. I just finished 1984. I know, I know everyone read this book in like 4th grade and is so over it. I read it too, but ages ago and I'm pretty sure I didn't so much read it as buy the cliff notes and write a paper on it that still got me an A.

Anyways this time I really read it. Cover to cover. Twice I missed my train stop because I was so engrossed in it. Man was it disturbing and interesting. I've had dreams about it. And now that I'm done reading it I can't stop thinking about it, and how fucked up the end is. I feel like the only way to get it out of my system is to talk about it with other people who've read it. Thus the whole book Club might actually be a good idea realization..

Permalink: Book_Clubs.html
Words: 218
Location: Jersey City, NJ

Category: kenmore

07/16/07 05:20 - 74ºF - ID#40127

Most Affordable Towns

My little hometown. Funny how they forget to mention the snow..

Kenmore, New York
Median family income: $59,875
Median home price (2006): $93,413
Kenmore joins the aforementioned Tonawanda to form a region the locals call Ken-Ton. The Buffalo suburb offers low-cost housing in low-crime neighborhoods. Decent single-family homes start around $70,000 there with many in the $150,000 range. More exclusive areas, like Deerfield Park, will cost you close to $300,000.

Permalink: Most_Affordable_Towns.html
Words: 71
Location: Jersey City, NJ

07/16/07 04:11 - 76ºF - ID#40126

If I were a Simpson?

So I totally stole this from pink is the new blog. And yes I had nothing better to do at work. Im any case if I were a simpson this is what I'd look like.

Permalink: If_I_were_a_Simpson_.html
Words: 37
Location: Jersey City, NJ

Category: vacation

07/13/07 12:47 - 69ºF - ID#40095

Vacation

Yesterday I found out that mid-year bonuses at my job are all f'd up. In addition we now get year end bonuses in March of '08. Because my firm was bought out by a Private Equity Firm we changed our year end. Long story short I get a "year end" bonus which should be payment for 12 months but now instead is for 14 months with no additional amount for the 2 additional months. Anyways with all of this I was suppossed to get my mid-year bonus in July. Well looks like I'm not getting it till October. They tell us this days before we were expecting them. So I postponed my vacation in order to have enough spending cash. Well that and work is going to be nuts until the end of August.

Really the whole point of that long paragraph is I now have to wait until August 21st to fly first class. Really that's the highlight of my vacation. I'm really looking forward to it. More than I think is normal. I always walk by the first class folks when boarding and look longingly at their large leather seats. Then I cry on the inside a little again after the stewardess makes the announcement that the bathroom in the front of the aircraft is for first class passengers only. I have to pee like 2 times an hour and bathrooms are essential to me. I can't wait to have access the the exclusive bathroom.

Oh and also I'm looking forward to the free booze that apparently they serve in first class. I mean come on we all know momma likes to get her drink on while flying.