Do you remember?

It was 2000-2001 and everyone I knew had a IM account. I had AOL, MS and Yahoo all at the same time. I'd had a special browser that allowed you to access all three at the same time.

I remember when it was an insult to your sweetheart to have more than one IM window open and be talking to other people.

Now its Sunday, and I can't find anyone on. I'm never on anymore. I no longer waste entire afternoons typing inane things to my friends and sharing files that are worthless. I'm sure all the above really pleases my employer, but I have to think that its kinda like the Rubic's cube or any other fad, Its days are numbered. Sure, it has morphed into text messaging on phones but to be honest typing out messages to friends in neighboring towns is kinda pointless when cell phone minutes are free.

Holy fizznissle

Ok some of you aren't going to get this and other will piss themselves.

go choose a URL, copy the full http:///www.???? .....and then got to


http://www.gizoogle.com/

and type in your favorite URL.

I like this one so far:

http://sites.gizoogle.com/?url=http://www.breastcancer.org/dia_detec_exam_idx.html

Death to Hunter by Suicide

Why did I like this man. Was it because of his association with Counter Culture? Was it is status as a drop out who was still being paid? I don't know.

I do know that Fear, Junky et al. are some of my favorite books and that style is more important that syntax.

Go well Mr. Thompson.

Songs in my head

I woke up with two really flaky songs in my head and one cool one.

First, there is "lay you hands on me" by the Thompson Twins (UGG)

Second, I've got the "Mexican Hat Dance" in my head. I don't know why but I wish it would go away.

and for some reason I keep mixing that into "American Girl" by Tom Petty

If this is forecast to the type of day, that I'll be having - I'm in deep shit.

YEAH - JEFF GORDON

Hold up, in Hotel CA

Saturday night (ok Sunday morning) and I'm in my room and killing time. Its rained all weekend and most of the week, but that doesn't stop my oponents from requesting access to things that are dangerous when wet. Climbing on scaffolding, playing on the roof, etc.

T-bone is in London. She left yesterday and called this afternoon to say that she had arrive safely and was being treated well. I miss her more now that the ocean separates us. I hope to be back in NYC by friday but will be forced to cancel my surgery in order to make my move work for sure.

dime a dozen

I know this concept is not original, but I kinda thought it was funny to imagine what spam and other crap Scrub would have in his Hotmail (provided the NSA didnt' filter it for him).

OUR SCHEDULE

Because everyone who reads this is either a close friend or random stranger. The time has come to lay it all out. We are moving to San Fransisco!

I will leave for another business trip on 2.6.05 and I will get to see Teresa in SF over Valentines weekend. We plan to scout for apartments over that time before I return for work and she goes to London from 2.18 to 5.1.05.

Sometime between 3.15 and 5.15, we will pack up and move. I still have a surgery scheduled for 3.4.05 but will not be back in NYC until 2.25 (or so - not sure).

In the mean time, we are going to try to get rid of as much stuff here that we can (limit the expense of the move). We've been seeing lots of movies (Sideways and The Aviator, this week) and I can't stress enough how GREAT the Iron and Wine CD is. PLEASE PLEASE CHECK IT OUT.

NAZI'S WEAR BOSS

ok, ok, I've been told this a number of times but I think its finally come own to the wire. Someone commented that they love my Hugo Boss suit and I chimed in with my little trinkette of information about the NAZIs.

HUGO WAS A WAR PROFITER AND HE HELPED THE NAZI'S.

GASP - What's that you say. Boss worked with the Nazi's - you bet ya.

I have to say, as much as I dispise the Nazi's and what they did, Albert Speer and the SS had nice looking uniforms. If you can remove anything from its historic context (and most people can't), then you must be able to recognize a positive inside a negative.

Albert Speer, Hitlers architect, was put in charge of designing most of the State Buildings of the third riche. He spent his later years, after he got out of going to prison, lamenting his time and some of his earlier decisions. I have to ask myself (and you) that what the political climate is in this country, completely disgusts me, but i'd have a hard time being shot for having built any of the buildings I've worked on.

Speer, like Boss were very talented and although not always the best solution, their designs were something to marvel.

Whatever! Don't kill millions of people and don't loose the war and the world will find you differently.



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The question.....

I think I speak for most people in wondering where DOUG DOUG was when all of this went down and how he knew which bus to get on.

And still it burns

I can only imagine the chortling around the new room when the editor emailed the desk of the new guy and told him, "your gonna have to go get a picture of a burning pile of shit in Nebraska".


The copy editor pretty much had a blast with it also "Herculean attempts to douse it."


Slow News Day!

Shout out to the REAPER

this is too damn funny. I've seen calenders like these my entire life in construction offices and Automechanics shops, but now my dear Undertaker Friend will not have to be left out.

Yuk, Yuk, Yuk - these women look so excited to be working on the project.

OH _ MY_ GA

My hits have gone through the roof today. I normally get 10-15 hits per day but now I'm up to almost 50. It's like I got listed on a new search engine or something, which btw, if you've never done. Try goggling your blog if you really want to get depressed.
I've have tons of work that the world will never see, yet my paragraph mentioning Avocado's comes up all the time. Who knew?

New CD's Rock Balls

I've just jumped into a new group of 5 CDs and 3 out of 5 are totally wonderful. They are:

1. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days - very quite acoustic bass one or two very soft vocals and either a Mandolin, Guitar or Banjo for a lead. This guy is from Florida and writes some really catchy tunes.

2. Ambulance, LTD. Brooklyn band - not cutting edge or anything to prog but very solid alt. rock with a shoe-gazer sense of how songs get put together.

3. A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder - This is the front man for my favorite release in 2004, the New Pornographers, doing the solo thing. This is full-bodied Indie- pop but has the controlled dry synth piano and organ as the lynch pin to some solid fluffy music. Think the Canadian, XTC.

4. Comets on Fire - I don't know, maybe this will grow on me or maybe I'm finally getting musically to old for loud music. I haven't really processed this because the first track annoys the shit out of me.

5. The Black Keys - Rubber Factory- OK, I bought into the hype. Two kids from Akron don't totally "get" the blues. Although this is not a bad album, it's like the music you hear in record stores - you get it home and its just not so much fun to live with. Although this album is on many critics top 10 lists - its only makes my top 25. This sounds a lot like the White Strips although these kids are uglier than Jack or Meg White and can actually sing.

RIP PJ

Well, I thought he was immortal but Mr. Johnson has finally succumbed to time. For those of you who live in Houston, Dallas or Ft. Worth, you might want to read this.

"Toward the end of his life, Johnson went public with some private matters -- his homosexuality and his past as a disciple of Hitler-style fascism. On the latter, he said he spent much time in Berlin in the 1930s and became "fascinated with power," but added he did not consider that an excuse.

""I have no excuse (for) such utter, unbelievable stupidity. ... I don't know how you expiate guilt," he says.

"He blamed his homosexuality for causing a nervous breakdown while he was a student at Harvard and said that in 1977 he asked the New Yorker magazine to omit references to it in a profile, fearing he might lose the AT&T commission, which he called "the job of my life."

"In the 1950s, Johnson reflected on his career and what he hoped to achieve.

""I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty," he said, "so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs -- at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral."

On his dismissal from the New England Life Insurance Co in 1985
"Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business."

"All architects want to live beyond their deaths."


I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

I'm about four skyscrapers behind.

"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."

THE BOAT IS SOLD

I got the first installment of cash today and will be giving the new owner the title in April when he pays the last half and when City Island is thawed out and boats start going into the water. Its been a wild and strange ride but I think I’m now officially a land lubber again. Well, expect for the other boat I still have in TX ……grrrr. One at a time!

blog poll

Urban Dictionary

IF YOUR BOOK MARK ONE LINK THIS YEAR FROM MY BLOG THIS IS IT.


Pretty funny stuff - Stanley Steamer

Whats with the weather this year?

Everywhere I go, the weather seems to be imploding. In CA there were mudslides and rain like they'd never seen. Now in NYC, it is the Blizzard of '05. I can't help but laugh at the title, even if I feel very sorry for the homeless.

Maybe, just maybe - it's me that’s causing the fierce weather. Does anyone want to fly me somewhere to find out? Please make it somewhere warm, but lets see if we can't give Turks and Caicos a freak ice storm, I take donations at dcudd@paypal.com.

To all those interested, my surgery/procedure has been postponed until March. Also, anyone wishing to the get my ass drunk one more time before March may also donate at dcudd@paypal.com or at your local liquor store.

Where did he go?

I appologize for those of you who are missing the blog, but I am out in Cali - working for the Man. Its rained a ton, over 24" in the last 4 days. Still raining today. I'm getting a little punchy from being locked in this place and really hope my boss gets my laptop soon.

The move to SF is coming along. T got a soft offer that should become firm this week. Last week, when I spoke to the owner of my company about the topic, he stated that she should take the job and we would work it out on Monday. So, it looks like SF is finally going to happen and it only took a year.

I'll let you know if I see any mud slides or the tornado that we are watching for in Ventura.

Triumphs and Tragedies of 2004

My biggest disappointments of 2004:

4 more years – UGG
I haven’t made the move to the West Coast
John’s Blog - newpaltzer.blogspot.com
Not selling my boat
Colonoscopy
Rick James, Christopher Reeves, Mr Cat
AT & T Wireless

The Best of 2004:
Bride
Thailand
Not having Cancer
Wedding
Samantha Womack The New Pornographers (music)Selling the ‘PONY
Frequent Flyer Miles
Netflix