I came in looking for a weather forecast and left slightly weirded out.

Update:
They've removed the original video of the overly-enthusiastic-arm-raising (pot fueled?) meteorologist who randomly made reference to the Paris Hilton situation . Now, I sort of miss the guy.


Another update:
The guy's name is Jim Kosek. The DCist has a video embedded of Jim going on the same sort of Paris Hilton rant during his Washington DC forecast. He even uses the same "Magnificiento!.. That means good in some language" joke word for word. I'm curious to see his reaction to Paris going back to jail during one of his east coast forecasts tomorrow.

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Things that I plan to do in Philly

(in no particular order):

• reunite with my most favourite person ever
• eat at a restaurant of her choice
  
• spend a day alone while said person is at a bachelorette spa party
• attend a wedding
• attend an Architecture in Helsinki show at the Starlight Ballroom
• have a cheesesteak at whichever place the internet says is the best as it is always right
  
• break my personal record for number of different hotels stayed within a single week in the same vicinity
• use my happy-suction-cup-equipped tooth brush holder in all three bathrooms
• visit King of Prussia Mall
• have a lobster roll at Legal Sea Foods in said mall
  
• have mac and cheese at Delilahs inside Reading Terminal Market
• watch Judd Apatow's follow up to The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up
• walk a lot/take public transit
• perspire in the east coast humidity
• have an apple pie a la mode at the ice cream place close to the first hotel
• eat at the Vietnamese place with the stinky broth
• eat at Penang
• walk past places of historical significance without actually visiting them

Virginia is for lovers. Come to Philly for the Crack!

Update:

• watch movies when I could just as easily do it when I'm not on vacation
  
• see Waitress (director died tragically) at the Ritz
  
• perhaps see "visual album", Once (features The Frames' lead singer, picked up by Fox Searchlight at Sundance like LMS)
• eat at Cafe Spice
  
• perhaps eat at one of these popular restaurants
  

The movement that's revolutionizing tourism!

Currently Listening
Veneer
Jose Gonzalez

Currently Listening
Paper Television
The Blow

behold my limited flash skills

Andy Barker P.I.'s canceled. :(

the edible soup spoon

I remember trying to come up with a similar project in early high school around the same period as when I came up with a 3d calendar (probably just as good an idea as these t-shirts with calendars on them that I saw for sale in Japan) and place mats with illustrations of tea cups in unhappy situations (one showed a bird's eye view of a tea pot looking over the edge of a table at the shattered tea cups that it had just pushed off). I shaped dough into a soup spoon and baked it until it was really tough. It didn't really work out as it absorbed water more than held it and tasted horrible. This one seems edible if not delicious.

It just occurred to me that the reference poster that I used features the same actor that plays Sylar on Heroes. Who would have guessed that he has range beyond playing a villain that precision cuts the tops of peoples' skulls with his fingers to inherit their super powers?

Update: I've just been corrected. A simple Google search would have told me that Christopher Gorham is not the Heroes actor. It must have been the eye brows that made me believe otherwise.

This is the first and possibly final draft. I may have gotten a little carried away when I replaced an "i" with the tricycle though.

As I am incapable of any original thought of my own, I have come up with this poster for my Photoshop night course (its in its early stages of development). It's based on an inspired re-cut trailer of The Shining , which is one of my all time favorite movies .

Bored at a fund raising gala?

Expose the Canadian PM for what he really is: a Terminator.

Currently Listening
Writer's Block
Peter Bjorn and John

Line Rider

This game is incredible. I can't wait for the DS version. Play it here.

more proof that I'm a man child

My new flying toy:

Mii in the cold.

Last month, there was a freak snow storm and I got a Wii.

Movies seen at the VIFF (by personal ranking)

1. Little Children
2. The Host
3. Paris, Je t'aime
4. The King and the Clown
5. The Fountain
6. Day Night Day Night
7. Slumming
8. The Queen
9. Beauty in Trouble
10. Jindabyne
11. Colour Me Kubirck
12. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
13. Everything's Gone Green
14. Wide Awake
15. The Post-Modern Life of My Aunt
16. Milarepa
    
17. Expiration Date
    

In related news.....

Today, I spotted a person drinking Coke Blak which hasn't been available in Vancouver . It felt as if I had stumbled upon some sort of mythical creature.

Of Montreal sells out and does an Outback Steakouse commercial for a lifetime of free steaks and bloomin onions. So would I.

I just saw an Outback Steakhouse commercial featuring a rework of Of Montreal's "Wraith Pinned to the Mist (And Other Games)". "Let's pretend we don't exist. Lets pretend we're in Antarctica" is ever so subtly replaced by "Lets go to Outback tonight. Life will still be there tomorrow." It was one of most the most awkward moments in advertising ever. Whether or not being on an Outback Steakhouse spot boosts an artist's cool factor like being on The OC does remains to be seen.