This Boy Elroy

Pride

I'm off to San Francisco to be with friends for pride festivities in San Francisco. I promise to return with many photos and tales of tom foolery and bally hoo.

Transformers

I love the CGI they did for the opening cinematic scene of this game. After seeing this it made me wish they did the entire upcoming movie in CGI rather than base it in the real world. I'll probably go see Transformers in the theater because I used to don Optimus Prime on my butt as a child so there's a special place for them (the Transformers) in my heart, them and He-Man, but I'm worried that Michael Bay has ruined it with his mainstream brand of movie making. Maybe the game will be good, at least.

S-T-A-U-N-C-H

Darin was an absolute darling and made this shirt for me! I love it!

If you're uncertain what this means watch the video:

I. Love. This. Shirt.

It's gay pride!

Get the tee shirt here

Homer

I met Homer last night. He's in town staying with Mark and Brian.

Homer is hilarious and has a very dry sense of humor that sits with me quite well. He told an incredibly droll story about how his junior prom date lost her corsage that his mom forced him to buy for her in a grocery store while buying more punch. She was later upset with Homer because he didn't care that she lost the corsage. His junior prom was a nightmare and he never made it to his senior prom.

That's me and Steven of Texas Smurf after discovering that we both have Motorola PEBL phones, a phone that few people have, and freaking out because when you're drunk having the same phone as someone else is really, really, like deep. He probably has the same picture except with our eyes open.

Jello shots get you drunk.

The obligatory drag shot. Me and Ms. RoundUp.

This morning I woke up without a headache or brain fog. I thought I had somehow avoided a hangover and was feeling quite proud of myself. Reality sunk in a few hours later and I was rendered completely and utterly useless. Unless there is a visitor in town I seldom go out and drink, it's not good for the muscles or the work outs and the day after is usually one I'd rather forget. In any case it was worth it because I had a great time with the boys and I'm primed and ready for next week in San Francisco.

He's gone supernova.

So long, Mr. Wizard. You helped me make many a mess in the kitchen sink and the backyard. Most importantly you made me ask, "What would happen if...?"

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.”
-Albert Einstein

"Mom, it's not right."

With a simple four word (three words and one contraction actually) sentence Paris Hilton summarized her, and an entire generation's, id.

I'm not normally one to weigh in on things Paris Hilton but I think there is definately a lesson to be learned from her situation, and Jaime Lee Curtis has put it best.

Technical Diffs? Have a cocktail!

Ye olde MacBook has been checked into the silicon infirmary for some repairs. So until further notice I encourage you all to make a cocktail in my absence. Here is my recommended survival kit in the event of being computer-less:

Shake ingredients together in desired ratios (I do what I call the Elaine Stritch ratio, six parts gin to two parts vermouth.) You'll end up with something like this:

This will help dull the misery that you will initially feel of being without your favorite inanimate friend and liason to the outside world.

Don your favorite political schwag tee-shirt, pick up a magazine about ridiculously high end design and put on the original broadway cast recording of "Company".

It's important to simulate the barrage of media input that one has when their computer is with them. This method of overlapping different media themes combined with the numbness you should now be feeling seems to do the trick.

Drink slowly. There's nothing classy about slamming a martini, nor will hastily imbibing your drink make your computer return to you faster:

Repeat.

I promise you that the time will fly!

From Bowl of Cherries to Alien Admiration

I was eating cherries tonight and this was my thought process:

Whenever I eat cherries I think of Veronica Catwright because she vomits cherry pits in "Witches of Eastwick."

Then I thought how much I love Veronica Cartwright in "Alien"

While on YouTube I saw this clip from "Alien" where Ash admits an affection for the alien, he admires its "purity." I love, love, love that he admires the beast and I empathize with his sentiment.

And that's how you get from a bowl of cherries to admiring the purty of an extraterrestrial killing machine with acid for blood.

By the way, if you do a google image search for "Veronica Cartwright Eastwick Vomit" one of the results is this image.

Try, try again.

Dear Whole Foods:

I wrote you on May 15, 2007 re: Eternal bottled water that you are selling exclusively in your stores. In my letter I expressed how I thought it was frivolous and detrimental to import water almost eight thousand miles from New Zealand to Dallas. I still have not heard from you about whether or not you calculated the carbon footprint as a result of importing water from New Zealand to the U.S. and whether or not you considered offering an exclusive artesian bottled water from a domestic source.

Recently, in The New York Times Dining and Wine section there was an article about restauranteurs and food service companies that are going to stop offering imported bottled waters because of the impact importing water long distances has on the environment. You can read the article here. As part of your "commitment to environmental stewardship" will you consider doing the same?

I eagerly await your response especially in light of the recent news article in The Times.

Sincerely,
Adam XXXXXXX
Dallas, TX

Some quotes from the article:

"“Serving our local water in reusable carafes makes more sense for the environment than manufacturing thousands of single-use glass bottles for someone to use once and throw away,” Incanto explains at its Web site."

"“The rationale for buying bottled water is a fantasy that has a destructive downside,” Dr. Solomon said. “These companies are marketing an illusion of environmental purity.”

Her organization has calculated how much carbon dioxide — a major greenhouse gas — is emitted during the transportation of bottled water imported from France and Italy, the two largest exporters to the United States, and Fiji water, which travels much farther. Together they account for 4,000 tons of carbon dioxide, the equivalent, Dr. Solomon said, of the yearly emissions from 700 cars on the road. She called that “a significant contribution to global warming, and fundamentally an unnecessary one.”"

"As part of its low-carbon plan Bon Appétit, the institutional food service company, is switching to domestic bottled waters from imported and is looking at a filtering system using local water and reusable glass bottles for some customers."