Arcade Fire

SILVER SPRING, MD, USA Fun fact: 100% of the audience last night had blogs. All 1200 of them. Here’s what some of them had to say: http://www.dcist.com/archives/2005/01/31/the_arcade_fire_930_club_13005.php

“It’s not an adventure if you have a return ticket.”

SILVER SPRING, MD, USA EXCELLENT weekend so far. And my concert isn’t for a few more hours. But I thought I’d post now because chances are pretty good that I’ll be exhausted when I get back tonight, exhausted tomorrow, and you know that I teach on Tuesdays, so who knows when I’ll get to blog [...]

Gary+Concert tickets+Internet=FUN

SILVER SPRING, MD, USA The parallels between this and the now classic “Choose MY Own Adventure #1″ didn’t even occur to me until well after I had undertaken this venture, but now that I think about it, the two are very much in the same vein. I guess the easiest way to explain it is [...]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT–THE EAGLES ARE GOING TO THE SUPERBOWL!!!!!!!!!!!!

SILVER SPRING, MD, USA Current Mood: In disbelief.

Then our skin gets thicker / From livin’ out in the snow!

SILVER SPRING, MD, USA On my camp cot (paraphrased): “What, are you a boy scout trying to get a merit badge for chastity or something?” LOL!!! I got sick of sitting around last night so, like many nights, I went to Borders. It closed an hour early due to “bad weather.” This morning I got [...]

Damn, it’s cold out!

SILVER SPRING, MD, USA “I woke-up at 6 o’clock this morning. I brushed my teeth. After that I took shower, I changed clothes, I ate breakfast at 6:30 and watched the news until 7: o’clock then I go to work.” I think I can work with that. Well, I was pretty disorganized, but seeing as [...]

The Tension and the Terror

SILVER SPRING, MD, USA This is why I’m still awake (remember, this is late for me): So on Saturday morning I went to a meeting about volunteering to teach English at a night school in DC. I really don’t know anything about teaching, but every year tons of people my age without any teaching experience [...]

Guest Contribution #2: The Loan-Swap

SILVER SPRING, MD, USA Remember ice hockey? There used to be something called “restricted free agency.” If one of your players chose (i.e. he wasn’t traded) to leave your team and play somewhere else, under certain circumstances his new team could be required to send another player to his old team as compensation. My friend [...]

garybutterworth.com Presents: The Young Single Guy Gourmet

SILVER SPRING, MD, USA I recently discovered that, much like tuna, chicken can be found in cans. I purchased some last week and tonight I decided to put it to the test by incorporating it into one of my standard dishes. I present to you… The 4-Minute Quesadilla! Ingredients: 1 soft shell tortilla (burrito size) [...]

Post-holiday update

SILVER SPRING, MD, USA This time last year I was in Paris. Wow. Washington, D.C., is officially back from the holidays (there were holidays?). Since I didn’t leave town and I only had one day off that I wouldn’t have had off otherwise, there was really only one way I could tell: the Metro was [...]