yay me!

ok guys, now i know we haven't been around much lately. i have a totally valid excuse (nano is hard work!) as does nerver. but now that the insanity of november is over, we will be back and ready to rock. stay tuned, cause i swear it'll be good.

rock 'n' roll star(s)

yup. i finally did it. i broke down and got myself a wii last night. and guitar hero. and super mario galaxy. sure, i stayed up all night last night but it was totally worth it. and, though i'm broke, i'm gonna have it say it's probably the best investment i've made since nigel. nerver and i were up way too late rockin out (damn a bunch of "cult of personality") but one of these days we're going to be badass, so everyone better watch out. and i'm not quite sure how this wii friends thing works, but let mii know if you're interested and we can be buddies.

btw -- if any of you locals have wii guitar hero, you need to come over so we can play co-op and unlock more songs. please and thank you!

and, becase we already know you spend all of your time on myspace/facebook, you should head over to freerice and click away for a bit. more educational than tv trivia and bombing pirates, it's the perfect way for us online addicts to do something benificial for the rest of the world. if it says forkers (thanks sunny!) it has to be good....

burn baby

ack, it's been crazy. now that i have entirely too much on my plate, i find myself making time in these parts. indeed. somehow i'm able to find extra time to do things when i feel overworked and underpaid. go figure.

my new-found love of soccer went awry this weekend when i watched fcd and reading both get beat 3-1. damn fools. jeffer's door felt the brunt of it that night, but i'm sure alvarez will be hurting for a bit longer...

the nano write-ins are going well (though none of you have bothered to show up). i'm only a couple hundred words short of where i should be, so, fingers crossed, it won't be such a pain this year.

and with all this going on, i'm somehow managing to catch up on my netflix -- finally. i need a break from all the "cheeriness" of my hong kong obsession -- any suggestions?

given that i work with entirely too many brits of varying degrees, i'm somewhat disappointed that bonfire night is something we don't celebrate here. perhaps we'll just drink beer, though it's not like we need an excuse for that.

things that i would throw into a bonfire:
- the entire houston dynamos team
- all my junk mail piling up in the corner
- my cell phone bill -- transatlantic calls can be pricy

oh, and something that smells pretty while being burned.

and because it's been much too long since i've seen this:

a sad day for dallas radio

Zac Crain had it first:

Josh Venable is Out at KDGE
(Exclusive: Must credit me.) Just got off the phone with my friend Josh Venable. He went in for his regular employee review today at the station. When he got there, someone from HR was waiting for him. He immediately knew what they were about to tell him: His position at the station — where he's been since he was 19 years old — was being eliminated. So he's out. No more 10 p.m-2 a.m. shift. No more Adventure Club. I am too close to the situation to comment rationally, but I'll tell you this: They made a mistake. I know it was a business decision, and I know station boss Duane Doherty would have liked to do just about anything else. But still, not good times. --Zac Crain