A Thought

The girls really shoulda named their blog The All-Girl Summer Fun Blog.

Variations on a Joke

As most of you know, I work in an office at a day camp. I get out on the camp grounds once or twice a day, usually just to go grab lunch and then rock the NBA Jam machine for a little bit. So here's what I hear literally every time I step out of the office:

"Sugarman, are you wearing sunscreen? You might burn up."

"Wow, look who's outside. It's Sugarman."

"Sugarman, you can go outside? I had no idea."

"Whoa, Sugarman, I've seen you outside today twice. New record!"

"Sugarman, you get to go outside?"

Etc. etc. At first I always felt obliged to laugh at the jokes, but now it's like, homie, are you retarded? Yeah, I work in the office. That's my job. And you've made the exact same joke for 39 days straight. What I'm trying to say is, I miss clever jokes.

One of my favorite songs

This is a totally unoriginal post, but I re-re-rediscovered how awesome this song is. I know, I'm posting a video, but for some reason I hadn't seen it before and I bet a couple of you guys haven't seen it either. Watch it. If you know the song, listen to it again and realize you love it. If for some crazy reason you've never heard it before, prepare to have your mind blown.

Yup.

So, anyhoo. I hope everyone is well.

Also, I want to be the first to officially declare, Sunset Rubdown's new album Random Spirit Lover is the front runner for the Best-Album-I've-Heard-In-A-While award. It is absolutely incredible. At first... I had my doubts. But now that I've listened to it probably a dozen times on repeat, it is so unbelievably fantastic. Acquire it.

XOxo

PS: Actually, I'm not done talking about Spencer Krug yet. I know D-Shugs called this, but he is awesome. Seriously, if he ever comes out, I will begin my courtship. I have no idea how he packed so many brilliant ideas into this album. I rarely appreciates albums as albums (I'm more of a songs as songs kind of guy), but there are certain lyrical and instrumental themes that are carried through this album that work so well. There are some songs that I might not have liked if they were played alone for me, but in the context of the larger album, they work. Back to back, track 8 to track 9 (For the Pier [And Dead Shimmering] into The Taming of Hands that Came Back to Life) is a fucking knock-out one two punch. The only song I'm ever tempted to skip is track 6. It's a little too spooky. At first, I didn't like track 7 because it was just a little too spooky following track 6... but I've changed my mind. It's awesome. This entire album is awesome.

Carleton gone batty!!!

So when I was young and came back from a week at camp/my cousin's house, etc. my mom would always leave me a welcome home present on my bed -- a book, some candy, a troll doll, you know. I usually looked forward to coming home as much as going on vacation because of the kickass surprises.

I arrived home Saturday night from my week vacation in the mid-Atlantic, went into the bathroom, and found


a dead bat floating in the toilet. A FUN WELCOME HOME TO ME!!! Yeah, I just closed the lid and went to bed without dealing with it. I was going to ask facilities/Tom Fry to fish it out for me come Monday and so kept ignoring it all day Sunday until about 5 pm, when it started smelling of rot. As the pungent stench of death crept under the bathroom door into my bedroom, I decided taking action Sunday night was necessary. Tom offered to come over and pull it out but was for some silly reason concerned about contracting rabies. I called security to ask the safest way to pull a dead animal out of a toilet, and they said to flush it away. So I did. For some reason, this option made no sense earlier buuuut batwater DIDN'T overflow on the floor and the smell went away within a few hours. Back to life, back to reality.

The interesting thing is, the bat must have drowned right before I got home if it started smelling so strongly so soon. Wouldn't it have been FUN if it had drowned right after I left last Friday? I guess I'll count my blessings.

Kids are weird

I just found a journal that I had to keep when I was in 4th grade. What the hell? I can't believe the kind of stuff I used to write. I'm going to keep the context brief and just brush over some highlights of my young writings.

In the very front of the journal we apparently were given colored pencils and were told to write our name really big and list things we liked and disliked around it. My coloring skills were totally bitching and it's pretty funny that my handwriting hasn't changed at all. But anyhoo... here are the things I liked and disliked when I was around 10 years old (spelling and emphasis unchanged):

Like:

Friends
Good Grades
Vacations
Acting
Animals
Calamari
T.V.
Yale
Pets
Relitives
My dog to be
Cows

Dislike:
Bad Grades
Cowlicks
Bad Smells
MY BROTHER
Long projects
Classes
Getting rushed (was I referring to football?)
Lame Jokes

I know, right?

Here is an entry dated November 5 titled, 'Senior' Rock Stars! Should they rock on? (for some reason, when I read it, I thought about how little Greg Hunter and I would have clashed):

"Rock stars over 50, I think should stop rocking. I think this because if they're singing, their voices will never sound the same as they did in the 70's and 80's. If they're a drummer or guitarist their reflexes probably aren't what they used to be. If you add all of these together and put them in a band, what kind of music would they make? Probably trash!"

At the bottom of the page I doodled a sweet looking rock band. The drummer is saying "Ooh! Arthrides!"

Another personal fave entry is from December 11:


Today is the MOST BORING CELEBRITY DAY!

I think that the most boring celebrity is............ Oprah! All she does is sit back in a leather chair, and say, "Today we have a heartwarming tale, "' After that she sits back and goes, "Uh huh,..... Mmm..... I feel your pain sister....... No, really! Amazing.......... ...I just love that shirt, is it new?" I don't see how she can make a living off of it!


Of course, there is a doodle at the bottom of an Oprah-esque character sitting in front of a fake backdrop saying "Today we'll talk about bad beef!"

Geez.

I was an opinionated little guy. There are some more little things in here but I'm not sure if any of you guys find this as entertaining as I did.

Xoxo,
Colin

Self Portrait (3 of 21)

I got tired of waiting for Anne to make me a Planet M&M character, so I decided to make my own. I think it does me justice.