Monday, May 28, 2007

Call me...Joker

If you know me, you know I'm a big Batman fan. The next movie, The Dark Knight Returns, is filming as we speak and the biggest news is that Heath Ledger is playing The Joker. Well, I just saw the first pic of him in the make-up and I have to say, I love it. It's much more fucked up than Nicholson's make-up was and I LOVE NICHOLSON and that film. Check out the pic. (Yes, I'm adding hyperlinks now. Just something I've gotten used in my work posts, so expect more of it here.)

Eventually, I'll get around to another update. I had a full weekend, so I'll get to it when I get to it.

Catch you later.

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Strangest e-mail ever

So I'm checking my three e-mail accounts this morning and I had the strangest e-mail ever. First, some background.

I have a MySpace page, specifically so I can listen to new music from up and coming bands, but the page has also connected me with a couple of my favorite authors. I've been able to exchange a few e-mails with them and it's awesome. They are on my friends list, of course.

I'm checking the account linked to the MySpace and I have a message that says, "Dean Koontz would like to be added to your friends list."

I thought it worked the other way around. I'm meant to ask famous people if I can be their friend, not the other way around.

Yes, I approved Dean Koontz to be my friend, even though I like Stephen King better.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Day Three
















I got to "work from home" today. Did a bunch of stuff and even screwed up a couple things in my first solo blog post. Yes, they are noticeable but they don't hurt anything. I'm learning still. Also paid a visit yesterday to Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe. Took some pics of Pier 54, too, that I'm trying to load on here but it's being difficult, as you can see by how it totally messed up my text. (Until I fixed it, that is.)





For anyone who misses my voice, check this out: http://www.seattleweekly.com/podcast/short-list/
You have to wait a while to hear me but I'm in there, darn it.

Tomorrow will be spent getting ready for my big weekend assignment. It's gonna be cool. I'm especially looking forward to hearing this accordion quartet called Hell's Bellowes.

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Days one and two

I'm going to try and keep up with this but these first two days have worn me out.

Short version is: I rule and my boss thinks so, too. I've learned so much in just two days that the Argonaut Web site is going to rock when I get back.

I'll be spending my weekend covering the Northwest FolkLife Festival while my boss goes to Sasquatch! Fest. I guess that's fair.

I already turned in my first assignment: a review of Ozzy's new CD, Black Rain. Hopefully, I'll be able to take some of my learning and make my own blog rock harder.

Catch you on the flipside.

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Emerald CIty, here I come

Seattle's nickname is the Emerald CIty but I don't think the WIzard lives there. I am, however, on a search for something to make myself a better person: more real world experience.

If you've been following along, you'll know that I am doing an internship with the Seattle Weekly in the Web and music sections. I'll be bringing my learning back to Moscow as next school year's Web and Opinion editor. Cool beans, eh?

Yes, it is an unpaid internship. (Anyone caring to donate to the T.J. Summer in Seattle Survival Fund can e-mail me for details. I'm not kidding.) My current newspaper adviser hates the idea of me not getting paid, but knows that this is one of those experiences that is worth the trouble.

A little bit about the Seattle Weekly: It's one of those alt-weekly papers. For my Vegas co-horts, it's like the City Life or Las Vegas Weekly-- two papers which never took anything I sent them. I wonder if they'd take my work now? Or after the summer, anyway. Best of all (or worst of all, depending on what your leanings are) SW is owned by The Village Voice, the grand daddy of alt-weeklies. Pretty cool, eh? The office is just a couple blocks away fromPioneer Square in downtown Seattle, right where everything is happening. I'm going to have a nice bus commute from Tacoma (thanks to Aunt Billie for agreeing to put me up for a spell) but I'm no stranger to mass transit. ($108.00 for a month pass, though. See comments about the TSiSSF, again.)

So I'll be going to concerts, small clubs mostly. I'm geared up to be the resident Metal HEad, which means coverage of this year's Ozzfest, kickingoff July 12 in Seattle, is mine. The chance to meet Ozzy Osbourne is one of the only htings I can think of cooler than meeting Rob Zombie. (Search back about a year--wow!--for that day.) I will be sporting a Black Sabbath hat for the occassion. I only packed band T-shirts for my stay, too.

Unless you count the couple Red Sox shirts I popped in my bag, too. I will go to at least one Seattle Mariners baseball game while I am there. Won't get to see the Sox, but might catch them when the Reds come to town and see Griffey, just like the old days. Nah, those games will sell out, too. I might get stuck watching the M's and the Pirates. It's Major League Baseball, though, so who cares who is playing as long as I get to go.

I'm going to keep up the blog as much as possible over the summer, too, so check back for news as often as you like. Also check out www.seattleweekly.com to see if my stuff shows up there.

Thanks again to everyone who has supported me on my wild and crazy adventures. I never would have thought to be doing this if Coyote Press in Vegas hadn't come into my life (along with Karen Laing who made it possible for me to do what I wanted) and if the Argonaut here in Moscow hadn't treated me so well. Just goes to show that making plans doesn't always work out the way you want them to.

And, before I go...Hi Julie!

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Stranger things have happened

So, I cleaned my room yesterday. I used fewer garbage bags than the last time I cleaned. They were bigger, though. Today I'm doing laundry. I did a very odd thing for me, something I don't recall having ever done before.

I separated clothes before washing. Weird, I know. I didn't divide by color because taht would be pointless. Instead I grouped by type. Socks and underwear and in the dryer right now. Just finished washing are all the T-shirts I plan on wearing over the summer. Next in will be pants, followed by button-up shirt to be worn over the summer, then the rest of my T-shirts. Pants might take two loads, otherwise they will never get dry.

Oh the things I've been doing differently the last few weeks.