Oh, you gotta see this one…

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WEAK!  Retraction here:  http://www.bigspring.k12.pa.us/news.php?action=view_article&article_id=2130

Check out the original image after the link…

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… and there’s reason to believe… Maybe this year will be better… than the last.

Yep, that’s right, folks, 2007 is coming to an end. Has it been a good year or a bad year? Meh. There’s been a lot of ups and downs and a lot of unexpected announcements and movements going on here and there. I’ll probably say something to this in the coming days.

In return for your patience as to the above, I give you first this bit of disappointing news: Danny Haren has been traded to the Arizona Diamondbacks, along with Connor Robertson (Minor League reliever), for 6 players. The crowd that will be shuffling to the Bay Area shall include 3 left-handed pitchers (Brett Anderson, Dana Eveland, Greg Smith) along with infielder Chris Carter and outfielders Aaron Cunningham and Carlos Gonzalez. While this is a bit disheartening to lose an ace/the American League starting pitcher to the 2007 All-Star Game/bedrock to your starting roto, ya gotta respect the man they call Billy Beane and his ability to rebuild/recreate each new year’s team. Don’t you worry, they’ll be OK.

Something cool, you say? The new Batman movie “The Dark Knight” that they’ve been shooting in Chicago all summer long now has a new trailer that came out at 10:30-11 p.m.-ish tonight:

http://atasteforthetheatrical.com/

Awesome? Hellz yeah! Tons of shots from spots less than 4 blocks from our apartment. The new Joker (Heath Ledger) looks NOTHING like him in real life due to all the makeup. Pretty bad-ass, too:

Check out the other pages for the upcoming film, also:

http://thedarkknight.warnerbros.com/
http://www.thegothamtimes.com/
http://www.thehahahatimes.com/

If you saw it earlier, here’s a pic I got of filming along the Chicago River:

http://pix.drewzilla.org/chicagoriver/CIMG0887

In other news, I’ve secured a movable object with wheels to whisk me away to the cornfield state over the weekend before xmas into the 25th, on which date I need to have said whip back to the O’Hare impound by 4 p.m. That means work on the morning of the 26th. WHEEEEEEEEEE! It will be good to see some W’loo peeps, however.

THEN, to top all toppers, we’re hittin’ Hogs N’ Honeys for NYE. No joke. Really. Not. Kidding.

Someone send help. Seriously.

Yeah, it’s ugly out there:

The view out my office window.  Someone send Summer back?  Plz/Thx/Kbah.

… yet, my friend Julie highly possesses and has perfected to produce amazing and vivid pieces. This past weekend I was endowed with an amazing piece of work:

She named it “I’ll Become The Sea”, after some of my favorite (translated) lyrics from La Mer by Nine Inch Nails. This painting is so much more in terms of talent and vibrant output than anyone I’ve ever known was possible of providing. I gotta say that I’m so honored to have this on my wall. So cool! Love ya, Jules! Thanks so much!

Julie’s working on getting this work up on her website currently, but you can see her other art over here:

http://www.jnausdesign.com/

The classical attributes of the medical profession:

http://www.cracked.com/article_15669_10-most-insane-medical-practices-in-history.html

My fave:  morphine to sooth the troubles of baby teething.  Pure comedy.

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No Sandals? No raves? I’m screwed on both counts. *BIG_sigh*

The weekend has gone into hyper-sleepy-mode after grand eventz & company outingz on Thursday night. I got a full 8 hours of rest&relaxation in this early-to-late morn, which did wonders to the psyche. Planning on doing more of the same throughout tonight and tomorrow. It’s been a long 2-3 weeks, considering the visitation by Dr. Adam Ryan and Chili_Fest during the extended weekend last week and having Marty in town from the western reaches of the states the weekend before. Fun? HELLZ yes! Taxing/worth it? Friendly visits definitely turn into late nights and empty pockets, but the visits are more than your average Iowa weekend in Thee Olde Trenches, considering the greater number of pictures absorbed by pix.drewzilla.org here and here!

Not to mention, this week included a visit to “Broadway in Chicago” in the form of Phantom of the Opera.  Cadillac Theater was the setting for said excursion at Randolph & Clark, which was organized Dave and included about 7 of the closest associates.  The portion pre-break was lyrical and soothing, during which I decided to let my eyelids droop a bit (DOH!), but just-before&post-break action created a bit of an upturn.  This is not to say the show was the reasoning [note: sleepless nights have been occurring].  The show was most definitely a very different experience than most outings and the show overall was quite intriguing, as I had never seen it before.  Dave, killer idea.  We gotta do that stuff more often.

Anyway… it’s Saturday night and I’m at home, so I’m going to continue watching the House of Animals, circa 1978.  Maybe I’ll throw in some Fight Club next.  Excitement squared, right? WHEEEEEEEEE!

I’ve decided, once again this fall, throughout the intimidating semi-frigid swings, that I still hate cold weather. I don’t think it’s in my blood to live in the northern states. I should probably move to Florida. Stick, get the couch in Tampa ready!

Talking about Stick, I thought you all might appreciate this one:

In other sectors, our internet connection in our building pretty much blows. I think all 26 floors are utilizing the same 56K dial-up connection to the machine shed in Sumner, IA. *sigh* My attempt at watching Heroes (second half from last week/all from last night) and the flow of video-bearing packets is being blatantly slowed/denied by the quasi-wonderful, yet free, intarwebz we receive here in “home sweet home”. /pukes, yet continues to watch infinitely-pausing video feed

ANYWAY… Erin says this post needs meat, so here’s all I’ve got:

I’m going to sit here and watch some more Dog the Bounty Hunter on TV, since our internet continues to suck. It even crashed Firefox because it couldn’t handle the video stream. Thank Dog for WordPress Blog that saves your work!

 

It’s pretty rainy here on this Friday eve/Saturday morn:

I’m just hangin’ at the pad tonight… no going out this weekend for me. I’m sure there will be plenty of boozing, but I’m just not a very big Halloween fan… never have been, really.

 

Busy as hell lately at work… some long hours being input and ongoing development being completed, of course. Not much else to mention, so I’ll get out the newest Dr. Tran for ya.

Check ya later!

State-of-the-Union-esque, only music. Right? Right.

Convictions. Everyone I know has something to say about the type of music they like/dislike. They may say, “I like all kinds of music”, but 97.13548% of the time they’ll follow up with, “except <insert random variation here>”. Personally, I can’t handle Country (countless times I’ve expressed this), Death Metal (screaming/non-understandable) or realllly slooowww musssiiiccc.

In my case, I’ll admit that I’m a huge House & Electronica snob. If it doesn’t go nnnsta nnnsta, I usually don’t listen to it. Some occasions may require a change, since there are people out there that don’t like it (clueless… all of ’em!). I shall now include a few images to reinforce my statements. hahaha

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MySpace Blog Entry on this HERE

Above & Beyond were actually the ones who started playing this track and making it big. They first played it on “Trance Around the World” (their weekly internet radio show) on January 30th, 2007. Since then, I’ve been in love with this song. I can’t get it out of my head. If there was a way to vote for a “2007 Track of the Year”, this would be the one.

Quick note: this YouTube link is just audio and I’d fast-forward to the 55 second mark to avoid the club-beat introduction for mixing:

I fell in love again all things go, all things go drove to Chicago all things know, all things know we sold our clothes to the state I don’t mind, I don’t mind I made a lot of mistakes in my mind, in my mind you came to take us all things go, all things go to recreate us all things grow, all things grow we had our mindset all things know, all things know you had to find it all things go, all things go I drove to New York in a van, with my friend we slept in parking lots I don’t mind, I don’t mind I was in love with the place in my mind, in my mind I made a lot of mistakes in my mind, in my mind you came to take us all things go, all things go to recreate us all things grow, all things grow we had our mindset all things know, all things know you had to find it all things go, all things go

if I was crying in the van, with my friend it was for freedom from myself and from the land I made a lot of mistakes I made a lot of mistakes I made a lot of mistakes I made a lot of mistakes you came to take us all things go, all things go to recreate us all things grow, all things grow we had our mindset all things know, all things know you had to find it all things go, all things go you came to take us all things go, all things go to recreate us all things grow, all things grow we had our mindset (I made a lot of mistakes) all things know, all things know (I made a lot of mistakes) you had to find it (I made a lot of mistakes) all things go, all things go (I made a lot of mistakes)