wherein the half-assed attempt to explain away my absence is taken as read

I've got a stem between my teeth. I can feel it. See, the doctor told me I had to stop smoking pot, but I gotta tell ya, this ain't working

I love public transportation, even though it seems to hate me. In Massachusetts, there are four kinds of lies. Lies, damned lies, statistics, and bus schedules.

I was on the way to a friend's house to play a pretty cool game called 1000 Blank White Cards. Essentially it's a card game where the cards are made up on the fly. Wikipedia, as it is wont to do, elucidates

one of the cards just said "Beer Time!" Though in truth we didn't really need to be told that. That was one fucking well stocked apartment. I emerged from it with scratch marks all over my back.

No Comment.

The evening ended with a long walk, under heavy influence. I was filling my role as designated large, looks-scary-in-the-dark guy. Recommended heavily over those personal alarms. We passed some pubgoers on a smoke break.

Hey you three! Come and make out with the Jew!

This turned our heads, but our legs were very decidedly moving forward. We didn't really get any sort of explanation.

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Normally this is where I'd make a quip about news, but as Cooper has said, there just isn't anything worth paying attention to. Three things though

1 Patriots: 16 - 0

2 Celtics: 26 - 3

3 Motherfucker.

A producer from the Daily Show who writes columns in the Boston Metro from time to time said that 2007 was nothing but a 2006 hangover waiting for 2008 to begin, and I have to say I agree. Let's make this year count.

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For the first time in ten years I'm addicted to a Mario game. I understand that the people who read here aren't much into all of that, but Super Mario Galaxy is fuck-all of good times. They finally managed to capture what made the originals great in a 3D environment.

Sweeney Todd: Yes.

I came into it with reservations that Tim Burton was just going to be Tim Burton and Danny Elfman was just going to be Danny Elfman and Johnny Depp was just going to be Johnny Depp. But it worked.

Party in about 20 hours. I was invited by one of the people I walked with after the card game, actually. Promises to be a good time, and I beilieve this will be the first time I've gone to a New Year's Eve party that wasn't a family party. Which itself is odd. Actually there was a New Years party with my extended clan earlier today, from 2 to about 8, which was odder still.

hmm...

Anyways, hope everyone has a good New Year. Let no lives begin or end as the result of consumption tonight.

Later