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I absolutely love this design. And I hear the coffee is just as good.
About MorrisonFilm
Hello, my name is Shawn. This is where I put things. This site has been active since 2002. A lot has changed since then but basically I'm still writing ridiculous articles about ridiculous things. You can also look at my Flickr photostream which is a lot of fun if you aren't blind.
This site uses Simplelog, a simple Ruby on Rails weblog application. I explain why I use it in this entry. This site is hosted by Dreamhost.
I've made 4 short films that are currently available online. I also host a semi-regular comedic podcast with Garrett Murray that has a 5 star rating on iTunes!
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This pretty much nails how I feel.
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Fascinating.
Another month another episode of Maniacal Rage TV. We have so much fun making these. This time we brought back Matt for more Jesus comedy along with Debbie Friedman who did such a great job with our ridiculous material. Not much else to say other than subscribe to the feed which serves up a nice big 640x360 version suitable for iPod, iPhone or Apple TV. You can also download that version directly or watch on Vimeo.
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Graphing rap songs.
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NOT CLEAR! (via Evan)
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Fucking. Awesome.
My iPhone just buzzed, alerting me to the fact that tonight is exactly 3 years since I smoked my last cigarette. I remember it. I was sitting on my living room couch, alone. It was 11 at night. I specifically left my room to smoke it. The TV wasn’t on, the apartment was silent. Just me and the cigarette. I hadn’t fully formed the thought of quitting yet, but was very aware of this particular cigarette. Very aware of my relationship with the cigarette. I hadn’t fully committed to it being my last so the moment lacked gravity. It was serene actually. A calm before the storm. I didn’t have another cigarette that night and when I woke up the next morning I thought, “I could do this. Right now, this moment… I could do this.”
Photo by Matt Urban
As a Sox fan I was pretty pissed about A-Rod opting out of his Yankees contract. On the one hand it confirmed for me that he really is a mercenary douche bag. But on the flip side this releases the Yankees from the curse of the A-Rod. Let’s look at the history shall we?
A-Rod leaves Seattle and the first year without him they win 116 games.
A-Rod arrives in Texas after signing the most lucrative contract in baseball history. One MVP for A-Rod, three consecutive last place finishes for the Rangers. His teammates nickname him ”The Cooler.” *
A-Rod joins the Yankees. Over the course of 4 seasons the Yankees perform the greatest choke in sports history followed by three straight first round post-season exits. A-Rod wins two MVPs.**
The team Texas almost traded A-Rod to in 2004, The Boston Red Sox, have won 2 Word Championships since the trade collapsed.
A-Rod leaving can only be good news for New York, which is bad news for me. Here’s hoping Scott Boras can convince the Stein-brothers to pony up. May A-Rod retire a Yankee!
** The Peter Gammons blog is behind an ESPN pay wall.
* Technically the 2007 MVP hasn’t been announced but there’s little doubt that A-Rod will win.
Somehow I’ve failed to mention the last 2 podcast episodes here. Probably because my readership consists mostly of my mother, uncle Joe, a fellow named Stabby who lives on Rikers Island and a handful of people who came from a Google search for horror clowns. So to all of you (and especially Stabby) go check out Episode 27 of the Maniacal Rage Podcast!
Delays due to travel and Garrett’s car being robbed! How lovely! Maybe talking about pizza in the morning, Shawn’s dating method, a lesbian play and other such fun things will make Garrett feel better. Or maybe not.
When the Sox were down 3-1 to Cleveland in the ALCS, Ortiz held a closed door meeting. According to Josh Beckett, this is what he said:
We play for the Boston Red Sox and you don’t play for the Boston Red Sox unless you’re a bad motherfucker. If you’re not a bad motherfucker you’re not here. It doesn’t happen.
And then: seven straight wins. Sometimes it’s as simple as being reminded what a bad motherfucker you are. (I took the liberty of replacing the paper’s “expletive” which the logical curse.)
On the elevator ride down this evening a co-worker asked me, “So you install Leopard yet?” I was about to respond when I stopped and took a moment to think about how truly weird that question was. For one thing, my co-worker is not a Mac user. Never owned a Mac. Second, Leopard is an operating system – a Mac operating system – which at a certain point in time was simply not elevator conversation. People barely knew which version of Windows they used let alone that a Mac might have an operating system. At least that’s how it used to be. If in 1997 someone asked me, “So, you upgrade to OS 8 yet?” I would have said… well I can’t answer that because it never would have happened in a million years. No one knew what OS 8 was. They’d have laughed at me for using a Mac. “Macs?! Mac’s don’t even have files!” someone would say and I’d roll my eyes and think “Just you wait until Copland comes out, you’ll see!”
And so I go to bed last night at 2:00 AM because the Red Sox just won the World Series. Again. I mean wow. I don’t think most people realized just how painful being a Sox fan was before ‘04 to truly understand how enormous that is for me. Give 2002 era Shawn the ability to sneak a peak at this entry and he’d shit his pants twice and pass out. But of course, now it’s not even shocking. Now we’re talking about dynasties. Hell, 2 in 4 years practically is a dynasty in this age. It’s so bad people are sick of the Red Sox. “Ugh, they always win,” is what I’m hearing now. This is bananas. Now the Red Sox are the Yankees apparently. I’m actually reading this. I’ve read 5 articles over the last 2 days that ended with the statement “But the Red Sox are the Yankees now.” I don’t even know what to do with this. How did I go from being defined as an underdog to being… well, this, whatever it is.
Everyone owns or wants a Mac, the Sox are the most dominant team in baseball…
I’ll say this much, up might be down, left might be right, coke might be pepsi, but I’m loving every second of it.