Every time I see a wino, I cry. Or, Mitch Hedberg, dead.

The title of this post being an allusion to the line, "I saw a wino eating grapes the other day. And, I was like, "Dude, you are too, early."

From the defamer.

"Mitch Hedberg Obits Arrive


If Mitch Hedberg’s tragic death is indeed an April Fool’s Day prank (as we’ve heard suggested several times on the internets), the jokesters have pretty thoroughly punked the media. Obits have finally started to appear online, like this one in the Pioneer Press from Hedberg’s hometown of St.Paul, which realizes every comedian’s worst posthumous fear: a newspaper reporter trying to explain their comedy.

Hedberg’s one-liners, dished off in a spacy staccato, were based on absurdist, random observations. His long, dirty blond hair harkened to the image of a 1970s stoner, and his success occurred in light of, in spite of and even because of his quarter-century affair with drugs and alcohol.


On second thought, there are probably worse posthumous fears for a comedian, like being found alone in a motel room with one of Carrot Top’s props lodged in a taboo body cavity, or somehow being associated with According to Jim. We apologize for not thinking that through, we’re a little caught up in the moment."

Updated Stati

Currently in Venice, CA. Working at DDB/LA on Wells Fargo, Ameriquest, and quite possibly, Partnership for a Drug Free America. (heehee).

Sublet a room from Roxanne's friend Ben Wang (pronounced Wong). Really cool, talkative guy. Likes to cook.

Will be here through at least April 8th, with the possibility of a full-time gig that i would accept in the cards as well.

My back hates their office furniture, though.

Anti-depressants seem to be holding up though.

Wrestlemania XXII is here in LA on Sunday.

worst logo ever

Anybody want to join the pool on when my mom sends this to me? I've got my cash on or before Memorial Day.

(btw, there's no way this is real)

Wooster Collective

These guys hung up fake artwork in 4 NYC museums.

link here: http://www.woostercollective.com/

Free Miguel

Thanks to Geoff Rogers for photoshopping this.

T-shirts on Cafe Press to come.

Status

Currently in Santa Monica. Will be at JWT for the rest of the week, and then at DDBLA next week.,

Here's a Scarlett Johansson fan site. LA.

The New York Times > Travel > Escapes > 36 Hours: Venice, Calif.

This is where I'll live if/when I move to Los Angeles.

The New York Times > Travel > Escapes > 36 Hours: Venice, Calif.: "ENICE is a rarity in Los Angeles, a neighborhood where you actually want to walk. In fact, assuming your flip-flops are sturdy, it's possible to spend a weekend in Venice without getting into a car. Since it was designed as a beachside resort in 1905 by Abbot Kinney, who became a real estate developer after he dropped out of the family tobacco business, the neighborhood has seemed removed from the rest of Los Angeles's flashy, auto-centric urban culture. Even in the early 1990's, it was authentically bohemian: a run-down beach community where real estate was cheap, skaters and surfers ruled the boardwalk, and hippies and artists populated dilapidated Craftsman bungalows. Times have changed. Although Venice still has an abundance of artists, writers, surfers and plain old eccentrics, it also attracts A-list celebrities (Julia Roberts bought property there in 2002), fine restaurants and chic boutiques. The popular annual garden tour (May 7) is increasingly a showcase for designer landscapers and prominent architects. On the lush residential streets near Abbot Kinney Boulevard, Frank Gehry is designing a home for himself, and the local designer Steven Ehrlich has already built one. But even with property values and celebrity cachet on the rise, Venice remains quirky and laid back, a place where you might see entire families on bikes or an artist walking to the shore with a canvas in one hand and a beach chair in the other. Feel free to leave the stilettos at home. "

I still love Tiny Mix Tapes

: "Being your friend makes me remember the joy generally only reserved for little kids who aren't old enough to know how cruel the world can be and I find myself thinking of you and singing 'Rainbow Connection', all the time.

requested by: BlueValentine
compiled by: caitlin

01. Built to Spill - "Car" (There's Nothing Wrong with Love)
02. Broken Social Scene - "I'm Still Your Fag" (You Forgot it in People)
03. Coldplay - "Don't Panic" (Parachutes)
04. Rilo Kiley - "The Good that Won't Come Out" (Execution of All Things)
05. Velvet Underground - "She's My Best Friend" (VU)
06. Kind of like Spitting - "Following Days" (Bridges Worth Burning)
07. Le Tigre - "Friendship Station" (Le Tigre)
08. Iron & Wine - "Trapeze Swinger" (Various Artists Soundtrack: In Good Company)
09. Of Montreal - "Don't Ask Me to Explain" (Cherry Peel)
10. Modest Mouse - "Life like Weeds" (The Moon & Antarctica)
11. Q and Not U - "Wonderful People" (Power)
12. Death Cab for Cutie - "Passenger Seat" (Transatlanticism)
13. Ben Kweller - "Family Tree" (Sha Sha)
14. Belle and Sebastian - "If She Wants Me" (Dear Catastrophe Waitress)
15. Coldplay - "We Never Change" (Parachutes)
16. Arcade Fire - "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)" (Funeral)

compiled by: Lacey

note from Lacey: you're very lucky to have a friend who makes you feel that way!

01. Carpenters - "Top of the World" (A Song for You)
02. Michael Penn & Aimee Mann - "Two of Us" (I Am Sam Original Sountrack)
03. Sean Lennon - "Into the Sun" (Into the Sun)
04. Carole King - "Where You Lead" (Tapestry)
05. White Stripes - "We're Going to Be Friends" (White Blood Cells)
06. Wilco - "I Got You (At the End of the Century)" (Being There)
07. The Smiths - "Hand in Glove" (Hatful of Hollow)
08. Yo La Tengo - "Center of Gravity" (I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One)
09. Pizzicato Five - "It's a Beautiful Day" (Happy End of the World)
10. Dee-Lite - "Smile On" (World Clique)
11. Marlo Thomas - "Glad to Have a Friend Like You" (Free to Be...You and Me)
12. Paul Evans - "Happy Go Lucky Me" ( The Fabulous Teens & Beyond)
13. Frank Sinatra - "I Get a Kick Out of You" (Very Best Of)
14. Ray Charles - "You Are My Sunshine" (Ultimate Hits Collection)"

Couples are out, groups in

Couples are out, groups in: "In Carbondale and on college campuses across the country, flocks of friends, traveling in ?shmobs,?? are following the same script: Socializing is a team sport. The idea of a man and woman going on a one-on-one date ? an age-old courtship ritual aimed at getting to know one another ? has become as anachronistic as Romeo text-messaging Juliet.
?Everyone goes out in groups. You all just hang out together,? explains Anna Gonzalez, 20, a bubbly brunette with a perky smile from Hanover Park.
?Dating as we know it is dead,? says Arthur Levine, president of Teachers College at Columbia University. Levine surveyed 10,000 college students about their lives for his book When Hope and Fear Collide: A Portrait of Today's College Student.
Formal courtship takes money and time -- two things college students complain are in short supply. But a big reason students prefer socializing in groups rather than in pairs is the emotional safety in numbers, Levine said."

Save Toby in the Post

By now, you're all familiar with Save Toby . If not, check it out now. Come back when you've been learned.

Now, Toby's hit the Post, here.

"To date, if the site's claims are to be believed, more than $18,000 has been raised to rescue Toby from the crockpot. But verifying that figure is impossible, and the site could be nothing more than a darkly comic and rather inspired way to make some quick cash. This is not the first send-money-or-Fluffy-gets-it scheme in history. What's certain is that a) Whoever runs this site owns a very cute bunny, b) the site is selling more than 90 Toby-related products and c) thanks to some careful planning, the identity of the bunny's keepers is a well-kept secret.


Oh, and d) some animal-rights people are really really peeved.


"We've received hundreds of death threats," says a guy who calls himself James and who readily admits that James is not his real name. In response to an e-mailed request for an interview, he called Wednesday afternoon and would say only that he and his business partner are in their twenties and live on the East Coast.


Are you really going to, you know, eat the little fella?"

choose one

Bay Area Homes Hit Record High

Sorry Hart and Marc.

"Bay Area home prices hit new record

MEDIAN PRICE OF $569,000 IS NEARLY 20 PERCENT HIGHER THAN A YEAR AGO

By Sue McAllister, Mercury News

For all those waiting for any home price ``bubble'' to explode: It hasn't happened yet.

Prices of Bay Area houses rose nearly 20 percent over the 12 month period ending in February, reaching a new record median price of $569,000 paid for existing single-family houses."

Bay Area Homes Hit Record High

Sorry Hart and Marc.

"Bay Area home prices hit new record

MEDIAN PRICE OF $569,000 IS NEARLY 20 PERCENT HIGHER THAN A YEAR AGO

By Sue McAllister, Mercury News

For all those waiting for any home price ``bubble'' to explode: It hasn't happened yet.

Prices of Bay Area houses rose nearly 20 percent over the 12 month period ending in February, reaching a new record median price of $569,000 paid for existing single-family houses."

Bay Area Homes Hit Record High

Sorry Hart and Marc.

"Bay Area home prices hit new record

MEDIAN PRICE OF $569,000 IS NEARLY 20 PERCENT HIGHER THAN A YEAR AGO

By Sue McAllister, Mercury News

For all those waiting for any home price ``bubble'' to explode: It hasn't happened yet.

Prices of Bay Area houses rose nearly 20 percent over the 12 month period ending in February, reaching a new record median price of $569,000 paid for existing single-family houses."

pisces passion party and the borrowed fuzzy pants

At the Pisces Party on Saturday night, I asked some random girls if they had anything Pisces-ish that I could wear in order to get a discount on the cover.

They loaned me a pair of fuzzy burning man pants but made me promise that they would get them back before they left. They also said they were going to get a little crazy.

So, I put on the pants and took off my shirt. Halfway typical behavior.

On the off chance that someone googles pisces party lost fuzzy pants or some variation thereof, email me at ideateller that symbol hotmail.com and I?ll get your pants back to you. just tell me what they looked like and who you said they really belong to.

More Burning Man strange pants related info, from a thread on Disorient?s message board.

Disorient person:

PANTS SWAPPING..sounds very suspicious to me....as a safety measure I volunteer to supervise...it can be considered part of my good karma credit..

###
magellan
joyfiend

Come to think of it, I could use some new tight pants. k8, you outgrown anything lately?

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dafna

you know magellan- baby gap is having a sale...

###
k8
stands with fist in mouth

magellan, you had to go and rub it in that you look better in my pants than i do...

but that's alright. i don't like to wear pants...

ashes and snow exhibit in nyc

From Ashes and Snow exhibit.

NEW YORK, NY, March 03, 2005 ? Recently, you may have noticed huge, mysterious photographs of elephants on the sides of buildings all around town. They're not accompanied by any text, or other clues as to why they?re there.

They are the work of Gregory Colbert. On Saturday, a temporary museum built specifically for his exhibition "Ashes and Snow," opens at Pier 54, just off West 13th Stree

stained

So, I ran into my friend Kelly the other night. She has a tattoo that says, "its". and her friend has one that says "especially".

i'm going to apply to be a part of this story. amazing.

Ineradicable Stain

"AUTHOR ANNOUNCES MORTAL WORK OF ART



Writer Shelley Jackson invites participants in a new work entitled "Skin." Each participant must agree to have one word of the story tattooed upon his or her body. The text will be published nowhere else, and the author will not permit it to be summarized, quoted, described, set to music, or adapted for film, theater, television or any other medium. The full text will be known only to participants, who may, but need not choose to establish communication with one another. In the event that insufficiant participants come forward to complete the first and only edition of the story, the incomplete version will be considered definitive. If no participants come forward, this call itself is the work.


Prospective participants should contact the author (shelley@drizzle.com) and explain their interest in the work. If they are accepted they must sign a contract and a waiver releasing the author from any responsibility for health problems, body image disorders, job-loss, or relationship difficulties that may result from the tattooing process. On receipt of the waiver, the author will reply with a registered letter specifying the word (or word plus punctuation mark) assigned to participant. Participants must accept the word they are given, but they may choose the site of their tattoo, with the exception of words naming specific body parts, which may be anywhere but the body part named. Tattoos must be in black ink and a classic book font. Words in fanciful fonts will be expunged from the work.


When the work has been completed, participants must send a signed and dated close-up of the tattoo to the author, for verification only, and a portrait in which the tattoo is not visible, for possible publication. Participants will receive in return a signed and dated certificate confirming their participation in the work and verifying the authenticity of their word. Author retains copyright, though she contracts not to devalue the original work with subsequent editions, transcripts, or synopses. However, correspondence and other documentation pertaining to the work (with the exception of photographs of the words themselves) will be considered for publication.


From this time on, participants will be known as "words". They are not understood as carriers or agents of the texts they bear, but as its embodiments. As a result, injuries to the printed texts, such as dermabrasion, laser surgery, tattoo cover work or the loss of body parts, will not be considered to alter the work. Only the death of words effaces them from the text. As words die the story will change; when the last word dies the story will also have died. The author will make every effort to attend the funerals of her words."

Status, pre-Ides of March edition

Currently in LA until Friday the 18th. Back in Portland for at least the weekend. Freelance possibilities in both LA & SF for the following weeks.
Odds of having a job by this time next month: 66% (but not jinxing it by revealing where and with whom)
# of pairs of pink and purple fuzzy pants borrowed off of girls outside Pisces party: 1.
Chances of being able to give them back to them: 1 in 4.
# of SEC titles Florida had won in basketball before yesterday: 0.
# after yesterday: 1.
Jail post coming soon. And good point Troy.

Introducing

Usually I'm not into the new baby and mother photos, but I'm really happy for the Sobiers.

Kallan Robert Sobier
born 7:01 pm PST
8lbs. 11 oz.
20.5"

He's a lot bigger than we expected, but Mom and baby are doing great. Here are a
couple pics.

Introducing

Usually I'm not into the new baby and mother photos, but I'm really happy for the Sobiers.

Kallan Robert Sobier
born 7:01 pm PST
8lbs. 11 oz.
20.5"

He's a lot bigger than we expected, but Mom and baby are doing great. Here are a
couple pics.

adweek love

Called Copacino the other day, and he mentioned that an ad i'd done last march had been produced and showered, (ahem) with praise.

adweek

Lifestyle advertising is so much nicer when there aren't people in it. An unpopulated ad makes it easier to see yourself as the hero of the story it's telling. Just as important, though, the people-free approach eliminates the chance you'll feel averse to the characters the brand presents as its archetypal customers. Think of wine: No matter how much you like to drink the stuff, you probably cringe at the sight of the poseurs who inhabit lifestylish wine ads. Worse still, you endure the discomfiting sensation of taking a dislike to people who share your enthusiasm. That could easily be a risk for REI in selling its gear for outdoor adventurers. Like wine, that market thrives on over-the-top connoisseurship?something you may enjoy as a practitioner but that you don't want to see as a bystander. Buying all sorts of arcane gear is the favorite indoor sport of outdoorsy people, and they'd rather not be reminded that there's something silly about this. With its snow-bound scene, REI's ad focuses strictly on the product benefit of being able to enjoy the great outdoors in such beautiful-but-inclement conditions. The laconic headline?"Today was a good day"?deftly captures the special pleasure of mastering a situation that others will find overwhelming (for instance, people who own an SUV but who don't own snow-proof hiking boots). The glimpse the photo gives us of a red house is also in sync with this spirit: It comes across more as a true outdoorsman's refuge than as a shelter-magazine showplace. REI's target customers will be happy to envision themselves in this scene.

Agency
Copacino+Fujikado, Seattle

Client
Recreational Equipment Inc., Seattle

Creative director
Jim Copacino

Art director
Kurt Reifschneider

Copywriter
Miguel

Print production
Peg Johnson

status

Currently back in LA working for JWT, the company that offered me the job about a month ago. Talked to Butterworth on the phone earlier and he laughed when he heard I was working here again. We tried to figure out what the dating version of turning down a job you were freelancing at, and then getting hired a few weeks later to do freelance again despite your previous rejection.

Should be here through mid-week next week.

Interviews on the slate while I'm down here.

Shouts to the Sobiers+1, PeterSam & his neighbors, and Chris & Davis for putting me up again.

What day is this? And what city am I in? V. confusing.

Currently

in LA, freelancing for JWT, from Monday, March 7 through at least Tuesday, March 15. but call it until the 18th.

was in SF for a week and a half, followed by a night in Portland. big ups to marc & hart for letting me crash with them. and cheers to all of the fun sf folks and the mean woman at dim sum.

i love the city.