ben

If anyone ever interviewed me via email, I would answer, but in a completely different order.

Finding love is like finding needles in a haystack, and then being stabbed in the face by those needles.

Q: "Were there any scenes from 'A Hard Day's Night' that did not make it into the final picture?"

PAUL: "There was a scene where I'm supposed to be picking on Ringo and saying, 'It's all your fault.' And as I was saying it, I kept flapping my arms up and down... I don't know why. I must've thought I was a good actor. I was just sort of flapping my arms around and saying, 'It's all your fault.' And he couldn't stand it... he was giggling away. So then I started laughing and we just collapsed. We did so many takes of it."

RINGO: "Twelve takes on that one."

"Sean and I were away for a weekend and Yoko came over to sell this cow and I was joking about it. We hadn't seen her for days; she spent all her time on it. But then I read the paper that said she sold it for a quarter of a million dollars. Only Yoko could sell a cow for that much."

-John Lennon

"New legislation has been proposed in Iran that could make blogging a crime punishable by death."

FINALLY

ben: yeah

happy 4th of july to you, too

did you do anything fun?

like fireworks

golem: yes i just got back from fireworks

ben: nice

did you get drunk?

i would have gotten drunk

golem: nah

i went with a 9 year old

ben: i would have gotten drunk

I finally figured out how to work my washing machine, and I've got to tell you, it's changed my life.

I'm currently frontpaged on two different blogging platforms!  I think it's all going to my head.  My secret wish is to become as hilariously ridiculous as Jacob Lodwick.  If anyone wants to start insulting me or making entire blogs devoted to how I'm a narcissistic idiot, I will definitely get all whiney and defensive (and link to your blog!).

Chinese government propaganda is really poorly conceived.  If it wasn't for the URL, I wouldn't have known it was critical of Falun Gong for about ten paragraphs, and that's not in an insidious way; it's more in a we-don't-have-too-much-dirt way.

me: that was when my friends didnt know what the internet was i'd be like, oh man it's great, it's got dancing hamsters AND dancing babies