Ewww...

According to Old Spice, Austin is the seventh sweatiest city in the country:
http://www.livescience.com/health/060621_sweaty_cities.html

Not sure how the tree hugger is going to feel when I have to shower three times a day. Thankfully, libraries are notoriously chilly places...

Rustic and Paradise Hotel

So, I'm now seeing Rustic Overtones four times in nine days. I'm considering making it five times in ten days because they are playing a free WCYY patio show on Friday, July 27. It's tempting because their first patio show was the first time I ever saw them live (11 years ago!) and because I want to see them as many times as possible before they break up again and go back to their current bands. They were in the WCYY studio on Friday so I got to hear two of their new songs on the radio. They also played a song from the patio show and I was a little verklempt. My first Rustic show! I was 14. Good memories.

Also, as fate would have it, not only is my favorite band of all time returning this summer, so is my favorite reality tv show (not that the two are even remotely in the same league, but watching Paradise Hotel again will be amusing): http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20007101_0_20042276,00.html (scroll to the bottom)

San Francisco, Days 3 and 4

Day 3: Doe Library, Mary Poppins, Football Stadium, PORCHMOBILE, Sox v. A's, Lenny DiNardo's Pants, Boogie's Victory Dance


Day 4: Boudin Sourdough again, Alcatraz, Lombard Street, Coit Tower, The Stinking Rose, Cable Car




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Proud to be a Massachusetts Resident

(at least for the next two months and three days)

Legislators vote to defeat same-sex marriage ban

San Francisco, Days 1 and 2

Day 1: Jack London Square in Oakland, Downtown Berkeley and the UC Berkeley campus

Downtown Berkeley is pretty idyllic. Can't argue with that. I don't really understand how that breeds liberalism, though. Frankly, if I could eat chili dogs, white-flavored gelato, and pizza named after Greek gods everyday and wash it down with Jupiter Honey Wheat beer, I'd probably just be complacent. I think I'd be too fat and happy to really care about politics one way or the other.


Day 2: Fisherman's Wharf, Mary!, Chicken Adob...something...Adobo? Chicken Deliciousness.




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MTV Movie Awards

Just finished watching the MTV Movie Awards. I have only these few things to say:

1. Transformers looks so freaking awesome I can't stand it, but I also can't stand that this was essentially a two-hour preview for the movie.
2. Sarah Silverman sucked.
   
3. Johnny Depp accepted his award looking exactly like he did in 1990: plaid shirt tied around his waist, torn jeans, longish hair, and ridiculously gorgeous.
   

100 Words

100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know

Jejune? Really? Some of these I've never heard of and others I think you should probably know before they let you graduate from high school...