find me on tumblr

I've defected to Tumblr, where the air is fresh and the grass is green and ... oh, who am I kidding? It's just way easier to post random stuff I find on the Internet over there.

So go here if you wanna see what's up.

FB & Twitter: blog killers

Facebook and Twitter have killed my will to blog. Since I started tweeting & Facebooking (I started Twitter last spring or summer, I think, and FB in 10/08 "for work"), I've been very silent on this blog as well as my old LiveJournal account. I was just going through old LJ posts and most of them were very enjoyable trips down memory lane.

So I want to pick it up again--I'm just not sure if I should split my focus between LJ and this blog, or just focus on this blog. LJ is a weird scene. You post something and hope you'll get comments--more often than not, it's nothing but crickets over there. Here, I dunno if anyone's reading either. (Hello? Is anybody out there?)

I guess that's why FB and Twitter are the social media outlets that get most of my attention now. I know people are reading because they have no choice. My missives either show up in friends' FB News Feed or on followers' Twitter stream. Instant gratification.

I've needed to consolidate my internet presence for a while, but I don't want to delete anything. I also have a very dusty Tumblr account. Gah. So many Suzamaphones, so little time. How do people decide where to focus their online energy?

In other news, I'm listening to an old playlist on my ipod on shuffle and Hall & Oates' "Rich Girl" just gave way to Depeche Mode's "John the Revelator." Awesome.

Here's a video for the latter:



(BTW, I had a crush on Dave Gahan in high school. He is still hot. Martin Gore, on the other hand, still looks silly. WTF black furry hat with ear flaps?)

Yes, We Can (Party)!

Election night in Seattle was an amazing night, filled with amazing people. I captured some video of people dancing and partying in the streets.

Here's one of the Yellow Hat Band, a roving Dixieland-type band, performing outside the Comet Tavern on Capitol Hill:

adorably sucky

i just found this on urbanoutfitters.com and geeked out over it with my co-workers:



totally cute! and useful! i think i want one.

best bicycle gang ever?

And now, as promised...

...Morrissey:



Yep, it's a three-post day. Why? Because a) I'm annoyed by work, b) this blog's subhead promised you-all some Morrissey and it's been months with nary a post dedicated to him, and c) This video makes me less annoyed by work (the posturing! the shirtlessness! the blatant narcissism!--in the video, not my workplace). And, it's a really good song.

So, huzzah to the Mozzer for making the world a better place and making me feel a little less like I need to disappear for a while.

Employee's Only

Nikoel and I ran across this sign at the Las Vegas airport:



There is no excuse for this.