Monthly Archive for January, 2004

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Couple things:

1. I will get my little NYC2 travelog up as soon as I feel like assembling all the information.
2. Here’s something I want to post about right now:

STS-107 16JAN03 10:40 �2004 PAUL PELLERITO
I was in Florida last year and got to see the launch of STS-107. That was probably the coolest thing I’ve ever seen. Commander Rick Husband’s daugter was even on our tour bus through the space center. When it didn’t come back on February 1st, it was shocking and horrible. I remember first hearing the new in disbelief, thinking oh my god, I saw that take off and as we got more information the reality sunk in. So this is my little web-memorial thing to Columbia and the crew of STS-107.
NASA
Link to the NASA Memorial to STS-107

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I spent four hours in Borders today just looking for something to read next. I read Invisible Monsters on the plane and in NYC so I’m finished with that. 3 days of Chuck is good enough for me for now. I settled on Updike’s Rabbit novels.

I have a whole bunch of stuff to put in here as to what went on in NYC. Probably tomorrow. For now, the picture of Dino being “special” will have to suffice.

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I’m going to New York City again. Soon. I fly out at 1:19pm today. Just for fun.

It’s cold there, but hey, it’s cold here, too.

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It’s time for the official endorsement.

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I have strep throat. It sucks. I also have a $250 deductible on my medical ins. That sucks more. I’m going to fuckin’ bed.

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So… Ryan was here to hang with Jay for the weekend. Jay pretty much ignored him. Blah. Not my concern. But Ryan did search through Jay’s AIM logs and found IMs from me & him… then he cut and pasted them into a note on his computer. I was being nice to Ryan because Jay was being crappy to him, so I felt that he at least needed someone in this house to make him feel welcome since he was, after all, a guest. Some of the IMs were harsh… so I feel kinda bad, since I talked to the kid and I think he’s a decent kid. But I did say I don’t trust him, and I still don’t think I do. Maybe if I was going to know him for awhile longer, then I might begin to trust him, but I don’t give blanket trust to everyone I meet, in fact it’s quite the opposite lately. I’m just glad the whole Ryan-Jay drama thing is done with and we can get back to our own private little drama here at home. I feel bad for Ryan that he came out here from Toledo to be with Jay because he really liked Jay, and I’m a little dissapointed in Jay that he couldn’t just flat-out tell Ryan not to come and that he wasn’t interested. Jay was trying to get me to tell him–that is not a service we provide.

Of course, I still like Jay, and I hope he’s learned a valuable lesson: just fucking tell people how you feel about them. I hate getting dicked around by guys (one of them was even named Guy) and just think it’d make life easier if we told truth instead of euphemism.

On another note, I went up to GR to Diversions tonight when I should’ve stayed down here and went out with Bob, who was over from Ann Arbor. While that makes me a heel (and I acknowledge that, embraced it, in fact, by being a complete and total selfish asshole and going to Diversions instead) I will have to make it up to Bob and see him the next time I’m in A2. He was with other friends, so it’s not like he came here just to see me and I ditched him; he called and asked if I wanted to hang with him and his girl-friends, which I really didn’t want to do…

What I realy wanted to do was see Kelly tonight because I hadn’t seen him for awhile, and I was hoping to see Kurt there but he didn’t show. That short lil fucker still owes me a movie! But I did get to see Kelly. I gave him a little good-bye kiss on the cheek because he’s a sweetheart. Two cool things happened tonight:

1.)This totally drunk lady came up to us at the bar and was all “it’s my birthday woooo!” and Kelly and I just looked at her like… yeah… have another… but her name was Kelly, too, so she though that was extradamnedspecial.
2.)I was heading home and I stopped at a red light on Monroe, I look to my left and so none other than Adam Bird walking through the intersection towards my car. It was a “holy shit” moment for both of us; Adam’s one of the old crew from way way back in the day, 1999-ish era. Craziness. I’ll have to look that cat up next weekend if I go to GR.

I think I’m going to try and sleep at Barb Deibert’s house for a few nights this week. Me, a book, notepad, and a walkman. I want some time away from the kids. Josh and I went at it again tonight. He says I don’t respect him and… I guess from his point of view I don’t, but I really do, if that makes any damned sense. I’m just an ass. I thought everyone knew that. I will hassle you to no end, but only if I like you.

Your Life: The Movie by mintyduck
Who will play you: Kevin Spacey
Who will play your love interest: Ewan McGregor
Weeks you will stay in the box office: 15
Song that will play during your love scene: Pulp – Something Changed
Song that will play during your death: Tupac Shakur – God Bless the Dead
Your name:
Created with quill18’s MemeGen!

This is true because Ewan McGregor is my love interest. (Thanks, Jordan!)

Hmm. God… what else… It’s nearly 6am and I’m still up screwing around… nothing else, I guess, except that Internet Explorer is broken on my computer, and I’m not sure why, but of course you can’t really “fix” it without either re-installing Windows or delving into the registry, the first option I think is ridiculously stupid to have to do and the latter is astoundingly time consuming and equally as ridiculous. I was using IE for gay.com chat because Microsoft’s Java VM rendered the chat stuff better (probably because whoever wrote the software wrote it for Microshit’s VM) but since that was the only thing I use IE for anymore I can deal with it until I figure out a way to fix it… but it won’t even run WindowsUpdate, so I have no idea what’s wrong with it. Or how I caused it. Yahoo Messenger is screwed up, too, but I’m not sure if the problems are related or not. Firebird is still working wonderfully, of course :)

I took this picture of the other roommate Joe the other night.

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So this Brad guy dropped off Jay’s friend Ryan last night. Very attractive fellow. The same age as me, even! I can only tactfully report that we had a good time. He’s coming back on Sunday to bring Ryan home. :)

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I am an Intellectual

Which America Hating Minority Are You?

Take More Robert & Tim Quizzes
Watch Robert & Tim Cartoons

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So I was talking to Dino again tonight and I went out to smoke, so I propped up the Parliament box in the field of view of the webcam… this is what Dino did while I was gone… it’s riotously funny to me… =)

Dino: hello, little pariliament box
Dino: speak to me
Dino: tell me where my life is headed
Dino: you see therefore you are lost
Dino: but why box? why?
Dino: the more you open your eyes the blinder you are
Dino: they are looking at you from their windows…
Dino: who?
Dino: they
Dino: how? where?
Dino: no more days
Dino: what should i do
Dino: no more days
Dino: but
Dino: it ends now
Dino: nooooooooooooooo
Dino: tell me the meaning little box… tell me!
Dino: i have spoken
Dino: but… but…
Dino: ***despair***

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So I talked to Dino on Yahoo for like two hours from 2am to 4am, then I tossed and turned until 5am, then I surfed around until 6am, then I slept for like 15 minutes and finished up disc one of The Two Towers and then turned on the morning news talkies. Around 8 I decided to walk and find breakfast, as I was hungry and my car was blocked by Jay’s and he was still sleeping. So I walked a mile to Food Dance and had a hearty breakfast including the best pancakes I’ve ever had. I stayed for about an hour and a half, enough to drink four cups of coffee, a carafe of water, and an orange juice whilst perusing today’s McPaper, which I had picked up along with a pack of p-funks from the Michigan News Agency. [Un]fortunately, Food Dance is nonsmoking, otherwise I would’ve stayed longer because there was this guy there who was waiting for his car to be fixed�apparently he’d been in an accident and some guy from the other party’s insurance company wanted him to sign something (my new voyeristic habit is to pay deep attention to the words people mindlessly shout into their cell phones in public places) and the guy wanted him to come to Food Dance. I was anxious to see the resolution of this riveting human conflict, but I was also anxious to smoke, so I left.

I go back to work today at the Shaver Rd store, after not working for like six days or something (it’s been so long I can’t remember…) and as you might’ve guessed, I’ve really got to pee…

Oh, I also found Josh’s pencil in my car that he thought he lost but I kinda almost halfway walked in on him in a state of undress, I just opened the door a little crack inbetween “yeah” and “wait a sec” and was like OOPS! so I just sorta slid the pencil in there and walked downstairs… lol… I guess that kinda makes up for the two months when I didn’t have doors on my room at all… sorry Josh… I didn’t see anything! I swear!

Too bad he’d borrowed my digital camera so I didn’t have it handy :-P

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I think this is the coolest thing on the planet right now.

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Today Jay & Louie & I went shopping inbetween Jay’s classes. It was fun. I got to drive Jay’s car around, which is a big land-yacht kinda car, but not as big as my brother’s old Cutlass. Then I arrived home to find that I’d left my house keys behind. Jordan had showed up in the meantime, so we went to Best Buy. Still haven’t spent my $50 gift card yet, but I think I’m going to hold onto it for awhile and buy a cable modem when I move.

I also decided that if the apartment I move into doesn’t have a washer/drying in it, I’m going to get one of these.

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You’re Spain!
You like rain on the plain, as well as interesting architecture and a diverse number of races and religions.  You like to explore a lot, but sailing, especially in large groups, never really seems to work out for you.  Beware of pirates and dictators bearing bombs.  And for heavens’ sake, stop running around bulls!  It’s just not safe!
Take the Country Quiz at the Blue Pyramid

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It is clear I must find my other half…

So.. neither Kurt nor Kelly showed up tonight and it sucked because of that… but Josh and I got to spend some time together, and Josh got to drive in the snow (turn into the skid) and see his Lesbian friends Crissy and Amber (it was Crissy’s birthday [yay!]) and Jason, which is cool, because Jason is totally sweet (see Hug Josh Day below) and hot, and they should date each other but Jason SHOULD GET A PHONE so we can make last-minute (or, as they are called in the programming world, Just-In-Time [ah HEM, JUSTIN]) plans as I am so fond of making these days… but who knows… a few weeks from now it will either be the has-been thing of the week or the who’s-hot-couple… as is the fickle gay world… I still think (in, of course, this blogger’s ever-so-humble-published-all-over-the-internet-opinion) that they are meant for each other… but time and homosexuality will tell…

and I miss the heck out of Dino…
I did say to Josh, in one of my more drunken and vulnerable moments this evening… “I wish Dino could be my boyfriend”
and Josh said.. “New York City”
And I thought… but.. hmm.. Dino? Hmm… What did I say that for, anyway?

I guess I would rather know him always then have him as a ‘throwaway’ ‘boyfriend’ thing or whatever.
I dunno.
He’s so awesome. But so impossible.
Even if we lived in the same place; I would rather just have him around and know him than fuck it up… I dunno. Some guys are just awesome and one thinks to oneself “Yes, I would…” but one knows better… or something.. or whatever� oh this listless and un�answerridden journey�

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Hedwig and the Angry Inch : Origin of Love

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US gives Saddam enemy POW status

In other news, I haven’t gotten my W2s yet, but I think I’m getting like $900 back… woohoo

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Five great reasons to buy a Hummer™

1. You’ve been wanting to buy much wider groceries (but have been stymied by the timid width of your Escalade)
2. You and your make-believe wife were thinking of having 11 or 12 imaginary kids
3. You’re sick of always being the environment’s goddamned bitch
4. You could totally put a keg back there and just drive around and shit
5. They were all out of penises

courtesy of 5ives.com

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I want a watch that goes by Mars Local Solar Time!

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More Cool Shit
I linked to KtB’s new book that’s coming out, and apparently, they found out:

Hey Paul,

Just came across you blog by way of technorati — thanks for blogging Killing the Buddha. Hope you like the book.

Best,
Jeff Sharlet

That’s just as cool as Simon Davies‘ email 2 years ago and The Peanut Butter Experiment!

I’ve been reading KtB for years, maybe I can go to Ann Arbor for their book signing.

I’m not going to plug my blog into technocrati. It would only remind me of how inimportant this whole thing really is.
Is not the point of a blog to defy our own built-in unimportance?

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Shit. I don’t work until Tuesday, and then it’s Tues, Weds, Thurs… that’s, um, 24hrs… gonna be a po’ couple of weeks. Great…