my most exciting stories for this week are that i watched 5 episodes of the shield on dvd in one night, easy rider isn’t a very good movie if you’re not a hippy, and today, in a daring trans-national tastebud temptation, i had chicago-style deep dish pizza for lunch followed by some floppy new york-style pizza for dinner. living on the edge? well, working late, actually.

so i’ll steal a story from a few weeks ago i’ve been meaning to give justice. see, down the hall from my apartment lives a very minor celebrity you may have seen and shortly afterward forgotten about in that jerry seinfeld movie. frankly, i can’t say, because i haven’t seen it. my friends tell me he wasn’t very funny though, this guy.

anyway, he put one of those cardboard skeletons with rotating posable joints on his door for halloween way back when, in what i thought at the time to be an admirable zest for the season. maybe he’s going to do this for every holiday? maybe he has some personality, unlike most of the people here who seem to constantly ignore any attempts at jest when we share an elevator ride. maybe he’s a cool guy.

well halloween came and went. as did thanksgiving, christmas, and new year’s day. every day the elevator doors opened and across the hallway there was that silly thing still ‘waving’ at me. was there something sinister at work here, or was this just the laziest display of holiday cheer i’d ever seen?

so one day earlier this month, while my buddy dominic was staying over and i was feeling saucy, i figured i’d at least make a little update to the display for the new year — to keep it fresh, you know? i figured hey, this guy’s a comedian; he’ll either appreciate the joke and leave it up, or chuckle and say to himself, ‘all right, they got me’ and take it down. below is a picture of dom and gino posing next to the old bag of bones, and a close up shot of my addition.

he took it down a few days later.

aren’t you glad i have a digital camera now? time for some max payne.

[now hearing this: the shins, again. i think i have a problem. if i keep listening to this cd as much as i have been, i’m going to get SHINS SPLINTS! oh my god, i couldn’t resist that one.]