this blog isn’t going to do much good as a diary of my life if i never post here. damn you twitter, with your short, too-easy updates. quick look back:

never made it camping, because it was raining and we got a flat tire on the way up the mountain. boy, was that fun. apparently it was beautiful once you got closer to the top, but we never got that far. anyone need some fire wood? or want to go make-up camping soon?

last weekend we went to two LA film fest screenings which were both great, and i wrote reviews over here if you’re interested. go check out both, and support funny movies that aren’t stupid so we don’t have to put up with a whole bunch of year ones and dance flicks. also, moon and away we go were really good. in fact, i’m on a crazy good streak of movies right now. luckily, i’m skipping transformers and holding out for public enemies.

busy at work but in a sort of in-between phase on the big projects where it seems everyone is trying to figure out exactly what we should be doing, not actually doing a lot. it’s a necessary part of the process but harder to see progress happening, or feel like you’ve accomplished anything. all i know is it’s been a long week and i’m looking forward to some weekend action now, and even more to the long holiday and vacation shortly after.

i’ve said it a thousand times but i think i’m going to try getting back in the habit of at least a couple paragraphs every couple days, because as fun as twitter is it’s easy to get lazy and use only that. at least i have the excuse of another website i’m putting a lot of energy into (subscribe to the podcast! comment on some articles! let me know we’re not wasting our time on that stuff, i’m so needy… okay not really).

also: celebrities that didn’t matter to me are dying and seeing people on tv having vigils or other nonsense seems really bizarre and misplaced. i just finished a david foster wallace book, and he’s been gone for a while, but that made me much more sad because after reading the book, at least i thought, ‘wow, this is a talent that probably had a lot more to offer, and it’s gone’. i’m pretty sure michael jackson had long ago contributed about all he was going to. i guess it’s sad when people die but not tragic like he was stolen from us.