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February 23, 2005

Quickies: February 22, 2005

What a bizzee day...It suddenly hit me tonight that a) I haven't gotten to read a single book in over a week, b) haven't listened to the radio AT ALL for an even longer period of time (aside from being ON it) and c) have missed several TV shows that I'd wanted to watch.

I Organized the ENTIRE Pulse back issue archives this morning. That was a lot of paper. Spent most of the rest of the day in meetings. Spent last night combing over tons of other Alt Weeklies in order to glean guidance. I'm telling you, figuring out the ad-to-copy ratio for a 140-page paper is quite a task.

My mailbox has been inundated with CDs and DVDs. The most joyously received item was the SCTV, Volume 3 DVD set. Though Mr. Mesh admitted to me that the first season escapes him (I admit, it CAN be an aquired taste), I'm in pure comedy TV heaven. (If I can get around to watching it, that is.) I also received a Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation Festival DVD, which I hope to watch soon, and an as-of-yet unreleased 2-CD compilation of the music of Roky Erickson, which so far is, well, quite awful. I am expecting, though, someone to respond to my intial assessment with something along the lines of, "Yeah, well, if you only UNDERSTOOD him, you'd appreciate him more. The man's a genius." Maybe if I, too, was out of my mind, I might like his work better. Gimme a few days...

A few months ago, Chattanoogan.com's chief web guy, Ed "Thunder" Sunder, forwarded me the RSS code so that I could post their top stories on both this site, and The Pulse site. Well, I'm gonna TRY to get that accomplished. No promises, though. I am code challenged, you see. Until then, you can always just click on their link under my NEWS header to see the latest from our anticlimactic town.

Aside from the inflamed (and PAINFULLY swollen) gum underneath the crown I recently had installed in my mouth (I'm getting my dentist to look at it on Thursday), the last few weeks of my life have been exhilaratingly fun. Oh, and the first of my THREE scheduled 2005 softball seasons starts in but a month. I'll be playing shortstop for the first team (headed up by Melissa's cousin and her other cousin's husband), which will play its games at Warner Park. Looking forward to playing there, as Camp Jordan's lighting situation is blinding AND dangerous, which is not good for a league that plays 98% of its games at night...and contains a team full of ENORMOUS Chattanooga cops who can literally knock the cover off the ball. The fact that I only comitted three errors at third base last year is quite an anomaly. It's usually quiet hard to catch the ball if you can't see the ball. (A RELATED NOTE: My knee and foot seem to have healed, though I AM going to get them checked. I was afraid that I tore something in my knee and fractured something in my foot, but i'm guessing that I just strained both of them. It'll be interesting to see how they react the first time I have to take a hard turn around first base...)

I'm gonna pass out one of these days.

Quickies | By colrus | 12:10 AM

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