Care package, eh? No doubt it's a Homosexual package full of Homosexual dildos. I accept your gift!

Yes, the poop deck is definitely on! Christmas Eve, 3:00-5:30 or so. Who knows when that bar is finally gonna close, so I'm just treating every year as potentially the last year from now on.

I hereby request that in the event of my untimely demise, you all play dungeons and dragons for twenty hours in a row. That should quash Ja-el's scurrilous plans. >.>

I ate a beef tongue and pork heart salad last night. It was pretty good!

Oh cool, if at least one of you is in town, I can just give you the box to take back to the others (if they're not already here.) -Santy Claws

| Holiday plans

I will be down in LA Wednesday through Sunday around Xmas. jr0n and Myke usually comes down too. ja _El too I am sure. jr0n, what's up with the Poop this Xmas eve? Assuming that is happening this year, maybe then Rude. Otherwise I can send my work address to you.

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would you northern cali a-holes text-message/email me a central mailing address? I feel like putting together a little care package for x-mas but I don't wanna mail out multiple things - are you guys all staying up there for the holidays or coming down to S. Cali?

No D&D?! I'm in. If only I knew how easy it was to avoid playing D&D, I would have done "the deed" a long time ago. If Jon ever dissapears, i'm just sayin'.... except now I wouldn't do such a thing to Ja-nyce's dismay. Aw shucks!

| AT&Balls

Uggg... AT&T has been the shits lately. Reception is particularly bad in the financial district towers. Because of the high vertical density of cellular users, especially smartphone users, AT&T is auditing about 22 high rises here to for likely locations to install cellular repeaters within our communications risers.

AT&T is just having a hard time handling the load the iPhone has placed on their networks. Totally unprepared. For reception, Verizon is still the way to go.

How is the 'droid treating you. If anything is going shake out Apple, I think it will be this tech. Blackberry is cool and all, but lacks a bit in the UI department. And Microslop is just that.

In other news, eLzar & jr0n already in the know, I am game for any sort of SF excursion on Saturday. jA -El, you in? I think DnD is out due to jr0n's absence, so you may want to take part.

jr0n, that meat man video was truly a horror show. Yum yum. I love that show. Always awesome, nerdy and some times 'splody & gross. Win, win, win and win.

Ry and Rude: Those books sound interesting. I will have to give them a read. I have been looking for something to read recently after a bit of a reading dry spell.

The word is on the street now that my office will honestly and truly make our transition to our new company, CB Richard Ellis, on the 14th. Finally. Only a month and a half late. Long story... And boring...

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| droid test

Testing the bloggability of the new droid phone... pretty neat so far. Locked into two more years with verizon, but don't get reception from att in my houseM so there you go

Darnit, I'll be out of town this weekend scouting out wedding locations, but I am sure the other dudes will be around to gratify your gaming urges.

Glad to hear his other books are good Ry, I might try Blood Meridian or those westerns next. Yeah, The Road was really great. I'll see the movie because it will be interesting to see how they chose to visualize some of this stuff, but on the other hand one of the trailers I saw seemed to over explain certain aspects of WHY the world is the way it is and that's kinda cheesy. But otherwise, everything else in those trailers I remember right out of the book so I'm pretty stoked.

| SF Invasion!

What are the odds at least one of the SFers will be there and available for gaming this Saturday - Sunday? I'd like to leave in the morning Sat, the earlier the better(!), and stay until either late Sat or leave Sunday morning.

Thoughts?

| Ash

It's so weird you say this. I am about halfway through The Road. McCarthy's vocabulary is so fucking amazing and I love the way he writes. I read No Country for Old Men which I loved. The Cohen Brothers stuck very very close to the story, but it clears a few things up that the movie leaves vague. When I bought The Road, I also bought Blood Meridian, which is set in the 1850s about this kid who lives on the Texas-Mexico boarder where people trade Indian scalps. Sounds gruesome.

He has a trilogy out that is supposed to be amazing. I think All the Pretty Horses is the first book.

The guy is truly an amazing writer. Totally fixated on The Road. You are right though, it is fucking bleak. So much ash.

Ew! That was nasty. I wonder if that was sorta what happens in Total Recall towards the end when their eyes are bugging out.

Just finished reading Cormac Mccarthy's The Road. That was some grim reading but I totally liked it. I saw there's a movie out for it so I wanted to read the book first. If you've read the book, there's like scenes from the very end of the book right in those previews which is kinda weird (but I guess if you've never read it you wouldn't know.) Anyways, that's probably the most realistic take on a post-apocalyptic world I've ever experienced. I think it's a great read but jesus it's extremely bleak. I haven't read anything else by him, has anyone read No Country for Old Men? I wanna read more of this guy's stuff.