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while i’m an avid comic book reader, my realm of expertise is mostly limited to the big two mainstream publishers and larger independents. the world of small press remains shrouded in relative mystery to me, so when aaron suggested that i join him and our other friends at the our friend the atom table at [...]

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i contemplated spending sunday playing halo 3 but instead i went up the red dot trail of mount tammany in the delaware water gap. it’s one of the more demanding hikes in new jersey with the reward being a rather spectacular view (by the way, i used photoshop’s photoedge to put the [...]

i got up at 5AM for this nonsense?

summer vacation has been nice. i was at the beach for a while, off from work even longer and i have no complaints, except for transformers. that film didn’t even meet my lowered expectations. all i want in a movie about robots fighting is… robots fighting. instead i was subjected to like, ten robots, way [...]

the camden county library is having their fall book sale at the vogelson regional branch in voorhees this week from october 12-14. i’ll most likely go tomorrow after work.
update: picked up into thin air by john krakower, the plague by albert camus, dostoyevsky’s the brothers karamazov (which i’ve never read), a biography of oscar wilde, [...]

got back from solo tour late monday night. my final mileage came at just over 2500 miles in ten days. it was a LOT of fun but it was pretty darn exhausting and ultimately, if i didn’t get to meet up with friends and family over the course of this trip i’m not entirely sure [...]

leaving this afternoon. i recorded a cd of acoustic songs to sell on tour called you were wiser, i was warned using garageband and a $20 playstation 2 USB microphone. four songs are available on myspace, photos on my flickr page.
hopefully i can finish the books i packed - generation of swine, roomanitarian and snow [...]

since the last time we spoke, i had a couple of weddings to attend, went to wizard world 06 and the belmar seafood festival, saw some shows, booked a solo tour that starts on the 23rd, in the middle of finishing a couple of acoustic recordings for a tour cd, played a lot of tennis, [...]

this afternoon i removed the ancient alpine receiver from my car and installed a sony CDX-GT200. for the price ($109), it’s pretty hard to beat. it’s fairly similar to the one in monica’s car (plays cd-rs/cd-rws with mp3s and wmvs) give or take a few features (only a 3 band EQ, one display color, not [...]

where i’ve been: while driving north on the black horse pike last week, the timing belt on my mercury mystique broke. luckily, i was able to pull into the last parking lot before the highway. the estimate for the timing belt and pulley replacement, not yet taking into account if there was any engine damage, [...]