Archive: February 2008
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Feb 23 08: snow day
It’s winter at last in NYC: real winter, not merely cold. There’s snow! And horrible puddles of gray slish in the gutters! And everything! So the weeks of hat hair we’ve all had to endure, and the new boots we had to buy because our old ones caused nerve damage when we wore them to Burning Man, and all that? They are all worth it now.
I have celebrated by flobbing around the apartment — which I have to myself for a while because the housemate is in Los Angeles — and doing nothing. No, I mean really nothing. No, even nothinger than that. It has been both pathetic and lovely. Along the course of the nothingness, I found the clip below, which was created for a recent animation-industry awards banquet by the voice actors from SpongeBob SquarePants (event M.C. Tom Kenny, along with presenters Rodger Bumpass, Carolyn Lawrence and Bill Fagerbakke). My SpongeBob mania has cooled from the white-hot state it achieved a few years back, but still: this is genius: three classic movies re-voiced by SpongeBob, Squidward, Sandy, and Patrick. (With a cameo by Gary the Snail.)
[via MamaPop]
Feb 16 08: bay city blues
Hokey smokes, what a long week that was. Am now in Boston for Boskone. Busted my ass to make a deadline today, dashed to the train, discovered that I had somehow screwed up my Amtrak tickets and that as a result I would not be on the 7pm Acela, arriving Boston 10:30. Instead, was reticketed for the 7:30 local, arriving Boston 11:50. Which actually left NY at about 8:20, arrived Boston 1:15. (Only saving grace of trip up was that I discovered that I had a goldmine of unviewed Doctor Who episodes on my laptop’s internal drive, so between efforts to breathe life into the story about the sponge-golem kitty I brought myself up through the end of Rose Tyler and the subsequent Christmas episode.) Walked the mile to the hotel, which was good for clearing the head. Checked in. Was hoping to meet up with friends at the Tor party, but if it’s still going on I can’t find it. No food to be had anywhere.
Going to fall over now.