Hey, I Live There!

I got really excited that Peter's Friends mentions Gloucester Road in "The Underground Song."

Tuesday: The Best Day Ever?

So I haven't actually been through Tuesday yet, but I'm thinking it's in the running for Best Day Ever.

Parliament in the morning, then Imperial War Musem at night. Wonderful!

Hugh Laurie on Family Guy? Giggedy Giggidy.

So I was looking through IMDB as I'm prone to do and happened upon this tidbit: apparently, Hugh Laurie is a big Family Guy fan and has done voices for two episods. In one, he was at the bar as a patron. In the other, he plays House. And then I found the clip, which pretty much made my night.

Can I Tell You A Secret?

So on a whim the other day, I e-mailed Frank Warren of Post Secret-creation fame, because he was coming to Binghamton University on the 2nd. I was expecting to get some sort of automated response, or some flunkie e-mailing me back about how busy he was.

Instead, I get "Hi Alex, call tomorrow. - Frank"

To put it simply? My reaction.

So keep an eye out in the Ithacan this week for a real article (!!!!) by me, or keep an eye online for that one. I'm really excited, he was really cool and very interesting to talk to.

Blog Numba FO

That's right. Four of them.

There's this one, which is just for fun. And all of my stupid ramblings and such about...well, nothing. News II Electric Boogaloo is for, well, News II. Pretty obvious, judging by the title. It has my Ithacan articles and my Dipity on it, and nothing else really of importance. Same with the Wordpress blog, because that was another News II experiment. The fourth?

Ithaca's Imprint Magazine. I'm psyched.

Ithaca, NY: Now AIER Approved!

Yeah, we're "10 Square Miles Surrounded By Reality." But according to the American Institute for Economic Research, Ithaca is now the #1 college town in the US.

Now, you can get to reading why we got picked and all that at the link to the Ithaca Journal that I have above. But I'm shocked! I would've thought that somewhere big like Boston, or somewhere insanely small like Morgantown (where WVU is; it's pretty much the whole town) would've been picked. But WRONG! It was us!

I guess I can see why, the Cornell campus is absolutely beautiful in that old, Ivy-League way. IC is slowly getting prettier with all the new buildings (no matter how long they take to be built, construction men out my window at 7 AM building the new fitness center I'll never see). And the town itself is pretty cute, with the Commons and all the gorges and trails and all that.

So...go Ithaca, I guess. Keep up the good work.

Three Reasons Why I Miss My High School

If you follow me on Twitter (which you should), you may have heard me mention that I couldn't find my quote pages from high school. Essentially, they were mini-webpages that I made through Tripod to keep all my quotes I gathered in my notebook(s) through sophomore, junior, and senior years.

And I thought I lost them forever. Until I downloaded the latest Internet Explorer and lo and behold, found that I had favorited the sites on my home PC. I had no such luck with the Mac.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but FAIL little laptop! I almost Cash for Clunker'd the desktop and BAM! it finds something useful!

So here they are. Sophomore, Junior, and Senior years of high school. Because I'm feeling nostalgic, and I know that they're probably far more entertaining than anything I'll say on this blog. So enjoy my friends from years past and find out why I love them so much/took so many pictures of them.

And They Were All Yellow

One more reason why I love Coldplay? They're willing to go yellow. In more ways than one.

According to BBC Entertainment (which is pretty trustworthy, at least more than E! Online and about on par with EW, because that's kind of their job to know), my favorite band will be made Simpsons in a September episode. The article reports:

The band will reportedly be hired by Homer to play a private concert for him and
Bart after he wins the lottery.

"When Bart goes to the bathroom, Coldplay
has to stop," executive producer Al Green told US website Entertainment Weekly.

See, they're talented and have a great sense of humor. As if Chris Martin singing at the end of Bruno wasn't enough indication.

Upgrade!

Squee!

So for my birthday, I asked for a new digital camera. My old one is incredibly well loved, and it showed (4 divets in the screen, it clicks when you squeeze it too tight, it takes about 4 tries to actually take a picture, generally my brain damaged baby). The issue was, the camera was really expensive everywhere we looked, around 200 plus on the internet.

Apparently, Mom & Dad found one that was cheaper than that somewhere and I came downstairs yesterday before work to discover a pristine mint green Canon Powershot on the table.

I was grinning from ear to ear and literally squealed when I hugged everyone thank you. My Dad was even excited about it. Not only did it mean that my pictures would be better in quality (this model came out later than mine, so the image stabilization is better, it works in the dark better, and it has more megapixels for image quality) and comes with all the stuff needed for the camera (connecter chords, a charger, a piddly memory chip, but I have a better one, so no biggie), but it means that Dad gets my old one has he's been hoping to do.

So really. Upgrades for all.

Mad About This Show

Oh my GOODNESS I want this to start up already. I'm hoping the show is as good as the poster.
And I'm pretty sure it will be, considering last season's finale.