then why does everyone tell me i sound amazing?!

earlier this week, b decided that he needs to get an ipad. the giddy thoughts of fondling its prettiness make me need a new toy.

i can just hear the clamoring nerds stampeding to the apple store thursday for the release of iphone 4. it is damp-in-my-pants amazing. after patting myself on the back for a year for waiting to jump on the iwagon until the 3GS came out, now i cannot talk myself out of blowing another $300 for the new one.

the new OS will also be fab - folders for apps, multitasking, ibooks and more, but i can get that update on the 3GS. the new shape, size and apparent feel of iphone 4 intrigue, but hardly justify the purchase. the forward-facing camera which allows for video chatting is amazing, but will be very limited at first (only works with other iphone 4's - but someday will work with apps like skype).

perhaps the most amazing change is the processor. apple has always been hush-hush about the Samsung chip in the iphone, but this time they are showing it off. they are using the new customized apple-designed A4 chip, the same one that runs the ipad, but apparently in the phone it will be twice as fast. ok, the processor AND the display are the big sellers -- there will be 328 pixels per inch -- four times the pixels as the 3GS. blows every other smartphone display away. what is a nerd to do?

casserole of nonsense

one of the biggest questions in particle physics relates to the existence of matter. in a mathematically perfect universe, there would have been equal amounts of matter and antimatter created after the big bang, and they would have annihilated each other. there should be nothing everywhere. scientists don't know why the universe is composed of matter, and not its evil twin.

recently, a new clue to solving this mystery was announced. scientists at Fermilab's Tevatron, the largest particle collider in the US, discovered that muons, described as "fat electrons" might be the reason we are here. the reason we are really living.

they believe that after the big bang, neutral B-mesons, which switch back and forth between their matter and antimatter states trillions of times per second, and eventually decay to muons. because of the rate at which they alternate between the two states, they end up as matter more often than antimatter. that, not jebus, is the reason we are alive.

who cooks a musician at the height of her career?

could not be happier to have the school year done with. junior high school students - especially the boys -- are nightmares through and through, and they went way beyond proving that on the last day of school. not looking forward to the fall. so ready to dive headfirst into summer vacation. purging of stacks of crap in my basement is tedious project number one.

pictures help me learn. saw this in barcelona.

recent favorite quote - the older you get, the better you get. unless you're a banana.

what i thought felt like forever

why can't i start every day this happy? she is amazing.

when days are this gray, and oceans bubble with tar balls, we all need to straddle a sink. no?

oh, and here is some fabulous news. tyra banks has decided to "write" a novel. how did she come up with that incredibly unexpected title?!

a collective WTF

shut up and sit down, america. this is why you are fat. i want one.

KFC has started promoting their groundbreaking new "sandwich" - the revolution is the omission of a bun, replaced by two fried chicken breasts that serve as the bread and help you get the cheese, bacon and sauce in your mouth. this is something your ipad will never do for you.

i just threw up a little, and not sure why, but i want to deep fry it and wrap it in bacon...

we'll have missed the point

so, the show... i have seen the girls many times, but only one other time when it was only them, without a band. so few artists actually sound better live, free from production room magic. and even though these two have been trucking for a long time, they still sound terrific.

between songs it would become completely silent. so people randomly shouted out requests, which they would play. i flipped thru my mental ipod trying to think of something to holler. for some reason, "caramia" came to mind - definitely one of my favorite songs, but a song that really needs a band, not something they would play acoustic. anyhoo, i poo-pooed my own idea and just decided to stay quiet. until, i had more to drink, and then had a little more to drink, and near the end of the show, that song came barfing out of my mouth at one quiet moment - said it like a total smart ass. and emily fucking responded - she went on for minutes, i'm sure :) she said something like, "oh, god! what a train wreck that would be, we've never done that one, just the two of us... ahh, the train wrecks of our lives." she had mentioned before that they are working on a holiday album, and then said that (train wrecks of our lives) should be one of the song titles. i'm not making this shit up.

after the show, we lingered. mostly because we were too wobbly to move just yet, and we figured amy was going to come and make out with us. the foxy aunt clare lady who brings them their guitars threw me the song list, which i'm sure they fondled profusely.

one of my favorite song surprises was worldfalls. a favorite that someone requested was watershed. and there's something so right about the line - "i heard that you were drunk and mean down at the dairy queen"

defector of a kind

saw the most amazing indigo girls show last weekend. Totally had a
conversation with Emily and got their set list. more soon