 20041130 Fa la la la la!
We had a grandiose night planned! All would meet for authentically delicious tacos in midtown, and then walk over to Rockefeller Plaza for the All-American event of lighting the city's landmark tree. The mexican was great and THEN THINGS TURNED SOUR! The police baracaded all possible entries to the plaza as far as 4 blocks away. TOO MANY PEOPLE. Smooshed and cold, we imposed upon Brandt's uptown apartment and watched Clay Aiken and Jessica Simpson present the 'ole tanenbaum on TV -- FOLLOWED BY AN EPISODE OF BIGGEST LOSER. Ouch. Really though. It was a real treat of a night. I had fun. HERE ARE SOME PHOTOS:
 Brandt and Ricky before we start are walk to Rockefeller Plaza for the GREAT TREE LIGHTING OF 2004! (note smiles)  Hordes of people all trying to force their way into the same place we were going!  Riding home, Josh disappointed.
Charming IPOD Cozies at Catherine's Pita Shop. Neat site design too.
20041129
Well I am know what I am doing every night at 9pm this week: American Express Wishlist Promotion.
A Master of Creative Anachronism
My new favorite Lower East Side restaurant, Freeman's, was featured in the Times. It has gained much liberal fame as of late, due to circulating stories that the Bush daughters were turned down when they arrived for dinner recently. The maitre d' supposedly told them to come back in four years.
I was there last week with Ricky, and new friend Jessica when she confronted a waiter about the rumored Bushtwins incident. TiVo Follow up
Why TV Will Never Be the Same.
TV Your Way
Is it becoming TiVo - their way?
Dreaming about ...
Pucon, Chile.
While waiting for them to return ...
So -- I am back from Fort Wayne, Indiana, where I spent my Thanksgiving with Friends and Family alike. Here I sit now, in New York, alone in the Apartment as my roommates are still traveling back from Baltimore. I have taken the solitude as an opportunity to do some much needed Indiana-guerilla-decorating with nostalgic items I brought back from home. Now, you must understand, that my obsession with Indiana and its certain rise to an independent Republic is tactfully regarded as 'cute' by my roomies, but I surmise that they actually look down upon such as a waste of my time. To bolster their morale, I have hung an Indiana flag on our living room wall (which we were reserving for a large piece of Art), with a complimenting sign that majestically reads "Please Genuflect." They will certainly love this. 
I placed a glorious book entitled "Fort Wayne: City of Spirit" on the coffee table -- surely to be noticed and compulsively read by my roommates. 
Thanksgiving smorgasbord at my family's house, with our Brazilian-Polish guests, The Adamiaks.  Family friend Isobella Adamiak borrowed my camera after Thanksgiving dinner and explored our backyard pond.  On my way back to New York, I snapped this pic of the tunnel connecting Concourse B with A at Detroit Metro.
Detroit Metro's Concourse A is my favorite American aiport terminal.
20041122
Our Big Mistake Busted Tee is featured in a Converse Commercial.
20041121
The best things in life are HD.
20041120
I support the Pacers, obviously. Damned be Detroit.
20041119
Outdoor Shoot Day!
Wide Angle.
Apple of Their Eye, via Ricky.
20041118
Nude No More
All shirts only $10 at Threadless until Xmas.
Vision or mirage?
News Sentinel:Imagine you're in downtown Fort Wayne 20 years from now. You're sitting on the deck of a riverfront nightclub built where Historic Fort Wayne used to be, enjoying dinner and a jazz band as you look south across the St. Marys River at the city's skyline.
Oh My Rockness: A fantastic New York City indie rock show list, via Ricky.
Dear Elizabeth, who comes every Wednesday,
Wy jesteście pięknymi kobietą ... (thanks Poltran!)
Nick, remember to visit Bungalow Eight for me, please.
20041115
"There's no reason to fight for family, love, or land anymore..."
Jake and his Pushpull Men slipped me a new song they recently recorded live during a practice session. Can't wait for the studio. An Alternative?
The Case for Canada.
Busted Tees v2.0 is now online.
Apparently, it has finally been decided: 'The Internet is the future of news'.
20041110
Chant
Remember when this was huge?
 When we get bored, we construct candle shrines! New Film Fakers episode this week.
Preview Clip: I don't know about you Bitches, but I'm ready to rock this Code.
The Classic Game Reworked
Risk 2210 AD via Irene.
Email from Ricky...
Easily the most profound internal memo that I have ever received.
Listening to...
Arnold Schönberg; courtesy of William.
The Pool House
An O.C. blog.
Verification
Hey Man (18+), verify your draft registration.
The Backseat Philosopher: To My Fellow Democrats. via Ricky.
Stumbling home tonight...
I stopped to see a psychic, and she read my palms for $10. Her name was Sabrina and she told me I would have a long life, amongst other things.
Vancouver is nice this time of year.
Americans flock to Canada's immigration Web site.
I am not sure how valid this is, but....
Ranking of states by average IQ and the candidate they voted for. via Josh.
Dialogue
Ricky: Wow! Zach, look out the window. Do you see how fast those clouds are moving?
Jakob: Yeah ... they are fleeing to Europe. After thoughts.
Jason Kottke has a great post entitled How George Bush won the Election. My favorite paragraph: Half the country is not stupid. We're all stupid. We're convinced several times a day to do things that aren't in our best interests. We work too hard. We're drinking, eating, medicating, and smoking ourselves into early graves. We overextend ourselves on credit. We knowingly stay in emotionally or physically abusive relationships. We let television raise our children. We're deliberately mean and nasty to people we don't like or agree with. We learn science from the Bible. We stay silent when speaking out would help someone. We fear the future. We fear death. And we're lazy about our beliefs and convictions and we let the Democratic and Republican Parties dictate the political agenda in America by pushing our emotional buttons. Red, blue, black, white, brown, yellow, purple, and retina-burning yellow-green...we all share the blame. What I have been listening to....
My October Top 50 most.
Thinking about...
 The Beginning. I voted!
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 Hi, I'm Zach. I grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana and graduated from Wake Forest. After college, I moved to Manhattan to get serious about a company I ran with friends. We sold it to Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp in 2006. I just wrapped up with a project I co-founded called Vimeo and left CV to focus on being a twenty-five year old. I have another blog called Copy and Taste, where I post about learning to cook. I live in Brooklyn now.  Del.icio.us My Flickr Me on Flickr Last.fm Linked in MySpace Netflix History Vimeo  Amir Blumenfeld Chris Bodenner Mareen Fischinger Fort Wayne Observed Nick Gray Hype Machine Jake and Amir Jakob Lodwick Oh My Rockness Jonathan Marcus Youngna Park Megan Scheminske Eliot Shepard Shorpy Signal vs. Noise Alex Soth Stereogum Ricky Van Veen Khoi Vinh Eugene Wyatt  June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 January 2005 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007  Postal Skype SMS (via AIM) |
