For my NOLA friends...

I was doing some heavy thinking today, and I came to the following conclusion:

The sixteen ounce Mardi Gras cup is man's single greatest achievement in the past five years.

(For those of you who have never been to Mardi Gras, this will make more sense if you know that Mardi Gras cups have traditionally been twelve ounces. Also, Mardi Gras cups are plastic cups thrown from floats in Mardi Gras parades. You can stock your entire apartment with them, as I have, and you can even put them in the dishwasher, as I do.)

9th Ward

Today I went to the 9th Ward, which is on the eastern edge of downtown and the French Quarter. It was roughed up a whole bunch during the hurricane, and while I had already visited Lakefront (another storm-ravaged part of town) in December, I never actually went to see the 9th ward. Later on, I'll put up some more pictures on my site, but here was one that I took with my mom's camera.


There were lots of overturned cars, and ruined houses still. We saw a bunch of construction crews there, and they seem to be taking away a bunch of refuse, but the rebuilding in that part of town is proceeding slowly. (This is just as far as I can tell, and not based on any other evidence.) Things are much better in other parts of town though.

Somewhere in Alabama...

We can attribute this to the "myspace-ification" of our world.

Somewhere in Pittsburgh, PA...

Exactly how large is the help button again?

LOL Out Loud

Somewhere in cyberspace:

• Frank: dude what's going on in NOLA, USA?


• Chester: oh the thigns


• Chester: i'm working for cee-ray


• Frank: yeah I heard about that


• Frank: from you


• Frank: how's the love action?


• Chester: i'm dr loveless


• Chester: i move around on steam-powered spider legs and i have no anus


• Frank: hahahahah


• Frank: hahahahaha


• Frank: hahahahah


• Frank: hahahaha


• Chester: hoho

Take that Mel

Man, am I the only person to notice the similarities between this week's "Tom the Dancing Bug" and today's "Wondermark?" Oh, what's that? You don't actually read comics? Well, too bad for you...

Anyway, I just got back from some carousing at Kelly's... time to go to bed.

Joy in Chicago

Well this isn't the best picture ever take of me. It's even worse because of the bootleg cellphone quality BUT I thought it nicely expresses the amount of fun that I had in Chicago... can't you see the joy in my eyes?



(Weird, I just noticed my camera takes pictures backwards when it's in self-portrait mode... Peep the text in the background if you can read it...)