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I can't believe I just watched Gossip Girl. I can't believe my co-workers are so into it either. Croissants!

Whole Bunch of Stuff

It's 1:18AM and I'm still at the L office closing the next issue. Sometimes there are blocks of time when I have nothing to do. I like to look around all the boxes full of stuff thats at the front of the office, which are all pretty much up for grabs.

We have a lot of useless crap relating to the crappy Dane Cook vehicle Good Luck Chuck right now from a recent promo. Size L t-shirts, a huge ball of lanyards, small posters, and an entire box of mostly unhanded out postcards which all have Good Luck Chuck stamped on it in some form.

We also have a box of Volkswagon branded lip blam left over from Summerscreen. That's going to be useful with the upcoming weather. That's everything that's interesting. We still have a bunch of L branded t-shirts, which are quality I might add.

People Still Lining Up for Wii

I was at Best Buy this morning to buy [something] and they had advertised that they would have Wiis in stock today so there was a line of about 30-50 people before the store opened up at 11AM.

I can't believe people are still lining up for one. It's really quite amazing on Nintendo's part on marketing, but not so amazing on keeping up with stock. It's going on 10 months and it's still not regularly in stock.

So Best Buy opened the store and everyone started running to the videogames section. I just shook my head and went around to the other guy at the videogame section. "What you looking for, a Wii?" he asked me. "No, I have one. Do you have the Halo Xb0x?". I went to the Xbox section, picked up the fricken 30 pound (slight exaggeration, but not by much) box and went to the cash register. Done.

Free Beer, Lots of it.

On Friday, the 2nd annual Brewfest took place at South Street Seaport. It's basically the biggest excuse to get drunk ever in NY. Pretty much most of the microbreweries around NY state come and set up tables for tasting.

Tickets are $45, but I got in for free. My job gives me perks like that. That is like the most amazing thing ever. Every time I think about it. Beer? Microbreweries? unlimited FREE? OMG.

They gave everyone a 4oz shot glass at the gate for you to use. After about an hour, you'd hear the occasional glass breaking on the floor, and everyone would go "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOh". When you're drunk with 5000 other people around that are also drunk on a seemingly unending supply of beer it's alllllllright.

I must have tried at least 25 different beers. That probably was only 30% of what was available. The festival was supposed to be from 5-11pm, but around 8pm, everyone started to run out of beer. By 9pm, it was pretty much kicked.

I went with Ray and we told Kevon to just come. It's in a public space, which is also pretty amazing in itself- that the city allowed this to happen on the pier. There are no barriers set up, anyone could just walk around the seaport. We could have easily just gotten beers with our glasses and poured them into a cup for someone, or just drink and get more. Brewfest is like the best thing ever the more I think about it.

Next year, we're telling everyone to come because it's so easy to get beer. I don't think they changed the glass design from last year either, so I'm just going to bring it back and let someone else use it. So great, so glorious!

MGS4

Holy Shit.

This Beer is Now $6 Dollars

I saw Feist at McCarren Park Pool last Wednesday and the first thing I did when I got inside was go buy a ticket for beer. Getting beer at the pool is a three step process. You have to show ID, get in the line to buy a ticket that you can redeem for a beer and then get in another line to actually get beer. They must have done a ton of research and analysis on what the most efficient way to sell beer was.

Anyway, at the Blond Redhead show, the beer (which is all Brooklyn btw) was 5 dollars. When we got up to the ticket line, I noticed a really haphazardly '6' in written over the '5'. Someone had taken a sharpie and turned the '5' into a '6'. You can imagine they only made the bottom half of the '5' into a circle to look like a '6'. They didn't even try that hard, as it was very obvious they had jacked the price up. I guess they felt like they could get away with it. What, being the end of summer and all. Right? Actually, I don't know why, all I know is that I didn't tip the them because of this.

I Take it Back

This is the best movie ever. The Shanghi Kid (apparently, that's what it's going to be called now). It's not even out yet. It's in post production. I have no clue when it's going to be in theaters.

Fuck You "Shanghi Kiss" Movie.

Ok, bad enough that it's Saturday night and all my plans have fallen through and I'm here in my house alone. So I grab a beer and now I'm watching this movie called Shanghi Kiss.

I'm three minutes into and and I had to pause and blog this immediately. This is what has happened so far at 3 minutes- the main character, a Chinese guy (who's just decent looking) gets on a public bus in LA. He is sitting across a hot blond girl,who's sketching him, and she says to him "don't be sad" (I guess he looked sad). He's taking the bus because his car has been towed. So she starts to sing him a song and then sits next to him. Then she asks him out to coffee and he's all "I don't think that's such a good idea" and she's like, "what if I'm the one?"

That's when I paused it. This shit is the most highly unpalatable scenario for a movie ever. Like this shit ever happens. I'm going to finish this movie and then either phrase it's highly GROUNDBREAKING STEREOTYPE BREAKING story or bitch about how stupid it was. Stayed tuned.