Babies in the window

Birthday bbq

Saturday was my birthday bbq. There was pulled pork, sangria, lots of friends and, of course, twister! We also played four square - finally making good use of our extra large deck, I guess. I received some lovely presents and had a really fun time. Tomorrow is my birthday. I'll be at a super fun temp job. Yea! Just kidding. I'll be doing powerpoint and wearing business casual in a cubicle with no windows. But! I'll be making some money and hopefully catching up on all the email I've been neglecting. I think Riff and I will go out after work for dinner and drinkies to further celebrate. Why not? It's not everyday you turn 27. (wink, wink!)

The Gossip

Riff, Naomi and I went to see The Gossip on Wednesday night. They were playing at Irving Plaza which is very close to Union Square. It was a cool venue, except the drinks were pretty expensive (I guess not for Manhattan, but for me, yes, expensive.) The space reminded me of the Showbox in Seattle, but it was a bit smaller. They had an awesome balcony, where we scored leaning rights against the railing. We saw the 2nd band, Erase Errata, and I was not impressed. Just not my thing -very discordant and, uh, erratic. I liked that they didn't sound like most other bands, unfortunately all their songs sounded about the same. The Gossip were awesome. Beth Ditto shouldn't wear super high heels, though, because I want to see her run around the stage and get crazier. In high heels she seems sort of hobbled. She took them off after the 4th song or so, and I was relieved. She has an awesome voice, especially because of the sheer force of emotion she loads into every bellow and scream. After the show we went to Revival which is just down the block on 15th. I wish Revival was my neighborhood bar. I like the atmosphere, I like the staff, the drinks are strong and keep on coming, and we watched Labyrinth while listening to the Talking Heads. It was a fun night.

A graphic representation of this blog

I found this applet on a circuitous route that all started with my aunt emailing me photos of dogs in silly costumes. I sent her the link to my favorite cute site: Cute Overload (or as riff calls it: Cute OverLord.) Pulling up CO, I found the most snuggleluscious little kitten with a link to the original site: http://supermarketclash.blogspot.com/
and on this site I found a really pretty depiction of a web site as a graph. The graph is based on your web site's code. There's a key to what each color is under the image and you are invited to tag it and post it on flickr. Try it for yourselves!

Also check out Sala's art project (the creator of the web site graph generator): 1000 paintings.