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Matt

I bet I'll live forever!

About Me

Multiple dimensions

My Interests

Music, animals, societal ills of Baltimore, origins of the universe, board games, baseball, football, statistics, elliptical machines, interesting food, butts

I'd like to meet:

Hippos

Music:



I obviously listen to a lot of Superchunk

Movies:

I enjoy them

Television:

Wire, Lost, America's Next Top Model

Books:

I enjoy them

My Blog

Current thoughts

Thought #1: I'm really excited to go to the zoo.  So excited, actually, that plans have been made to go to the yearly free opening of Maryland Zoo next weekend -- myself, Anna, and the Hall famil...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:26:00 PST

Shuffle Review

Hey, look at me pretending I review stuff!  I shuffled my "good songs" mix on my iPod.1. The Clash "Tommy Gun" -- Well, this is one of the best Clash songs, and the Clash are probably the greates...
Posted by Matt on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 08:46:00 PST

Scale of Evil

So at the 4th of July barbeque I went to, my friend Colleen and I got into a debate about whether or not the fact that her mother did not know the middle name of her own mother (Colleen's grandma) mad...
Posted by Matt on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 02:18:00 PST

List 'O Instruments

With varying degrees of skill, I recorded the following over the weekend: 1. Vocals 2. Party sounds 3. Piano 4. Tambourine 5. Bag of cat food It was seriously one of my favorite weekends eve...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 22 May 2006 02:01:00 PST

Befuddlement

One of the oddest questions ever was asked of me while I was hanging out in City Cafe last night.  A gentleman who had been sitting a few seats away from me plopped himself down next to me and ...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 06:51:00 PST

Thoughts on the Fusion razor

In the mail the other day, I received a sample of the new Gillette Fusion shaving device, which features no less than an amazing 6 razors on it.  Wasn't it just a few years ago that SNL had a ski...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 11:11:00 PST

Reflections on Literati (Scrabble)

Today on my lunch break, I took advantage of the mayhap temporarily-available internet at my apartment and logged onto Literati on Yahoo Games.  If you know me, you know I've been playing this a ...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 05 Dec 2005 01:15:00 PST

Reflections on Minesweeper

Due to the lack of available free wireless internet hotspots in my apartment nowadays, I've taken to brushing up on my minesweeper skills.  After dominating the expert level to the point of compl...
Posted by Matt on Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:44:00 PST

Sick Sick Birds recording extravaganza

Okay, so this weekend I went up to NYC to record a few songs with my band, the Sick Sick Birds.  The results: one stomach full of chinese-mexican food (a burrito with broccoli in it?) and Japanes...
Posted by Matt on Wed, 26 Oct 2005 02:13:00 PST

Realization that I used the word "Penultimate" incorrectly unappreciation post

According to dictionary.com, there are two definitions for penultimate, neither of them the usage that I was mistakenly employing: Next to last. Linguistics. Of or relating to the penult of a word: ...
Posted by Matt on Tue, 04 Oct 2005 08:44:00 PST