Got some hearts that I'll be breaking

I'm going to break up with somebody with this song. It's awesome! The video is pretty sweet too.

'Just Ain't Gonna Work Out' by Mayer Hawthorne:

Benisms: influenza porcina

Thalia

i wasn't scared... but then i read this on the cdc: In September 1988, a previously healthy 32-year-old pregnant woman was hospitalized for pneumonia and died 8 days later.

9:48pmBen

what's the difference? why were you scared before?

9:48pmThalia

cos she was previously healthy!

9:48pmBen

not scared

9:48pmThalia

and i was banking on my good immune system

to save me

9:49pmBen

well yeah, duh...one day you're good, the next day you die. that's how death works. hahaha

Bevisms: Souvenirs

me: wheres he from originally?

11:37 PM Beverly: Oaxaca

me: has he been to tex?

how the fuck did he end up all the way in mo?

Beverly: LOL

11:38 PM Good question

He must have passed through it

I mean, how else do you get into the U.S.?

California, I guess

Arizona

Nevermind

there are obviously other options

But, seems like it'd be hard to bypass all of Texas to get to CoMo

11:39 PM me: LOL

omg. you are so funny

Beverly: lol

me: obviously there are other options

Beverly: LOL

11:40 PM You and your status messgaes. They entertain me

I momentarily forgot Mexico bordered other states, lol

11:41 PM New Mexico

That's it though. I pulled up a map on google images

11:42 PM Any person that made the trek from Latin America into the U.S. has got balls, dude

me: for sure

Beverly: You know you've found yourself a good man

me: hardcore balls

For the sake of blogging anything at all

These days I don't have much human interaction, but back in the day when I had a real reporter job I would observe all sorts of fun stuff walking down the hallways at work. People would say the most random, funny things.

Here's one of those convos (Sorry if you don't speak Spanish):


Guy #1: (Scoff) Hmm.
Como eres chistoso

Guy #2: ¡Tu mami, maricón!

Capucine strikes again ...

The cutest child in the world.


Tongue twister from Capucha on Vimeo.

David Simon keeps on doing all sorts of cool things!

On March 1, David Simon wrote this magical (jajaja) op-ed piece for the Washington Post about journalism/the crime beat in Baltimore. I read it a long time ago, but it barely dawned on me to post it here. Journalism is so necessary! I do not have the faintest idea what will happen after the demise of all these newspapers. I was shocked when I heard about the Rocky and the possible closing of the SF Chron.

Anyway!!

I love this man!

In Baltimore, No One Left to Press the Police

"Delays of even 24 hours? Nope, not acceptable. Requiring written notification from the newspaper? No, the judge would explain. Even ordinary citizens have a right to those reports. And woe to any fool who tried to suggest to His Honor that he would need a 30-day state Public Information Act request for something as basic as a face sheet or an arrest log.

"What do you need the thirty days for?" the judge once asked a police spokesman on speakerphone.

"We may need to redact sensitive information," the spokesman offered.

"You can't redact anything. Do you hear me? Everything in an initial incident report is public. If the report has been filed by the officer, then give it to the reporter tonight or face contempt charges tomorrow."

To be a police reporter in such a climate was to be a prince of the city, and to be a citizen of such a city was to know that you were not residing in a police state. But no longer -- not in Baltimore and, I am guessing, not in any city where print journalism spent the 1980s and '90s taking profits and then, in the decade that followed, impaling itself on the Internet."

Please read!

Marelynnism: The state of the nation

2:00 PM that totally blows

:(

america is ending

me: lol

it might be

2:02 PM marelynn: so what are you thoughts on the 2012 date of the world ending?

2:04 PM me: ben swears it's true

2:05 PM marelynn: hahahahaha