The Scrabbled: Making Fun of Each Other since '99

Have any Scrabblers engaged in geocaching? My cousins from California were just visiting and dropped some knowledge on all of us. It sounds like a fun thing to do (especially if you have kids, or are bored and want to do some exploring).

I’m thinking of getting in on it and leaving little squashed souvenir pennies from Boston.

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I recently got a $100 gift card for Google Adwords to advertise my freelance business. Adwords works by charging a variable dollar amount per word or phrase, based on popularity. So if I want to buy the phrase “web development,” which is likely quite popular, I’m going to pay a lot of money for each click. If I buy “purple monkey blender,” however, it’s going to be quite cheap.

So I put it to you guys: what key words or phrases should I buy? I am completely open to the idea of buying nothing but joke words and phrases. I might do a few serious ones.

have we talked about this yet?

Please note that this post is titled the exact same as the last compilation post. I didn’t like that I had all this information about the currently-built playlist, but then had a difference title for the post. So from here on out, I’m going to use the title of the past week’s already-made album.

Scrabbled Comp #3: Are You Having Fun?

So we had some returning artists this week, which is fun. David Bowie and R.E.M. are back. I really enjoyed the Buzzcocks song (never heard it). My top pick is “Do You Wanna Dance?” Mainly because it’s a great question to ask, but also because Sammy had some options for artists, and he went Ramones.

if anyone is interested…

So Dawn and I got our dog’s DNA test done and it turns out she’s a real mutt, there are two breeds though that comprise 75% of her DNA, so it’s time to guess those two breeds.

Saw this movie with Paris on Friday night and had a great time.

I see there was little action on theScrabbled over the weekend. Good for us! How did you all spend it?

I went on some major bicycle rides. I hiked at Hacklebarney State Park (up in Clinton). There was plenty of grilling and lounging in the sun. I didn’t make it to the beach unfortunately.

That’s right. Fun. No snobbery here. What songs make you grin and laugh and run around and feel like a little kid again?

I have two tickets for a show in New York City for tonight. It is part of the Wordless Music Series and is located at the New York Society For Ethical Culture.

The line-up is:
The Mountain Goats
John Vanderslice
Miranda Cuckson, violin
Reiko Uchida, piano
(The latter pair performing music for piano and violin by Franz Schubert and Francis Poulenc apparently)

Check this. out. All for only 3000 pounds!

What’s everyone doing? I have no plans. As always, I don’t know what I’m looking for, but I’ll know when I hear it.

This is the coolest thing at the playground

I took a nice 4-night 3-day beach vacation this past weekend at some friends’ bungalow in Belmar. Sunday night, my buddy Brian and I goofed around enough to create a few killer tracks (or at least the beer said it was killer). We took turns playing either a push organ or a snare/maracas setup, while we both made up sounds and harmonies.

As usual, we were upset to not have anything to record with. Is a 4-tracker recorder a good idea? I have an iMac and Garage Band. Should I just use that and get a good microphone?

Depending on how long you’ve known me, you’ll know about me and poop.