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I got pranked. By a bird!

I live on the ground floor apartment. For ventilation I keep a small window open near my bedroom area (it's a "junior 1 Bedroom" so there's a separate bedroom, but no door to it-- just a curtain). Early this morning we were woken up by a distinct flapping noise. At first I thought it was a moth flying through the ceiling fan and I wanted to just go back to sleep, but then we heard a very distinct, very pronounced FLAPPING. We bolted out of bed and out of the room, not sure if it was a bat or a bird. But then we heard a chirp (a twitter?) from the outside, and an identical chirp (twat?) from the inside. My door goes right out onto the street, so I went outside to look in from the window and sure enough there was a small bird flapping around between the curtain and the window. He eventually hopped up and perched himself on the curtain rod (see below) where he would. not. move. Armed with my broom, I tried experimenting with different combinations of turning the lights and ceiling fan on and off in the bedroom and the living room but he wasn't moving. We hung out outside for a while not sure what to do but at some point we saw that it had left that spot but clearly not flown out of the wide open door. Running out of ideas, I went to the kitchen to get some bread to make a trail of crumbs leading to the door when all of a sudden, I looked up and it was perched on the doorjamb of the bathroom (which is off of my kitchen) looking right down on me. I screamed and ran outside like the kids in The Sandlot and as I turned around I saw it flapping its wings right towards me like the Ringwraith that it was, and then it flew right out.

Now I clearly have Avian Bone Flu.

Fuck. Exceeded 140 characters. Oh well.

My new Twitter!

I understand that making blogs about stuff is now dead, so I'm going to turn this blog into a Twitterer. Here's my first Twit:

Turning the ol' 'blog into a twitter. We'll see if this is just the thing that gets me back on top. I can only hope that my many loyal re

A Dialogue

Guy: How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
Cabbie: Oh, that's easy-- take Sixth Avenue uptown and make a left on 57th street- you can't miss it. It's also right off the Q train if you don't mind waiting for the subway.
Guy: No, I mean how can I gain the musical skill so that I can get to PERFORM in Carnegie Hall?
Cabbie: Sorry, can't help you.

fin

Not defunct....

Just resting.

A phrase that doesn't get used nearly often enough outside the movies:

"Well, looky what we have here..."

Renaissance?

The word "renaissance" means "rebirth" in ancient Italian. Is this a rebirth-- a renaissance, if you will-- of my pranking career? Only time will tell.

As Omar Little of The Wire* once said, "It's all in the game." He's right/homosexual. And if pranking is a game, I've been out of it for a long time. It turns out it's hard to juggle the demands of pulling pranks, going to quaternary school and writing an internet log, and something had to go. But maybe I should get back into the game. Lately, I've been working on this one. It's a work in progress, but let me know what you think. And anyone can do it:

Here's what you do: sleep exclusively at really random times of the day and night, and be completely unable to do otherwise!! For example, check the hilarious past 24 hours of my life:
I slept at:
5:30 am - 10:30 am
2:30 pm - 5:45 pm (on a train)
1:00 am - 5:00 am
Let me tell you, I am subverting the expectations of when one is supposed to sleep like you wouldn't believe.

It's been a long time since I had the opportunity to write.... fin.

P.S. Superman Returns, which has been playing in the background while I write this Internet Log (or 'Tlog, as some people call it for short) is really boring! But at least they had the good sense to use the original music by John Williams, unlike the misguided filmmakers of Batman Begins. Also weird: Kal Penn (Kumar of Harold and Kumar) randomly plays one of Lex Luthor's henchmen, but his motivation is very unclear.


*If you haven't watched The Wire, you should stop reading this blog right now and sit down for twelve hours to watch season 1.

The XYZ Affair - All My Friends

If you like pranks (and let's face it, as a regular reader of this blog, you must), then you'll love this video by Brooklyn band, The XYZ Affair, which contains, at a minimum, two pranks. (Arguably more).

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Rehearsing for our big comeback show in Petra, Jordan (to commemorate our sole release, "Pete X: Live in Bitru")