{"id":460,"date":"2006-01-05T11:07:03","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T16:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=460"},"modified":"2006-01-08T13:49:04","modified_gmt":"2006-01-08T18:49:04","slug":"must-be-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"Must be the new year."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four things (proliferated from Czeltic Girl)<\/p>\n<p>Four jobs you\u2019ve had in your life: Photo developer, Dairy stocker, Hardware store clerk, Web programmer<\/p>\n<p>Four movies you could watch over and over: The Princess Bride, Office Space, The Big Lebowski, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.<\/p>\n<p>Four places you\u2019ve lived: Milwaukee, Kenosha, Vernon Hills, Mt. Prospect<\/p>\n<p>Four TV shows you love to watch: Mr. Show, Firefly, Buffy, Family Guy<\/p>\n<p>Four places you\u2019ve been on vacation: Boston, San Francisco, Boca Raton, Lake Tahoe<\/p>\n<p>Four websites you visit daily: imdb, wikipedia, Guaranty Bank, flickr<\/p>\n<p>Four of your favorite foods: Ice Cream, Cousins Pepperoni Melt, Burritos, Beef.<\/p>\n<p>Four places you\u2019d rather be: Home, a LAN party, band practice, a stage fighting workshop<\/p>\n<p>Four albums you can\u2019t live without: <i>Under the Pink<\/i> &#8211; Tori Amos, <i>Apollo 18<\/i> &#8211; They Might Be Giants, <i>Pretty Hate Machine<\/i> &#8211; Nine Inch Nails, <i>Weezer<\/i> &#8211; Weezer &#8230; and many more, really. I&#8217;m not even much of a music buff, and I find this question unfair.<\/p>\n<p>Four magazines you read: Oh. I don&#8217;t. Whatever gets left in a public bathroom, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Four cars you\u2019ve owned: 1982 Ford Escort, 1987 VW Fox, 1996 VW Golf, 1995 Chevy Rumina<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four things (proliferated from Czeltic Girl) Four jobs you\u2019ve had in your life: Photo developer, Dairy stocker, Hardware store clerk, Web programmer Four movies you could watch over and over: The Princess Bride, Office Space, The Big Lebowski, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Four places you\u2019ve lived: Milwaukee, Kenosha, Vernon Hills, Mt. Prospect Four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p73iP8-7q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":469,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=469","url_meta":{"origin":460,"position":0},"title":"In the tradition of four things&#8230;","date":"1\/19\/2006","format":false,"excerpt":"...I bring you seven things. 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Anybody who writes like that and has commenters posting things like this: I was playing poker last week with ashcroft. He had two pair and I had four kings. I thought I had him beat. When I showed him my cards,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Link Larceny&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":526,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=526","url_meta":{"origin":460,"position":4},"title":"Yeah. Way too close.","date":"3\/13\/2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Jack Handey is still working, and is still hilarious. The \"Made You Look\" idea reminds me of this creepy and ridiculously ambitious episode of Too Close for Comfort where the main character has a Dorian Gray-style portrait. Imagine you're a four-year old at your grandmother's house around bedtime. 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