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Archive for December, 2004

Things I Wont Say

• Saturday, December 4th, 2004 • No Comments

“Brad, wow! What the hell happened to your hair?”

“Well, uh, the long hair was actually a wig I wore, but I’ve since decided to go without it.”

“What? What are you talking about?”

“Well, see, I’m… dying of cancer, and just a few weeks ago I stopped chemo and my hair has started growing back, so I [...]


The Polyphonic Spree in LA!

• Saturday, December 4th, 2004 • No Comments

Words cannot describe how happy I am right now. I’m typing this through my PC remotely, thats how happy I am. The Polyphonic Spree is going to be in LA on Feburary 28th! I can’t wait! Hopefuly they’l come down to San Diego after so I can see them two nights in a row! How [...]


Prius Woes

• Friday, December 3rd, 2004 • No Comments

So, I get out of Target after buying myself some razor blades and this horribly expensive cream TEN DOLLARS AN OUNCE! and I get into my Prius and turn it on. Promptly all these lights and buzzers start going off, a big triangle with an exclaimation point in my HUD, and on the LCD a [...]


So, Uhm, Hairless?

• Friday, December 3rd, 2004 • 2 Comments

So, I shaved all my hair off. For reference, here is a before picture and the after picture…? Well, only time will tell on that one.

Why’d I do it?

I had a conversation with Raffi about it.

“It seems every time I end up doing something horrible and drastic with my hair, it’s symbolic of me giving [...]


2003 In Pictures

• Thursday, December 2nd, 2004 • 4 Comments

Here is a look into a year of my life. Sort of. Thanks to a little bit of inspiration from Microsoft’s Digital Image Library, I decided to compile a gallery that could sum up an entire year of my life, namely 2003. In truth, this gallery falls incredibly short of giving any sort of actual [...]