Archive for June 24th, 2006

Nightcrawling

Posted June 24, 2006 By Dave Thomer

Looks like there’s a release date for Pete Yorn’s next album, called Nightcrawler – August 29. And it looks like you can listen to a song from the album on Yorn’s myspace page. Sounds pretty good, pretty typically Yorn, and as far as I’m concerned, there’s nothing wrong with that.

Drowning in Paper

Posted June 24, 2006 By Dave Thomer

So I’m breaking in a new shredder because I busted the old one. No fault of the older machine, a very nice model by Fellowes, but of the operator who forgot to check his junk mail to make sure there wasn’t one of those fake credit cards in it before he put it through the shredder and completely jammed up the machine. I really hate shredding my mail. The breakdown is usually

  • 30% credit card solicitations
  • 30% political donation solicitations
  • 10% student loan consolidation solicitation
  • 30% desperate pleas from various charitable organizations with noble purposes, no awareness that grad students and recently-graduated students are not the most fertile ground for philanthropy, and an unerring capacity to make me feel like the most uncaring schmuck on the planet.

On the other hand, it is nice to have a lot of that paper someplace other than the office floor. I’ll take the small victories where I can get ’em.