Non-Sequiturs

Damn.

Beefy belly.

Hot beard and chest.

Sexy Daddy.

Beautiful fur.

So cute.

Grrrrr.

Another sexy Daddy.

Daddy day.

Beautiful.

Wet.

Handsome and amazing chest.

Adorable.

Bear contemplating.

UNF.

Sweet Jebus.

Striking profile.

Chesticles.

Drool.

Sweet face.

Sweet body.

Hmmmm.

Hot belly.

Hot man with an instrument, woof.

Bedroom eyes.

Bedroom everything.

I'm feeling peckish.

Gorgeous beard.

Lick.

Devour.

It's the 21st century, you would think we'd be able to perfect temperature control in an office building by now.

As my friend Stephen pointed out to me, if we are saying something bizarre is happening at Xion, then it is truly bizarre.

It looks very silly when you take a selfie with an iPad.

I have finally reached the age, I think, where exchanging Christmas gifts with family and friends is no longer necessary.

One of my favorite holiday pictures.

I miss having a solid door to my office.

Can we have a moratorium on arty photographs of doorways in foreign locales?

Someone explain to me why OneRepublic is still around?

Andrew and I ate dinner at our favorite Mexican restaurant the other night and they had a telenovella on that was cut so frenetically I was surprised people didn't get whiplash from watching it.

Yeah, that would be bad.

I remember when all the big law firms in town had very lavish holiday parties. When the economy turned all of those parties went the way of the dodo. All they have at my firm is a "holiday breakfast" in the dining room.

Burial is back; and all is right with the world.

India's Supreme Court recriminalized homosexuality in one of its rulings. If I had any interest in going to that country, it has certainly been quashed.

SoundCloud can be frustratingly difficult to use sometimes.

I hate to say this is pretty true.

We got a large Bumble Christmas decoration that is about 2 feet tall and lights up. I love it.

Apparently, the firm's Christmas gift to me is the return of my office nemesis!

I almost forgot how good Cold Cave's album Cherish The Light Years is.

Someone hit my car on the way home from dinner last night. First accident I have been in since 1993. Luckily, the guy barely hit me, but it is still going to be a pain in the ass to get it taken care of.

Your cute for the day.

Lyrics Rattling Around My Brain

"A gardener told me some plants move, but I could not believe it
Til me and Hannah Hunt saw crawling vines and weeping willows
As we made our way from Providence to Phoenix

A man of faith said hidden eyes could see what I was thinking
I just smiled and told him that was only true of Hannah
And we glided on through Waverly/Lincoln

Our days were long, our nights no longer
Count the seconds, watching the hours
Though we live on the US dollar
You and me, we got our own sense of time

n Santa Barbara, Hannah cried, 'I miss those freezing beaches.'
I walked into town to buy some kindling for the fire
Hannah tore the New York Times up into pieces

If I can't trust you, then dammit, Hannah
There's no future, there's no answer
Though we live on the US dollar
You and me we got our own sense of time."

Vampire Weekend
"Hannah Hunt"

"Talk to me and watch me crumble
You will see you got mine down

Faithfully I will look over
There I'll find what you've become

(What you've become)

You help me lose my mind
And you believe something I can't define
Help me lose my mind, make me run back
What if all before
Keep, I need more time
How much longer
Oh I've been waiting for

Jealousy will be washed over
Carefully we look on through

Could it be easy to start over
Sound how I will bring you too

(What you've become)

You help me lose my mind
And you believe something I can't define
Help me lose my mind, make me run back
What if all before
Keep, I need more time
How much longer
Oh I've been waiting for."

Disclosure ft. London Grammar
"Help Me Lose My Mind"

"Nice and high and far apart
just like they said
I built this place with broken parts
just like they said
you chip away the old version of you
you'd be surprised at what you can do
I'm safe in here
irrelevant
just like they said

My voice just echoes off these walls

You feel me breathe
I am watching you
I see it all
the many ways you can't get to me
I see it all
I see the hell you put yourself through
oh the things I could do (if I wanted to)

My voice just echoes off these walls
my voice just echoes off these walls
I don't need anything at all
my voice just echoes off these walls

And I just slowly fade away

You will never ever get to me in here."

Nine Inch Nails
"Echoplex"

Appealing Things

Alyson Calagna at Xion: perfection
The bass line on the Disclosure track "White Noise"
19th Hole Arnold Palmer
Getting my year end lists done

Annoying Things

Peggy from accounting
The incessant chatter about the live version of The Sound of Music
People who constantly talk in slang or jargon

Non-Sequiturs

Damn that is a beautiful belly.

Sexy daddy.

Lovely chest.

Grrrr.

Damn, he's bigger than that horse.

Love the downturned nip.

Boing.

Yeah, I just saunter around the gym with a huge amount of weight on my back.

Slyly sexy.

Damn.

Amazing back.

So cute.

Bubba bear.

Drool.

Stretch.

Adorable.

Sexy belly.

Grrrr.

Yum.

Another sexy belly.

Delicious.

Pull those shorts down just a little bit more.

UNF.

Stretch it out sexy.

Wow, that chest.

Those eyes.

Beautiful.

Damn.

I hate listening to a wonderful remix of a song then go to hear the original song and find it's shit.

If someone makes a point of telling you what a good person they are and how honest they are, most of the time they are going to turn out to be neither.

Google it people, I am not your personal information center.

I'd have to agree with that.

Another underrated record is Smashing Pumpkin's Adore.

I can't say I have ever heard a Biffy Clyro song before.

So, Miley Cyrus acted like a hootchie mama at the VMAs. I am so shocked. She is not stupid, she knows exactly what she is doing. She has one of the top singles on iTunes, everyone is talking about her, she is a meme-maker's dream, she comes up in Google if you type in "twerk." She is kind of brilliant actually.

To each his own, but to me, there is nothing sexy about feet.

Yes.

I forgot how brutal 14+ hour work days can be.

Happiness is finally parking in the premier princess parking spot at work.

My partner Andrew's alter ego is called JoJo Snow. You never ever ever want to mess with JoJo Snow.

While it was a funny bit for awhile, I am glad to have ridden myself of having an office nemesis. Sometimes all it takes is just a friendly conversation to make things better. Although it is not likely we will be best friends or anything, it is nice to at least get a friendly hello in the morning.

Until about 5 years ago, I religiously watched professional tennis and couldn't wait for all the major tournaments. Sad to say that I barely watch anymore. In fact, I completely forgot about the US Open being on.

Hee hee.

It is impossible to pick a favorite song or album.

When it comes to finances, I have found that trusting my initial gut instinct is the best way to handle things.

Lush were completely underrated as a band.

I hate car dealers. The entire process is a game to them to see how much they can bilk you out of your money.

This always cracks me up.

Anime porn is weird in its own right, but even weirder when the characters are animals.

You were hot, until I saw the fanny pack.

America just needs to stay out of the Middle East.

I don't think it is necessarily contradictory to pray when you don't believe in a god.

Baby marmoset.  Your cute of the day.

Lyrics Rattling Around My Brain

"Midstep, I changed
Heartburn and chest pains
I've moved, but no sound
We gave up our ground
Called it too late now
We're moving off
Cards have been laid down
We're moving

And I try to hold back
The hundreds of things I have wanted to ask
And I want it so bad so bad so bad
Yeah I want it so bad
When you say my name, the way you stare
You play these games, it's truth or dare
And I want it so bad so bad so bad
Yeah I want it so bad

Chin up, chest out
Feet set, and no doubts
You came and you went
Our time was so ill spent."

BASECAMP
"Emmanuel"

"I am just a copy of a copy of a copy
Everything I say has come before
Assembled into something into something into something
I don't know for certain anymore

I am just a shadow of a shadow of a shadow
Always trying to catch up with myself
I am just an echo of an echo of an echo
Listening to someone's cry for help

Look what you had to start
Why all the change of heart?
Well you need to play your part
A copy of a copy of a
Now look what you've gone and done
Well that doesn't sound like fun
See I'm not the only one
A copy of a copy of a

I am little pieces
Pieces that were picked up on the way
Imprinted with a purpose
A purpose that's become quite clear today

Look what you had to start
Why all the change of heart?
Well you need to play your part
A copy of a copy of a
Look what you've gone and done
Well that doesn't sound like fun
See I'm not the only one
A copy of a copy of a

I am just a finger on a trigger on a finger
Doing everything I'm told to do
Always my intention my intention your intention
Just doing everything you tell me to

Look what you had to start
Why all the change of heart?
Well you need to play your part
A copy of a copy of a
Now look what you've gone and done
Well that doesn't sound like fun
See I'm not the only one
A copy of a copy of a."

Nine Inch Nails
"Copy Of A"

"I can feel the walls closing in
and I don’t want to talk anymore
wish I could quietly slip away
and leave you here with no void
the only reason I stay is to care for you
everything else in me has atrophied
and I am cold and painless now
I want to live but I feel nothing
when can I die, when can I go
when will I be free, when will I know
when can I run – my legs are bound
when can I go, when can I go
was born a blackened seed in the wild
and Inever was a child
I was pulled right out of the sea
and the salt – it never left my body
someone opened me up while I was sleeping
and filled my body right up with sand
I carry a heaviness like a mountain
it forces me to remain
alive and ugly, alive and ugly
alive and ugly, alive and ugly
when can I die, when can i go
when will I be free, when will I know
when can I run, my legs are bound
can I leave here, knowing you’ll be strong without me
they’ll clap when you die
they’ll love you when you’re dead
and they’ll understand
and you’ll be forgiven then."

Chelsea Wolfe
"They'll Clap When You're Gone"

Appealing Things

Tuna tartar
Twisted Dee at Xion
BASECAMP
The early start of a long weekend
Getting things done
Breaking Bad
Pasty Clines at Cowtippers

Annoying Things

DJs who put long stretches of beatless buildups in their sets
People with messy bathrooms or kitchens...hell, people with messy houses
Cuts on your hands, especially your thumbs
Car dealers trying to work against you