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I’ve always despised food that required more work than what it was worth. Crab legs, bbq ribs, shrimp in the shell; it’s all delicious and practical in theory, but is it really worth the struggle? Sunflower seeds walk a thin line but get a free pass due to the fact that it is more of a male competitive event to see how many seeds you can put in your mouth at one time and separate with your teeth and tongue without using your fingers.

Tonight I found myself eating the juicy seeds of a pomegranate and enjoying every finger-staining minute that it took to get through just half of the fruit. For some reason, picking the seeds from the pomagranate felt therapeutic.

Tags: pomagranate

Are you watching 30 Rock yet? If you’re not, you already missed one amazing debut season and that statement can be reinforced by it’s Emmy Award for Best Comedy Series. Based on the first two episodes, this season doesn’t seem like it will disappoint either.

The last episode showed a T-shirt displayed in a store front that featured a catch phrase from The Girlie Show, a sketch comedy show that 30 Rock is loosely centered around. If you want to be the coolest kid on your street, you can buy one from the NBC store.

30 Rock airs on Thursday nights at 8:30pm on NBC. That means all you lame-o’s that missed it last season because of Grey’s Anatomy don’t have an excuse. Plus Tina Fey and Katrina Bowden are hot and aren’t homophobic.

Tags: 30 Rock, The Girlie Show, Me Want Food, NBC, Tina Fey, Katrina Bowden

The other day, while attempting to find pieces to complete my Halloween costume, I found myself in a situation that made me wish I could turn back time one minute. I was in desperate need of an American flag patch and thought that a good place to find such a thing was at the Boy Scouts store in Laguna Hills near the Claim Jumper.

I began walking up to the store and noticed the sign on the door said “closed” although it was lit up by the lights inside and I could see a couple people at the cash register paying for their goods. I looked at the hours listed in the window and it stated 3:00pm was the closing time. I looked at my watch and saw that it was 3:07. Thinking to myself that since there were still people in the store, maybe I could quickly purchase a single patch and be on my way.

I poked my head in through the front door and saw an oafy teen behind the counter dressed in his scout uniform. He looked up at me and I asked if they had American flag patches. In a dead pan voice he says, “yeah, but we’re closed” as he continues to ring up the customers at the register. I respond in a polite plea, “but it’s just one patch.”

“We’re closed.”

I let the door shut behind me and walked away from the shop. Seconds later I think to myself:

That son-of-a-bitch. I should have asked, “Do you have ‘Cock Sucking patches’ because you’re a cock sucker.”

Yeah, I should have said that.

I hope he gets eaten by a bear.

Tags: Spirt of the Stairs, L’esprit de l’escalier, Boy Scouts

After a 38-Day hiatus from blogging, I have decided to come back and attempt to keep this lump of a website going. Why the big brake in writing? I’d like to say because I was too busy/burnt out to even think about blogging. Immediately after returning from Hawaii, I worked 29 consecutive days. It’s amazing how little happens in your personal life when the majority of your waking hours for 4 weeks are spent in an office.

Sorry to everyone who took the time to come visit this site during it’s downtime. Please feel free to check back regularly as I plan to keep this bitch updated.

Here are some pictures from my recent houseboat trip. Madness.

Today marks the 2nd anniversary of my personal weblog. Yes, two years ago I made the conscious decision to catalog and document my thoughts, opinions, views, stories: my life. And while you may not get the entire picture of what it is like to be Derek, you will get a glimpse at what’s going through my head at any given day.

I really have to thank my friends and family for religiously checking this small corner of the internet day in and day out, as it gives me the motivation to carry on with my writing. I also would like to thank all you weird-ass mother effers out there that continue to search for pictures of Melissa Joan Hart; you really help my visitor stats reach the daily double digits. Seriously, what the fuck are you doing with your lives that you actually have time to do a google search for some chick who hasn’t been in the public eye for almost an entire decade.

To commemorate my 2nd full year of blogging, I have gone through and grabbed a few links to some of the posts that stick out in my mind.

• Semi-Cool Trail and OC Fortune – The one that started it all
• You’ll Never Find A More Wretched Hive… – Talking shit on LA, my new home
• Melissa Joan Hart – The post that single-handedly got me a steady stream of visitors
• My Rad Halloween Costume – Because it was the best costume ever. Also Marty’s comment made me laugh out loud
• My Rad Dream – I wish I could always have dreams like this
• First is the Worst, Second’s the Best – I actually put a little thought and research into this one
• Sony Ericsson W800i – A cellphone retrospect which might have to be updated now that I have an iPhone (Steve is paying me $100 in Apple Bucks)
• Requiem For A Chair – One of my all-time favorite stories
• Tazers Are The New Black – Some of the best videos ever
• Otter Pops: The Perfect Summer Treat? – I just liked this one

I got back from Hawaii the other day and I was welcomed home by 100 degree weather and a complete power outage for 28+ hours. It was too hot to sleep. It was too hot to even be in our house the other night. So Robin and I figured the best thing to do was to walk down to the 7-11 and buy a couple of 40s and drink them on our front porch at 12am on a Monday night. We were right.

I’m off to Hawaii for 10 days. Don’t expect any new blog posts, but you never know, I might surprise you. I’ll be back the day before Labor Day. I’m Derek and this is DISNEY! 3-6-5! See ya!

A vacation just in time.

…but you’re bringing me down. Earlier this month, on the 1oth of August, my Apple Cinema Display began to shut itself off after around 20 minutes of use. I took it into the Apple Store the next day to be repaired since I still had AppleCare on it. I was told that they would have to ship it out to a repair center since they didn’t have repair or replacement parts in the store. It’s now 10 days later and the monitor has still not even shipped out of the store.

I called up the Apple Store to find out what the deal was and apparently the boxes that they use to ship out the monitors are on “back order” and they are waiting on that. They estimated a 7-10 workday turnaround so I am looking at up to an additional 2 weeks after they ship it out, which at this point is indefinite.

Does this seem unacceptable to anyone else? No computer for 10+ days? My computer is digital crack. I can’t live or function without it. I have a laptop so I am not without a computer, but what if I didn’t? I hate blogging on my laptop so that is partially the reason why you haven’t seen any new activity on here. I was getting impatient so I went to Costco and bought a Viewsonic 22″ LCD and now you have something to read.

In a totally unrelated story, Hayden Panettiere, the Cheerleader from Heroes, turned 18 today. My friend Colter says she’s fat. I guess that’s how girls develop eating disorders.

Tags: Apple, Apple Store, Apple Care, Cinema Display, Hayden Panettiere, Heroes

The trailer for the new Michel Gondry film, “Be Kind Rewind“, is now online and has made every kid with a video camera who has ever made a poorly produced tribute/remake/hack/spoof movie feel a bit vindicated and ripped off at the same time.

Check it out here.

Tags: Michel Gondry, Be Kind Rewind, Jack Black, Mos Def