I Love LA

I could never imagine living in Southern California, but this region of the world has pretty much always served the same role for me. It’s basically the exact role in my life that it pitches to everyone everywhere at all…

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2009 West Coast Farewell Tour Commences!

If you need me, I’ll be at Russ’ for the next nine days. If you’re David Kunkel, please respond to my e-mails because I’d really like to break the streak of years where we’ve just missed seeing each other. Possible…

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The Sum of All Responses

Here’s your close-to-final score: 6.5/7 (+C, +H, /++O, +P, +Y) The / indicates a wait-listing from one of the one-year programs at Oxford, which technically isn’t even a full wait-listing so much as deferring consideration of the application into a…

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Help Promote Making Fun of AIG!

This is the old straight-up appeal to the masses – if you’re involved in the Digg thing (or can easily sign up), please help us get our new AIG March Madness commercial (Youtube, previously posted about): Digg It! Also, the…

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Emily Runs the Table

(+C, +H, ??+O, +P, +Y) Still waiting to hear from two Oxford programs, but Em applied to five schools and was admitted to five schools. Pretty impressive, if you ask me. Harvard surprised us with an earlier decision than expected,…

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AIG Commercials: Resurrected and Spoofed

Russ and I have spent the better part of the last 24 hours at it again. We unearthed secret archived videos from the good old days of AIG and are sharing them with the world. Better yet, we are spoofing…

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Oxford on the Board

We can put a + next to the O in our CHOPY algorithm, but it should be noted that there are a whopping 3 total programs within Oxford and Em only got into one today, the one-year Masters in African…

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This Ballgame is Tied

I’m sick and exhausted and about to fall asleep on the couch by the heater with a pile of blankets. Barring a miraculous recovery, my odds of trudging to work in the rain tomorrow are somewhere below an Italy-Chinese Taipei…

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When the Commute Goes Bad

I’m riding BART and worried about getting all my things off the train so I can go into work. I have with me my backpack, a jacket, Emily’s laptop (out of its bag), and a large piece of luggage in…

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