• From the Twitterz: Week of 2011-07-24

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    Gus
    • Something is happening in our garden. The zucchini in this photo wasn't here AT ALL six days ago; picked today. #
    • Huh, didn't include the photo. Try this: http://t.co/wJq26WC #
    • Apparently the twitterz does not like the Hands of Rock if that's the first thing you post, so: \m/ \m/ #
    • This is a GREAT interview with late 70s Columbus punk band Screaming Urge; nice one, @wesflexner! http://t.co/ud0HoBv #
    • Based on tonight's game, the proper way to motivate a little league team is with the threat of impending death by lightning. #theyplaybetter #
    • 15 minutes in, I can see how I'm going to use Spotify: create single-artist playlists of music I don't have to binge on during the workday. #
    • First up: what appears to be most of the @lcdsoundsystem discography. Suspect purchases won't be far behind. #
    • …until Spotify drops a Big Sean "suggestion" into my playlist. Back to using the Ipod, then. #
    • how do I hate driving in the suburbs? Let me count the ways. #
    • Gloriously WTF. RT @kmellon: The Time iCARLY Homaged THE WIRE http://t.co/NqO4cVr (via @dennisculver) #
    • Dishes washed, laundry… laundered, television watched. To bed. G'night, Twitter. #
    • Known him for a very long time, but tonight @mattfraction stabbed me in the wallet by introducing Carl to Walt Simonson's THOR. #willbebroke #
    • there is only so much money @mattfraction HAVE YOU NO DECENCY SIR cc: @sethhurley #
    • nevermind, he grabbed the SUPERGIRL to read first instead. @kellysue wins this round. #
    • Guessing hell is a lot like wandering the house after your son has fallen asleep, the theme from FETCH WITH RUFF RUFFMAN stuck in your head. #
    • Racking my brain for a good potluck dish for tmrw night when it hits me: Moogie's peanut butter bars, aka STEAKS. @gdwiz @Peej_Jones #
    • For the uninitiated, here's the steaks, pre-freezing. http://t.co/t1jMa2C #
    • Peanut butter bars in action: http://t.co/o6Ggy9Y #
    • El Vaquero for lunch. I ask for club soda with lime. I get this. #wtf http://t.co/2xMXNqY #
    • Attention @vdahlberg! Short North Bagel Deli « Street Eats Columbus: http://t.co/9SgeX3X #
    • Wait wait wait wait WAIT. FRANK BLACK is at Outland tonight? Are you kidding me? When the hell did this one get announced? #
    • Like, FRANK BLACK who gave probably the best live rock show I've ever seen in my life (w/ the Catholics, 2002-2003ish @ Little Brothers)? #
    • I'm firing my social secretary. #
    • Sangria at tonight's potluck. Lots. Not sure that was the best idea in a room full of opinionated people. #ikeptmymouthshut #itsamazingiknow #
    • The song, Action Figure Party, by the band, Action Figure Party, from the album, ACTION FIGURE PARTY. #kungfugrip #
    • Two bits. http://lightbox.com/Q5omSPY #

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  • From the Twitterz: Week of 2011-07-17

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    Gus
    • Oh hello, giant black storm cloud. We meet again. #
    • Guessing that will rule out baseball for the evening, then. #itsraining #itspouring #
    • Oh my. Trolololing Saruman. http://t.co/16znmEz (via @coilhouse) #
    • OH Supreme Ct holds that acknowledging a same-sex partner as "co-parent" during relationship doesn't surrender custody: http://t.co/xpCtNft #
    • New lunch venue with an awesome Jeff (BONE) Smith mural on the wall! (@ Murray's Bar and Kitchen) http://4sq.com/ny5M70 #
    • .@brianwood @netflix agreed. I can afford it, but a 33% price hike per month is some bullshit. #
    • Columbus, I love you, but WTF. Seriously. The Last I He'll Ever Dot – @Deadspin http://t.co/GumlKLe #
    • That moment where you realize that all of your new friends are WAAAAAAAAY smarter than you are, and you are kind of a slacker. #
    • So that trailer for THE THING looks pretty good. #
    • I am having a difficult time telling myself not to buy this today. The Prisoner: Complete Series Blu-ray($39.49) http://t.co/JImh3EF #
    • Just got home and saw the finished product of the kids' rooms. My wife is amazing. #
    • Bottom of second inning of LONGEST SHADELESS GAME EVER. Melting. (@ Whetstone High School) http://4sq.com/p2QVNE #
    • They have the right idea. http://t.co/436Qhgb #

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  • How I Got Here 0: Reintroductions

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    Gus

    hope you guess my name

    Once upon a time, I had a blog.  It was a good blog.  We posted a lot of goofy pictures, linked to a lot of crazy news stories, snarked on politics and cracked jokes about our own foibles.  We didn’t get a lot of traffic, but it was a place for us to hang out on the Internets.

    Then came Facebook, and Twitter, and new jobs, and kids, and we kind of stopped putting stuff on the blog.  No real reason; it just slowed down.

    I kind of miss it.

    So here’s what I’m proposing: time to get back to the blog.  I’m not promising that what I’m going to be posting here for a while will be smart or insightful; hell, it might not be any good at all.  But I want to get back in the habit of writing something that isn’t dryly legal, to try and stretch some long-unflexed muscles.  If this doesn’t sound like your thing and this is where we part ways, no hard feelings.

    So: reintroductions.

    I’m Gus.  Hi.  I like to consider myself pretty sociable, but I meet a lot of people, so I apologize if I’ve forgotten your name.  Stick around for a while and I bet we’ll find something in common to talk about.

    How I Got Here is going to be something of an open-ended experiment for me. Once upon a time, my sister started a very cool project where she was trying to catalogue old music that meant something to her and tell stories about it.  HIGH is going to be something like that, an appreciation of the pieces of culture and memory that I think are meaningful in some fashion.  (Lest we get too heavy, “meaningful” isn’t the same as “deep” or “insightful” — there’s going to be an entry on Weird Al Yankovic here at some point, just so’s you know.)  It also probably won’t be all that regular, so don’t expect anything EXACTLY at noon on Monday or whatever.  I suspect that when I’m done, it’ll look like some weird conglomeration of stuff, but I assure you that it will all have meant something to me.

    And if nothing else, it’ll give me an excuse to post music and video for you to check out, so there’s that.

  • From the Twitterz: Week of 2011-07-10

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    Gus
    • Inspection. Such a taskmaster. http://t.co/KXek1W2 #
    • To the dude in UA who *spraypainted* "NOBAMA GOP 2012" on his front lawn: you are all class. #
    • Wait, UA uses OU's fight song? #
    • Marching band! http://t.co/qXAlstr #
    • The Angry Birds float at the UA parade this morning. http://t.co/EuPQP6P #
    • At the park for Clintonville fireworks. All is right with the world. #fb #
    • These kids are CUTE. http://t.co/cG7PVl5 #
    • Clintonville fireworks! http://t.co/7swk0AT #
    • I tweeted this last night but I'm absurdly proud of it. Clintonville fireworks from last night! http://flic.kr/p/9ZDxq4 #
    • Many happy leaps and Zodiac codes to my pal @xtop on his birthday! #
    • wow. didn't notice before; my twitter desktop doesn't really fill this new monitor… #firstworldproblems #notevenrealproblems #
    • NASA feed running in the background as I try to get work done this morning. Hoping I get to watch the launch. http://t.co/i2lyvxz #
    • nine minutes left. I didn't really think we'd ever get here – the last launch of the US space program. #
    • The live NASA HD streaming feed is here: http://t.co/i2lyvxz #
    • Carl's at camp @cosicols today; I really, REALLY hope they're watching the shuttle launch. #
    • thirty seconds. #
    • I watched all ten minutes of that, from liftoff to tank separation. That was amazing. #
    • NASA's going to re-run the launch footage here in a few minutes in case you missed it: http://t.co/i2lyvxz #
    • As pointed out by a pal on FB, OSU's action now means that Rufus did indeed beat Brutus last year. @ohiou @robcwv @gdwiz #
    • Brandon Hanning anxiously sits by phone awaiting apology. @gdwiz @robcwv #

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  • BOOM

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    Clintonville fireworks., originally uploaded by Gus Dahlberg.

    Fireworks in Clintonville, OH, July 4, 2011.

  • Mistletoe Hunt

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    Gus

    Years and years ago, my family had an annual tradition around Christmas: they’d go out and harvest fresh mistletoe from some wild tree out in the middle of nowhere.  (Did you know mistletoe is actually some kind of parasite that grows ON trees, and isn’t itself FROM the tree?  I didn’t.)  We hadn’t done it in a long time — until this year, that is, when they decided that it was time that we got back in the habit of getting back together around the holidays.

    So the week before Christmas, we all trooped down to Jackson County — in the first really big snowstorm of the year, mind — and went on a mistletoe hunt.  And went sledding.  And went Christmas caroling.  And drank eggnog and ate cookies and watched football and all the things you do with the ones who are important to you each year.

    Anyway. I made this. Enjoy.

  • Lego Death Star: The Beginning.

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    Gus

    We’d been saving this one for a while.  Carl’s been after us for at least two years now about this Lego Death Star.  Ridiculously large and expensive, it’s like the Holy Grail of licensed Lego kits.  I figured his Lego obsession would run its course and that he’d move on to the latest fad… and yet, here we are, two years after he started working Lego kits, and he was dead set on it.

    So Val had the idea that we would band together with our parents and my sister and Ronda and PJ, and in the interests both of answering Carl’s prayers and… controlling the amount of birthday detritus we’d be facing, we’d bite the bullet.  Two parties and a ton of birthday gifts later, we wound up with the video above, today.

    I figure at 3,800+ pieces, we’ll have lots of time to track his progress as it’s slowly assembled.  More pictures and videos to come.

  • Tennis, anyone?

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    Gus


    Tennis, anyone?, originally uploaded by Gus Dahlberg.

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