Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Alright Windows, Multitouch, World, Let's Have a Talk.

All right, I've had it.

I'm done. I am DONE putting up with this!

WHAT THE CRAP IS UP WITH MULTITOUCH??

it's like we're in the effing stone age here! I've spent ALL MORNING researching touchscreen/multitouch laptops and tablets, and for the LIFE of me and cannot figure out what the H it is that people don't understand!! why does a multitouch pc tablet A) suck more than any other piece of technology ever invented...which leads the next point: B) DOESN'T REALLY EXIST.

I don't really know where to start but let's just start here. this is a joke; it has to be a joke. I couldn't imagine a less responsive screen. it doesn't have an accellerometer either, but don't worry, it has a button to switch into landscape mode! oh, but don't count on it taking less than an hour to reposition. hey, is that the turkey burning while you were waiting for landscape mode? gimme a break, this is absurd.

the iPad is cool but it's not a computer, it's a consumption device. on an iPad you can watch videos, look at pictures, surf the web, get information, read books, whatever. it's great for carrying around and showing it off and it's kinda neat. however, want to write a blog? that essay you gotta get done at the last minute? don't forget your keyboard! don't plan on creating anything or doing anything productive on an iPad. it's a neat gadget but it's not a computer.

I need an EFFING COMPUTER WITH TOUCHSCREEN. here's the deal. this is what I don't understand ISN'T available right now for the normal person:

a PC computer with a swivel screen that uses multitouch.

Dell has one now called the XT2, and it's the first step in a halfway decent direction. but it's mainly for businesses, and it still looks kind of slow in terms of responsiveness. the iPad is super responsive, and that exists today, so what's the deal Dell? what's the deal, HP? another reason that HP has no clue what's going on.

what the hell is that thing anyway? and since when has HP ever delivered something on time? and that actually works? two thumbs DOWN.

when am I going to get a windows pc in which 95% of the programs are multi-touch compatible, responsive, creative, and USEFUL (I'm looking at you, iPad)?? I'm talking about programs you can write on where your writing doesn't come out looking like a picasso painting, like audio mixers that you can manipulate with two hands at once (windows 7 supposedly has support for 10 unique contact points for multitouch, why the crap doesn't anybody have the balls to make a computer that utilizes that??), like presentations and desktop manipulation and ALL THESE THINGS I DON'T HAVE YET!!! if somebody doesn't start doing this soon, I'm going to do it, and I'm going to get rich and steve and bill and all those other rich-types will bow to me! we need a tablet-pc/laptop with multitouch for the average NON-BUSINESS consumer! iPad is distracting everyone with its pretty screen and movies and it's good at that but it's not for universal use. I need a photo editor with multitouch. I need a video editor with multitouch. all this crap!!

I'm going crazy here!!

Monday, August 31, 2009

The Safehouse

AND IN THE END, THERE WAS NOTHING. ONLY EMPTINESS.

*cue Terminator music*
Shiloh exists now only in our memories. You can't look back. Whenever you look back all you get is pain. So you've got to channel the pain. make it work for you. if you're gonna survive out here in the wasteland, all you can do is...try to survive.

We thought the worst was over when the bombs hit...but that was only the beginning. We couldn't have imagined what came after. Have you ever heard of Nuclear Rain? ...well it's no picnic. at least, not the kinda picnic I'm used to. I saw things you've never even dreamed of. Not in your worst nightmares. You want to talk about survival in the wasteland? well get in line. I've got bigger things to do that worry about your problems. I've got my own problems. Like, how am I supposed to make sure humanity's gonna last another three months? You know what's at stake here, so GET OUT OF MY WAY AND STAY OUT if you know what's good for you.
Me and two other of the survivors heard about a safehouse, somewhere near what's left of old town Alexandria. We leave tonight. If you don't hear from us again...




...it's 'cause we didn't make it.

Nathan Mitchell
Date: D+31 since everything that we knew was taken away

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Succeeding in the Wilderness of the Future, Part Deux

Oh I see. I see what's going on.

You think you're safe. You think you're happy. You've got everything figured out. You're sitting at home in a comfy chair with your little laptop, the quiet whirring of the computer's fan pacifying the stress of the day. You're at the desk in your home office, the dog, Tulip, lapping water out of her bowl in the living room the only sound in an empty house. You're reading The Wall Street Journal in the study, staying current on stock futures and how great your investments are doing. You have a job and a wife and kids, and you know that it's going to rain tomorrow, so it's best to be prepared by putting an umbrella next to the door tonight so you won't forget it in the morning. It's so peaceful, isn't it? Maybe you open the door to the kids room before you go to sleep, just to check on them, knowing they are safe in their beds and the goldfish are swimming around in the tank you got so little Timmy can have a friend. Maybe as you kiss your loyal wife goodnight you whisper a faint "I love you" in her ear, even if she's already asleep. you pull the covers over your head and you sleep soundly; the deep sleep that comes from a good hard day at work and a good hot meal at home. Don't worry...you've got everything in it's right place.

AND THEN THIS HAPPENS:
WORLD WAR THREE.

EVERYTHING IS GONE. THE WIFE, THE KIDS, THE REFRIGERATOR. You want to know where your little dog Tulip is? You want to know where timmy's goldfish are? THIRTY MILES SOUTHWEST OF YOUR POSITION. DEAD.

That's what happens to you when you think everything's going your way and everything's gonna be a-OK. quit your job and start preparing!!! You know what shiloh's doing? DO YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW??? well get ready for this butt-kicking:

1) Sherwin signed a lease for a new place ALREADY
2) Nathan + Nate may have just found our dream house
3) Jon's got a fiancee so who cares
4) SO BOOYAH!

you are so naive. mister two and a half children. mister cookie-cutter. mister go with the flow. mister advertising specialist. get over yourself.

WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO WHEN NORTH KOREA SHINES A NUKE LASER ONTO YOUR ROOF AND BLASTS YOUR TROPHY WIFE INTO A MILLION PIECES?? YOU AND YA FRIENDS AH DEAD!

Monday, July 6, 2009

Succeeding in the Wilderness of the Future

Faced with the prospect of the apocalypse occurring in only 24 days, I have no choice but to update everyone on

1) How to Survive in the World, and
2) What Shiloh is Doing to Prepare:

first things first. How do you survive in the world? You survive by BEING PREPARED. Some practical ways you can be prepared is by making sure you have enough gas in your post-apocalyptic super-go-kart/skiff/jet/rocket plane/apollo spacecraft/car w/spikes for wheels. It's important that you have enough gas because gas is already a commodity, and when the world ends it's going to be the last thing people are fighting over. It's gonna be like gold so make sure you're gassed up and ready to roll and/or joust depending on the scenario. you don't want to hit the gas in a post-apocalyptic jousting match and have nothing happen. talk about losing street cred. get with it man!

another practical way you can be prepared is by making sure you choose the correct post-apocalyptic weapon. You don't, for example, necessarily want to choose a rocket launcher for your post-apocalyptic weapon because how many rockets are you really going to find once the nuclear dust settles? one? two? doubt it. if you're going to choose the rocket launcher be sure to collect enough rockets beforehand or you'll be stuck lugging around some dusty old hunk of metal for the rest of your life, and we already talked about gas...how are you gonna account for the extra weight in your super-go-kart? it's a waste. think about a sword or axe or something that doesn't need any extras. if zombies start turning up you'll be happy you don't have to scrounge for ammunition. A zombie hatchet, for instance, would work great in this type of future-scenario.

finally, another great way to be prepared is to horde food and water in a small, ultra-secret bomb shelter/hideout. the warped wooden shelves will hold a small assortment of nonperishable canned food and maybe a nailgun if you're lucky enough to have one of those. a small pistol, some cash, and maybe some gold rings in a safe in the corner is also a nice touch. tattered pre-apocalyptic movie posters sparsely decorate the walls. long after the bombs drop you know you are the bearer of the only key to your personal fallout shelter, where you can live safely with that special post-apocalyptic-someone for a solid six months to a year while the battle for oil, land, weapons, and just about everything else rages a few cubic feet of dirt above you.

BE PREPARED!

which brings us to our next and final question: "what are the residents of shiloh doing to prepare for the coming housing jumble/nuclear holocaust??" And the answer is that aside from Nate and Sherwin looking sporadically for houses on craigslist, we've done just about nothing to get ready for our epic move. no gas, no weapons (although I might try to steal the zombie hatchet from the laundry room at the last minute) no nothing. well actually that's not true, I did take the Death Star in to see what was wrong with it...

...but that thing wouldn't last five minutes in the post apocalyptic world...at least...not until I put SPIKED WHEELS OF DOOM on the hubcaps!!

...but seriously, Shiloh is not prepared to move at all.

-MCMC

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

We meet our hero as he stands on the precipice. His footing is weak.

We travel backwards to only moments ago where our hero rides into his enemies lands with determination and courage in his eyes. The brilliant gleam of victory lay on the horizon of the sunset sky. When suddenly he hears a crack like the trunks of a thousand trees bursting and falling to the ground. A great chasm opens in the ground in front of him, spewing steam and earth and fire upwards into the red sky. His stallion rears, knocking him off, and the poor beast tumbles into the void. Our hero slams into the earth, which quickly crumbles under him, he grasps hurriedly for solid ground but the dirt continues to give away. Our hero, who only moments ago beamed with strength and valor, now scurries like a helpless mouse. The earth cracks more and more; the sound like that of shattering bone. The courage in his eyes lost, replaced with fear, the fear of death.

Reach! Keep reaching! You can't die! You're going to die. NO! This is it. Everything is lost. What's this? This patch feels solid. Reach! Yes. The ground isn't breaking. This is it. On your feet. ON YOUR FEET!

We arrive again at our hero on the edge. He gazes into the blackness below. There appears to be no end. What must our hero do? Something shimmers in the corner of his eye. Where did that come from? He looks to the horizon, now shrouded by dust and smoke, and he sees it again. Glimmering beyond the dust and smoke, still on the horizon, is our hero's goal. His victory still lies ahead. He hears a whinny come from the hole. His horse...still alive? The stallion whinnies again, the sound is faint but unmistakable. There must be a bottom to this black gorge. He looks back to the horizon and victory. Only one thing stands in his way. He clenches his fists, tenses his brow, and begins the descent into the abyss.

Friday, June 26, 2009

THE END OF THE WORLD

I have dreams where I am incinerated by a nuclear explosion. I get them every two or three months. In these dreams I can feel my skin burning and my body melting. then I die. then I wake up. I know what you're saying now: "NATAHN U CANT DIE IN UR DREAMS LOL :P" WELL I DO SO SCREW YOU.

Nukes. that's exactly what it's like on the other side. NUKES. when we don't have Shiloh...well what the hell DO we have?!! NOTHING!


DOES THIS MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU?!! DOES IT?!!
if you said SKYNET then you'd be right! We've got this effing Hadron Collider runnin around colliding atoms together (like that's a good idea) and on top of all that North Korea's torturing prisoners and threatening the human race with extinction, AND ON TOP OF ALL THAT we've got movies about dolphins being tortured coming out by the same guy who trained Flipper AND ON TOP OF THAT the residents of Shiloh are MOVING OUT!!!! >:O

NO MORE SHOWERS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, NO MORE DEADLY LAUNDRY ROOM FLOORS, NO MORE RABID MOSQUITOS, NO MORE HORROR NIGHT--THIS IS THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT.

SEE OUR FUTURE!
(that'll be jon in the back motorcycle)

THE WORLD IS EXPLODING RIGHT NOW.

RIGHT NOW!

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

EVERYTHING'S GOING CRAZY!!

ATTENTION: THE SHILOH RESIDENTS ARE MOVING OUT IN ONE MONTH, SEVEN DAYS, 2 HOURS, 39 MINUTES, AND 12 SECONDS!

That's right everybody, we're moving out!! We just got word that the house isn't making enough money so they're kicking us out! understandably so!

now what the crap are we going to do about this mess?!! it looks like a bomb went off in this house! in every room! at the same time!

HELP!

we will be incorporating some help to chronicle the final days in our home of homes, Shiloh. Nate Morris and Vineet Gordhandas join the triumphant ranks to aid us in overcoming this new obstacle. wish us luck.

and if we don't make it back in five minutes...CALL THE PRESIDENT.

एवेर्य्थिंग'स गोइंग क्रेजी!

दो नोट ट्रांस्लाते थिस मेसेज।


थे वर्ल्ड इस गोइंग तो हेल! थे रेसिदेंट्स ऑफ़ शिलोह अरे बीइंग उन्देर्स्तान्दब्ली फोर्स्ड तो लीव ओं ग्रौंड्स ऑफ़ नोट हविंग एनौघ रूम्मातेस! ठेस अरे थे च्रोनिक्लेस ऑफ़ थे लास्ट देस!

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Dinner, for Once

So it was thursday night. Prisms was recording, laying down guitar tracks in the basement. When we were about halfway through our studio session, Jon and Daniel came in, arms loaded with groceries. After checking in to see how everything was going, they told us they were cooking a delicious dinner and proceeded upstairs into the kitchen. We continued recording guitar, minding our own business. Every now and then we'd hear a smash or crash as pots and pans seemed to be flying around upstairs. We heard footsteps creaking on the floor above and the sink's water seemed to be running the whole time they were cooking.

...and that's when we smelled it. It was like heaven, only better. I smelled the familiar smell of garlic mashed potatoes (one of my favorite foods of all time)!! After our recording session was over I went upstairs to find a feast prepared:

they made a RIDICULOUS meal for dinner!! Caramelised onions over steak w/barbecue sauce, and garlic mashed redskin potatoes, washed down with Red Hook beer. Here's a closeup of the masterpiece:

It was delicious! The mashed potatoes were very garlicy and well-spiced with herbs from the Shiloh Garden (the spice rack in the kitchen), and were creamy and chunky at the same time, which was simply delightful! The steak was fairly tender, with the caramelised onions complementing the taste just right. Barbeque sauce was on hand, but I found that I didn't need it to fully appreciate the steak's juicy taste.

pretty good considering these are two of the lamest and most incapable dudes I've ever met. all they seems capable of is going to Nicaragua and helping build houses for weeks on end, or traveling to africa and feeding the hungry. see what I mean? LAME.

anyway, as we were finishing up, someone suggested that we break out the scotch, which we proceeded to do:
and let's not forget the Ardbeg:
And barring the fact that somebody drank like a massive amount of our whisky somehow, we ate, drank, and were merry! I'm telling you, Glengoyne is insane. if you ever get your hands on it, you are a success!

emceeMC

Friday, June 12, 2009

Shiloh is Depressed

Well after a round of weddings and countless stupid engagements, Shiloh is officially wallowing in depression. our rooms are a wreck, sherwin's room smells like ferrets, the shower's too hot, the sink's too dirty, the basement's to humid, it's like flames at night when we're trying to sleep, I can't seem to go to bed at a reasonable hour, Jon's flaking out on work, our house is being overtaken by various size bugs...which isn't helped by me trying to feed all the spiders I see in the house. ...speaking of which.......

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I saw a small spider in the tub area of the shower and he was trying to get up the side but it was too slippery, so I made a ladder out of toilet paper so he could use it to climb out, then I went to sleep. but when I woke up in the morning he was still in there. not only was he still in there but he didn't seem to be moving very much. I tried blowing on him but he wouldn't budge. I knew he wasn't dead so I decided that he wasn't moving because he didn't have anything to eat. I know I get tired when I don't eat so I started trying to figure out where I could possibly find an ant or bug to feed him.

which is when I looked up at the light that was on in the bathroom directly over my head, and discovered, depressingly, literally 14 bugs, all in different shapes and sizes, flying around in the bathroom around the light. "What luck!" I thought to myself, "any of these will do!" So I chose one of the bigger beetles, grabbed my Urbana '06 book and with one *WAP!* he was done. I scooped up the barely-alive-but-fading-rapidly beetle and put it next to my spider friend. But my spider friend did not budge. again I blew on the spider and he just started moving around the tub in the opposite direction. great. "Oh, well," I thought to myself as I tucked my thumbs underneath my suspenders, "at least I know I've done my good deed for the day!" I brushed my teeth and went to work. When I got home the spider was gone. I really hope he went up the toilet-paper ladder. He hasn't been seen since. I just hope he got a "bite" to eat before he left! oh man that cracks me up!

Shiloh's depressed. *le sigh...

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Horror Night at Shiloh LIVES!!

For all you horror dudes and chicks, I'm proud to announce that Horror Night at Shiloh returned from the grave, so to speak, two nights ago. We have a new TV in the basement (the same one that was at 2708...*single tear) and it has been awesome so far!

Wednesday Night: The Midnight Meat Train
Sounds gross right? Sounds promising, right? Correct! Sherwin and I rolled over to Circle Pizzeria (NY-Style large pizza), scored a large cheese, took it back and threw on the movie. Originally adapted from a 7-page short story by Clive Barker, Midnight Meat Train was pretty sick!! I want everyone to watch this because it rules, so I won't give anything away, but suffice to say I will be legitimately freaked out for the rest of my life if I am the only person on a metro car at night. And I will never look at the Metro the same way again. The last fight scene is incredible. Kudos to the cinematographer and special effects crew for putting together a suspenseful and ridiculously gory endgame (conceptually as much as visually--you'll see what I mean). There are some brutal and tragic twists in this movie, and Sherwin and I highly recommend it!

Thursday Night: Quarantine
If you liked Cloverfield but thought it wasn't realistic enough, and if Diary of the Dead freaked you out but you weren't necessarily moved...you are going to flip out over Quarantine, a recent "handheld-camera" type horror movie. I won't give anything else away, but the plot is rationed out slowly and precisely, with incredibly realistic and terrifying results. Sherwin and I bought another large cheese pizza for this movie, this time from Pizza Boli's, but halfway into my second slice I completely forgot about the pizza and was fully engaged in this movie and totally freaked out!! Didn't touch the pizza after that. Neither did sherwin. This movie, plotwise, is so well done that at every turn you simoultaneously want to know more, and don't want to know any more, and just want it to be over and go away...but it is as unforgiving as it is patient. Incredible.

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THE SHILOH NEWS:
1. Weddings have been pissing everybody off
and as such Shiloh has, obviously, plunged into the abyss of selfish pizza-devouring horror movie nights and videogames. We're coming apart at the seams!! Sherwin's got a shinsplint and Nathan randomly ordered 3 gamecube controllers. I don't know what's going on.

2. Nathan has another light in his room!!! that's right folks, I no longer have to be afraid of the dark, with my new "2nd lamp" in the room! of course, now I can actually see my filthy floor, but also it's easier to clean when you can see stuff. at least that's what people have been telling me.

3. Jonaline is still MIA. where the heck does he go?!

4. Prisms is in the studio working on two demo tracks for the new record! Keep your ears to the ground, these will be ready in a few weeks!

5. Horror Night at Shiloh will soon be extended to the rest of the world!! if you're into horror movies, we will have good news for you guys in the coming weeks...

see ya later!

Monday, May 18, 2009

Guest Post on Thurber Party of 4!

I know this hasn't been updated in awhile. We'll update it whenever we freakin want get off our backs!! >:0

Anyway this is just to let you know that our very own Emcee Mission Control, aka Nathan Mitchell, will have a guest post over at thurberpartyof4.blogspot.com sometime in the next few days. They are some of me and Sherwin's friends and their blog rules, so effin get over there and quit wasting our time!

Love,
MCMC

Monday, April 27, 2009

Lunch Review #2: Philly Cheese Steak from Breadline

This is the last effing time I will let sherwin make a decision for me.

Sherwin, after getting cheese steaks for his birthday dinner at Al's Steakhouse in Alexandria last week (which was really good), has gone on a frantic search for the best cheese steak in town, eating cheese steaks everywhere--Subway, Quiznos, and now, BREADLINE. He called me up and we decided to head over there for lunch on a hot Monday afternoon.

for those of you who don't know, Breadline is a new restaurant that opened up on Penn. Ave. You won't be able to glean any information other than that from their website, however, which is literally the crappiest and most uninformative website I have ever seen: http://thebreadlinedc.blogspot.com/

seriously.

on to the review:
The Food: Philly Cheese Steak (a monday-only special) and fries:
The Place: Breadline, 1751 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, DC
The Price: $11.50
The Pre-Lunch Vibe: I hadn't had anything to eat for 24 straight hours. I had Crisp & Juicy with William, a few cheetos here and there, and that was it. no breakfast, no dinner the night before. So I was starving and would pretty much eat whatever was put in front of me. Sherwin, on the other hand, doesn't usually even eat during the day, but really really wanted to try this cheese steak from Breadline because he had heard good things.
The Verdict: let's start off with the obvious. Does this:
look like a cheese steak to you?

no?

maybe that's because it's NOT:
Nathan: What is this thing?
Sherwin:
it has some kind of ketchup on it
Nathan:
...it's...not THAT bad...
Sherwin:
I feel like I'm eating beef stew on bread.

It was okay. It did the job of filling me up. The ingredients seemed fresh and the bread was pretty good, but...something about it coming together was just wrong.

Which is when we looked around and saw, easily, one of the douchiest and most pretentious sandwich restaurants in the Metro area. It's super open, carries fine bottled water, obscure root beer (Sprecher's Root Beer...elevation burger does it better. You can't fool me, Breadline. I am the root beer commander), has pictures of various people baking or eating bread from the 1940s, and their pizza, I swear to you, is the size of a DVD. To reference South Park, Sherwin and I both almost died from all the Smug in the air. All the people in there were LOVING it. Yuppie headquarters.

Nathan: this place...sucks.
Sherwin:
I hate it in here.
Nathan: it's...horrible.
Sherwin: I am never coming here again.

The thing that really bothered me, in particular, was that they made no effort whatsoever to cover up their pretentiousness. it just sucked. Redeeming factor: the fries were pretty good.

but not enough to give it a grade above a big, fat F.

And so, the question you're all begging to ask: "should I go to Breadline for lunch?"

Sherwin + Nathan say NO!



Sherwin: it is a CRIME to call this a Philly cheese steak.

Friday, April 24, 2009

My name is Nathan and I am a model

Hey everyone Vinny here. This is my newest graphic design creation. I am so awesome at what I do :-) !!! Nathan is very pretty isn't he. *guuush <3

Vinny+Nathan

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Highlights for Children

Shiloh's been busy with life and other commitments but we have not forgotten about you!

Some highlights:

-Prisms is playing on Sunday at 930 at Galaxy Hut in Clarendon 9-11PM. You need to come!

-Sherwin's Birthday is April 22nd. Aging!

-Nathan in an alltime record left Shiloh at a monumentous 645AM this morning. Unheard of!

-Jon studies a lot. ZZZZZ!

-Sherwin attends Filmfest DC all week and watches at least 3 movies a night and comes home after midnight. Reviews up soon. http://www.filmfestdc.org/ Cinema!

-Invisible Children: The Rescue April 25th which is the day before the Prisms show at Galaxy Hut on April 26 Sunday http://therescue.invisiblechildren.com/graphics/The-Rescue-Manual.pdf Sleep on the Mall with a thousand people!

-Sojourners Conference: http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=events.M2EP&item=M2EP-schedule Men in suits!

-S

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Lunch Review #1: Philly Steak and Cheese

Clever.

Philly Steak and Cheese. As opposed to Philly Cheese Steak. I read ya.

The food: Philly Steak and Cheese sub, steak-fries, A&W Cream Soda in a bottle:



















The Place: Sizzling Express, 15th + K
The Price: $9.50
The Pre-Lunch Vibe: I was pretty hungry, and I didn't really care about spending a couple more bucks than normal since I felt vindicated in the light of the previous day's "piece of chicken w/ketchup" lunch that cost a whopping $0.00. Normally I don't get a philly cheese steak unless I'm at Pat's or Geno's in philly, but my coworker recommended it so I went for it.
The Review: Taking the "Philly" out of the name of this sub would make it much better, since, as mentioned above, philly cheese steaks just aren't the same outside of philly. The Philly Steak and Cheese Sub from Sizzling Express came with lettuce, tomato, green peppers, onions, mushrooms, and mayo atop the standard sliced ribeye and provolone cheese. It tasted okay. I mean it was good (the A&W, btw, was an excellent choice), but it's time to draw the line. A Philly Cheese Steak from anywhere but Philadelphia proper is a ruse, a Venus Flytrap, a shallow pond. You see, philly cheese steaks are precious gems of love, and if you go to philly and you have one there, you'll understand. things like lettuce, tomato, mayo, and even your cute little provalone cheese are basically unheard of in philly when it comes to steaks. In philly you're thrown a greasy basket with very thinly sliced steak in a pliable Pennsylvania whitebread with cheese wiz everywhere, and onions if you want them...and that's it. "That's it? where's the provalone? what's up with cheese wiz?! that's gross, Nathan." Get over it. What are you eating anyway? Cosi? oh that's cool. I'll just be over here eating something that doesn't cost $20 and is larger than a toenail and doesn't consist of alfalfa sprouts, imported mustard and "coastal flatbread." What does "Così" even mean? You don't even know, do you? maybe it's french for "tiny amount of expensive food." I prefer to eat at a place that doesn't require you to be pretentious in order to make it through the door. You make me sick.



...more lunchtime food reviews to come!

Monday, April 13, 2009

Review of Hannah Montana: The Movie

Sherwin: did you know that hannah montana and miley cyrus are the same person?
Vinny: yes
did you just figure this out?
Sherwin: yes
well actually yesterday
when jenn dragged me to the movie
Vinny: you have got to be kidding me

Hannah Montana: The Movie - Zero Stars

-S

Friday, April 10, 2009

l33t haxxorz are @ll over the interwebz

Friends, Romans, countrymen:

many of you have been coming to the Residents of Shiloh and asking whether or not our blog was again hacked by Vinny.

I assure you, no hacking has occurred. everything is fine, situation normal. we're...everything's good...now...fine...how are you?

THE SHILOH NEWS:
-Nathan has again become super geeky and started playing a stupid video game for hours on end, while still maintaining a debonair chic and whirlwind social life
-Sherwin continues to eat his weight in chinese delivery food every night
-Jon has mind-controlled Caroline's dog, Radley, who has been successfully reprogrammed to believe that sherwin is actually Caroline, as evidenced by this picture:

















Regards,
The [actual] Management

Thursday, April 9, 2009

SHILOH IS BRRRNNNGGG



OHNOES SHILOH BURRRNNSSSSS!!!



QUICKLY YA'LL ASSEMBLE THE TEEEAM!












































GO TEAM!!

GET OUT THE FIRE!!! ITS GETTING TOO STRONG!!!!

ITS SO HOTT THE FIRE IS BURNNNING US ALL AAAAAHH QUICK WE NEED MORE
WATER SUPPLIES. STOP WATERING THOSE DYING PLANTS AND USE IT ON THE FIREEE
THE FIRE IS AAARRRRHHH

















AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!















































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