Black Shoe Diary: The Daily Musings of Shuruku Umezawa: Junior Salesman, NinjaTuesday, March 14

All day long I am made to sit in a cube. All I wish to do is leave this cube. Yet, each time I leave for restroom break, I return to find turtle figurines strewn about my desk by anonymous office clowns. [...]

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I’ll be in New York this weekend. I’m busy tonight and Saturday night, but I’m free all day Saturday. So if you will be there and want to hang out, let me know.

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I’m listening to the Cardigans’ album, Gran Turismo, the follow-up to their fairly big hit album, First Band on the Moon (remember “Lovefool”?). This album basically sank without a trace upon its release in 1998, but it’s really good. The Cardigans certainly seemed like a deserving one hit wonder candidate—”Lovefool” was catchy and cute in [...]

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I enjoyed Woody Allen’s last movie, Match Point, and I’m looking forward to his new one, Scoop. The publicity campaign for Scoop has Allen giving interviews all over the place, and this one, from the Washington Post, is pretty interesting. Not that Allen was ever reticent about his neuroses, but it seems like he’s pretty [...]

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Yeah, thrilling, I know. Anyway, the header is still a disaster but hopefully this palette is easier on the eyes. Substantive post someday.

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Oh man. Ellen Pompeo (the completely unsympathetic main character in Grey’s Anatomy) is a total B (you know what that stands for, internet). Who knew her real accent made her sound like a jersey skank? Spend your weekend thanking the lord that you’re not dating this harpy:

Can you believe that, internet? Not only does her [...]

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Word on the street is my new color scheme is “repugnant.”

I’ll see what I can do this weekend.

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I’m going to be in New York City in a couple of weeks (July 28th or so). Will you be there as well?

Also, my desktop PC at home has been acting up lately—a Windows file got corrupted and I nearly lost all 60 gigs of music I have on that thing—so I just bought an [...]

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