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I didn’t bother to explain it before, but “Unrestrained” entries are basically me babbling about random stuff. It’ll usually be things that don’t take longer than one sentence to say and thus don’t warrant an entire entry, along with any random thoughts or rants that I just want to get out.

Am I the only person who wants to see King Kong?

After shelling out $10-$14 for lunch the past few days, I miss the $4 meals I had in China.

This time of the year is great if only because of Pumpkin Pie.

The best quote from Thanksgiving came from Jennie while debating whether or not to go for seconds: “What the hell. Life is short. Eat it up.” That was certainly a life-changing decision.

This post at being jennifer garrett made my day. I feel like a mini-celeb. In the sense that people I don’t know are talking about me so I’m almost like a celebrity, not in the sense that I’m like a midget and a celebrity and hence mini-celeb. Anyway, it looks like one of her readers even wants to marry me. This is awesome, I’ve managed to skip steps 1-10 in developing a relationship and gone straight to the proposal stage. I’ll remember to write this down in my book about the advantages of keeping a blog:

Advantage #314: Allows you to skip all the awkwardness and pain and affection and hot steamy sex of a relationship and go straight to picking out wallpaper and flooring at Home Depot.

I love buying clothes in China. I’m walking down the steps from the second floor of the Giordano store on Beijing Road in Guangzhou, holding a shopping bag containing the pair of khakis I just had altered. As far as I can tell, all clothing stores in China will alter your clothes for no charge; Just have a salesperson measure the right length, ring them up at the register, and then drop them off and come back later.

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• “So, You Ever Kill Anybody?”. Read this in the magazine and thought it just had to be shared.

  Monday November 21, 2005

• V for Vendetta Posters. Too bad the movie’s probably gonna suck.

  Friday November 18, 2005

And I’m back in the States. We made it back home on Tuesday night, took a day for rest, and back to the working world today. And as is the norm for Eric, I didn’t get much writing done at all. I’ve got a couple of good things to write about, but for now, just photos. Click for my Flickr photo set of China. Big thanks to Tim for lending me his Nikon D70. I’m gonna have to start shopping around for one myself now.

• Monty Python Killer Rabbit Plush. I’m so tempted to get one of these bad boys. If only it came with a holy hand grenade…

  Thursday November 17, 2005

• Empire’s 50 Greatest Independent Films. I’m more surprised at how many of these are Indie films.

  Thursday November 17, 2005