Baseball game in downtown Fort Wayne
n a t h a n
what I'm thinking about right now
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Amanda has a mustache fetish.
— my dad, stating the obvious during our dinner conversation tonight
My sister and her husband are out of town for their honeymoon so tonight my cousins and I went over to their house to play Rock Band.
Two of the three flower girls the morning after the wedding.
- Nathan: Did you care about what you would wear before you got married?
- Dad: No.
- Mom: Trust me; he didn't.
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Fellatio is happening.
— Jeanine on Saturday night, reporting what she had just seen in a Honda CRV parked near the hotel where everyone was staying for the wedding.
They did it!
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A follow-up interview with my four year-old cousin after I shaved the mustache.
After my youngest sister went off to college a few years ago my parents decided to start taking ballroom dancing lessons together. Tomorrow is my sister’s wedding and for the first time they’re going to get to show off their moves to the rest of the family.
Tonight I caught them reviewing a few steps in the family room before going to bed and snuck a photo before they realized I was there.
My sister Amanda and I the night before her wedding — I grew this mustache especially for her big day because she loves them.
(Thanks to all my friends in Los Angeles who supported me during the process.)
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an interview with Ben Davis, his wife Joan and my mom on their feelings regarding my mustache
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I like it. I think it looks really Hollywood.
— my grandmother, on the mustache I grew as a joke for my sister’s wedding
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I talk to my seven year-old cousin about my mustache situation.
2009 Indianapolis 500 Car Tracker
Very cool graphic representation of Sunday’s race from the Indianapolis Star
(via kottke via me)
why I love* living in los angeles
A few months ago, I got a ticket for texting while driving. As I wrote at the time, I wasn’t actually sending a text message; I was entering an attractive woman’s number into my phone, which is technically allowed.
Still, I had been operating my phone in a way that distracted me from the road, and so, after checking with my insurance company to make sure that pleading guilty and paying the citation wouldn’t affect my premium, I decided to do just that. After all, according to the California DMV, a ticket for first time offenders like me is only $20.
Except it’s not.
When I went online to pay, the LA Superior Court system said I owed $132, not $20. Perplexed, I called their offices and a nice woman explained to me that even though the California state legislature set a $20 penalty when they passed the no-texting-while-driving-law, various other government agencies — including the City of Los Angeles, LA County and the Los Angeles Police Department — each tack on their own fees to that original amount. In my case those “additional charges” added up to $112, a 560% increase over the $20 fine established by the state legislature when writing the law.
And so, instead of paying $20 and going about my business, tomorrow at 8AM I’m going to the courthouse to post bail (the full $132) and set a trial date to contest the ticket.
I’ll let you know what happens.
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