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The Adventures of an American Vagabond
(& stories from ridiculously long walks)

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Colbert edit #3

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I think this one is my best yet, but I want to hear what other folks think. It's basically an extension of Edit #2, except I have made ...
Sunday, April 08, 2007

Dead at 33

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Ryan Michael Powell, born December 29, 1973 in Great Falls, Montana, escaped an almost certain violent death by mere inches on this day, Apr...
Saturday, April 07, 2007

Another Colbert video

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I made another Stephen Colbert video today, and this one is totally freakin' hilarious. If you don't piss your pants while watching...
Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Stephen Colbert edit

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I have a completed a rough draft of my "For Your Editing Pleasure" project, featuring Stephen Colbert. If the YouTube video below ...
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Friday, March 30, 2007

Playing stupid

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It appears that there is a new generation of cop shows hitting the air waves lately. I admit I've been watching some of them. Naturally ...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

For your editing pleasure

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I've been really bored lately, but Stephen Colbert has saved me. Last night on The Colbert Report , Stephen made some comments about Rah...
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Thursday, March 22, 2007

Goodbye to another friend

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My little buddy Homer's heart stopped beating today at 3:14 PM EDT. He died peacefully. Homer was very full of life until about six week...
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Monday, March 19, 2007

Keeping it real

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I occasionally have to remind myself that I really don't care how much traffic the Aimless web site receives. Although sometimes it may ...
Thursday, March 15, 2007

The Daily Show

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I want to be on the Daily Show. Not next week, not next month, but eventually. Perhaps whenever I Aimless my way to the New York City area. ...
Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Biggest scam on the planet

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Have you ever thought about how bad your bank rips you off? First you give them all your money, which they turn into more money that you nev...
Sunday, March 11, 2007

Impulsive bastard

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But here is the map of all the places I've driven alone. Believe it or not, most of these lines represent the routes I've taken to g...
Saturday, March 10, 2007

Impulsive bastards

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I've been wanting to do this for a long time, but I finally took the time today to "draw" up a map with lines representing all...

It's damn near time to vamoose

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In my most recent post I alluded to an anonymous professional golfer who seems to be a regular reader of this blog. He e-mailed me shortly b...
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Friday, March 09, 2007

Digg it!

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Some anonymous professional golfer who lurks here recently told me about digg.com, so I just registered on Digg and entered some information...
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Thursday, March 08, 2007

Response to trailer comments

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First of all, thank you everyone! Thank you for hanging around, thank you for waiting for the movies to load, thank you for your feedback , ...
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Trailer Part I is up!

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I'm sure I still have a lot of work to do, to compress the size of the file and stuff like that, but Part I of the trailer is here, as ...
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Seriously, it will be here soon

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If I can only figure out how to turn this FCE project into a reasonably-sized QuickTime movie (instead of a 41.7 MB QuickTime movie), the tr...
Friday, March 02, 2007

Trailer is almost finished

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I'm pretty much done with the trailer; just have some fine-tuning to do before I make it public. Right now I feel really good about it, ...

Referral spam: Please help!

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If anyone knows how to combat referral spam (or referrer spam), please help me. I spend about an hour every day sorting through my referrer ...
Monday, February 26, 2007

Tony Gemignani

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Today at the pizza show Tony Gemignani walked up to me and initiated a short conversation. If you don't know who Tony Gemignani is, he i...
Thursday, February 22, 2007

Trailer update

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I can't even begin to express how excited I am about the trailer I'm putting together. It's already four minutes long and I anti...
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Saturday, February 17, 2007

Cutting and editing...

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...And changing my mind and unchanging my mind and unbreaking my heart and teaching myself yet another set of skills and wondering and eatin...
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Thursday, February 15, 2007

Quasi-Aimless

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OK, so I'll have to come up with a name for the trial run video I'm currently working on. How about Quasi-Aimless? I mean, that'...
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

What's your son's name?

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If you were reading the "California to Ohio" series of entries I had been writing (and may continue eventually), you probably reme...
Monday, February 12, 2007

Setting up a structure

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A few days ago I began watching my tapes all over again. This time through is a lot different than the first time, though, for a lot of reas...
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Sunday, February 11, 2007

Ciabatta

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I've baked a few loaves of ciabatta in the last few days and I must admit I'm getting pretty gosh-darn good at it. Gonna put another...

I don't like being ripped off

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I'm going to send two similar letters tomorrow to a couple people who ripped me off after I agreed to do some favors for them that no on...
Friday, February 09, 2007

Again, what's the point?

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I was just watching some of my video footage from November 18, taken several hours before I split from Patrick & Company. At 8:56 that m...
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Thursday, February 08, 2007

The opening

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I have now reviewed and logged all of the tapes from my trip, and some things are starting to take shape. The clearest thing right now is th...
Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Joe Sacco for Las Vegas City Council

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For those of you who have read my recent entry, Looking for Joe Sacco , I have some good news: My attempt to contact Joe has succeeded. And ...
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Some thoughts about liars

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I've always been fascinated with people who can't keep their lies straight. You know who I'm talking about: the people who tell ...
Tuesday, January 30, 2007

A desperate plea for help

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Sometimes I seriously consider giving up on Aimless. Not because I don't believe in Aimless but because it feels like no one else gives ...
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Monday, January 29, 2007

Looking for Joe Sacco

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A couple months ago, in Las Vegas, I met a guy named Joe Sacco. I may have mentioned Joe in this blog once before, but I can't remember ...
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Anonymous comments allowed

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I've changed my mind about disallowing anonymous comments. Even though I wish people would use registered aliases or nicknames when comm...
Sunday, January 28, 2007

I used to love drum corps

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I used to love the drum and bugle corps activity, both as a participant and as a spectator. I don't love it anymore, though. In fact, I ...
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I always knew I was born 20 years too late

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Yesterday while reviewing my Aimless tapes, I reached the part where Rudy Montez gave me a ride from Palm Springs to Quartzsite. As he drove...
Thursday, January 25, 2007

Rock & roll marketing

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About an hour ago, I came up with an idea that can kill two birds with one stone. It all started as I thought about how ridiculous it is tha...
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

1969

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Today, like most Wednesdays, I went to Dino's Capuccinos in Yellow Springs. Dino's is a really small place, so when I arrived I sat ...

No more anonymous comments

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That's pretty much all I have to say about that. Aimless
Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Do the math

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George Bush reminded me again tonight that there has not been a terrorist attack on American soil since September 11th, 2001. I'd like t...
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Monday, January 22, 2007

I miss the road

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I want to get back out on the road. I don't like being here, isolated from the rest of the world. I don't like being here, always ab...
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