Last year the LJ team spent a lot of time talking about possible improvements to our photo hosting.  Brad had all these amazing plans but some of us technologically-challenged types had a hard time wrapping our heads around them.  I ended up spending 20 minutes with Brad listening to him until I finally got it, then I decided to present my dumbed-down version to some other non-engineers.

To help everyone visualize the plans, I made several drawings and used them on the whiteboard in our conference room to represent tagging and other features.  After the presentation, I decided to give the drawings out to a few people.  I gave Garth this one.

Garth drawing

It was supposed to represent a photo of Garth eating a cupcake at a party.

Today Garth and Steve decided to re-enact it:

Garth's cupcake re-enactment

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How did I get myself into this? 

A few of us SFists -- Jon (the new editor), MattyMatt and I -- will be on Madden's show on Live 105 tonight around 8pm.   At least if I faint or break out into hives, no one will be able to see it.

Tune in to my weekly column on SFist later today where I'll be giving away the new Decemberists record with a signed lithograph.

And while I'm talking about myself so much (groan), I wrote a few reviews for Venus:  Scanners and The Long Winters

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Either Ydnar has a long lost twin, or he's bought one of Jessica Simpson's hairpieces and he's moonlighting in Hollywood as an actor on "Twenty Good Years."

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A few photos from my trip to Austin last week.  More to come.

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I can't wait to hear the comments I get back on this.

How indie are you? test by ridethefader

My results:

You are open-minded!

You're pretty knowledgeable about music in general. You like indie music, sure, but that's only part of it. You'll listen to any old shit as long as it sounds good to you. You're not snobby about music at all, you just like what you like. How boring. Curiously, this makes you popular with the opposite sex.

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How did you meet your best friend(s)?

I met two of my best friends, Nyla and Laurie, through a posting on JeffBuckley.com in 1998 (or 99?) that asked people to write in if Jeff had inspired them to create something.  I wrote in about a tribute I held for Jeff in Austin, TX, in September 1997, and the people who had written the post (two filmmakers working on a documentary) said they wanted to meet me.

I went to NYC and met these mysterious filmmakers at a diner on Van Dam street.  They were Nyla and Laurie, two women about my age and we instantly sparked.  Eight years later (including cross country travels and moves, match-making, endless hours of talking, one marriage, one award-winning documentary, and lots more stuff), they are two of the closest friends I've ever had. 

I'm sure glad I sent that email!

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