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Sundance has announced the films that will be competing in this year’s festival…
Here are a few that looked pretty interesting:
Documentary:
TV JUNKIE (Director: Michael Cain)—From the time he was born Rick knew he had a special
purpose. If he could only record it he might be able to figure out what it is. 46 years, 5000
hours [...]

Another successful t-giving holiday for all, save for Papa Z who was stuck at home with the flu. An apple crisp and homemade pumpkin pie reigned as the champions of dessert as did the Denver Broncos and Atlanta Falcons.
I don’t have any pics from Tgiving, as I don’t have an interweb connection at my new [...]

Tonight, Carrie and I will be finalizing the lease for our new pad in Arlington, VA and begin the moving in with the big, final day of moving this Saturday. What won’t be moving along with me is my big yellow NO FARTING poster and my PERIODIC TABLE OF BEER poster…but really, I’m [...]

Anyway, NOW SBC/AT&T has decided they want to keep the name AT&T except it’s “at&t” now… not AT&T because capital letters are SO 1990’s

Today’s martyz.com entry has been submitted by celebrity guest writer Jackie Harvey of The Onion’s “The Outside Scoop”.

Jackie Harvey graduated from Viterbo University with a degree in English literature in 1990. After honing his writing and copy-editing skills at The Sunshine Shopper, he became The Onion’s entertainment columnist in 1994, replacing the outgoing [...]

One of the funniest games that was played on Loveline was something called “Germany or Florida” — where a caller presents a news story and the hosts, Adam and Drew had to guess if the story took place in Germany or Florida — you can catch older episodes of the show at the Loveline archive.
As [...]

A few days ago, I snapped. I’ve been having a craving for pumpkin pie for several weeks now and I happened to be at Carrie’s when this happened — I saw some pumpkins on her porch and grabbed one hell bent on making a tasty pumpkin pie from scratch. None of that store-bought BS.

So [...]

Inspired by Ryan’s photo enhancing and the advanced Photoshop class I’m taking courtesy of CSC, I thought I’d ‘optimize’ a few of my own photos. myself. To the right is the enhanced version of a shot I took on the “Long Ass Hike in Shenandoah a couple weeks ago…here’s the original, flat, fairly non-vibrant [...]

I will be out of the office for training on Monday, November 14 and Tuesday, November 15. If your matter is urgent, please sit on it for a few days and get back to me. Dig?
Be sure to “SaveOurBluths”
Also, NPR did an interview with American Splendor’s “Harvey Pekar” about his new graphic novel “The Quitter”. [...]

The Cell Phone Bandit Hits Northern VA

Originally uploaded by martyz.

This story has been making national news, this woman has been hitting Wachovia banks in my area in Northern Virginia, all while staying on her cell phone.
I hope that Wachovia around here has taken that intensive [...]