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There are people in L.A. who love hockey and baseball. And at least one of them was born here.

nickromaniak — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:56:45 +0000

Hockey is my first love and though I grew up in Los Angeles being a Kings fan, I still remain a loyal and loving fan of my team that hasn’t seen the post-season in 5 years, has an all-time post-season record of 55-94, and has only qualified 5 of the last 16 years. It [...]

Vectrex lives (and other video game nostalgia)

nickromaniak — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:10:59 +0000

So. I was cleaning up my home/life/piles of junk when I decided to possibly, finally part ways with my Vextrex system. For those of you who have your heads in the silicon sand (also can be read as: for those of you who are not computer/video game wanna-be historians, or nerds, or whatever the [...]

no country for old men

nickromaniak — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:43:03 +0000

don’t read this if you do not want to read something that alludes to plot lines and events in this book or film. i recently read this book and then within a week or so i watched the film. i must say that i was impressed with what the coen brothers did with this story. it [...]

post-rock/punk greases the wheels of this here operation tonight

nickromaniak — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:40:28 +0000

seven and a half hours into an all-night IT shift and it is 630 in the morning. i am waiting for a few gigs of data to migrate to their new server. i’ve been listening to my bloody valentine’s “loveless” and mono’s “gone”. i suppose they are post-punk and post-rock respectively, but [...]

sea level weird

nickromaniak — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:57:34 +0000

an unfinished entry from summer ‘07… so i get down to sea level records this morning a little early and turn on all of the computers and lights, go around and open the gate and then i sit down to read my e-mail and check on the outside world. i had loaded the new shellac album, [...]

transformers is a piece of shit

nickromaniak — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:07:22 +0000

number one: ok, so people think i’m crazy or an idiot, but i did not know who fuckin micheal bay was. number two: do not go see this movie. do not ever go to see this movie. do not ever rent this movie. do not ever watch this movie for free. do not ever let anyone [...]

los angeles is least affordable…

nickromaniak — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:40:03 +0000

this is fantastic… according to a study linked from reuters, 4 of the top ten least affordable cities for real estate are in california, including the top three… #1 los angeles #2 san francisco #3 san diego and #6 sacremento so, weren’t some of us going to start a commune somewhere?

administrative assistant to the president…

nickromaniak — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:53:03 +0000

i'm not really sure where "innovated" people come from

cool site, nice jets…

nickromaniak — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:42:56 +0000

i just came across this guys site and it’s awesome… lou drendel… he grew up in the world war II era and his dad built models of all kinds of aircraft. his earliest memories are of trying to draw and color airplanes, so he’s spent his entire life drawing and painting really cool shit. unless [...]

he likes turtles.

nickromaniak — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:25:23 +0000