What I’m Going to Look For in a New House

I’m not quite house-hunting yet, but watching the prices here in Orange County keep on falling is making me think I could start looking in another six months or so. So for the sake of posterity, here’s what I’m going to be looking for: No speed bumps between the house and the main street. Yes,

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Desert Island Albums

Rules/Guidelines: Can only choose five. No compilation albums. One album per band. It’s not really the albums you would take with you onto an actual desert island. It’s: if you could only listen to five albums for the rest of your (otherwise normal) life, what would they be? Mine (alpha by artist): DEATH FROM ABOVE

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Program Music: An Ode to the Gulf War That I Wrote When I Was 24

This came up on my iPod at work today and it cracked me up. I’m guessing no one else will have the same reaction. Shame. I wrote this while I was taking an honors class on Beethoven my senior year in college. One day we talked about Wellington’s Victory and it sounded like it was

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The DIY Kitchen Table Project is Done (or Close Enough)

Here’s proof: It turns out that, size-wise, the table’s more of a writing table than a kitchen table. The idea that two people could eat at this little guy is almost laughable. Oh well. It’s the size that would fit in the allotted space, so I’ll deal with it. The table isn’t for me anyway:

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States That Do Not Love Me

According to Google Analytics, my blog has only been visited by people in 39 of the 50 US states + DC. Here’s who’s missing out: Alaska Delaware Maine Michigan (and I sort of *lived there* for four weeks) Mississippi Missouri Montana Rhode Island South Dakota Vermont West Virginia Wyoming Punks. Clearly the M-states are killing

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Energy Drink Challenge: Monster vs. Full Throttle Fury

The quest for the perfect daily beverage-as-drug continues. The last four days have witnessed my first encounters with both Monster and Full Throttle Fury. Next week, Cocaine! (Actually, I think they got forced to change their name. Oh well.) Monster: Tastes like someone melted every flavor of Jolly Rancher ever conceived and then mixed it

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Blog Post Titles with Colons: My Personal Shame

Four of the last six? I gotta learn to mix things up with the titles. (And what’s with all the em-dashes? How old *am* I? Twenty-three? Jeez.) bkd

Experimenting with Drugs: How Alternating Doses of Energy Drink and Melatonin Have Kept Me Alive Another Two Days

One big upside to having a widescreen laptop is that you can do ridiculously long blog post titles without getting to the end of the input form. Just FYI. The last couple days I’ve been dosing myself with Energy Drink in the morning (8 oz./morning, Rockstar Juice variety) and then loading up with melatonin to

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Getting Closer: My Do-It-Yourself Kitchen Table Project So Far

I love writing blog post headlines for the sake of search engine findability. Seems honest. We’ll see where I end up ranking. So I’m building my own kitchen table, a *small* one. Here’s what I’ve learned so far: Wood glue alone isn’t strong enough to hold a table together. And good luck trying to get

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Wrong bkdunn

I’m used to getting wrong Brian Dunn emails on my brian.dunn at gmail address, but lately I’m getting wrong bkdunns as well. Most of the wrong brian.dunns are for some guy who was in the Peace Corps in Uganda. It’s kind of sad getting emails from someone else’s grandmother. Here’s my favorite to date: Peterson,

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