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OhMyGodOhMyLordOhMyJesus....
«««breaaaathe....
«« breathe....
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Soooo.
«««««a few months ago, I downloaded a lil' football game onto my cameraphone to pass the time while maintaining an unhealthy obsession with football, and as I now remember, after it downloaded, a confirmation message popped up saying "you're now entered in the NFL Draft sweepstakes!" blah blah bl... whatever.
Long story short.... why am I telling you this? why do YOU think I'm telling you this?!?!? uh-huh smart-cookie, you guessed it. I won!!! what did I win? I'll copy/paste what they sent via email and add what they told me by phone:
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«««««A 4-DAY/3-NIGHT TRIP FOR TWO TO ATTEND THE NFL DRAFT 2006 IN NEW YORK CITY ON [saturday 4/29 with a] 3-NIGHTS ... HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS [at the Times Square Hilton!! and] TWO TICKETS TO THE NFL DRAFT [at Radio City Music Hall] AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET MATT LEINART ONE OF THE DRAFT PICKS AFTER THE EVENT [and a limo ride to some sort of party the sweepstakes people are throwing in Matt Leinert's hotel room at the W Hotel on Fri before the draft] and a $100 check in place of taking a car service to the hotel (yeah, I think I can handle a four stop subway ride instead). Honestly, I got the impression that they ran out of time picking a winner or some winner(s?) declined the prize or... they didn't wanna pay for airfare for an out-of-towner so they picked someone with a 212 area code - hey... hearmenow.... dat is all Finnnnne Byyyyyy Meeeeee. I'm so giddy I could slap a policeman. (what???) .... winning sweepstakes seems to do weird things to me.
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«««««Cant you just picture it now, my friends?? I can - "And with the # 7 selection in the draft... the Oakland Raiders select" [muffled sounds of wrestling with microphones - you then hear me screaming] "KORY DAYANI!! YEAH!! THANK YOU!! Al Davis, I LOVE YOU!! COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE BABY!! OHWwww! Get.. off of ME! You Broke My Rib!! Let go of me You Son of a ..... RAAAAAIIIIDERRRRSSS!!!! ALL THE WAY BABY!!"
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«««««Hey, a guy can dream.
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From: Stacy XXXXXXXX
Date: Apr 26, 2006 2:36 PM
Subject: Sprint to the NFL Draft Sweepstakes
To: me @ my email
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Dear Kory:
«««
«««««Congratulations! We are pleased to inform you that you have been selected as the Grand Prize winner in the Sprint to the NFL Draft Sweepstakes. You were entered in the sweepstakes when you purchased select NFL branded games, wallpaper, and/or ringtones using your cellular phone or wireless device.
«««««You have won: A 4-DAY/3-NIGHT TRIP FOR TWO TO ATTEND THE NFL DRAFT 2006 IN NEW YORK CITY ON 4/29/06 CONSISTING OF ROUND-TRIP GROUND TRANSPORTATION TO/FROM YOUR HOME AND THE APPLICABLE HOTEL, 3-NIGHTS¹ STANDARD DOUBLE-OCCUPANCY HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS (ONE (1) ROOM), TWO TICKETS TO THE NFL DRAFT AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET MATT LEINART ONE OF THE DRAFT PICKS AFTER THE EVENT
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«««««I have confirmed with our tax advisors that you will not be taxed on this prize. ..... On behalf of everyone at XXXXXX Wireless, Inc., thank you for participating in the Sprint to the NFL Draft Sweepstakes.
Sincerely,
Stacy XXXXXXX
update: an updated update will be updated on Monday with updates
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Monday, April 17, 2006
Listicle 11.ii
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¬¬¬¬OhMyLord, it's worth it just for the flash movie - samurai kittens deserve your respect.
¬¬¬¬I will.. nay, must.. start the Ihate-IhateCilantro.com website. in the meantime, check out my enemies. what bastards!
¬¬¬¬Please Mr Bushie, listen to your advisors. Nuclear bunker busters dont work. please dont drop them on my people.
¬¬¬¬Esra and I are going to Amsterdam for the end of May / beginning of June - staying on this for the last few days. ohw yeah. (click go for the pictures)
¬¬¬¬OhMyLord, it's worth it just for the flash movie - samurai kittens deserve your respect.
¬¬¬¬I will.. nay, must.. start the Ihate-IhateCilantro.com website. in the meantime, check out my enemies. what bastards!
¬¬¬¬Please Mr Bushie, listen to your advisors. Nuclear bunker busters dont work. please dont drop them on my people.
¬¬¬¬Esra and I are going to Amsterdam for the end of May / beginning of June - staying on this for the last few days. ohw yeah. (click go for the pictures)
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Pic-a-ture-s
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Flowers at my lunch spot, Bowling Green Park. Aside from the noise, it's an excellent place to get sun and read for an hour.
The old Custom House, now the National Museum of the American Indian is the perfect place to read for an hour when it's raining.
overcast Good Friday. I had the day off, Esra didn't. On the way to Tompkins Square Park to read.
Pretty flowersSSss. I find that I'm most impressed by tree flowers.
Another tree starting to bloom or bud or umm... green-ify?
one iota of Tompkins Square Park.
Tree flowers in Tompkins Square Park.
Flowers at my lunch spot, Bowling Green Park. Aside from the noise, it's an excellent place to get sun and read for an hour.
The old Custom House, now the National Museum of the American Indian is the perfect place to read for an hour when it's raining.
overcast Good Friday. I had the day off, Esra didn't. On the way to Tompkins Square Park to read.
Pretty flowersSSss. I find that I'm most impressed by tree flowers.
Another tree starting to bloom or bud or umm... green-ify?
one iota of Tompkins Square Park.
Tree flowers in Tompkins Square Park.
Friday, April 07, 2006
Listicle 10.oI
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ØØØ.. local news has been covering the story of a cat stuck between Myers of Kenswick (the everything-British store I wrote about (where I saw Liv Tyler MmMmm)) .. c'mon, I promised you a cat link.
update: the cat is safe.
update # 2: the NY Daily News has the best / stupidest story titles.
ØØØ.. Earth has officially signalled for the arrival of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Thanks Maxim... good job.
ØØØ.. what a coincidence! I have these all over my apartment windows!
ØØØ.. a mesmerizing set of rube goldberg machine (think "Mousetrap") movies. I cant decide which is my favorite. If you cant either, there's 3027 others to chose from.
ØØØ.. I'm gonna be celebrating(?) Passover with Esra tonight. As an honorary Jew, I have to wear one of these. Oh and I've totally got my lamb's blood ready to keep the Angel of Death away! Take that Angel of Death! Go kill some Egyptian first born's like you normally do!
ØØØ.. really cool photos. click the double arrows at the bottom right corner to advance through them.
ØØØ.. local news has been covering the story of a cat stuck between Myers of Kenswick (the everything-British store I wrote about (where I saw Liv Tyler MmMmm)) .. c'mon, I promised you a cat link.
update: the cat is safe.
update # 2: the NY Daily News has the best / stupidest story titles.
ØØØ.. Earth has officially signalled for the arrival of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Thanks Maxim... good job.
ØØØ.. what a coincidence! I have these all over my apartment windows!
ØØØ.. a mesmerizing set of rube goldberg machine (think "Mousetrap") movies. I cant decide which is my favorite. If you cant either, there's 3027 others to chose from.
ØØØ.. I'm gonna be celebrating(?) Passover with Esra tonight. As an honorary Jew, I have to wear one of these. Oh and I've totally got my lamb's blood ready to keep the Angel of Death away! Take that Angel of Death! Go kill some Egyptian first born's like you normally do!
ØØØ.. really cool photos. click the double arrows at the bottom right corner to advance through them.
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
APRIL SNOW, Yo!
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Most people here hate it...
they really do.
I dont understand those people.
which is ok I suppose.
they dont understand the sheer bliss a good case of the snow-crazies bring me.
Seriously.
How do I describe the sledgehammer of sh!t-eating grins that impact against my skull with the force of a thousand sexy, sexy rainbows? Or tell you about that place where angels meet Purity, have sex, and give birth to a litter of Aww's and Oooh's so fantastic that words give way to exclamation. It is the cascading synapses firing neural messages from tiny feline minds, forming, in mid air before you, the phrase "The Cats Meow".
It's my own personal snow globe. Experienced 3D verticality. A begloved slap to the face of that conformist, gravity. Defiance of your atmosphere's transparency. It is everywhere moving somewhere else, right before your eyes. Cold liquid falling as soft solid turning to slippery liquid. Uniform beautification.. seemingly brushing a city's dirt under a pillowy carpet of white. It is tingly. Brain tingly.
Straight up. then down. sideways. sideways again. All in a few seconds time. How many people have literally been hypnotized by watching falling snow? I wonder. Then out of nowhere, it's dark, but almost completely white out.
Five times the snow falling. four times as fast.. you can almost feel the weight of it, watching. Then.. back to snowglobe-slow. Drifting, playing... like the coordinated flight of sparrows. Darting in, out.... up, down, over.
Figure eights and L's and M's and Z's of direction.. every curvy and jagged shape you might imagine. It dances around to show you how nimble it is, how boring rain is. It whispers about all things calm and innocent while rain drones on, only about wetness.
And
Annnnd....
then...
it's done. over. the sun's out again. from overcast to a bright white-yellow, twilight-zoney sky to snow (to more snow) to wimpy rain to... sun - in less than four hours time. Did I mention the 75 degree weather we had on Friday and the beautiful, 70 degree Saturday? Three seasons in 48 hours??
And people still ask me if I like New York.
<------a renovation project being done to connect the South Ferry station with the 4/5 Battery Park subway stop - blasting has been shaking our building every day for the past 2 months - kinda cool / kinda scary. directly beneath the blue crane is where they found the buried 17th century Colonial settlement wall that'll be partially incorporated into the new station connection
Most people here hate it...they really do.
I dont understand those people.
which is ok I suppose.
they dont understand the sheer bliss a good case of the snow-crazies bring me.
Seriously.
How do I describe the sledgehammer of sh!t-eating grins that impact against my skull with the force of a thousand sexy, sexy rainbows? Or tell you about that place where angels meet Purity, have sex, and give birth to a litter of Aww's and Oooh's so fantastic that words give way to exclamation. It is the cascading synapses firing neural messages from tiny feline minds, forming, in mid air before you, the phrase "The Cats Meow".
It's my own personal snow globe. Experienced 3D verticality. A begloved slap to the face of that conformist, gravity. Defiance of your atmosphere's transparency. It is everywhere moving somewhere else, right before your eyes. Cold liquid falling as soft solid turning to slippery liquid. Uniform beautification.. seemingly brushing a city's dirt under a pillowy carpet of white. It is tingly. Brain tingly.
Straight up. then down. sideways. sideways again. All in a few seconds time. How many people have literally been hypnotized by watching falling snow? I wonder. Then out of nowhere, it's dark, but almost completely white out.
Five times the snow falling. four times as fast.. you can almost feel the weight of it, watching. Then.. back to snowglobe-slow. Drifting, playing... like the coordinated flight of sparrows. Darting in, out.... up, down, over. Figure eights and L's and M's and Z's of direction.. every curvy and jagged shape you might imagine. It dances around to show you how nimble it is, how boring rain is. It whispers about all things calm and innocent while rain drones on, only about wetness.
And
Annnnd....
then...
it's done. over. the sun's out again. from overcast to a bright white-yellow, twilight-zoney sky to snow (to more snow) to wimpy rain to... sun - in less than four hours time. Did I mention the 75 degree weather we had on Friday and the beautiful, 70 degree Saturday? Three seasons in 48 hours??
And people still ask me if I like New York.
<------a renovation project being done to connect the South Ferry station with the 4/5 Battery Park subway stop - blasting has been shaking our building every day for the past 2 months - kinda cool / kinda scary. directly beneath the blue crane is where they found the buried 17th century Colonial settlement wall that'll be partially incorporated into the new station connection
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