I just committed the worst on-line personals sin possible, if not the tackiest. I just sent a third (yes, third) message to someone that has yet to respond to my original reply to his ad. In some weird and delusional way I feel like I am at least owed a ‘no thanks’ Quick Message seeing that I PAID the $30 subscription fee specifically to reply to his ad earlier in the month. He was kind of cute, and had things like “I’m a nice, friendly guy” and “just say hello if you like” in his ad. I’ve placed ads on tons of personals sites over the year and if there’s any phrase that’s over-used it’s “just say hello.”

Of course, even as I was typing “not even a ‘no thanks?” and clicked send, I knew it was going to make me look totally pathetic and desperate but I felt like I was at least speaking up for all the other totally pathetic and desperatelonely guys on these sites.

And if it is, why could I not have visited New Orleans THIS week instead of last month?

Jonno has been Banksy hunting through the streets of New Orleans and has posted photos of his findings on his jonnodotcom Flickr photostream.

So. Fucking. Cool.

While I’m not a huge fan of graf, I really respect Banksy because he’s not just scribbling his name on a wall or spray painting huge murals of illegible text. Don’t get me wrong, there’s graf out there that is more than that, but Banksy is probably the most recognizable and respected graf artist to come around in a long time. His pieces are usually political in nature, even if they don’t immediately seem to be. It’s kind of a big deal he’s in the city, somewhere.

Click the screenshot to go to jonno’s flickr set.

Click here to see more of his stuff I like

OK bitches. It’s on like Donkey Kong:

[Nerdcore Rising] is opening at a theatre in College Park, MD! It’s an art house cinema situated on the campus of the University of Maryland. Ain’t that something! The movie opens on Friday Sept. 5th and it will be screening on a schedule that will be revealed to the public sometime at the end of this week or early next week. The more people see the movie in its first week, the more likely it is that we’ll go into a second week… so try to catch it early. To the University of MD students that have been requesting this film, we salute you! For ticket info please go here:

http://www.thestamp.umd.edu/hoff/

Anyone care to join me?