First Time Flowing » coolness http://www.andremonserrat.com Scattered pages from an apocryphal diary Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:32:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Delicious http://www.andremonserrat.com/2008/12/31/delicious/ http://www.andremonserrat.com/2008/12/31/delicious/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:13:23 +0000 Drey http://www.andremonserrat.com/?p=904 I have become obsessed with categorizing all of my bookmarks using delicious.

I have decided to share them with you here.

]]> http://www.andremonserrat.com/2008/12/31/delicious/feed/ 2 FriendFeed http://www.andremonserrat.com/2007/11/11/friendfeed/ http://www.andremonserrat.com/2007/11/11/friendfeed/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:31:08 +0000 Drey http://www.andremonserrat.com/2007/11/11/friendfeed/ Ryan turned me on to FriendFeed. It’s a site where you can obsessively keep track of all the various internet services, blogs, web 2.0 sites and social networking sites you and your friends use. It is basically fire and forget: you just sign up, register each service you use and it generates an amalgam feed of what you’ve been doing. Then you can add your friends and see what they have been up to.

It totally feeds into my love of lists and casual voyeurism. If you sign up, don’t forget to invite me!

]]> http://www.andremonserrat.com/2007/11/11/friendfeed/feed/ 3 Something Wicked This Way Comes http://www.andremonserrat.com/2007/11/01/something-wicked-this-way-comes/ http://www.andremonserrat.com/2007/11/01/something-wicked-this-way-comes/#comments Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:00:00 +0000 Drey http://www.andremonserrat.com/2007/11/01/something-wicked-this-way-comes/ For the first time in years I got excited about Halloween! Halloween in Austin is like Mardi Gras in NOLA. It is a huge, citywide party where all manner of debauchery and craziness ensues.

I put together this dark knight costume. No, not Batman or the kanniggit from Holy Grail. I got this chest armor, some spikey shoulder guards, these sweet skull gauntlets, and a badass 4-foot long sword. I also had this huge, matching skull shield, but it proved unwieldy to take everywhere.

I went to a fabulous party at the Enchanted Forest. Normally, this is a three-acre art space in the woods. Imagine a small Burning Man or Three-Sided Hole, but in the woods instead of the desert. But for Halloween, they transformed it into a Haunted Forest. It was BYOB, so you just show up with a cooler of beverages, pay the fee, and walk through this archway into another world.

It looked like a gigantic rave as designed by Neil Gaiman. Imagine hundreds of people in bizarre costumes, all dancing around immense trees while bands play in front of trippy projected light shows. There was a drum circle around a fire pit. There were lightsaber duels (and, briefly, lightsabers vs. a badass 4-foot long sword).  There were crazy tents where people were doing awesome improv. It was, to summarize, the best Halloween party ever.

I got home at 7AM!

Oh, and I got to make out with a beautiful woman. ;)

]]> http://www.andremonserrat.com/2007/11/01/something-wicked-this-way-comes/feed/ 1 The World is Full of Wonder http://www.andremonserrat.com/2007/10/17/the-world-is-full-of-wonder/ http://www.andremonserrat.com/2007/10/17/the-world-is-full-of-wonder/#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:32:30 +0000 Drey http://www.andremonserrat.com/2007/10/17/the-world-is-full-of-wonder/ The Little Girl Giant.

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