Last night, Jessica & Alex were watching TV when they suddenly saw Addi appear on the TV Show Blind Date. Talk about a surprise! This show is really different to the UK version since you don’t get to blindly choose your dates by asking them questions – the TV peeps hook you up instead.
I didn’t see it, but there’s a short 30 second clip of the show here thanks to Jessica & Alex.
Cool!
Richii to appear on this show? Click here and tell me if you think I should!
New York is full of crazy people. I know, I know, it’s not something that I’ve just worked out – it’s been like this since donkeys years ago. Hells, I’m in New York so I guess I am one of them too. But I reckon that there’s higher proportion of muppet maddness on the 4/5/6 trains. There’s always something crazy going on.
Tonight I was minding on own biz, I got on the subway and it was packed as usual. I’d got my headphones on listening to the Sugababes. It was actually a mix of one of their tracks and I was really getting into it. Not singing out loud or anything. No dance routines in the middle of the carriage, maybe just a lil’ bop of the head. Anyway, as usual I seem to send up next to the weirdo. He started talking to me – it looked like he was making fun of my headphones or something. They’re these funky black/yellow kind, so I guess it attracted his attention. Anyway, he kept letting go of the handrails and crashing into me when the train stoped. There was no where else to go the train was so packed. Poor bloke. Poor me. He kept doing this breakdance movementy type thing with his hands – I thought for a second he was getting into my Sugababes mix, but I don’t think he was.
Anyway, he got off, more people got off, I got a seat. Then this other weirdo got on the train. He could not stand still. He went and stood by the doors – nothing unsual about that – but then he ran (yes, ran) right down to the other end of the carriage and then stood at the other set of doors. OK – so maybe he was in a hurry and needed to get out quickly. No – he then dashes back to my end of the train and stands by the other door. This happened like 20 times or so. Back and forward, back and forward. Maybe he needed the loo or something, but then why didn’t he get out sooner? I don’t understand. Wierd. Or is it just me?
So, after one month of craziness, one too many Starbucks Mocha Coconut Frappuccino’s, and more mind changes than you can shake a toaster at, I finally started my new job at 3 Times Square! You can see more photos of my new workplace at Wired NY and Fox Fowle.
One of the coolest things about X Square is that you can just use “X” for “Times” and save yourself a valuable 4 keystrokes. Another great thing about X Square is that they film TRL just across the street. I’m having problems though, since I’m still not sure which of these muppets is Carson Daily. Beats me.
Here’s a photo of an ice cream. It’s darn hot here, and I feel like one. (By that I mean that I feel like eating an ice cream, as opposed to actually feeling like an ice cream feels)(Just in case you were getting confused). Huh?
So, that’s it then. All over. Remember when you were a kid and you used to grab a packet of Rolo’s and everyone always wanted to know who you were going give your last one to, since it meant something special. And then you started muching them, and they were just too good. One by one they’d go, and you’d look into your grubby paws, and then, whoosh, bam, all your Rolo’s are gone! Well, that’s what happened to Sailfish Systems – gawn!
Well, kind of. Actually, it’s not similar. But the company has shut down and the merry band of peeps have moved on.
Here’s the happy pics of the final Sailfish dot com closedown party: Stefan’s Page and Remy’s Page.
So long, and thanks for all the (sail)fish.
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