January 2012
19 posts
I Really Do Think Insanely Highly of You Two...
Victor: Smells like wifey?
David: Shut the fuck up!
Victor: At minimum Francis-level relationship? Who am I kidding, that's wifey.
David: STOP THAT. I'm still in absolute denial of anything remotely resembling feelings. Let me do that for a while, okay?
Victor: So where do you wanna get married? A church?
David: Fuck you. Also, Francis-Ally are more than wifey. That's eternal wifey.
Victor: E
David: francis and ally are "let's shame every other couple by making them re-evaluate what their definition of the word 'love' is."
Victor: LOL
David: francis and ally are seriously, "All you need is love"
Victor: that better be their wedding song.
David: there's an alternate reality where Francis and Ally brought peace to the middle east simply by asking them to quit triflin'
Victor: LOLOOL
Chasing a Narrative
I wouldn’t say I’m necessarily self-destructive as much I am someone who enjoys making self-destructive decisions. In terms of pure narrative, yes, my life becomes far more enticing the morning after, but I think I’m getting to the age when telling a story isn’t worth the ramifications.
Something else I’ve encountered is that sometimes these stories aren’t to...
Grass
The grass isn’t greener on the other side, guys! Everyone lied to you! It’s really dry and sick and pale and it scratches the bottom of your feet if you don’t wear shoes, and in the mid-day, countless fires are started because of it!
Roommate Relations
Paul: AH! Goddammit! ... Don't worry. No harm done.
David: What happened?
Paul: I just stabbed myself with the giant fork.
David: Oh yeah, fuck that thing.
Paul: Seriously!
David: Why do we even have a giant fork!?
Paul: WHY IS IT ALWAYS POINTING STRAIGHT UP!?
Fuck and Loathing in a Too-Large Apartment
starring this asshole
I told a girl at a bar last night that I liked her...
and she looked at me like I was a filthy pig who was just trying to fuck her. I wanted to take back my comment so much. I wanted to tell her “Fuck you and your glasses. I lied, they fucking suck.”
Fucking SF hipster.
Nice glasses, though.
SF
I went out to SF last night and I was running and I fell and I fucked up my shoulder in a most unbelievably terrible way, and it hurts a shit ton right now, and I’m just really pissed because it took me a lot of time to put on my shirt.
I can’t imagine how difficult my shower is going to be in a few minutes. Shampooing my hair!?
MOTHER.
OF.
GOD.
“I have never been more proud of you than I am right now. I hope her personality...”
– Patrick, putting things into perspective, or He Gets It
What Happened?
Francis: Whoa, what happened?
David: To my arm? I don't know!
Francis: Wait, was it you I tackled!?
David: Was it!?
Francis: Do you remember getting tackled?
David: I remember seeing someone get tackled, so no.
Pat: Maybe you got tackled so hard Francis gave you an out of body experience.
David: I like that idea, let's go with that one.
Animal Relations
David: We went fishing in the marina once.
Francis: Did you catch anything?
David: Naw, but Adolfo caught a crab.
Francis: Oh, did he keep it and then eat it?
David: Considered it.
Francis: Considered it as a friend? Or as a pet?
David: He considered eating it!
Francis: Oh! I don't know why I asked if he became friends with it before he considered it as a pet.
Every single song on El Camino by Black Keys
is how I feel about everything right now.
December 2011
7 posts
OH. MY. DEAR.
I’m going to Vegas tomorrow and I’m going to be there for New Year’s and I’ve been to Vegas before and I’ve even been there for New Year’s but I cannot emphasize just
HOW
GOD
DAMN
STOKED
I
AM.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THE STOKEDNESS IS AMOUNTING TO AN UNBEARABLE LIMIT. (Just how I like it)
Seriously, it’s going to be so fucking fantastic.
FYI
glikegrandpa:
If you’re trying to make fun of my alma mater and our flesh-ripping, hulk-smash-destroyer, fierce-as-all-fuck mascot the Golden Bear, calling me “Teddy Bear” is not the most effective way to do it.
For obvious reasons.
a million times this forever and ever until the bones of described idiots are nothing more than dust breathed in by lower life forms.
Final Review Session
We’re all holed up in the lab going over public opinion and Public Opinion and Lippmann and oh lord no one is coming to the same conclusion and some people are too stubborn to change the answer for their take home tests, and I’m thinking:
“WHAT? It’s just 250 words, is it really that hard to rewrite 250 words? Just, COME ON!”
Sweet. We’re finally moving on.
November 2011
9 posts
I swear
techno and electronic music make me less productive. I’ve been listening to Avicii for the past hour and have done NOTHING.
On the plus side, Avicii.
College Football
I get upset when I see people rooting for schools that they have no affiliation with. You like USC? Did you go there? Did your parents? Your brothers or sisters? Anyone? No? Good, because fuck USC and fuck you.
God, I fucking hate USC.
Legitimate Life/Wife Concerns
I’m a bit of a fool, and I know that, and I’m at least smart enough to know that, sometimes, David Ruiz isn’t the best person to come to for advice. I get that. I kind of like that, actually, because then, at least things are always kept interesting for me. Once, I actually considered getting myself caught in a situation that I had worked so hard to avoid, simply because I...
19919050:
A man is only as good as his word
I really like this because I really like words.
“You are not rugged, you look like a poet.”
– Girl—To me, or, Go on…
At Stanford
There’s this girl that everyone thinks is very strange, and difficult to read, and slightly confusing.
And all I can think about is how cute she is.
Growing Up
David: There are two people next to me at work, flirting, and they're really annoying.
Victor: How?
David: They're doing that "oh my god I don't want to even see you but I'm gonna laugh at everything you say and linger in the middle of the office while we both pull away, still trying to talk over people's heads" thing.
Victor: Fuck that thing. They're too old for that.
David: Yeah man, gotta change your method.
Victor: I just look for girls in the Alpha Delta Phi Society... makes it so much easier.
David: I've started calling the girls that I want to spend time with
Victor: Ooh, I've heard good things about that approach.
Stanford II
So last night I had a little get together at my apartment and some of my friends from Berkeley came by and all that happened was we got really drunk and talked about music and this one girl said that electronic music isn’t “a legitimate form of music” and we all tried our best to not call her an idiot, but the best we could manage were arrogant scoffs coupled with rolled eyes.
...
October 2011
10 posts
New School, New People
Sometimes I like having a crush on a girl and then realizing that another guy has a crush on her too, because then it becomes a competition, and when something becomes a competition, I put a lot more effort into it than I typically would, because fuck losing.
Halloween
I saw someone dressed as Harry Potter last night and he drew the lightning bolt scar on the right side of his forehead and that made me so upset because he obviously drew his inspiration from the movie and not the book.
What a loser.
New Justice Album
Saw Justice in 2009, two years ago this month, actually. It was the absolute best weekend of my life when it happened and nothing could have ever compared. It’s still up there for happiest moments, but there have also been some other additions.
Cross was released in 2007 and I didn’t really get my hands on it until early ‘09. I watched A Cross the Universe, the one hour...
at some point
ipuntbabies:
the things that mattered, dont. it’s not really a bad thing. it just means that with change you also chose to stop caring and if you can stop caring about something, then it wasn’t really as important as you previously thought.
I feel this way about people more often than I’ve heard is healthy. People enter and leave my life at an alarming rate and I see no problem with...
For Halloween
I want to be Raoul Duke.
Stanford
It’s been some time since I put up a real blog post, and I feel like now is a good time to do so because I can’t figure out a proper closing to my article, and I’m hoping that ignoring it for enough time will solve the problem.
On Stanford:
I thoroughly enjoy it here. It’s a wonderful school and an even better resource. Everyone I need to talk to who I initially assume I...
Next Week
We have both a written assignment and a podcast with only one photo due in which we have to cover a city council meeting or a neighborhood issue meeting or a speech or anything on a pretty local level for the city itself. So I’ve not written too much, and I’ve never actually done any audio reporting before, but I’m already egotistical enough to think that my assignments are going...
I Try My Best Not To Be An Asshole
But when you’re very clearly trying to scam on my friend in a very asshole-manner, and my friend has already, very clearly as well, defined that she will not be trying to stay the night at your place, and you say that Blink 182 is “90s punk”… well, I’m sorry but the laughter was completely involuntary.
If you’re going to try and woo girls with your dope...
September 2011
27 posts
My Editor Might Be Racist
I turned in my first piece today, and she sort of hated it (mostly organizational problems, which I understand) and there were three sentences she actually just deleted. As some background, I interviewed a woman who is going to be giving a lecture on home and garden design involving mid-century housing. Some of the houses she’s going to be talking about are Eichler homes. Joseph Eichler, a...
9 tags
So I thought everyone saw what I saw, and I...
BUT I GUESS I GAVE TOO MUCH OF MYSELF AWAY TONIGHT.
I Bought a Skateboard for Five Bucks
I ate shit a few minutes ago and oh my god, injuries hurt more at 23 than I would have thought.
My board has a skull on the bottom with a snake wrapped around it. It’s some Death Eater, Harry Potter shit. It’s so god damn dope in the lamest sense possible.
