2003-08-12 - 10:02 a.m.

I know I haven't been updating. Eat me.

Some highlights of A Weekend with Ben

• THE AMAZING PIGEON ATTACK: We were waiting for the bus. A crazy pigeon swooped down and attacked me, Ryan, and Ben, possibly attempting to tear out our flaxen locks for a golden nest. Then it flew a few yards away and stood there, bobbing its head, with a "bring it on, bitch" look on its face.

• Ben stood in the footprints painted on the floor at the Science Museum, the footprints that, when stood in properly, ensure that one is standing with one foot in Boston and one foot in Cambridge. Ben's response to this: "Look, I'm an asshole!"

• Killer Klowns from Outer Space, the DVD. Contains a very moving interview with the film's composer, in which he says 1) he was ostracized for years for working on KKfOS, 2) there are two kinds of people in the world, those who understand KKfOS and those he doesn't want to associate with, 3) one of the themes he wrote for the movie is evocative of "tanks rolling into Poland".

• Beer. Video games. Bagels. Ice cream and sorbet.

• Shirtlessness!

• A conversation until 2 AM.

• Utter failure to make it to Harvard Square or Ginza.

• Ben!