I just used the phrase “pared down” in written language for the first time in my life. I was typing an e-mail, and I wanted to say pared down, but didn’t know how to spell it, so I had to look it up. It was then that I realized I’ve never written it before. What a historic moment in my life.

This guy named Bradley Rose is sending me spam about DJs and club stuff in NYC. I know, welcome to the internet, right? A normal person would probably just mark his messages as spam and leave it at that, but I’m kind of annoyed, because I actually don’t get any junk mail at this address except for things from companies I’ve done business with. So the fact that I’m getting something unsolicited from this guy leads me to believe he took my address off of Facebook, or Myspace, or Craigslist or something. I can’t even think of where it would be available to the public though, I have everything set as friends only.  So I’m writing this little note because maybe someone will find it through Google who knows something about it. Have you ever heard of Bradley Rose? He works with (for? is?) exactevents dot com, and I guess it’s based in Chicago, although I’ve been getting ads for things in NYC.