A vasectomy at Planned Parenthood in Towson will run me only $150 according to their sliding scale thing, and this is the exact amount I'm getting as a year-end bonus from the co-op. I am definitely making an appointment as soon as I get back ( Read more... )

Although I am probably the least sexually active person you know, I've been seriously thinking about getting a vasectomy in case this changes at some point ( Read more... )

I am not going to defend everything Nirvana did musically, or career-wise, or Kurt as a person in a lot of ways, but they have infinitely more substance than the ironic skeletons in the musical closets of the DIY purists that dismiss them.

When my move out of Olympia was put off, I kept a weekly countdown that I checked obsessively. Things aren't as desperate this time around, but I've decided my move to the Bay Area will be for mid-March, so I guess that puts me at about eighteen weeks ( Read more... )

Last summer when I was in Michigan, my friend Claire and I drove La Piovra to their show in Milwaukee and back, and we bonded a bit and talked about every subject imaginable. We got back to Grand Rapids at like 5AM, where she gave me a copy of her zine with a mixtape "soundtrack ( Read more... )

Never underestimate the power of ( Read more... )

I am typing this from an undisclosed location on the UMD campus where there is a bed, and obviously a computer, but no blankets, it's way too cold, and I accidentally took the wrong dose of my meds, so because insomnia is a side effect, I will probably not sleep tonight ( Read more... )

Almost everyone that makes this area worthwhile for me either wants to leave or is planning on it ( Read more... )

This decade, whatever it ends up getting called, will not be remembered as having any sort of distinction, as it has been almost nothing a nostalgia trip for decades past. On a subcultual level, no one is going to hear about "00 punk" or any sort of distinct sound in ANY music genre for that matter. On a mainstream level, what the hell would "I ( Read more... )

I have to go to work in two hours and I've tried but haven't slept yet. Working 8+ hours on literally no sleep for the third time in a week (and probably the next day) is going to suck and will probably lead to me fucking up, though there is the consolation of seeing the Regulations in Baltimore afterwards and then in Philly on Friday ( Read more... )