It's tough being sad when what you're sad about is not a universal thing, like having a broken heart - so many songs for you! - and not a news event - so many stories for you to read! The world around you is concerned with its own concerns, as always, but it's fairly easy to concoct a comforting idea that it's bummed out just like you ( Read more... )

I'm in an impressionable way lately and I've been reading up about suffragettes and I would like to be one. Where is the time-travel office where I can sign up ( Read more... )

I don't want to brag too much or anything, but yesterday I saw a TARANTULA in the WILD, and IT was scared of ME. I have film.

Top Four Unlikely But True Names of Country-Music Stars:

+ Keith Urban
+ Montgomery Gentry
+ Brad Paisley
+ Mac MacAnally

It is a day of self-pitying sniffles! Many many things are going right lately - but I am here only to tell you that I am at home with gruesome food poisoning and a pulled shoulder, reading news stories about the California Supreme Court's failure to overturn the nefarious Proposition 8 (some of the justices seem to personally regret the decision, ( Read more... )

Fabric-related item number one!: I just came back from an hour at the fabric store, picking out fabric to make a dress for the incipient niece. Somehow I thought it was going to be a quick trip, but it turns out ladies who work at the fabric store really like to give you advice about your projects, especially when they are baby dresses. To their ( Read more... )

OH INTERNETS I AM IN LOVE! With Alex Ross, classical music critic of the New Yorker! I stayed off the coffee for one measly day and now that I'm back on the stuff, I'm getting the same warm oxytocin/dopamine brain bath that it used to give me when I almost never drank it, way back four weeks ago. I am a kaleidoscope, a string of firecrackers, a ( Read more... )

For those of you who are curious what's happening with our sleeping beauty, here's the Hollis blogShe is still in India, still comatose. Strings were pulled and favors were called in and she has a free spot at Stanford hospital (!) if we can get her back here, but we have to get her back here. Do any of y'all have a line on an air ambulance? For ( Read more... )

Hey, I'm not sure how much I buy into this "energy" business still, but I'm deploying every possible other tactic too (crossing self, prayer, incessant text messaging, knocking wood, blood donation, whatever you got), so can't hurt, right ( Read more... )

Good god - I drank like a gallon of ginseng tea this morning and I feel like some type of Angel of Revenge! I am ready to behead everybody, everybody - done-me-wrong exes, the nasty former roommates of my current roommates, the petty potty-mouthed misogynist homophobe who runs the Calvinist megachurch in Seattle. SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY ( Read more... )