I am still in New Orleans. Today is the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall on the Gulf, which will be marked by a number of memorials and commemorations, a jazz funeral march, a couple other marches, and a rally and coming-together in Congo Square with food and music. All of the events seem to walk the common line of providing a ( Read more... )

if i had access to a something that played music and a slayer tape or cd, today would pretty much be perfect ( Read more... )

I'm finally leaving Columbus, Ohio today to go see my mom and brother in virginia for a few days. Then my brother and I are visiting my dad and grandparents and aunt in california for a couple weeks, then it's back to virginia for a few days. At the end of the month, i'm going to new orleans, where i'll be working on a bioremediation project ( Read more... )

why is kim deal the best/coolest person in the history of everything ( Read more... )

so i'm totally looking forward to tonight: me, a bottle of free red wine, and a small selection of records are going out on the town, by which i mean the living room. it's going to be stellar. i almost wish it were raining outside, because that would top off the quiet and relaxed and contemplative and whatever other bullshit words evening. then ( Read more... )

in the spirit of optimism, a list of the things i actually like about colder weather, gray skies, and everything else associated with the coming winter (today was cold and very, very gray and overcast. there was no sky.):

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a question for The People ( Read more... )

i went out to the little garden behind our house and thinned the baby plants that are growing (mostly kale with some other greens, and some slower flowers that don't need any thinning yet), and washed the baby plants that i pulled out, white mini-tuber roots and all, and am now eating them. they are delicious, and if i die/lose my eyesight/git ( Read more... )

mouses in our houses ( Read more... )

damn, gogol bordello played at some bar in columbus last week, and i had no idea ( Read more... )