saw the reverend horton heat last night with meetin friends, opened by the legendary shackshakers. it was a great show, full of energy & the sound quality was amazing... the crowd was ripe for great people-watching, too, full of punk kids & teenage groupies & weird greasy rockers & rockabilly couples & crazy country people who obviously came down ( Read more... )

1) that itchy feeling in your ears you get while you have a cold. nothing, i mean nothing, gets rid of it until that cold is gone ( Read more... )

reading about somalia today puts me in mind of yet another version of pandora's box. recovered american passports? on which people? why would soldiers going into battle need passports? who would actually need passports? aid workers & relief organizations, perhaps? the ethiopian 'government'--is that what we're calling it these days? i don't know ( Read more... )

you know, i don't know how it happened, but at some point in the last 6 months, i have somehow returned to middle school. i mostly love my social club, but as i guess may be inevitable with a group of people who spend so much time together, there are a few people who have an irresistable tendency to take the normal behavior of passing news items ( Read more... )

first and foremost, i was on top of my personal hard-copy correspondence this holiday season (that is, before i ran out of days in the year), but i have been very neglectful of my well-wishing of the online fashion. so before i go any further, let me tell each of you who hasn't yet heard that i wish nothing but the absolute sweetness and richness ( Read more... )

want to help me with an experiment ( Read more... )

oh good lord. the stripper is at it again. he is on the phone with some friend or colleague talking about his wife's efforts to lose weight and his own problems with eczema. he is literally going on and on about the special creams he used to use, and how may steroid shots he used to get a month and how he used to--get this--wrap himself in ( Read more... )

well, somehow i made it through another dreaded birthday. this one was not so bad. i was definitely fretting and fretting about it for several weeks (ok, actually months) beforehand, but at some point i kinda clued in to the fact that it's not a fixed point in time, that i had already sort of become my next chronological age, esp. as this fits with ( Read more... )

i've been sick most of the past week. this has translated into a lot of sitting around & watching movies & the occasional downloaded episode of 'monk.' (let's hear it for 'monk'... who's with me, party people?!) in the past 4 days, j & i have watched: 'who killed the electric car? (by ourselves; two thumbs up or two thumbs down, depending on how ( Read more... )

i'm nursing a cold over here for like, the 4th day in a row. it's not too bad, save that my head feels swollen to twice it's normal size & i have that distinct awareness of the sound of my voice echoing around in there whenever i talk... some sinus annoyance, a late-night scratchy-throat cough, general fatigue, that kind of thing ( Read more... )