last day of classes today- and i thought a boy might stab me when i told him he was failing. oh well. he's still failing ( Read more... )

it makes me crazy to see folks on motorcyles without helmets. wear a helmet! are you crazy! just wear one. god ( Read more... )

oh, tonight! weakerthans for the fifth or sixth time!

strangely enough, it seems that my only practical action of late is to attend regular dentist appointments.

so i am back from new york. besides being marginally behind in russian, i made it quite nicely back from my other homeland. no thanks to the flight there, however, or the renegade Z train on the way to coffee donut. at the washington dc airport, our small plane to laguardia lost cabin pressure and the oxygen masks frantically deployed from the ( Read more... )

ok, so remember how much i liked that beirut band a few months ago? remember all my gulag orkestar talk? well, last night for a mere $7, i saw the wonderspectacle of beirut. besides the 19 year old waifish genius singer/trumpeter/amazing eastern european party songwriter/new mexican that now lives in greenpoint, his band consists of the most random ( Read more... )

i am learning russian! i am taking graduate writing classes! all is well in the world! well, except for the hellions and the piano teaching. i'm quite sure i bore them to death with too many F-A-C-Es and each gluttony babboon drinks fire or every global ballerina drowns fish. blech.

today, traveler and i picked blackberries. lucky loitered nearby, so the berries were not unbeknownst to him. while traveler sampled the leaves which were surrounded by the fewest thorns, i would bring handfulls of giant, ripe blackberries to lucky, who ate them voraciously and sightlessly. years ago, traveler and i would go riding and pick ( Read more... )

i am now the co-founding member of team unemployment. living in the southeast, working less than ten hours a week, etc. today might be the start of the holidays? i'm not sure. but i am eating a brisket at team unemployment headquarters in about an hour. i will make artichokes, which i'm sure are not quite religious, but for $2.99 a pound, will be ( Read more... )

also: everyone:

gulag orkestar- beirut

best cd of a while!