Intense day so far. We'll see how it keeps up. I may be doing some serious driving tomorrow... if I can get the car out of impound fast enough... and I may have a 1 week job in Bemidji next week too. And I've got other shit to do tonight already. The days are just packed.

Wesslesy's Seven Unlimited and Open-ended "Rules" of the High Seas, by The Dread Pirate Captain Wesslesy ( Read more... )

Bacchus im Triller
Trille! Trille! blind und dumm,
Taub und dumm,
Trillt den saubern Kerl herum!
Manches Stük von altem Adel,
Vetter, hast du auf der Nadel.
Vetter, übel kommst du weg,
Manchen Kopf mit Dampf gefüllet,
Manchen hast du umgetrillet,
Manchen klugen Kopf berülpet,
Manchen Magen umgestilpet,
Umgewälzt in seinem ( Read more... )

Slowly shifting life. Friends come and go. Spiderwebs of lightning out the car window on a ride back from Tor's cabin, where we enjoyed a laid-back weekend of chatting, eating and drinking.
And then there's Schiller, Schiller, Schiller. In general, what I find to be his best poems are not his most famous. Imagine that. Furthermore, my ( Read more... )

I must lead some sort of blessed life. I won all the boardgames I played today, and therewith I won the prize for winning the most, a boardgame called Miskatonic Madness. And just now, a guy gave me a free pass to a sneak preview of Romero's new zombie movie, Land of the Dead. Today r0X0rzed. I should go buy a lottery ticket before midnight, or ( Read more... )

Why do I hate getting up when it's raining?
Ok, I'm done with the Swedish textbook. Do I now know Swedish? Maybe technically. I need to practice, to get all proficient, or even (dare I say?) fluent. Right now, speaking Swedish is like buttoning up a shirt whose buttons are a little too big, and some of the threads break now and then if you push ( Read more... )

Back in America, and it's pirate time!

So, I'm supposed to be on a cruise today with my parents and a bunch of people from the awards ceremony for my book, but somehow the plan to meet at the hotel in Hamburg fell through and my parents didn't show up. Instead, they went straight to the dock, and I waited in my room, since I didn't know where the dock was. Oh well, I guess I have a ( Read more... )

For the first time in my life, I won at bingo. Ok, I wasn't the first person to call bingo, but there were multiple prizes, and I won. What did I win? Well, I won a pair of Wahrsteiner sunglasses. (Wahrsteiner is a brand of German beer, btw). Downstairs in the hostel in Berlin where I'm staying, I called bingo at the same time as another ( Read more... )

For this nostalgic moment, I'll resort to the wisdom of Rasputina: The scene is never what it used to be. Simson is no more. In it's place there is another bar. Not a bad place, but not Simson. There used to be a scooter manufacturer in the same space named Simson, and when the bar moved in, they left the name on the window and become the ( Read more... )