Sometimes you can just tell when a thing has run its course. So it is with the Firestorm. It was fun for a long time, for me anyway, and now the time has come to lay it to rest ( Read more... )

It's not just his khaki short-shorts. Yes, that alone is reason enough, but there are others. It's his 1986 haircut. It's his brittle, nasally-voiced wife. It's everything about him. I hate Steve Irwin ( Read more... )

I realize that I've pretty much been M.I.A. from Livejournal this summer (still better than K.I.A. though, right?) and for that I apologize. Sort of. It doesn't really seem to have had much of an impact on the world, mine or yours, anyway. You see, since Computer died, it's been hard to find time and equipment with which to post. And I don't ( Read more... )

There's a girl who lives in my vast, despairingly lifeless apartment complex, and who loiters at the west exit by the drained municipal pond. I see her there often. I call her Unreasonable Request Girl. She usually begins her conversation with you--at normal, indoor volume--from a distance of about 35-40 feet. This in itself is unreasonable. The ( Read more... )

So yesterday I'm in the Seattle REI, up on the second floor mezzanine filling bag after bag with clothes made from quick-drying space fibers that dry instantly and add ten inches to your vertical leap when my cell phone rings. (I have a cell phone now, by the way. Shocking, I know.) It turns out it's a lady from the Sea Education Association ( ( Read more... )

Dear Computer ( Read more... )

Addendum to yesterday's post: I also ran into Julia Williams in downtown Portland. I hadn't seen her since high school. Weird.

Chemistry is a subject whose nature, purpose and methods elude me - much as those of its fantastical cousin, alchemy - but its name alone is enough to alert me to a few of its properties. It involves chemicals, for example. Chemicals are volatile (or in some cases, non-volatile) substances that often require each other's presence to remain stable ( Read more... )

Fourth of July is the best holiday ever, for the following reasons:

1. You are encouraged to blow things up. (Rem and Tucker, you guys know what I'm talkin' about ( Read more... )

Why can't I stop watching this?