So, (former Mr. T Experience frontman) Frank Portman has written another young adult novel : www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780385735254-1.  Apparently, there is going to be a reading at Secret Garden books, uh, some time while I'm at work.  Oddly, I first became aware of this book when I saw a bunch of copies hanging out in the events area at the ( Read more... )

Tonight after driving Tim to SeaTac, I was thinking about one time when I drove my parents' car back from the airport.  It was ass-early in the morning and still completely dark out, which probably contributed to the fact that I missed an exit.  At some point I made the realization that I had ended up on 405 and was headed north, but into the ( Read more... )

Things seen (and heard) on the way home from work recently:

- a car blasting classical music so loud the panels of the car were rattling.  yes, I said classical.
- many shitty couches and chairs sitting on the sidewalk in various places (did I miss some memo?)
- a baby with crazy hair, apparently too young to speak, but not too young to wave ( Read more... )

Recently while hanging out in some outskirts* neighborhoods (Lake City, South Seattle, West Seattle), I thought, not for the first time, that I would consider living in such places if the public transportation in this town didn't SUCK so much.  Living in many neighborhoods is pretty much out of the question if you don't have a car, and  even if you ( Read more... )

For some reason, instead of thinking, "It's summer!" lately, I keep thinking "It's almost fall."  I can't decide whether this is because I have a fall deadline for my comic or because I'm just old and time seems to fly by so quickly these days.  Or is it because WA strawberry season is over early again?  Last year it was over early because the ( Read more... )

This evening Morgan and I went to an office-warming party at the new Barsuk Records space, which is in our 'hood.  No members of Death Cab were there, but I did get to drink beer and eat hot dogs.  Actually, I'm jealous of the staff because it's a really big, cool building, and they have an actual kitchen, a (fake) fireplace w/couches around it, ( Read more... )

I have not left the apartment today -- the furthest I have gone is down to the laundry room to throw in a load -- but I have gotten a lot done.  In addition to the laundry, I have changed the bedsheets, thrown out some old clothes, rearranged a few things in the walk-in closet, washed the bathroom sink, and put in quite a bit of inking on my comic ( Read more... )

You would think that with my reading habit and my job at the bookstore, I would comment on books more often.  Well, gosh.

I'm sort of curious about a memoir by Roald Dahl that came out recently.  From the review I read, it's about his childhood, which was apparently much like the childhoods suffered by many of his juvenile protagonists (minus the ( Read more... )

I 've been having some ridiculously banal dreams lately about such things as being in the grocery store, picking out food for the 4th of July.  Right after finishing inventory, I had a dream that I was still doing it.  Barrf.

This Sunday is a busy day, as I have belated Father's Day breakfast with my dad and then Julia's wedding in the afternoon.  I ( Read more... )

Well, inventory is over.  Hooray!  I wasn't even there as late as I was supposed to be, as the floor count was looking to be finished in record time (I did not have to stay until the end or anything).  Also over: the task of finding wedding presents for Julia & Jaws.  Morgan said he felt that one of the presents is sort of stupid, but in case they ( Read more... )