Mom, if you're reading this, please don't click on this link.

Update:

I'm sitting at an outside table at The Top Pot right now, At the table next to me, a woman is sharing her iced tea with what looks like a snow white budgeriar.

That is all.

Hey all,

Since the Pepto Apocalypse is immenent, I think I'm going to have to swear off LJ (and Metafilter, and everything else on the Internets that's fun) until the 20th or so. (But save the 20th! writersweekend and I have plans!)

See youse guys in a week and half or so!

I am:

Old, and
Prickly, and
Mean as a starving Chihuaha

And I am not going to finish the new Weetzie Bat Book.

Wondering what to do tonight? Come out to the carnival!'Zo and I will be volunteering our asses off (he is the assistant stage manager, I am a runner) but we'd love to see your smiling faces there! Come listen to The Bad Things! Come meet Nerd Rock's Revered Bubba Levi Greenacres! Come see aerialists, contortionists, and the biggest mess of ( Read more... )

You'd think you could trust Galway Kinnell to translate Rilke, wouldn't you ( Read more... )

Very cool article about Sarah Winchester's housebuilding as a critique of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company.

To date, this is the best Sarah Winchester-related thing I've found on the web.

This is just too good.

In ITunes, my Gogol Bordello album has the genre "Balkano-Gypsy-Dubwise-Pizdetz," which is a pretty good description of the sound I'm always looking for.

WHEREAS, the party of the first part, (carapace_green) is sick to death of her #$() novel ( Read more... )