For me, this is right up there with first paycheck and first promotion: first business cards!

With my name on them.

They are bright screaming orange, with black and white text. Swoon!

Today, my (copy)editing style was affectionately described as "cunty." Am unsure whether to be temporarily ashamed or secretly pleased. (Say it with me now, uridium: Why can't it be both?I wonder if I should be concerned about my parents' reactions when they excitedly flip to my section of the gift guide -- one of the few long-ish pieces I've ever ( Read more... )

Ganked from heroinzone

A song from the last record you bought:
"The Angel Wars" - Gary Numan, Hybrid

A blues country song:
"I See a Darkness" - Bonnie Prince Billy (the Johnny Cash cover works, too)

A song that gets you going in the morning:
"Zauberstab" - Beborn Beton

A song that you think is romantic:
"I'll Fall with Your Knife" - Peter Murphy

A song ( Read more... )

Just a lil' sumthin' sumthin' from today's Globe:

( Hypocrisy and Make-Believe )

Now I know my Christmas present from uridium!

Just fabulous.

He's got to work on that poker face ...

Finally, my weeks of devoted Globe Fun Pages reading (because what's a better way to kick off a Sunday morning than brutally ripping apart some 8-year-old's poem about her doggie?) have finally paid off. Now, if you showed up for our Halloween party, chances are good that I thrust this in your face at some point. But this is beautiful enough to ( Read more... )

Okay. I have to write 120-150 words on His Infernal Majesty. (Which, to be honest, comes off like some kind of cult to me.) They're playing on November 12 at the Palladium ( Read more... )

My ears are foaming with noise residue, my hair is chaos, and I'm covered in sweat. Other people's sweat. (And, upon closer inspection, the cuff of my pant leg is covered in a splash of some vomitlike substance ... )

There is nothing like wrapping up a month of high anxiety with a night of socially acceptable violence, set to the songs that ( Read more... )

Now, normally, I don't give into the temptation to post the reults of retarded online quizzes. But this one is just so ... well, it almost sounds like an intervention. You know, a wake-up-call, because it sounds pretty bad, and yet, I can see it. Wait, I'm reading too much into an Internet quiz. Maybe I do need an intervention.

Available here.

( You are a RSYT--Reserved Sentimental Physical Taker. This makes you a Brute. )

From Metropolis Records' Krushed Opiates promotional blurb ( Read more... )