This is a post for my IRL friends Derick, Maria, Alex, and Quentin, but maybe someone here might find it interesting, too. Get ready for photo death.

( Oh I used to get disgusted, now I try to be amused, but since their wings have got rusted, you know the angels want to wear my red shoes. But when they told me about their side of the bargain, that's when I knew I could not refuse, and I won't get any older, now, the angels want to wear my red shoes. )

So dad and I drove to Colorado for a graduate summer seminar in philosophy.

This was lovely and deserves praise styled into interjection and/or declarative mood with accompanying photos, but something fabulous was just uncovered in the bowels of my iTunes (the iNtestines?). A friend from my semester in Ireland foisted her entire late Cure ( Read more... )

Let it all hang out? Ugh, never. I’m really very bad at proceeding without aims, never casual if I notice it; goalessness, as recommended frequently in ZenHabits.net and the like, is something I never manage. “Zen Buddhist you are not.” The force is weak with this one, I’m afraid. But. Today, something unexpectedly nice happened, perhaps all the ( Read more... )

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1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List (and upload) 5 songs you love that begin with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

My letter was 'C,' assigned by h2o.

1. Consequence of Sound - Regina Spektor.
2. Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel.
3. Commerce, TX - Ben Kweller.
4. Cut Your Hair - Pavement.
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FEATURING -

• STEELY DAN'S CAN'T BUY A THRILL.

EXAMPLE -
Dull? No, but cola-smooth, such that the various instrumental pieces roll off into ribbon-like arrangements, rhythmically sectioned but so cleverly that you lose the jar-and-jag of rougher percussion. It still pops, but the beat’s a bit more like a spool that the melody winds around than a ( Read more... )

I can be incredibly happy without seeing a single soul but my dad and my dog. Said dad thinks this is weird, anti-career behavior that suggests the loss of fundamental social mechanisms, but in an indulgent, look-at-my-daughter-the-sociopath way. (He also thinks I am the only twenty-something that listens - frequently and fondly - to classic rock. ( Read more... )

FEATURING -

• Venture Brothers, TV.
• Art, assorted.
• Credit is lovely!

EXAMPLES -
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FEATURING -

• Spera, Comic: Webcomic.
• Air, Comic: Vertigo.
• Credit is lovely!

EXAMPLES -
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I have lived on instant Velveeta mac n’ cheese (lord strike me down), cup-a-soup, Magic CocoaTM, and one order of veggie pizza and cinnamon sticks from Pizza Hut. And, after I figured out how to microwave it, blesséd ramen noodles. On the one hand, I feel a wonderfully weird hermit-high from being able to live on a semester’s worth of care packages ( Read more... )