Now, here's something to tug on your heartstrings... or possibly overextend them. Or make them recoil in horror.

An article about hometowns, how they foster culture, our ambiguous relationships with them, and their role in our lives, whether we stay, leave, or return. Very thought provoking.

This is your hometown

apparently i've been hiding behind royal indignation over social injustice rather than keeping a real journal. me and the internet just don't have the relationship we once had. maybe cuz i can't trust it worth a damn?

( the real story )

everything about today screamed "stay home!!" -- and next time, i will ( Read more... )

hhhhokay. so.

when ralphy has his last day in "office", i'm having a party. and i'm going to invite belinda stronach.

the morning after, we'll have a hungover prayer service, entreating the higher power to send down holy fire on jim dinning's ad campaign.

(stranger things have happened!)

a random woman on the bus, who strangely enough reminded me of my older sister, informed me that alice cooper has been known to sing classical -slash- opera -slash- has classical training.

i don't know why, but it totally made my day. never mind that i googled like hell and didn't find any evidence for it at all... but wouldn't that be sweet??

so, the man and i went to michael kaeshammer AND manon lescaut while he was here... and he enjoyed them both. he's even gone so far as to tell his pool buddies that he went to an opera - and LIKED it. and a hush of disbelief and confusion, and a twinge of curiosity, descended over the table.(i know this may sound like much ado about nothing, but ( Read more... )

realization #1: i have shamelessly, selfishly created a creature commonly known as a BORING BLOG - a speck in cyberspace that has no substance, makes no real statement and serves no purpose, save perhaps as a venue for procrastination and narcissism. i, i, i, i, i, and more i. yuck ( Read more... )

AVP training went really well. very very informative. and heavy. but good. i think i'm going to like it there ( Read more... )

this one is too good to go undocumented.

"Once you've been a part of good music, everything else is like bad sex." -- C#

today, some of the ladies and i, in the course of everyday chatter, got ourselves into a lively conversation about men, and more specifically, the quality of said men ( Read more... )