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Can't never go home again
Well friends, I'm back in Athens once again. It's a new year, familiar faces are all around; the shit-smears left on my life by Chi-town have been quickly wiped off, the putrid aftertaste spat out. New friends and lovers appear, old friends resurface, and I can finally, finally, see the stars and the moon at night. I've come home to Georgie and ( Read more... ) -
Autumnal wanderlust, or big city blues
Does the urge to travel ever leave a traveler? I've found through many months of trial, dull-and-dreary clouds and rain, and boorish Chicagoans that the answer to that question, at least for me, is no. So, it's understandably harder for me to be in a place I love so much knowing I'll soon be on an ass-numbing 22-hour ride back to a city that ( Read more... ) -
Technological dependency
Being without a regular source of internet sucks. I miss livejournal. -
Just a quickie
Well, now that S and I have moved into our fly new living area/secret hideout/headquarters for mischievous planning, we don't have a regular computer to use any more. So, posts here will probably be a little less regular pro tempore. Expect phone calls, lots of phone calls! -
Reminiscing over raspberries
I lived in Snellville, Ga- a suburb of Atlanta- for 20 years of my life. I did well in high school, was captain of the scholar's bowl team, excelled academically, earned an honor thespianship my senior year, and hated just about everything I witnessed in social interaction among people my age and the public at large. I went to college after ( Read more... ) -
Als of the world unite!
S and I were sitting near Lake Bitch-n-grin yesterday as an old man ambled by us hunched over a gleaming walker. I had seen this man before, and nodded to him and smiled each time, and this time was no different. After we exchanged silent pleasantries, he turned and gestured toward the lake and exclaimed, jubilantly, "You know, this is Chicago, ( Read more... ) -
Dinosaur News Network presents:
Last Friday I rode my bike with about 5000 other kids through the streets of Chicago. we stopped a lot of traffic, had the opportunity to talk to many people about why we were stopping traffic, and we disrupted some Fascist Stormtrooper (i.e.- the police) shenanigans. It was an amazingly positive ride, and, although there were some angry people ( ( Read more... ) -
Critical Mass
To everyone in Chi-town: Critical Mass this Friday at 5:30 in Daley Plaza. Come out and ride a bike, kids!
Take the streets and stop some traffic!
http://www.chicagocriticalmass.org/
