Soft-Eyed Boy came in this morning, purchased a book and then stood around for a while gazing off into space. My boss came in after about half an hour of this; he asked Soft-Eyed Boy what he wanted a couple times and eventually Soft-Eyed Boy left. He then hung around outside. I left briefly to mail an invoice (and enjoy the unbelievably ( Read more... )

Adam once wrote that when people asked him what he thinks "art" is, he often thought of me dyeing rain-puddles or doing other sideways projects. For some reason, I thought of him when I conceived of

The Griffin and Sabine ProjectThis project begins on Craigslist. I give my name, list a bunch of my interests (perhaps: fantasy and science fiction ( Read more... )

Sudden Poll! What's the worst that could happen?

I don't want to be working today ... I want to be out swimming in the glorious warmth that is the last of September.

:whine:

Tell me your favourite joke. Bonus points for lampreys.

The Spectrum

Yes
absolutely
positively
definitely
for sure
certainly
really
later
perhaps
probably
possibly
likely
maybe
(I don't know.)
maybe
unlikely
impossible
never
no

Honorable Mentions:

Positively Not!
Maybe Later...
anyways?
The Four Fold Negation
Yes (ironic).
Freedom!

The Process Notes (original notes as typed by Corrigan in normal ( Read more... )

I just finished up the first entry to Bookstore Y's brand new store blog! I would positively love your feedback. Especially if you can help me set up an RSS feed / a livejournal feed / whatever ( Read more... )

The following is from Mom. Our Unitarian church has its community take charge of summer services while the minister is away at another church.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Lydia's Mom
Date: 31-Jul-2007 08:30
Subject: need help thinking about a church service
To: Lydia

You may remember that I organize the summer services each ( Read more... )

Apropos of a conversation I recently had with my housemates ( Read more... )

Is there some kind of astrological thing going on right now? It seems like I chose the worst possible two weeks to be home, and by home I mean New York (which is funny because I've spent like a solid hour today grinding my teeth because I'm not home, and by home I mean Chicago). I had my omens; I can't complain about not receiving omens -- for ( Read more... )

The article is a little tangential, but damn! I can't believe I only just found out about this! (I noticed only because I was sending someone a link to my piece, and thought, Huh, I wonder why it suddenly has 12000 more reads than when I last glanced at this page?)(My piece is linked in the sentence: "(although if you're interested in that debate ( Read more... )