I don't mean to brag or anything, but last night I got a thousand hugs from ten thousand lightning bugs. Just sayin', is all.

I knew the economy was struggling, but this excerpt of an interview with pessimistic economist Nouriel Roubini has taken me aback.
( Not actually an interview, please do not sue me Mr. Roubini. )

I'm actually glad that my twenties, which have by and large sucked, are officially over at 10:35 this evening.  I've celebrated so far by taking the day off of work, sleeping 10 hours and getting Five Guys for lunch.  This evening I do have plans with actual other human beings.  Then I'll drag this thing out through the weekend, seeing how much ( Read more... )

RIP to Jerry Reed, a great picker and icon of 70's redneck cinema.  In tribute, please enjoy these two Youtube videos with Mr. Reed: with Chet Atkins circa 1975, and accompanying Glen Campbell (who's wearing ridiculously constrictive short shorts and sporting a Brian-Wilson-cokehead-era beard) on "Southern Nights." 

I somehow lost my Black Sabbath t-shirt.  Since that was the only piece of clothing I owned that I liked (well, besides my Ash Ra Tempel t-shirt), I'm rather distraught.  Maybe this is nature's way of telling me I'm too old to be wearing band t-shirts.

They started blocking Livejournal at my job this week.  While I've been running too low on the ol' inspirado to update mine recently, and most of you on my friends list are pikers who don't update (or else you all went to wherever the cool kids on the internet^ are these days), I still miss it.  Oh, I still read when I get home, but since LJ is ( Read more... )

I just got a wrong number at work from a writer from the Japanese Nikkei paper asking for a "Mr. Green."  Now I'm kicking myself over missing a chance to ruin someone's reputation on an international scale.

"List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your blog along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they’re listening to."

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 I was awakened for the second time in a week by my apartment building's fire alarm. False alarm, again. This time it was at 5 am, the exact worst possible time - too late for me to be able to go back to sleep, just early enough to fuck up the rest of my day. At least the temperature wasn't in the 40s with heavy rain like last time. Also, my ( Read more... )

I made another muxtape, an assortment of airy, zippy pop songs designed for warm and sunny springtime weather.  Dig, if you will.