there's a lot of haggling in other countries. just a thing. when haggling, i love to force people to crack a grin. it's really effective, really ( Read more... )

man, finally i can get some sleep.

kindness of strangers tour 2005!

i am going to hitchhike from miami to new york city. i-95 i guess? i'll leave in about two weeks.

hey east-coasterners! i'm down for denny's coffee and a lift back to the highway on-ramp.

a few pictures.

saw a monkey today. word.

i just got a hair cut at a place called DISTINCT FLAVA. rashee gave me a card and their slogan is "A BARBER'S CREATIVITY LACED PRECISELY W/SKILLZ"

now let me tell you, i did not have much hair to start with, but i'm pretty sure what just happened in that barber shop was not a hair cut but some kind of hair care experience . 50-cent was on a big ( Read more... )

packing up my old digicam, and found this handsome anonymous devil, posing next to the guy from kojak:


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"watch out for ______" is closing in on "wow you are tall" for the prestigious I'm Well Aware, Thank You award. it's not that the phrase doesn't often contain some kind of useful info, like surely, i will keep an eye out for crooked taxi cab drivers, and deadly tree snakes and loose coconuts and fucking, what. cannibal pygmies. who knows. it's ( Read more... )

i hung out with kita today and she said to me,

"so, do you think you're ever going to have NORMAL hair?"

so i started to cry, but she totally knocked the shit out of a towering cement column, i think maybe to illustrate a point, so i stopped crying.

BACK TO THE GRE!

i've been picking up more bits and pieces of portuguese here in miami, and i get such a kick out of the slang. i heard the familiar "viajou na maionese" - travelling along the mayonaise - meant to describe someone who is full of it ( Read more... )

this is pai, the newest member of boyzzz club. he keeps me company when i am studying, and chews on me when i am not studying. we have a secret handshake whereby i form complex hand gestures and he tries to bite them all:


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