It's not every day you run into Willem Dafoe and then spend an hour or two wandering alone, lost in Harlem at 2 in the morning.

I think I killed my desktop. Awesome.

Just finished up a four day trip that included 24 hours in Sun Valley, ID, home to all sorts of rich and famous fany pants (after having a few drinks at the cool local hang out, we went to Bruce Willis' bar, which was kind of disappointing - if I had as much money as him, my bar would be way cooler). Sun Valley is awesome because we have a condo ( Read more... )

Everyone whose number I may have had stored in my cell phone, please email me your number at jonwphillips@gmail.com. Also, don't bother trying to call me for at least a couple of weeks ( Read more... )

I haven't had access to the internet for a while because I've been flying pretty much every day and the laptop's been in the shop. It's actually fine and waiting to be picked up, but I haven't been in Portland to be able to pick it up.

I'm in Burbank now and only have a minute or so left to wish everyone a joyous solstice, so

JOYOUS SOLSTICE,

I got back from a long four day trip yesterday and am about to leave on a two day. Six straight work days can get old. At least if I can keep this up all bid, I'll make some decent money ( Read more... )

I need help. I want to start travelling more. I would like to take a trip late this summer to somewhere far, far away. The problem is that, given my current situation, the possibilities are almost endless, so I can't seem to settle on anything. So now I turn to livejournal. Where should I go? Right now I'm considering hiking in Papua New ( Read more... )

A while back I wrote a brief entry regarding the word 'scientism' which I utterly despise. There's another word that also irritates the hell out of me for much the same reason: 'Islamist ( Read more... )

Mainstream sociocultural anthropology has arrived at a situation resembling some nightmarish short story Borges might have written, where scientists are condemned by their unexamined assumptions to study the nature of mirrors only by cataloging and investigating everything that mirrors can reflect. It is an endless process that never makes ( Read more... )

These last few days I'd been starting to think that I really hated my job. Guess I must have been in a bad mood or something. Today, I got up, read the news, went downstairs for breakfast, came back up and watched the latest episode of Doctor Who on my computer, went for a walk and then sprawled out on the bed with a cup of tea, some chocolate ( Read more... )