Snack Mountain is hosting a small cook-out at our house on Thursday for my birthday (also as always pointed out, Hitler's or Shirley Temple's or even if you celebrate 4/20 day, Earth Day, Barry's birthday, Holly Bostock day, sometimes Orthodox Easter, and someone mentioned that Columbine happened on that day too, but we won't be celebrating that ( Read more... )

MANALAPAN, Fla. - The pianist Yanni was arrested at his Manalapan home after a domestic dispute with his girlfriend, authorities said ( Read more... )

I just saw the perfect replication of Hanson while sitting on the steps of the Union. The youngest one looked too young to be believable though; I would have been clearly fooled had this been a few years ago. But the other two, the other two looked just about right.

I got the call. He died. I'm going home tomorrow.

Tuesday night I got a call from my dad's girlfriend saying he wanted me to come up within the next couple of weeks to see him again. She said he had things he wanted to talk to me about. And that within the next month his memory will completely go and it's important that I go see him again ( Read more... )

Big Business and High on Fire are playing in Chicago next Saturday, February 11th at the Double Door. I have to finally see Big Business play! And I've missed High on Fire everytime they've played around here. And I want to know who wants to come...Kevin I'm looking in your direction kid ( Read more... )

When I was eight I had an old t-shirt with a Garfield screenprint that read, "I used to have a handle on life but then it fell off". I wish I still owned that shirt because I would wear it every single day. Under a cardigan or over a long-sleeve shirt. It works perfectly.

The past two Mondays have been the new Teen Saturdays

Perfect strangers tell me about their lives. The girl next to me is studying Music but wants to get into Arts Administration for graduate school. She's stressed she says, very very stressed. More of the nervous type. The woman at Backstreet Mission told me that she loves her job because no one is around breathing down her neck and she can make ( Read more... )

Chris and I found a bag left on our porch today consisting of 5 bottles of diet pills and three books - one being a book on Thoreau, another covering the History of the United States from 1945 on, the third I don't remember. The third book could have very possibly covered the teachings of Thoreau used in the history of the United States from 1945 ( Read more... )