Coming back to el jay after all this time for a quick checkup is kinda like coming back to your hometown after years and seeing a rickety old building you remember as a kid. You weren't sure what was holding it together even back then, and you figured what with the natural disasters the region's occasionally prone to, and the natural decay of Old ( Read more... )

92 degrees today? Weren't they calling for snow little more than three weeks ago? I think it might be time to relocate to a more temperate climate.

From my regularly scheduled taletelling to remind you all it is 9-9-9, which is something that won't happen again in our lifetime(s).

I am in Mandan, North Dakota. The sign tells me it's Where The West Begins.

And now here I am in Chicago. Huh.

One of the biggest (and most unlikely) prog fans out there:

http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2009/03/05/george-jefferson-worlds-biggest-gong-fan/

Richard Wright died today. He was always my favorite member of Pink Floyd, and provided most of the elements I liked about the songs, and influenced the keyboard playing I've done with the bands I've been in. . . It's a drag, so I think today I'll listen to a lot of Floyd.

I'm living a September 10th world. 9/11 changed Everything, etc. etc.

These surveys have been my guilty pleasure for years. I like filling out answers to questions, I even kind of like paperwork. Here's one now, with hilarious ALL CAPS text so we know it's all in good fun and I actually feel kind of lame for answering these ( Read more... )

One has to question doing something as inherently narcissistic as getting a livejournal at a time in one's life when one feels that their identity is dissipating. It's a side-effect of time. I've got nothing to say but it's OK ( Read more... )