Cuz everyone else is doing it. I'll try to keep to things you may _not_ know, on the principle that if you wanted general info, you could go to my profile. Still, some duplication is inevitable ( Read more... )

Continuing our weekly tour of Seattle's parks, Meg and I went to Volunteer Park yesterday ( Read more... )

Today I woke up next to Meg. This was the start of a perfect day. Ate a leisurely breakfast and did the NY Times crossword together over coffee ( Read more... )

I'm sorry to say it, kids, but I think I'm taking my leave of LiveJournal. It's been a good run, but the fact is nearly all of my friends on here are on Facebook anyway, and Facebook offers a lot more services than LJ, as does Blogger.

If you haven't already friended me on Facebook, you can find me under my name, Joel Tagert.

Adios, amigos.

Ah, Christmas. My least favorite holiday. Call me a Grinch (who was always a more interesting character than Santa anyway). I suspect the reason I don't care for Christmas - other than its revolting mercantilism and pretensions of Christian piety - is that I don't possess the reservoir of nostalgia for it most people build up during their ( Read more... )

As I mentioned, I recently started working for Starbucks... or should I say, Starsucks. Oh, man, I kills myself. Or want to ( Read more... )

"To learn to be always in a state of meditation means never to let your vital energy wane. You would never allow it to do so if it were certain that you were to die tomorrow. It wanes because you forget about death. Grit your teeth, fix your gaze, and observe death at this moment. You have to feel it so strongly that is seems as if it’s attacking ( Read more... )

Stolen from Cory. Stuff I've done is in bold.

100 Things
1. Started your own blog - Obviously.
2. Slept under the stars - Any number of times. Most memorably at Miloli'i State Park on the Napali Coast of Kauai.
3. Played in a band - Well, sort of sang in a band a couple times.
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went and got a futon mattress for my (platform) bed. It's not quite the right size - it's a full rather than a queen - but it was completely free, I having found it on Craigslist. Incidentally, Craigslist rules. Lately I've taken to using "Queen Anne" as my search terms - that being my neighborhood - and looking only at what's available ( Read more... )

Just finished rewatching No Country For Old Men. In the final monologue, as it was in McCarthy's book, the sheriff is talking about a dream of his father ( Read more... )