man, i'm totally, totally in japan ( Read more... )

there has been a catastrophic leak in the main plumbing of my house. the tea towel that's been wrapped around the pipe isn't so much staunching the flow as causing it to drip about six inches to the left, so the main valve has been shut off. i've been brushing my teeth using beer instead of water. the result is extremely frothy ( Read more... )

teaandbitchery sent me an lj nudge so i would post. i didn't even know you could do that. in fairness, it has been about two months. no doubt my absence has pained you. with pain. you, my ever-faithful reader, have been craving news of my life's trivial details ( Read more... )

i'm reading the satanic verses.

as items of interest go, that's pretty thin. nevertheless, it is a true thing that is happening to me.

are you not captivated by this completely factual account of something i do? i suggest you stop reading right now before your mind is crippled by my life's rockstar intensity ( Read more... )

last monday a worker was crushed to death by a crane as he labored to build . . . well, something, anyway . . . in the until-recently vacant lot up the street from my house. the lot was home to an abandoned fast-food restaurant, weeds, and a structure that on paper was a storm drain but in reality was a mosquito nursery the locals sometimes called ( Read more... )

the interview went poorly.

thanks to barry, kristin and angie for the birthday wishes (and it's not even noon yet. gosh!) barry's thoughtful gift of a fictional bottle of tequila and an equally fictional urinal cake, both of which i have already consumed, was particularly touching. don't think too hard about it ( Read more... )

since i've been meme-slapped by at least three people, and since my drafts folder is filthy with entry fragments that i'm not up to finishing, and because i am emotionally drained on the scale of a juiced gelfling, i will do this meme instead of providing actual content. excitement!

at the behest of sterlingmoons, muskie_girl, and sanguinare at least (sorry if i've forgotten ( Read more... )

i'm leaving for toronto in three hours to see current 93 with mavra_chang.
next week i'll be in detroit to see vnv nation with sanguinare and hi_amity_an_elk.

it's really a lot of effort for someone who isn't that enthusiastic about concerts. it should be an adventure. especially in detroit. last time i was there, angie and i had the shit scared out of us in some greasy spoon that ( Read more... )

i have a request. i'm idly collecting whatever information about bizarre things and occurrances that exist in ohio, or that at least have their origins here. i'm not really so concerned about people from here, although we've certainly had our share of weirdos (mark mothersbaugh, anyone?) i'm looking for things that are less well known . . . things ( Read more... )