- Zero sleep on Friday night (until a mid-morning 2 hour nap)
+ Fitting in another viewing of ATL during aforementioned insomnia
+ The smell of Jon's Potato Leek Soup
- Reading textbooks about literacy education make my brain ache
- The Italian festival is nothing but bad food in a crowd.  Should have spent my money on a bocce set
+ The new Wale mix- ( Read more... )

maybe i already said this, but they released a compilation of Elliott Smith's unreleased material from his Kill Rock Stars years.  There's a very well written review of it hereFor me, the best thing about this release is that it brought one of my favorite songs, back to me.  I had a very unclean demo version years ago but I lost the disc.  But the ( Read more... )

sometimes i think about starting a whole new blog.  a blog about who i really am, about what i really think and feel.  i've gone as far as creating the blogger account.  then i sit there, realize i don't have it in me, and delete the account again.

i'm not sure when it happened, but i stopped sharing my whole self with anybody.

Hey everyone.  You may have heard that small magazine distributor the Independent Press Association folded late last year.  A lot of magazines have closed up shop as a result.

It has just come to my attention that one publisher effected by this is McSweeney's.  I don't know many others who put out such quality products, not to mention the youth ( Read more... )

As if I wasn't already in a melancholy way, I just found out...          Mr. Wizard died.

well I don't know what to say about that.

sunday is the 70th anniversary of the hindenburg disaster.  they played the radio broadcast on the radio this morning and i cried and cried.  i don't know what this means.

herb morrison

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PANTS YELL! IS COMING TO ROCHESTER. AAAHHHHH!!!

things change largely. you wouldn't even guess if i grabbed your wrist and pulled you through it. i didn't even know that they auto-save drafts now. cries of lost magic halted, folded up papers be gone ( Read more... )

i'm reading this book about christian orthodoxy, but i'm a little turned off by it because apparently orthodox are basically vegan during lent, and this is their lenten sacrifice. this is viewed as being above and beyond other forms of lenten sacrifice, which i suppose it is, but what am i supposed to do with a belief system that thinks of what i ( Read more... )