I still feel really good and relaxed after a nice long weekend. Even a silly big ol' noisy city can't get me down.

The subway car this morning was quiet and I had my nose in a book, but all of a sudden, five feet away from me, there was the strum of a guitar, and four hispanic men wearing matching Wrangler jeans, blue shirts, and cowboy hats launched into a rousing version of Guantanamera. It was all I could do to not sing along (I only know the chorus ( Read more... )

A segment of David Mitchell's "ghostwritten" perfectly illustrates the scene in Vonnegut's "Bluebeard" wherein the main character meets a former lover after WWII, and she tells him that war is when men pretend to fight each other but really wage war on women and children. He points out that he was in it, and it didn't feel like pretending, and she ( Read more... )

In the past twenty four hours, we rearranged the living room and the bedroom to create lots more space, wandered around Greenwich Village, are lots of delicious things, looked at apartments on craigslist for northampton, priced out uhaul crap...

shower time.

A gay rain army. Laughing out loud in a big way. Or "lolling" as the kids say. Click. Watch. Gay Marriage Propaganda. Enjoy.

I can't imagine what it would be like to have my sweetheart's job. I wouldn't be able to do it. Terrible things would happen.

Recent decision: more livejournal posts, but shorter. Even though I don't like Twitter. It's got nothing to do with Twitter. I swear.

Currently? A lazy and (rare) alone-style evening at home - too tired to go race bikes. Pouring much-needed carbohydrates into my body and continuing to read Salmon Rushdie's Fury, to which my reaction is, goddamn! ( Read more... )

i have more jobs than working bikes.

a weekend of fairly successful bike racing* (third in the tournament) ends on a low note with two friends in the hospital with two broken collarbones, three broken ribs, and one concussion betwixt 'em ( Read more... )

Dear March,
What, were you planning to stick around until May?

Fuck off!