I'm moving. The movers should be here any moment and still have a few things to do before they get here. So what am I doing? Nothing! It's called the fine art of Slacking if you were unaware. I went to the wedding this weekend it was a really nice ceremony (I'll have to post more about my weekend later). But as soon as I got back to town I ( Read more... )

I walked out of my first movie yesterday but I put the blame entirely on Harvey Pekar. It was The Nightowls of Coventry written and directed by a local filmmaker. I was sucked in based on three facts 1) Local filmmaker, gotta support the peeps right? 2) the film was being show at the local Art House that doesn't normally show local independents so ( Read more... )

So this has been a pretty slow weekend.  My sister and my niece went to southern Ohio to visit our family  and my father went to northern Indiana to visit his family that's there.  It's just been me and my mother.  All I've been doing is cleaning and making preparations to move into my new apartment.  Strangely, my mother and I have been getting ( Read more... )

LJ Interests meme results

1. chair dancing:
   I love listening to music at my computer or in the car and I've honed the complicated art of truly doing the damn thing from the confines of a chair. I deserve awards I tell you.
2. dinah washington:
   Everyone's always talking about Billie Holiday but Dinah makes her look like a cracked out ho. Her version of " ( Read more... )

Today I went to the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards ceremony!  Henry Louis Gates Jr. was the master of ceremony and he was as funny and irreverent as ever.  The winners this year were Edwidge Danticant,  A. Van Jordan, and Geoffrey C. Ward.  August Wilson received the Lifetime Achievement Award (he wasn't there of course since you know...he's dying of ( Read more... )

I haven't heard from my boss in a week and 1/2. I called, texted, e-mailed and received no reply. Outside of the board I'm the only other full time employee and I work from home. There's no office to call. I just have her cell phone number and I don't have the number to her house ( Read more... )

LIST OF PEOPLE WHO ARE CURRENTLY DUE FOR A TOSSED SALAD

Mayor Ray Nagin

Kanye West

Texas Governor Rick Perry

Anderson Cooper

Ted Koppel

All volunteers for the Red Cross

I'd want Bush to perform them himself but I'm afraid he'd fuck that up too. 

LISTEN TO THIS RIGHT NOW!

LISTEN TO THE WHOLE THING!

http://a901.g.akamai.net/7/901/13186/v002/airamerica.download.akamai.com/13186/aarplace/media/Nagin.mp3

YOU WANT THE TRUTH YOU GOT IT.

I won free advanced screening passes for Serendipity and gave them to my mother and a friend and now I have fans for life ( Read more... )

My brother called me to ask what I wanted for my birthday and I hadn't talked to him in a while so I asked him about his new job.  He's going part-time to grad. school and working full time at a science museum.

ME:   So how's the new job?

HIM: It's okay I guess.  I have to finish getting trained for the different exhibits and programs so I've ( Read more... )