So, I early-voted today. From the time I walked in till the time I left, took approx 15 minutes. Sweet ( Read more... )

In less noteworthy news, my laptop is dead. Fried motherboard, apparently. Part of me is pissed it lasted just over a year. Part of me notes that said year included 1 month of living on a boat on the Pacific, and 8 months dragging it around London. Perhaps to be expected ( Read more... )

So, here's the show I'm running lights & sound for:


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On Saturday I went to the UK Web & Mini Comix Thing 2008 in Mile End. I first read about it in Lying in the Gutters, and a couple days later saw a preview of the event via Londonist. Since I wasn't going to Cumbria for the weekend as originally planned, I decided to check it out ( Read more... )

So. I've bought my plane ticket. I'm coming home next month.

I've loved London madly, and still do. But I can't deny I've missed Chicago too.

I'm coming home. And that's damn exciting.

(Comments on the original entry here.)

For seven years, I journalled here.

Now I've a new one. Let's see where it goes.

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Y'know ... it takes a special kind of mind to finish up a journal entry 3 years after you started it.

(I'll give you a moment to let that sink in.)You have to be obsessive enough to keep the thing around, in the deeply-held belief that yes you WILL actually get around to finishing that someday ... while still being enough of a procrastinator to ( Read more... )

Natalie mentions that The Prince Charles Cinema once had to throw a guy out for having a wank during a film. Oddly enough, it was a documentary about the Labour Party.

One is tempted to ask if he was truly a leftie.

Yes, it's another food post. What have I been putting in my mouth? Many fun and tasty things:

GINGER BEERIt's funny, but this might be one of the things that I'll miss most once I'm back in the States. Oh, it's not that you can't find Ginger Beer at all in the US, but it's not ubiquitous. You've gotta search for it. And if you find it (usually ( Read more... )