whoa, i forgot i had one of these

Hubert Eaton born in 1881 to a Missourian family of academics and clergymen, started out as a miner, went broke, and subsequently moved to California, where he wound up selling 'pre-need' burial plots in what was then a sleepy country cemetery. He made a go of this and the success appears to have awakened him to the under-exploited potential of a ( Read more... )

so stop 1 on the way out to tokyo; arrived in boise to visit for a few weeks with my mum (btw, above line is her's said as we were entering into idaho and 10,000x10,000 bugs suddenly commited windshield seppaku ( Read more... )

aah... a complete day off, even if it is just for one day.

- slept in
- took a shower
- back into pajamas
- made a spinach, feta omelette
- made coffee
- smoked a clove
- cleaned the apartment
- expanded the online presence
- watched a marathon of heroes episodes to catch up to episode 17, which, by the way, was amazing: HRG, i had my doubts, but truly he ( Read more... )

so...

yeah....

anyway, i woke up yesterday to find my freezer had transformed itself into that arctic scene from frankenstein, not the branagh film, but the really cool mini-series directed by david wickes and starring the impeccable patrick bergin ~ i love this film version the best because it's all about light and dark and redemption and randy ( Read more... )

it  rained yesterday.

not the grey, lackluster,  morose kind of rain  typical for olympia this time of year. rather, it was a pleasant sun-dappled sunday, ‘hihowareyou?’ ‘finethankyouisn’tlifewonderful,’ kind of rain. stepping outside at 4:02 pm, with the smell of possibility mixed with wet asphalt and childhood, i was lucky enough to see an amazing ( Read more... )

what began as an innocent conversation about punxsutawney (it's a state of mind, everyone has their day there) over morning coffee, followed by an impromptu voyage to seattle, quickly degenerated into, what was by far far far, the strangest day i've been witness to in a very very long time; i say "degenerated" because, quite frankly, there is no ( Read more... )

HOLY SHIT I'M 30!

and olympia has been defeated by Nature!

and i got flashed by skanky pussy!

and kate, alisa, and alisha are awsome!

i will be switching this LJ back to an aniBlog and creating a new LJ for ruminations and book reviews and some minor daily pontifications called:

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As many of you know, over the summer, and after much deliberation, scientists decided to expel Pluto from its status as a planet and woe to Scorpios and Tuesday, their celestial patron, having lost his magisterial title of planet, cast out from the stellar pantheon, and regulated to an 'as yet unnamed, subcategory of objects.' The decision to ( Read more... )