Yes, still alive. Just not here much.

[photosinensis]

Previous years, and posting to keep this place alive."

2015
No 2014 for reasons. I think they had to do with severe depression.
2013
2012
2011
2010
I skipped a lot of years
2006

1. What did you do this year that you hadn't done before?
I volunteered for a political campaign in an active role. I saw the Grand Canyon. I visited Disneyland. I drove up US 101. I made it to Seattle.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
No. I didn't really have resolutions.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
A couple of cousins.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Yes. Who didn't die?

5. What countries did you visit?
No countries, but added New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, and Washington state to my list of states visited.

6. What would you like to have in 2013 that you lacked in 2012?
I don't know. More space.

7. What date from 2015 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
We're fucked forever. The deaths. SO MANY DEATHS.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
I road-tripped with my parents and nobody died.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Donald Trump will be President. I tried to stop it. I volunteered for Clinton. I donated to Clinton's campaign. I phone banked. It wasn't enough.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
No.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
I bought a tour of wine country. That was freaking awesome.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Nobody's.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
The fascists. And all the dying.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Magic: The Moneypit and my amateur radio habit.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Football. And then the University of Texas at Austin crushed my hopes. Now I need to buy a nuclear bomb to detonate on Austin.

16. What song will always remind you of 2015?
You know, I really didn't do much *new* music. But instead, I saw original-lineup Black Sabbath life.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? Sadder
ii. thinner or fatter? About the same.
iii. richer or poorer? Richer.

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Anhedonia means never having fun again.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Just plain stupid stuff.

20. How did you spend Christmas?
With family in Nacogdoches.

21. How will you be spending New Years?
The same way I always spend New Year's. Trying to take over the world! Sitting at my parents' place.

22. Did you fall in love in 2016?
This kind of thing does not happen to me.

23. How many one-night stands?
This kind of thing really does not happen to me.

24. What was your favorite TV program?
I still don't watch much teevee.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Everybody that voted Trump. Fuck you, you fucking fascists.

26. What was the best book you read?
I didn't do much reading, oddly.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
I didn't make many musical discoveries.

28. What did you want and get?
A bunch of stuff.

29. What did you want and not get?
A female president.

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Star Wars, man. Star Wars.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
32. I don't remember.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Fewer deaths. The fascists getting hoisted on their own petard.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2016?
Lol. Fashion.

34. What kept you together?
Board games.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
That's not something that happens to me.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Stopping Trump. Fuck.

37. Who did you miss?
Who didn't I miss?

38. Who was the best new person you met?
Eh.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2016:
Life sucks and then you die, so fuck the world.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:


Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth
You pull on your finger, then another finger, then your cigarette
The wall to wall is calling, it lingers, then you forget
Ohhh, you're a rock 'n' roll suicide

You're too old to lose it, too young to choose it
And the clock waits so patiently on your song
You walk past a cafe but you don't eat when you've lived too long
Oh, no, no, no, you're a rock 'n' roll suicide

Chev brakes are snarling as you stumble across the road
But the day breaks instead so you hurry home
Don't let the sun blast your shadow
Don't let the milk float ride your mind
You're so natural, religiously unkind

Oh no love! You're not alone
You're watching yourself but you're too unfair
You got your head all tangled up
But if I could only make you care

Oh no love! You're not alone
No matter what or who you've been
No matter when or where you've seen
All the knives seem to lacerate your brain
I've had my share, I'll help you with the pain
You're not alone

Just turn on with me and you're not alone
Let's turn on with me and you're not alone
Gimme your hands 'cause you're wonderful
Gimme your hands 'cause you're wonderful
Oh gimme your hands

RIP, Bowie.