Last night I had a random experience with a man living in a van. On the way back to our house from Cantwell's market, key-lime pie in hand, Emma and I were accosted by a long-tailed middle aged man requesting a jump. Initially, I politely declined, my selfish/protective instincts kicking in about old hippies living in vans asking me for favors, ( Read more... )

I'm a little behind on my LJ reading (much less posting!), but this is as good as anything to restart my entries:

MY Linguistic Profile:
70% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern
5% Yankee
0% Dixie

Yep, good plain Pacific Northwesterner tossed with a bit of Ohio. Don't know about the Upper Midwestern thing, though?

My folks tipped me off to what I think is quite possibly the most brilliant piece of election pamphlet comedy I've ever seen: find it here- http://www.sos.state.or.us/elections/nov22004/guide/meas/m36_fav.htmlRead more... )

Pyromax tells the story better than I could about our surfboards flying off the room of my car on the highway, but I just want to add that I too feel very fortunate that this bad situation didn't turn much worse. The sadness I felt for your shitkicked board, as well as the frustration I felt for having to get another expensive repair job on my own ( Read more... )

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I just read a simultaneously disturbing and hilarious article in the Times about the national drinking crisis now facing the English, as well as the Irish- http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/22/international/europe/22bing.htmlRead more... )

Hello again, friends, both real and imagined. It's now been 57 days, according to livejournal's count. That's the last time I last poured forth in a torrent of self-important longwinded verbiage. It seems time now to do the same ( Read more... )

Last night I watched City Lights with Ganatronic, babaluma and pyromax. I enjoyed it thoroughly, but was just as thoroughly bummed out when the last five minutes of the movie froze up- a DVD scratch destroying our pleasure in watching the blind girl finally see the Little Tramp. Having found out that the ending, according to many critics at least ( Read more... )

"Na-jo" is being cleaned up right now. That adds one more phat cut to the "Indian Love Song" theme- others being the "Rose of the Mountain Trail" and "Silver Star ( Read more... )

If it was a snake it would have bit me (thankfully, it's a series of digital bits). I forgot in my last post to add the grand-mom of them all- the song by George Wilton Ballard entitled "M-o-t-h-e-r: a word that means the world to me ( Read more... )