Yesterday, I went to the mall. I really needed some new socks. The ones I wore had holes in the bottom and I could feel the gross point of impact with my shoe all day like a tiny dime of suction ( Read more... )

I am so depressed about comments. Not comments on my livejournal. Comments that people leave on random news articles on the internet. I think I have been overestimating the intelligence of people all my life. I suppose I have been living in bubbles this whole time. Born in the suburbs, moved to Austin and Olympia, both highly literate state ( Read more... )

In the last five minutes the following two things have happened to me: 1) a SUV kept slowly rolling by me as I watered the front lawn (it is nighttime) and finally stopped after the fourth pass. An older man got out and walked up to me with a piece of paper and whispered "we are about to repossess your neighbor's car and I would appreciate it if ( Read more... )

Normally I don't enjoy taking on any roles that require a lot of organizational skill and responsibility, but this is a truly exciting idea that must be put into action. I want this to happen. I think I can even pull it off, despite myself. What is it? It's an experiment in musical randomness, a band lottery if you will. The goal is to create ( Read more... )

I think I was on tour with the Carrots, and we had already gone around the country and we were ending our tour in the Pacific NW. In my dream, it was common knowledge that you had to end all tours there because you had to go through this secret place in Oregon that was very scary. I guess bands put off doing that so Oregon was always the last ( Read more... )

My yard is so parched. Its yellow and crinkly and even brown. There are a few patches of lush green, though. Around my baby oak tree that I am pretty good about watering it is vibrant. It gives me great pleasure to water these creatures (can I call plants creatures? Does a creature have to be an animal?) even though I know we are facing a ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was riding home from work on the bus and reading with my back against the wall and my body across two seats. A few minutes into my journey I hear a very loud voice say "Your shoe is on the seat." I look up and there is this very normal looking white guy in his 30's pointing at my foot. I said "I know." He says "People sit on that ( Read more... )

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I live on this curvy little street that doesn't connect through because there is a creek behind it and I'm sure a bridge was just not in the budget that year. So, to get to almost anywhere I have to go all the way down my street and then back up another street and then back up another street again. It takes me like a mile to go a hundred yards as ( Read more... )

You know how when you read books about famous people and they grew up on an isolated farm and had to walk like five miles to school each way everyday? How did they do that? Most famous people have done that at some point in their life. That's a well-documented fact ( Read more... )