rode up into the hills above the zoo after work today. called philippa to talk surfing, and instead she invited me down to some huge party thrown by willy week. so, that happened. crazy performers doing some sort of dance-as-art thing with pillows to the theme of french cafe music. drunk guys on stilts. *lots* of people of all sorts. free ( Read more... )

went and saw talkdemonic play at doug fir with jon on saturday. pretty amazing. ran into an old friend, josi, at the show, who was once one of my closest friends, but whom i haven't seen in years (i'd forgotten the silly things she says, like "boy, oh boy!"). went surfing yesterday. i was gonna go by myself, but it ended up being me, my cousin ( Read more... )

a lot has gone down lately. new information has come to light. the skinny of it is that i've been made aware of some significant and previously unexamined shortcomings in who i am, and i'm in the process of reckoning with these. the fat of it may come at another time, though i'm notoriously inept at explicating these things ( Read more... )

went to the beach yesterday with kali and caitlin. surfed. caitlin even made a gallant but brief effort to surf even though she didn't have a wetty. waves were big and it made me struggle a lot, but not overly so. the last ride i got was pretty amazing, catching the wave, standing up, seeing four feet of my nose hanging out in the air and ( Read more... )

storm large is one of my faves. for those of you who don't know of her, she and her band, the balls, are the house band at a local spot dante's, where they r0x0r s0x0rs off folks every wednesday. rad thing about her show is that pretty much everyone i've taken, no matter what sort of music they listen to, loves the show ( Read more... )

actually there are two lines-of-the-week this week, and both are from NPR.

the first is from a piece NPR did on people skipping work to watch World Cup Football (that's soccer to us Yanks). from an interview with a guy who runs a car wash:
"...i have three guys who work for me. they came in early, worked really hard, then left for lunch. i ( Read more... )

oh, wow. yesterday was just unbelievable!

first day on the new job started out slow, but got more interesting once i was actually able to help solve a problem for the client.

after work i met up with jon. he'd been lusting after my ruby jewel t-shirt (my fave ice cream, btw).  we went to the farmer's market, and even though they were out of t- ( Read more... )

last night, while looking out my window at the park, i saw a man in a wheelchair slaloming the trees that line the boardwalk. (for those of you who don't know, i once raced slalom on snowboard for a local resort's team, so i have plenty of nostalgia for all things racing or slalom-related ( Read more... )

holy FUCK!

i just discovered that i am on the international movie database!!! i'm fucking searchable! and not just my name-sake, but me!

really. go try if you doubt.

~r

i'm so excited! el sent me a whole box full of different kinds of black licorice candy from holland ( Read more... )