Thank you

Thank you

Thank you

for the lovely birthday wishes!

On the twenty-third I've achieved thirty-two trips around the sun.

Hallelujah! I'm so damn glad to be here.

I have to say this for the ants: they come for their dead.

I just changed the part in my hair for the first time in two years.

I don't think it's working so well. Or maybe I just look weird in the mirror to myself now.

Maggie Mason tried tango in Buenos Aires.

"After 16 hours of tango instruction, the balls of my feet are like tender cutlets of raw chicken. You could bread and deep-fry them, and I’d find it soothing."

oh my god

oh my god

oh my god

oh my god

(ganked from Mighty Goods)

- smoked salmon and lite cream cheese on a toasted sesame bagel with lettuce and tomato

- root beer

I haven't had either in months and months.

Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

Duran Duran - Seven and the Ragged Tiger

Also, I went for my first medical checkup in years. My cholesterol is 156. Bring on the bacon!

The other night on the radio I heard an 80s song, sort of New Wave-y, sort of Flock-of-Seagulls sound without actually being that band*, and it had the word "shine" in the chorus and possibly "run" but I am not sure, and I sang along with the chorus with a rush of feeling for my old goth-club college days although, like I suggested, it's more New ( Read more... )

Neko Case is a beautiful, beautiful woman, and she just opens her mouth and this voice rings out, yes it's like Patsy Cline but better, and the songs are darker, and Neko makes it look so easy. When you take a beautiful redheaded woman with a voice like that, which sings of foxes and tigers and sparrows, and you back her with a steel guitar and ( Read more... )