Today is my father's 60th birthday. We're celebrating it here in Boston at my sister's new apartment. Up until this point my trip out here to visit my family has been wonderful. My mother and father are talking again, and they haven't been fighting more than the usual banter. My sister is doing wonderfully, and is very excited to be in her new home ( Read more... )

Christ, how long has it been? Not exactly sure why I'm writing in this thing, I guess I have some time to myself and I feel like being self indulgent in some form or another ( Read more... )

Finally got around to taking this quiz: I took a different one a while ago, and it gave me a 2 day survival rate because although I'm in good health and physical shape, capable of defending myself, and psychologically prepared to face a horde of the walking dead without going bonkers, my organizational skills suck. This questionair actually asked ( Read more... )

You were like a brother to me once, in so far as that can be said within the context we share. I treated you like blood because I fell for the mask, the one that smiles and panders and praises and plunders. Like the devil you swayed me, and like the devil you set me up for the fall. I trusted you with what I hold most dear, and you showed me the ( Read more... )

So I finally got around to doing this quiz from Kim's journal. Fucking great, I'm Kramer.

You May Be a Bit Schizotypal ...


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Here's the first two parts of a poem i've been working on recently. There'll probably be changes, I've always worked like a potter, always adding more and then taking away, rewetting the clay and working over old terratory over and over to find the form I'm trying to express ( Read more... )

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I forgot to add this in my last post. I was watching Tombstone two nights ago when Kim had to go to the hospital to see her father. I couldn't sleep, and I wanted to wait up for her anyway, so I sat down and went looking for a movie to watch. First, I tried Shrek 2, turned out it was mislabled, and was actually The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ( Read more... )

Checking the AOL article again a few hours later, the text had been changed:

"''We're still being challenged in Iraq and the reason why is a free Iraq will be a major defeat in the cause of terrorNow, with any other president, even Reagan for chrissake, I would assume that this was a typo on the part of the journalist. Fact of the matter is, ( Read more... )