I'm not even sure yet which Week 34 *entry* I lost on, as I am packing up for a vacation / lack time to look... and sounds like a nutty triple bypass quadruple immunity double secret probation situation anyway, so I will just have to take clauderainsrm's honorable word on this. He's only lied to me a couple of times ( Read more... )

I had posted an entry on this same topic on Friday. A few hours later, I took it down. It was far too long and, as such, was too prone to being partially read / partially misread-- an idea I did not like, given a rather sensitive topic.

porn_this_way got in touch with me, and had apparently read what I'd written before I'd removed it. The resulting fun back- ( Read more... )

( ...so we put a therapist in your therapist so you can talk about yo'feelings about yo'feelings while you talk about yo'feelings... )

Trigger warning (for me only, since I have a real problem with shit catching fire): Shit catches fire.

( bang )

FRIDAY
posted on local Craigslist by yours truly:

Craigslist Instrument X
Here is blah blah blah and here is my price.


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I've been playing / writing music for something like 29-30 of my 36 years, and I've had some rudimentary abilities on all of the basic rock instruments for about 23-24 of said 29-30 years. So you'd think I would have been in more bands over the years ( Read more... )

On thinking it over, while this project is definitely one that I find exciting and I kept things reasonably succinct for once, I decided that an episode of These Old Drums might not be maximally resonant (see what I did there?!) for the LJI readership. I will leave this here for those who like fabric swatches and potential tales of vomit-inducing ( Read more... )

( This is the original post in its entirety. The 'official' version is now half as long due to somewhat-understandable complaints about its length... but I *liked* the original, so I'm saving it here. You don't need to read both; they both get to the same place, just via slightly different routes. )

edit: Comments were disabled on this post, apparently. This wasn't intentional. Fixed now. Please flame away at will.

edit 2: By "popular" "request," I have significantly shortened this entry (prior to the final posting deadline, of course).

(The original full-length post is still available here, but I think the below will be enough for most folks ( Read more... )

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