Butterfly Effect
by Ed Ochester

Forgive me, friend, because ( Read more... )

I'm looking for transcripts of any of the "Colette Reardon" sketches on SNL that Cheri Oteri was in. I'm starting to feel like that woman and would like to laugh at myself ( Read more... )

ok, so I'm a lazy bastard. so I finally got around to posting pictures from the Pitt Arts Festival down at Point State Park. I borrowed lil' jake's camera and shot some pretty nice shots if I do say so myself.


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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.
-- Alexander Pope, "Eloisa to Abelard"I wonder if I would, if given the opportunity, take up the offer to have erased from my mind ... so many things. Could I give up my family? ( Read more... )

it's been a very long week. i haven't been this emotionally exhausted in a while. i don't feel like going into it really any more than to say that i hate hospitals and that no one should ever get sick. i'll also say that today (and i still count this as Wednesday, June 23rd) was ten years to the day of my grandfather's death ( Read more... )

The new laptop is wonderful. I'm enjoying it immensely. In fact, I'm on the porch at 356 Meyren posting this as we speak. It's been an odd past few days and I won't go into it right now, if ever ( Read more... )

Yesterday was eventful ( Read more... )

Aaron Bumbarger is by far, my best friend. I haven't had a heart to heart like that in forever and a millenium.

He said it most succinctly (sp?) when he said that, "You're one of the few, few people I can have a conversation with which changes how I think about things or how I feel." And of course, the feeling is mutual ( Read more... )

Sitting on the porch of 356, I watch over the top of my book as people pass by on the street. Sometimes is asian grad students, sometimes is random college students enjoying the warm weather and the breeze as they stroll back to their apartments in South Oakland, and occasionally it's a young couple walking hand in hand down the street making idle ( Read more... )

Saturday: Party at the K Whore's place in Bloomfield! Very interesting mixture of people in a very interesting location. When we got there, a woman was being wrestled to the ground by a man claiming that she was intoxicated and had smashed one of his windows (I'm still unsure whether he meant car or business). Choosing to ignore the situation ( Read more... )