So while soylentmean was skating her bitchin ass off last night during her debut at the season-opener of the MN RollerGirls (the missing of which I'm definitely headed to hell for, in the event that I wasn't already guaranteed a one-way ticket there ;), I was with Cher Noble, Napalmer and a hoard of other North Star Roller Girls at a taping of Drinking With ( Read more... )

I'm on an lj community called whatwasthatbook tasked with helping people figure out those books from your past whose titles have long ago quietly slunk off the premises of your memory, but that you're dying to re-remember and from which you can recall snippets of characters/plot. So you make a post about it on this comm and more often than not people on the comm ( Read more... )

As per my usual modus operendi, I'm once again the last kid on the block to catch on to something really freakin awesome. Not that my cluelessness is always even really intentional, I'm just attentionally fractured, self-involved and/or lazy enough to not bother mostly ( Read more... )

Wow - I just iTunes'd an old Amy Grant Xmas album I used to have in high school but haven't heard since then. One of tracks "Heirlooms" just came on and I just remembered that my bestest friend at the time Leah and I sang that song as a duet for special music during a christmas service at our church circa high school. Wow - I'd completely ( Read more... )

Soooo awesome - it's like spring here in Mpls today, over 40 degs. Not good for instantly arousing in oneself the Christmas spirit perhaps, but for that I'm pulling out some Xmas music and putting my christmas tree up. I may have drifted completely non-Christian and non prefer to celebrate Solstice with my friends and chosen-family, but christmas ( Read more... )

Ok - so while I was up in duluth over the weekend hanging at the hospital with my Gram, we ended up watching Singing In The Rain ( Read more... )

Just a reminder - if y'all are interested in some shwigginacious kwanzukahsolstmas gifts for friend/fam or even your own space, while supporting Cameroonian artisans and a cool library project, check out shwiggitude's post. You've only got a little over a week to make yer orders as her folks are over there now and will be bringing all the goodies ordered back ( Read more... )

I've discovered that a broken hip isn't necessarily a bad thing. Not that it becomes necessarily good by some default inversion, but I'm coming to realize more and more that things I've traditionally assigned with labels of "good" and "bad" aren't exactly, or necessarily, or at all. Broken hips in general, my grandmother's in particular, I'm ( Read more... )

Due to the that whole Thanksgiving thang the end of the month, it's already time for the next North Star Roller Girls bout this coming Saturday!

Come see the Kilmore Girls bout the Banger Sisters!!

Yeah yeah ok the Delts are also bouting the Violent Femmes, but you really want to come to see the Kilmore Girls! So if you know what's good fer ya, ( Read more... )

Soooo awesome, I just had a 3 hour staff meeting ( Read more... )