last time i posted was in may. i'd just cancel the whole thing, but there are old entries i'd like to be able to go back and read sometime. so that's that.

holy crap, you guys, the farm is for salei don't even know how many times i've told the stories about that place. the years that the old man painting now in my living room hung on the wall there. snowmobiling in the winter, the summer i spent working there as a groundsman when i was 15 or 16, the time ryan and i drove out and sat on the porch and ( Read more... )

well i'll be good god damned: the last time i updated this thing was october 16th, 2010. what has happened since then? SO much has happened, and at the same time, how very little ( Read more... )

you well know i've had nana bertha's ashes for about two and a half years now, and i've been trying to figure out what exactly would be the right thing to do with them. i'm going down to jacksonville next weekend to visit mom's grave (for the first time in 12 years, which makes me feel on one hand like a terrible son, and on the other like i'm ( Read more... )

i said a long time ago (i last posted a long time ago too. and here i'd said i was gonna try to be more frequent. oh life. it's bigger.) that i might occasionally use this space to post bits of my writing. this would be another one of those times ( Read more... )

finally, google streetview has come to my sundry hometowns! too bad it's hard to get a good angle, but look! the house i was born in!

and here's (sort of) the house i grew up in!

and (again, sort of) mom's house in michigan!

and a quirky house i'd totally forgotten about but used to be in love with! and that one i'm still mad my parents didn't ( Read more... )

i'm mildly hung over, my throat is a little hurty and my ass is sore. can only mean one thing: morning after swirlychick's birthday party!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, swirlychick!!!!!!!!!!!

i just remembered the first time i ever heard the word "behoove". i don't remember the exact context, except that it was in my 6th grade art class and i was probably fucking around with something i oughtn't, and mrs. shaw told me that "it would behoove you to not do that".

i had never heard the word before, and thus had no idea what she was ( Read more... )

alipi was in town this evening, and i just got home from drinks. i can't even describe how great it was to spend time with him. the last time i'd seen him was just over two years ago - he was in town for a wedding, and we walked around cambridge and then got drinks at sister sorel and the living room ( Read more... )

if i recall correctly, new years 2000 was the one when bob and i ran down main street, drunk off our rockers and screaming "bram stoker's dracula" quotes at each other, laughing hysterically and, losing grip on the paper bag, smashed a half-full bottle of vodka all over the sidewalk. jeremy and tiffany and paul and i can't even remember who all ( Read more... )