I have developed a new philosophy.

It is as follows:

Combat the bullshit with silliness.

No one will know.

Today was, with full poetic license applied, a shit-swamp, in that a) a general [yet slow, given the setting] current of shittiness, often manifesting in everyday forms such as funks, slumps, and the doldrums, pervaded the atmosphere from about lunchtime until present, and b) life, though grand and swelling with promise and possibility never does ( Read more... )

You may ask yourself, "Joe, why don't you simply abandon this terrible archive of adolescent rambling ( Read more... )

Goodness gracious ( Read more... )

I've just spent the past while skimming the annals and bowels of this awful thing I call a Livejournal. I've been very consistently full of shit all of these years, haven't I ( Read more... )

Tuesday night and Wednesday and tonight served as excellent opportunities for photo-magic and city lights and arts centers and freeways and trampolines and bonfires.

My copy of Craig Thompson's Blankets also arrived, next to the carcass of a very unfortunate baby bird.

Strange times indeed.

Here's a brief pictoral summary.


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Nothing says useless overcompensation more than high school proms. I wonder if there will be balloon phalluses again this year. The previous phallus was intended to be the Eiffel Tower with total disregard for the fact that the Eiffel Tower itself is already considered a phallic symbol ( Read more... )

Your eyes are not deceiving you. I'm once again writing in this oft-neglected portion of webspace, spilling my brain onto prefab templates ( Read more... )

I'm exhausted.

And saturated in wet.

Saturated in washing and drying and scrubbing and soaking and coarse hair and tired muscles and insignificance and introductory calculus and zoning out while reading the Odyssey and overchlorinated murk and trampolines and stargazing on said trampolines and more overchlorinated murk, this time high above ( Read more... )

So. [A short "so." is apparently a symbol of writing prowess ( Read more... )