What do pale people dressed in black like to do? Have a picnic in the park at high noon, of course!

I've heard of the Seattle Goth Picnics of years past, but never attended due to work schedules, or learning about them after the fact, or some other reasons probably related to my not being all that gothy. This one was to be the first on of the season ( Read more... )

So, earlier in the evening. Breanne and I are cooking up a decent little dinner. Three courses. Things are steaming, things are boiling, things are microwaving. We're mixing things in bowls. We're feeling like we're awesome cooks. One of the things we prepared is a small salad for each of us ( Read more... )

Yawn. Stretch. Blink. (Looks at snooze-button ( Read more... )

But this one time... I remixed a Madonna song.

This was about, maybe, five years ago, for a contest on ACIDplanet.com. It's this promotional/hobbyist site for this music creation software called Acid. Anyway, every month they give you samples from real recording artists and have a contest to see who can make the best remix. This particular month, ( Read more... )

The man with the flamethrower is outside my house again ( Read more... )

My hair is currently a blonde, reddish color from bleaching it for Halloween. I thought that I might dye back to its black and candy apple red color almost immediately after the holiday, but then I figured that I'd get some mileage out of it and keep it for a week or so. I've never bleached all of my hair like this and I do enjoy changing my look ( Read more... )

So, my costume was a big hit... with those who knew what I was dressed as. Even though I spent a lot of time and effort into my costume, really, at the end of the day I was a guy wearing a tie and a name tag. The cricket bat should have been an indication to people that I was something, but... Americans. Some people didn't even know what it was. So ( Read more... )

I was going to type a long-winded rant about dressing up for Halloween and what I went through to get my costume together, but it made for boring reading. So, in short:

1. I'm dressing as Shaun of the Dead this year.
2. I got a real cricket bat.
3. I bleached my hair and goatee, which I grew just for this costume.

( Check out the results. )

Recently I've started to put some money aside. Rainy day money to have just in case. I figured that maybe, just maybe, I could take one hundred dollars from each week's paycheck and put it aside. I used to do this a few years ago and it served me very well when I moved to Washington. Of course, that's back when I used to make a lot more money than ( Read more... )

Is it just me or does the warmer weather bring out the stink in this city? Goddamn, it seems like every five minutes I'm walking through an air pocket of some fetid aroma. Yesterday I thought that I had stepped in shit because I kept catching a whiff of parfum de merde. The saddest part of it was that I could not see any evidence of the shit, but ( Read more... )