February 2010
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Only You // Yaz
All I needed was the love you...
January 2010
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Do I sound weird today? I think I do. I certainly feel weird today. Five times I started to write a serious post about the thunderstorm in my head, and four times I hit ‘cancel’. The fifth time I ended up with that randomness about piercing, and while it’s all true, it’s hardly what’s really on my mind.
I’m caught between my desire to vent and my desire not to...
Anonymous asked: Have you ever thought about a dermal anchor of some sort? They're typically placed on the wrist, finger, below/side of the eye, clavicle, or even cleavage.
I'm serious about the piercing.
But I really have run out of things I’m willing to pierce. I wear my glasses half the time, so nose and eyebrow would just be too much facial hardware all in the same area. My navel and tongue are already pierced. I have nine holes in my ears, most of which I did myself. (I used a piercing stud I got in 1991 from the Piercing Pagoda in the Nanuet Mall, so it’s not even remotely as hard...
I've successfully repressed the urge for years,...
Something’s getting pierced.
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Vox (Extended Remix) // Sarah McLachlan
Because...
I had a real doppelgänger. At Cornell.
My friends would see and approach her on campus, thinking she was me, only realizing she wasn’t when she looked at right at them without any spark of recognition.
It took me a long time to realize this was actually a thing. Years of various people saying, Hey, I saw you on campus today but you totally ignored me.
The only person who saw her more than once was my friend and housemate...
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Doppelgängers?
When I was in fifth grade my teacher told me I looked Winona Ryder. Square Dance had just come out. In that movie she wore glasses.
Freshman year the guys on my floor called me “Kennedy”. The MTV VJ? Yeah. I had glasses just like hers and also I was obnoxious. (What’s the opposite of shocked?)
After college, a few years post-Titanic, I got Kate Winslet. This was Hideous...
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I fell asleep yesterday at 3pm and just woke up.
I am so confused. I have so much energy. I don’t know what to do first.
I feel like I could make some serious trouble today.
Is this what it feels like to be well-rested?
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Remember that scene in Father of the Bride? Not...
I’ve had that image stuck in my head for days, and I didn’t know why, and then it hits me. That it’s a perfect metaphor for my life right now. That over the last few weeks I’ve been cleaning and deleting and streamlining and culling and generally flailing about in a attempt to get my existence into a size and shape that I can manage. Because sometimes I think about all the...
Come hell or high water I am going to Chicago.
Chris Matthews is God's parting gift to print...
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But enough about me. How are YOU?
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"The last remaining leftist from the Leftists Had...
When my brother was in college he had a talk radio news but mostly fly the seats of his pants political commentary show. Because it was college radio he basically got to do whatever he wanted.
One of the great moments of his show was the time he got to interview Howard Zinn. I was all, ZOMG WHAT WAS THAT LIKE? His answer was a terse “very intimidating”.
My dogeared copy of A...
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My phone is full of picture-text announcements of...
Good thing l don’t know any virgins.
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True fact: Banning spammer IP addresses riles my...
“While we had known since 2007 that the FBI improperly sought phone records by...”
– FBI Replaced Legal Process with Post-It Notes to Obtain Phone Records | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Grenada, Granada.
I’m writing a three sentence summary of a project and I can’t decide if I need to specify that Grenada is an island in the Caribbean. Lots of people know precisely what and where Grenada is, yes, but I’ve also had smart, educated and well-traveled people ask me how I liked living in Spain. What say ye?
“The one shining light in all this physical and emotional suffering is the birth...”
– Isabelle Jeanson, a communications officer with Doctors Without Borders reporting from the ground in Haiti. Read her full report. (via doctorswithoutborders)
Based on the hysterical tone of this email from...
Also, “boyfriend sweater”? FYITE.
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Four years in the Caribbean, and this was the...
“Do you have any Grenadian in you?”
“Not at the moment.”
on accents
imaveronica:
I’m always amused when I hear someone make a definitive declaration regarding his or her lack of accent. Or, even funnier, statements such as “there is no such thing as a British accent”. Because of course you do and of course there is.
I can understand how, for example, a person from England might bristle at the suggestion that he or she sounds just like a person from Ireland or...
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Also, I really miss you.
Like whoa.
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awhitestraw:
We all lose our way in life at some point of time. We will because we are humans. There will always be that one day when you think so much into the night and your mind just goes blank, you feel as if all your dreams and hopes have left your system. You feel alone, you feel cold. You will feel that way eventually. Maybe that’s my that point of time. It will eventually blow over,...
Rubbing some dirt on it.
hurtling:
The sound of my own voice reverberates in my head as I catch my balance, startled as I am by the desperation of the primal bark that just involuntarily escaped through my lips from somewhere deep inside. I pause for a moment to collect myself, then lean slowly down to rub the spot on my shin where tomorrow I’ll sport a nasty bruise. I press gently but firmly with my thumbs and wince as...
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Pretty picture later. Pinky swear.
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inothernews:
I Want a New Drug // Huey Lewis...
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Almost every morning, I eat breakfast in the same diner, and this morning a man was painting the windows with Christmas designs. Snowmen. Snowflakes. Bells. Santa Claus. He stood outside on the sidewalk, painting in the freezing cold, his breath steaming, alternating brushes and rollers with different colors of paint. Inside the diner, the customers and servers watched as he layered red and white...
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My quick little story about discovery turned into...
I should probably do some ruthless editing.
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