So. You just received a text from one of your favorite people saying "If you could fly anywhere in the lower 48 for a weekend before April 9, where would it be?"

The above-mentioned favorite person has bartered for weekend round-trip tickets.

What would you pick?My first automatic, unthinking response was ( Read more... )

OH HAI LJ, I AM POSTING FROM MY LAPTOP. IN MY HOUSE!

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I got my laptop yesterday! It's shiny. It really is shiny: it looks like black patent leather. No internet at home yet, as my neighbors have all password-protected their networks, the bastards. It has lots of things on it that I had no idea I wanted or needed but now that I have it I must figure out. Media-related stuff: two movie editors, for ( Read more... )

The Philoctetes Project is staging readings from Sophocles for American battle veterans.
They are using the Ajax and Philoctetes to illustrate that what happens to modern-day soldiers when they come home has been happening for millennia.

An article and two video clips can be found here.If you're a Paul Giamatti fan-he's in one of the clips ( Read more... )

but I kicked ass today.

How was your day?

This is making me so happy!

TOKYO (AFP) - A 16-year-old schoolgirl with a mean knuckleball has been selected as the first woman ever to play alongside the men in Japanese professional baseball.Eri Yoshida was drafted for a new independent league that will launch in April, drawing attention for a side-armed knuckler that her future manager ( Read more... )

*gives you some dap*

Poetry, financial windfall, live music: I am well pleased with this week. Next week: a new friend? Stay tuned on that one, but I think I'm long overdue to add to my household. Don't you think?

Last night I went on a good date, followed by a surprise phone call from a girlfriend I haven't spoken to in two years followed by a return phone call to a friend I speak to 412 times a day so she could report on her highjinks. They were, as usual, zany ( Read more... )

I spent the whole week feeling low on energy (even for me, so we're talking ( Read more... )