The entire population of Capitol Hill has been screaming at the top of its lungs for the past two hours, and every car that's slid past my window has had a driver leaning on its horn ( Read more... )

It is my birthday and I am fucking drunk. The bartender at the Whisky Bar gave me some monstrosity called a Cherry Bomb and I agreed to take it as a shot if he could sweetalk the deejay or "the bar" into either playing or singing (in unison!) the Runaways' version of "Cherry Bomb". The deejay had Joan Jett's first album on vinyl, which seemd ( Read more... )

There was this tattoo I thought I wanted three years ago. I wanted a chestplate that would feature a great blue heron scrimshawed across a bloodily realistic rendition of my exposed sternum ( Read more... )

Apparently, I don't remember this, but at some point after writing some unfortunate excuse for a perfume review on Livejournal, I left the following comment on the Myspace profile of a pal from high school:

Hey T!

So, like, Danny got me a that Firefox movie on a DVD tape for my birthday awhile back and I watched it just the other day and and and ( Read more... )

On Friday, Kitten and I nosed around Nordstrom's fragrance wall and scored some samples. Prada's Infusion d'Iris is making the best sort of stink around my left wrist right now. I don't know enough about iris root to talk about the odor but I have heard that it is smells green and powdery. It definitely does that but I didn't realize how much it ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, like, at some time last week during the Schmoliday Bake-a-thon Smackdown 2007, whilst pounds of butter, flour, and sweet stuff amalgamated deliciously into batches upon batches of toffee, mincemeat, pecan bars, and brown sugar icebox cookies . . . a humble batch of bittersweet ganache was created for the sole purpose of turning ( Read more... )

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My laptop's busted and all of my problems seem to match all of the problems consistent with a logic board issue. My iBook supposedly has some kind of design flaw with the soldering in the logic board, or some shit like that. There's a place that'll replace my logic board for cheap but, in order to take advantage of said cheapness, I'll need to ( Read more... )

Have any of you tried this year's Full Sail Wassail? I know it's early in the season, but there's nothing wrong with gettin' your winter ale on as soon as the stuff hits the shelves, am I right? Right. So, the wassail's pretty damned tasty: dark, luscious, spicy, and really, really robust in a vaguely resinous way. I think it could definitely ( Read more... )

List 10 musical artists you like, in no specific order (do this before reading the questions below).

1) Patti Smith
2) Sleater-Kinney
3) X
4) Johnny Cash
5) Dolly Parton
6) Neko Case
7) The Cramps
8) Holly Golightly
9) Wanda Jackson
10) The Gossip

( Here are some questions. )