Continuing the bizarre preparations one must make (for they do not, sadly, just *appear*) to become an 'adult,' our hero, after killing his beloved (though of late neglected! O Blog, for thou are only missed in retrospect! And only because my three loyal readers mentioned it!) blog, spent yesterday afternoon shopping for the supplies one needs to ( Read more... )

Oh, this is too funny. The woman who I think I accidentally chatted up on the T on the way home gave me her card, "in case I need a patent lawyer." I need to get me some business cards quick, so I can hand them off with some savvy sort of line like that ( Read more... )

Suckas.


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Okay you know how I'll be spending the snow day tomorrow?

Going to work. Out here in MA (we fucking invented snow! What the hell?) we're only supposed to get an inch or two. Nothing is canceled for us workin' stiffs.

All you guys in under/grad please throw a snowball for me.

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Today I went and bought reporter-equipment, including new pens, fancy-pants top-flipping narrow notebooks and a little mini-tape recorder. I have an assignment tomorrow: it's not much, but it's something. The world of community newspaper-reporting is apparently not one of scandal, but one of, well, almost salesmanship. I get to write an advance ( Read more... )

Sometimes I am remembered why I love and hate my city at the same time. Case in point, “The suspicious objects that ignited fears of bombs across Boston today were magnetic lights that were part of an outdoor marketing campaign for an adult cartoon. "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" airs late at night and involves animated characters that are depicted as ( Read more... )

Viewed in the X-Ray spectrum, Kepler's supernova remnant looks like a curled-up elder god ( Read more... )

THIS IS JUST TO SAY
My older brother is the biggest dork in the ENTIRE KNOWN UNIVERSE.

Plus, he is full of filthy lies. I have only heard him sing four or five of those songsIn other news, I am feeling fat and dissatisfied with my job. But it did go mad smoothly today. Guess who's got fancypants html skills? That's right-- ME-- and I never ( Read more... )

I blame MY OLDER BROTHER

( 2006 in 40 questions )

Saw Children of Men last night with Dan after a numbing day at work. So, so sad, but so amazing. Not surprisingly it wasn't one of those movies we could talk much about afterwards. Things picked up when Tori materialized, with her usual kinesis. I bought a book of Ginsberg's poetry, the justpublished "Collected Poems 1947-1997 ( Read more... )