My absence from the world of blogging has been pretty inexcusable. I could blame it all on being "busy", but there's been plenty of times where I've stared blankly at this very Update page, scribbled some logging-for-the-sake-of-logging and deleted it in exasperation. Followed immediately by that "why put myself through this? I don't have to write ( Read more... )

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We sang, danced, saw an enormous amount of ridiculous outrageousness and got lost about half a dozen times. The first Gay Pride Parade since same-sex marriage was legalized nationally earlier this year, this one felt more festive and celebratory than the outright defiance of years past. It was, as the parlance goes, a gay old time.


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If you've been checking the blog lately, waiting for that podcast, I'm sorry to disappoint-- podcasting has been put off temporarily due to technical limitations. Turns out to... record? You need some sort of... mic setup? Who knew, right? Anyways, it's coming, and we'll burst gloriously into the already-overcrowded podcasting scene in early ( Read more... )

A couple Saturdays ago, my mom, who's been here for a few weeks, asks me to meet her at this restaurant. La Cosa and her mom were joining us for lunch in one of Buenos Aires' trademark tenedor-libre open-grill all-you-can-eat restaurants. I had been suspecting for a while that there was something going on, due mostly to my sister's cryptic Facebook ( Read more... )

No, I haven't heard the new Arcade Fire album. Yes, I know. I just haven't had the time. I just finished finals. I'll get around to it. Fuck you.

What I have been listening to-- repeatedly, feverishly-- is that Titus Andronicus record "The Monitor". I almost feel bad for agreeing so much with Pitchfork on a band. Fact of the matter is, this album ( Read more... )

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