There may possibly have been something more perfect to do after watching Stardust last night than going out and watching the Perseid meteor shower. I just can't imagine what it would have been.

The last few days have been -- a little odd, to say the least.

I've been pretty much stuck at windbourne and Lars' apartment. I like being there, but it loses its charm a little when I can't go home. Have you been to my place? You know that big sloping driveway down into the pit that is my parking lot? You think I wanna drive in and out of that in the ( Read more... )

Last night I was driving downtown, near the Paramount, and I looked out my window and I saw a line of yellow caution tape, strung along construction barrels, gently blowing in the breeze, and just beyond that, running parallel, a steel guardrail, a handrail along the edge of the walkway overlooking the freeway below ( Read more... )

As I write this, it's been foggy for three straight days here in Seattle, and I find myself childishly delighted with it. I can't remember the last time this happened -- I'm used to fog being entirely ephemeral, here in the morning or at night, burned away by the heat of the day ( Read more... )

Wednesday night, at ursako's instigation, windbourne and I joined her at the Crocodile for their annual Cure cover night. As you may know, The Cure are pretty much my favorite band of all time, so I was thoroughly enjoying myself.
Then Jodie Watts took the stage. After a number or two, the lead singer looked out into the crowd and said:
"You know, we've got a ( Read more... )

This is what you want, this is what you get --

PIL loud and echoing dreamlike. I'm dancing, by myself on the floor of the Mercury, and the club is apparently empty, save myself and the unseen DJ, and windbourne. A blurry light shimmers on the floor, and for a moment it feels like we are far below a blood red ocean. I look over at her writing in her ( Read more... )

"You will always get what you want though your charm personality."
This I know. Because the fortune-cookie fortune taped to my monitor tells me so.
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Today is a letter-perfect October day, bright and sharp as a ( Read more... )

So yesterday was retcon and treebyleaf's tenth anniversary, a day that came and went with much less angst on my part than I'd always anticipated there would be. They spent the day in Leavenworth and I met up with them and hetaera15, kespernorth and smileloki at Shari's. Much conversation and fun. Crashed at Dan and Kate's afterward.
Get home around noon and discover that the power in my ( Read more... )

I want to write "I love you" on a thousand bricks and break down all your windows -- Love you like a car bomb in the street, finger twitch and delicate on the key in the ignition, sky high and shining, every last piece of safety glass raining like sidewalk diamonds, gasoline fumes spinning dizzy in my head like a drug.
Heartbeating firework loud ( Read more... )

Today:
Gray skies and clouds gave way to blue and white late in the afternoon, so ( Read more... )