i hope yours was grand.
we spent ours with bill murray at heinz hall.
(if those of you in new england have the chance to see him at the orpheum later this week, i do recommend it ( Read more... )

i stayed up pretty late the night before that dream, being a nite owl, and listening to margot on vinyl and time travelling, which should explain my predictive powers in my dream.

i'm now really looking forward to 2022. i've always wanted to go to christmas island.

so here's a thing. i just went back to look at my entries around january 23 2009 to try to remember if i went to a margot concert that night.
and i found an entry i had totally forgotten about. (isn't half the reason we write these things here for ourselves to remember?)

if you read the entry, you'll see that in a dream i predicted that my next ( Read more... )

i occasionally check my online fortune cookie. not as often as i have in the past, but few things i did i do regularly now ( Read more... )

art instantiates

never mind the commentator

a short video about pen pals

it's easy to become frustrated by one's lover from time to time...just as one gets frustrated with one's own failings. but we somehow find it easier to quickly get over them in ourselves. but really it's not that hard to get out of that frame of mind when one remembers the love. small reminders are always all about ( Read more... )

a google doodle gives me to know that valentine's day is also george ferris' birthday (the octopus didn't say anything), so i give you a maryland ferris wheel sunset from july:


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neil gaiman gives me to know that today is national poetry day in the united kingdom (within national poetry month) and that the year's theme is stars. thus, though i'm only a quarter british, i'm glad to have completed this in time to share it today. and i will pretend that i kept to the form of the english sonnet (as best i could) in honor of ( Read more... )

friday lxxvi bis ( Read more... )