PSG was truly delightful -- half a week (for me; more for most folks) with some marvelous people, great music-dancing-fireplay, wildness and intention.

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I was in the men's room at Young's Dairy (after climbing with Sooj and the TattooGrrl, on our way to get tiramisu gelato) when a bloke came in all stoned and chatty. He washed his hands and then proceeded to wave his hands in front of the non-functional automatic paper towel dispenser. Towering mental giant as he was, he tried for a pretty long ( Read more... )

I'm on the phone with a rather genial, amusing and deeply confused support rep, who is pretty aware of just how confused he is:

"Somedays I feel like Sherlock Holmes; somedays I feel like Mr. Magoo; and some days I feel like Colombo" - support guy of the day

The wise and marvelous alternachicklet offers this wisdom in her most recent post
It's amazing how much easier things are when you just accept that they are and will continue to be until you enact some sort of change upon either the things in question or yourself.

( and her example... )

Today is not the best day for original thinking over here in llama-land; so instead, I bring you other people's thoughts.

"So sell it! It's real estate. It's not like a gall bladder - you can live without it!" - A___ (coworker)

"What could be more urgent than Habbakuk?" - N____ (minion)

"Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is ( Read more... )

I just saw in the New York Timesthat the great playwright August Wilson died of liver cancer yesterday at the age of 60. He dropped out of high school when he was 15 and decided to go to the library instead. Now that he's dead, you'll still be able to find him in lots of libraries including mine. Just last year he finished his cycle of 10 plays ( Read more... )

ursulav linked to this article by Ursula K LeGuin that I thought many of you writerly types would appreciate. It starts off with Ursula quoting herself ( Read more... )

In the course of ordering books for the library, I ran across a review of Dewdroppers, Waldos, and Slackers: A Decade-by-Decade Guide to the Vanishing Vocabulary of the 20th Century by Rosemarie Ostler (Oxford, 2004). The end of the review addresses the three key words in the title; I found the framing of the words amusing ( Read more... )

At beccacat's request, I'm (finally) starting to read Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran.

Chapter 5 has such a lovely start to it that I have to share:"Upsilamba!" I heard Yassi exclaim as I entered the dining room with a tray of tea. Yassi loved playing with words. Once she told us that her obsession with words was pathological. As soon as I ( Read more... )

Yesterday was full of people saying interesting things. I didn't write enough of them down. But here's what I *did* get.

At work
My coworker G___: "S&M I can handle, but tomato soup..."

At the Peter Mulvey concert (anyone else go? i meant to advertise it yesterday.)PM [paraphrased]: "I wrote this tune a long time ago. At least I think I did. It ( Read more... )