I finally got around to listening to Slowdive's new-ish album everything is alive. (Neither the album title nor the song titles have capitalization for some reason.) I didn't love it. I don't expect them to keep making the same kind of music as they did when they were 20, but this was a little too "sad bastard music" for my taste. I thought their ( Read more... )

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My redneck neighbors must have bought out an entire fireworks stand. They started setting them off on July 1st and were still at it last night, so who knows when it's going to stop. At least they're knocking it off at a reasonable hour (about 10:30) and not setting them off until dawn ( Read more... )

The day after Christmas Rian and I had lunch at Shuck's with my sister and her husband and a couple friends of theirs who were in town. Or in Lafayette, rather; he's from there and his parents still live there. They're very... Los Angeles-y (as are my sister and her husband), but nice people. I had a craving for fried shrimp, Shuck's makes a really ( Read more... )

Hey, you. Did you know, according to very serious intellectuals, that you only voted for Joe Biden not because you thought the country and you personally probably wouldn't survive another Trump term, but because washed-up Boomer and occasional actor James Woods wasn't allowed to jam a stolen photo of Hunter Biden's dong into your Twitter feed? It's ( Read more... )

So that wasn't as bad as most everyone I know was fearing, although the fact that this is apparently the best outcome we can hope for means I won't be discontinuing my Spanish lessons anytime soon. I'm also trying to talk David into immigrating to Uruguay with me. He took 4 years of Spanish in high school (when your brain is much better at ( Read more... )

My mother collects Hull pottery in the water lily pattern. Actually, I don't think it's accurate to say she "collects" it, because except for her first piece, a vase that belonged to her grandmother, I've bought her all of the pieces. I love antique stores and I not infrequently come across pieces, so I'll usually buy them for birthday or Christmas ( Read more... )

There's a new cannabis dispensary on Verot School Road that's on my commute. I went in to see if they had any Delta 8 gummies and they did, but they were charging $50 for 15 25mg gummies. I'd already priced them at Binoid (the website I buy my THC-P tincture and vape cartridges from), and they had 20 50mg gummies for $34.99. And I had enough points ( Read more... )

Phil is still in the hospital. On Sunday they used a camera to find out what was going on with his bladder, because even though he's been on a catheter he's still having trouble passing urine, and there's been blood in it ( Read more... )