1) Another rainy morning, another walk denied, boo and fie and a pox upon it all, even though the rain and the high temp in the mid-70s are both still nice.

2) No idea what I'm having for breakfast today. We're out of bagels, we're out of avocados for smushing on toast, and I've come to the conclusion that cereal is not actually a food because I ( Read more... )

After much cussing and many post-box-lugging ibuprofen tablets, the move from Worcester to Providence took place this Saturday just passed, and as per usual there are too many things to write about. So pardon me while I spitball my feelings about the new place and its surrounding environs ( Read more... )

A while back, in a typical fit of boredom I assembled a list (not for the first time) of my choices for the 125 greatest music videos ever created, with the intention of talking about them in detail online, one at a time. Thus followed a long period of brainstorming, shuffling around a few hundred index cards, transferring data to a spreadsheet, ( Read more... )

I have my strongest hopes yet for LiveJournal's impending resurgence: behold, the return of memes, the most prodigal of sons! While we're all partying like it's 2005, brujah has assigned me the number 15, meaning I am to provide 15 random facts about myself, a game of which my blogger's egomania can only approve. (Reply to this post to receive a number ( Read more... )

Now that I've taken a week to recover, the tale can be told: rain_herself and I, in possession of some travel vouchers to burn and a surfeit of free time, hopped on a plane to Portland, Oregon to spend the week with Cat, Andrea's sister-from-another-family. It was only my second trip to the West Coast and my first to Oregon (and Washington, for that matter, ( Read more... )

I meant to post this way back in January-back when it'd have been, y'know, appropriate-but I wasn't posting anything back then, really, except screeds about how I wish I posted things. So this really is way too late, but at the moment I'm trying to switch off some brain cells, so it seems the time has come. Besides, I can use the excuse that the ( Read more... )