"Hi, you look just a like a girlfriend I made up back in the 80s."

That's what I should have said.

I'd had Pernil and French fries at El Castillo del Jaguar down on Flatbush Avenue w/otherdeb & Co. this Friday night while Hurricane Harvey was drenching Texas. I'd finished up when I went to the loo. Suddenly they were all gone.

So I walked uptown to some ( Read more... )

Eric Serxner had  a birthday party Saturday night. I would have come, but ( Read more... )

Well, I knew it would happen something like this:

12:40 AM : The kitchen sink remains clogged. The microwave oven is not working. And the toilet doesn't drain right. Alan Alda was guest on the Leonard Lopate Show with some substitute host.  The battery candles had all gone out according to their presets, and it had been almost a month since my ( Read more... )

#YalDawo
Jônf'u  (n./v./adj., acc.1) dead; Death.

otherdeb called just after Meditation with the news. Mike Thompson (sp.?) finally passed over due to his illlness(es). He had diabtes and the other problems didn't work together well. With this act, the infamous VSR Irregulars shall exist to provide fannish security services exclusively in the hereafter. ( Read more... )

After talking to otherdeb I was on the phone with shelleybear who has moved to the Seattle area somewhere near an 18-plex movie theatre(!) We talked about the stuff we've missed, her medical status and stuff like that.  i did this over news of Pope Francis comg to the city, just in time to honour the passng of Yogi Berra.  Is  that timing or what ( Read more... )

Ken Gale has a party every July 30th to celebrete the end of the Paleozoic Era. The date was highlighted on a calendar he owned in 1980. Friends of both him and his partner Mercy Van Vlack show up at their peitt upper east side apartment every year,  we drink stuff, bring stuff to share and hang out on the building's roof all night ( Read more... )

Well, we went and did it just the way I said we would
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Happy Canada Day.
Bon Fete du Canada.

Today is humid and boring.

To celebrate, I'm going to ride a boat back and forth in New York Bay tomorrow with a bunch of friends, some pizza, a guitar and a mandolin (the mandolin is mine). It's supposed to be in honour of the Amerikan Independence Day on July 4th, but tradition states that we go out on the ( Read more... )

This is what I did on my weekend, a nice Sunday in Central Park with a bunch of old hippies.   https://www.flickr.com/photos/ciniidesign/sets/72157652664883390  

This is about a fan with no money,  living a minimalistic fannish lifestyle on a measley Federal stipend.

I hate when the deadlines cross. Balticon is still a month away, and I'm getting indicators that they're all booked up; this search was for a single room. Rather than try the overflow hotels, I'm trying for space in the Hunt Valley Inn, ( Read more... )