Solstice came when the world was scheduled to end. Another apocolypse averted, perhaps. It's hard to take that sort of thing seriously. I mean, okay, the world is very likely to end at some point, either through asteroid, nuke, diety or Ryan Seacrest. I don't think it's going to be a warning though ( Read more... )

I have a fondness for Winter Solstice. Christmas was usually spent either at home alone growing up, or in some motel or another while my father did his travelling-salesman thing. But Winter Solstice was what my mother celebrated, and I was intensely grateful that there was no buying or selling involved ( Read more... )

I had a group of folks over last night to learn/practice a small concert I'm putting together ( Read more... )

Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other ( Read more... )

The championship game of the Rat City Roller Girls last night was FAN FREAKIN' TASTIC.

Though, sorry Lisa, I'm a Throttle Rockets Fan. Grave Danger...is okay, I suppose, but the Rockets have fully stolen my heart ( Read more... )

That's today ( Read more... )

Harry lives in Chicago. Many people haven't met him. A few might have seen him lurking in my internet space. That's where I found him, back in I think 2000 ( Read more... )

Candide was fully awesome last night. I appreciated it because it was funny in a dark, we're-making-a-philisophical-example-of-fools sort of way. It had much to say about greed and entitlement. Then onward into the meaning of womanhood, poverty, survival, war, religion, buttcheeks, charity and of course, looking at the bright/dark side of life. All ( Read more... )

On the surface, Valentine's Day is a manufactured holiday where diamond retailers and bad chocolate reign ( Read more... )

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