Every time I start to write an lj entry about what I've been doing for the last couple months, I get distracted, so instead I'm just going to post some music to try and segue my way back into this whole writing shit again. And then I can work my way up to clearing out the roughly bazillion links I shoved into my "this is interesting" folder, and ( Read more... )

I have all my windows open because the weather has gone cooler; it's that glorious time of year when I need neither heat nor air conditioning, and the air smells wonderful. However, at night there's some kind of tree frog or creature that makes this low, guttural, throat-rattle sort of croaking that sounds exactly like the noise you hear in horror ( Read more... )

Hey, hockey is back, and it's Alex Ovechkin's 26th birthday. Awesome. In honor of that, I'm cleaning out a bunch of g-chat discussions I have had with flidgetjerome about the team and the dude, and some soccer thrown in. There's also a bunk of non-hockey links at the end for anyone who just wants to skip there ( Read more... )

So, uh. We interrupt the current winter sport focus to swing wildly back to summer sports, based on two recent announcements.

Aaron Peirsol is retiring and not trying to go to London 2012!

AND,

Ian Thorpe is UN-retiring, and intent on making a run for London 2012!

MICHAEL PHELPS, PLEASE PLEASE MAKE SOME KIND OF PUBLIC STATEMENT THAT CONFIRMS ( Read more... )

Dick Cheney had another heart attack, wot? One more, and he wins the washer-dryer combo ( Read more... )

Has the snow stopped yet? Is life going back to normal? I am having a hard time remembering what day it is ( Read more... )

Hark, ye vagrants, what is today? Why, it happens to be the birthday of one of my very favorite people in the world, twigcollins! How glorious! Twig, you amaze me more and more each year with your generosity, talent, and willingness to keep taking my calls from Mexican prisons. I am unimaginably lucky to have you as both a friend and co-writer, and I wish you ( Read more... )

I have to make a flan, so today's post just consists of recentish conversations I have had about a variety of subjects.

( Brand names not to use, fridge fires, how the Japanese could improve the Vatican's PR, politics, Putin is terrifying, Cheney is terrifying, and the Bode Miller way )

Occasionally, I feel slightly saddened about not having as much time to blog or write anymore, but I reckon it's more like a godsend for you poor bastards who read this. So, yeah. It's Friday and I feel fragile and thus I navel-gaze ( Read more... )