Okay, presupposing:

1. The most annoying thing in the world is when someone rolls into a fandom two years after its heyday and acts like they have original opinions.

2. Feelings Facts are boring, kissing is awesome ( Read more... )

1. We moved. Tolstoy wrote, “Happy moves are all alike; every unhappy move is unhappy in its own way.” Or maybe that wasn’t quite what he said, but you get what I’m saying. This move turned unhappy in its own way when J dropped the freakin’ television on her foot, and I had to spend five delirious and un-air conditioned hours cleaning our old ( Read more... )

moving fun times:
So, we’re moving on the 29th of this month. So far, I have taken the following preparatory steps:

! Created even more crap that needs to be moved as well as a huge mess that has taken over the entire living room floor (evidence here, also includes the bulimic cat and the fucking amazing slow roasted tomatoes I made last weekend) ( Read more... )

three random links from my del.icio.us
[1] Nano Comes to Clifford Falls This is a sci-fi podcast reading of the titular short story from a new book by Nancy Kress that I haven't read, but this particular story is very tidily written and enjoyable.

[2] Borne Zambia flats in Peacock After all that hemming and hawing about whether those other teal ( Read more... )

the red line has now caught on fire and ass-fucked my commute twice in the last THREE WEEKS.

your mbtardgames reporter on the scene:
may 27, fire at downtown crossing
june 9, fire at porter square

despite the mbta's repeated attempts to kill me, we remain committed to our relationship. it may be spousal abuse, but charlie only hits me because he ( Read more... )

with regard to a certain sporting event that happened this weekend, i -- oh, fuck it, i can't even. i was going to try and say something about boston sports fans, and how i know we look like assholes to the rest of the country, but you've gotta understand, every day most of us leave our rent-gouged apartments to slog through weather that's too cold ( Read more... )

1. boston best beloveds, do any of you like patrick wolf? he's playing at the paradise on october 4, and i like him enough to go alone, but i thought i'd check. if you're not sure if you like patrick wolf, i put up his most recent album and attempted to explain his gay circus music ways here2. i thought i wasn't dating anyone, but then i realized i ( Read more... )

it has been a long week during which i have accomplished many important things (created many impressive excel spreadsheets to present as fuck-yous at funder meetings, made while sitting up in bed watching baseball at eleven o'clock at night because i LOSE AT LIFE, jesus christ bought pair of red leather boots on clearance as part of my plan to not ( Read more... )

two things:

1.

dear guy who was sitting on the bench next to me waiting for the 88 bus, engrossedly reading and highlighting passages in a copy of why men love bitchesi'm not sure what you were going for here, but i'm pretty sure it didn't involve all the women who were sitting near you making unsubtle eye-contact with each other and snickering ( Read more... )

i keep meaning to post some thoughts on the black donnellys, but i have been continuously distracted over the last three days by [a] uncharacteristically gorgeous weather (boston's) [b] public drunkenness on the agency's dime (my own) [c] total bullshit job-related shenanigans (my own again, thankfully not as a result of [b]) and [d] drama as a ( Read more... )