I just booked my one-way flight back to the Bay Area, coming home for good from Puerto Rico. Boris and I get home on Saturday, September 3. I am SO excited! My household goods and my car will precede me in departure and hopefully in arrival as well, cargo shipment gods permitting ( Read more... )

With Kevin's departure this morning, the Great Visitor Firehose of 2011 has finally dried up. Next up: Southern California!

The Visitor Firehose is nearly done. I really like having visitors! Especially since my calendar turned out to be not quite so jam-packed as I expected, so I've had a free weekend sometimes to clean the house and be on my own for a bit. It's been a good balance of "people I know well but hadn't seen in a while" (e.g. stolen_tea) and "people I don't know well ( Read more... )

Well Frank Quinn is an Irish singer ( Read more... )

OMG, I just booked a last-minute trip to Seattle from the 30th to New Year's Day. SEATTLE ( Read more... )

...to New Orleans
I'm goin' down by the river where it's warm and green
I'm gonna have a drinkbeignet
And walkrun around
I got a lot to think about

...Like training for the New Orleans Rock'n'Roll Half-Marathon, February 13, 2011.

I'm going. thewronghands is going. jessekornblum is going. Some of you are maybe also going (canyonwren!). Who else wants to come? I am already planning ( Read more... )

( KCMO )

So, I'm going to wedding #3 next weekend in Rhode Island and it will be wonderful. Then wedding #4 is in Kansas City, KS on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. I have a one-way ticket to KC and now I'm thinking ... why not rent a car, drive to another city after the wedding, hang out there Sunday, and fly back from there Monday? Difficulty level ( Read more... )

May is over!

( Chicago )

My mother informed me today (the day after Malcolm Maclaren's passing, lo, the order of death) that starting next week, Public Image Limited will be touring North America. Wow! A year after seeing Throbbing Gristle, I'm in the mood for this year's old-ass act that rebanded to do Coachella and then make some filthy lucre. Looking at the few weekend ( Read more... )