I had some pictures I was going to post, but I got completely distracted. What a surprise ( Read more... )

I went frivolling around this afternoon, and had some sushi and saw Gasworks Park and the troll under the bridge. It was a bit guilt-inducing, but I think it was good for me to take some time off, even though it means I'm now up too late drawing again ( Read more... )

I had another internet coffee date this afternoon: a nice guy with a cool accent and a degree in biomechanical biomedical engineering. (He's probably going to end up reading this. Hello! I don't have a clever online nickname for you yet ( Read more... )

More poetry. Not limericks, this time.

I'm nearly finished reading House of Leaves for the second time, and this time around I remembered to pull one of the quotes that had caught my attention the first time I read it: "The greatest love letters are always encoded for the one and not the many." This is a weblog, not a love letter, but the good ( Read more... )

"And everyone who read Sonnets of a Sorcerer spoke in limericks for the rest of their lives."
—J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Wow, my readers are an impressive bunch. You guys can sling poetry as though it were corned beef hash on a diner griddle, and you were short-order cooks cranked up on black coffee ( Read more... )

There once was a fellow so clever,
He thought it a worthy endeavor
To post something new
Instead of haiku-
But writing it took him forever.

It's been a long, literary, and ludicrous evening. The Professor and Dan Zaphod The Antenna and Giuseppe and I went walking around town in the rain, had Thai food, and then spent hours playing with random text found on the internet ( Read more... )

Edward Lear poems are stuck in my head. I find this slightly cheering.

When awful darkness and silence reign ( Read more... )

A cipede exceedingly Velo
Whose verses rang fluously mellow
  Employed faces of type
  And perbole hype
In a spirit of ship jolly fellow.

In other cities
Public transit is much more
Inarticulate.