Ganked from fionnabhar

1. Did you have a cell phone prior to your thirties? Did they exist?
Cell phones, in the form of the flip-phone, existed when I was in my 20s. I did not have one. I didn't get a cell phone until I was in my early 30s.

2. Did you have cable when you were a little kid? When did you first get cable?
Cable TV didn't exist when I was a ( Read more... )

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So I live in my own house now. This is not a new thing. I've been here for nearly three years. But meowhaps I tell you about it ( Read more... )

I just got word that the poet Bill Knott, who was my mentor in graduate school, died yesterdayBill was my teacher when I was in the graduate Writing, Literature, and Publishing program at Emerson College in the early-mid 1990s. He had a well-deserved reputation for being difficult, scary, argumentative, dismissive, grouchy, and generally nasty ( Read more... )

Alas, it is truly the End of An Era. My parents have put their one remaining cat to sleep. I don't think they've been completely catless since my sister and I were in, like, kindergarten ( Read more... )

Heyyyyy I had more oral surgery today. Remember when I getted oral surgery and posted about it on here obsessively? With the wisdom toophidge? Gosh, I used to just go ON ( Read more... )

There are robots here. Cute little purse-dog-type robots toodling down the hall. I want to talk pet-language at them: O you are the bugwams! Why are you a thing? You so cute. And a thing. And a cute thing. O you. Beeble beeble beeble beep. A thing.But I will not do that. I am playing it close to the vest, still. Boy do I have stories for you people ( Read more... )

I started feeding Frito in the corner of the living room where he pees, and he doesn't pee there any more. Ha HA ( Read more... )

Frito is still alive. He is oldykins. He's gotta be, like, 15 or 16 or 17. He is starting to look old & seem old & to "slow down" somewhat. He is not the sassyhead that he once was. He is slower and gentler and just wants somebody to sit on the couch with him ( Read more... )

Should I come back here? I'm thinking about coming back here. What should I talk about? What are you guys up to?