On my bus ride to New York, I started talking to a musician guy at the rest stop (amazing how large a percentage of the people on the $15 inter-city bus are carrying instrument cases) and it made the whole rest of the trip a lot more fun. He was an interesting guy, friendly, a bit nuts, but in a too-smart way, not in a too-dumb way, a bit young but ( Read more... )

At a young age, I liked the idea of being able to teleport.  I mean, wouldn't that just be awesome and incredibly convinient?!
I came up with the (not terribly original) idea that perhaps people such as myself could teleport, in the abstract, except that it was against the cosmic rules for teleportation to be proveable, therefore, I could only ( Read more... )

I'm setting up the utilities for the new apartment.  I was using the online form to make a phone/DSL account, rather than calling them, and it gave me all sorts of options, including "is this (name, address, phone#) what you want in the phone book or do you want to pay us to keep it out?".   I don't really care if I'm in the phone book, whatever.  ( Read more... )

This arrived in the mail.  I guess they think I don't have enough Morphing Maidens in my life (I beg to differ.)
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Where I am not holding my reception:
 a faux-castle in a strip mall in the south suburbs.

What I'm not wearing:
 a headpiece that makes the unsuspecting childlike model look like a carousel horse
 shoes in which the spike heel lights up when I walk

That headpiece has been one of my favorite photos for a while now - it's just too terrible to be believed.

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In my opinion, the best part about shopping for wedding dresses isn't actually going to a store and putting them on (definitely not!) or even finding the absolute perfect dress (it's a different kind of fun), it's being subjected to ridiculously bad web-design, and galleries full of incredibly elaborate, absolutely hideous wedding dresses.  After ( Read more... )