As of late last year, for those of you who haven't gathered yet, this journal has been abandoned. Those who I choose as my friends are on the f-list for my "new" journal, which has been extant since late last year. The rest, well, nothing personal, it was time I pruned my f-list anyway. There are a few folks I will be adding on after the fact, ( Read more... )

OK, this is scaring me now: http://www.truthnews.us/?p=470

Can I run away to Europe now? Or somewhere remote where this shit can't affect me?? If this is somebody's idea of a joke, this isn't funny. 
 

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I'm sore and hoarse and thoroughly happy about last night. Behemoth as usual played a demolishing set despite PA issues that their soundman and unofficial fifth member, Malta, was rather aggravated about, something that came across pretty clearly despite his limited English. The band Gojira, from France, also were impressive and put on a really ( Read more... )

 Truth be told, it is my firmly held conviction that death metal is the new classical music of this era. It speaks to me (still, after nigh unto 25 years as a headbanger) in that it stimulates my mind to discern the layers of activity in the music, the way the guitar parts are arranged and harmonized, the level of skill it takes to maintain the ( Read more... )

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As of today's lawn mowing there are now four spiderwebs in my back yard. Two jewel spiders, one white with black spikes and the other red with black spikes, and two regular garden spiders. Refer to my previous post about the spiders taking over America. =) Next thing you know there will be even more webbies in my yard and I may start to wondering ( Read more... )

My dear friends M and C (I'd post your LJ names, but LJ tends to fumffer that up!) were married at U of H's chapel yesterday in what turned out to be a very charming Catholic ceremony. Mind you, speaking as somebody who was raised in Boston with more Catholic guilt and repression than anything else (I can count the number of times I've been in a ( Read more... )

After a week's worth of suffering and intense yuckiness, the toxic voodoo food poison devil has been exorcised at long fucking last. Oh, that's right, I never mentioned that.

A week ago I trooped on over to Hong Kong City Mall Market as per usual to procure victuals for which to cook with. OK, fine; I made a fantastic chicken & spinach soup and a ( Read more... )

Remember that phenomenon you mentioned in your LJ in West Texas about the colossal spiderweb? My house and backyard are becoming the Kingdom of the Spiders lately as well. Our patio has two huge webs dominating it and there was another in the corner of my yard for some time that seems to have been done away with due to the storms we had here ( Read more... )