A few things of note have occurred recently, and I haven't really gotten around to putting any of this down for posterity. Which is quite common for me these days. I long ago stopped regularly posting to LJ, MySpace...or anywhere else, for that matter. At the time it began, I viewed my aversion to these "sharing sites" as a little break from all ( Read more... )

I gots me a puppy this week! I'll post pictures as well, but just as a reminder to myself when and how this happened, I'm writing in this here thingie ( Read more... )

i love how you blow
on the ends of your cigarettes
just to watch them burn brighter
lazy sunday
watching our smoke in the sunbeams
fishkisses and little bears
licking your teeth as you growl
ducks with hats poking frogs with a leaf
a zoo of our pleasure and delight
i've fallen
but this time in the good way

the show at the silver dollar went smashingly. a lot of people showed up for all three bands, and everyone STAYED. that's rare in toronto. people don't go out to have a fun night, they support their friends, then leave. it's very disheartening. BUT! that didn't happen this time, and it was a good night. we watched the first band, played our ( Read more... )

"I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I'm going to take a stand. I'm going to defend it. Right or wrong, I'm going to defend it."

-Cameron Frye, from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)

Oh...also, I'm back home. And let the records show: I absolutely despise the Dominican Republic.

fresh year. fresh screen. fresh outlook. any fresher, and i'd be a zest commercial ( Read more... )

so long, you piece of shit year. may your replacement bring all the things that you failed miserably at bringing.

I've disallowed comments to my journal. I realized that I stopped writing in here for two reasons ( Read more... )

Every time I start to write in this thing, I just delete it because it's always so downtrodden. And I don't like to sound too emo. I mean, this is already a blog, why further perpetuate stereotypes?

But I couldn't NOT do the Annual Love List. If you don't know what i'm refering to, click on the hyperlinks. They'll take you back to the year's ( Read more... )

Hushed tones ( Read more... )