i am SO into the new Heartless Bastards album right now.

additionally, any of you not listening to the eminently lovable (he flirted with my girlfriend! where was i?! i want to meet him!) M. Ward, including his new album, Post-War, should start immediately.

The number of Americans who have died in Iraq has now exceeded the number that died on September 11th. I've been thinking about this, hoping it would never happen, pretty much since we first invaded, and it's affected me a lot more than the anniversary itself. Or maybe it's a combination of the two -- 9/11/2001 marked the beginning of a ( Read more... )

everybody watch this now:

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/TDS-Stem-Cells.mov

i'm not moving away, and katie's only moving down to eugene. i like my job and my boss likes me. i've befriended one of the most wonderful people on the planet and he lives right across the street when he's not touring the world being a rockstar. i learned to knit socks ( Read more... )

just like snape and dumbledore

when i was a freshman at carleton, i had a little blue notebook that i wrote in almost every night. i was usually either high or exhausted or both, but i wrote anyway. i took it with me when i went to visit my friend daniel in st. paul in march, and when the sun came out and the snow started melting, we walked around in tshirts and scarves and ( Read more... )

happy year of the dog, y'all.

i was born in the year of the dog, which means that i will soon be turning a multiple of twelve.

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bored on monday = haiku meme!

I got a call yesterday from Mark Lofstrom asking me to be co-chair of the 2006 LGBT Family Reunion.

Yeah. Whoa.

What's even more amazing to me is that i'm seriously considering it. If they'd asked me six months ago, I'd have said never in a million years. (Well, not out loud...) Besides needing a break from Carleton in general, I left with ( Read more... )