i couldn't sleep the other night, like so many nights. this time i was plagued by the rhythm of haikus. (this from someone who professes not to be into poetry at all.) many of them were downright corny, but here are a few of the better ones that some of you might like ( Read more... )

 
WTF! have ALL my relatives suddenly gone berserk? i got this email over the weekend from one of my aunts. (sister of the uncle who sent the other crazy email i posted on here.) she obviously forgot that i proudly speak 3 non-english languages daily in my own home!

email:

How ALL business phones SHOULD be answered!

GOOD MORNING, WELCOME TO THE UNITED ( Read more... )

i received this email over the weekend from one of my uncles. i guess the saying is true: you can pick you friends, but you cannot pick your family. please read this posting all the way to the end, so you see how i responded. my views differ greatly from the views of the original email. i personally think there is a great difference between being ( Read more... )

a year ago this past weekend i attended the mid-ohio renaissance festival, my very first. vowing to attend more such events in the future, i attended the michigan renaissance festival twice this year, the one-day fest at ohio state and the mid-ohio festival twice. it pays to attend on the closing weekend, as many of the vendors offer incredible ( Read more... )

 ok, a funny haiku this time...

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Eskimo mothers,
Raising their children, teach them,
"Don't eat yellow snow."

Tae-Bin Seo, 2007  

i came up with the coolest drag name tonight while talking to my old roomie/boss kim on the phone:

Katya Jackinov. (Caught ya jackin' off.)

LMAO

at a loss of what to write today, i decided to throw out into the world my first attempt at poetry since high school. this is a sonnet that i wrote one night several months ago, when i couldn't sleep. it is a little corny, i know, but i was in the mood for something very simple and asian sounding. warning: in order to make it iambic, you have to ( Read more... )

if i were a copywriter, there would be a warning label on each box of Mr. Clean Magic Erasers ( Read more... )

so in my previous effort to find a word and coming up with buckboard, i noticed that directly below it was the word bucket. i DO have something to post under that topic. i hope you enjoy it. and, NO, it is NOT pronounced bou-quet! lol

this was written in my hotel room in manila back in august of 2006, while watching a boxing match from the atlanta ( Read more... )

i wanted to come up with a way i could write random entries here in my journal. i remembered back to my high school senior english class, when my teacher would pick a random word, and for five minutes we would have to write anything on that topic. i decided to give it a go, and i grabbed a dictionary off my bookshelf. closing my eyes, i opened the ( Read more... )