I just got paid to use the phrase "looking for dates or mates". Accordingly, the coffeeshop in which I am typing echoed with my titter.

At the going rate, that phrase was worth fifty cents.

Oddly great times tonight, as great as you can have sitting around alone, anyway. Found half a clove smoke of the brown-and-gold variety in my avocado-stained blue shirt. (The only shirt with a collar. Just keeping the historical record straight.) Chased my mom around the kitchen with it when she ducked in to wish me goodnight. Held it in my mouth ( Read more... )

I am dividing my so-called "friends" into friends and enemies immediately, based on who gets as joyous as me from reading this.


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goro nyudo masamune folded the law of heaven ( Read more... )

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006240126,00.html

I ought to have gone upstairs an hour ago and primed the yams for consumption: skins off, salt-herbs-oil on, oven up, yams in. This is because Amy phoned me from Duncan with instructions about the simple tasks I could perform to speed the preparation of dinner a thousandfold. My response was that I'd do it in one minute; my procrastination is ( Read more... )

Things Done Meanly On Echthmas-DayI conceive a mean song for a seagull family to sing ( Read more... )

FRAGM. XII.

Strabo, XV. i. 37,--p. 703.

Of some Wild Beasts of India.

According to Megasthenes the largest tigers are found among the Prasii, being nearly twice the size of the lion, and so strong that a tame tiger led by four men having seized a mule by the hinder leg overpowered it and dragged it to him. The monkeys are larger than the largest ( Read more... )

In Winnipeg I met a dancing dog who compressed the entire spectrum of canine emotional reaction into a single hopping, trotting, paw-flapping jig. She was very small. It was too much for me. Dancing every time you're happy is a high plateau of greatness, I think -- but there's a billion flavours of happy. Not that I'm pointing any fingers, or that ( Read more... )

Yesterday I'm carping at Andy's lady friend (not sure if those last two nouns are correlated) about how Andy's erratic schizo cat tracked kitty litter all over my bed and left the pink wing of a bird on my floor. Andy tells me it comes with the territory: "This is a house of outlaws ( Read more... )