I would like to thank Martin Luther King, Jr. Not for being a pioneer in the civil rights movement, but for having a birthday in January worthy of getting a day off from work, freeing me up to take an extra day off and go visit my best friend, Melanie (toughcookie42), who had visited me a couple years ago. Unfortunately, she lives in Indianapolis, which is ( Read more... )

At the fondue party on Sunday, Janet invited us all to come see her brother's band, Hey Ocean!, on Friday and/or Saturday. I assumed they were an unknown local band I would have many chances to see, like Rachel's brother's band. But when I looked them up, I discovered they were A) from Canada and B) fairly big there! There was a lot of good press ( Read more... )

Today, I headed into the city to check out the mobile Pie Hole for the Pushing Daisies Touch of Wonder Tour. And I intended to post about it, but I realized I never wrote about my trip to the Kwik-E-Mart last year! You may remember that, to promote The Simpsons Movie, a dozen 7-11s across the country were converted into Kwik-E-Marts. Luckily, one ( Read more... )

Does anyone remember my Oakland Art and Soul Festival report from last year? Or two years ago? It's a Labor Day tradition, people ( Read more... )

Raise your hand if you even noticed I was gone for a week! I'm sure most of you were busy with Comic-Con and Houston and Sparklelolcopalypse Sparklelolcalypse (tm cleolinda) and all manner of sundry things, so if there's a post of yours-or a video or trailer or magical fandom thing/news-you want to make sure I see, give it here, you. I skimmed through my ( Read more... )

Another one?! Yes, another one.

I'm not entirely sure how I know Jess (ariiadne). That is, I know we met on OpenDiary, but I can't quite figure out how. I can see that she was leaving me notes as early as 2001, on some of my very first entries, but there's no indication of how she stumbled upon my diary. And she changed her name a couple times, so I'm not ( Read more... )

RACHEL'S BIRTHDAY PICNIC: SUNDAY, MAY 4 - DOLORES PARK

Food:

• lemon pie
• barley salad
• strawberry-kiwi juice
• red velvet cupcake
• melon
• Mexican Chicano chocolate ice cream

Ratio of People I Knew to People I Did Not Know:

• approximately 5:3

Threadless Shirt Worn:

• A Key for Everything
• Heidi wore Playground Joust, keeping up our streak of wearing Threadless shirts ( Read more... )

This morning, I saw Iron Man, which was awesome and badass and funny and entertaining. And the scene after the end of the credits is unbelievably flailtastic. The script was clever, the performances were great, and the special effects were sweet. Even arbitrarium, who knew nothing about the comic, loved the movie and will be convincing people who were ( Read more... )

I'm sticking this at the beginning for all you Princess Tutu aficionados: I finished the series for the second time last night, and I love it even more. The first time, I loved it mostly for the plot. But this time, I fell in love with the characters. And I still loved the music and the message and the themes and everything else that is awesome ( Read more... )

So a few weeks ago, sophia_helix discovered that B.J. Novak was going to be at Cobb's Comedy Club. So we made plans! And after parallel parking arbitrarium's car, eating thin-crust pizza with tasty chicken and whole mushrooms with little cheese to cling to, and running four blocks to meet harriettheelf and her brother with tickets so we could get in and reserve good seats, it was ( Read more... )