Let's go all the way back to May 17, when I was in a reading of Los 7 Magnificos, an old Thunderbird show. It was a reading I was actually asked to be in! I didn't have to audition or anything! I was Jerry/Sanjay, an Indian landlord mistaken for Jerry Garcia by a bunch of hippies, so I got to break out my Indian accent, and I was also Señor Roboto ( Read more... )

I joined LiveJournal in 2005, but before that, I was on another site, which is where I met Amy (etherealclarity), one of my oldest online friends. One time I called her and sang songs about cheese to cheer her up. I think that was her. I meant every cheese I sang; I just forgot who I sang it to. In any case, she got sent over here for training for a new job, so ( Read more... )

This weekend was doubly exciting, for not only was it a celebration of the release of Feed but also Rae was in town! HERE COME THE GERUNDS.

( Bad jokes! Awesome Tweets! Cartoon theme songs! Ice cream! Cupcakes! Zombies! )

This weekend, aprilbegins flew up to visit me! And some other friends, but mostly me. And some other friends. So she got to be part of a very long list of gerunds-with bonus sentences.

( You haven't seen San Francisco until you see it through the eyes of Polter-Cow! )

This weekend, lodessa came down to visit, since I had gone up twice and she owed me a visit and we just picked a weekend and made it happen. Also, it gave me an excuse to clean my apartment. We gerunded quite a bit!

• hugging lodessa upon her arrival
• whisking her away for lunch and parallel parking perfectly-though not on the first try
• beating the Bakesale Betty ( Read more... )

Last night, I met another Kiwi. It appears that flymara is switching places with kroki_refur: now that the latter has gone from England to New Zealand by way of San Francisco, the former is making the opposite journey. Mara got to play the International Dateline game, however, by leaving on Wednesday evening and arriving here Wednesday morning ( Read more... )

If you knew me back in my Rice days, you may remember Katie. She played a very important role in my life, sometimes without even knowing it. For instance, she was the first person to introduce me to Farscape. And she also showed me my first anime. Of course, I didn't really get into either of those things until years later ( Read more... )

Most of you are not familiar with Katy (starfyer), but she is a longtime friend of mine from my pre-LJ days. We met in person six years ago on a grad school visit to Madison, but we had not seen each other since. And then she got married and decided to honeymoon in San Francisco! This is why I like living here: people come here. She and her new husband, ( Read more... )

One of the crazy things about the Internet is that you can get to know people in other countries, and other countries are far away and you may never get to meet them. So when I heard that ora_wai (Sarah) was stopping in SF on her grand tour of the States from New Zealand (kroki_refur, where the crap are you? Are you in Auckland? She is in Auckland!), I hoped we ( Read more... )

This Saturday, I spent the day with Rae (raelee)! And Seanan (cadhla)! Two of the coolest girls I know! It was East Coast (Florida) meets West Coast (California) all up in this Bay Area. We engaged in quite a few fun gerunds.

• meeting Rae and Seanan at Biryani House in Berkeley
• getting a bunch of cool Middleman swag from Rae
• ordering the kofta curry because I'd ( Read more... )