this work day has been awesome, and by awesome i mean wretched, and by wretched i mean on par with that day that i walked into the department and said, "okay, who do i have to gang-rape to get the mail delivered?" it is almost four pm, i am just now eating my lunch. many people have enraged and irritated me today, but anything that is not murdering ( Read more... )

a. the third annual wretch thanksgiving for wretches (wretch thanksgiving for wretches III: back for more and now with a dozen additional bottles of wine) was, i think, a delightful success. once again, i managed to cook the turkey, and once again i turned the pan drippings into a nearly inedible gelatin-like gravy. the spectacularly odd assortment ( Read more... )

i'm watching the mets/cardinals game. game seven in a best-of-four series, tied at 1-1 through six innings. in the top of the sixth inning, the mets center fielder robbed the cardinals of a two-run homer with an insane over the wall snow cone catch and in the bottom of the sixth inning, the cardinals got out of a bases loaded/one out jam. which ( Read more... )

re: studio 60. the problem is that i want to like this show so much that i almost failed to notice that so far i ... don't. ( several things )

had a very nice slow-motion-good-friends-good-times beer commercial weekend ( Read more... )

five things i am really enjoying right now:

1. the viva pedro film series. eight of pedro almodovar's older films are being re-released in theaters leading up to the release of volver. so far i've cajoled various members of the local gang into seeing women on the verge of a nervous breakdown and the law of desire, both of which were staples of the ( Read more... )

( vital stats meme du jour )

this weekend, i watched ( Read more... )

--and then, i don't know, there was the pride parade, which had a surreal "this is your life" pastiche feel, and took place in incessant pouring rain and sign-slapping winds, as all worlds-colliding pseudo-apocalyptic events should. the cast of high-kicking drowned rats marching with my org's contingent included me, smartlikejustin, paintedmaypole, girlcakes, onthecontrary, the lesbian starbucks ( Read more... )

-- and then there was the part where, on saturday, my laptop committed suicide (forced to do nothing but play the ark and display SGA porn, can you really blame it, though?) and apple says it will probably be one to two weeks before i get it back. woe. agony. and, whatever else, i'm really glad this happened TWO DAYS BEFORE THE START OF MY SUMMER ( Read more... )