After a bit, Tracy needed to leave to go pick up Malachai. Instead of us splitting up the group, we decided it would be better (and more fun) were we to stick together. So… we all walked back to Tracy and Matt’s apartment. En route, Matt and I stopped off to pick up a few…
Got invited out to help celebrate not one, but three birthdays. Tracy, her husband Matt, and their friend Nuanda all have birthdays near the same time – so they decided to celebrate together. En route to Tuman’s, I passed by this building on Damen. I’ve seen it several times now, and decided to snap a…
En route, I spotted this small growth inside a metallic indentation in the sidewalk. This is what I mean by vegetation overcoming all obstances – it makes me think about persistence, about fortitude, and about adaptation. Ah, the old Leopard Lounge! I used to come here all the time, back when my old job in…
So I was playing World of Warcraft today, after work. I grouped up with some folks and was about to embark on some hacking and slashing when I get a call from Liz and Steph. They were having some drinks at the Leopard Lounge, and wanted me to join them. Instantly, I went from some…
I’m realizing that lately, the only pictures I’m taking are of, like, my fucking yard. I haven’t gone out all that much or ventured far from the house lately. I think I go in bursts – some days there’s so much activity I can’t make blog updates fast enough; other days, it’s boring and slow….
I didn’t notice it until today, but there are small clovers (at least that’s what I think they are) growing up between the individual bricks that make up my walkway. I’m always amazed at some of the inventive ways in which plants and vegetation work around any obstacles. Rather than be stifled, they always seem…
The thing that sucks about being up super late? There’s no one around to talk to. I’ve got a ton of folks in my Instant Messenger list, but it looks like everyone else is either asleep or off having fun away from a computer. Times like tonight, I wonder if I’m truly a nocturnal person…
After some down time due to the legal folks at Sony… Beatallica is back! Thanks in no small part to one Mr. Lars Ulrich.
Everytime I read that Collins poem, the fifth stanza cracks my shit up to no end.
by Billy Collins It seems these poets have nothingup their ample sleevesthey turn over so many cards so early,telling us before the first linewhether it is wet or dry,night or day, the season the man is standing in,even how much he has had to drink. Maybe it is autumn and he is looking at a…
by Joseph Hutchinson O heart weighed down by so many wings
Ok, dammit. I got distracted from the writing by the blog. Here it is some two hours later, and I’m still pecking away at the keyboard, writing in this thing. On the plus side, I’ve been sifting through poems. I’m in a mode where I’m having a ton of fun retyping poems to share. The…
by Emily Dickinson Tell all the Truth but tell it slant —Success in Circuit liesToo bright for our infirm DelightThe Truth’s superb surprise As Lightning to the Children easedWith explanation kindThe Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind—
Guess who chose wasting the day over errands? Sorry there’s nothing to see here today. I got scribbling a little bit tonight, and I’m choosing that over the blog entry. It’s not real writing – at least, not like I used to do. But it’s adding words to the page that weren’t there before… and…
I’ve got the day off tomorrow, as I’m taking back a comp day from having worked every weekend for the last three weeks or so. I’ve got maybe 4 days total that I need to take back, but it’s not that realistic that I can grab them all in one fell swoop – so it’ll…