I was digging through all my digital photos earlier, and lost track of the time. I caught the last 10 minutes of the NOVA program. Damn! On the plus side, they’re running the documentary again on Tuesday evening, with updated video/images. So… all is not lost. In case you missed it tonight (like me), you…
Last night, the first of two planned rovers landed on the surface of Mars. There’s a NOVA special on this evening (Mars Dead Or Alive) that should include the latest images/video.
by Lucille Clifton Kaliqueen of fatality, shedetermines the destinyof things. nemesis.the permanent guestwithin ourselves.woman of warfare,of the chase, bitchof blood sacrifice and death.dread mother. the mysteryever present in us andoutside us. theterrible hindu woman GodKali.who is black.
I’m not sure why, but lately I’ve been returning to Lucille Clifton’s poem Kali. It’s not like there’s something in this poem that I personally identify with. In fact, I read it a bit like an outsider, looking in. But there’s something about the way it reads, and the way it feels when I read…
The First International Human Beatbox Convention. Just happened across this while tooling around the Internet. :)
While I was an undergraduate, I held a job at the Monroe County Public Library for many years. Mornings were a slow time for me, and I started most days by throwing on a pot of coffee. Because I had classes during the day, I tended to work mornings. Because I was in college, I…
This morning, I got up around 8 AM. Alright fine, the alarm went off around then, and I kept smacking it until around 9. But after that, I made my rounds and got a crapload done: I returned some gifts at Old Navy (and bought some more clothes); I bought a new cordless phone at…
I’ve wasted today like a professional. Tomorrow is a day for errands, for productivity. Partly it’s the illness, but it’s also the fact that I’ve been holed up inside my apartment for a very, very, very long time. Time to venture outside.
I first heard pinback a long while ago, when I met a girl named Heather while waiting for the Blue Line. Actually, the specific first time I heard this group was in Heather’s car, when we were hanging out a few days later. I don’t really know their music all that well, but I ventured…
I know I’m not doing much justice by introducing Aaron this way – we’ve got too much history together to really summarize, and I’m finding it difficult to represent that in anything other than sheer time (we’ve known one another now for some 23 years). Here’s a picture of Aaron’s house (his family no longer…
Aaron and I have known each other since we were in first grade. His house was right behind mine, and our backyards touched (imagine two squares touching on one corner). Since we were six, we played with one another, hung out, you name it. After college, we talked less and less, catching up once every…
This is the big honkin’ television my dad purchased, sometime after Thanksgiving. No real occasion, he just wanted a bigger TV: During the holidays, I watched a lot, A LOT of old movies. My parents have cable, and I vegetated my days away watching such classic films as Beverly Hills Cop 2.
Christmas Eve, I went to St. John’s United Church of Christ, on the South Side of Indianapolis. I went with my mom and dad, my sister, her boyfriend Shane, and we were to meet up with my grandmother, my aunt Vicky, my cousin Ellen, and her boyfriend Dave. My grandmother attends midnight mass every single…
Since I don’t really have specific things for every single day of the holidays, I’m going to just lump everything together here. For the most part I hung out with the family, got sucked into the West Wing Marathon on Bravo, rolled around with my sister’s dogs, and had the flu kick me in the…
Most of the sickness has passed. I woke up today feeling on top of the world. No fever, no dizziness, no chills. The only thing I have remaining is a slight cough. But thankfully, it’s turned into a regular cough, and not the lung-rattling, bronchial pool party cough I’ve had all week. I’m about to…