[Happiness is all the rage]We decided to tackle the beastly spare room today. It’s been a mess of boxes since we moved in, and all our guests have had to sleep in a sparse, depressing little room that smelled of cardboard and dust. So I hung some posters up and condensed the boxes down so that we could get most of them in the closet. We ran across a couple of boxes full of Phil’s…
[Star Wars sucks, remember?]For whatever reason, I’ve decided to redesign the SWISH site. I had been toying with the idea of taking it offline and giving it a graceful burial, but as I clicked through 49 pages of hilarious hateful messages from people I don’t even know, I decided that there’s no way I could allow such utterly brilliant comedy to be lost in oblivion. But I am removing all references to myself and the…
[Neither here nor there]I haven’t posted anything that means anything in a while. I go on rants in my head several times a day when I read stories about all the stuff that riles me. But I’m always too tired to talk about any of it here. I don’t really have any tasks to list and check off and keep myself on top of everything, like I did when I was in school. I blog…
[There is nothing like a song]“No need to press for conceptual perfection. The concensus of the wise has been that music is unique among the arts because it operates on the same plane as the unmediated, the given. It belongs to sensation itself, to bodily existence and, for that very reason, it elevates that existence in a way no other art can match. Music takes hold of you on levels of your being that precede…
[Geese and ganders and lying bastards]So Congress doesn’t want to raise minimum wage to a point where a person working full-time will rise above the poverty line. OK. But Bush is jetting around the country trying to convince a nation of skeptics that the time is now to reform Social Security by privatizing it (if you can really call it privatizing; I understand that this is up for dispute). One of Bush’s main arguments for…
[The big 4-9]Happy birthday to my mom. I saw a funny episode of the Cosby Show yesterday when Cliff turned 50 (hey, just like my dad a couple of weeks ago). The kids put together a flip chart presentation of things older than dad, including the wheel, fire, and dirt. It was pretty funny. So here’s to my parents, who have a combined century of wisdom and wrinkles and grey hair and good credit. Cheers!
[Shoot all the super heroes from your skies]I. I always thought that I would cry if I ever got pulled over. Well, I didn’t. And I still got off pretty easy, considering I was doing 67 in a 55, yacking away on my cell phone with Cox at friggin’ midnight. And I didn’t have my license. Well, I had it, but I didn’t know I had it because I couldn’t find it in my cavernous…
[I’ll be in the lobby drinking for two]Authorities recovered some stolen Munch paintings. That’s good news. My off days were wonderful but oh how quickly they left me. We got out and went downtown today. Checked out Peabody Place. There’s not much to it, but it’s still a nice place to just walk around. Bought the first Neutral Milk album and the new Kings of Leon. We stopped by Art Center and I got a…
[Letting my fingers do the walking]We finally, finally got a phone book. Well, two books, actually: One big fat book of yellow pages and another big fat book of white pages. They’ll be infinitely helpful, I’m sure. I didn’t roll out of bed until noon today. Such a waste. I’m sure it’s beautiful outside; it has been for the past week. When Phil gets off work, we’re going to do something, though I’m not sure…
[Good news, everyones]This is awesome. Hopefully I can get off for Saturday to see The Killers, but I bet everyone in this newsroom will be trying to do the same thing. Well, maybe Phil can go out and have some fun.
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