Entries Tagged as 'Personal'

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Punk Legend Gives it to us Straight

Chances are, even if you didn’t grow up in Washington D.C. in the 1980s, you know who Ian MacKaye is. Somehow his music or his influence has crossed paths with most everybody. MacKaye, made famous by fronting the hardcore punk bands Minor Threat and Fugazi (among others), visited the Riverside Art Museum on October 19th [...]

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Muffle the Drums

Driving on the 215 today, I saw a station wagon with a sticker in the window that read:
In loving memory of
Daddy
1976-2006
I’ve seen these things before, but for some reason, it’s always been a name. The word “daddy,” instead, was an idea. I started tearing up. I didn’t expect it, but I was confronted with a [...]

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Thoughts I Had While Shaving

I would marry Tina Fey, no questions asked.
I really wish I could sail, and had a sailboat. (I’m whiter than I thought)
If a Seminole Indian made an extremely popular and influential performance art piece that involved his own ejaculate, it could be called the Seminal Seminal Seminole work.

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

This Picture Sums Up All My Hopes and Dreams of Childhood


Thursday, March 6th, 2008

A Bit of Barzun: No More of That, I Pray You, In Your Letters

As late as my senior year in high school, I used to think of writing as something anyone could do, if only they gave it enough effort. Peer-editing piles of essays, I would ask myself why it was that people couldn’t see how poor they were at putting pen to paper and coherently transmitting something, [...]

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Never Gonna Give You Up

I was rick rolled yesterday.
By Albertsons.

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Where in the World is Kevin Longrie?

An abridged list of ways people get here, keywords. Inspired by ASWOBA and SGB.  Presented below as is.
hortense bauby
theophile bauby
geroge cloony
98. you re the one i want to grow old with
des poèms
heath ledger
graphic designer apollonian dionysian
why does it get so cold in alaska
kara trace will lead the human race
how to start telephone conversation
awkward phone conversation
impregnate [...]

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

I’m a Robot Without Emotion or Human Sympathy

This AP article ran yesterday, detailing how Kim Sjostrom, a thirty-six year old elementary school teacher, died in her husband’s arms during their first dance as a couple. Less than an hour after they were married, as they danced, she “complained of being lightheaded,” only to moments later collapse, never to be revived. Regarding [...]

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

I Sent Two Letters Back in Autumn, You Must Not-a Got ‘Em

Text reads: Just the thought of being with you tomorrow is enough to get me through today! 
“Enough to get me through today?” Here’s a card, honey. Just a little e-minder that you’re all I live for. If you leave me, I’ll kill myself. Between downing a fistful of meds and imagining shooting up my office [...]

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Clever Girl

It’s been over a decade, and apparently Randall Munroe forgot that velociraptors learned how to open doors.