Click through for the Flickr show, which is annotated with neat historical facts Today I took advantage of the late May rainy weather and my carlessness and walked over to the Oakland Cemetery. Who knew, all of these nights when I’d been watching Gone With the Wind on [...]
May 29th, 2005
Read...Birthday cake Cake from Katie and Sarah. You know you have good friends when the vegans make a cake for ya.
May 29th, 2005
Read...Well, it’s official. I’m old. Twenty-four fucking years old, as of an hour and a half ago. Just listen to the sounds of the words …. “twenty threeeeeeee…” …. that “eeeeeee” sound, such a high note. Say it now: “Twenty Foouuurrrr” …. hear your voice droop down, oarrrr … rhymes with sore, spelled like sour, smells like [...]
May 28th, 2005
Read...This is huge for alts. Alternet.org, source of all things great and last minute, will no longer offer their articles for syndication. Alternet is/was a pretty awesome source for feature-length alternative news, and more than one editor relied on it in a pinch to fill a feature hole. Hopefully their closing statement is accurate, and [...]
May 25th, 2005
Read...Blondes have more fun, huh? Not this one. Newly minted, I have been blessed with a crown of holy shit ever since. Let’s go at it: Friday morning, drizzly. Slick roads. Temperamental car. Tired driver. You know where this is going … as I went up the curve of Boulevard, a million things happened at once. A silver GMC Yukon, [...]
May 22nd, 2005
Read...fake front pages put in newstands I found this on Flickr… a faux front page of the Oregonian with the headline, “Pope OKs same-sex marriage, birthcontrol (sic), radical equaliy.” What a cool old media statement … thanks, hummanna
May 17th, 2005
Read...The unlikely scene of conquest Holy moley! What a thrill! … It was all right in front of me … options, glamour, excitement: I had to be in four cities in ten days, and Travelocity.com was playing a mean old game. “Multi-city booking,” it scoffed. “Ha ha! I [...]
May 16th, 2005
Read...I love love love this post on hairstyle histories by Monotonous.Net. I’ve been thinking about doing something similar, ever since I went blond … Take the jump for some faux-comments (comments are temporarily disabled due to spam, folks): Laura, The comments feature on your blog isn’t working, otherwise I would have responded to your link to me. So thanks! [...]
May 16th, 2005
Read...I wasn’t bluffing. HunterCross.com has been busting on a new design for the lf.com, and a migration to Wordpress — I think it’s pretty hot. Among the best features is the lil spam blocker. We’ve disabled commments here due to the disabling bandwidth of those spam bots, so please visit the new digs with feedback. The [...]
May 14th, 2005
Read...You dig? Comments please! (obviously, all content hasn’t been migrated, and there is lots of work yet to be done on my end …)
May 14th, 2005
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