Archive for October 2007
blopomo on the horizon
November 1st is coming, and that means the yearly exercise in awesomeness that is National Blog Posting Month, or NaBloPoMo. And that means I’m trying to save up all my brain contents in order to disgorge it daily in November without making us all mad. Mad, I tell you! C’mon! Join the NaBlo train! Choo…
Read MoreThe ghosts come forward from the Green Monster like angels in the Field
I have been keeping this to myself, except for frenzied emails between my family members and myself. But O MY GOD. Go Red Sox. There’s been another revolution here in Boston. Earth has turned around; the moon is full and clear. Black holes are turning into stars within the Red Sox hemisphere. — excerpt from…
Read Morei’ve got your embers right here
“it is the color of baby poo outside”, originally uploaded by hambox The photo above depicts my pal Violet at my home this past Sunday around 2pm. If you stare at the picture till your eyes ache, it’s a fair representation of what the day felt like. Also imagine hot hurricaney winds whipping ash and…
Read Morereading my guts out again
So, these readings in LA are going really really well. To my local folk, I am doing what I can to bring a similar night northward to the Ventura/Santa Barbara burgs, so that the love can be shared with the more homebound homies of mine. Not that you shouldn’t try to heave your ass over…
Read Morei support grudge control
Today, I was idly e-wondering to Violet about why my day felt wrong and off. But I knew why. It was the hasty, reactive emails I fired off earlier this morning .. and now realizing (with cooler-headed, post-coffee clarity) how the emails could be construed incorrectly (and by that I mean: come across as totally…
Read Moregive a hoot
It’s Blog Action Day: On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind – the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. Our aim is to get everyone talking towards a better future. I have…
Read More…and nobody wants your awful recliners, either.
 …and nobody wants your awful recliners, either. originally uploaded by hambox I’m not even looking for a recliner, but I feel violated, anyway. See previous post
Read Moreass cradlers and time keepers
I hate ugly couches, originally uploaded by hambox. The image above represents a mere fraction of the sofas for sale, 99.5% of them fugly beyond belief, on the two local craiglist pages upon which I lurk. As I’ve mentioned before, I am idly looking for a couch, so I regularly pinch my nose and jump…
Read Morein which i celebrate the singular sensation that is violet spark
This is the first time I’ll thank a photosharing website (and possibly, hopefully?, the last), but I have to give credit where it is due: flickr has been one of the finest things to evolve from the best elements of the internet. It has enriched my connections, made me a better photographer, and wasted a…
Read Morehamblog, now with less content
My one defense is that I am generating content elsewhere, especially for live audiences, which provides immediate and more satisfying feedback than toiling away on this bloggie, which I have no idea if you (yes you) are reading and/or enjoying, unless you comment on it, electronically or in person. Get it? Just this past weekend…
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