Archive for January 2009
malformed lump of a week
Sunday: Waste most of the day with a stupid computer game and aimless puttering about. At 5pm, I start feeling iffy. By 6, I am on a strict hourly vomiting regimen until 3am Monday morning. Monday: Try to gather my wits about me after the Food Poisoning Fiesta. By “gathering my wits,” I mean “feebly…
Read Moretriple ex
Too much clicking on Facebook revealed that I am now two degrees away from D., the boy that was the object of my obsessive, heated affections for four solid years in high school. Just like that, from myth to regular old mister in a few tiny bleep-bloops of the internet. The grownup me doesn’t think…
Read Morejailbait
Just some hot shots of famous boys on the other side of the law. Hubba hubba.
Read Morea thousand things to cheer me today
Taking a running start, jumping on, and firmly planting my ass on Violet’s bandwagon, I shall follow her lovely post with my own list of things that are causing double-extra happiness on this fantastic day (Note to the Future: 1/20/09 is the day that Barack Obama became President of the United States, or “USA,” which…
Read MoreThe most loveliest bracelet in the world
I wrote this in 2006, in response to a question from a friend: what is the one object you would you take with you when the house is on fire? I thought I would share this in commemoration of my mom, who died 6 years ago tonight. In about 1972, my parents and their friends…
Read Morebefore mommy and daddy got divorced and the lawyers got all grabby
Who the hell knows when Project Runway will be back on, and if? I mourn for the innocent days of 2005, when I watched Jay win and felt a zing of excitement — reality television can be good, so very good. And remember 2007, when Santino commented on my blog? Oh, man. I try to…
Read Morefrom the chambers of my brain
I was daydreaming last week, as is my wont, and started to thinking about courtroom artists. I find it charming that such old-world art methods (pastel, pencil and watercolor) are still used to create images for our thoroughly modern media. I love that, and will be sad the day that they let cameras in absolutely…
Read Morethe strangest half-block of my life
After celebrating the first moments of 2009 (some us included the Leap Second in our countdown!), we headed out of the restaurant. Two of us were blowing noisemakers that made the most maddening, strangled sound imaginable. The second our group hit the sidewalk, a homeless person across Oak Street shouted “shut the fuck up or…
Read Morehambox advent thank you!
So many thanks so many people that have found and created and amassed and enjoyed the delights that I have linked to over the course of the 2008 Hambox Advent Calendar. I loved the collaborative spirit and plan to do it again next year, so put your thinking caps on and start collecting those links!…
Read More1/2/08, part two
Here’s part one. Read it first! We took our mustache and met up with Tamar for dinner and more drinks at Zum Schneider, where the mustache revelry was apt among the authentic Bavarian biergarten ambiance — authentic, except for the facts that it was indoors and that it was 14 degrees outside. Weinerschitzel and spiced…
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