Posts by hamblog
reading 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…
Read Morei’ve been a bad bad blog
I have installed this naughty-sounding WordPress plugin for this blog called Bad Behavior. It’s like a virtual dom has taken over, showing spam comments who’s boss and denying them from what they want to do the most — begging me to let them tell me about Levitr@, pen1s enlarging and adfarms. But the spam has…
Read Moreself-love
Maybe yesterday afternoon’s sudden squall of death/disaster trauma helped me to let go in a strange way, but last night, reading excerpts from my most personal of personal teenage diaries, to a room of strangers*, was some big fun. This was part of “Cringe Night”, hosted by Thessaly the Ukulady (pictured above) at the Theatre…
Read Moredeath, be not an asshole
I was musing, this week, on the coincidence of three friends concurrently going through some sad, hard, death-related things, when, today: wham! Make it four friends. And WHAM, just now: me. Just got the news that someone I know and love just died — what? the fuck? Death and disaster need to be given a…
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