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23 May 2011

so many books...



For a while now, I've been posting brief reviews of books here and there on other sites thanks to Powell's Daily Dose and its lure of free books, but I've recently been inspired by my amazing pal Audrey and her work over at Bibliosaurus Text to post reviews here. After all, what good is it being a bibliophile if you can't share the love? And besides, my reading habit is about to kick into overdrive with the start of a new school year, so this might be a good excuse to get back into the swing of putting my thoughts on paper/screen.

14 February 2009

recession proof


Get it? :)

It's officially official: I've been laid off (although I volunteered to be (long story)). Friday 20 February is my last day, and then preparations for my long-awaited reverse roadtrip kick into high gear (yeah, it's only been about 18 months, but that's a long time for me to live anywhere, let alone on the wrong coast).

You didn't think that all that talk about a newly unemployed 20-something was hypothetical, did you?

26 January 2009

back in action

red, white, and halo

It's weird to think that this was the start to my inaugural weekend: Cocktails at Halo, complete with red, white, and blue ambient lighting. Good friends, good drinks, followed by good food, followed by math jokes on chalkboards (integral of e to the power of x, anyone?)...

Sadly, the fun-filled weekend was destined to be short lived.

Actually, what I found while taking out trash pre-night-out-on-the-town should have clued me in to what was to eventually follow:

rodent RIP

Yeah... Not a pretty picture by any stretch of the imagination. I only hope the little guy had expired before the gate closed (if that doesn't make sense, don't ask... trust me, you'll be better off).

At any rate, my fun night out on the town was on the happier side of a punctuating phone call I'd rather not go in to at the moment. Suffice it to say, that call led to a last-minute flight reservation, a 5 a.m. trek to the Dupont Circle Metro station...

riding on the metro

...some quality reading time spent at a practically deserted gate...

depressing departure

...a window seat...

window seat, awesome. crying baby in the next row? not so much

...which was awesome. The screaming baby sitting directly behind me? Not so much...

...some fantastic astronautically inspired artwork throughout SFO...

more terminal art, courtesy SFO

...complete with some bitching robots (I'm a sucker for robots (they're the new pirates, you know))...

terminal art @ SFO

...and that's all I really feel like getting in to at the moment. Maybe I'll talk about it more later on. Then again, maybe I won't.

Not like it really matters either way.

18 December 2008

shopping is a feeling

Ask David Bryne if you don't get it.

Meanwhile, I'm still trying to process Obama's inaugural opening prayer pick. And I'm failing to do so. Which is fine by me, because it's not something I want to move past.

Because it's wrong.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, go google it and educate yourself.

So much for a "brand new bright Obama day," ugh, so disappointing...



Here's some of what I plan to have blaring at full volume in my headphones to drown out the opening prayer on inauguration day:







"You don't have the balls to be a queer."

Amen, Ben Weasel. Amen.