I made the greatest discovery in all of Musicdom! Actually, a chunk of the credit goes to PaperMag but anyway. The discovery is this new online music portal and networking site erockster. I haven’t fully explored it yet because I got too excited playing with one feature: LISTEN NOW. It’s pretty [...]
Archive for May, 2008
A Letter to the Nice Polish Lady
Posted in Musings, tagged chatty, polish, TMI, toilet paper on May 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Hello nice Polish lady who refills the bathrooms at work with toilet paper and paper towels,
I was nervous to see you walking down the hallway today. I scampered to the lady’s bathroom to do my business as fast as I could. I was hoping to get through before you came in. You [...]
Post Your Secret
Posted in Musings, tagged Post Secret on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It was post-lunch today and I had a hard time keeping my heavy eyelids open. Staring at the computer in my ittybitty cubicle was not helping. The best remedy for this is to putz around on the Internet until I’ve been suitably stimulated to carry on with the rest of work. This could take anywhere [...]
Shabooms Shabooms
Posted in Travel, tagged Green Bay, Shabooms, Travel on May 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
After a lovely dinner with the most intrusive waitress I’ve ever had (sorry, Woman I do not want to hear about your afternoon wake boarding) a group of friends and I decided to spend the night on the town! Green Bay town, that is. I fled Chicago for a weekend to visit those silly friends [...]
Rock My World, Cello
Posted in Music, YouTube, tagged cello, headbanging, nerdy on May 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
apocalyptica – for whom the bell tolls (live)
The sexist thing in rock music: a cello quartet playing METAL. A couple weeks ago Chris and I went to Apolcalyptica’s show here in Chicago. If you want a nerdy deconstruction of the show check out Chris’s blog. But all you [...]
The Greatest Sense of Accomplishment
Posted in Adventures, tagged Drano, shower, soap on May 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today I was filled with the greatest sense of accomplishment. I fixed our shower.
For weeks that blasted thing has had a clogged drain. After one comfortable minute beneath the hot, soothing spray, hair in a lather, I’d be ankle deep in gray, soapy water. Bleh. That sure ruins the delightful shower [...]
Crunk Mouse Potato Zombie
Posted in Reads, tagged Concise Oxford English Dictionary, Crunk, Dave Eggers, Gawker, Merriam-Webster's, mouse potato, zombie on May 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m reading 2007’s The Best American Nonrequired Reading, a collection of (mostly) short fiction chosen by Dave Eggers’s 826 Valencia students. Included with the stories are random lists of silly stuffs collected from an assortment of magazines published throughout the past year. Best American Six-Word Memoirs, Best American Personals from Around the World, Best American [...]
Minimalist Poetry ?
Posted in Musings, Reads, tagged lighght, minimalist poetry, red on May 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was reading the latest issue of the New York Times Book Review when I came across this review of Aram Saroyan’s collection of minimalist poetry. Minimalist poetry? Hmph. Intrigued, though skeptical, because I know how I feel about minimalist writing (ick) but I think poetry is sometimes pretty. So I read [...]
