February 2009
10 posts
What is your life worth if you can not laugh at...
Well… in all honesty life is probably worth about the same, regardless of laughter. With laughter life is just more amusing. Tolerable. Perhaps I say this because I do live my life with my foot so perpetually in my mouth? But hey!, I love to laugh. Maybe instead of getting frustrated, instead of becoming self-loathing, self-pittying, take a moment to observe the amusement which you can...
“‘I think a weekly magazine is a standing dinner date, or the fourth person in...”
– the New Shelton wet/dry
January 2009
22 posts
Andrew Bird & a car ride.
Yesterday some friends & I piled into two cars and headed down south. We drove to Boston’s Orpheum Theater. There we listened to Andrew Bird. The concert was exquisite. Andrew Bird takes to a stage and owns it. The concert was fabulous and undoubtably worth the 5 hour drive. Thank you to the resident-folks at Wheaton College’s Art & Eco Houses for putting us up for the evening....
I cite: Who you talking to? →
from the blog of Jodi Dean
Lippi Selk Bag →
birthday…
Black Cab Sessions →
Black Cab Sessions is essentially the best website ever (ever happens a bunch). Pretty much it goes like this:
an amazing musical performance
a crazy talented musician (or a cab full of ‘em)
a cabby
pissa acoustics
hookey camera work
Check it. I hope you love it.
sneaky peeky & tom
Check out this sneak peek of compai’s collection at their blog, here
gravity -- you bitch you
Today has been an epic fight against gravity and karma. I am loosing. There is snow & gravelly grit outside (traction reasons), this snow & grit likes to cling to shoe soles. I do not like tracking solegrit about the interior of buildings, so I kick my feet atgainst walls & what not to loosen the grit & all. Well, I just kicked a wall a little more vigorously then I meant to. Ouch,...
“Parenting isn’t a subject I often find myself considering but I just...”
– from crash, commenting on this article — Would and implanted chip help to keey my child safe? from timesonline.co.uk
Ray Kurzweil (http://www.kurzweilai.net) speaks of the coming of a technological singularity when folk and machine will be indistinguishable, and homogeneous… okay, sort...
dance dance dance dance, C. Brontë & social...
Danced all night until the break of day. I need to read Shirley for class on monday.
I adore the awkward social interaction of a dance. I go to a particularly tiny college on an island. It is wonderful. The pool of folk is limited, however. Escape from ‘em is hard… if not impossible?, we are around each other a lot. I’ve recently realized that being alone, here, is a really arbitrary sort of...
what is life for if not to laugh?
Went to DC for 36 hours the day after the innaguration.
Found someone else has moved in with my parents.
Flight craziness getting back to bar harbor — made it back.
Went to class.
Played an epic game of Monopoly
(& a less epic game of the ‘Land of the Lost’ board game)
Participated in a 2 hour snow ball fight.
Drank Hot Chocolate.
Thank you all —
we are so...
jane austen & sledding
Snowed all night! Woke up, classes delayed, went sledding with some friends on “bunker hill,” as the local kids call it. Awesome. Oh’, I also drew a picture for a 2d design class. Now I’m off to read Persuasion, by Jane Austen — paying particular attention to the persuading bits.
WatchNew video from Empire of the Sun, from their debut album ‘Walking on a Dream,’ which will be released in the uk & europe in febuaray. I think that it is already out in australia… america?
frozen bubbles
It is sort of cold here in Bar Harbor right now, -8°f. Spent some time with friends outside blowing bubbles. Yeah, they totally freeze at these temperatures, which is awesome. Soap bubbles sort of shred and turn to an oily sort of confetti. Magic.
“Of the 248 inmates inside the detention facility, 44 are refusing food — but 33...”
– At Guantanamo, 20% (or more) of Detainees are on Hunger Strike, Being Force-Fed - Boing Boing
“Look into your heart & do whatever the hell makes you happy — because...”
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mooni
full moon tonight
“more enjoyment, less pain”