SUP funny vid

Snow sucks, especially when it is taller then the ground clearance of your car. Low clearance; good for cornering, bad for driving in winter.

I'd also like to comment on the time warp I just recently experienced. I believe there is something wrong with the fabric of the space-time continuum. I just spent an hour shovelling outside. But it didn't feel like simply an hour, it felt like three. Where is the justice? I spend what felt like almost my entire afternoon shovelling, yet barely any time went by... but when I take a shower that feels like only ten minutes, I'm sucked into the hot water vortex for at least 30.

the only thing I can think of is that frozen water slows time down, and hot water speeds it up...
take that, physics!

Hey, couple of questions:

Ani DiFranco is coming to the Winspear on July 28th, and I was wondering if anyone is interested in joining me. It should be an AWESOME show. (tickets are something like $40) let me know soon.

And... the week of April 3-9 is rather big for performances etc. Is anyone interested in (or already) going to the Metric show on Thursday the 6th (tix $25), the Hawksley Workman show on Friday the 7th (tix $22) and/or Jello Biafra at the Horowitz on Sunday the 9th (no idea what the price...)

oh, aaand... Angela Davis is coming on the 28th (march) to do a talk at the Horowitz (part of the Revolutionary speaker series) any takers??

Or, what would you do in this circumstance? Trevor Tchir (of whom I am a big fan) is playing at the new Sidetrack on the 29th before leaving on a cross canada tour. He's in competition with Michael Franti at the Horowitz where he'll be showing a new documentary and playing a solo acoustic set. which should I go to???


Plus, this coming Tuesday, the 21st, is March of the Penguins and Murderball movie/doc night at SUB stage.

so much to see and do, and all I had to do was skim a few events pages to find all that out... Anyone interested in joining me for any of this?

there's only one tempestuous tsunami and he goes by the name Water Prince-Daisani (aka R.K.B)

Oh Alison, if only I can think like you can right now because I feel tired. I find it a positive signal when I start daydreaming of myself, lying back in a patio chair while my eyes take in a vast, deep blue ocean view. Maybe I'd be sipping on a tall glass of cranberry/rasberry juice while reading an amazing book that I knew for certain was amazing ahead of time; ignoring that tempestuous tsunami or hurricane racing towards me out in the distance. The bliss! I'd ease back into the chair, reassured - just for that brief moment - that my agnostic ways did not result in my fiery damnation. Ah...nothing like daydreaming.

hmm... my feeling of mild weirdness has progressed to nausea (though I doubt stomach illness is the cause of my introspection) excellent... so much for the pile of parties and bar bashes goin' on tonight.
hooray internet, my sick-night companion, where I can catch up on the ever changing world news and look up obscure things like how to preserve lemons for Moroccan cooking

This, however, caught my eye (from McSweeny's):

FURTHER EXCERPTS FROM THE DIARY OF AN ASPIRING DEATH-METAL
FRONTMAN. BY JESSE SINGAL

1/14/06

I am refreshed, Diary—refreshed and ready to finish my tale. I finally reached Richmond last night. Exhausted, I rang the doorbell, and my mother answered in a ratty nightgown and more curlers than she has strands of hair.

"Daniel," she said flatly.

"Deathblow."

"OK. Deathblow."

"I'm home, Mother."

"I can see that. Sorry I didn't accept any of your collect calls." She produced a cigarette, took a long drag. The smoke hung in the air like the singeing exhalations of a dragon (or perhaps a wyvern, if wyverns breathe fire). "But the important thing is that you're home." I brushed passed her, wanting nothing more than to collapse onto my bed.

"Oh, and Dan—I mean Deathblow?" I hadn't even reached the stairs.

"Yes, Mother?"

"I sold your guitar on eBay because it, uh, reminded me of you."

My world began to swim. I grabbed the banister for support, ready to spin around and deliver onto my mother a smorgasbord of invectives that would have left even the most scatologically inclined diner sated. But no. Not this time. Somewhere, there was a mountain of ash consisting of all the bridges I had burned since Sockhop Babykill Redux had gone down. I did not intend on adding to its sorry mass.

"That's ... OK, Mother. I guess I'll have to buy another one." And with that I trudged upstairs to the comfort of my room and the catharsis of my beloved diary.

yeah, way to go "centrallized bigness." another phrase that hit my list this week was "opportunistically nomadic" rather fabulous if you ask me.

did you know that the specific epithet for Emu is latin for "fast-footed New Hollander?" pretty funny if you ask me

and other randomness... if you would like to make preserved lemons, all you have to do is poke holes in lemons and surround them with salt. Who would want to do that? salty lemons??

I'm feeling mildly weird at the moment (perhaps an overdose of chocolate cookies and robins' eggs is responsible), but I've been thinking lately about what exactly I'm doing with my life... and, uh, I'm not sure! excellent. I mean, it's really no big deal, but I feel weird to have suddenly dropped all the activism and advocacy of my old job, run to the forest and then disappeared overseas for a bit to come back and work for a laboratory to then start my grad studies (I got in! - woo!) ... what do I want?? advocacy, academia, some weird combination of those, something else? how do I stop feeling un-genuine about this? I just don't know... what I'm doing, where I'm going, if this is right, or if I'm only doing the easy thing because it's, well, easy. ... not that grad studies is going to be easy, but it's systematic, logical, and that seems easy to me, somehow. Far less unfathomable than the rest of my future, granted we aren't expected to know what we're doing for the rest of our lives at the age of 23 (thankfully), but I really don't know. I have a semi-sure direction in mind, but that doesn't guarantee success... and it doesn't guarantee happiness either. and all I can think to say to this is "woo hoo!" how do you figure anything out from that? bah.

there's nothing more redeeming than an anus that's reaming

my penis is thrusting between us.