So remember how I have been waking up to the peppy, upbeat, GWBush-free oldies station every morning? Because I dunno, I guess I have this bizarre aversion to starting my day with another solemn report about more people killed in our illegal occupation of Iraq? Yeah. I’m getting dressed and stuff just before eight when […]
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duh
Posted in Uncategorized on January 23, 2004 | Comments Off on duh
ka ki ku ke ko
Posted in Uncategorized on January 22, 2004 | Comments Off on ka ki ku ke ko
Japanese class began last night. On the way there, our BART train went out of service and we had about fifteen minutes of delay, making us fifteen minutes late for class. It didn’t really matter, though. I like our sensei. We hopped right in with some pronunciation drills and learning to write the hiragana alphabet. […]
humor in bad behavior
Posted in Uncategorized on January 21, 2004 | 1 Comment »
We went to training last night. I was so happy to finally be at class and to not be experiencing stupid hip/knee soreness. Because of the slowness and infrequency of SF Muni, we were a half hour late to the first class, but managed to jump in to practice sword technique with the wooden bokken. […]
pessimism
Posted in Uncategorized on January 21, 2004 | 3 Comments »
Sobering statistics. Makes you real terrified for the future of America, doesn’t it? Well, it should. You should be horrified. You should be outraged, clamoring for this “president” to be impeached at once. Possibly even tried in international courts, like Milosevic. But this ain’t gonna happen. Most Americans are wilfully ignorant, most get all of […]
my lost family found
Posted in Uncategorized on January 21, 2004 | 1 Comment »
My aunt recently sent me a DVD she’d had made from old color Super 8 movies that were found in my grandfather’s house after he died. These movies were made in the 1940s, during the Second World War, and star various members of my family on my mother’s side. My beautiful young grandma (pictured in […]
Coraçao Vagabundo
Posted in Uncategorized on January 19, 2004 | 3 Comments »
I love the iTunes Music Store. But it’s too bad you can’t return songs. I accidentally downloaded a live version of “Cars” by Gary Numan, and like most things on (non-acoustic) live albums, it sounded like ass. Oh well. Plus, they didn’t even HAVE the studio version. Delete! I just love that I can get […]
yaaaarrr
Posted in Uncategorized on January 18, 2004 | Comments Off on yaaaarrr
Albums that were just generously given to me as gifts by a friend for no reason other than that I asked for them and that are now making their way into my iTunes: Black Eyed Peas – Elephunk Outkast – the Love Below Wyclef Jean – the Preacher’s Son New music is good. ‘Specially when […]
decade
Posted in Uncategorized on January 18, 2004 | 4 Comments »
Tamara took me to my first opera experience last night: “The Barber of Seville.” We had a good time and I really liked the production. It was also interesting being surrounded by so many rich people, many of them wearing animal pelts. I would say it’s one of the only places in SF where furs […]
descending lists of things
Posted in Uncategorized on January 18, 2004 | 2 Comments »
Didn’t do the Friday Five, so I lifted this quiz from Olivia… 10 bands or singers you’ve seen live: 1. unwound 2. the nation of ulysses 3. dee-lite 4. low 5. mark kozelek 6. breeders 7. fugazi 8. seaweed 9. pulp 10. elliott smith
week’s end
Posted in Uncategorized on January 16, 2004 | Comments Off on week’s end
This morning I got out of bed just after Brian left for work. I fed the cats and immediately thereafter popped in the A.M. yoga DVD and did the easy 20-minute routine. My goal is to work the persistent dull pain out of my hip and sit-bone joints. I am looking forward to my Sunday […]