The photocopier downstairs uses toner that smells like watermelon.
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07:28:17 PM,
Wednesday 27 August 2003
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Oh wow. The radio is playing "Bird on a Wire."
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04:41:13 PM,
Wednesday 27 August 2003
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On the street I passed a woman who was viciously yelling, "I'm an AGNOSTIC!"
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04:40:26 PM,
Wednesday 27 August 2003
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There's this person who is annoying and occasionally rude, but all apparently in an attempt to be nice. I can't explain this to them. How should I act? So far I am smiling and nodding.
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07:06:32 PM,
Tuesday 26 August 2003
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Oh my word: Dead Poet Slash!
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06:44:11 PM,
Tuesday 26 August 2003
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After logging out of my Hotmail account I get to see the MSN homepage. Usually good for a laugh, but today it featured a repugnant quiz: "Is your guy too girly?".
It's riding the metrosexual wave (another marketing concept camouflaged as sociology), of course. I was struck by the way it seems to recruit women into the Masculinity Police Force. I always kind of assumed that this was something men did to each other (by means of fag jokes et al.) and that the female contribution was comparatively minor. I'm starting to wonder about that, though, especially when I consider how massively important getting laid is to men in the most vulnerable age group for this crap.
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02:46:28 PM,
Tuesday 26 August 2003
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Reverse interview: Keats vs. Donne -- who wins?
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12:36:58 PM,
Monday 25 August 2003
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The other night I went to a dive bar and met two recent Oberlin grads who had double-majored in English/Classics. We got all into it. My roommate was amused -- I think she felt a little like an ethnographer or something.
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04:41:58 PM,
Saturday 23 August 2003
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Does anybody else think that there are racial connotations to the use of "ghetto" as an adjective? I think it's pretty much on a par with straight people calling pathetic things "gay". This also reminds me why I need to quit calling dumb things "retarded".
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04:50:20 PM,
Friday 22 August 2003
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So I've often felt sort of unsuccessfully girly -- I'm amused by makeup and whatnot but don't really know how to do it right. My roommate showed me how to "blow out" my hair last night (basically blowdrying your hair in a fancy way that is supposed to make it look good). It's like those dreams where you discover a new room in your house, except this house is made of sugar and spice and everything that helps me internalize my oppression.
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01:44:37 PM,
Thursday 21 August 2003
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Rab and I just came up with the phrase "sucking at the gnarly d. of sonic youth" to describe westing by musket and sextant and I think it is a fair and accurate assessment.
Also: "Gnarly D.", government sponsored reformed skater bear who tells kids to stay off drugs, duuuude. (That was 100% Rab. "Gnarly D. -- my anti-drug.")
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01:07:55 PM,
Thursday 21 August 2003
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Damian: "There is nothing like drinking a bottle of Chesapeake brand vodka and waking up the next morning with your spine aching to be released from your body."
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12:59:59 PM,
Thursday 21 August 2003
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Up in the pine tree
Red squirrel looking down at me
I am losing
Control of the language again
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11:32:16 AM,
Thursday 21 August 2003
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A Complete Guide to the Work of Troy McClure.
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04:26:05 PM,
Wednesday 20 August 2003
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HAMSTERA!
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12:03:00 PM,
Wednesday 20 August 2003
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College radio DJs are hilarious. This one is irksomely soothing and has terribly proper grammar, e.g. "The station to which you are tuned is ...". Yesterday I heard one with a bad little punk rock attitude stop himself from cussing on-air. "Eff you" he said to a complaining caller. How punk is that?
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01:40:36 PM,
Tuesday 19 August 2003
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Watched Notorious C.H.O. last night. Even when she gets preachy at the end of her shows I totally don't mind.
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12:34:19 PM,
Tuesday 19 August 2003
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Cary Tennis rules.
Here's the good part:
"About all that other stuff, I don't know, maybe the intense bond is what Aristophanes was talking about in Plato's Symposium, about how true love consists of finding our other half. "Human nature," he tells the crew at Agathon's crib, "was originally one and we were a whole, and the desire and pursuit of the whole is called love."
Right. I know, that doesn't help much. But maybe if you read the whole thing it would. It's not really that long. I personally like the Jowett translation."
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12:53:58 PM,
Monday 18 August 2003
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Whenever I search the SF Public Library's web-based catalog, my session expires, often before I get a chance to get to the information I'm seeking. Why does this happen? Would a large number of inactive searchers overwhelm the capacity of their system? Is it some kind of security thing? (Not that it would make sense, but most of the really annoying web-based problems I have seem to stem from security measures.)
To those who know or who can guess: please explain. In small words.
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07:14:50 PM,
Friday 15 August 2003
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<];3=....
yarrrr.
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12:33:06 PM,
Friday 15 August 2003
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Well. I guess dating the Boy Who Would Never Put Out affected me more than I thought.
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12:01:16 PM,
Friday 15 August 2003
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YEEEAAAH MUTHAFUCKAAAAZ!!!!
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11:49:39 AM,
Friday 15 August 2003
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Joanna: "Well look, you have to factor in the fact that he is basically an asshole and won't go out of his way to do anything remotely helpful."
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06:54:21 PM,
Thursday 14 August 2003
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Amazing collection of banana stickers.
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04:09:37 PM,
Thursday 14 August 2003
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Anybody else hear the phrase "man-purse" (often used to refer to messenger bags) and think "ballsac"?
(This also reminded me of the "Balzac" pun, which is even funnier when you include his first name and say, "Honorary Ballsac".)
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01:47:23 PM,
Thursday 14 August 2003
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Brezsny's horoscope for me this week predicted a life-changing dream, and last night's dreams were stylish although perhaps not substantial.
The first dream that I remember involved my first boyfriend (with bigger titties than I remember -- wonder what's up with his gender dysphoria) and seemed to indicate that I was over him. (By "over him" I mean "perhaps able to hold a conversation with him that doesn't devolve into me yelling at him". Maybe I should give him a call and ask if he's gotten those implants yet.)
After that Sumana and I were trying to get someplace via public transit. It was a hassle. (Big surprise.)
Then, via some strange concatenation of events, I was on a trip to Williamsburg in Brooklyn. (I have never been to New York. Evidently I spend to much time on Gawker.) When we got there it was some kind of weird rural hipster commune -- like a small town except all the trucker hats were worn "ironically". Also there were hedges with narrow muddy paths between them and racks and racks of thrift store dresses around. I didn't get a chance to look though -- I was there to take acid and expand my spiritual horizons. (I don't really do acid anymore in real life.) My companion, whose identity was hazy, was taking it in hamburger form. (I would have at least expected chili.) "You wanna get permafried?" asked the blond semi-toothless hipster (in a trucker hat). Companion didn't answer, just kept scarfing. My dose came on some kind of jiggling orange thing. I took it and then I woke up. (Heh.)
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12:06:02 PM,
Thursday 14 August 2003
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$$MEOW$$
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08:01:16 PM,
Wednesday 13 August 2003
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This perfectly echoes my sentiments about tater tots.
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07:55:56 PM,
Wednesday 13 August 2003
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I have a new blanket. It is large and plush (like a stuffed animal) and has a large picture of a peacock on it. It reminds me of the silky ears of rabbits.
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01:19:17 PM,
Wednesday 13 August 2003
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I don't know if I've talked about how much I love graff writing on here, but holy shit, I totally do, and check out this neat toy!
Virtual Boxcar Painter.
Via Artcrimes. Shepard Fairey says Artcrimes is the best graff site ever and goddamnit if you don't listen to what he says than I cannot help you.
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11:26:46 AM,
Wednesday 13 August 2003
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Barbara Ehrenreich talking some trash in issue 20 of Bitch: "But you know, the right is extremely two-faced on the issue of government. They're always saying how bad big government is, while they increase the size of the military. And also, over the years, [they've built up] the repressive domestic functions -- law enforcement, war on drugs, incarceration of everybody. So, when they say they don't want big government, they mean they just don't want government that actually helps people."
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11:06:12 AM,
Tuesday 12 August 2003
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I think maybe I need to eat real food and not so much of this ramen crap.
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05:50:54 PM,
Monday 11 August 2003
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Wow, this person at PG&E is really helpful. That's great!
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03:32:40 PM,
Monday 11 August 2003
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Sloth World.
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01:22:14 PM,
Monday 11 August 2003
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Found myself petting my coffee mug again just now. Maybe Meret Oppenheim had a point.
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01:04:03 PM,
Monday 11 August 2003
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Sumana pointed out the t-mobile funny message generator. The best so far: He/she was so ugly that whenever they would go into the bank, the electric eye would water. It's good for so many reasons.
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12:50:00 PM,
Monday 11 August 2003
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