June 2011
1 post
Ten Things I Learned From Not Drinking for Ten...
A greater understanding of the often incomprehensible surliness most bartenders express.
I have used drinking as an excuse to eat like shit. I am perfectly capable of eating tacos and/or pizza rolls in sobriety (or when not drinking, more accurately) in bed or in a parking lot at 3 am.
People are annoying as fuck. This cannot be understated.
As long as I get a cold drink of any kind imma be...
February 2010
2 posts
January 2010
3 posts
what it is
I so meant to be the kind of person that manages to throw together an end-of-the-year wrap up of sorts, trying to contextualize what I’ve learned and what I’m putting behind me. But it just didn’t happen. Possibly because my birthday rolled into generalized holiday debauchery, followed by a merry kegmas followed by a happy drugmas and an out-of-hand new year’s eve at my...
Wow. This song snuck up at the last minute and...
December 2009
3 posts
Listen
Listen
November 2009
3 posts
this brings me back
Link-jumping and the powers of visually associative memory are things I take for granted in my day to day life, most certainly. What would a day be without them any more? But having link-hopped (from to the blog of awesomely talented Athertonlin) to Wild Combination director Matt Wolf I discovered on the second page a hauntingly familiar image - actor and editor Jim Lyons.
Background…I...
TWEETSGIVING and (gr)attitude
I guess I’ve been underblogging to spare you, my slim readership, from all the things I am ungrateful for (which I’m sure you’re grateful for!). Even though this year has SUCKED monumentally, there have been lots of highlights and plenty of adventures.
As someone that moves CONSTANTLY be it from city to city or house to house I finally moved into a place this year that I like,...
October 2009
10 posts
last night
All right, I’m racing against the clock here but this is the perfect way to relate this tale.
It actually begins ten years ago, the first time I went to France, just before starting my last year of high school. We went to museums, medieval towns, Paris, etc. and ended things with a week long home stay in the Basque region (Bayonne, if you long for narrative specificity like I sometimes...
yipes
Even though this is the…let’s see now…third time I have quit smoking in 12 months, it never fails that I end up forgetting how quickly you can go from nawing on the bottom lip to spiraling to the bottom of the well of depression. I remember being surprised that many quitters are prescribed wellbutrin to help with moods/cravings, but I apparently have problems with the...
current climes, tacos
Yesterday, I finally sampled the hora de feliz at the alterna-mexi-grocey-cum-taco-palace…from 3-7 on Monday-Friday they have fuckin tacos FOR A DOLLAR!! I had been wanting to go to the Primo’s taco stand on my walk home, but could have time travelliciously clicked my heels at them being closed…for it meant at long last poking my head into La Michoacana (sp., honkey alert). The...
ugh
So this particular incident of being senselessly fired has found me feeling much more ‘dumped’ than ‘vindicated’ to the tune of walking around like a zombie, smoking in the dark and eating frozen pizza and cookies in bed while watching Ben Hur. If only the hotness of young Chuck Heston could cure all wounds. However, it did salve several. I definitely recommend viewing a...
My other track du jour is by J.K. & Co. and...
Anchors Away by North Atlantic...
jeebs
I would not exactly say things are going great just at the moment.
Last night, I realized that my capacity for stress-binging is alive and well. One can of clam chowder, one piece of tart, a shitload of cookies, a pint of ice cream and a bag of Dorritos.
Let’s just say I am feeling pretty stressed about my employment status. I was almost fired before my vacation, begged to keep my job,...
September 2009
2 posts
slipping out the back
I am beyond pleased to report that in less than 24 hours, I will have arrived in the the quick-beating pulse of North Carolina’s Research Triangle! I don’t really give a toss what it’s famous for, but I will be hangin with broski and his maiden, celebrating scotchtoberfest to a no-doubt-ill-advised-degree, catchin some adventures (if not rays) at the beach and shopping, hanging...
times and seasons, a-changin'
The drips of sweat sliding down the brow of this ATX-y collective has slowed almost to nonexistence. Temperatures below 90 degrees are becoming less abnormal…during daylight! And I been rollin with changes of my own.
I have tried to hold back on the bee-log as I have been finding it hard to stop thinking about my work. I try to ensure that most of my communication outside of work is...
August 2009
7 posts
exuding
I kinda feel like stuff is pouring out of me right now. Good, bad, weird…I wish I could explain how it makes me feel. It feels good to be connected to so much energy and to see it go in and come out…it’s definitely making me feel alive. But maybe almost too much? Not too alive, but too extreme.
I was starting to think today that maybe I have drifted toward certain habits as...
Listen
WOW. This is kinda making my entire life right...
okay then!
I love not getting into blogging my weekend til Wednesday…it’s like I finally move past it, only to revisit it. Friday night looked to be a little on the unclimatic side…I went to see Ponyo on its opening date at the Alamo Village in lieu of actually forming Friday night plans. I have to confess…it sucked compared to every other Miyazaki film I’ve seen (eight...
FINAL FANTASY
I’ll start this out by saying I had a really unusually intense experience with playing Final Fantasy 3 about 700 years ago on SNES - extremely long and engaged gameplay, awesome music for MIDI, shockingly well-developed characters and the unusual proto-steampunk fusion of magic, science and fantastical sensibilities that so characterizes my current love of well-done Japanese fantasy. I was...
Basically, this started with my friend and I...
things, places, times
Last week, I went to Barton Springs, something I have managed to successfully avoid for my entire Austin life (coming up on four years). My usual approach to the absurd amount of heat that Texas can dole out has been to bear it with an aplomb that comes from growing up in a wet, hot farm in California (my mum recounted recently it would routinely climb to almost 110 in the summer). I generally...
July 2009
7 posts
crash. burn. quit.
So today is the first day of the third and final foray into smoke cessation.
Per my moderately successful previous attempt, I am keeping a pack with 3-4 cigarettes in my possession. Because the me of the past will always taunt the me of the present, with the me of the future cackle maniacally.
Okay, it’s four. I checked again. I am alternately holding and not holding an unlit one right...
tonight
Tonight, I went to the as-yet-unopened French bistro my friend Josh is working on opening. I checked it out, played betanque for the first time, had a delicious meal and straight-up MARVELED at the fact that the owners of this place had a frickin’ original Jean Cocteau drawing from the fifties. WOW. I must work there.
Then, my wife gave me a ride home and I had an amazing awakening to...
So it may seem a little cheaty to just post...
The song I want to be sweatily dancepartying to...
three months later...
Things are much the same! And yet, terribly, terribly different. Still fighting with my stupid fucking former friend about a cat. That shit is STUPID. I now hate all pets in addition to all people. Kidding! Kinda.
I moved…for non-hypberolically the 20th time in five years. It is muchmuchmuch closer to everything and as I set sail on a carless life, the convenience is wicked striking,...
April 2009
1 post
cats...more like dogs than we thought..more like...
Finally, I woke up in something that passes for a good mood.
Usually, getting out of bed is my least favorite part of the day (though daytime at large is for the birds…I like the nighttime). Which is why I usually seek to prolong the full get-up as long as possible. Most mornings find me the sole occupant of my (new) house, as the housemates are usually day-timing it in school and...