Jul 31
So yeah - long trying day today. I finally got Arizona license plates! Read all about it on my post at Phoenix Metroblog.
Jul 30
Jul 30
I really think the sky is broken.
It is raining. What’s that?
I leave for Detroit in like.. 48 hours..
Jul 28
I’m feeling a bit melancholy lately. There have been no artistic inspirations to speak of… I took a few snapshots yesterday and looked at the time stamps on the files and it had been over a month since I last took a photograph of any substance.
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I bought one of those knife sharpener things tonight. You know the kind that chefs use really fast before they cut up some veggies, and the kind the crazed killer uses while taunting one of his victims.. So I sharpened every non-serrated blade I could find. I mauled a poor orange with them all.. nice thin slices. I think I weirded Emitt out a bit when I was sharpening them.
Mr. Bigglesworth was seriously cracked out tonight.. I got some new kitty tunnel things because they were cheap and I want to replace the tunnels he’s had for years.. Of course he immediately dove in and goofed around in it.. then he came out and bit me, officially giving his approval. I’ve been watching him closely since our excitement the other night and I can’t decide if he looks and feels like he’s losing weight. He’s just so damn poofy it is hard to tell. He sat on the table while Emitt and I were watching Donnie Darko and tried to bust open the container that has the Catnip in it. Emitt brought Mr. B back a calendar of Hawaiian men. I think Mr. B is spoiled.
He just bit me again.
I’ve been reading Tennessee Williams’ ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ and I really enjoy the word mendacity. It sounds so fancy. Its also hard to NOT love a book/play that uses “poon-tang” in the dialogue. Mendacity and poon-tang. What’s not to like?
The cat is cracking out again.
I hope my sleep schedule gets back to normal soon…..lately I’ve been not able to fall asleep at a reasonable time nor wake up at a reasonable time. Its hard to function when everything seems out of control.
Important numbers today: 70, 431, 97, 10526, 12 & 48.
Lets play a game: Doom! Mortal drivel….
Jul 27
I HAVE A NEW APARTMENT!! I can’t move in until September 8th but still, there is now a light at the end of this particularly hellish-housing-tunnel. Jeremy and I are pretty lucky too - not only were we first on the list for September so we got what we wanted, but we locked in our rent a lot cheaper. The unit we have costs people $899/m if they signup today :O I dread to think what it is going to cost us when/if we renew this lease in a year.. High rent prices are a direct result of 70% of the apartment complexes in Tempe converting to condos. Pffft.
But I have a place to live!!
YAY!!
Jul 27
I can’t go without commenting about this news item generated from my homeland. Apparently some Bed-and-Breakfast in small town Kansas has been flying a rainbow flag in front of their establishment completely oblivious to its gay & lesbian community meaning:
Knight says the local Meade newspaper is trying to put him out of business and was frustrated when it ran an article about the flag and did not even bother to contact him regarding why he put it up. In fact, most people we spoke to in Meade said they didn’t even know what the flag meant until the article ran. But once word got around, the reaction was harsh. Knight says the radio station has called him threatening to remove the restaurant’s commercials if he does not remove the flag. A local pastor stopped by said it was equivalent to hanging women’s panties on a flag pole. When Knight jokingly said he might consider that – the preacher said he would have him arrested.
sigh I’m so glad that I don’t live in KS any more, especially after a local red-neck equated gays to Nazi’s (comparing anything to a Nazi is, in my book, a last ditch effort that shows you know nothing of the subject to which you are speaking)
Local resident, Keith Klassen says the flag is a slap in the face to the conservative community of Meade. “To me it’s just like running up a Nazi flag in a Jewish neighborhood. I can’t walk into that establishment with that flag flying because to me that’s saying that I support what the flag stands for and I don’t,” says Klassen.
Le sigh. For full commentary see the post The Only Rainbow Flag in Kansas on Queerty, or read the full article on KBSD’s website if you like.
Jul 27
The Scissor Sisters have new tunes out! It’s been stuck on iTunes repeat for the last two hours.. I lurve it!! Click below for downloady goodness. New Scissor Sisters: “Don’t Feel Like Dancing” [stereogum via towleroad & queerty]
Jul 23
Jul 23
When it comes to sharp objects I really should learn my lesson.
This evening, while preparing some foods I am cutting into cubes some day-old ciabatta bread when the motion of my cutting causes the 9″ chefs knife to tumble to the ground. Luckily I have a high dodge-factor and I swiftly avoided a trip to the Emergency Room.
Do you wish to continue? Press ‘A’ to continue or press ‘B’ to quit.
Pushes A
With my saving reflex I turn around to resume cubing said bread when my spinning torso causes the bread knife with the bread still attached to it to come tumbling down towards my (aptly) bare feet. My ability to dodge once again saves me from severed-toe-syndrome.
Do you wish to continue? Press ‘A’ to continue or press ‘B’ to quit.
Pushes A
So I’m still cubing this *(&@ing bread and I slip and the knife goes down and I cut my finger. Nary a worry!! It is but merely a flesh wound! I’m not even bleeding - I look at my finger and there -to my best approximation- a nano-meter of skin missing.
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Pushes A
Hahahahahaha!!!! I am totally saying out loud: I’ve fooled you this time mistress of doom! You’ll not send ME to the emergency room this day!! when I dump out one of the pans in the sink. Contained in said pan is a measuring spoon. Which promptly falls INTO THE GARBAGE DISPOSAL!
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Are you out of your fucking mind??
HOLDS DOWN B
Which caused me to run to the circuit-box and turn off everything but the stove and the air-conditioner before I stuck my hand into the gaping maw of doom. I will now take a rest from kitchen duties and go to the store to pick up a few things (and by a few things I mean a nice First-Aid kit).