February 2010
6 posts
here, rub this on these and then strap them to...
We went cross-country skiing at Tiffin Conservations Area on Saturday. It was my first time ever and Sherry’s first time in 15 years. It is like fast hiking in snow with occasional falling down. I snowplowed down a gentle slope and Sherry announced that I am now ready for downhill skiing. I demurred. Later I fell and smacked my left knee on my ski but it was still a whole pile of fun. The...
Feb 22nd
4:30 pm February 14th. Express check-out line at...
The line is packed with well-dressed people buying flowers and chocolate and gourmet food items. Scallops and prosciutto. Fancy cheeses. Romance and its attendant consumption are in the air. I am buying 1.5 litres of Miracle-Whip mayonnaise substitute, and 1.5 litres of Miracle-Whip mayonnaise substitute alone. Their eyes are asking if it’s for erotic purposes and my eyes are saying...
Feb 14th
borrelli told me to listen to this: metric –...
I’m listening to albums that Borrelli has recommended and posting my thoughts and feelings and snappy witticisms and paranoid conspiracy theories about those albums here. I am not a dancing man. I am not comfortable with my body. I am not adept at initiating and modulating the sorts of gyrations and undulations required for the act. I don’t have the guts to just get out of my own head and...
Feb 9th
impending 7-disc Thrush Hermit box set to include... →
WHERE IS MY WALLET I CAN’T FIND MY WALLET.
Feb 7th
Lifehacker advocates bathroom match-burning to... →
There’s a guy at the office who does this and it freaks me the hell out. I’d really much rather a bathroom smelled like feces than fire. At least there’s supposed to be feces in a bathroom.
Feb 5th
borrelli told me to listen to this: neko case –...
I’m listening to albums that Borrelli has recommended and posting my thoughts and feelings and fanciful speculations and darkest fears about those albums here. This album’s thesis is that a woman is a fierce beast or a machine with fast-moving parts or an area of closed, circular fluid motion rotating in the same direction as the Earth’s rotation. You shouldn’t turn your...
Feb 5th