Stupid Stupid Stupid Survey

1. Have you had sex in the past 24 hours?
No. And that's a very personal question. This survey is suspect.

2. Are you gay?
No. Again, though, personal. You're nosy, survey. Get a hobby. Like filling out surveys on your blog. That's a good one.

3. Do you have hairy legs?
Sometimes, but not today. You see, my leg hair is very fair and fine, so it's hard to remember.

4. Do you smoke anything?
No, not anymore. I used to smoke cigarettes. It's a terrible terrible habit. But did you know that in the 90s, UMaine had one of the highest populations of female smokers on campus?

5. Do you like monkeys?

Yeah, I think they're cute.

6. How many fillings do you have?
Too many. I hate flossing. I tried to buy those stick and floss thingies but it hasn't encouraged me.

7. Would you rather swim in the ocean or a lake?
I like to play in the ocean waves but I like to swim and lolligag in the lakes.

8. Have you ever licked one of those rectangular batteries?
Yes. I just did it recently because we had a bunch in the fridge and didn't know which ones worked and which ones didn't.

9. Have you ever read the Bible?
Yes.

10. Did you ever go to Sunday School?
No, CCD during the week at the Catholic church, youth group on Sundays at the Protestant one.

11. Do you wear a lot of black?
I wear a lot of everything.

12. Did you ever bring a weapon to high school?
WTF is this question. Of course not. Ew. Freak survey writer.

13. Have you ever hugged a tree?
Duh, who hasn't? I literally have and I figuratively proudly do.

14. Do you know what a sphincter actually is?
A sphincter says what.

15. Describe your hair?
Is not a question. But my hair is red and chin length and very pretty no matter what that guy at work said the other day. Jerk.

16. Are you a wildebeast?

stupid

17. Do you like to have fun?
No, I prefer to sleep.

18. Do you like drama?
No, but drama finds me. Either by phone, text message, email or myspace message. Seriously, drama, back off. I just don't feel like it right now. I'm not in the mood for drama. And then, of course, as soon as you tell drama to back off, that seems to be an invitation for - guess what - more drama.

19. Have you ever taken a bong hit?
What's a bong.

20. Do you like mayonnaise?
Yeah, light and in moderation.

21. Are you afraid to die?
I don't know. Way to get all esoteric two questions after the bong hit question. Freak.

22. Do you like playing in leaves?
Oh so very very much.

23. Do you like lyme tics?
Stupid

24. Have you ever peed your pants as an adult?
No, thankfully.

26. Are you an adult?
Yes

27. Do you think you have a good handle on spelling?
ye

28. Ever won a spelling bee?
3rd grade Mrs Morton's class spelling bee. Conversely, I was terrible at multiplication and she sort of used public humiliation to learn them. You had to answer in front of the class and go up every day until you did it. Nick Adams was the only one worse than me. And you know what? I still can't do multiplication in my head. But I have this nice little pocket calculator, as all children do.

29. Do you ever eat because your depressed?
That question makes me want a choc chip brownie.

30. Are you a television addict?
Huh? I missed the question. I was watching "Countdown".

31. Do you think O.J. is guilty?
Of the murder or the Las Vegas break in? Yes to both.

32. Do you enjoy spending time with your mother?
Yes.

33. Have you ever had sex in a hot tub?
Is that a drink?

34. On a swing?
Like Samantha? No. I saw that episode and when they fell off it looked like it hurt.

35. Do you like Elvis?
Oh yes. Handsome.

36. Do you enjoy watching animals "do it" on the Discovery channel?
It's funny.

37. Ever been hit on at the zoo?
No

38. Have you ever had sex with a total stranger?
Can you really consider anyone you've had sex with a total stranger? I mean... you've seen them naked. You probably can't say that you've experienced that with even the majority of your friends. (This was the other person's answer but it's so funny I'm keeping it)

39. Do you enjoy the calming effects of turkey?
No, since I'm a vegetarian.

40. I deleted this for a reason. what's the reason?
whatev

41. Are you a sugar freak?
Brownie is still on my brain

42. When you hear a knock on the door, do you think "oh no! It's the cops!"?
Yeah. That's a real problem in South Wey. Cops knocking on doors.

43. Ever been arrested?
No.

44. Ever commit a crime and gotten away with it, like O.J, did?
O.J. again?! WTF!

45. Actually, do you like orange juice?
Yes with calcium

46. What sign are you?
Cancer.

47. Ever do the party boy dance in front of the elderly?
ugh, this survey

48. Where do you wish you were right now?
in the tropics

49. Did you enjoy this?
Not really.

Repost - Boston's Jan Brady Complex

SoHa: Boston’s Jan Brady Complex

6/13/06

There's a new housing complex which can be seen from the southeast expressway. It's called the SoHa lofts. Hmmm...SoHa and lofts. What does that remind me of? Oh, right. New York City.

But wait, I thought I was in Boston, not New York.

We are not New York. We don't need to try to be New York in order to be great. We are great on our own. We are a commodity that New York could never be. New York is something because it's everything. Boston is something because it is Boston and not anywhere else. THIS is what makes us better. We need to get rid of the Jan Brady complex and love our freckles and blonde hair and stop trying to wear a riduculous curly brown wig.

"SoHa" I assume stands for "South Harbor." It's as if calling it almost Soho will make it instantly feel as though it is Soho. You know what? Soho is the seventies.

Why not be innovative and create something through originality and not mimicry? When has earnest mimicry for commercial purposes ever been successful? Never.

This is the result of inorganic bohemian replication in the form of zillion dollar loft apartments.

The real mini-Soho is probably somewhere like Dorchester or Somerville, where the poor artist can actually afford to live - until the gentrification is complete, at least.

Repost - Prose Poem by L.L.

Prose poem from L.L.

The Abominable Game
6/6/96

Absynthe this mass destruction of the way she went about the world clucking as if her lascivious feathers drenched in brandy were superior to the den I sink myself into now and did before she pretended to love me.
I sent my daft friend to relay a subtle blow to her with the inquisition of fire. The eyes she burned me with were returned with my flickering, mirthful smile.
She watched as my chestnut enchantress and the subtle friend and I exited the carriage for our great shipride to abandonment.
Each time I pretended to love her by piquing interest, I blew fiberglass venom into her open eyes and it vaguely erupted, though quickly quelled, her awesome and victorious anger.
I will win this abominable game and keep running. There is nothing left to lose.
The world and its mother are cruel and unfaithful. I see no point in giving kindness without frugality, as the Way tends to turn that way as well.
Leave this misguided preparedness for water survival and tenderness. No man will respect it. No beautiful woman cares for anything but your vague, aloof appeal.
A cosmic happening inside is the only validity to a man worth anything in the world and any man abandoning this wisdom has nothing to lose because he has nothing to begin with. I have left nothing and began with everything.

Repost : Vegan-izing the Taco Dinner Kit

Repost : Taco Dinner Kit Gone Vegan

6/9/06

Probably something down low on the ingredient list is not vegan, but for the most part, I made a vegan dinner toinhgt using Old El Paso's soft taco dinner kit.

Ingredients:

Old El Paso Soft Taco Dinner Kit

one can of black beans, drained

one can of corn, drained

tabasco sauce

tomato juice

chopped onion (optional)

shredded cheese, soy or good (optional)

One packet of Minute Brown Rice

Instructions:

set oven to 350

Mix salsa packet, 1/2 c. of tomato juice, tabasco sauce (to taste), corn and black beans and sautee until the tomatoey stuff bubbles, stirring occasional, remove from heat

On a cookie sheet, scoop out about 2-3 tbs of black bean mixture onto half flour tortilla, add some chopped onion and about 1 heaping tsp. of shredded cheese. Fold the other half of the tortilla on top. Fit about five tortillas per cookie sheet. Bake for 25 minutes in oven.

Cook rice as directed, drain, return to empty sauce pan, add seasoning mix, 1/2 c. of tomato juice, stir, cover until ready to serve.

Again with surveys???

Silly Survey again!!!!!! Brain candy is necessary during these days, give me a break, okay?

Body:
[x] You know how to make a pot of coffee
[x] You keep track of dates using a calendar
[] You own more than one credit card
[ ] You know how to change the oil in a car
[x] You've done your own laundry
[x] You vote in every election (president)
[x] You can cook for yourself
[x ] You think politics are exciting

TOTAL SO FAR: 6

[ ] You show up for school/college/work every day early
[x] You always carry a pen in your bag/purse/pocket
[ ] You've never gotten a detention
[ ] You have forgotten your own birthday at least once
[x] You like to take walks by yourself/or with 1 other person
[x] You've watched talk shows
[x] You know what 'credibility' means without looking it up
[x] You drink coffee at least once a week (or tea)

TOTAL SO FAR: 12

[x] You know how to do the dishes
[x] You can count to 10 in another language
[] When you say you're going to do something you do it…
[x] Your parent(s) trust you
[ ] You can mow the lawn
[x] You can make adults laugh without being stupid
[ ] You remember to water the plants
[x ] You study when you HAVE to
[x ] You pay attention at school/college/work.
[x ] You remember to feed your pets..

TOTAL SO FAR: 19

[x] You can spell 'experience' without looking it up
[] You work out on a regular basis
[ ] The people at Starbucks know you by name
[x ] Your favorite kind of food is take out
[x ] The first thing you do when you wake up is get caffeine
[x ] You can go to the store without getting something you don't need
[ x] You understand political jokes the first time they are said
[x] You can type quickly

TOTAL SO FAR: 25

[] You have realized that the weather forecast changes every hour
[ ] Your only friends are from your place of employment
[ ] you have been to a Tupperware party
[ ] You have realized that no adult will take you seriously unless you are over the age of 25 and have a job
[ x] You have more bills than you can pay
[ x] Most of your friends are older than you & are married.
[x] You can say no to staying out all night
[x] You use the internet every day
[ ] Your wardrobe hasn't changed in a while
[x] You can read a book and actually finish it

TOTAL ADDED UP: 30 is the age you will marry

Well, I better get planning. I have only got about 7 months!

Repost: Bridge the Bartender

A bunch of Experimentations in Libations

6/7/06

So, I'm in love with the $.99 sparkling Italian mineral water called "Blue" from Trader Joe's. Today I made the following:

Mojito

chopped frent mint leaves

1 tbs sugar

1 tbs lime flavored mineral water

and also

1 jigger light rum

ice

Mineral water

In a small bowl, mash the mint into the sugar mixture to make a minty syrup. Strain the syrup into a glass. And 1 jigger of light rum, ice and then fill up the glass with more mineral water. Stir. Add one or two more small mint leaves for garnish.

Lemon Thyme Vodka

4 leaves of lemon thyme, finely chopped

1 jigger of vodka

ice

lemon mineral water

Add the thyme and vodka to a glass. Stir. Add ice then fill the rest of the glass with water. Stir again. Serve.

Fizzy Mary (a sister to Bloody Mary)

4 finely chopped lemon thyme leaves

1 jigger of vodka

Ice

Tomato juice

Lemon mineral water

Add the thyme and vodka to a glass. Stir. Add ice. Fill glass 2/3 high with mineral water, fill the glass the rest of the way with tomato juice. Stir & serve.

Book Worm Quiz

Bookworm quiz from MSNBC, with explanations:
(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21790674/)

	1. What National Football League team is named after a poem?
		The San Francisco Forty-Niners
		The New York Jets
		The Detroit Lions
		The Baltimore Ravens Edgar Allen Poe is from Baltimore and his most famous poem is "The Raven", which makes them my favorite NFC team.
	2. Who is widely considered to be the first African-American author to publish a book in the New World?
		Phillis Wheatley
		Frederick Douglas
		Sojourner Truth
		Ralph Ellison Phillis Wheatley published a book of poems in the pre-Revolutionary time. She was from Boston and one of the buildings at UMass Boston is named after her.
	3. On whose Concord, MA, land did Henry David Thoreau build his cabin on Walden Pond?
		His own
		The government’s, in an act of protest
		Ralph Waldo Emerson’s
		Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Kind of like "You, Me and Dupree" HDT was the freeloading, free spirit, hippie outlaw friend. Indeed, he is the FIRST freeloading, free spirit, hippie, outlaw friend in America. The first in the world was probably Socrates or Lao Tzu.
	4. Who is the most recent American recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature?
		William Faulkner
		Thomas Pynchon
		Toni Morrison
		No American has ever won the Nobel Prize for Literature Sadly, I know this answer not from teaching, college, graduate school or being a librarian or even from devoutly listening to NPR every day. No, in fact, I know this answer because I heard it from Oprah, whose favorite author is Toni Morrison.
	5. Which of the following books was written based on interviews conducted for Playboy magazine?
		"The Autobiography of Malcolm X," by Alex Haley
		"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," by Hunter S. Thompson
		"How to Make Love Like a Porn Star," by Jenna Jameson and Neil Strauss
		"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," by Tom Wolfe This is the one I got wrong.
	6. Which American poet also delivered over 2,000 babies?
		Robert Frost
		William Carlos Williams
		Anne Sexton
		Emily Dickinson This I knewdue to logic & vague biographical backgrounds. Anne Sexton was too selfish (to put it bluntly and very insensitively. I am joking. She was a fantastic confessor). Emily Dickinson was agoraphobic. Robert Frost was a hermit, at least some times. And - OH YEAH! But of course DOCTOR WmCsWms!!!!!
	7. Which American writer was made a commander of the Legion of Honor in 1986 by the French government?
		William Faulkner
		James Baldwin
		Thomas Pynchon
		Saul Bellow I didn't know this one, either. I am going to Google it right now. See below for the explanation.
	8. Which novel contains a famous scene in which an escaped slave crosses the Ohio River on ice floes?
		"Moby-Dick"
		"Uncle Tom’s Cabin"
		"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
		"Invisible Man" EFFING UNCLE TOM"S CABIN SUX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But I read it, albeit reluctantly, for American Women's Literature
	9. Which American writer had to hop freight trains to get to college because he couldn’t afford a ticket?
		Mark Twain
		John Steinbeck
		Ralph Ellison
		Alex Haley The Invisible Man would be the only one to be that stealth
	10. Which writer, though associated with rural New England, was actually born in San Francisco?
		Henry David Thoreau
		Sarah Orne Jewett
		Wallace Stevens
		Robert Frost I knew it wasn't Sarah Orne Jewett because she barely left Maine. I knew it wasn't HDT because SF wasn't developed enough back then, at least not as an American territory. And Wallace Stevens isn't so much associated with the rural-ness of New England, even though he's from around here. It is the man that stops by the woods on snowy evenings and travel on roads less traveled that it so closely associated with rural New England. So I picked Frost and I was right.

stargirl

Stargirl and Love, Stargirl - Great books for the soul, mind and heart




I know that Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli is considered a young adult novel, but that book, and its sequel, Love Stargirl, are too wonderful to just stick with the younger among us. Sometimes you just need one of those altruistic, simple, beautiful "Young Adult Book" stories to make you feel better. Stargirl, and its new sequel Love, Stargirl, by Jerry Spinelli, have both managed to find me precisely when I needed them.

The History:

After September 11, I read Sharon Creech's "Walk Two Moons" and Kate DiCamillo's "Because of Winn Dixie". Both are sweet, tender, thoughtful books (attached in some form or another to the Newberry, too) which I loved loved loved. I highly recommend them. After reading those two books, I craved more quality YA books.

At the time I found the first Stargirl, I was working at my first job after graduating from college at the Best Elementary School in the World helping . (One of the toughest PITAs to work with, to say the least. The poor thing.)

I was also working at evil Borders in the children's books department. Those two things gave me ready access to YA books.

The Set-Up:

It was dreary, frigid February in 2002. A stupid, fat, ugly, shoe salesman with bad skin and a receding hairline had tragically, embarrassingly broken up with me. Ugh. I was house sitting a big old black lab for a family I knew from the school. They'd gone on a skiing vacation. The house was idyllic, set in the middle of an open field on a rolling hill in quintessentially Maine Freeport. And that's when I first opened up Jerry Spinelli's "Stargirl."

The Story:

And there wasn't a better balm for a freshly dumped girl of independence than a YA novel about one of the most independent, albeit far kinder than me, freshly dumped girls in a story, the lovely Stargirl.

The narrator of Stargirl is the dumpee boyfriend, a regular old kid named Leo who gets flabbergasted by the presence of homeschool turned new kid Stargirl at his high school. She teaches him so much about life, love, learning, being a person, being a teenager. He falls in love, falls out of love and then she just disappears.

The Sequel:

And that's where "Love, Stargirl" picks up. It's letters Stargirl writes - but doesn't send off right away - to Leo from her new town in Pennsylvania.

I found it while I was looking for books for grad school at the bookstore on Monday. Instead of buying anything for school, I saw Love, Stargirl in hard cover and decided instead to buy it. (Kind of a splurge but I'll donate it to a high school library after, I figure.)

I'm halfway through. It's just as charming as the first one and has made me feel better during this crap time. Also, it gives me a catalyst for crying, which I haven't done a ton of simply because that's how we roll in this house.

I recommend both; they're easy reading but very good.

Oh, and we can't forget...

Also, it's just a matter of time until they don't have



and then sh1t's goin' down.

What will happen with the Windermere murder mystery? Did they set us up to not miss the main land for a while? Ieieie. Oh, and if Luke effing seriously dies, that's just crap.

TV

Good Lord, when will this effing thing end? Just give them their due money and residuals; make a contract that meets the new technology and

GIVE ME BACK MY DAILY SHOW AND COLBERT REPORT

(Read a neat-o article about these fellers and this little lady at The Village Voice. Might as well, since there ain't no TV to atch 'em on. Youknowwhattamean?)

Please and thank you,

Me and everyone I know

Repost : It's What My French Poet's Call "Ennui"

Rain Makes Me Blank

6/8/06

By blank I guess I mean "ennui." (See the photo of Charles Baudelaire, French Symbolist poet and ultimate purveyor of ennui.) I slept too late today because I thought of too many things I needed to do on my one day off and that made me tired. Funny.

I feel like Mon-Wed are just vacuous days of ugh. Then Thursday-Sunday are so busy it's overwhelming. How do I balance this? I don't know.

I hate the perpetual rain. Rain makes me feel so blah. This, I guess, crossing Seattle off my list of potential places to move once I get done with here. [18 months later I've totally changed my story! They have a great library school!]

I need to think outside the US box, I believe. I wouldn't want to go somewhere so touristy as Kilarney or something, but I would like to go to some place English-speaking. I wonder if Glasgow or Edinburgh is rainy? I could find my third cousins, if any are trackable from John Watson and Stella Stevenson- Watson.

Speaking of names, if you take the street I first lived on and the name of my first pet, my name would be Cleopatra Verchild, which is just awesome. I've been thinking about pen names because I might write greeting cards. I wouldn't want my real name attached to that sentimental bull-poo.

November Rain was an awesome video

Repost : A Good Day for Woodman's

Today Would Be a Day for Woodmans

6/7/06

Today would be a lovely day to hang out with Emily at Woodman's and chatter away the rainy not-so-summer day. Poo to doing nothing due to

1. lack of cool places to go in serious rain storm

2. serious rainstorm

3. low funds

Woodmans. I miss it very very much. What is it? Oh, just tone of the best little bars in the world. The unofficial name is the "grad student bar." This means the crowd was usually cool people age mid twenties to mid 30s, maybe a little younger, maybe a little older.

Abe and Mark opened the bar and restaurant last May. It's gorgeous inside, all hardwood and finshed so shiny, you could glide along it. Abe is a great bartender who shakes your hand, remembers your name and always asks how things are going, remembering key details about your life, if you have ever told them to him.

Mark likes to experiment with the menu, which he told me he developed just by trying things from restaurants everywhere and putting his favorites on the menu. He told me this during a game of A$$hole I played at his apartment with his girlfriend K ate, and our mutual friends Ste ve and An na.

The best feature of Woodman's are the martinis. Each glass is pre-chilled for you once you order you drink. The ingredients are deliberated with care. They offer all sorts: straight, dry, vodka, flirtini, cosmopolitan, mango, chocolate, girl scout cookie (THAT was too good, by the way) and lots more.

Mostly though, it's the ambiance. You know how people always say they're happy with a good bottle of wine and some good conversation? That happens all the time at Woodmans.

Repost : Recipe for Carrot Ginger Soup

Soup Du Jour

6/7/06

I eye ball ingredients, but here's the approx. ingredients for the Carrot Ginger soup I made today. It is very tasty.

Ingredients:

• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 1 10 oz package of baby carrots
• 1/2 c. uncooked rice
• 1 can of pumpkin
• 2 cans of broth
• 3 c. of water
• 1 tbs parsley
• 1 heaping tsp of ginger
• 1/2 tsp curry powder
• salt and pepper to taste
• sour cream

In a large pot boil on high 3 c. of water, a 10 oz package of baby carrots, a medium onion, chopped, and a half cup of rice. Boil for about 20 mins. or until the rice is tender. Remove from heat.

At the sink, put a sieve over a large bowl so that you can keep and use the strarchy, carroty water. It's tastier and thicker than plain hot water. Drain the veggies and rice into the sieve. After the drainage is complete, put the veggie and rice in a blender. Add one ladle full of the drained, starchy water into the blender. Liquefy the contents. If you have a crappy blender like me, you may need to stop and stir the contents so all of it gets well-blended.

The contents of the blender should be very thick but definitely in liquid form, so you may need to add more of the starchy water. After the veggie are blended, pour the contents back into the pot. (You may need to add more of the water from the bowl into the blender so that it's not too thick. It should easily pour back into the pot.)

Add a one can of pumpkin, 2 cans of broth (I used veggie broth b/c I'm a vegetarian), 1 tbs of parsley, a heaping tsp of ground ginger, 1/2 tsp of curry powder and salt and pepper. Use the starchy water if you want a thinner consistency. Stir all ingredients well, bring to a boil then simmer until piping hot.

Serving suggestion: Add a dollup of sour cream into the middle of the bowl and sprinkle a little more parsley over the top.

P F Changs and the Key Lime Martini

I got to go to P F Changs and get a Key Lime Martini this weekend. That drink is its own dessert and I crave it always, so I did some digging and found key lime martini recipes then made some tweaks to get the P.F. Chang's taste.

KEY LIME PIE MARTINI RECIPE (approximately)

Graham cracker pie crust or cookies, crumbed (for rimming the glass) [don't use actual graham crackers, too crunchy]
2 lime wedges
6 tablespoons (3 ounces) vanilla flavored vodka
1/4 cup (2 ounces) key lime liqueur (recommended: KeKe Beach Key Lime Liqueur)
1 1/2 tablespoon pineapple juice
1 1/2 tablespoon coconut milk
1 1/2 tablespoon heavy cream
Ice cubes

Chill the glass by filling it with ice then water. Begin preparing the rest of the drink and let the glass sit.

Combine the vanilla vodka, key lime liqueur, pineapple juice, coconut milk, and cream in a shaker. Fill the shaker half full with ice and shake until well blended.

Empty out the chilled glass. Have graham cracker crumbs in a shallow dish. Rub a lime wedge around the edge of a martini glass and roll the edge in the graham crumbs.

Pour into prepared martini glass, garnish with a lime wedge and serve immediately.

Not that I need a reason to go to P. F. Chang's but I do have a legitimate excuse: I am an ambassador to Boston for my friends from Maine. (And vice versa in Maine with non-Maine friends.)

Some Lewiston people came down to see "Wicked" and then I met them for din-din. ("Wicked", by the way, is wicked good. I didn't see it with the Lewiston people. I saw it when work took us to say "thanks for launching the website, folks.") I suggested we meet up at PF Chang's for dinner.

That was an almost 2 hour wait as well because all of the Saturday matinées get out at the same time. Every restaurant in the area was crowded, though, so we waited. And the result was as delicious as ever.

I LOVE P F CHANG'S!!!!!!

For drinks I had Spanish red (don't remember name but I liked it), a ginger beer and the deliciousity of the key lime martini.

We had the kung pao shrimp - delicious-est of them all - mao po tofu, garlic spinach, and the three meat entree, which I didn't have, of course. Also we had the appetizer sampler and the tofu lettuce wraps, which is my absolute most favorite thing ever.

Highly recommend it.

Repost: Follow up to the smidge of drink

"...Like the wandering footsteps of a wandering child..."

a little later on 6/6/06

That's a line from a Be Good Tanya's song called "The Little Lost Bird." It popped in my head because, though I wouldn't be doing this anytime soon, I'm still obsessed about where to live after I'm done living here. I need a place that's like Maine but isn't Maine. Laid-back people, lovely pockets of total hippies but regular and even hick people close by for the sake of perspective.

I know Asheville, N.C. is pretty cool. So maybe. Is there any hippie place in Florida? SF is me, totally, but it's also so expensive...I don't know. It won't matter for a while but it's a thing that thinking about makes me feel better. It's a way to get through the ennui of maintenant.

Where should I go once I leave here? West? East? Europe? South? Hell because even hell is better than Massachusetts?

I'm going to go make another one of these...hmm...what should I call this drink?

later

As I made another one, I thought about what it reminded me of. It reminded me of summer and vacations. Only I'm so far away from any sort of vacation. So I've decided to call it the drink "invagle."

InVaGl- inadequate vacation in a glass; not to be confused with "inveigle" which means to win over by coaxing, artful talk. Though this does win you over by coaxing, artful taste.

Off to go drink another invagle and see if lying down will rid me of this headache.

Repost: A smidge of a drinky drink

Mmm...From the Delicious Drunkard

6/5/06

This quote is from McSweeney's:

Necessity is the mother of Invention, and, as everybody knows, a skinny woman named Poverty is the mother of Necessity.

So true, so true. Today Poverty and Necessity got together and made the best libation after work.

· One dollup of honey

· One jigger of dark rum

· Lemon flavored mineral water

· Stir well

· Pour over ice into small glass

· Drink too fast

· Write this blog

· Make another

New Colors

We're all green at In the Pines for the official start of the Celtics season. New era beginning? Let's hope. Then I'll get into basketball, too, and never have time for sitcoms...

Noam and the Cliques - a repost

And the Cliques Keep on Cliquing

6/4/06

Noam Chomsky is on WBUR right now. This reminds me of Pierre Joris's blog entry about his poem about Chomsky. "http://pjoris.blogspot.com/2006/04/chomskyana-linguica.html"

I love Chomsky, but that's usually uncouth for the poetry people, isn't it? It's like in high school when the uberactivist hippie kids thought the drama geeks were too self-absorbed and the drama kids thought the activists were too fantatical about ephemeral issues.

In high school I was in both groups, so that allows me to do what I please. Actually, I do what I please because it's what pleases me. Like I'll go to a Pierre Joris reading at 6, a Howard Zinn documentary (featuring Noam Chomsky!) at 7 and a cocktail party for Pierre Joris at 9. This actually happened in April up in Orono.

What would have been truly uncouth would've been going to a College Republican's meeting after that or something. Then buying an Escalade and driving through a wetland reserve while listening to Bill O'Reilly on the radio.