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Monday, November 16th, 2009
(52 comments | comment on this) Sunday, November 15th, 2009
locksmithy
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7:42p
forestskin, hippies, rockers, queers, etc. (tumblr-redirect, again)
i got to go on a sex-ecological adventure with the one and only Annie Sprinkle to-day (w/ my hotdate communist-lookin' Meff). and i had a differently-sexy (much differently!) but no less badass s'experience at the Jesus Lizard reunion show at the Paradise here in Boston last night. and guess twat? i tumbl'd about it! i'll pop the full flickr gallery link over here, aussi when i finish uploading more from the dirty Boston Gardens. naughty flower beds!
(funtimes)
http://mlle.tumblr.com/post/245353527/sexxx
(my gift to Annie & Denise Duhamel's poem that makes mention)
http://mlle.tumblr.com/post/245363035/poesy
p.s. i hope these redirect-posts aren't annoying. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) emlette is so kind to post when she updates elsewhere, i just wanted to keep y'all in the loop. better this than ceasing communication with el jay or not blogging at all, roight? eh? guilty much? i sheddup.
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coraline
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5:44p
i am a bear of exceedingly little brain.
i assume it's a combination of going to sleep at 4:30am and the toxins released from *ahem* deep tissue work (yes, i'm drinking lots of water) but when i play a dance, i can usually watch the dancers, think a few thoughts of my own, and sight-read the songs with a fair amount of facility. today i stared at the music and went "woah... that's a lot of notes. look at all those notes. how about that." it took much much more of my brain than usual to just concentrate on the playing.
according to observers we sounded ok, but it was a new and trippy experience, not entirely unlike being drunk.
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(135 comments | comment on this) Thursday, November 12th, 2009
sark_mon
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12:05a
Seeing Ashley, even for only three minutes after two and a half weeks of not seeing her, is like an instant recharge for my Mikey batteries. I really needed that.
(yes, I am still alive - be back soon)
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(comment on this) Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
chadu
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11:27p
Hunger: the Craving
Y'know what I want, RIGHT NOW?
City chicken.
Hurm.
I need to find appropriate skewers [1]; cubed pork and veal [2]; and a deep, lidded casserole dish [3].
[1] I haven't seen appropriate skewers down here, ever: they're all too thin. A city chicken skewer is substantial. (Pretty much a sharpened dowel rod.)
[2] While in the Canonsburg/Pittsburgh area, this is DONE for you at your grocery (srsly, you can buy "city chicken" packs in the meat section), I have NO IDEA which cuts to ask for down here. Anybody know?
[3] I have no idea how I've gone so long without having one of these.
I am also considering taking the recipe cards -- sent during my college years -- from my Mom and Grandma LaSalvia (and others), and typing them into a DOC, which I may make into a real book via Lulu.com.
There are so many idiosyncratic recipes from my family that are tried and true and familiar, but when I mention them to people, they look at me like I am crazy.
The way we do artichokes, for example (only at Xmas and Easter!). City chicken. Christmas rice (only at Xmas!). Halupki. Aunt Kathryn's gnocci [4]. Brujole. Various casseroles. MANY desserts (but I will not type out the mini-cheesecake recipe; I've always HATED those). My Mom's cheeseball. Grandpap Klinger's eggs and bacon. My Dad's keilbasa (kolbassi) and sauerkraut with barley and brown sugar. Grandma LaSalvia's anise cookies (XMAS!). Grandma Underkoffler's German potato salad (anytime!).
[4] Aunt Kathryn, my grandfather's sister (and thus, mostly PA Dutch) married an Italian. To impress his (female) relatives, she learned how to make the BEST DAMN GNOCCI in the world.
To such a cookbook, I may need to add recipes I don't currently have access to: my brother-in-law Mike's sausage recipe is the standout here. (Also, if I can convince step-dad Mike to introduce me to the secrets of the Russian ladies' nutroll, I will have scored info that has evaded many chefs for YEARS.) Step-mom Judith's various pierogies.
One last note: I am sad that the nearest Indian restaurant to Canonsburg is in Heidelburg. I really wanted my family to taste Indian food (despite their inevitable resistance).
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mark_argent
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5:32a
why my campaign and I failed to launch
First, I picked a crap day to do it. Tuesdays aren't good for me, at all. I work at 1am on Wednesday morning, and I thought that I could do all my prep work over Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, get some rest Tuesday afternoons, run the game in the evening and go straight to work afterward. I don't know exactly what I was thinking, but it seemed like a good idea at the time. What I ended up doing was putting off game planning until Tuesday morning, spending half the day in a panic of insufficient preparation, getting no rest, mentally stalling out when people actually showed up at my house, and defaulting to Munchkin. I'm not against the idea of a Tuesday game night, I just can't be the guy running it.
Second, the freeform wilderness exploration/dungeon crawl format wasn't really suited for this group, or for me. On reflection, I realize that the Western Marches format is too ambitious for me after not DMing regularly for over a decade, and that I need to run a more structured game experience to knock some of the rust off my DMing skills. So when/if the game picks up again, or I restart it, or find another group, or whatever, I'll probably just run one of the many commercially available adventure paths or megadungeons.
Another ambition-related problem was that I decided that, for the central adventures, I'd convert a module from one D&D variant (Hackmaster, a semi-satirical variant of AD&D 2nd edition) to another (Pathfinder, the most stable branch of the 3rd edition source tree). This was hilariously over-reaching, and not something I should have been trying to do on the fly.
Third, certain elements of my life -- finding a new apartment and getting us into it -- went to screaming hell in August, September, and October. It took a long time to find a suitable apartment, it took a long time to get us into that apartment once I found it, and now it's taking a long time to unpack and get my home suitable for visitors.
Fourth, the crux of the problem and the reason I'm posting about any of this at all is that I get paralytically anxious when faced with social situations. This is different, as I see it, from being anxious in social situations, because once I actually get to where I'm supposed to be, everything's fine, or mostly fine, but before that, the anxiety can become literally overwhelming. Assuming I haven't just crapped out entirely, I'm almost always late to everything, because as the hour approaches, I worry, I dither, I procrastinate, I hyper-focus on certain things and get distracted from others. I worry a lot. I worry that out of sight means out of mind. I worry about being boring, or tedious, or repulsive, or annoying. I worry about things even more arcane and pointless. Again, once the moment arrives, I'm fine. It's getting to the moment that terrifies me. But I've failed people and lost touch with entire social circles because of this anxiety. If you're one of those people, I'm sorry. Mea culpa. Please forgive me. I will work on this and try to do better in future.
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(72 comments | comment on this) Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
kawaii_not
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11:40p
kawaii not #300
Adding a little icing probably wouldn't hurt, either. XD
This is strip #300!
That's a hell of a lot of cute gone bad, don't ya think?
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chadu
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10:14a
Camellia sinensis
So, over the past fortnight or so, I have been drinking tea. A lot more tea. A lot more tea than my usual daytime beverage of choice, coffee.
I've particularly started liking some herbal blends. . . Yogi Tea ones in particular: Berry DeTox, DeTox, and Bedtime (though this last has had spotty effects -- I had two double-strength mugs of it Sunday night, and I still pulled an inadvertent all-nighter; I had the same amount last night, and it knocked me on my ass).
Also, I like Tazo teas . . . especially Awake, Chai, and Zen.
Lastly, I think a visit to Teaism will happen Real Soon Now, for some good loose-leaf blends/varieties, as well as Salty Oat Cookies, Ginger Scones, and the Salmon Handroll Sushi Bento Box. YUM!
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coraline
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12:19a
EPIC CLEANING FIT!
i really love decluttering with eric. together, we are unstoppable! and our space is much more awesome. and we have more plans for storage and new chairs and places to display teapots and and and... yeah. *nest*
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