Slacker x1000

Wellllll, it would seem that I’ve given up on this enterprise altogether. But I think I’d like to at least post periodically, at least randomly when I feel like it. Some commitment, huh? I’ve read a ton this year, and I’ve been using goodreads to document that, but it’s really easier and more fun to do it here. I could always post the same comments I make here on goodreads so other readers can see them…

Blame me for the rocks and baby bones
And broken lock on our
Garden

Garden wall of eden
Full of spiderbites and all your lovers
We were

We were born to fuck each other
One way or another

Evening on the Ground (Lilith’s Song) by Iron & Wine

Let’s do it once, and again because EotG says so.

Links

Well, those links on the side hardly demonstrate my current web-based reading list. Perhaps a general site update is warranted. Thus far, my renewed “commitment” to this blog hasn’t justified it, but we’ll have to wait and see what comes. I do like doing this, but I just don’t always have the wherewithal to actually do it. Plus, I’ve been writing occasionally in a paper journal, which has eliminated some of my desire to write here… C’est la vie, as they say…

(sorry, no golf discussion forthcoming)

Let’s do it once…

Honor thy mother and thy father… and thyself

In the never-ending battle for the title of Most Narcissistic Alternative Pop Culturalist, query who is the current leader: Tim DeLaughter or Dave Eggers.

Why do I ask? Well, I saw Polyphonic Spree on Halloween and I just finished A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. (Don’t take the link as an endorsement of Amazon as a merchant. Except for their new mp3 downloads, which kick ass, I’m very anti-Amazon as a merchant. However, as a source of information, Amazon rocks.) I enjoyed the P-Spree show until they played their horrible cover of Lithium and then when Tim started talking. Once he started talking, I wanted to throw up he was so obnoxious. It took me over a year to read “AHWoSG.” I mean, I read quite a bit of other stuff during that time–I had to keep putting AHWoSG down–but, still, it took a year. I don’t mean to hate on the book… there were a lot of things I liked about it. But Mr. Egger’s narcissism cannot seriously be doubted. Actually (and how narcissistic is this?), he repeatedly calls attention to it in the book. It makes me find him interesting and want to vomit all at once. Much how I feel about P-Spree. Was DeLaughter so into himself in the Tripping Daisy days? I certainly don’t remember TD that way…

Let’s do it once…

Well, I’m not doing very well at this.

I’ve been writing a fair amount in a journal, so my need for this is moderated a bit. And I can obviously be more personal in a journal. I’m curious if I will actually re-start posting here. When I first started blogging about two years ago, I figured I’d give it up almost immediately, but I didn’t. So, we’ll see…

When I lay down to sleep, I feel the world spin
Slightly off axis, it’s shaped like a fig
And when I lie next to you, I shiver and shake
You tell me you love me, I dream I’m awake

She Divines Water by Camper van Beethoven

Let’s do it once…

Re-Blogging

I think I might be back again. I’ve been wanting to journal it lately, and for some reason the web makes me more inclined to do so. This time, hopefully nobody will actually read this page though. I’m thinking about implementing some PW protection. We will see. Or I’ll totally forget about all this and we won’t see at all.

Let’s do it once…

I’m back, sort of

I’ve decided to start posting again. However, new posting will be on a weekly basis (and maybe very occasionally more). The subject-matter here will remain basically the same (whatever I’m thinking about), but it just won’t come as often.

For today, I post this article about judicial independence suggesting that progressives fight back in the war of words over “judicial activism.” I don’t agree with all of what this article says, but I generally agree with the overall point and strongly agree with the sentiment that Kelo is too passive as opposed to too activist.

I move into my apartment one week from Sunday. Yay!

well well well

So, essentially without putting up any new posts, I have unceremoniously passed the 1000 hit mark. Woo hoo. Not nearly as exciting as 500, I think.

Anyway, I am leaving for two Guatemala for two weeks today, so I probably won’t post for two more weeks. Not that my recent posts have been worth reading anyway.

On the job front, I am moving in the right direction, but don’t have a job yet. In any case, it is all pretty much on hold until I get back from Guatemala.

That’s it for two more weeks…

Recommendation requested

What should my parents eat for dinner tomorrow? They can’t decide and they’ve been talking about it for 15 minutes.

in case you missed me

I’ve been super-busy lately, out most of the time… basically, going to the gym (which I haven’t done in quite a long time) and kicking it with friends. No real excuse for not posting during the day, since I’ve really just been taking it easy, but whatever.

I also have a job interview tomorrow. Hooray!

Mr. Lazy Post

That’s me… At this time, it does not look like Drive Blog, days 3-5, is going to happen. Frankly, although we saw interesting stuff (Devil’s Tower, Southern Yellowstone, including Old Faithful, and the Grand Tetons), I don’t have a lot of super-interesting stuff to say. There was nothing funny, unlike my drive to Wisconsin last year. Perhaps I will re-post my drive blog from my trip to Wisconsin instead.

So, I’ve been watching some of the various NBA summer league games. This is possibly the worst basketball I’ve ever seen. Now, I’m not anti-street ball or open runs or whatever at all. But there’s a different between playing street and playing badly. For the most part, these teams play badly. There have been individual players who look like they can be/are stable NBA players (Deron Williams is the most complete player I’ve watched, though I’m no fan), but for the most part, each player has sucked individually as have the teams.

Sixer Louis Williams can pretty much get to the rim at will against these summer league guys, but I don’t know what that means because there is pretty much no D. Problem is: he can’t finish anyway. At least he makes his free throws. Since the Sixers are keeping Allen, LW won’t play this season anyway.

Still looking for a job. Hope to find one soon. Just got an interview request for a good looking place in DC, but (1) it’s in DC; and (2) they want to interview me when I’m in Guatemala.

I watched Slaughterhouse-Five on free-per-view yesterday. Not a bad adaptation.

And so it goes…