so this evening is the superbowl, and i am sitting at starbucks, on my lunch break. f.

jodi, reading newspaper at kitchen table: i think i should go get glamour shots doneme, looking at jodi with a raised eyebrow: huh?jodi: i have to have something to put in my obituary Technorati Tags: chatting, conversation, indiana, indianapolis, jodi, overheard

yikes! grab the baby! grab the baby! oh. my. god. honey! come look at what i did in the toilet! weird, it looked smaller when it was still in its cage. lookit how fast that stick swims! oh, shit! it’s not dead afterall! dammit! i thought this was a regular basket! don’t look it directly […]

i bought a book at barnes and noble the other day, with some gift card money i got for christmas — a new-ish (2002) translation of and commentary on the tao te ching by ralph alan dale, with beautiful photography by john clear. i have read a couple other translations of the tao te ching, […]

2006 was a big year for me. i: lost my grandfather got divorced made way more new friends than i’ve ever made in the previous thirty years of my life combined fell in love — twice got my heart broken learned to stand up for myself gave my dog away almost moved to new zealand […]

so they’re going to hang saddam in the next few minutes, apparently. hanging. they’re going to put a rope around his neck, and push him off a ledge so that he hangs there struggling for breath unless, that is, he’s lucky, and his neck breaks. welcome to the 21st century kids, we humans are some […]

a couple days ago i saw a very freshly dead coyote on the road near my house in camby, indiana. i stopped and toook photos: you can see the whole set here. Technorati Tags: blood, bloody, camby, canine, coyote, death, frown, gross, house, indiana, indianapolis, kill, road, roadkill, sad

the time has come to discuss killer bees. there was a time when people outside of the congo didn’t even know such things existed, but i have it on good authority that we will soon need to know as much about them as possible, as they have reached the eastern seaboard of the united states […]

“cool beans” “what’s that got to do with the price of eggs in china?” “psyche!” “oooooh! is that a new coke watch?” “when can i get a 10-speed?” “do i HAVE to go to bed??!!?!?” “um… i forgot my homework at home.” “bone” (as in “dude, i promise not to bone your sister” “oh, wow, […]

wow i’m busy lately. it’s odd to have an actual schedule again for the first time in years, and not having internet access at home has kept me offline a lot, which has been very nice, actually. 😀 i posted a bunch of new photos to flickr today from the last couple weeks. the puppy […]

We all thought she was telling us that she was pregnant again — by a different man! And as an example of how wrong my Aunt Martha was, concerning her point of view that my mother was “a little simple,” my mother instantly saw what we were thinking, and laughed at us, very quickly, and […]

just now, while sitting here reading blogs at the abbey in downtown indianapolis, while resting my head on my left hand, i discovered that i have a 4-inch, very fine, hair, growing out of the middle of it. i am positive it was not there last night. how does such a thing happen? am i […]