January 2010
32 posts
53 things done in 2009
Found my own apartment that I love that I keep and afford on my own
Bought a piece of furniture I’ll probably keep “forever”
Sold and bought stuff on Craigslist
Collaborated on a GREAT draft of the libretto my first full length musical
Fell in love - again
Had a full physical
Kept the same day gig
Researched the “best coffee maker known to man” and now own one
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December 2009
36 posts
End of the line 2k9
It’s that end of the school year feeling, isn’t it? That moment of admission: “I did what I did. Can’t take it back. Can’t make it anything other than what it was.”
So, you look around and say: So, this is where I am now. After all the bad and the good - no take backs or do overs. I am here and the time is now.”
Well, the time is always...
“Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,...”
– Albert Einstein (via zombiesonmondays) (via comeincostume) (via poisonligeia)
“What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?...”
– Harlem - Langston Hughes, 1943 (via sexismandthecity)
QUOTE: (W)ith the recent focus on Ian Fleming that...
“Don’t let assholes rent space in your head.”
– Just a thought for the day….
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Science fiction fandom is 80 today →
QUOTE: 80 years ago today, the first ever science fiction fan group, the Scienceers, met for the first time at organization president Warren Fitzgerald’s apartment in Harlem (Fitzgerald, the first-ever big name fan, was black). Happy 80th, fandom!
HPK
Carolina d'Emery Ward: If only it were this...
ME: (pleasant, albeit slightly breathless voice) Hello?
CHRISTMAS: Hey! It's Christmas, what' s up?
ME: (pleased voice) Hey, what's up with you (kid screams)(-aside-Let go of his head!)
CHRISTMAS: You busy?
ME: (laughing) When am I not? (kid talking) (aside-Honey, I'm on the phone)
CHRISTMAS: I just wanted to remind you, I'll be by on the evening of the 24th.
ME: 24th? (calendar pages flipping) Umm... 24th, 24th...(panicked tone) Dude, that's 2 weeks from now!
CHRISTMAS: (questioning tone) Yeah...so?
ME: Well...money's super-tight right now...and..(trails off, kids in background are laughing)
CHRISTMAS: Uhhmmm...I could come over the morning of the 25th?
ME: Uhh..could you come by any later?
CHRISTMAS: (irritated) Later?
ME: How's January for you?
CHRISTMAS: (more irritated) January??
ME: (thoughtfully) Or April, even...the tax return will be back, so...
CHRISTMAS: (interrupts angrily) APRIL?! DUDE! It's not about money! (exhales, speaks in calmer tone) We can just hang out, love each other, make cookies, you know! I'm /Christmas/, not a birthday party!
(silence)
ME: (surprised) But...you/are/ a birthday party.
CHRISTMAS: (quiet tone) I know. Sad, huh?
ME: So...just cookies are ok?
CHRISTMAS: (smiling tone) Man, just /you/ are ok. Just you.
ME: (apologetically) I'm sorry, dude...it's just, all this pressure, and I don't know what to buy, or how to buy it....
CHRISTMAS: (reassuring voice) Hey! No worries, ok? Just relax.
ME: (smiling tone) Ok, man...I'll see you the 24th, then?
CHRISTMAS: I'll be there.
“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
– Thomas H. Huxley
via theimpossiblecool
The Microbe by Hilaire Belloc [1870-1953]
The Microbe is so very small
You cannot make him out at all,
But many sanguine people hope
To see him through a microscope.
His jointed tongue that lies beneath
A hundred curious rows of teeth;
His seven tufted tails with lots
Of lovely pink and purple spots,
On each of which a pattern stands,
Composed of forty separate bands;
His eyebrows of a tender green;
All these have never yet...
WatchGrant Morrison on Hell for Superheroes
WIRED has some great clips from the upcoming Grant Morrison biopic, and I have to say that if I make it out to San Diego this year, this doc is going to be at the top of my to-do list.
via davidpress:
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