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Archive for January, 2008

Odds and ends

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Mood: Granerrificca
Music: Scarborough Fayre–Mediaeval Babes
Level of crank: 37.
Vair in the prospectus: Nil.
Not my first choice of music genre, nonetheless, a couple of videos:

I find the vocals in this one a little grating, but it’s the “drummier” of the two

That drummer? That’s my baby brother. Of course, that ol’ graybeard can hardly be referred to as [...]

The Daughter of the Muse

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Not feeling motivated right now. There is the suspense, of course, and the waiting is draining. But so also is there the problem of paths, and the inability to commit to one until a choice beyond my control is made. I’m like a dancer, suspended en pointe until the orchestra strikes the next note and [...]

MMmmmmMMMMmmm.

Friday, January 25th, 2008

MMmm. Spinach is some delicious shit. Just sayin’.

Round ‘em up.

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

Mood: Indescribable.
Music: What?
Level of Crank: 52
Lipstick Color: Earth Rose, Loreal
Various projects noted
_Medieval cooking:_
*A Plum Tarte redaction with comments on a full-blown 12th night dinner.
*A Gelly of Pork redaction with comments on the full blown Boar’s Head traveling lunch.
*Gourds in Pottage as a meatless side dish and Gourds in Pottage redacted as a main [...]

Review? Resolutions? Root beer?

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

I dunno.
I’ve wanted to write a year in review kind of post, but I just haven’t quite gotten to it. There is a persistant underlying theme of “Damn, I’m so stressed I could cry tears of solid aggro” in pretty much everything I’ve been writing, lately, but the holidays are over, and that will reduce [...]