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It will go down as one of the coolest nights ever…

 
Bauhaus, my hubby, Halloween, San Francisco… The only things that could have made the evening better would have been:

Any seating at all in the whole friggin’ venue (some of us don’t dance, y’know)

Elimination of the stoners whose gross pot smoke gave me a wretched head [...]

It will go down as one of the coolest nights ever… Bauhaus, my hubby,Halloween, San Francisco…
The only things that could have made the evening better would have been:

Any seating at all in the whole friggin’ venue (some of us don’t dance, y’know)
Elimination of the stoners whose gross pot smoke gave me a wretched head and tummy ache which [...]

90% of anyone who says they need pot to help “their condition” are just big hypochondriacs, or mean “addiction” when they say “condition”.
I’d like to find any qualified, objective source that could tell me that the smoke inhalation is better for you than any reduced effects of any “condition” precipitated by using the drug. If [...]

San Francisco has treated me well. I’ve managed to spend a month away from home, away from boy, without car and in the middle of the urban jungle I once called home.

 
Strangely, it still feels like home. But I’m ready to spend some much-needed catch-up time with the boy and the Gaggle, and experience some [...]

Preparations for departure are nearly complete. The gadgets are all charging and preparing for their long day of heavy usage tomorrow.
Last night I finally got to meet Michelle, now recovering from a 12-day cruise which combined seasickness and morning sickness… Poor thing. Everyone’s having babies these days. My Mom even alluded to the idea of David and me [...]

…For my agonizing 3-hour layover. Damn this airport is huge… It’s also rather spooky looking out the aeroplane window and seeing like 18 bajillion planes approaching from the air with no end in sight…

 
On the lo-o-o-ong trip from SFO to ATL, I managed to devour a sizeable chunk of A Confederacy of Dunces. Before I [...]

Back in Atlanta for my agonizing 3-hour layover. Damn this airport is huge… It’s also rather spooky looking out the aeroplane window and seeing like 18 bajillion planes approaching from the air with no end in sight…
On the lo-o-o-ong trip from SFO to ATL, I managed to devour a sizeable chunk of A Confederacy of Dunces. [...]

I finally had the opportunity to catch up on my sleepy last night, only to first be awoken by my phone (unrecognized number, no message) after a couple hours of sleep, and then by severe aches and nausea a couple hours later. Never did quite recover. I’ve managed to make it in to work, but [...]

Dear ambiguous illness I contracted in the past 24 hours,

 
Please go away. I don’t have time to deal with you right now. Feel free to come back when I’ve been holding down a solid corporate job for a couple years and have large quantities of sick time from which to draw.

 
K, Thx.

For all of you fellow heathen Holiday lovers out there, please send me your address so that I can send you a Xmas card. Even if I already had your address, please send it to me again at mark at monstrouslyoffensive dot com.
Don’t worry about ever receiving anything else or being sent porn or anything [...]

You know what American cities need? More subsidies for rich liberal young whites, that’s what.Or, at least, that’s what Richard Florida thinks…Note (31 March 2008): My latest, most comprehensive, and (in my opinion) best essay on this topic can be found here:The Early Bird vs the Night OwlUrban Mythology and its FundiesSure, he has an [...]

Since I’ve been on a Richard Florida hatin’ expedition lately, I thought I’d post some nice gems I’ve found…

The Best One (Mirrored Here)

Australian Perspective

Short and Sweet
 
And this quote was priceless: “Having met Florida, I’d be the first to agree he is an assiduously self-promoting septic tank, out to make a buck from his theory through a globetrotting dog and [...]

These layovers in Atlanta are brutal - at 2-3 hours each, I’ve spent more time here than at any of my destinations the past couple months.

 
I land in SF around 1pm local time. Probably working Sunday-Wednesday, then taking the choochoo to Fresno for Thanksgiving weekend with the family. Back to the City on the 27th [...]

I was chatting with the hubby about the fact that I seem only capable of socializing when there is the promise of food (or at least coffee)…

 
Is that bad? At the very least it shields me from having to associate with tweakers, dieters and militant vegans

Wolf (though he’ll always be Sister Betty Does, LNM to me) took me out to dinner to Kuleto’s. Wonderful and very filling food.

 
He’s a very smart person and I like being intellectually challenged by someone in casual conversation. He also lets me blabber my mouth off and has enough of his own interesting stuff to [...]

The holidays are here. The weather is what I consider “good” (eg, COLD!).

 
Everything’s getting so pretty everywhere. I just sent out my holiday cards and realized how many wonderful friends and family I have all over the country and the world.

 
For someone whose life is so full of love, I don’t take enough time to [...]

…For a couple quickie rants:
I don’t like museums. I think old things need not be preserved just because they’re old. Old things which continue to serve a sustained, productive purpose and function will preserve themselves. You can exchange “people” for “things” in the above statement and my sentiment will remain the same. This is probably [...]

…In an apartment outside of Charlotte, North Carolina, the most wonderful boy in the world is all alone, and has not been having the best of times lately. In a hotel room in San Francisco, California, there is someone who loves him more than anything in the world, and whose only goal is to make [...]