It’s called Adventures in Desperation. It’s an account of my busking experiment. (Don’t worry, I haven’t given up on finding more secure employment, but I still have some time on my hands and I might as well spend it outside.)
Archive for the ‘Moro’ Category
I made a new blog-
Posted in Arts, Commerce, Community, Culture, Humor, Lifestyle, Media, Mind, Moro, Public, Self, World on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Words and tropes that piss me off, #1
Posted in Arts, Culture, Humor, Language, Moro on November 9, 2009 | 10 Comments »
SPOILER WARNING-
OPTIMUS PRIME DIES. AND THEN HE IS MAGICALLY RESURRECTED.
I didn’t have any new insights into the healthcare debate, so I thought I’d bitch about the word ‘cheesy’ instead.
“Cheesy.”
I don’t object to all uses of this term, certainly not the ones that are actually listed on dictionary.com:
“–adjective, chees⋅i⋅er, chees⋅i⋅est.
1. of or like cheese: a cheesy [...]
Inexplicable Deer
Posted in Arts, Humor, Moro, Nature on October 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
PS, are any of you having trouble with images getting clipped on the sides? I thought blogs were supposed to automatically resize and center the image, but maybe that’s just wishful thinking…
Thoughts on Television
Posted in Arts, Culture, Humor, Media, Mind, Moro on October 13, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Some art forms are completely lost on me. Ballet. How the hell do people watch ballet…
I don’t see a lot of TV either, not entirely out of choice, because I don’t have a hookup, only a DVD player. For the most part, I don’t miss it because my heart belongs almost exclusively to movies. Usually [...]
Coldplay is not my friend.
Posted in Arts, Commerce, Culture, Humor, Lifestyle, Media, Mind, Moro, Self on October 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve gotten a bit of contract work in the past couple weeks at a studio that makes web cartoons. The work itself is both uninteresting and difficult to describe, but it’s easy and the pay is nice. Also, I get to listen to loud music all day on pandora.com. Pandora is fun but mystifying. If [...]
Wrestled any grizzly bears lately?
Posted in Arts, Culture, Mind, Moro, Nature on September 29, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Lately, I haven’t been the rugged individualist I would like to be. I’ve been kind of a…passive, sluggish individualist. Instead of actively pursuing my goals, I’ve been waiting for other people to give me something to do, something that will make me happy. I’ve become mired in Acedia. This is sometimes counted as one of [...]
Squeam.
Posted in Arts, Culture, Media, Mind, Moro, Nature, Self on September 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It’s weird what people are squeamish about. I have a friend who is very nice, very smart and rational, and she is terrified of small fluttering birds.
Watched a movie last night called Grace, which supposedly caused two grown men to pass out when it premiered at Sundance. It’s about a living dead bloodsucking baby. I [...]
Messed up!
Posted in Arts, Man, Mind, Moro, Nature, Self on September 16, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I have been thinking about leaving Alexandria for personal reasons, not because of anything youse guys have said. This drawing represents my mood of late, although things have been going a little better…Anyway, I’m sorry for flip-flopping. I don’t like it when other people do it.
(The little guy munching on his own arm is me, [...]
Noble Blue Savages
Posted in Arts, Moro, Technology on August 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I think they look kinda….not right. What do you think?
Cameron Avatar Trailer
My Trip to Utah
Posted in Culture, Moro, Nature on August 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Or some of the highlights, anyway.
The Epic West!!!
Most of these were taken by my little brother. I’m not really the photography type.
Sorry…
Posted in Lifestyle, Moro on July 8, 2009 | 15 Comments »
…for not posting much. I’ve been unemployed for a while, I have no access to scanners or photoshop, my car broke down and I am stuck in Sylmar, CA. It’s kind of like being in jail except that you have to find your own food. I haven’t been able to work up the energy to [...]
Better pipe down or I’ll give you something to starve about!
Posted in Arts, Culture, Man, Moro, Politics, War on May 11, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A couple months ago I got into a very brief web correspondence about the film GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES. For those who haven’t seen it, it’s an animated flick about two Japanese kids who lose their mom in a WW2 firebombing raid and then slowly starve to death. I believe it was based on a [...]
More Screwtape
Posted in Arts, Culture, Humor, Moro, Nature on April 28, 2009 | 9 Comments »
A devil trying to explain some shit.
Still unemployed, but I did find a superior specimen of Latrodectus mactans.
Fusion Cuisine
Posted in Lifestyle, Moro, tagged food on April 19, 2009 | 10 Comments »
I was watching BABETTE’S FEAST and thinking about how much I miss, if not *proper* cooking, but real cooking with an oven and fresh ingredients. No caille en sarcophage for me. When I was living with my folks I enjoyed making dinner for them once or twice a week. Now I am restricted to whatever [...]
Screwtape Stuff
Posted in Arts, Culture, Humor, Moro, Politics on April 8, 2009 | 10 Comments »
I find myself having to look for work again, so I started doing stuff for my portfolio. Here are some valuable members of the Hell bureaucracy, inspired by THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS.
The militia at the bottom of the garden
Posted in Arts, Culture, Humor, Moro, Nature, Sport, War on April 2, 2009 | 8 Comments »
I posted this to my other blog but I thought it would fit here too because it touches on guns and organic pest control and grownup shit like that.
Memento Mori
Posted in Moro, Nature, Science, Woman on March 14, 2009 | 8 Comments »
I found a black widow in my house a few weeks ago, hanging out in an untidy web between my door and my mini-fridge. It was shiny black, had the red hourglass and everything. I’m usually pretty tolerant of my spiders. There are large numbers of long-legged cellar spiders about the house. They help to [...]
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Posted in Arts, Commerce, Culture, Mind, Moro on March 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Minutes of the Raiders of the Lost Ark story meeting with Lucas, Spielberg and Kasdan.
There’s a link to the full text on this blog, although it doesn’t seem to be working at the moment. There’s a lot of information here anyway.^^
Rat King
Posted in Arts, Moro, Nature on March 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My friend was telling me about the mysterious phenomenon of the rat king, a ball of rats joined at the tail. (The mystery is whether this actually happens in nature or if unscrupulous persons just tie a bunch of live or dead rats together.)
I wanted to draw it right away. I just updated my blog [...]
Gurkha Knives
Posted in Culture, Moro, Nature, World on February 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
My little brother went to India on a study abroad trip. He got to ride an elephant and see a mess of rhinoceroses and Himalayas. My brain is fried with envy.
He brought me back some nifty scarves, bangles, and a Gurkha knife. I was thinking about hanging it on the wall of my cube at [...]
STFU, Werner Herzog!
Posted in Arts, Culture, Moro, Nature on February 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
So, I watched Werner Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World with my boyfriend. (It’s one of the documentaries nominated for an Oscar this year, along with MAN ON WIRE which I felt was a better movie.)
It’s about a bunch of eccentric researchers in Antarctica. An intrinsically awesome subject. There’s some beautiful footage under [...]
What’s going on…in your mind?
Posted in Education, Family, Law, Mind, Moro on February 12, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Yes, the big question. Whenever I read a news story about people acting really peculiar, like that incest dude in Austria, this is the first question that springs to mind. Why? Seriously? Wha…uhh……..? You like Tejano music? How could that…be?
And yet, I’m not really sure an answer is desirable, or even possible. Maybe if you [...]
CORALINE (and scary movies.)
Posted in Culture, Moro on February 10, 2009 | 8 Comments »
I saw CORALINE, Henry Selick’s latest stop-motion crazyfest, on Friday night. I had some issues with the plot structure, but for the most part it’s pretty awesome. Especially the jumping mice. And it’s nice to see an animated movie with neither a Pixar nor a Disney sensibility. It really is a horror movie for children, [...]
