PEX halloween party Saturday night = 1 Fishtown warehouse of swings, alcohol, colored lights, mattresses, a stripper pole, house music, and people running around in crazy costumes. Also a few topless chicks.
True story: I got bored and went home early.
Favorite costume: dude dressed as a Pantone swatch book.
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This is Halloween.
Posted in 208397, tagged halloween, philadelphia experiment on 2 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hello, old friend.
Posted in 208397, tagged Pittsburgh on 10 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Was on my college campus today for the first time in 3 years. But only to drop off papers with the oncologist and to eat lunch at the Panera Bread.
And a $10 charge for paperwork, geez.
Lemonade
Posted in 208397 on 4 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I admire my mom’s attitude toward cancer.
Popping the last horse pill of antibiotics the night before the morning’s home enema before the surgery. She laughs and says “Well, in 12 hours it’ll be over and I’ll be awake again going, boy that hurts.”
The cavalry was out
Posted in 208397 on 7 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To make sure no uncouth youth organized over MySpace to terrorize South Street again this weekend, on Saturday night, the street was completely shut down.
Buses, paddy wagons, mounted police and officers chillin’ at every intersection. The officer Melissa approached would only be vague about the “juveniles” and their underage drinking.
While I do support [...]
15 foods to boost your metabolism, so they say
Posted in 208397 on 12 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.ecosalon.com/boost-metabolism/
This mostly describes my diet! Minus turkey and grapefruit.
Which may be an indictment against the truthfulness of story.
Also, what is that a picture of that goes with the green tea? Some kind of moon rock?
on accomplishment
Posted in 208397 on 10 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of my Fulbright classmates just finished grad school (which I know because of gchat) and I feel like I’ve done less with my life…
Recipe for a Saturday
Posted in 208397, Philly on 1 February 2009 | 1 Comment »
1 hr of roll over and don’t get out of bed.
1 dash cat sleeping on backs of knees
10 cups coffee
1 part relief to have no obligations, 1 part nagging sense that you should be making more of your life, 1 part “it’s early and there are so many possibilities for this day.”
5 news related [...]
And,
Posted in 208397, Philly on 30 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In other news, one of my clients was on the plane that crashed in Denver.
Did you twitter from your blackberry, I asked?
Didn’t have one at the time, he said, but have an iPhone as a result.
And we’re 24 hours until the working class of Philadelphia don their blush and sequins. I can’t [...]
Wha?
Posted in 208397, Philly on 30 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Philadelphia NBC news just spent 45 seconds of airtime talking about the 4 Israelis killed by Hamas bombing and featured an Israeli scholar of some kind saying, and I paraphrase, “we cannot say Israel and Palestine are equally blamed, because they are not. There is one side that is targeting civilians and hiding behind [...]
@ the car lot, yeah
Posted in 208397, Philly on 29 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just spent half my day trying to retrieve a rental car from Philadelphia’s impound lot #1. They were supposed to open at 2, then they amended it to 4, and then the cashier was an hour late to work.
It was farcical. Thousands of dollars stood in line, unable to retrieve our cars [...]
A golden November day
Posted in 208397 on 6 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As for President-elect Obama . . . have them write up a presidential order for Jan. 20 saying that America will not employ torture, and maybe issue a blanket presidential pardon for your predecessor and his vice, and then set about the business of disappointing your followers and astonishing your enemies and doing what is [...]
And, done.
Posted in 208397 on 4 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Polls just closed in Colorado. Halleluja.
These are going to be the longest four days of my life…
Posted in 208397 on 31 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
And I may not actually be able to vote. As of yet my absentee hasn’t arrived, and it has to be postmarked by today. I kind of want to cry about it.
Appropriately.
Posted in 208397 on 14 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My horoscope in the CSU student paper: Calm down or you won’t finish what you need to get done. Be motivated and don’t let unimprotant things eat away at you. The sweetest revenge is your own success.
Day 4.
Posted in 208397 on 14 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For all of my personal insecurities, I have never actually been the worst at anything. This fact has helped me through life on occasion. However badly I may have done, at least someone else was always at the bottom. Until now.
By the numbers I am literally the worst campus organizer in the state of Colorado. Sigh.
and last night [...]
In Fort Collins, CO
Posted in 208397 on 11 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Life is madness. I have never worked so hard or long in a single day and felt like I got literally nothing done.
Moving on
Posted in 208397 on 6 October 2008 | 1 Comment »
Let me tell you about the last 12 hours. At 11pm last night I was informed that after returning my rental car to Philadelphia, I would be traveling to Richmond, VA for a training to replace the now defunct training in Denver that the organization paid $400 to fly me to in September. Plans change. [...]
the life of a canvass director
Posted in 208397, Philly on 3 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I wish I had both the time and a computer to blog on more regularly. I am staying in the home of two Quakers in York, Pennsylvania while assistant directing in a voter registration canvass office. We are only being paid to register black people, so I have become a strange kind of racial profiler. [...]
Never say I’m not a masochist
Posted in 208397, Philly on 5 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So I basically told my boss I wasn’t interested in electoral work. I felt like a pussy, but I didn’t say yes just because I knew it would please other people for me to say it.
And then I actually talked to my peers about it.
Which I hadn’t before only because it’s hard to go to [...]
My life is not sustainable
Posted in 208397, Philly on 14 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Play the game “Consumer Consequences.”
It would take under under 3, but more than 2 earths in order for everyone on earth(s) to be able to live like me. Probably closer to three in the winter when I pay for heating oil. The biggest spike in my consumption is in the food and drink category. I [...]
dance off
Posted in 208397 on 14 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Steven Colbert dance-dance-revolutions with Korean dreamboat, 비!
hair
Posted in 208397 on 13 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was overdue for a haircut. The last had been in early December. So on Saturday morning, I Googled “Philadelphia walk in salon” because this is my problem—I have never planned ahead for a haircut and never gotten one in the city. Week after week I failed to find time to deal with [...]
Trash television pt. 2
Posted in 208397 on 18 June 2008 | 1 Comment »
No, I told myself, I cannot watch Celebrity Circus. So I put on the local news instead, thinking surely it would be more edifying. A woman is reviewing tacky glass globes with long tubes that you fill with water and insert in the soil of your home potted plants so that you don’t have to [...]
Fun in South Philadelphia.
Posted in 208397 on 17 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have become a person who watches trash television. I don’t have any defense, but I also don’t feel that bad about it.
I’m at Melissa’s; we have eaten fish tacos and are watching her cable. At the beginning of the third date in the second to last episode of A Shot at Love 2 with [...]
Hey you guys!
Posted in 208397 on 9 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I had three phone interviews to do at the end of the day today, which made it hard to get out of the office in time for the Trocodero’s movie Monday (featuring The Goonies). Which is kind of a funny phenomenon—a roomful of adults with buckets of beer watching movies that they, for the most [...]
belatedly
Posted in 208397, Philly on 21 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The black cowboy riding into the sunset:
Week’s end
Posted in 208397 on 17 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I saw a black cowboy on my walk home from work. Yes, at the corner of Ellsworth and 15th, around 7:30pm, there was a black man in a cowboy hat on a brown and white horse, riding off into the sunset. I only learned this term today; apparently the concept is not entirely unknown [...]
This is only a drill
Posted in 208397 on 12 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wednesday morning the fire alarm went off in our building so we all filed out on to a narrow stretch of sidewalk on Walnut Street, facing the Democratic headquarters and in front of a Kenneth Cole store.
A woman left the hair salon and crossed the street and to ask us, hunched over and in a [...]
My gosh, my ghee.
Posted in 208397 on 24 February 2008 | 1 Comment »
I made ghee.
Ghee is my new favorite cooking oil. It’s transformed from its original state through only work and heat. Person milks cow (or, traditionally, a buffalo); churning the milk creates butter, and through slow cooking the butter, the milk solids and water are are eliminated, leaving behind the oil. It has no preservatives and [...]
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