Comic Books, Drag Race, & Life in New Zealand
by krisis
Not that i think that you haven’t been reading Fluffy Battle Kitten all along, but she made an entry the other day that made me laugh a lot. You should read it, and then read the next handful of entries as well to get a fun little look into Maggie’s life. It’s a well-rounded quintet of entries.
by krisis
I called MANNA and got their donation address and pasted it into the donation page, and i should be officially listed on FryKitty’s Blog-A-Thon page by midnight tonight. So far i’ve sponsored Rabi’s Wockerjabby (Mr. Holland’s Opus) and Danica’s Billowing (RAINN), but i’m quite sure i’ll be sinking $150+ into this whole ordeal between donating and buying supplies for my recording.
Meanwhile, i’d like to put out an open call to anyone in the Philadelphia area who may be reading and would like to contribute to the project. I’ll be in the studio on varying days and hours, so whether you want to add some harmony, trumpet, or just some hand claps, i’m willing to include anything anyone has to offer, so just drop me a line!
by krisis
Rabi is finally a ‘blog of note’ on the Blogger.com sidebar, and i am happy for her. Two weeks ago i probably would’ve been happy and also a little jealous, but at this point i don’t expect Ev to read and then add my blog to the blogs of note because he still hasn’t read or fixed everyone’s ongoing archive problems. So, while i will not begrudge anyone the time to sit down and enjoy Rabi’s site, i will once again point out that i would write monthly checks directly to Ev to have a competent support staff at blogger to be able to deal with these small and various problems.
Blah. The lack of archives has really eaten the fun all out of this; they won’t even acknowledge that last week ever occurred, when it used to be that the only acknowledged last week. But, on the upside, i don’t need my alarm clock anymore. Really. Matt inexplicably got up and turned it off this morning (because the only thing that can motivate him to get up is an interruption of his sleep, if that makes any sense), but i still awoke at 8am on the dot. Why? Because i couldn’t breathe. We’ve achieved a very delicate balance of temperature here at 3604 Spring Garden, and it involves having the air conditioner on low blast and the windows open in the living room. This creates somewhat of a cross breeze and keeps the place liveable, but it also wakes me up every day unable to breathe or see because allergies are that fun.
And now it is time to be at work. Maybe another reason i haven’t been blogging as much is because work has actually been engaging me lately… forcing me to actually talk to students on a day to day basis and work on things in between. And, i have given myself my own work. I posted multiple times at CorLog yesterday, and i fixed up the AniGuitar archive, jumped into the at length political battle over at Repulsed, and i’m trying to install this whacky imaging software that Benjy uses at Linkstew so that i can start keeping an archive of webcam shots at some point. Last night, if you missed it, i was naked on the cam for almost the whole night. Yes, there will be a members only section of the archive :p
So, anyway, here i am almost late for work and saying nothing. This whole blog is about nothing, though Tom over at Nothing definitely beat me to the punch on that name. I like the internet again, because i have so many different things to do and read. And, i suppose in a way this page has become nothing other than my portal out to all of that, and i’ve been neglecting to reward you with the results of all of my wandering. So… more rewards soon, i suppose. Sorry about all of this…
by krisis
sometimes i’m amazed that i know these amazing people
by krisis
I think it’s a good thing to have so many idols, because i don’t make them unreal. Garrison Starr is still very much a person to me, and not some sort of god. When i met Shirley Manson she talked to me about writing personal songs and i talked about going to college. But, i feel like having so many people i honestly admire as artists and as people somehow is helping me triangulate to who i want to be and why. One of the people who has just as much influence as any rock star he’s ever written about is Glenn McDonald, and Rabi just pointed out a rare look at him outside of the context of his page where he talks about criticism as an art and profession. Also, there’s apparently a MetaFilter thread somehow related to all of this, but i haven’t quite found my way over to MeFi yet today. But, anyway, it’s all worth a read, to be sure.