back into the frying pan

so, friends, batshit has her departure date.  this coming saturday, she will be moving out.  where she’s going i know not, and frankly don’t give a hot damn. 
i will be around both for the safety and integrity of my apartment, to collect the keys and also because my new bed is being delivered that day [...]

i killed robert goulet

me and my big mouth.  we did it again.  and we’re sorry.
jerry garcia, jimmy stewart, princess diana, mel blanc, mother teresa.  we have now to add mr. goulet to the small, but rather exclusive list.  there may have been others, i’m not entirely sure.
i don’t mean to do it.  i don’t even realize what i’m [...]

the great escape

it’s on kids.  iscosceles is going, going, getting out of dodge. 
physically, i’ve just landed in nyc after many weeks on the road.  but mentally, i’ve flown the coop.  and i couldn’t be happier. 
i’m not dwelling on the fact that it’s a shame and a waste and petty and unfair and all that.  onwards, upwards, bigger [...]

ricky nelson, i salute you

enough of the brain problems, back to the fun.
we went back to the temple bar again the last night.  we’d gone to see casa mila (la pedrera) late in the afternoon and hadn’t accomplished much else that day.  because, as i explained to cs, that we had a problem.  we couldn’t leave our hovel because [...]

how do you mourn the man who taught you to silence a gun with a potato?

oh no, you guys!  mr. wizard died today.  i’m so sad; he was awesome.  he’s probably the reason i love science so much. 
i do not want to hear from you kids who don’t remember when a cable box resembled a blender, except the buttons brought you to hbo, espn, cnn, a fuzzy porn channel and nickelodeon [...]

when the good ’ship sails

it is so much harder than walking away from a best friend than a boyfriend (girlfriend), no?  there can be something so much more intimate about a true, close friendship than a romantic relationship.
for one thing, a truly good friend really likes you for who you are.  they appreciate you for you.  that’s why they’re here. 
think [...]