Archive for January, 2006
Highs and Lows
Damn you, Peter Jackson, for your self-indulgent three-hour jack-off that is King Kong. Couldn’t someone have smacked him upside his head a few times with an editor? Sheesh! I had gone out to meet my friend, Kelly, to braid our hair and talk about boys. We met at BearBears, had a late lunch at Welcome ...Read more.
Happy Happy
Happy Birthday, John Ashfield!!! Current Mood: calm
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Happy Birthday, Paulie F!!
Exquisite Corpse, V21.2
This round of Everyone’s Favorite Online Collaborative Poetry Game™, Exquisite Corpse, we had fun silly entries from daltxbear1, double_ohsteven, bear_with_me, thom413, uneasytruce, and sfkuma. Drinkin’ bathtub hooch from a mason jar i wanna talk to you about some stuff Counting the singing wooden fish on the walls With rubber legs from the knees down Contemplating ...Read more.
Another Country Starts Seeing the Light
Czech gay couples may get rights – Yahoo! News Don’t give up the ship, Americans. Keep fighting for our rights, and we will achieve them. Current Mood: determined
O, Beautiful APOD
The fantastic Astronomy Picture of the Day never fails to astound with its surreal and otherworldly images. Current Mood: chipper
Wheels Keep Turning
Last night at the Castro Theater, Xanadu was a delicious confection of bad special effects, wretchedly bad choreography, scary bad roller skating, and interminibly bad plot points. Yes, somehow, the combined star power of ONJ and Gene Kelly overcome all of that and make the movie a gem. Most of the songs really showcase what ...Read more.
Exquisite Corpse, V20.2
Thanks to everyone who participated in this round of Everyone’s Favorite Online Collaborative Poetry Game™, Exquisite Corpse: daltxbear1, tbone1961, chefxh, double_ohsteven, anziulewicz, bruno_bt, sonoranbear, buckinva, dennisatl, sfkuma, zbear20, and sfgarry. This round I suggested three words, nine syllables, and got pretty close responses to that. Surrendering my inhibitions taking off clothes Walls tumbling down letting ...Read more.
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Happy Birthday, nubule!! Current Mood: chipper
TouchGraph LJ Browser
In my previous post, I wrote about this fascinating tool, the TouchGraph Livejournal Browser. Why does it fascinate me? Well, here are three people on my friends list who are not on each other’s friends lists, yet have many interests in common. Maybe they should get to know each other! Current Mood: curiousCurrent Music: Sarah ...Read more.
Seeing Relationships in Different Ways
TouchGraph LiveJournal Browser V1.5 This tool creates a fascinating visual representation of the “friendship” relationships between LJ users. I’m utterly fascinated by this tool. In the image, I’ve mapped out the relationships between me, thornyc, tbone1961, missysedai, and that_dang_otter. The blue nodes represent the common interests, and the white nodes are the LJers…
Frottage Is Your Friend
Saturday, I went to meet a gentleman at Bearbears in the Castro with whom I had been flirting online. I arrived at the appointed hour and he was nowhere to be found, although he had called from there earlier, so I figured he was feeding coins to his meter. While I was waiting, I went ...Read more.
