Archive for November, 2006
OK, I Memed
Ass, Kicked.
So, as you might recall, I joined Gold’s Gym on Brannan last week. Yesterday was my Complementary Training Session with Corey, a former pro hockey player. He totally kicked my ass, but I feel even more motivated to continue working out. After the gym, I realized that I had forgotten to bring a belt for ...Read more.
Exquisite Corpse V37.2
Thanks to everyone who played Everyone’s Favorite Online Collaborative Poetry Game™, Exquisite Corpse: Pete (beartech420), Chuck(stermn), Pope Buck I (popebuck1), and London1967: Don’t touch me there, where heat and heart combine I’ve been on antibiotics all week. it’s still inflamed and sore. My soul is aching softly, melancholy and longing intertwine. Plus I’m out of ...Read more.
Martuni’s Makes Some Yummy Martinis
And I had three of them to prove it! You might remember that I had received an email from an old friend back at the end of October. One of those “you aren’t the paul brown who…?” messages. We started writing back and forth, and finally agreed to meet at Martuni’s last night. Simultaneously, the ...Read more.
From the Spam Archives
I got a spam this morning, and just for fun, I opened it. This was the text inside: Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. There are moments when everything goes well, but don’t be frightened. Is this a sacred text of the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
BBQ
When things don’t feel natural and organic, then some re-evaluation is in order. Saturday afternoon my buddy and I decided that we’re better off as friends, so that’s all good by me. This morning, as coincidence would have it, a guy I dated for a few months back in 97-98 called me up, and we ...Read more.
Post-Thanksgiving 2006
I had nothing to do and nowhere to go yesterday. Calling my sister to tell her I wasn’t coming wasn’t very fun, but at least she understood why. So I figured I’d end up chatting on bear411 all day. Fortunately, my good friend, Mark <bear411 user=”mil40″>, decided that I shouldn’t be home alone, and he ...Read more.
I Bet I Snored, Too…
Last night, I went to The Castro Theatre to see a double-feature screening of Grey Gardens and its companion The Beales of Grey Gardens. Between the features was a Q&A session with Jerry Torre, known affectionately as The Marble Faun. I saw the movie at The Tower Theatre in Sacramento back in the mid-1980s for ...Read more.
Thanksgiving 2006
While I have posted some thoughts on thankfulness earlier, sometimes life takes weird curves. I had two no-shows this week which put a big dent in my budget, so instead of going to Sacramento to be with my family and friends, I am “stuck” here in San Francisco. Not that being here is stuck, of ...Read more.
Back-dated Self Portrait
From 25 August 2006
To Give Thanks
This weekend was the third anniversary of my move back to San Francisco. When I moved back here, I was pretty much flat broke and feeling like a failure. I had to move out of my fabulous apartment in downtown Sacramento, knew that I’d have to give my car back to the bank, and just ...Read more.
Go Me!
We had our Shiatsu Eval today at school. I arrived right at 13:15 as William, one of the Eastern team’s instructors, was taking roll. I sat down in the circle on the floor and we did our meditation, then listened to my favorite Zen Koan, Chop Wood, Carry Water. The young monks in the monastery ...Read more.
