So yeah, it's D'land's 27th Anniversary. so I thought I'd commemorate it by re-posting my very first entry. May I present Going Going Gone , in which I wax on about ebay and all the crap I'd been bidding on. Happy Anniversary, Diaryland!
__________________ Going, Going, Gone
April 01, 2000
I am addicted to ebay.
I don't mean I merely LIKE ebay-- I mean fix-needy, daily habit, intervention-worthy addicted.
I've decided …
Mass Transit is one of those special blog entries that I had always planned to use as the basis for a short story. Here I crossed paths with a stranger on a bus, and I’ve never stopped thinking about this man. Mass Transit (October 04, 2001) An articulate male voice spoke softly. It said, “That is one interesting outfit.” Sighing, I looked up to see the owner of the voice. I just knew that one of these guys was going to start talking to me. That’s w…
Every single one of us should be involved in politics, speaking up and speaking out against injustices. Every. One. All thinking people understand that we all have to stand up. If you say with your whole chest "Keep politics out of __________!" then you are not a thinking person. So sit the fuck down.
I was voted "Feminist" in the high school yearbook. I don't know why. I was gobsmacked when I saw the yearbook. I mean...I am...but what was it about me that the yearbook committee thought was particularly feminist?? I had never made a speech or written a manifesto or argued with anyone on the topic? I was not in the Debate Club nor did Model UN. So weird. Also, the yearbook committee was comprised of all these people who took pi…
Feeling kind of tired today, but I wanted to put something down for September 11. I'm shocked to find that on the day the planes hit the towers I put only a one word entry in the Diaryland blog: War. I was probably too stunned to write. That morning I was driving to work. The radio in my Geo Prism started to broadcast the story of a plane hitting the first tower. My first assumption was a small plane, and I think the newscaster thought that, …
I’m not paying close attention to the Lindsay Clancy trial and aftermath, but I've gleaned enough through osmosis to know that I am of two minds about it. On the one hand, I think “She could have brought the kids to a neighbor and then left town, or gone to an ER and told them she’d had thoughts about killing her kids, she’d have been admitted to psych at once.” Something, anything. On the other hand, I had a psychotic break 12 years ago . I …
So this job I found on LinkedIn. Not for me, I'm helping Joe find something Remote that's in his wheelhouse. This job description calls for "a proactive and highly skilled Digital Assets Management professional who is a master of social media and PR strategy." Some observations. Your Digital Asset Manager, Social Media Manager, and PR Strategist are three different people. Those roles require three totally different skill sets. …
My first foray into Zappa was in grade school. 7th grade, so 1983. A bunch of us girls were having a sleepover at Jennifer Dixon's house in Cheshire CT, playing records, when Jen put on "Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch." Stunning record, and the album art cracked me up. We went crazy for "Valley Girl," featuring Frank's 14-year old daughter Moon Unit. Moon did a lot to introduce her dad to prepubescent…
Many years ago I found Return of the Frog Queen by plucking it out of a $1 CD bin at Diskovery in Allston. When Yolanda rang me up (I got some used books that day too) I told her that I hadn't heard of the guy, I was just intrigued by this slim cardboard sleeve with the black & white photograph of a guy about my age. I don't know what compelled me to pick this one up. Turns out Jeremy Enigk was the frontman in Seattle-based Sunny Day …
I love this door. Look at it. Just look at it! Not only for it's beauty, but because we've never had a door we could open like this, because we've never lived on the first floor like this. There's that old adage about things happening for a reason. Well, the veracity of that is questionable, but in this case, it's so true. Joe and I looked at an apartment 8 months ago, fell in love with it, applied...and didn't get it. &quo…
You
know that old internet chestnut "Pics or it didn't happen?" This is why
I've kept a blog for 26 years. That's why I know that I had my favorite
burger on April 24 2018--The Cousin Oliver. Veggie patty on a wheat
bun, bitches. Alas, they don't make it anymore, which I found out on
Facebook from Robbie Rist of all people. IYKYK.
