On A Drynuary Diary: Week One
I started three days early thanks to a gnarly case of the voms.
Alcohol consumed
0/ cold medicine?
Disposition
still sick alternately cranky/ fever euphoric
Outlook
determined
Shakes
none/ tempered by cold medicine?
Smugness scale
I AM A PARAGON OF VIRTUE, WHAT?
Sounder sleeping
nope. Just read Habibi and dream only of Bismillah
Substitute activities
sparkling cucumber water, like a Pimms Cup, but not really
teach dog new tricks
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On May 21: The Rapture Meets My 40th Birthday
Happy Birthday! Today is my fortieth birthday, and it's a perfect day in Portland. Rapture-schmapture, so long as it doesn't rain on Saturday and the four horsemen don't get between me and the Gartners ribs I plan on inhaling they can come and fetch the Called.
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On Revisiting the Magical Land of Northern California
@brad Also a Nevada City kid! Followed by many years in SF. So naturally I live in Oregon now.... The Yuba river is magic.
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On How We Saved Africa: The Live Aid Videos, In Order
In the olden days before the advent of the internets and the ubiquity of cable, children of the eighties who were rural and craved urbanity, jerry-rigging the clock radio in the morning, before school, to get scratchy snatches of Alex Bennett's radio show on the Quake... Live Aid was The. Global. Event. in a nascent global world. And yeah, for people in their twenties it might sound hopelessly naïve that a girl in electric blue eye shadow, foiled by her mother and the west coast that music could save hungry people, but I believed. And in some respects that starry-eyedness has stuck with me, has made me a more thoughtful and compassionate person. Sure, we can all scoff at the peacocking insincere pageantry of it, and from the benefit of hindsight, the wastefulness of it. I thought it was magic.
Also - Tina Turner. That dress.
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On What Movies Make You Ignore Everything Else?
Center Stage, the best worst ballet movie ever.