Archive for April, 2007

Post Gig

Friday, April 27th, 2007

It’s 1 a.m., after the band’s last show at the Kirkland Cafe. (The Kirkland Cafe has been sold and will be changing hands at the end of May, so it was definitely our last show there. As far as our last show ever… I tend to doubt it. We’ll be going on [...]

overheard on On Point

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

The subject of today’s show is “Jewish Humor.”

4 men are walking through the desert, far from civilization.
The German says, “I’m tired and thirsty; I must have beer.”
The Italian says, “I’m tired and thirsty; I must have wine.”
The Mexican says, “I’m tired and thirsty; I must have tequila.”
The Jew says, “I’m tired and thirsty; I must [...]

Dateversary.

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

5 years and three weeks ago, I was living in Boston, working for Upromise, living with Chad in Somerville, in a relationship clearly spiraling down towards the ocean in flames. 5 years and three weeks ago, Luke and Lindy came over to my place for home-made dinner (pasta from scratch; I’d recently been to [...]

I need a miracle every day.

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Some orlop recently chided me for not updating my blog frequently enough: the first such chiding I think I’ve ever received. So here’s the nutshell versions of a few recent events:

Last week: snowing, freezing, power outage. This week: beautiful sunny days reaching well into the 70’s. Ah, New England.
This past weekend: a [...]

Why you should be reading The Penis-word Resource

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

The Penis-word Resource - Nhurnti (nhandi)
(emphasis mine; I will never write anything half as well-crafted as the phrase below, and Dr. Horrible is to be lauded for it.)
If you look at a map of the Indonesian archipelago, you can draw a line running roughly southwest to northeast and cut it through the channel separating the [...]