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[Apr. 3rd, 2009|07:59 am] |
Terminator II is showing at midnight tonight at the Regency Theater at Fairfax and Beverly, right down the street from my house.
People who want to partake in dinner and boardgames should show up at my place around 7 or 8. |
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[Mar. 16th, 2009|05:15 pm] |
The Great Urban Race will be in Los Angeles this Saturday the 21st.
It's a scavenger huntish public shenaniganism event. It will be urban. It will be a race. It might include some degree of greatness.
Just sayin'.
http://www.greaturbanrace.com |
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| Waffle Haiku |
[Mar. 9th, 2009|02:37 pm] |
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) jhogan and neurogirl hosted a waffle extravaganza in San Francisco yesterday. I was inspired to write some waffle haiku!
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Fine ingredients
Oils, lipids, powders, and heat
The whole is greater
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Surface area
Cradles butter and syrup
Corrugated joy
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Yes! Carbohydrates
We have savory and sweet
You! Come and get it
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Waffles have feelings
They stare through their googly eyes
Pensive and tasty
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These won't help me fly
Should have cooked an aerofoil
Wings of sticky bread
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There was a fourth pig
He had the wolf for breakfast
Built a waffle house
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Waffles told me to
Body modification
Need bigger stomach
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Velociraptors
Bite my waffle with their teeth
Better it than me
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| Bouncing in San Francisco, Saturday the 3rd 1-5 p.m. |
[Jan. 2nd, 2009|11:06 pm] |
Last week Megan and Laurel had a fun idea: get an inflatable bounce house, a generator, and a permit to set up a bounce house in Dolores Park.
So this week they're putting their plan into action. Tomorrow from 1 to 5, there will be bounce house in Dolores Park, and people will come from miles around to wear funny hats and bounce up and down.
Come on by and join the fun! |
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| Happy Thanksgiving! |
[Nov. 27th, 2008|01:40 pm] |
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My neighbors and I are cooking! We're making turkey, stuffing, gravy, yams, mashed potatoes, superspiced cider, cranberry sauce, curried lima beans, and pies. If you're hungry for food or for company, come on over! We'll be cooking for the next few hours, then eating for a few hours after that, and then of course we'll be lounging around feeling satiated and telling stories. |
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[Nov. 11th, 2008|12:59 pm] |
For the past month, lightling has been on tour around the country traveling with a bunch of her friends who also happen to be her favorite band. She'll be doing shows in Los Angeles this Thursday the 13th, and in San Francisco on Friday the 14th and Saturday the 15th. legendarypinkdots.org/tour
I'll be at the Los Angeles show on Thursday!
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[Jun. 27th, 2008|08:30 am] |
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I'll be at the Methuselah Foundation's conference at UCLA tonight. I so enjoy anti-aging conferences. They never get old. |
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| Focus Pocus |
[May. 21st, 2008|01:26 pm] |
Dear ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) onesoul,
Here is the picture you posted yesterday.
I can tell that the author means well, but the message is phrased in a way as to be predominately reactionary.
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[Mar. 25th, 2008|03:09 pm] |
For lunch, I'm eating a wedgular metallic flying saucer
given to me this morning by a woman who loves me very much. |
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[Mar. 24th, 2008|04:06 pm] |
weiskind and I had a series of adventures in San Francisco over the past few days. I particularly enjoyed observing and interacting with many of her most beloved friends. I'm always honored to meet people who take their lives seriously enough to be meticulous in their personal interactions and who hold the having of fun as a high priority.
We made time for a sentimentalitour, visiting Alamo Square and seeing the wide grassy area where lightling and I, on our first date, ate ice cream at dawn and froze our patooties half off.
kime7673 threw an Easter party yesterday. She assigned weiskind and me the task of hiding seventy-eight plastic eggs in her apartment before the guests arrived. It took ten times as long for two people to hide the eggs as it did for twenty people to find them. Math is cool.
The driving to and from San Francisco was a slice of heaven. weiskind and I so enjoy the having and the giving of attention for each other that the car becomes a little space-time bubble. Whoever is driving sets aside enough focus to maintain proper speed and to aim the car at the road ahead. The rest of our attention is focused on our sharing. The scenery goes by and the hours go by, and we do stop now and then for provender, petroleum, and plumbing. Eventually we reach our destination and emerge. The destination has its own power, be it the promise of impending adventure or the comfort of home. When the journey itself is this delightful, the fact that we arrive at a destination is just frosting on the butterbeans! |
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[Mar. 4th, 2008|01:05 pm] |
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"Of all the people who contributed to the culture that made you who you are and championed the idea that you can do anything, be anything and do anything any way you want to however you can think it up... Gary Gygax wrote the book. Literally. He wrote the Dungeon Masters Guide, the greatest book ever written. Human nature, science, play, stats, history, geography, logistics and encumbrance..." -Chicken John Rinaldi |
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[Mar. 3rd, 2008|05:28 pm] |
Nova Express Cafe will be closing its doors and its Hyperspace Transduction Portals in 56 hours.
Lisette and I are rounding up some folks for one last hurroopa-smeep this Wednesday the 5th.
The cafe will be open from seven in the evening on into the wee hours of the morning. Come on by and bring an appetite.
426 North Fairfax
Los Angeles 90036
From novaexpresscafe.com :
"The Nova Express Cafe is set in the year 2158 on an Earth-like planet called Terra Thirty-Two with marooned space-maidens, wickedcyborgs and henchmen who fly Terradactyl hang gliders." |
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| Impending Itineration |
[Dec. 7th, 2007|11:39 am] |
Next week I'll be heading out on an adventure. Please contact me if you fit the criteria:
A) You live in the affected area and would like to offer me lodging.
B) You know someone in the affected area and would like me to deliver a rhubarb pie or a story about coelacanths.
C) You would like me to send you a postcard.
D) You will be in the affected area and would like to help me bake pies, concoct stories, or write postcards.
Here is an estimate of my swath:
December 13 to 15: Wisconsin
December 15 to 18: Massachusetts
December 19 to 21: New Hampshire
December 22 to 29: New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania
December 30 to January 1: Massachusetts
January 1: California |
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| A bit about politics |
[Nov. 14th, 2007|01:26 pm] |
The U.S. national debt is 9.1 trillion dollars. Here's the U.S. National Debt Clock.
Here's Ross Perot talking about the 4.1 trillion dollar national debt in 1992. He was right to be concerned. 4.1 trillion dollars was a huge debt. In 15 years, the debt has gone from 4.1 trillion to 9.1 trillion.
The problem is that a politician who ignores the Constitution will be able to sacrifice the long-term financial health of the country for their own short-term political gain.
That politician will be out of office by the time the bills come due. So we have several waves of politicians over the decades, and each new wave borrows more money to cover the debt of the previous wave.
This cycle will continue until we elect representatives who have enough integrity and political willpower to buckle down and get the excess spending under control. We need a president who will tell it like it is. Someone who will put the safety and well being of their country as top priority.
The phenomenon of shortsighted fiscal irresponsibility is a direct result of the fact that the politicians are no longer in office when the country is hit by the long term results of their short term vote-buying schemes. There is very little political pressure toward fiscal responsibility. A few lines of rhetoric about it is usually enough to mollify the electorate.
This lack of accountability could not exist in a household. If I spend too much money one year, I have debts the next year, and the interest on those debts will compound. I could take out new loans or get new credit cards, and use them to pay the interest on the previous debt. And then the next year I'll have even more debt and the interest will be even higher. Most people know in their hearts that this sort of thing has to come to an end sometime. The longer it continues, the harder it is to get it under control.
Imagine if you had a stranger come into your household and make all the financial decisions for a few years, and then leave. He wouldn't need to work or produce anything. He could run up the credit card bills, eat fancy meals, take the children to Disneyland every week. The children would love it. After four years or so, he would disappear and move on to something else. But the debt wouldn't disappear. You would be left with the debt. That's what's been happening for decades. Each wave of politicians comes in and spends money left and right, then leaves. None of them have political incentive to address these problems, because we have no way to hold them accountable after they've left office. The proper way to deal with this is to consider these issues BEFORE we vote. |
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