This is the New Shift!

02:10 / 06.10.08

So it is, so it is. I can't believe I couldn't turn it up on google.

I guess there are worse things than having Mama Cass stuck in your head.

02:12 / 06.10.08

Yeah, I think so. At least she's cheerful.

02:13 / 06.10.08

I got friends in low places,
where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away, and Ill be ok. Im not big on social graces, think Ill slip on down to oasis, cause I got friends in low places.

Ah the benefits of spending summers in the country.

02:18 / 06.10.08

I can do a lot of country. I mean, I have to as a matter of honor and pedigree. But Garth Brooks just never sat right with me. I'd pay real money to see him and Alan Jackson go at it in a chainfight, though.

Heck, when you get down to it, Pantera are more country than Brooks.

02:24 / 06.10.08

And Kris Kristofferson could still kick Pantera's ass!

02:27 / 06.10.08

Again, if there were chains involved? Real. Money.

02:41 / 06.10.08

sleep time for me goodnight all

02:42 / 06.10.08

Ah, the romance of a chain fight. Brings a tear to my eye.

Night, Kegs. Sleep tight.

02:47 / 06.10.08

Night, Keggers. Getcher Dracula-fighting rest.

02:49 / 06.10.08

Improper dancing! In the middle of the street!

02:33 / 07.10.08

Do David Bowie and Mick Jagger know about it?

05:19 / 07.10.08

So anyway, Doris, or Mabel, or whoever, I've been drinking the Gin, which is to say I've had a little reunion tour with Mama Gin. Which is to say: more satisfying and smooth than any family reunion of recent memory, particularly as I've been indulging in Salinger's Franny and Zooey and therefore (indeed) feel rather erudite, unsettled, aroused, and otherwise inclined toward the late shift.

grant

11:19 / 07.10.08

Not reciting prayers alone in your room, over and over and over?

Triplets

22:10 / 08.10.08

Improper dancing! In the middle of the street!

Somebodybetternotifythechiefofpoliiiiceee!

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

05:46 / 09.10.08

I'm so out of it. Encapsulate so I can play too, please.

00:34 / 11.10.08

Electric Six.

Let me tell you of places faraway...

01:11 / 11.10.08

Hiya, people!

01:14 / 11.10.08

Have you found yourself more bourbon and beyond-PG imaginings yet?

01:16 / 11.10.08

Working hard on it.

There's been enough whisky though, that I finally stopped kicking myself for throwing the cell phone in soup. Jim Beam loves me, you know. He's my special friend.

01:18 / 11.10.08

He and Mama Gin kiss occasionally, or so the boys say down at the bar.

I'm formulating ideas relating to the next FEM theme (and great acronym!), thankfully. They just started tonight, so maybe I'll be banging out something on my four days off next week (while studiously avoiding grad school applications).

01:21 / 11.10.08

Grad school apps are probably best avoided. Not functionally, perhaps, but emotionally?

I'm supposed to get on IM tonight and help a friend through re-applying as she's decided to shift focus. I suspect lots of "Just do what you feel you have to" and "Just do it" until I read like a Tony Robbins' Nike commercial.

01:29 / 11.10.08

Emotionally. I've been doing bits and pieces in stages. I think life would be easier if we all had administrative assistants and Greek choruses who show up and cheer us on.

01:37 / 11.10.08

Don't underestimate the support of Mama Gin, there.

Soldier on, y'know, soldier on.

01:40 / 11.10.08

It has occured to me, that Dark Knight Strikes Again Batman really looks like Denny O'Neill with a very sharp cape.

01:40 / 11.10.08

That reminds me, I need to pick up a bottle of Mama soon.

01:44 / 11.10.08

Tonight, the library is full of "Won't somebody think of the children!" people. I'm getting a headache from their freaking out.

01:44 / 11.10.08

It's also hard to take someone's concerns about their child's reading habits seriously when they let their twelve-year-old wander around in the dark, in the worst part of town, on a Friday night, by themselves.

01:53 / 11.10.08

B-b-b-but they might read a dirty word! Or stumble onto warm crushy swoony scenes in Rubyfruit Jungle or Batman/Superman and turn superhero.

01:54 / 11.10.08

It was about the sweetest kid, too. He reads a lot of manga, which has all kinds of weird-by-North-American-standards stuff in it. I feel bad for him.

02:00 / 11.10.08

It truly does suck.

I'm sort of eternally grateful my mom never really cared what I was reading as a kid.

02:08 / 11.10.08

He's in a lot -- he's one of those kids who apparently isn't allowed to be home by himself, so he just wanders around -- so I'll probably remind him he can read stuff here without having to take it out.

I thought it was cute that while she was complaining she was handing in his mangas and he was reading Gravitation, so she's apparently saving him from the perils of yaoi.

Normally I quite like her even if we tend to worry about him not eating enough -- he had a fainting spell a few months ago -- so I'm probably just grumpy about it.

02:16 / 11.10.08

We've also had people looking at porn on the internet stations tonight, so it's been a banner evening. I wanna go home.

02:17 / 11.10.08

Oh, comics, when will you stop perverting the youth?

And now I want a Wertham vs Japan short. One lone, desperate nut with a thousand manga readers walking by as he rants on a street corner.

02:23 / 11.10.08

That would be an awesome short comic. It'd be great for one of those POPGUN! anthologies. Actually, they're really cranky out evil comic anthologies.