August 2009
4 posts
So I am back in Harlem, and it’s a shocking adjustment. I’ve been here many times before, but never from the perspective of one that will call it home for a while. It’s certainly not your mom’s Park Slope. But then, what more difference is there besides people selling ice-cold water louder, and my choice of incense and perfume every 5 feet of side-walk?
It’s already...
A: Is that you?
Daniel: that's me
A: Wow. How does it feel?
Daniel: feels strangely natural, with a lingering and haunting pressure mixed with vague alienation. but that is an improvement
A: Being alienated is better than being an alien.
Daniel: right on
What I learned in Crimea
Eating regularly and substancially makes me feel great
Icy mountain water is meant to be swam in
Swimming without flippers is usually a waste of time
Never loan your things to fat kids you don’t know
Snorkling increases lung capacity
Bees bring a lot of humor to life
You’re not full until the plate is clean
All of the plates.
Inky night-time water is meant to be swam in
The...
WatchIf there is one quiet goal after I return, it’s to get back into a regular routine of things like this.
July 2009
3 posts
me: what color are souls?
Brendan: 6
If there is one thing to say about life, it’s that there is a lot of it to go around.
June 2009
4 posts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHdEbRDdMiI →
i notice as the horizon slowly transforms from a non-descript line to lightly muddled and bumpy, i am becomming more communicative. and awake. DON’T YOU LOVE GROITS-FLAVORED VAGUENESS??
just want to post that i am still kickin’ around. don’t worry about nuthin.
May 2009
4 posts
so much i wish i felt comfortable saying here. a lot of stress at the moment, a lot of things to figure out, plan, circumvent, argue about, buy, ship, sell, hide, and otherwise square away. and the sooner the better. did you know some contracts in this country are automatically extended if you don’t tell them months in advance that you don’t want an extension? for as gentle and...
how do them angels sleep when the devil leaves his porchlight on?
new best food to get near work is chinese fried chicken, white rice, and chili sauce. crunchy, spicey, fattening, and filling. i just hate that i can’t drink coffee comfortable afterwards, because my lips are still burning from the chili sauce.
April 2009
15 posts
I just tried ditching what feels like a 15 pound bag of coins that have accumulated over about 6 months or more. It didn’t work. The branch of my bank near work doesn’t have a counting machine, and the next bank that does only allows customers to use it. I asked at a couple places. What I did get were some ghetto change rolls, flat squares of paper with the denominations written on...
Favorite stuff: russian cartoons, kutiman’s mixes of youtube videos, shakeymouse cat toys, how i feel after a few consecutive visits to the gym, huge burgers, fried food, websites about fried food, sneezing.
ok now i feel it.
i am bogarting the coffee pads at work. i went through 5 already, which is 4 cups of coffe in about an hour and a half. still not really feeling it though. scary
no gym since monday. evidence of new boobers turning to sagfattoflappers. still no energy to get through a good routine. curse this illness. i suspect its just allergies, since everything from here to Hüggenhockenheimstädlstadt is covered in potent green pollen. SLOG ON !
need nose spray!!!!!!!!!!
i hate looking down at my white shirt and seeing coffee spots. i just hate it.
Possible nickname for a girlfriend: “Ladyparts.” Cute and clever or horrible and demeaning?
Hot days and long sleeve shirts, cotton slacks, and a late shift waiting for me at my desk. Listened to Tom Waits’ Metropolitan Slide walking to work, sniffling through my mild cold, and it provided a nice hue to the proceedings. My colleagues voice through the wall is just about the same frequency of my cellphone’s vibration, so whenever he talks I have to check my phone. This post...
Two things didn’t make sense to me today. An article on CNN said that the economic crisis could lead to an increase in membership to right-wing extremist groups. WTF? Hey skinheads, who was in power for the last 8 years? Oh right, your whitebread anti-immigration Texan. GTFO. Secondly, pirates attacked a US ship again. It was an aid vessel. Taking food to Africa. Taking food and supplies to...
The word for today is Enterococcus.
for some reason, the time during the day goes by really slowly, and yet days are going by really quickly. how is this possible?
March 2009
11 posts
SWIM SWAM SWUM
Looking forward to retirement.
It’s a great feeling to look forward to the gym after work. Yep, I go to the gym again now.
February 2009
16 posts
The first rays of sunshine to hit this soil in as long as any prussian can remember. Today would be a good day to do the things I have been putting off consistently. Like fucking developing my film. Or going to the fucking gym.
the best underwear, the kind with the most fun patterns, always seem to be the kind of that ride up my hips. i am wearing red and green snowflakes today, and when i sit, the elastic hits my ribs. is this what they call on the internet “oversharing?”
I think it would be a great idea to open a professional kitchen, with ovens and everything, but rend it to the public on a time-to-time basis so that they could go experiement with cooking techniques. you would book a timeslot, bring some friends, and cook the shit out of something. 10-20 bucks/hr. maybe they do this already? i dunno. i’d do it.
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Today is one of those days when the weather and amount of sunlight remind you how you felt on some given day back in college. I think on this day 8 years ago I was watching anime with some microwaved macaroni and cheese.