There she goes, my beautiful world
I oughtta have that tattooed on me. Like on the inside of my eyelids. In glow-in-the-dark ink.
I’m glad that equality and assignment aren’t the same operator. It’s just such an easy mistake to make. And a difficult one to find. And a FRUSTRATING one to find at 11pm in the evening when one’s boss is wondering why all the new orders are coming in as paid even though they haven’t been.… Read the rest
I was teaching myself C out of the Kernighan and Ritchie book (second edition, so you know I’m a poseur johnny-come-lately) when I tried to pick up Java. This was 1996 and my head was filled with «what if» scenarios that are still as absurd today as they were then. You know, like «what if all applications were OpenDoc components written in Java?» Which is second only to «why can’t we all just get along?» in it’s naïveté. But anyhow, … Read the rest
… Read the restAsadollah Mirza lifted the needle from the record that was playing on the gramophone and said, “Moment, moment… do you want me to guess? You’ve paid a visit to San Francisco with Layli and you’ve left her a present in her suitcase?”
“No, Uncle Asadollah. Don’t make jokes about it. It’s something much more important.”
“Oh, shut up with you, man, so it’s nothing to do with San Francisco? Los Angeles is in those parts, round the back, and if
In The Secret Life of the Love Song, Nick Cave leads us on an illuminating digression about a cousin to the love song, the love letter. He says that the love letter has the power to bind the loved one, to blind and imprison as the recipient is recreated from the writer’s imagination, creating the lover anew in paper like Pygmalion with his stone.
… Read the restMe, I never trust a woman who writes letters, because I know that I myself cannot
I was over at 23rd and Mission again today. Someone has kicked a hole in the recently repaired and repainted image of Rachel Corrie. It was heartbreaking the first time, and heartwarming when it was repaired and repainted. Now it’s been defaced in the same manner as before and any suspicion that it might have been a random act of drunkenness has dissolved.
Jeezus Christ. This is Liberal-Left-Coast San Francisco for cryin’ out loud! If this is the kind … Read the rest
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Wow. People discussed something I wrote without my knowing about it. I guess I sort of forget that anyone ever reads Pigdog Journal.
Maybe Mom was right. I should write more.… Read the rest
So I’ve been putting off committing, but today is the last weekday before it turns into next month, so if I’m going to give notice to my landlord this month, it has to be now.
Not this very minute, but yeah, today. I have to call my landlord today anyhow to tell her about the leak in the roof, so I’m tempted to just hit her with the double-whammy.
I’m sick of commuting. I’m starting to get downright tired of living … Read the rest
Sometimes I feel I should just give up reading.
A couple weeks ago, I read a Star Trek novel to get some cheap entertainment. It was bad. Really bad. I’m a lifelong reader of sci-fi so don’t give me shit about this. I haven’t read Star Trek novels since I was in fourth grade. But I decided to try out a Voyager novel that took place immediately after the TV series ended; I’d been curious about what happened to the … Read the rest
Someone asked me which picture I liked for Best Picture. I thought about it for a moment and responded that I didn’t know what pictures had been nominated. After a few seconds, I added that I didn’t think I’d probably seen any of the nominees.
She said, “what? you haven’t seen xxxxxxxxx? and you haven’t seen yyyyyyyy?” Nope, nope.
So just to check, I went to http://www.oscar.com/nominees/nomineelist.html to see what has been nominated. Turns out, not only have I not seen … Read the rest
I got my paycheck yesterday. My first thought today was, «better make sure to spend it all before I do something stupid with it.»… Read the rest