Jun
4th
Mon
4th
A review of “Life of Pi”
This book is going to sit in my subconscious for a while. I keep thinking about the meerkat island in particular, since it is strangely similar to some of my craziest dreams.
I think the end could’ve been lopped off, but other than that it’s a good, easy, surreal, imaginative, enjoyable read.
(via All Consuming: Buster McLeod)
Things & Places are still up — site outages
We’re working on 43 People, All Consuming & Lists of Bests right now—they may be down for a few minutes to an hour as we work on some database issues. Hope to have things up before lunch!
(via The Robot Co-op)
the incarcerated life
Paris went to a normal jail! A 12-by-8 cell with two bunks, a table, a sink, a toilet and a small window. She gets one hour a day out of the cell for television/phone calls, etc. Food is cereal, bread and juice. How can you not like Paris?
“I did have a choice to go to a pay jail,” Hilton said Sunday, without giving details. “But I declined because I feel like the media portrays me in a way that I’m not and that’s why I wanted to go to county, to show that I can do it and I’m going to be treated like everyone else. I’m going to do the time, I’m going to do it the right way.”
Sure, it’s all calculated, but so is everything mostly. (via Let’s Have Bizarre Celebrations)
I’m getting one today
Buster McLeod added an entry about get a cat:My friend Clarita is taking care of her friend’s cat for a while and it’s not getting along with her other cat. Late one night I volunteered to take care of the cat if hers didn’t start getting along with it. It’s easy to volunteer to help. Especially when a little drunk.
The next day she was still having cat drama in her house and I told her again that I could take care of it if she needed help. She accepted. Things I didn’t know at the point of agreeing to take care of it: what it’s name was, gender, age, color, how long she was going to take care of the cat, if it’s a nice cat.
Since then, I’ve learned that it’s a chubby cuddly tabby cat named Stoli with territorial issues. I’ll be taking care of it for 10 months. Today I bought a litter box and a food dish and I’ll be picking it up tonight (can’t wait to “meet” my new friend). I just finished reading Life of Pi so it is my new goal to “tame” this new beast in my life. Perhaps I should make it symbolic of something, like my fear of failure or heights, or abandonment, to get more bang for the hairball.
(via 43 Things: Buster McLeod)
get a cat
Buster McLeod adopted this goal (via 43 Things: Buster McLeod)
Jun
3rd
Sun
3rd
Buster M. @ Zig Zag Cafe
Buster M. @ Zig Zag Cafe ! hot and rainy
1501 Western Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101 (via Buster M.’s checkin history)
Buster M. @ 611 Supreme
Buster M. @ 611 Supreme ! More champagne
611 E Pine St
Seattle, WA 98122 (via Buster M.’s checkin history)
Buster M. @ Pike Place Market
Buster M. @ Pike Place Market ! Just sighted my first pig on parade. Oops now 3!
Pike Street & 1st ave
Seattle, WA 98101 (via Buster M.’s checkin history)
Jun
2nd
Sat
2nd
processing my stories on a quiet day
These stories are currently bouncing around in my head about myself and people in my life. They may or may not be the same stories that are in the heads of the actual people who are here represented in my head. The order of the stories does not imply causality, the stories are gross oversimplifications, and they aren’t really in time-order.
A and B break up after a year or more of trying. The breakup is difficult.
A and C, very good friends of many years, start and run a business together.
A falls in love with D unexpectedly, ridiculously, and amazingly.
E, a good friend of D’s, endorses the new relationship between A and D 100%.
B and A’s lives are very entangled because of the business, and friends, like C.
A and C are stressed out about the business.
It could be said that F is D’s B, and E is D’s C. Not in all ways but in some.
E and F work together and are good friends.
E is also an investor in A, B, and C’s business.
A wants B to be happy, and if possible, to remain good friends.
C thinks A treated B poorly sometimes, and can’t let B go due to emotional dependence.
C might think D is the new B, and that A will treat D poorly in turn.
D is not the new B. B is B and D is D.
F also thinks A will treat D poorly, but it’s more complicated than that. A doesn’t know F at all really.
E and D are trying to make A and F friends, which A is open to, if only F would approve A’s Myspace friend request.
There is lifestyle tension here. Loving one at a time, many at a time, keeping secrets, revealing too much, being vulnerable, accidentally hurting, second-guessing each others motives, validating, invalidating, accepting the other lifestyles and the people who have them, finding the one that works for you, etc.
How A, B, C, D, E, and F were in the past may or may not determine how they will be in the future.
A strike of something unexpected, ridiculous, and amazing can change you forever. History’s loop can break.
A, B, and C live on the west coast. D, E, and F live on the east coast, where G (A’s ex) also lives.
D and G are friends. A and G are becoming friends again too. Time processes everything.
A met everyone in these stories through C, while D met everyone in these stories through E. C and E are the social connectors, bringing everyone together.
Nobody wants drama. Everyone wants love. Everyone is doing their best.
Sometimes the stories make it more difficult to let things happen as they want to happen, naturally.
There is a lot of love to give, finding people to give it to, and how, is the real trick. (via Let’s Have Bizarre Celebrations)
