tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72819046737457315742013-02-10T13:03:55.442-08:00a semi-scholarly confessional concerning poetry, music, and the accidents that make life liveable.Rachel Leastlikelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12792020008028996396noreply@blogger.comBlogger224125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281904673745731574.post-83235051916269110162013-02-10T13:03:00.001-08:002013-02-10T13:03:55.461-08:002013-02-10T13:03:55.461-08:00

again and again i consider deleting this blog and my poetry blog just so there won't be redundancies and loose ends as i move forward in life. i'm not really putting myself here anymore. but i don't want to delete all this well-meaning work, you know? nor do i really want to be professionally connected with it. but what about all the people who want to read that post i wrote about Buzz Ballads?

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Joseph and I recently shared an observation that every time we blog, no matter how lofty our intentions, we feel like jerks afterwards. bloggers' malaise. maybe it's a sign that we're in the wrong medium. clearly not everyone who writes for the internet is a jerk... but i kind of get this same feeling anytime i write anything that isn't poetry, a private journal or personal correspondence. and

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I recently read Hannibal by Thomas Harris, one of those books, you know. Oh how well we know. How many of us can get through a week without hearing the name "Clarice" uttered in sinister, hissing tones for one reason or another? Anyway, I really enjoyed the book. You know when you read D.H. Lawrence and stuff and it seems like absolutely anything can distract you or convince you to quit reading

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vincent doth protest too much. i really, really, really loved this episode the first time i saw it. pretty much everyone i know says it made them cry. maybe i'm in a bad mood tonight because i've been on the internet for five uninterrupted minutes, but right now it is striking me as ham handed and annoying... the main theme seems to be Vincent's lack of self-confidence and the constant

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this is just going to become a food blog, watch and see... my sermon of the day: take the time to cook beans. folks, i had a hell of a time the other night. i came home from too-many-hours-at-work-this-weekend, my back aching, my boyfriend out of town (hint: there's a correlation. i think most human beings only thrive when they get lots of physical contact, otherwise our nerves dry up or

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spoiler: not much. And since everything I write on here has to be in list form now, here we go. There's a seemingly endless variety of methods for starting your sourdough. Google it, visit your local library and see for yourself. You can make it as complicated as you want. However... The thing you were searching for was right under your nose the whole time. In my case, that meant the recipe I

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I started a new starter yesterday. It's already lively. I once again used flour and raw milk from within 60 miles of me. And it's plenty warm in my kitchen. The primordial bread soup is bubblin'. I'm saving the photos in case we follow through with our idea of starting a food blog.

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the latest high point in this exciting year, along with such wonders as: meeting the love of my life; visiting the Orient Land Trust; quitting a job; meeting a flock of chickens; and creating my first loaf of wild yeast sourdough: i got tickets to see Morrissey live. uh huh yeah i do have. those things. i. do.

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If you were to compile a list of the BEST STUFF THERE IS, what would be on it? I mean the things that really blow you away, that really amaze, excite, move or comfort you? Or things that are just so satisfyingly well-made that you could weep at the sheer ingenuity and/or cunning simplicity of it all? I'm going to start making that list for myself. Today's entries: Aeon Flux, the animated

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Which is worse? The devilish ever-increasing heat, bringing instinctive fears of habitat loss in the wake of constant climactic change that has been the doom of countless species since the beginning of Earth (I've been reading Evolution by Stephen Baxter, good book) or A really nasty boss fight that leaves completely unwarranted adrenaline in your system for hours after you've left the computer

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http://soundcloud.com/boredofexcitement check out my friend's podcast. just do it. i could listen to him all day, truly. and this is a very nicely produced thing. i love podcasts; can't we all have one? where's yours?

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sometime during the night, my sourdough starter exploded. did you know that was a thing that could happen? i didn't. fermentation is a deadly game, but so is life, my friends. and what is life without good bread? my only regret is that poor Joseph was the one who found the grisly scene. he then had to clean it up. broken glass. wheat splatter everywhere.

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It seems my gentleman lover Joseph and I have decided to beat the heat and our poverty by spending the Summer in our cool, dank basement playing Diablo III. While normally I'd be concerned that I was wasting my life, I realized just now that as long as there's a video game around I have no trouble avoiding the following habits: shopping (online or in-store) drinking (as long as there's no break

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So much has changed in the past almost-year that I find I have become physically out-of-shape when it comes to sitting at a computer. Not bragging: I'm still completely and utterly out-of-shape when it comes to other activities, too, but today as I sit in a coffee shop with my laptop, reading an old project of mine in the new-to-me format of the Aquamacs buffer (open source is the future, she

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it's either this or back to livejournal. at least livejournal has polls... guess that clinches it! haha jk. So, yes, it's been what, 2 years now? 2 years away from the sweet sweet Compose page. Had a brief, intense (and i mean intense) affair with Tumblr and now I'm never, ever allowed to go back. I'm revisiting this blog, I'm revisiting the crap I wrote in college, but I'm leaving Tumblr to

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i've been making this face a lot lately and combined with the occasional radical, unsubstantiated, inflammatory Facebook status, i'm thinking maybe i should consider a move to Fox News. think they'd let me be the arts correspondent? they totally need one. AND I HAVE NOWHERE ELSE TO GO!

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This is not a movie review. Ha! It's another one of those moments like where Hawkeye would get all serious about the war. I vaguely remember being disturbed by that. Like seeing my father cry or something.Anyway, here it is.The thing saving my life right now is greed.Nowadays I dedicate a lot more time than usual to making money, which isn't to say I am going to have much, cause work is still a

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Seems I only blog nowadays if I have something to say to no one in particular that won't fit in 140 characters or less.I was just lisening to Luxuria and they were playing a recording of a ventriloquist act which had presumably gone out over the radio sometime between 1920 and 1970.At first it doesn't seem that odd. But then you realize the fact that the entire point of ventriloquists is that the

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vs. (feel free to click the primitive drawings if, unlike me, you have a computer that's less than 4 years old)Maybe it really is time for cockroaches to get a rebranding. Maybe it's time we stood up for flies. Cause if we want rid of them we have to side with spiders and ...shudder... centipedes.*I really, really, really hate house centipedes.But a friend of mine on facebook just posted a

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Because of this:http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_11_20-celebrity-endorsed-products-too-awesome-to-existI made this:There.

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Being gainfully-- if not fully-- employed can surely wear on one.I'm still in a transitional period of getting used to things, and learning the ropes of all the new jobs, but the worrisome thing is that I now cannot seem to sit quietly long enough to watch a televisionne programme or read a book or WRITE or in fact care about anything, without dozing off.The danger of having jobs you don't hate

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Prompt: Create a super-pet by combining any three animals.Very well. Imagine with me...before: flying kitten after: Owl + Cat + Chameleon = The Kwitleon! A cuddly flying color-changing big-eyed thing that lives on flies and other pests. Spends much of its time napping, hunting and performing acrobatic swoops. Lays eggs which hatch fluffy, winged kittens.

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The Children's Hospital by Chris AdrianMy rating: 5 of 5 starsI recently read this. Or rather finished reading it. I've had it for like 2 years. Originally I read it a few pages at a time, in the bath, as it was already water-damaged when I received it, from a man I met online whose name I no longer remember but at the time was involved in a sort of territory dispute between myself and my

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Oh. Wait. It's Friday the 13th. That means my project for the day should be Jackie Earle Haley related.My actual plan was to get a little extra mileage out of my own charming little ridiculousness by sharing this with you:transcript: I didn't get any notice, aside from the footprints on my porch. only learned of attempted delivery by checking the tracking site. please(!) deliver my package before

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at what point do you know someone well enough to talk to them about Kate Bush?or The Last Unicorn?things of that nature.

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