A New Year

A friend recently told me that she doesn't feel like her "new year" starts on the 1st of January. She feels like it starts in the fall some time.

Not me. I am ready for that fresh, clean, straight outta the box, New Year at midnight on December 31st. I like the pomp and circumstance. Everything in life is too casual now.

I feel like we need more honest intention in our daily lives. More with the hard shoes. Less with the sneakers.

I think in 2009, we really have to get down to business. Get to work.

That doesn't mean work on things that you don't want to work on. That means work on them with honest intention. Make it important.

Merry Christmas


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Today is the shortest day of the year.

I have a feeling it will be the coldest also.

I went to have coffee with friends this morning. After that I went down to Lake Erie to take some pictures.

It was so bitter cold. My face hurt after being outside my car for just 30 or so seconds. The brisk icy high winds were very hard to take.

Me again.
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My friend Sharon wanted to go to Hudson today. She has never been there.

We walked around for a while. Hudson is nice. Really great houses. Lots of little shops.

After that, we went to check out Chagrin Falls. Just mostly to see what Hudson is aiming for. Chagrin Falls does it better. You know what I mean.

On the way back into Cleveland we stopped to check out the Wade Oval "Ice Rink."

I use quotes because the ICE is made of plastic. There were a dozen or so people skating around. It looked gorgeous...but sounded all wrong.

It didn't sound like ice skating. I still recommend you go check it out tho. They will be open 'til February.

"It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them."
-P. G. Wodehouse


I just GOTTA remember this. I am an incessant "sorry" er.

I cannot believe that Christmas day is almost here.
I have my tree up. I made this year's ornament. It's a little styrofoam snowman.
He's kinda cute.

Riot Hag





Last weekend I watched "Don't Need You: The Herstory of Riot Grrrl."

It's a short documentary on the whole Riot Grrl scene in the early to mid 90s. It was pretty good. I thought it left out a lot of bands and artists, but it did pretty much focus on the main bands, Bratmobile, Heaven's to Betsy and Bikini Kill.

Please, someone get me a ukulele for Christmas...
or for my Birthday!

Don't make any lame-ass damn excuses
for not being there. Really.

Straight Allies

How to make a Blue state into a Money Green state!

Okay. So California has passed Proposition 8. Making "Gay Marriage" in California illegal.

First of all: STOP calling it "Gay Marriage." It's not about the marriage being gay. It's about granting every American the same damn civil rights.

Lesbian, gay people are second class citizens in this country even though we are paying taxes and following the same rules that the hetero population is.

Not fair. Not goddamn fair!

So...here's what we do.

RIGHT NOW, Ohio Governor Strickland needs to make "Gay Marriage" legal here in the Buckeye State. That would make us a very popular place for all the moneyed homosexuals to live. Cleveland could be the next San Francisco! How great would that be?!

Huh?! Huh?!

And by the way...I am THRILLED to have a president that I can be proud of.

The next time I am having trouble falling asleep THIS is what I am going to do!!

What to do with that old record player in the closet.

One of the many reasons I don't have a job right now.

What a gorgeous weekend.

Gorgeous enough to paint pictures of garbage cans in the
Euclid Creek Reservation.

The hell with Obama...



I want Henry Waxman as the next president!!!

Reason # 387 to live in Cleveland.

Is it too early to think about Xmas?

I would LOVE one of these for my tree this year!!

PLEEEEEEZE!!!

Somebody make these for me. They are soooooo adorable.

I would like mine in more realistic colors tho.

A gorgeous September day.

On Saturday I rode all around Cleveland on my scooter.

So much was going on. There was the Tremont Art Festival in Lincoln Park. The festival seems to get bigger each year. I visited a few booths and sat and watched a polka band for a few songs.

I then went to ride around the west bank of the flats looking for somewhere to sit and paint. I discovered that a big rowing event was going on. The "Head of the Cuyahoga" Rowing Event.

I sat and painted by the Columbus road bridge. Right near OCBC.

This is not some of my best work...but it was fun to do.

An amazing scene, an amazing song, in one of my Top 3 movies.

Beautiful in sight AND sound.

#41 - Arcade Fire - Neon Bible & Wake Up
by lablogotheque

1993 was amazing.

A toast!

"To the two women who I would drive and hour and half to have dinner with in Warren, Ohio"

clink!

I Yam What I Yam.


Most of 'Generation MySpace' never had to hear that awful song, "I am what I am," being bellowed out by a Gay Men's Chorus.

I did. Every year at Gay Pride. I hate it. I pretty much hate all the "Gay Anthems."

Wait...no. I do like

• "I spent my last $10 on Birth Control and Beer" by 2 Nice Girls.


• "Fast and Frightening" by L7


• "Rebel Girl" by Bikini Kill


• "Rebel Rebel" by David Bowie


• "I don't Believe You" by Magnetic Fields

I know there are tons more that I am not thinking of. Can you think of any?

I am having a hard time keeping focus.

Smile, cringe, smile.

That is what I do whenever I see fashion from the early 90s.

I love it, I am embarrassed by it, I miss it.



The glasses, the hats, the hair. Sigh.

That's the Judybats by the way.

Damn dill weed.


I just spent my evening making chicken soup from scratch.

I put in carrots, potatoes, green beans, noodles and of course some chicken.

It smelled soooo good.

As it was just about finished cooking I found a little container of dried dill in my pantry. I started sprinkling it into the soup. It wasn't coming out so I pounded the bottom a bit and then clumps of it came out. It looked kind of weird but I thought nothing of it. I stirred it in.

After about 10 minutes I noticed what looked like little dark reddish seeds floating in my beautiful homemade soup.

I took one out and it looked like a bug. I spooned a few more out and looked at them under a magnifying glass.

Yes. They were bugs.

A gigantic pot of homemade chicken noodle soup totally ruined.

Daaaaaaaaaaaag.