Epitaph
“It’s one of those epitaph quotes that are amazingly contrived but you secretly hope you’re family will spring for.”
January 22, 2008
January 21, 2008
Sligo
“standing around that fire with friends, all still warming from jumping in ice cold water, sipping on Tom’s generously donated top-shelf Irish whisky, watching the sparks and flickers of the fire float upwards blending into the full night’s sky of stars, and hearing Sam’s high, hollowly tenor, singing warm melodies that you can’t believe he’s written.”
January 19, 2008
The Ever-Curing, Ever-Powerful, Beauty Of The Lakes. (Or How I Learned To Re-Love England)
I love the compartmentalization of it all, as if every blade of grass or mossy path should have it’s own prescribed partition. It’s O.C.D. paradise.
January 18, 2008
Sleepwalk Capsules
“Seeing how it was like 4AM he was awakened to some person in his room he was quite distressed. Me, I was still half asleep and confused at to why he was sleeping in my work’s stock room…”
Brandon in Bavaria
“So many times I couldn’t believe I was in Germany because it was so beautiful. The architecture, the villages, the old castles, and even the countryside’s, were all postcard perfect.”
January 17, 2008
Friends in London
“Normally (as egotistical as it sounds) someone will name a band and I can list of their earlier albums, side projects, etc, but with Jon I had to stop counting the times I said: “I’ve never even heard of them” only for him to grow in excitement and whip out the CD with you-have-to-listen-to-this flourish.”
I Think I’m Turning English, I Really Think So…
“…perhaps this causes the confusion for people as to where I’m from. I’m gotten Irish a few times, French once (and no they weren’t drunk, just a bad guesser), Canadian often, and only after talking for sometime will people start to guess that I might be American. It’s like I’m in some sort of ambiguous nationality middle ground.”
Maude
I’m sitting on the train directly across for a woman who is the spitting image of Maude. It’s very exciting.
i want to download forrest gump the film
January 15, 2008
Vampires
“Granted both of us work late into the night, but that doesn’t explain why when I come down in the morning/afternoon I find half of the fridge contents consumed. It also doesn’t explain why we can no longer keep garlic in the house…”
Highlights of the Highlands (Scotland round 2)
“Soon that would build up and then some silly crewman with a lantern would come too close and blow the whole thing up!” Tina looked skeptical. I think we both thought the aspiring etymologist was full of… well… ship high in transit.”
