the long pauses in-between and another lost friend

So, these long-ass pauses… I am moved into the new place, the unpacking will be slow, since each room needs work and my budgets are tight as ever. I do not yet have wifi in the house, so internet activity is only when I can bare the packing up and trip to a coffeehouse or […]

dammit…

There we were, sitting in over-sized sofas in the living room. What an odd couple we made. I was visiting the city he loved so much for the first time. The sofa made me lean backward too far, which caused noticeable pain. Well, everything caused noticeable pain, as I had pinched a nerve in my shoulder […]

a marking, offered a bit past due

One year has past for each of the Hindu chakras. One year has past for each of the classical planets. One year past for each of the seven virtues or each of the seven sins… One for each of the endocrine glands in my body. And one year for each of the seven directions… It […]

fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck

Gods, this one is gonna hurt… Travel on, Beast, you brilliant man. Many thanks to for reminding me of this video… Oh, fuck!

file under: big, bad cry-baby

So, there I am, bawling like a baby on the drive home this afternoon. I was listening to this… Comedian Robert Schimmel died last Friday from injuries received from a car accident, but that is not why I was crying like a baby. Schimmel was a regular on the Howard Stern Show, but that was […]

fancy-dress occasion

Last night was a fancy-dress memorial for the bespoke corset-maker whose passing I mentioned a short while back. Her name was Amy Crowder and she was the owner and force behind Wasp Creations. She often commented how few people dressed up for events and special occasions; it was the perfect concept for her memorial. Of […]

plus one makes two

By now, most of you know about rocky01’s death. I honestly thought he would survive all of his health crises… The interaction between John and I before his illnesses hit was difficult at best, and there was little opportunity to mend things once he fell sick. All I can really say is that the world is a dimmer […]

beach blanket bingo

I think I forgot to mention that I have visitors this weekend. Both <lj-user: kumazuki> and <lj-user: dakoopst> are here. Lucky me! And… the weather broke some for the weekend, leaving a fabulous afternoon for the day at the beach. No, really. Today is <lj-user: danbearnyc>’s Beach Blanket Bingo send-off over in NYC, so we decided to join in for […]

and so it goes…

Hello, my name is Fred. Well, it isn’t really, it never really was, but it was one of those things in my circle back in high school. Ceals, Bud, Ike, Gert and Fred. There was also Ceals’s older brother, but I can’t remember for the life of me what we called him in the Land […]

celebration of life

I never got around to posting these last month. I only just got them processed last week. Then I hit that point where I felt it was too late to post them; untimeliness and all that… Then I rethought it all. Given danbearnyc‘s death on freakin’-christmas-day and my uncle’s death this past weekend and rockey1‘s failing […]