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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
3:02 pm	Time to Read You Now Sunday was when I finally finished reading the LJ I fell behind-on while at Whitby.  Monday I spent some room cleaning because I thought I lost my notebook in which I noted LJ names.  Today I add the users I met at Whitby.  Welcome banhe, mattp, vinyl_storm, and pope_ant.  Please note that most of my LJ time is spent reading, even if I don't always comment.  Most posts tend to be spent on listing what I'm reading or venting about my parents.  I tend to strip a lot of real life names and use LJ names if applicable.  Stripping my real name and only going by my screen name in online spaces is also normal for me.  (Comment on this)
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
3:00 am	LJ Trim I go on holiday for two weeks and have to do a friends list clean-up.  aspie_trans gay_marriage gender_petition genderqueer i_am_pansexual petplay polyunder30 polyweekly polyamory thetwospectrums transally transgender transnews (Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
1:03 pm	Attention Londoners I've given my travel agent the information to pay for my trip and dealing with the last questions of praticality.  So baring freak incidence, I know where I'll be staying on the 21st and 22nd.  E-mail me at TenshiKurai9 at gmail dot com if you want to meet me.  I'm going to plan my time in London around you.  (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, April 12th, 2008
1:21 am	BF's Ex-Housemate The ex-housemate was seen by one of the boy's friends at the housemate's work (Bread & Jams, near Harvard Square.)  It's too late now, but I'm sure if we had filed a missing persons report, an officer of the law probably would have loved to have a talk with him about the importance of not dissappearing on people.  (Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
4:51 pm	BF's Housemate  So one of my bf's housemates have dissappeared and may have ditched us without paying rent.  Blah.  (3 Comments |Comment on this)
4:48 pm	Ouch! My Back from My Bag Paper Cut 'Zine Library Readings:  Returned the other day: Small Press Expo SPX '98 Things are Meaningless by Al Burian Kissers by James Kolchalka The Perfect Planet and Other Stories by James Kolchalka Got-Out: Rotgut #1, The Frying Dutchman, Roy Tompkins Abatis by Roy Tompkins Trees & Hills and Friends edited by Daniel Barlow and Colin Tedford The Four Husbands by Matt Wiegle Read while waiting for the guy to check-out my items: an untitled 'zine by Missy Kulik involving an affectionate stuffed elephant after its child falls asleep Unfortunately, Nobody Gives a Shit! by Yul Ustonow Tolbert Invention is the Mother of Necessity without an author listed --- Comic Books:  Wigwam Bam by Jaime Hernandez Poison River by Gilbert Hernandez Bohda Te by Jamie Smart Zombies Calling by Faith Erin Hicks Fear of Comics by Gilbert Hernandez Books:  Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi and illustrated by Gris Grimly Tank Girl: Armadillo! and a Bushel of Other Stories by Alan C. Martin Periodicals: Weekly Dig, 4/2-9 The Improper Bostonian, 4/2-15 PeaceWorks, February Berklee Today, Winter The Grub Street Free Press, Spring (Comment on this)
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
1:44 pm	Miltary Fashion Show Because of DJ Mothra 2006 mix Disc 1 and Googling lyrics, I've been caught on And One's "Military Fashion Show."  So I've found a fan video on YouTube to play instead of recuing the mp3.  By now, not once, but twice, my mother has given an oo of interest and asked me what I was playing.  Current Music: Licht? by Bats in the Belfry (1 Comment |Comment on this)
1:28 pm	I'm making a decision to read comic books and such first over quite a bit of newspapers.  Except that went into effect after reading these: Wicked Local Jobs, 3/23-30 WeeklyDig, 3/26-4/2, with a humorous cover of the Red Sox dressed like Japanese soldiers off to battle.  The Back Bay Sun, 3/21-28CambridgeTAB, 3/21-28 The Improper Bostonian, 3/19-4/1 Stuff@Night, 3/25-4/7 (and I finally notice the cover articles of the past issues have been following one words themes, like this issue is Splurge.)  Metronome Magazine, April Verbicide, Spring (The vibe I got-off of the Vice fiction issue and this is telling me they're after the same audience.)  (Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music Edited by Eric Weisberg sounds worthwhile from it's review.)  (Eldridge Rodriguez' This Conspiracy Against Us is reviewed with mention of influences of The Cure and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and gets a positive review.  I'm curious now.)  (Comment on this)
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
10:43 am	WI Pre-Trip Addendum The boyfriend's worrying took-up so much space that I forgot a few things.  I went to Chinatown and went to the Vietnamese sub shop, 163, where the woman behind the counter recognizes me.  I got a pork and a beef sandwich with a bottle of Coke and we talked of me bringing them to begin a bus ride to WI.  There's a bakeshop right by the gates that specialize in cookies.  Got an almond cookie.  Since there was a line by the food court for the busway's bathrooms, I went to the South Station Amtrak, commuter rail, and subway restrooms.  When doubling back, there was a guy flying a sign about being stranded and not looking like a travelers at the foot of the escalator leading back to the busway.  Gave him two bucks and pointed-out to where across the street Traveler's Aid is located.  (Comment on this)
9:52 am	The Improper Bostonian, 3/19-4/1 GO!, March The Fenway News, MarchFashion Boston, March Bay State Parent, March SkiPress, Vol. 7, No. 1, except for the article that reviews hundreds of skis The Filter, March/April issue in a previous post has me making note to visit songerize.com, seeqpod.com, and blog.makezine.com .  From the reviews, I now want Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' The Assassination of Jesse James. . . (94%) and some Killing Joke reissues.  (Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
1:52 pm	WGW While waiting for my credit card, I remembered that my ATM could act as a debit card and ordered a ticket to Whitby Gothic Weekend.  Need to see a travel agent to actually get me over now.   (3 Comments |Comment on this)
1:12 pm	Death Last night my mother told me that a cousin of mine died of her health problems the day previous.  I haven't seen the woman in something like a year and only met her a few times in her life.  So I'm looking at her death in this weird angle of my relative that I did care about, but didn't know well.   (4 Comments |Comment on this)
1:10 pm	::Sheds Paper Mass:: The Weekly Dig, 3/12-19 Stuff@Night, 3/11-24 The Improper Bostonian, 3/5-18 Skirt!, March Travel New England, March Parents and Kids, March Arrive (the Amtrak Acela magazine), March/April Just Us Boys.com, March/April Rock Nation, March/April Spirit Boston, March/April Filter: Good Music Guide, March/April ArtScope, March/April minus one article on the account of rain damage to it Lambda Legal Impact, Winter Comic Books: Chance in Hell by Gilbert Hernandez (a library copy.  don't know if I should get my own copy or not yet.)  The ad on page 19 in Arrive made me go wtf? since it's for a device called NJoy which you use to get your nicotine fix without having to smoke in non-smoking areas.  Meanwhile the "Walk This Way" article is about taking food tours.  I'm noting to myself to take the North End Market Tours ( http://northendmarkettours.com ) to learn more about Italian cuisine and apparently the Boston University Seminar in the Culinary Arts ( http://bu.edu/foodandwine ) does a Chinatown tour.  (Comment on this)
Monday, March 10th, 2008
1:32 pm	Missing My Tribe Delaying Addendum to WI Pre-Trip and the rest of the story, periodical updates, and LJ reading to make a statement: I miss my a.g.  I'm taking a moment to read some of the latest posts NOW!  (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
8:50 pm	Attempting to Comment More on Readings My habit of reading seasonal, bi-monthly, monthly, and bi-weekly publications first generally means I don't get the chance to read weekly publications.  I had a low enough stash of reading material and enough desire to avoid what I had that I finally added a few weekly periodicals.  Weekly Dig, you are not as what I remembered you as when I was in high school and your distribution didn't reach as south as Quincy.  I miss having several articles instead of just one main article and some columns.  Well anyway, here's my list: Weekly Dig, 3/5-3/12 The Back Bay Sun, 2/29-3/6 The Boston Courant-Serving Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Fenway, and the South End, 3/1-7 Stuff@Night, 2/26-3/10 Exhibit A, The law--in plain English, March Metronome Magazine, March Performer, The Musician's Resource Magazine, Northeast edition, March Spirit of Change, Spring Conscious Dancer, Winter Comic books: Nemi by Lisa Myhre Grumpy Old Monsters created and written by Kevin J. Anderson & Rebecca Moesta Sikh Gurus from Diamond Comics Love and Rockets X by Gilbert Hernandez (Since this is a library copy, I still need to buy the thing.  I like how there's reference to the band Love and Rockets throughout this book.)  (Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
11:08 pm	Cleaning the Room and Findings Found a mess to update you on.  The Improper Bostonian, 1/23-2/5 On and Off Broadway, January Be Healthy, January Town of Brookline Senior Calendar, January Metronome Magazine, December The Consumer's Voice, Winter 2007/08 (Comment on this)
9:32 am	Regular Reading with More Commentary Free periodicals: Improper Bostonian, 2/20-3/4 Stuff@Night, 1/29-2/11 The Noise, February INSite Magazine, February Fashion Boston, February (Only once have I spotted this somewhere other than near South Station.  Previous times, I've come across it and it's the issue for the previous month.  Thought that Lola's readers would be the same target audience.  There was an ad for Lola in it and they're both owned by Boston Globe Media.)  New England Gaming News, February (which for some reason, I only see in or near South Station and no where else) The Boston Bicycle Reflector, Issue 2, Winter '08 Helio, Winter 2007 (First time I've noticed an ad for the Helio phone beyond the magazine's name.  The bf commented about the Helio phone being a hipster phone.  That would explain the feel I've gotten from the articles.)  EdibleBoston, Winter (first magazine whose title makes the bf interest) Comic books: My Brain Hurts, Volume One, by Liz Baillie (Cat and Girl fans take note: a music store employee is wearing a Virginia Admitted to Statehood in 1788 shirt) It Ate Billy on Christmas by Roman Dirge and Painty Paint by Steven Daily Not going to get read, but collected during the journey to/from WI: A Sandusky Bay Journal, Volume 4, Number 1, January Syracuse New Times, 1/16-23 Bride and Grooms 08 (published by Syracuse New Times) MKE, 1/17 Shepard Express, 1/17-23 (Milwaukee's Alternative Weekly) Found a sheet from the 2/2007 Go that I kept because of the couple Bunny Rabbit & Black Cracker and mention of their debut album Lovers and Crypts (Voodoo-Eros Records)--as beatboxers.  (Comment on this)
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
10:48 am	WI Pre-Trip So basically the entire reason I went to Wisconsin on 1/19 was to attend LJ hellsop's birthday party.  It was also a first face-to-face meeting.  I gave the boyfriend more advance warning than my parents and. . .well the boyfriend is the reason for the Social Bonding Explanation post.  http://tenshikurai9.livejournal.com/27552.html So pre-trip I had to deal with his worrying.  Like first and foremost, you're seeing a guy with the name of Coffin?  He checked to make sure I know what a misanthrope is and that there are people who make friends online since they can't make friends online from the misanthropy.  (Told him I have a misanthropic edge and defrayed his concern over the paths that could take me.  Basically, I'm in the background for the majority of people and thus not likely that they're out to get me and lack of reason to bring them to the foreground to get aggravated by in the first place.)  Also made the mistake of using the term bloody goth, as in, he's just another bloody goth, in front of him.  Yes, he's familiar with the Britishism, but he's had plenty of experiences with people describing themselves as vampires.  The fact that hellsop and myself posters to a group of people with a standard joke of pretending to be zombies when accused of being vampires and redirecting people down other corridors to the vampires wasn't a help.  LJ oonh having met the guy before (the guy he finds nifty) didn't reassure him.  So oonh trusting him to the point of encouraging me to get my ass to WI pre-boyfriend was irrelevant.  I just let the comment of about men and implied expectations when women stay with them for a period of time slide.  (Conversation bit post, I may have described him as a friend, but I've realized the conversation content marks him as one of the previous relationships that made sure, I'm not monogamous, were my first words after he asked if we could date.)  Day before the actual trip, I collected various periodicals and went to three New England Comics and Million Year Picnic.  The boy tried to say, you can collect plenty of papers to read en route.  The Friday for day one of travel I made sure to get-up early and wasn't going to fufill his desire to spend a bit more time in bed.  (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
4:55 pm	RIP Sprinkles  The boyfriend likes to keep rats.  He used to have three of them.  As of last night, he only has two of them.  Rest in peace Sprinkles.  (Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
3:26 pm	More Readings Finally went to the Papercut Zine Library in Harvard Square and got a membership card:  Survival Without Rent Fight Back! yr guide to feminist self defense from (her) Riot Distro Urban Forager: A Guide to Dumpster Liberation and the Freegan Lifestyle from Reclaim Press & Distribution SurThrival Guide for Under 18ers by Mark Fe`e`st (accents should be over the two e.s) (should get my own copy or take notes since some of the advice is good for 18 and overs) Free periodicals:  Stuff@Night, 2/12-/25 New England Sports, February Profile News, Boston Edition, February Wisdom, February  Xtreme New England, February CareerBuilder Boston, February Go, February The Second Glass, Issue #7 From the graphic novel realm:  The Dead Boy Detectives by Jill Thompson (Comment on this)