Give Me That Old-Fashioned Heterosexual Privilege

I’d put aside my thoughts of fish and bicycles when I moved up here for school. But two weeks ago, I snuck up to Seattle for the weekend, to see the Boy. We were laying around in the funny glow of the last day of vacation, talking about everything and nothing (as you do), when […]

Friday Cat Blogging: Holy Shit I Have Cats!

Well, technically, the cats belong to my housemate. Which means that I get to live with cats, but don’t have to clean up their poop.
For those of you who don’t understand how excited I am about this, you should understand that I spend my entire childhood begging for a cat. Then when I left for […]

Friday iTunes iChing

Hey! Oracle! What’s up?

The Covering: Wolfstone - Ballavanich
The Crossing: Tony Elman - Road To Lisdoonvarna - Swallowtail Jig - Irish Washerwoman
The Crown: Onky - Dumme Dansker
The Root: Kíla - Tip Toe
The Past: The Chieftains & Van Morrison - Marie’s Wedding
The Future: Spaghetti Western - P. Sellers
The Questioner: The Andrews Sisters - Rum and Coca Cola
The […]

Insomnia, Slightly Beer-Induced

I woke up at 4:30 this morning and couldn’t get back to sleep until 7:30. Graah! Is all I have to say to that. And, I met a set of potential housemates last night, for beer, which motivates today’s Oracle question: if it bothers you that your housemates don’t replace the toilet paper roll, but […]

Friday itunes 8ball

It’s a new and different fortune-telling music shuffle meme! The theme: magic eight ball, c. 12 years old.

How does the world see me?
Miles Davis - Will O’ The Wisp
Will I have a happy life?
Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas - The Duchess Of Bedford/ Lady Hope Of Pinkie/ Lady Montgomery
Various Duchesses of Bedford have sunk U-boats, […]

Friday iTunes iChing: Jurassic Utah Edition

O Frabjous Oracle, was the deformation observed in the Carmel and Entrada formations of Utah caused by an impact at Upheaval Dome?
Shooka shooka! The party shuffle plays shuffleboard…

The Covering: Celtic Night - Live - Dust Rhinos
The Crossing: The Short Tempered Claivier - P.D.Q. Bach
The Crown: Toute cette histoire - Louise Attaque
The Root: The Lincolnshire Poacher […]

Friday iTunes iChing: Martian Edition

O Great Oracle: Were the recent glaciers on Olympus Mons fed from atmospheric water, ground water, or both? Or are we puny humans simply imagining glacial deposits where no glaciers existed? Only your pseudorandom access memory knows for sure!
The party shuffle parties…

The Covering: Drunken Sailor/South Australia- Dust Rhinos
The Crossing: I Should Be So Lucky - […]

The Shoppingest Friday iTunes iChing of the Year

Dear iTunes: Do you think I should participate in the crass commercialism of the holiday season?

The Covering: Edith Piaf - Partance
The Crossing: Loretta Kelley - Ingjen Fugle Fyke Sa Hagt
The Crown: Low - California
The Root: The Be Good Tanyas - Horses
The Past: Stones in the Field - Trip To Durrow/My Love Is In America (Reels)
The […]

Friday iTunes iChing

O great iTunes, if you have not yet withdrawn your sight from Washington D.C. the way God has withdrawn from Dover and Bill O’Reilly has withdrawn from San Francisco, tell me: will Congress really suspend the writ of habeas corpus in Guantanamo Bay?
The key.

The Covering: New Creation - Let The River Flow
The Crossing: Golden Ball […]

Friday Friday Friday

It seems that all the cool kids of Bay Area geo-blogging were at Kevin Starr’s lecture (on the lessons learned from the 2020 San Francisco earthquake) last night. I was not; I was doing homework. I’m not cool.
But in the spirit of commemorating destruction, let’s see if, in addition to being uncool, I’m also doomed: […]