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My family is a shotgun shell

October 3, 2005 /

My sister has landed by now, I think. Mom and Kyle and I saw her off at the airport yesterday evening, carrying her life in four bags bigger than herself. Caitlan is a packrat. She is also a genius. She’s going to have a degree from Oxford and I could not be more jealous or more proud.

Today is my brother’s birthday, and he is alone in Los Angeles, sans roommate, sans internets. Happy birthday, Ian. I’ll call you later and tell you that you should go to a bar and let drop that you’re alone on your birthday on your first week in California. If you can’t wring some makeouts out of that, you’re just not trying.

This post is actually about gloating over seeing Lucinda Williams

September 30, 2005 /

Lucinda Williams seemed happily surprised by the enthusiasm of the crowd last night. “Y’all are so great,” she said. “What is this, is… is Louisville just a well-kept secret or something?” (Roars of assent, even though she pronounced it “Looeyville.”) “Y’know, Austin used to be like this… back when I moved there in ’74. Before the Wal-Marts and the Starbucks moved in…”

I wonder if she saw any of the billboards and bumper stickers for Keep Louisville Weird, which is (by their admission) a direct rip of Keep Austin Weird.

The correct pronunciation of “Louisville,” incidentally, has been codified in Elizabethtown, and is audible in the theatrical trailer, I think (can’t check at work, sans sound card). Elizabethtown filmed for a few days and held its premiere afterparty at the Brown Hotel, adjoining the Brown Theatre where we saw Lucinda Williams last night.

Lucinda Williams is a good show! She is also the most awkward-looking human on earth.

September 29, 2005 /

Whoa, I made like thirty-five bucks off of Dreamhost referrals! Where by “made” I mean “got taken off my annual hosting bill,” but still!

Thanks, Kyle and soltaridj and procura, whoever you are. (I know who Kyle is.)

September 29, 2005 /

Disturbing Search Result (that led somebody to my site):

tv remote control fall down and don't work

Ten bucks says that’s a Kentucky original!

Getting more hits for “thinspiration,” too: Ana has moved up to the #84 Google result.

The Central Ethos of Harry Potter

September 29, 2005 /

I’m not sure what Fantine was going to say, but here’s my overanalysis: the central ethos of Harry Potter–that one should trust children to be competent, but shield them from the consequences of failure; that a parent should protect them from harm, but never information–is a highly political one. It’s also already stated in about a jillion other YA books, but when was the last time it was distributed on such a scale? When was the last time it was internalized so widely, so willingly, outside the classroom, by children and adults?

It’s at that question that I start to wonder what the book-burning groups are really out to fight.

September 29, 2005 /

I’ve been out of my air cast since Monday, and I haven’t felt any soreness except late that first night (after a strenuous day). I am done being sprained! I’ve kicked my bad ankle! In a manner of speaking.

September 27, 2005 /

Names I have used in Anacrusis:

  • Eddy
  • Edmund
  • Edwidge
  • Edgar
  • Edwin

Names I have not heretofore used in Anacrusis:

  • Ed