liminal screeds

Mini Album Review

Ξ September 30th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ mini album reviews, screeds |

The Twilight Sad – Forget the Night Ahead

Scottish accents are pretty cool.

Mini Album review

Ξ September 30th, 2009 | → 1 Comments | ∇ mini album reviews, screeds |

Pearl Jam – Backspacer

I couldn’t wait to get this off my iPod.

still further thoughts on comfortable integrity

Ξ September 25th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ comfortable integrity, how do you like your MINI, screeds |

One normally doesn’t see MINI Coopers out there in the wild with dents and dings and scratches. They are an unblemished population. In fact, I am pretty sure the only dirty MINI I have ever seen is my own, a situation that rarely lasts longer than 48 hours.

Driving around in a banged-up MINI is weird and makes me a little (more) self-conscious. It’s like wearing really nice clothes with spaghetti sauce all over them. I want to put a sign on it or yell at regular intervals out the window: “It wasn’t my fault!”

Actually, I’m more relaxed about it now that the insurance process/estimate/parts ordering is all underway and the MINI will soon be restored to mostly full-blown MINI-ness. (I say mostly because  the dings on the back that WERE my fault  require a $500 deductible that is the seemingly most impossible sum of money to save in the history of xty.)  (The back dings are a result of backing out of a parking space, distracted by being stoned and about to see a woman I was into, and into a truck. I am, of course, now reminded of this chick I am not dating every time I approach my car.)

The accident last week was, as all accidents, a great big ball of unfortunateness, of which I suffered the least.  I hit two people on a scooter after they were catapulted into my path by the first car that hit them.  Poor folks were hit by two cars. (They did not sustain major injuries, thanks to the relatively low speeds involved.)

Some time well after the event I realized that it was probably ten or fifteen minutes into it – after ambulance arrived and I had stopped shaking a little- that I  noticed my car and thought “Oh, car’s hurt. I might need a tow.” Not being a paragon of self-love lately, I was relieved to know that when something real happened, my thoughts were not of myself first. Relieved and, sadly, surprised.

$3500 worth of damage to a MINI

further reasons this blog has languished

Ξ September 21st, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ lists, screeds |

• books
• all-you-can-eat Netflix and 22″ monitor
• raging sullenness
• generalized distraction
• exercise compulsion
• ritualized ennui
• a decided paucity of unbridled hedonism
• compulsive attention to adorable neurotic cat
• occasional people

Wolfram Alpha: words ending in ishly

Ξ September 8th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ google art, screeds |