gay lei

When my bosses bought the store I work at, one of them, the one who runs the deli, decided that Wednesday was Hawaiian Day (*shrug*). The best part about this is that they make a SPAM sandwich with pineapple, tomato, red onion and provolone. I like SPAM, but was still surprised by how much I liked this sandwich.
There were a bunch of leis around the deli area today, the deli people were wearing them. I noticed the rainbow ones because, well, I'm a fag. I decided to get a photo of me with it on for fun. I missed Gay Day, and probably wouldn't have donned a rainbow anyway, but here...a rare sight...Phil being all "pridey".

but they're cousins!

I recently shaved my beard. Jeremy shaved his a couple of days ago. I only have one picture of us together with beards and he won't let me get a new "after" picture (yet). So let me just say we look less like Brian Posehn and Steve Agee, the gay couple from The Sarah Silverman Program:

and more like Bert and Ernie, the gay couple from Sesame Street.

i take rad pictures

I went bowling last night and just had to get a picture of Chelsea when I saw her standing like this:

I really like the composition of this picture. It's something about the absurd colors and shapes on her shirt aligned with the bowling balls as well as the row of beers aligned with her head. Too bad it was my camera phone, but it's still a better picture than if I had had my regular digital camera.

Here's another of Chelsea and Nick:

so wierd

At work feeling a lot better. It's so strange, this has happened the last three days. I wake up severely depressed. As the day goes on I battle it in waves. By nine or ten pm I'm okay again feeling silly for how I felt before. Is it work related,since I get off at 10:30? Is it related to the sun? What's going on?
I think blogging about it might help me out a bit, even if no one cares to read about it. It's MY blog, dammit!
later, dudes.

marquis de sade

I signed my car over to a wrecking yard today. It makes me really sad. It also sets my goals back a bit. I loved that car. I drove it into this city when I moved here. It's for the best, but I wish it didn't have to happen while my emotions are already out of control. My stomach always hurts, like I'm about to give a speech in front of a large audience. I've felt like I've been swimming upstream since I got back from California. I thought I was over it, but I'm still having a little trouble. Yet I persevere. This, too, shall pass.

Let it be known

Gaius and Caprica 6 from Battlestar Galactica are an imitation of Irwin and Heidi Ho, the Virtual Reality Hooker from Vice Academy 5.

why i love bacon

I was cooking some last night. What does it look like to you?

i did it again

You may be surprised to see that I've shaved my beard. You should not be surprised to see that I am still remarkably handsome.

homie

I know you must be on the edge of your seats waiting for me to post about other stuff from my trip home -_-
until I get around to it, here's a video of my sister after going out with friends. It's not that interesting.

Welcome Back

I'm happy to announce that Vanilla Coke is back! They stopped making it a year and a half ago. A co-worker and I bought up as much of it as we could when we found that out. Now it's back and I'm temperately excited.
I couldn't find an image of the new label, but it's not that different. I looked for an image on the Coke website and I must say, their site is pretty lame.

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I always talk shit about California, but deep down I kind of thought it was just me being my usual pessimistic, cynical self. I say that I will never move back there, no matter what. I just got back from visiting my parents there not two hours ago and I have to say...it's worse than I thought. I don't want to go back ever, not even to visit my family.
The disgusting black hole that is Antioch is crammed with chain restaurants, super stores and cookie-cutter homes with no yards. It is convenience disguised as luxury, catering to people who cannot live within their means. There is not the slightest indication of any sort of culture whatsoever.
Yes there were good parts about my visit, and the first two days were fun, but the last two caused me some great anxiety, enough for me to have to go outside for air when I went to lunch with my mother. Perhaps I'll write about the good stuff (and more bad stuff) later, but now I'm venting.
If my folks want to see me again, they can come visit me here. We can go to eat at a place they think is too expensive, they can tell me how senile my grandparents are getting and what a handful my (adult)siblings are, and they can politley pretend I don't have a boyfriend.
I missed you , Seattle. You are my home.

The sound of bottles crashing is music to my ears

My best friend sent me this banner:

It's a good movement and I support it morally, but I can't say I can participate. Even when I do try to type out all my words, I'm trying to do it so fast that I misspell them all anyway.
However, I do vow never to use a certain term in the context of a blog, except this once, and that is "meme". It's a perfectly valid word, coined in the seventies by Richard Dawkins, but for some reason it bothers me in the context of blogs and internet discussion threads. Is it because I'm an elitist snob? Almost definitely. While the term bothers me, that does not mean I won't participate in what it represents. So here is my media player shuffle soundtrack:

Opening credits:Folk Implosion - Fall Into November

Waking up:Lou Barlow- Alone to decide

First day of school:Supervitesse-Conectivity!
wow, I didn't know I had this one!

Falling in love:Ed Shepp- Eat the Pussy
I shit you not. This one is Scott's fault

First song: Electric six- I'm the bomb
Scott again. Damn him.

Break up: 88 lines about 44 women

Prom:Skankin Pickle- Take a look
I like it because it would be a really terrible prom.

Driving: Animal Collective-grass
Cool! That one works great!

flashback: Sonic youth- Pacific Coast Highway
flashback to something creepy!

New realtionship: Lou BArlow- Cranky
Not a good start to a relationship

Wedding: Hungry like the Wolf- duran duran

Beer purchase: Single girl,Married girl-boontdusties(me!)
I changed this from "Birth of kittens" which was changed from "birth of baby". I'm just being silly. The song is a haunting version of the Carter Family song that I did with friends who didnt practice it with me before recording :(

final battle:Happy Mondays- 24hr party people
That would be an awesome battle!

death scene:Beatles- In my life
Aww...

funeral:madness- our house
uh...okay

End credits:She's a rainbow- Rolling stones
Perfect!

The place I ought not be

I'm flying to California next week to visit my family. California is a beautiful state in some places and I recommend visiting, if you know where to go. Do not go, however, to Antioch, regardless of what this video tells you.

What they don't tell you is that most of what they show you has been built in the last five years. When I was growing up Antioch was just a normal crappy little town. Now that part is just in the center, surrounded by hot, sterile concrete. Any part that looks pretty and scenic in that video is just yards away from a housing development and strip mall.
I am glad to see that the El Campanil Theater, where I saw movies like Ghostbusters 2 and My Girl, is no longer run by the evangelists who would do a Hell House play every halloween.
They also mention Black Diamond Mines, where my friend David's dad gave me my first beer when I was about eleven years old. He's dead now.
Just for fun, also check out this Police Department recruitment video. I once got grounded for saying "I smell bacon." while outside the police station.



You can hear a dispatcher say "behind the Regal" at one point, Regal being the multiplex movie theater. Behind it is where KC and I got stoned before seeing movies like Election and X-men. Good times.

One thing I'm looking forward to is visiting my grandparents. I think I'll get a picture with them this time.