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Jun. 21st, 2009 | 02:13 pm

At Hollie's bequest I would like to add "between her boobs" to my list of Denver hotspots. And she's totally right, of course.

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Favorite Spots in Denver

Jun. 19th, 2009 | 03:58 pm


So yeah, my cat died. I'm trying not to think about it.

These are my favorite spots in Denver.
  • L'Asie Restaurant: Best thai in town by far, and walking distance from my apartment. And cheap!
  • Argonaut Liquors: Also on my street, this is a massive icon devoted to alcohol and the best place to grab some booze
  • Pearl St. Farmer's Market: Every Sunday, a great place to people watch and get fresh produce
  • Cap Hill Antiques Market: Friendly staff and a great selection of old junk
  • Flossy McGrew's: Totally insane building festooned with skulls and tinsel, great for all your costuming needs
  • Seoul Food: best sushi I've ever had. Walking distance.
  • Cherry Creek Whole Foods: the biggest, craziest, well stocked market of all
  • Cheesman Park: whether you're gay or just like to tan your inner thighs, Cheesman is it.
  • Pablo's Coffee: Walking distance, great atmosphere, amazing tea.
  • Little India: amazing indian food
  • Meininger's: great art supply store with everything you can imagine
  • Lannie's Clocktower: An actual giant clocktower known for comedy and burlesque shows
  • Tracks: A gay bar with theme nights and attitude
  • The Tattered Cover: best bookstore I've been in bar none.
  • Lipgloss: the mixed indie dance night at La Rumba
  • Irish Snug: Great pub food, great pub trivia
  • The Park Tavern: the place to be at Cap Hill at night
  • Leela's: fab cafe downtown
  • Colorado Renissance Festival: Only been once. Soon to repeat.
  • Wynkoop: Downtown hotspot for home brewed beer
  • Falling Rock Tavern: likewise. Lots of beer.
  • Rock Bottom: Awesome lunch spot, homebrewed beer
  • Gaia: On S. Pearl, best brunch/breakfast

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My monthly post

Jun. 12th, 2009 | 07:38 am


Yeah, I never use this more than once a month. I'm not a bleeding writer, am I?
What's new?
Well, I broke the axle on my car, which the mechanic was very impressed by. When I told him I parked it in a ditch he thought I was trying to be funny. With the addition of the bent wheel from my icy road incident, I could see one thing etched in his face as I left the building. "There goes one scary woman driver."

In other news, last Friday my cat was acting weird, and long story short he has cancer that's inhibiting his breathing. It got so bad that I took him to the vet yesterday with the intention of having him put to sleep so he could stop suffering, and this vet miraculously snatched him up out of the hands of death. It's almost cruel since he will still certainly die from this disease, but I have never seen a transformation like a cat laying on the floor, pale, groaning, unable to move- becoming a cat that's completely normal, if a bit shaved down in patches.


"Oh god don't take my picture. I'm so embarrassed at how I was almost dead this morning!"

So now I'm extremely happy to have my cat for even one more day, but there's an eerie sensation that Death is lurking in my home, waiting. A ticking time bomb. At the vet I could see there were many people living with that. There were lots of little shaved animals bumping into walls and sniffing each other while their owners looked on, slightly puffy-eyed.

I recently described my time in Denver as a karmic war of attrition. Everything from my car to my futon to my health has broken here in the last year, and at the risk of sounding self-important I think Denver is trying to kick me out. Well I'm not leaving, a-hole.
My car is fixed, my cat isn't flopping on the floor gasping like a fish out of water, and I even have a date next week. Take that.

Oh and I totally had a weird dream last night about someone who was magic trying to fight with someone who had control over machines. The machine chick was sending out bulldozers and sparks, and at one time one of the magic guy's henchmen got beheaded, thrown outside into the snow, frozen, and kicked into traffic. Then it rolled down the street to the front door of a pub, where it could thaw out and be completely freaky.

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May. 16th, 2009 | 08:33 am

You know, people say you really shouldn't be unhappy when there are people out there with no arms or legs or something.
Isn't that the same as saying that people with no arms or legs shouldn't be happy? That's just mean.

Equal rights to unhappiness!

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Whoa

Feb. 25th, 2009 | 06:45 am

So... most amazing. Sunrise. Ever. This morning. I woke up and stumbled out of my bedroom, groggily thinking " What is this? is the holy grail in my kitchen? Is a choir of angels on the way? This massive golden glow oozed in through the window and grabbed both my eyeballs and shook them and said "BEHOLD! To thee I am as of the fires of creation! Look upon me and tremble!"

Then it was gone by the time I went and had my morning tinkle. But DAMN.

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Life, the universe, and everything

Feb. 15th, 2009 | 10:16 am


It is the most reassuring thing in the entire world that if I ever want to do something with a bunch of people, I can make a meetup and they'll actually come. Not only do they come, they are friendly, interesting, laid back people who i genuinely enjoy spending time with.

Yesterday we had a group of six go for a hike. Every hike I've done in Colorado has been different, and even though I'd been on this one last summer it was uniquely spectacular. For one thing, there was snow on the ground. The only way we could find the trail was by following other peoples' footprints, and for anyone who hasn't seen it, the light shining through a snowy forest is amazing. Also you end up slipping and sliding everywhere, and you don't really need to carry water because you can eat the snow. We followed the trail to a frozen waterfall, which is something i've never seen before. We walked on the frozen streams and climbed down the waterfall, and I slipped and hit my head nicely, but I didn't much care because it's just too novel a thing to be climbing on a waterfall.

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Thought process

Feb. 8th, 2009 | 01:14 pm

I am bored. Things have gone well with the opening of Pica Pica Press: Etsy part deux, so I really need to be making books, but I don't wanna. As pissy as I got with the art situation in Ireland, I could probably use some more isolation like that so I can get to work.

I was struck recently by a webpage about collective nouns. I think I might try to work with that. A dopping of goosanders?
A murder of crows/ unkindness of ravens
A cast of falcons
A charm of magpies
A pod of pelicans
A parliament of owls
A descent of woodpeckers
A mutation of thrushes
An exaltation of larks
A glaring of cats
A grind of whales
sneak of weasels, labor of moles, bind of salmon, troupe of shrimps, mess of iguanas, knot of toads

I really need to just sit down and do something. Feeling inspired is wonderful, but doing nothing with it is a shame.

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Jan. 26th, 2009 | 09:47 pm

I got my car back today. You know, if it weren't snowing like crazy and more frigid as I can handle, I wouldn't be as excited. I think I got used to bussing it. Class today was decent and I actually learned some things. McGregor made it to Magadan. I've made a new internet friend. Bedtime!

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Jan. 25th, 2009 | 08:33 pm

Just spent a good three days skiing. It makes me want to run up and down stairs just so I can one day have the kind of legs you need to have to ski for three days and not feel like your legs will give out at the top of a slope and send you flying down face first into oblivion. Also, I'm a total wimp. Dad, at age 56, whips down the slopes like it's not remotely dangerous, and I sedately wind my way down as though something is waiting at the bottom to eat me. And I'm 24. All it proves is that I'm totally untrusting, even with myself. I think it's gotten worse over time, and for good reason I suppose.

I've reopened my Etsy shop and tonight I made my first sale in years. I might also have a commission in the works. Oh, and I was given quite a shock when I realised how low I priced some of my beloved books, books with shaped leather covers and paper that I hand pulled sheet by sheet and brass plates that I spent days sawing into pictures. I'll probably piss some people off and not sell anything, but I seriously need to rethink the value of some of these things that I don't really want to part with. I have money troubles but I'm not yet ready to sell out.

Noelle is coming on Thursday, which I'm extremely excited about. I'm also enjoying watching Long Way Round (Ewan McGregor's filmed saga of travelling from London to New York via Mongolia on motorcycle). I think things are looking up, and anyone who screws that  up for me this time around is getting suckerpunched in whichever region will be the most effective. Seriously, it's like people get a real thrill out of pulling the rug out from under me.

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Dec. 8th, 2008 | 09:26 pm

Also did I mention that I totally want to dance the cooch in front of strangers?

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Dec. 8th, 2008 | 05:24 pm

I'm so annoyed with mankind right now. I hate christmas, I hate traffic and insanity, I hate hearing about how HARD christmas will be on everyone this year because all the single mothers with 4 kids can't afford to buy their kids an xbox AND feed them. It's so sad. I'm tired of trying to think of gifts for everyone and even more tired of trying to procure them in the December rush. 

Maybe i SHOULD just pack up and run away like everyone else. The problem is finding somewhere far enough away. Maybe Mongolia.

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Nov. 23rd, 2008 | 08:11 am


Last week was awful and I didn't get much of a weekend because I had to work til noon yesterday. Well, okay, yesterday wasn't so bad. It turns out that I actually have a bit of a knack for teaching people bookbinding, provided there aren't too many of them and they aren't too stupid. We only had two people and because I was in charge, I decided to scrap the irritating "craft" portion of the class that had taken an additional hour and a good bit of sanity off my life. Watching grown women spill paint on the floor and throw paper clippings everywhere was not a pleasant experience. So, I had two students and they made books and they were happy with it and I got to leave at noon instead of 1pm, and my boss paid me $60.

The downside is that now it's sunday but I feel like I could use another day and a half to recover before work again on Monday. Instead I'll just go to Golden.

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Nov. 15th, 2008 | 07:44 am

I'm having awful trouble controlling my spending ever since i started school. The problem is that while I still go to work three and a half days a week, that's not enough to live on so I've been granted permission to use my parents credit card to fill in the gaps for food and other  necessities like clothes and toiletries. If they gave me a monthly allowance I'd have to scrimp and save, but as it is I feel like being a little extravagant with the purchases they help out on. Organic cheeses and frozen dinners and all the red bull i can drink. Sure, I still pay for rent and utilities and outings, but why hand out the rest of my meager earnings when I can save it  and still buy new winter clothes and salon quality scented shampoos? I'm awful. Then again, I'm tired of feeling dirt poor.

In college I always had just enough to live on. I didn't manage to save anything at all, which would have been helpful now. I did after all have three different jobs in college, but all the extra money went toward shuttling between Athens and Atlanta, Atlanta and California.

All I can do these days is dream of vacations. Trips to the mountains, to the desert, to the northwest rainforests, to ireland, to DC, even to georgia. But I cant afford them so i cannot go.

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ALL MEN PLEASE READ THIS

Oct. 3rd, 2008 | 07:07 pm


For Chrissakes.

http://www.seductionlabs.org/2008/09/28/advice-from-a-woman-40-ways-men-fail-in-bed/

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Sep. 28th, 2008 | 12:20 am

When you're young and your world doesn't depend on your own actions, all you desire is chaos. Lights, speed, loud music, fires in the dark. Then you grow up and everything is spinning around you, too fast, and you start to just want quiet. More than just quiet surroundings, but inner quietude. The ability to close your eyes and feel inside yourself that everything can be still.
What I want to feel is that I don't have to postpone my happiness to deal with mundanity. Sometimes I skip work just to be alone, to know that my life doesn't revolve around slaving away. But when I do it all I can think is how I'm just buying myself a few hours and the next day or the next I'll have to go back to work/school/soul-searching.  Life's too short for things not to be right. We're taught that to live a good life requires years, decades, of preparation. I'm about to start a year of graphic design school and I'm not sure where that will lead me but you can be damn sure that I'm going to be doing a lot more along the way.
It aint gonna include putting up with conversations about beans, or being forced to feel guilty about relationships, or worrying about the future.

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I hate humanity

Aug. 23rd, 2008 | 08:14 am

I've posted another ad on Craigslist just to see what happens and already I'm pissed off.

I included a list of my likes and dislikes and MULTIPLE PEOPLE HAVE WRITTEN COMPLAINING THAT I DONT LIKE PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY SANDWICHES. That's right. The world is rejecting me based on a fucking sandwich.

Oh, and one brilliant asshole wrote telling me that I'm a bitch for not liking children and organized religion. "Children are our future!" This amoeba actually wrote and told me that his ex was a miserable and angry person, and that she, too, was against religion and had had FOUR ABORTIONS so obviously didn't like kids.

Well gosh, I'd be miserable too if I was so goddamn stupid I couldn't figure out how to keep from getting pregnant FOUR TIMES. 

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Come on, world.

Aug. 22nd, 2008 | 07:00 am

Can't you make a ready-to-bake biscuit that is both fluffy AND tastes good?

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Aug. 19th, 2008 | 06:47 am

Can I please just send out an international memo that the phrase is "PIQUE your interest", not "PEAK your interest." You fucking cretins.

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Haha

Aug. 17th, 2008 | 08:06 am

Well okay. So I have a date with the original Matt this evening. Not quite sure how that happened. I can only be so pissed off at him since we've never met before.
I slept a TON yesterday and last night, and had a lot of very interesting dreams indeed. One of the lingering images in my mind this morning was a massive lumpy creature that sped across the ocean floor just a little too fast for comfort.  It was like a long thick snake covered in horrible shapes and all colored brown and sea floor green. We captured it, and we found out it was a woman, a beautiful cloaked woman who was colored pure gold, and who ran from us saying that she mustnt be seen like that.
Other parts had me riding on a flying cart that was floating around some tropical islands. They told me I got one to myself because I was a celebrity (?). So in other words, I've been wanting a vacation so my brain made one up for me in my sleep.

 

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And repeat.

Aug. 10th, 2008 | 10:47 am

I have erased the three Matts from my computer and phone. I am pissed off. 

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