doin’ pretty good as far as geniuses go

February 4th, 2010

Moving camera from pocket to pocket on my ride.

Feeling out of place and like everything is volatile when I’m not and nothing is. QQ moar.

I need to get back to being unfazeable. That was good times. Everyone also told me I was an unfeeling robot. Imagine me doing that thing where you are mime-weighing two items in your hands making a face like, “shrug”. That’s what I’m doing in my mind.

Road down to Bay Ridge with the Pake on my back after Google lied to me about where the shop was. Back at 47th, got the fork/stem/bars slapped on. She’s coming together.

Met up with CST in Manhattan. Hunted for dresses. Hunted for vegan-friendly foodness. Found myself two new coats, free drinks, and an invitation to The Box for more libations.
Too much city, too tired, next time.

an addendum of sorts

February 3rd, 2010

Sally Hansen 28: Black Out

There was no point in spoiling my last post with needless words.

I picked up the l.e. purple Pake for this chick I know for this day that is coming up. It needed to be done. [Redacted] was too far away to wait to start building, and I needed an excuse. This thing is going to be coveted.

Bike nerds: afaik the purple Pake is the only one keeping the curved, lugged fork. They’re going straight blade with all of the new forks / color options.

Also bike nerds: the logos come thoughtfully slapped on over the clear coat. I love you, Pake.
I love you for this.

After using one a razor blade to strip half of the Mercier’s many logos, I have a newfound appreciation for Pake’s approach to decals. I went with the razorblade-then-polish option. Things turned out alright, all things considered.

Clicking this link will take you to a picture of William and his mohawk on the subway.

she already knows

February 3rd, 2010

So I can post all the porn I want.

Seriously.

I want to take it to bed tonight.

Over and over.

we finished horror on the orient express tonight

January 31st, 2010

well. will’s fourth character finished.

Unsure how to proceed with my night. I mean. I’ll swap my laundry, but after that? I’m lost.

i talked to tim today

January 29th, 2010

And by “Tim” I mean “Real Tim”

• Tim Wood: You are actually sort of like a bear
• Tim Wood: coming out of long periods of hibernation with a lumbering determination to munch on whatever happens to be around
• Tim Wood: being hairy
• Tim Wood: cuddly yet feared and respected

photo.nakedink

January 28th, 2010

it’s alive

Also hideous and incomplete. But it’s up. Comments, searching, tags, photostream. I’m going to try to get everything up and archived in a week. We’ll see how that goes.

I can live with it being a little haggard for awhile.

Related: Ericat is letting me borrow her S860 until I procure a replacement for the Rebel. It fits in my pocket and takes pictures as above. I am full of glee. Glee.

Unrelated: Someone buy this Fendi wallet. Its dust bag is just gathering dust.

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my other package is in transit to parsippany, new jersey

January 26th, 2010

Para-related: M’s post about the banning of D&D by the WDC

2010 is the year WordPress takes an open source plunge.

The USPS is on my shit list. Long story short: they lost a package somewhere along the way, and no one is interested in helping me figure out what happened. I’ve spent the last two days on the phone with/being ignored by post office personel. Tomorrow: more of the same.

I might switch back to Songbird again. The newest release is fairly ballin. The memory imprint of Songbird is 7x that of iTunes with a 28k song library. Unacceptable!

As of yesterday, I’m using start.io again. Netvibes was too cumbersome, and I was using it workflow-wise the same way I use start.io – as an update notifier rather than an aggregator. You can finally enter feeds manually, and they have some slick new styles to try out. For anyone who reads articles on-site instead of in a feed reader, check it out.

Today was: getting paid / working.

Tonight is: Pushing Daisies near the casket factory.

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maybe in the way that oso de la fez is a familiar

January 25th, 2010

The Hourly Comic – Why aren’t you reading it?

Picked up a Merkur safety razor this weekend. Attacked my face with it. Lost a pint of blood. Made Erica fix my skin with vitamin e. Once my skin isn’t on fire anymore, I’ll head back in for round two. It’s kind of nice to have a smooth face for once.

At least I know I’m not at too much of a disadvantage:

• fordmadoxfraud: yeah, I don’t think dead dad is much of a hindrance
• fordmadoxfraud: when it comes to shaving

threebyfive is going through a bit of a design overhaul. Baby step by baby step. I also have a whole new slew of people to figure out how to “draw” now that I’m 3×5ing in Crooklyn. It’ll be a triumph since I can barely draw myself consistently.

Quasirelated:
Given the last two QC strips, I feel more and more like I’m dating Hanners. #dreamcometrue

This weekend, for no particular reason, felt good.

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i got no time for frontin’ / i know just what i’m wantin’

January 21st, 2010

I have a Gene Wolfe comic for M.

I lost it for two bits on the R train this morning. It caught me off guard for a few reasons.

First, I almost always have a fair amount of warning before anything gets debilitating.

Second, it was one of the few times my emotions got mixed up along the way. I get overwhelmed sometimes, which makes me anxious, but very rarely am I affected emotionally by default. Things like this, minor as this morning was, make me more uncomfortable than any amount of guys in suits. If I can keep a handle on my emotions, I can wade through anything perceptive. I already have no “control” over what I perceive (the same as everyone else), so being divergent in that way doesn’t bother me. Having my emotions fucked with though, not okay. I got oversensitive with Erica’s usual playfulness (which I usually love) before I realized what was going on. Bah.

Finally, I’ve been remarkably sane for the past few months, relatively speaking anyway. No suit guy. No phantom conversations. Compared to last year, it’s almost like being a real human being again. The funny thing is I’m so used to concrete fictional perceptions that I prefer them to anxiety or any sort of emotional swing most people just deal with. It’s a tradeoff, I guess.

It’s actually kind of a tiresome and boring tradeoff.

Anyway, as a result of my not wanting to get off at 9th to navigate an overwhelming noisehaze alone, I stayed and transferred with Ericat to the 2/5, hopping off at Church Ave to ride home. I tend to forget how much I prefer a busy urban(ish) ride to my late night excursions down FHP. When I think about navigating Flatbush traffic on a bike, it seems like a nightmare, but once I’m on the road, it’s all mashing between cars as fast as I can with a huge smile on my face.

Also, I found a bunch of comics in front of BofA the other day. That was tight.

She blamed it on the ahahahalcohol.

i was skeptical of the fma reboot

January 20th, 2010

Until now.

The first… fourteen(?) episodes of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood basically play catchup through the original series until it diverged from the manga in a big way. Since I watched FMA the first time around, I don’t feel like I missed much. Bones/Irie/Ōnogi seem to assume that the viewers have either burned through the original series, the manga, or both already – but it harshes on a lot of key moments from the first series, not to mention character development (e.g. the whole Sewing Life Alchemist arc is rushed, and it’s not as crushing when [redacted] is [redacted] by [redacted]).

They don’t even do the whole Black Hayate intro bit!

Also, the themes are 100% second class this time around.

Also, caramelldansen.

Otherwise, it’s worthwhile so far (in the middle of watching episode 21 as I write this). Hopefully, I’ll get drawn into the new arc and let go of what’s missing. Shit, the show could probably just keep me interested because I love Alphonse so much (see also: Conqueror of Shamballa).

Maybe both series will get into the queue at some point after Wonderfalls, Firefly, Pushing Daisies, and Dr. Who. Then Ericat will have something to talk to the ninja about.

READY STEADY GO