So probably everything that could be said about this election has already been said, and better than i could say it. But this is what i did. I went to an election party at dr_memory and missionista and sat around a big screen and several little screens and lots of good food and drink and watched the results roll in. As most of you know, i lean politically to the left of Obama...

... with inki , and camping with Snack Food Glory Hole.  Lots of cool people to meet! Will be bringing a pile of fun snacks: whole roasted baby crab, covered in clear sweet stuff and sprinkled with sesame seeds (crunchy and tasty) grape flavored marshmallows (I'm afraid to try these) dried black pepper codfish dried XO shrimp dried crunchy bean curd dried preserved lemon dried...

Y'all are reading dr_memory 's Illustrated Travelogue of Japan, right? I am hooked n every word.

Jetlag is still kicking my ass. Tried to stay up past 9 last night and went out to dinner with my cousin; 5 am still felt like i had slept in this morning. Have spent the morning peeling wallpaper and hauling books, mostly Soviet classics, travel books around the CCCP and NSV from 60s-80s. Want a nostalgic copy of Soviet Woman, or similar? I've got lots. dr_memory , for some reason...

* I could write about pip and longueur and amber_phoenix and dr_memory , because really, they're made of awesome. * Also, RIP Utah Phillips, who enriched my life beyond words: "The stories I tell don't just come out of my own life. Many of them come to me from my elders. I strained to hear them through the roar of my own ego, my own needs and desires. But when i became...

Sucky day at work, pms, tiff with someone i care about, lamenting the ex's wedding... Physically and emotionally sore, i didn't have the best attitude toward the end of the week there (Wednesday dinner club at Pizzaiola with lapiccolastella , jennagodis and amber_phoenix was definitely a highlight). But: amber_phoenix , dr_memory , Pip and i walked across...

Sucky day at work, pms, tiff with someone i care about, lamenting the ex's wedding... Physically and emotionally sore, i didn't have the best attitude toward the end of the week there (Wednesday dinner club at Pizzaiola with lapicocastella , jennagodis and amber_phoenix was definitely a highlight). But: amber_phoenix , dr_memory , Pip and i walked across the...

I've seen three interesting documentaries in the last week: When We Were Kings (about the 1974 heavyweight championship in Zaire between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali), which was excellent. Stranded (Remember the movie Alive about the Uruguayan rugby team stranded in the Andes? Stranded is a fascinating documentary about the same). and The Singing Revolution (www.singingrevolution.com). While...

Last night boyziggy and I went to Freight & Salvage in Berkeley to see The House Jacks . I had first seen that band in November, at the same venue, when tenacious_snail invited a bunch of us there for her birthday celebration. I fell in love with their a capella harmonies immediately, and was especially blown away by the amazing mouth-drumming talents of Wes Carroll . So when...

http://dr-memory.livejournal.com/2002/09/11/ In unit two we discussed all kinds of multi-media ranging from diaries and journals, to music and dancing. We learned about the influences that each one brings to the end result. Every kind of media we learned about has something to offer. Two that I felt had a significant amount were the online blogs/journals of different historic events, and the paper...