I have not forsaken you, Livejournal. You are still the repository for my most superficial thoughts and secrets. The last couple of weeks haven't exactly been eventful.   These are the most eventful parts of a generally eventlessness few weeks: Watched Don Giovanni with Yoko and her family. I am still not convinced that opera is "great art." Call me a philistine.  An 18-wheeler smahsed into...

Inspired by hakujinjoe Events: 1890 - The Yosemite National Park and the Yellowstone National Park are established by the U.S. Congress. 1903 - Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series. 1910 - Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 21....

Via villagecharm and hakujinjoe 1. Add a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember! 2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It’s actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I’ll assume you’re...

Grabbed from hakujinjoe and villagecharm ... fun! Quite a few bands singing in other languages came up... as well as growlers that I can't understand... but I'll do what I can. GUESS THE SONG Step 1. Put your playlist on random. Step 2. Post the first line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing. (You can skip songs that are instrumental.) Step 3. Strike out...

hakujinjoe 's post, but here goes. Day or two before Christmas we had dinner, courtesy of villagecharm , journalist, raconteur, and author. We ate at the Red Rose, a fantastic Italian/pizza place in Springfield. The dinner was to celebrate Katie's and my engagement. Christmas Eve was at Katie's family's place. We had a dinner of home-made lasagna and rolls. Slept there. Christmas...

Around April of 2006, I bought a new car – a used 2003 Ford Taurus. It was a great car. Despite their reputation for ubiquity and mediocrity, I liked the way it looked, the way it drove and never had any problems with it. However, about a year later, with gas prices continuing to climb and my daily driving getting more extensive, I decided that it would make sense to trade in the Taurus for a more...

I tried out TrustFlow II for LiveJournal . The following people not on the friends list for brooklynnotes are close by: usual_channels (150 - 200) flowerlane , runfatmanrun (250 - 300) lipbylipby (300 - 350) hobby_horse (350 - 400) anthrochica , smack17 , runyankeerun , your_tour_guide (400 - 450...

I finally got around to putting a review and some pics up of the Ghostface show in Tokyo that happened Saturday night. Check it out here Sorry if you don't understand some of it, I'm too lazy to edit it down.