7/31/2006
Linked On Boing Boing!
Yay! I never knew I had a goal of Boing Boing linking to me, but I'm very excited to have a link to my Comic-Con photo of Darth Vera on that site today! Check it out! I'm Link 2! (Thanks Cory!)
Well, sort of. A link to my stolen Darth Vera photo showed up on Boing Boing today. If you go to the Boing Boing story and click on "Link 2," there's the photo I took at Comic-con, but on desanders' flickr photostream. She even has it in a set entitled "Found (Stolen) Photos From The Net." What's up with that? Why not just 'favorite' it?
You Can Take Your DIY Store
Coming off a lovely evening with my friend Rachel at the Hollywood Bowl for The Sound of Music last night, I thought I might write about "a few of my favorite things." But it's Monday after all, so screw that. Instead, I'd like to mention something that I detest. Even as wholly un-American as it may make me sound. I hate DIY stores.
It's the large hardware stores that drive me insane. First, when I step through the door, the smell floors me. Whether it's Home Depot or Lowe's or whatever-other-awful-store, there is a pungent odor (which varies department to department) that I can not handle. I do have a hypersensitive sense of smell, so this may bother me more than the average person.
Besides the olfactory assault I feel in the local DIY shop, I'm not very fond of how filthy they are. I always feel dirty after shopping there. I don't mind so much if I'm having a slacker type of day, but stopping in after showering in preparation for going out later is no fun.
What gets me even more is that I don't like DIY as a concept when it comes to home repair or beautification. Don't get me wrong. I'm not 100% against the entire DIY ethic, or I wouldn't have just self-published a book. However, I do not enjoy fixing up my house, which should be quite obvious if you ever see it, or gardening. I've attempting the gardening thing and really like the idea of it, but...maybe I'm just too damn lazy and that's the problem.
This post totally makes me sound like an autistic person with OCD. I don't have autism and am only slightly obsessive-compulsive.
It's the large hardware stores that drive me insane. First, when I step through the door, the smell floors me. Whether it's Home Depot or Lowe's or whatever-other-awful-store, there is a pungent odor (which varies department to department) that I can not handle. I do have a hypersensitive sense of smell, so this may bother me more than the average person.
Besides the olfactory assault I feel in the local DIY shop, I'm not very fond of how filthy they are. I always feel dirty after shopping there. I don't mind so much if I'm having a slacker type of day, but stopping in after showering in preparation for going out later is no fun.
What gets me even more is that I don't like DIY as a concept when it comes to home repair or beautification. Don't get me wrong. I'm not 100% against the entire DIY ethic, or I wouldn't have just self-published a book. However, I do not enjoy fixing up my house, which should be quite obvious if you ever see it, or gardening. I've attempting the gardening thing and really like the idea of it, but...maybe I'm just too damn lazy and that's the problem.
This post totally makes me sound like an autistic person with OCD. I don't have autism and am only slightly obsessive-compulsive.
7/30/2006
(Self) Published Again!
One of my bloggy buddies, Ian, got several people to contribute to a collective book that he self-published through Lulu. As I was in a time crunch, I just submitted some (non-hamster related) haiku. No one is making a commission on it, as it is primarily for the authors. But, it is for sale if anyone is interested.
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