Extra Special Request

Once, long ago, Shindell suggested I find a Japanese barbershop quartet for my birthday blow-out. I couldn't find them in time. But what the hell, maybe next year. How much for four plane tickets from Japan?

Ladies and Gentlemen, Sue Sea Four!



And they don't sound half bad, either. [they take a few seconds to kick in...worth the wait!}

Does anyone recognize the drunken friend? Guesses?

The Business of the Future

Poker in the Rear (c. 1998)

By Popular Demand (c. 1998)

Um Whoah

This is the strangest comic I've seen in a long, long time.

Live Plants, Corsages, A BOOK

Sabrina Mark's first collection of poems, THE BABIES, will be published by Saturnalia Books this November. Congratulations. Can't wait to see it.

Old Pictures, Part Three

1. Lewis has a new blog.

2. 'nuff said

Call me Ishmael.

Found this on MetaFilter today:

The Hook Project: A collection of opening paragraphs. Is your favorite included?

This one is not: "Longtemps je me suis couché de bonne heure."

On the top of my list...

of favorite things to type into Google Image Search:

FACE PAINT

What do YOU like to type into Google Image Search?

pimping easier than previously thought

Child Pimp and Ho Costumes



[from MetaFilter]

Surfing Part Two

Shindell mentioned that the Zuma image was impressive because it didn't look like I'd put my head through a hole. For his edification,mainly--after all, who else reads this?--I post the following "first draft" image.



Point of pride: The shadow of "my" arm.

Point of no return: I'm still wearing my glasses.

But seriously, Shindell, if you're going to talk smack, I'm going to photoshop you into my Special X-Games.

Zuma, this morning

After weeks of lake-like conditions.

Cool Club

Apparently--and I might be wrong on this one--you have to post pictures of Matt Shindell on your blog if you want to be "cool." Done. Matt on his 45th birthday, in Pasadena. Now can I participate in the poetry postcard project, but with prose?



Here's a little line to divide Tsing-Tao from Jeremy Christ

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Iowa Pictures

Everyone seems to be into posting old pictures these days. Here's one from the late 90s, back when my digital camera was "high-res."

There Goes Everyone

I can't read hypertext. I should just admit it. I end up on some add-addled journey across the internet when all I meant was to, say, read an interview with Sarah Manguso (from Here Comes Everybody). She mentions she likes Vice magazine. I end up on their site. I poke around. And now I'm going to have this image burned into my mind for the rest of eternity.



My Safari history is a portrait of best plans laid to waste.

At least Aaron thinks I'm sexy and on my birthday (12 Aug) no less! Eduardo has a new blog, too, and for the three of you who read mine, and notice that I never post, you will find a happy place there, Asleep Inside an Old Guitar, where the posting has been going like mad. The best toy is a new toy, says my friend Edwin.

I wore flip-flops only in the summertime. Now I wear em year-round.

Now back to Sources of the Self.