ain’t no sherpas on the matterhorn.

Hey now. I made my xmas list yesterday, and decided that this year, I’m going to hand-make as many gifts as I can. The thing with handmade gifts is they take about 99.8% more time than selecting ‘Buy now with 1-Click®’ on Amazon. I consider it a personal challenge1. And I’m happy to say that Gift #1 was begun yesterday ...

nothin really

Uh. I learned today that Mussolini’s first job was in a chocolate factory. And, well, that’s a coincidence as far as the naming of this site, but it’s funny. What I’m really trying to decide is if Benito and the Chocolate Factory would’ve been better or worse than the original. Oompa loompas, baby. So yeah! I was thinking yesterday that ...

akshobhya

My morning, in six syllables. om I went to bed at 11. I got up at 3. I went back to bed at 4:30. I got up at 4:35. I went back to bed at 6. I saw something about praying for a sign. I fell asleep completely calm, for the first time in as long as I can remember. ...

don’t bother reading this.

Hello, is it me you’re looking for? Friday night, I had just parked illegally in front of the Luce, and who should we run into at the door but Yuri, who was in the middle of a giant freakout over just having bought a very expensive painting, and was going to get a slice and a beer to calm his ...