Archives for July 2001

i left my friends in san francisco

293 words, no comments July 1, 2001 5:59pm

Another day by the Bay, another hastily-composed journal entry (actually, for those of you playing along at home, I'm typing these up now that I'm back ...

i am the wolf blitzer of the bay area

315 words, no comments July 3, 2001 5:59pm

Day Six of Project: Noogie Trip, and all is going well. I may have seen more Rice alumni today than since I was last on campus. Troy, Josh, Angie, Amar, ...

the fourth - jerk version

117 words, no comments July 4, 2001 5:59pm

Today is a special day here in America. It's a holiday we call "the fourth of July". By law, it always falls the day after July 3rd. Anyhow, ...

the fourth - patriotic version

207 words, no comments July 4, 2001 6:59pm

But for all of the times I make fun of America, for all its many faults and for all that it lacks, I really like this place. I like the many wonderful ...

...and the home of the belligerent

215 words, no comments July 5, 2001 5:59pm

You know, I find the Fourth of July endlessly amusing. We celebrate the day we declared independence from Great Britain by reenacting the horror of ...

mechanical music, adrenaline surge

614 words, no comments July 7, 2001 5:59pm

Today was a good day. Thanks to my trusty book, Julia and I found our way to the west side of San Francisco to visit the Musee Mechanique. The Musee, ...

in other news

70 words, no comments July 7, 2001 6:59pm

In contrast to my prolix write-up of just one part of the day, there is my girlfriend's remarkable terse take on things: "Saturday we went over to the ...

in union square my wheel needs repair

107 words, no comments July 8, 2001 5:59pm

My fun time in the San Francisco area continued today as Julia and I visited the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, or SFMOMA to all you hipsters out ...

home sweet house

328 words, no comments July 11, 2001 5:59pm

So I'm back in Portland now. Beeman picked me up at the airport and drove me to my house. It all went so smoothly, from my luggage waiting for me at ...

todd tells a long story, part i

202 words, no comments July 12, 2001 5:59pm

Oh, what a waste of time that was. I spent a large chunk of today reading Seanbaby's webpage. I hate that site because it's so ridiculously funny, mostly ...

todd tells a long story, part ii

381 words, 1 comment July 12, 2001 6:59pm

Frank was weird in lots of ways. His middle name (I'll let you guess what it was) started with an "x", and he became somewhat fascinated with that ...

todd tells a long story, surprise ending

66 words, no comments July 12, 2001 8:59pm

It was only later that I found out that Embrace was one of Alyssa's many soft-core porn flicks. After Who's the Boss, apparently, she wasn't so popular, ...

no-love dinners

288 words, no comments July 13, 2001 5:59pm

I walked through the frozen food section of Safeway today, trying to find some frozen soybeans. Sadly, such an item is too exotic for li'l ol' Portland. So ...

maybe it's about the astronaut drink

101 words, no comments July 13, 2001 6:59pm

In looking through the movie listings the other day, I was surprised to find out that there is a movie called Pootie Tang. It was the first I'd heard ...

disco foamante

541 words, no comments July 14, 2001 11:53pm

Tonight, I learned how to cope with several possible future calamities: What happens if I go deaf in the future? Don't worry! You can still go out ...

the whore of gonian

393 words, no comments July 16, 2001 11:50pm

I read a story in the Oregonian today that made me laugh. This is a very weird thing to have happen when reading the local "proper" paper. Sure, I ...

weird day, part i - travelling travis

264 words, no comments July 19, 2001 11:48pm

I got a call today from a guy I thought was in Mongolia. It turns out he was at my friend Gerry's house. You can imagine my surprise. But then, as ...

part ii - that takes lots of... never mind

279 words, no comments July 20, 2001 12:48am

Maybe there's something about Travis that attracts strangeness. Because that same day, as we sat in Pioneer Square, we saw an odd man. In ...

marmots, vodka, and goat's milk

161 words, no comments July 21, 2001 11:32pm

Mental notes made while reading the government of Mongolia's official webpage: The Mongolian President graduated from Refrigeration Junior College. Traditional ...

mongolian mementos

64 words, no comments July 22, 2001 12:32am

My friend Gerry gave me some souvenirs from his recent trip to Mongolia. He's such a nice guy. While most people in his position would have been ...

every (p)article has spin

354 words, no comments July 24, 2001 5:59pm

Over the past week, I've been reading about Dick Cheney's electrical bill. To summarize, Democrats are outraged that he is attempting to make the Navy ...

my mind is a sticky note

145 words, no comments July 26, 2001 11:30pm

Thoughts of less than fifteen syllables I had while going shopping one day this summer: Oh great - sailors! Hmm, I smiled wrong. Qwest is evil. Evil! Maybe ...

dennis the red menace

300 words, no comments July 26, 2001 11:55pm

As I was reading the newspaper the other day, I realized that the comics page is a garden of surreal and often subversive imagery, made all the more ...