holidays on coventry

every year, i forget.

i forget that everyone who moved away will come bouncing back into town for a while and suddenly i'm transported back in time. everyone i know is 'home' again, coming out to play. i end up staying out too late, watching the grog shop boys play dice or run into someone i haven't seen in forever and spend a good chunk of my shift just talking with them, not really working. for some reason, bands i haven't seen in years will come around and the time shift is complete. i become 21 again.

and this makes me nostalgic which leads to sappy, drippy letters and stuff. the holidays really bring out the naive idealist in me. i really truly believe in peace on earth goodwill towards men again. and i want everyone else to believe in it, too. i look around and everything starts getting this sheen on it, a happy everything's-gonna-be-okay glow. and it all seems a little bit perfect for that brief while.

maybe this is why so many of my relationships begin in the october-november-december stretch. it's when i'm being convinced that the world is alright and all is right with the world. what better time to bring someone new into your life than the beginning of avalon?

smile for me :)

i have way too much fun with google

since i'm silly and didn't go to bed like i should i made this:


and this:


and this:


and this:


i must think i've got way too much time on my hands.

it's beginning to look alot like the end of orange barrel season

last week it snowed for about five minutes. then it was in the 60's since then. today, it's doing this hail/snow/freezing rain mix. last night i ran around in short pants and a jacket. today i'll need gloves, hat, layers.

one of my cats is sleeping inside my backpack.

hopefully, i'll finish re-entering all the movies we lost in the five month blackout today.

i cleaned my keyboard yesterday and now i can't find any letters. i didn't realize i navigated by the gookmarks on it.

the people downstairs are bitching that i'm doing laundry. it's the open day. it's my only chance.

there's got to be some kind of way out of here.....

cleveland, vortex of notoriety

so i keep finding out that people i know, people i've seen around the street for years, are famous in some way. it's really weird. i say hi and give them huggles because i see them every frickin' day and they're part of my daily fabric. they're just my neighbors. and then someone says something and i'm standing there saying, "dude, you're famous? really? i had no idea!".

i'm attributing this partially to my blindervision. i tend to just not notice things like that. but then there's the cleveland effect: if you live here, you're just like everyone else. cleveland gives the beatdown to anyone who thinks they're a little more special. it says, "ha! yer just another asshole like the rest of us. quit thinkin' yer all that!". which makes it a great place to hide when you're tired of being famous.

maybe we should sell cleveland as the next celebrity getaway. we're already primed to treat famous folk 'just like everybody else' which means we'll give you the same crappy service we give everyone. what, you got money? whatever, man. get back in line. you got three oscars? so what, i got three kids.

ah, cleveland.

this is hallowe'en, everybody make a scene!

ah, another samhain come and gone. time to tally the celebrity spots!

*the pope
*rainbow brite
*a closet
*lusty pirate wenches
*quailman
*jesus
*the jesus
*the phoenix
*evil nurse
*drug addict nurse
*evil butcher
*the beastie boys a la 'sabotage'
*santa pimp
*pedophile priest
*that football guy who got caught dogfighting (if someone knows that guy's name, tell me!)
***edit 12-14-07--that guy's name is michael vick and he got sentenced to 23 months in prison two days ago yay! and the judge said he has to apologize to all the little children! he should be apologizing to all the dogs in the world, rat bastard...***

there were many more but i was drunk and forgot to take pictures. of course there were vampires and zombies and dead folk walking about. and more than a few hunter s. thompsons. and i was informed i needed some 'space huskies' to go with my spacegirl outfit.

someone i was talking to said hallowe'en on coventry now is like being on oldskool coventry on a regular day.

the joy of costume madness was deflated a bit when malloy's/hookah bar let out and some of those folk decided to fistfight about the cavs or some such bullshit. the cops came to break it up and went around telling people to go home. one of them whom i'm sure i know looked me dead in the eye and told me to leave. all i could say was, "but i LIVE here!"

and then the next day came.....

C.E.I. apparently chopped through a phone line trunk and for 2 days now, anything to do with phones has been screwy. first, all we got was crackly loudass static whenever we used the phone and most stores didn't have their credit card lines working. lottery was also down. today, phones and credit card lines are working in most places but we are without fax and lottery is still down. our latest intel from AT&T says everything will be up and running by monday. we hope.

on the bright side: NO LOTTERY! YAY!

and the comedians of comedy are coming tomorrow! and i get to see them! and michaels showalter/black are coming realreal soon! and i'm seeing them too! me and showalter got an anniversary to attend to, yo.

much love from the cov :)