1) On the bus back from downtown on my way back from the airport, I was waiting at one stop, when I see the bus fly around a block ahead and turn, obviously off its routes. Me and another guy ran up the block and managed to get on the bus, and the other passenger asked the (black) driver, "Are you re-routed or something?", and the guy was like, "What are you talking about?".
As it turns out, there was major traffic like three blocks up, so the guy got sick of it, turned off his route and drove down another street, skipping a couple blocks.
He also went down 20 streets instead of turning onto the highway to go express, and everyone on the bus was looking at him.
2) When I was getting groceries to fill my fridge, I apologized to the (light black) cashier girl for not bagging all my loose vegetables, saying apologetically as I usually do that I'm neurotic about the environment, and she was like, "No, that's perfectly normal, sweetheart."
3) When I was going to the grocery store, I passed by the African goods store where I used to buy Obama buttons, and it had a black t-shirt in its window that said -
IN LOVING MEMORY
- and had a picture on it derived from the Thriller cover, with -
MICHAEL JACKSON ([year of birth] - 2009)
- underneath and off to the right in smaller letters.
4) I had this big blister on the bottom of my foot, but it wouldn't pop when I pressed it, so I took out my nail clippers and carefully snipped away at the dead flesh around the edge of the blister so it would pop, but when I pressed it, I guess I had only made a thin hole, since this little stream of blister juice jetted out right into my face and eyes, almost like a squirt gun, so then I stopped and cut away some more dead flesh and popped it as I expected.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Friday, July 3, 2009
Addendum.
I forgot -
Way back when during the discussion group following the documentary about really butch black lesbians, after my one friend who works at a rape crisis hotline's boss talked about her time in the military and how gay it all was, in fact one of the gayest places in all the U.S., one person who regularly attends the docs, this social activist girl around my age, said that that was really interesting, since back when she was graduating from high school, this really athletic guy from her class who everyone knew was gay really wanted to join the military, and everyone was like, "But you're gay and you don't know it yet," and he said that he really didn't know, but he knew that he wanted to join the military, and he did it and loved it, and he did turn out to be gay.
Way back when during the discussion group following the documentary about really butch black lesbians, after my one friend who works at a rape crisis hotline's boss talked about her time in the military and how gay it all was, in fact one of the gayest places in all the U.S., one person who regularly attends the docs, this social activist girl around my age, said that that was really interesting, since back when she was graduating from high school, this really athletic guy from her class who everyone knew was gay really wanted to join the military, and everyone was like, "But you're gay and you don't know it yet," and he said that he really didn't know, but he knew that he wanted to join the military, and he did it and loved it, and he did turn out to be gay.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Non-school books I've been reading over the past year.
From a list I keep:
*1) Joan Baez's "Daybreak".
2) Sister Claudette Marie Muhammed's "Memories".
3) James Randi's "Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns and Other Delusions".
4) Tim Reiterman with John Jacobs's "Raven: The Untold Story of the Reverend Jones and His People".
5) John Edward's "Crossing Over: The Story Behind the Stories".
6) David Lynch's "Catch the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity".
7) Lucy Rooney and Robert Faricy's "Medjugorje Up Close: Mary Speaks to the World".
8) John Hubner and Lindsey Groson's "Monkey on a Stick: Murder, Madness, and the Hare Krishnas".
9) Eileen Barker's "The Making of a Moonie".
10) Susan and Anne Swatland's "Escape from the Moonies".
11) Christopher Isherwood's "My Guru and His Disciple".
12) Christopher Isherwood's "Ramakrishna and His Disciples".
13) Roberto Saviano's "Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System".
*14) Lawrence Edwards's "Lover: The Confessions of a One-Night Stand".
15) Simon Baatz's "For The Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder that Shocked Chicago".
16) Suzanne Finstad's "Child Bride: The Untold Story of Priscilla Beaulieu Presley".
17) Carlos Castaneda's "The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge".
*18) His Eastern and Western Disciples's "The Life of Swami Vivekananda".
*19) Joe Edward Barnhart's "The Southern Baptist Holy War".
*20) Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet".
*21) Heather Haneman aka Feathers Handlesmen's "Big Wigs: Stories of a Straight Girl in a Drag Queen's World".
*22) Pope John XXIII's "Journal of a Soul".
*23) Helen Keller's "My Religion".
*24) Arthur Henley's "Demon in My View: The Dramatic Documentary of One Man's Remarkable Efforts to Help the Kids Nobody Wants".
*25) A.S. Jackson's "Gentleman Pimp: The Autobiography of Andrew Stonewall Jackson".
*26) Swami Shraddhananda's "Seeing God Everywhere: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Living".
*27 Linda Davis's "How to be the Happy Wife of an Unsaved Husband".
(* = not finished reading it through yet)
*1) Joan Baez's "Daybreak".
2) Sister Claudette Marie Muhammed's "Memories".
3) James Randi's "Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns and Other Delusions".
4) Tim Reiterman with John Jacobs's "Raven: The Untold Story of the Reverend Jones and His People".
5) John Edward's "Crossing Over: The Story Behind the Stories".
6) David Lynch's "Catch the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity".
7) Lucy Rooney and Robert Faricy's "Medjugorje Up Close: Mary Speaks to the World".
8) John Hubner and Lindsey Groson's "Monkey on a Stick: Murder, Madness, and the Hare Krishnas".
9) Eileen Barker's "The Making of a Moonie".
10) Susan and Anne Swatland's "Escape from the Moonies".
11) Christopher Isherwood's "My Guru and His Disciple".
12) Christopher Isherwood's "Ramakrishna and His Disciples".
13) Roberto Saviano's "Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System".
*14) Lawrence Edwards's "Lover: The Confessions of a One-Night Stand".
15) Simon Baatz's "For The Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder that Shocked Chicago".
16) Suzanne Finstad's "Child Bride: The Untold Story of Priscilla Beaulieu Presley".
17) Carlos Castaneda's "The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge".
*18) His Eastern and Western Disciples's "The Life of Swami Vivekananda".
*19) Joe Edward Barnhart's "The Southern Baptist Holy War".
*20) Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet".
*21) Heather Haneman aka Feathers Handlesmen's "Big Wigs: Stories of a Straight Girl in a Drag Queen's World".
*22) Pope John XXIII's "Journal of a Soul".
*23) Helen Keller's "My Religion".
*24) Arthur Henley's "Demon in My View: The Dramatic Documentary of One Man's Remarkable Efforts to Help the Kids Nobody Wants".
*25) A.S. Jackson's "Gentleman Pimp: The Autobiography of Andrew Stonewall Jackson".
*26) Swami Shraddhananda's "Seeing God Everywhere: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Living".
*27 Linda Davis's "How to be the Happy Wife of an Unsaved Husband".
(* = not finished reading it through yet)
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
A Coffee Can for You (77 of 77): JFK indian instant coffee.
I got this in the Ukrainian part of the city when I was on my way once to a coffee shop to go meet up with my one Dutch friend and then go hang out at his neighbors in the Puero Rican neighborhood:
I love how the English writing is in mock Sanskrit, but then all the little informational writing is in English or Ukrainian.
I also love this picture of the Indian goddess on the side of the can:
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I tried re-taking this picture 3 or 4 times, but there was always major glare in the picture, like there was divine radiance coming from the goddess or something.
I love how the English writing is in mock Sanskrit, but then all the little informational writing is in English or Ukrainian.
I also love this picture of the Indian goddess on the side of the can:
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I tried re-taking this picture 3 or 4 times, but there was always major glare in the picture, like there was divine radiance coming from the goddess or something.
Monday, June 29, 2009
A Coffee Can for You (76 of 77): Cafe Trung Nguyen.
I got this can a month or two ago when I went to go hear some jazz at an old club north of downtown that's near the Vietnamese neighborhood:
I love the translation on the back:
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It seems like one of those Asian-English things where Asian people try to write higher-register English in product descriptions or advertisements or whatever and don't have a native speaker check it out (though this is grammatically correct and correctly spelled, of course).
The coffee had something syrup-y sweet mixed into it, too, so there was an oily film on the top of every cup, and it was all I could do to drink it every morning without throwing up.
I love the translation on the back:
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It seems like one of those Asian-English things where Asian people try to write higher-register English in product descriptions or advertisements or whatever and don't have a native speaker check it out (though this is grammatically correct and correctly spelled, of course).
The coffee had something syrup-y sweet mixed into it, too, so there was an oily film on the top of every cup, and it was all I could do to drink it every morning without throwing up.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
A Coffee Can for You (75 of 77): Hills Bros 100% Colombian Dark Roast.
I got this coffee can at the Jewel that one time, I think:
It surprises me that it took me so long to get a Hills Bros can, and that I still don't have a Maxwell House can.
It surprises me that it took me so long to get a Hills Bros can, and that I still don't have a Maxwell House can.
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