2005-06-30 
 

secondary

Some days I feel like a background character in someone else's novel. This isn't as bad as it may sound. Takes the pressure off of me when some other sucker's in charge of saving the planet. I'll enjoy the break while it lasts because sooner or later, someone will come along and write The Secret Lives of Background Characters, and then I'll be on the hotseat again.

Labels: dose of mikey, sharketing

* posted by me at 1:10 AM

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2005-06-27 
 

grant me one wish

Today's the last day of vacation. I've commented often over the past few days that I'd love to win the lottery and go on vacation permanently. This comment caused several folks to feel they had to remind me that money can't buy happiness.

Hmmm...do you think anyone would give me a grant to help disprove that old saying? I'm very willing to try.

Labels: dose of mikey, sharketing

* posted by me at 8:33 PM

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carboholic

I have spent much of my birthday vacation eating a variety of carbs without feeling guilty.

Love that!

Labels: dose of mikey, sharketing

* posted by me at 12:33 AM

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2005-06-26 
 

pink saturday

There's a pink triangle on the hill and the noise of thousands just blocks away, yet somehow I have no desire to go out tonight.

I'm either a complete wanker, or just tired.

Labels: dose of mikey, san francisco

* posted by me at 1:25 AM

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2005-06-24 
 

hippo birdy

Spending my birthday recovering from the excesses of last night, but thinking I ought to go out in the world for at least a few hours in honor of my day. Then again, it is my day...so if I want to stay inside and curl up with G to watch cheesey movies, I can do that too.

I love today!

Labels: dose of mikey, g

* posted by me at 5:01 PM

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2005-06-21 
 

extremes

Ended up skipping the blockbusters this weekend and saw two indy films instead. Ladies in Lavender is a quiet film, but well worth watching if you like that sort of thing. I do. My only disappointment was that Maggie Smith remained relatively subdued throughout the film. It suited her character and is in no way a discredit to her skill as an actress...I just like movies where Maggie gets feisty. Dame Dench got the meatier of the two roles and played it quite wonderfully. Daniel Brühl gets extra points for holding his own with those two.

Next up was Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin. Going from Ladies to Skin felt a bit like climbing out of a nice mellow hottub and jumping directly into a pool of ice water.

Skin is one of those movies that I'll put on my great movie list, but will rarely want to watch. It brought up a lot of shit that I haven't thought of for quite some time and left me a bit more shaken than I thought I'd be. I like to pretend that I left that particular childhood trauma behind me in counseling years ago, but the truth is that it'll always be part of me. I wouldn't be the guy I am today if I hadn't survived that particular chapter in my life and in an odd way I'm happy that my path was bumpy at the beginning instead of now. Made me a hell of a lot stronger than I would've been otherwise...but I digress. Point is, I'd give this one a miss if you're not in the mood for a rough ride. However, if you're in the mood for something beautiful and harsh, I highly recommend it.

Labels: random review

* posted by me at 12:56 AM

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2005-06-16 
 

just plain wrong

Read this..., and don't anyone ever try to tell me that gays aren't still treated as second class citizens in this country.

I have nothing clever to say. I just ask that you send a prayer up to your own God and ask for protection for all the teens suffering through those camps.

EDIT: The link originally led to a MySpace page for a teenager who was being sent to a disciplinary camp for problem children. His problem was that he was gay. It's a private blog now, and a later article in the Advocate covered his release, but I'm not deleting the entry because the camps still exist and the wrongness of it all still infuriates me. (and note that the poor kid seems to have bought into the mythology that being gay is something he needs to learn to repress)

Labels: linkage, rant

* posted by me at 2:11 AM

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2005-06-12 
 

hot hot hot

The powers that be decreed this past week a hot one for the Boston area. G and I got to enjoy the heat inside suits yesterday while we attended the tea ceremony and following banquet for V and S. Fortunately, both locations had air conditioning. Unfortunately, neither location had air conditioning that worked very well. Add to that the body heat of about 200 banquet guests slowly eating through 10 plus courses and the poor AC didn't stand a chance.

All that being said, we had quite a good time. Have also had a good chance to catch up with family while here and I find myself wondering again whether it's time for a move back east. I love SF more than Boston, but I love the people in Boston too much to make SF my permanent home.

I'll have a nice conundrum to distract me during this next week at work. (Ugh. It's amazing that even a short break will quickly zap any desire to return to Cubicleland.)

Labels: boston, dose of mikey, g, looking eastward, san francisco

* posted by me at 6:28 PM

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2005-06-07 
 

read me a river

I used to live with my head inside a book most hours of the day...and night. I'd read so hard that my parents enjoyed saying that they could crack an egg over my head and I wouldn't notice except for that short moment when I'd have to wipe the runny yolk from my eyes in order to clearly see the page.

I haven't read like that in years. Finishing a book or two a day and leaving the rest of the world to run without me for months at a time. School and other social obligations becoming nothing more than semi-unpleasant dreams that I needed to push through in order to get back inside the pages of my latest adventure.

If it weren't for other people, books would still be my drug of choice.

I made a promise to myself in 10th grade to live life instead of just reading about it. Books still took up a large bit of time, but writing became more important as I started to record my experiences. It was slow going, and I'd often return to the comforting pages of a well worn tome, but the new books I was discovering told of lives that I hoped to emulate. Lives that weren't trapped in the torture of adolescence, but did require that one get out there and socialize.

So I did.

Over the years, I've tried a variety of more 'social' drugs: Alcohol, Nicotine, Marijuana, Acid, Cocaine, Ketamine, etc, but reading remains my number one drug of choice.

A rather complicated way to explain that I, like many others, am re-reading the entire Potter series in preparation for the release of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. The nugget here, is that I'm enjoying the sudden crunch of reading more than I'd like to admit, especially so soon after my sudden immersal into the world of Dan Brown and my return visits to both Douglas Adams and Robert Heinlein. I'm afraid it'll get hard for me to stop.

It may be G's turn to crack the egg.

Labels: reading

* posted by me at 7:24 PM

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2005-06-05 
 

philly photos

Finally got some down time to work with the Philadelphia photos. While I'm only posting about five percent on the site, that's still enough to make the main page load a bit slowly...so I'm trying something new.

Click here for some Philly Fun.

Labels: 1000 words, g, looking eastward

* posted by me at 12:20 AM

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