Impossible to work

Last night was the 3rd annual Printers’ Ball, hosted by the Poetry Foundation at the Zhou B. Center. It was really awesome, until the cops shut it down (around 10:30 or so). This was the best possible event anyone could have hoped for. For my own part, I walked out with about 20 pounds worth […]

I decided to not write anything about my apartment hunt again until I was done with it. I didn’t want to jinx it. I went to the Apartment People and they were nice. They showed me some great apartments, but none of them were just right. Even if one of them had been the one, […]

I have received word that a friend recently asked another friend what had happened to my bleak and cynical view of life. Gentle reader, do not fear, I am still bitterly jaded by the nothing new of the sun’s diurnal arc and the vast (sometimes green, often brown) wasteland that it never fully illuminates. It’s […]

So I follow my page hits, like everyone else. Usually it’s just people who know my URL and type it in on occasion (thanks to all of you who read this blog). But recently, I’ve been noticing people hitting my site by googling I feel so crazy. Incidentally, Impossible to Work is the top ranked […]

Yesterday, I went to look at 3 apartments with an agent from Chicago Apartment Finders. She was a strange woman. The clutch on her car squeaked. She discussed her affinity for cars that are peppy while driving a Kia wagon. It was gold. It’s hard to take someone who drives a gold car seriously. But […]

I got to thinking about what happened on Tuesday at Chicago Apartment Finders and ended up deciding that I should file a complaint with the company and see if they were willing to make up for their mistake.
So I filled out the feedback form on their web site and waited for someone to get back […]

There’s an update! Find out what happened next.
I attempted to start my apartment search today. It was a massive failure, however, because I started looking with Chicago Apartment Finders. I had to reschedule this morning from an AM to a PM meeting time. They were great about changing the appointment time. That was the only […]

I love my puppy. I love dogs in general. I like to think that people are more or less good. But having a cute puppy sucks. “Why?” you may ask. Because people are constantly stopping me and asking if they can play with my dog. Sometimes this is great, like when I’m just taking the […]

This is Henri. He is my puppy. Andy posted this pic to the baby animal livejournal community. Want to hear what people had to say?
I got forwarded an email this afternoon informing me that a coworker of a friend has put this very picture of my dog on her computer’s desktop. She has met neither […]

Dear Canadian,
Thank you for googling “Ridiculous Prime.” I don’t know why you would google such a random thing, nor what you were looking for, but I’m pretty confident you didn’t find it here. I apologize for having nothing for you that was appropriately ridiculous for you. However, I am relatively sure that most posts here […]

Since there often isn’t much to do in Tulsa, when something truly bizarre comes to your attention, you must jump on it. When I heard that there was to be an air guitar contest at the Cain’s Ballroom and that it was going to be free, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity.
Ten or so […]

I don’t think of myself as a car racing fan. I just like to drive cars. I know that gasoline is bad news for a variety of reasons, but I enjoy the whole process of starting out in 1st and working my way up to top gear. Especially if I’m on an open stretch of […]

A few photos are now up.

Take a look at that picture. When we started our durational performance/installation/creative playground on Saturday, there was no yarn. The volume of yarn that we went through indicates to me that Structures Without Integrity’s first piece “Simultaneous Landscapes” was a success.
If you were able to come and take one (or more) of our tours, I […]

Need something to do this weekend? There’s a lot going on I know, but why not fit in a trip to Version as well? In particular, the NFO XPO (pronounced info expo) at the Version Kunsthalle (aka Iron Studios Building) on Saturday from Noon-2AM and Sunday from Noon-7.
It’s just a hop skip and a short […]

The second session of the Lucky Pierre Workshop was dedicated to developing the work we produced in the first week. Karen started us off with some yoga. A vocalisation exercise followed as well as being handed copies of everyone’s writing exercise from the first session. Then came the real fun: everyone’s show and tell.
I can’t […]

For the last two saturdays I participated in a workshop taught by the members of Lucky Pierre at Links Hall. It was a good workshop, filled with a very diverse crowd. Well, as diverse of a crowd as one might expect to find in a performance workshop. It was a great experience. Primarily because I […]

I am highly amused amused by this bracket. It’s sort of all over the place, much like the basketball tournament. When I saw it I wondered, and still do, how the seeds were selected. Still, it’s funny.
When I saw the original post, I called up Kath and Jen of Anti Gravity Surprise to […]