Black Widow

I live in a one bedroom apartment. As I stay awake by night and sleep by day, there are a few spiders outside my door. They let me be by day, and by night, they spin their webs. I know they are dangerous to me and especially to my pets, but we live and let live around here. If I didn't love meat so much I swear I'd be vegan. Anyhow, I have my spiders that live just out of my door and they only come out at night, even though I see that scary red spot on their belly.

In my shower, there are the other ones, the daddy long legs that I make sure to get out of the shower before I run the water; we can co-exist.

I'm sorry. Tonight, you, the black widow, made it into my bathroom. And I had to squash you. It makes me sad. You're just a spider trying to make your way; maybe I relate your plight to mine...I'm just trying to find out where I fit in this world, but now, inside my house, you were a danger to me, my dog, my cats, and I had to squash you. I am so sorry. Your siblings still live peacefully on my patio; they don't fuck with me and I won't fuck with them. But isn't that so symbolic for something more?

California In A Stage 1 Energy Alert

California is in a stage one energy alert... no rolling blackouts until we hit stage 3, but they're asking for people with A/C to set the thermostat to 78 degrees. 78! haha. I'm pretty sure the landlord in front of me has her's set somewhere around 60 degrees. Even when she's not home. I have a kitchen overhead fan and a floor fan and I'd turn them off if I didn't have 4 pets who deserve to live in a household under 90 degrees. It's been hot. I prefer to stay up till the sun rises, then sleep when it's uber hot outside. If you happen to come to my house, don't mind the pet hair on my floor. I will vacuum when the energy crisis ends. Don't even ask about my laundry. Just glad I'm not any where else in the country because every other place sucks even worse than here. Yeah, Vegas, how's that 120 workin out? New York humidity? Awe. some. I don't pay sunshine tax for nuthin, but I'm kinda longing for Christmas-time when all I have to complain about is too much fog and wondering which hoodie I should wear. Yeah, global warming, what???

Rambling For The Sake of Rambling

The benefactor I've been seeking has found me:

DEAR FRIEND,
I am Mr.paul leech Executive Director of the Hang Seng Bank Ltd, taiwan. An Iraqi named Haider Hanoon, a business man made a numbered fixed depositof (346,736,899.68 TWD) for 18 calendar months, this is valued to FourtyFour million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars only in my branch. Upon maturity several notice was sent to him, even during the war, four years ago (2003). Again after the war another notification was sent and still no response came from him.

blah blah. i love spam. So I just thought I would do a quick update on my week. Tuesday I didn't do anything noteworthy, Wednesday I went to the zoo, saw Superbad, then went to the Ken Club and after, a few of my friends came over and we watched Flight of the Conchords until 5 in the morning, Thursday I did the Great Northern show and finished the night at the Pink Elephant, and last night, after an afternoon with my family, I got stinko at the Ken Club while watching The Spits, The Creepy Creeps, and Nihilist (I missed The Dissimilars). The bar was packed and at one point they had to restrict ins and outs because there were so many people spending so much of the night outside hoping to get in. I'll get to all my recappin later, but just thought I'd give a Saturday shout out before I head to a BBQ at the parental units' home. I have a lot of pics to post and Greg wrote a great review of Great Northern that I'll post this evening as well.

By the way, I didn't expect to get so many Jack Bauer/Kiefer Sutherland/24 hits. Guess he's worth the cash they're paying him, huh?