Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

Saturday, July 10, 2010

complete lack of control

Good news and bad news! The library sale put me in a pretty good mood. I parallel parked like a pro, ran into a friendquaintance (the guitarist for the build which definitely counts as small town celebrity sighting) and purchased an Asimov book I've never heard of before which all resulted in general good moodiness.

And now I'm sort of totally ruined (at least for the next 15 minutes until I can calm myself down or at the very least internalize my humiliation which will eventually lead to some sort of heart disease in the future I am sure) because I slipped on a wet strawberry in front of all those nerds reading the onion at this coffee house. Great. Thanks for helping me up, NO ONE. Thanks for staring while I lay spread eagle on the floor with a mashed strawberry stuck to my flip flop, EVERYONE. I'm boycotting humankind today. Bah.

Maybe I will take photos of my library sale treasures later today. I only got 8 or 9 books, no magazines and no tapes or records. There was a general theme of women studies in my purchases this month and obviously I bought a paperback biography of Willie Nelson called WILLIE!
You'd think that this would be on the wall of every humdrum college dorm wall along with the animal house poster, einstein sticking out his tongue, einstein riding a bike, kramer portrait, and bob marley and/or che guevera nonsense but it's not.

That picture makes me feel somewhat better. Fucking coffee house yuppies. Here's to the rest of my day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sunday, November 22, 2009

a most reasonable way to spend friday

The pink glasses are the physical embodiment of a bourgeoisie dilemma (Quick! Sociology student, interpret what I mean and let me know if it's true!) On one hand, I realize that I am a 25 year old adult who could have raised 12 kids by now, reads the Times, wears comfortable socks for poor circulation, and at this point, pink glasses are a costume I wear to feel youthful. And of course, I am not young anymore. I've switched over to Lite Sour Cream™ ages ago, after all.

But, then again ...

Fuck it. It's my fucking life. And I want to wear pink glasses whether they belong on a neon purple unicorn or not. I'll deal with the repercussions of acting my age when I turn 30. Problem solved. P.S. The tits are still growing. Of course, this implies that the rest of the body is still growing (EEP!), but I will pretend it's just my lovely hips and chest that are the sole benefactors of my beer and cheese diet.

Cheapo rose wine and the wii. Not the most ingenious combination, but we get points for drinking it out of High Life bottles.

I just think it's more polite when a cat tucks his arms under himself. Hrumpf!

Do we look like a couple? Do we look like a couple who you'd be afraid to talk to? Unless you can endlessly chat about Gn'R, you'd best be afraid.

It's not nice to piss on a lawyer's office, but it's a pleasant reminder that anything you touch in public has most likely been pissed on. Note to self: buy more gloves.

Guess how long it took me to convince them to model for me? Literally nanoseconds. The rose was kicking in about then.

It's rather odd how many fights the boys avoid by being with a sweetheart such as myself. I'm being excessively cocky - let me stop this playlist (mid-90s east coast rap) and switch over to nick drake. Phew!

This was my plastic bag floating in the wind object that night. 'It's ... it's ... so ... cryptic ... sign of ... our ... times ... just ... breathe.' Yikes. My iPhoto is filled with this glittery leaf. If I could have only captured the moment Marc and Jay both spilled their drinks on me. No, nah, let's let that moment become swept away in the currents of forgotten memory.

ANYWAY! THAT WAS FRIDAY.

Early on Saturday morning, Marc went off to Jewish Temple™ and I raced off to the Library book sale. Walked and took the bus! This deserves a round of applause, I think. Especially seeing as I was still drunk from the night before. I'm burning the candle at both ends, hm? Worrisome.

OH WELLSIES! LOOK AT THE PRETTY LEAVES!

This is all on Columbia. Did you know Columbia the school and Colombia the country are spelled differently. I should write a Did You Know book for toddlers.

I bought a Tofu cookbook, soft cover textbook called Flesh and Fantasy, it's about who slept with whom in 1940s Hollywood, and large picture book on London.

Oh, right!

Bum Piss tunnel is now Day Glo Rainbow Acid Trip tunnel. It still reeks of bum piss.

Around this time, I got solicited by a prostitute-seeker. I'm all for new experiences, so this was muy interesting, but I refused.

The walk home was damp, overcast and very untypical Albuquerque. I wish you were there.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

turning cold books warm

we went to the MAIN LIBRARY monthly book sale. get there by 10:00am and don't be scared of the thousands of people waiting in line around the building and down the block, as soon as the doors open they all seem to fit into the basement room. look, i made a video of the books i got and even added the ones marc bought too. happy?

next one is april 12.