the perineum of the year

It's the week between christmas and new years, and west grove is cool and damp.

A few points:

+Marvel Zombies comes out today!

+Apparently Al Qaeda plans on attacking the U.S. through Mexico.

+I MISS ALL YOU GUYS!! Is our house empty at the moment??

-J Hunter

Merry Christmas!

I'm in sunny Kentucky right now, getting ready to bike around and get a gift for my brother who wasn't here yesterday. That's right, biking!

Kudos to Ben for getting his book published! So far, I have had nothing published, unless you consider the posts I've made at this website. Though I wouldn't consider these meandering musings to be "published."

I am reading "Silent Spring" right now, the book about the use of DDT and other pesticides and the way we were poisoning our environment. I can't even fathom it, but in the 1950s they used to use airplanes to douse millions of acres with insecticides. In order to kill the bull weevel they would just kill everything! Absurd!

I wonder how much DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons I have in my fat cells. That shit stays in you for a very long time, and I know that it hasn't been used in years, but how long does it take to break down? Styrofoam will last practically forever!

I embark on my cross-country trip in a week and a half, and so am just reading and rhyming and stealing.

By the way, if anyone offers to show you a video called "Two girls, one cup" absolutely do not watch it. I was duped into it by a friend one night, and regret it. It's like in the aristocrats, "The Joke", the terrible joke, the joke that everyone hates and is wretched. Well this is the incarnation of the joke in movie form.

And so with that holiday warning, I wish you all a Merry Christmas! Ho ho ho!

books and crooks

Dear House and Assorted Friends of the House,

I have noticed a lack of posting. This is partly my own fault, but I think we need to begin a vigorous increase in posting.

So, some topics recently on my mind:

1) Ron Paul hits double digits in Iowa. The Revolution?? Or something... Why can't the left have any momentum?

2) Philip Seymour Hoffman. I saw 'Charlie Wilson's War' and 'The Savages' and enjoyed both and was totally floored by PSH's performance. Laura Linney held her own in the Savages, which was just a very well made movie throughout (except a few I thought tacky visuals early, but there's no need to be petty). However, our man completely dominated (in a good way) CWW, even though the movie featured a supposedly all-star cast. I think this review from the Charlotte Observer pretty well sums things up:

"Hanks... and Roberts seem "actorish," putting on accents and mannerisms, but they're entertaining. Hoffman is something more, a scenery-devouring force of nature irresistible as a cyclone and irreverent as a stand-up comedian at a midnight show."

Yeah, he's that good.

3) The Bengals beat the Browns on Sunday, so the Steelers are now officially the AFC North Division Champions. However, league-leading rb Willy Parker was injured and is out for the season, so I have serious doubts about our potential to advance very far in the playoffs. Oh well, at least Hines Ward has now set every major Steelers receiving record.

4) As some of you know, I recently completed a writing project which I've been calling my crossword-book-thing. I need to think of a better name because it just got picked up for publication by little publisher called No Record Press. Anyways, I'm not sure the details of the release yet, but it's kind of a big deal for me.

Also, is anyone at our house right now? Actually, don't answer that. A lot of burglars read this and I don't want to tip them off.

See you all soon??

-Ben

Hello,

It's been a while since I've posted. I think this distance thing is difficult.

I think our house should make some new years resolutions. I for one am going to try to be a little more active in making the house a community-center and organizing movie nights and the like.

I am also in Arizona right now, so perhaps the heat is getting to me.

how are you guys?? i'm missing the valley.

-ben

A blog to check out!

I have my own blog, so if anyone is interested in my political rants and historical tedium, then check out frothingdingodog.blogspot.com, or google search "politically angry" and i'm like the third one down.

also, the house feels much more livable these days. thank god for fossil fuels!

Price

One More

American Graphitti: George Lucas

I was going along with this movie the whole time, looking at how amazing the era of crusing the strip was. So ideal and fun. Then I find out one character gets killed by a drunk driver, and another in Vietnam. Man. This was a good movie though, I never thought much of George Lucas as an actual director before this. Its cool that I an only two people removed from Ron Howard.

Movies and Temperature

It is cold in the Purple House. Our hearts are cold because we are missing two of our own. One is in Sunny California, under the redwoods (!), or is it Mexico by the Sea of Cortez?
The other is in Connecticut.

The other reasason it is cold is that we ran out of oil, once again. It is the coldest weekend of the year. Two Noreasters. Over a foot of icey snow, and we have to heat with our stove. This is OK I guess, but it sucks living in a drafty house built for when petrol was cheaper than water. 600-800 bucks a month for oil this year.

Water froze in the cupola last night! That is a first.


Movies I Have Watched:

Five Easy Pieces: Directed by Bob Rafelson
This movie made me realize that I take way too much shit from society. Really good, I like the west coast and Washington Island Scenery. This movie is good with Ben Segal and Andrea Love watching with you.

Cool Hand Luke: Stuart Rosenberg.
Are all Good movies about beautiful Men who will not conform? This one was. I like the sexy car wash scene. I miss Luke now.

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest:Milos Forman
Yes, they are. The system will beat on all the Lukes and Mcmurphys in the world under the guise of good intentions. We should all be more Brash.
"Ah, Juicy Fruit"



Thats all for now.

Purple House 06 reunion in the works. Shhhh.

Than

Like Fargo but with more scrabble and less woodchippers

So last night we had a little gathering of friends here at the purple house, and Peter (a purple-house-prospie) and I were the last ones up and playing scrabble at 2 am. Someone knocked on the door and I answered - and theres this funny lookin guy who says he just flipped his car through the snow bank, across the sidewalk and into the bushes and he needs to make a phonecall. I lend him my cell and eventually this really pregnant police officer comes by and says "So how fast where you going there?" and the funny lookin guy says "like 35-40" and she says "oh well now this is a 25 zone here!"

IT WAS AWESOME.

And then we finished scrabble. Peter won 228 to 215.

An update on our friend, the mouse

I caught the mouse this morning at 6:45, pinning it between the Hungry Jack instant mashed potatoes and the box of Quinoa (whatever that is) on the top shelf in the pantry. He was very frightened, but I released him down the street back into the wild. Hopefully, he will burrow his way into happiness and out of our lives forever, though I don't know if he's going to try to return to any family he has still in the Purple House.

On another note, Tara and I have definitely found a place for next semester, so I suppose this will be one of my last blogs. It's been fun living in the Purple House, and I intend on visiting often, especially in light of the fact that I'm going to be living just up the street, near the Forbes Library.

Rockin' into the New Year on a Merry Christmas sleigh, have a Chappy Channukah (which, I suppose, is over now) and bountiful Kwanzaa and a repentful Ramadan.

Price

oh the weather outside is frightful...

... But we aren't allowed to use our fireplace

Today was a snow day!!!

I'm sitting on the couch with aliza eating tart and drinking delicious tea and being warm.

A few notes: The senate passed a very lousy version of the energy bill, Aliza finished her finals, and I want to wat a movie called 'My Science Project'. It involves time travel, highschool, and Denis Hopper and was made in 1985. Seems sweet.

And finally, the baseball world was schocked my the revelations of the Mitchell Report. Among the dozens of players cited in the report was one Roger Clemens. That's right, the Rocket used steroids. Which means that the most dominant pitcher and the most dominant hitter of our era were cheaters.

From the Sports and Leisure desk, this is Ben Segal saying Goodnight and Goodluck. We're all going to need it because the artic will be completely iceless during the summer of 2013 if we even make it past 12/21/2012.

sir i wanna buy these shoes

So, I have been gone a lot and will continue to be gone for another while. It's weird to be spending so much time traveling, but it's also refreshing.

I would like to point out an omission to the recently watched movies list: Cool Hand Luke

Also, did anyone return 1984 and ATPM? If not, I guess I owe late fees.

I am in a slow state of mind. Few words are emerging that are of any use. I ate a mushroom pizza and thought about John Cage because he loved mushrooms more than just about anything, probably including music.

Also, and finally, I heard a song called 'christmas shoes' or something like that on the radio. i am nominating it for worst song ever, bar none. It's the story of a dirty little poor boy who goes to the store on christmas eve to buy his mom a pair of shoes. And then we find out the the mom is dying and might even die that very night. Instead of being with her, the boy is buying her shoes. She's on her deathbed, never to rise again, and he's buying shoes that he can't even afford. At one point has to ask the man behind him in line for money so he can get his mom shoes so that she can "look beautiful if [she] meets Jesus tonight". Also it is horribly sung and poorly orchestrated. I highly encourage searching for it.

Best wishes and happy holidays,
Ben

Reviews

In honor of my favorite valley publication, I plan to review all movies and wines i experience.

1) HEAD- The monkees film. Amazing, though i would have liked more inter-personal characterization. I guess that is what the tv show is good for. Michael Nezmith has fallen from grace, but boy was he good in that movie. Frank Zappa!

2) Harvey Krumpet- Oh boy. Made me miss my family.

3) 1984- Pan. PASS. Made in 1984, kind of a gag. I am sure that it could have been made into a better movie, such an amazing book. The future is a boot stomping on a human face over and over forever.

4) All the Presidents Men- We need more Muckrakers. We need more Dustin Hoffmen. This movie made me HUNGRY FOR THE TRUTH.

5) American Gangster- This movie did not live up to itself. Good acting, great even, but not very memorable. Also, a quick look at the true story on Wikipedia was a let down. No one is that charming.

6) The Graduate- Yup. I would watch this again. How timely. Plastics, good call.

7) Monty Python and the Holy Grail- Jeesus. How did I ever like this?


Than.

The house is so quiet

Jim and I have a "tie" system, where if there is a tie on the doorknob, then that means one of us is entertaining a lady guest. Last night, Than was returning Jim's tie and just left it on the doorknob, thus inadvertently sexiling Jim.

If the house had been like Arrested Development, then the narrator would have said something like this: "What Jim didn't know was that Tara and Price were awake and fully clothed, thinking themselves also sexiled." Cue theme music.

But alas the house is so quiet. Than and Ben are on vacation, Kristin has left for a month or two, and Jim is asleep and Jesslyn may or may not be here.

Dubin is hanging out, though, in his usual dude-like attitude.

I think Mike Huckabee is going to sweep the Republican primaries, securing for himself the nomination. The reason? Chuck Norris. He has managed to garner the votes of elderly, rednecks who love guns, single issue evangelicals, and most importantly, cynical gen-Xers. How? Chuck Norris. That's right.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MDUQW8LUMs8

Tara said it's simultaneously brilliant and horrifying. I agree.

let's play some Harmonukkah!

And come celebrate Channukah! Friday 6 till we die from Mannischewitz poisoning. We're making:

Latkes
Matzo Ball Soup
and other Jewish dishes as well!*

So schlepp on down, or would it kill you to come and visit every once in a while? If you're not going to visit, you could at least call. I know, I know, with long-distance rates what they are these days, oy! ...And other Jewish cliches as well!




*There are no other Jewish dishes.

C.I.A. Destroyed tapes of torture

From here

"The Central Intelligence Agency in 2005 destroyed at least two videotapes documenting the interrogation of two Al Qaeda operatives in the agency’s custody...They were destroyed in part because officers were concerned that tapes documenting controversial interrogation methods could expose agency officials to greater risk of legal jeopardy, several officials said."

This is just like "All The President's Men"! Anyone want to see if our neighbors know anything about this??

bread

Anybody want a loaf of bread?

We have a lot.

Not Even Stories:

1) Melissa and Gohst were friends with benefits. This means that in exchange for sex, they received health and dental insurance. So they kept having sex, because they did not live in country with universal healthcare.

2) Burns are generally worse than aches, but heart-ache is worse than heart-burn. Except if you have really bad acid-reflux syndrome.

3) The cat was out of the bag. Unfortunately, the bag was where the cat belonged. This was unfortunate for the cat. That he had escaped the bag was unfortunate for his owner. There was misfortune all around.

Three Things

I have three ideas in my head.

1) The afterlife in comic books. Wikipedia has extensive entries on almost every aspect of comic book universes, especially DC and Marvel comics. Wikipedia does not mention the format of the afterlife in comic books, despite the fact that heaven, hell, the devil, gods, God, angels, demons and ressurections are quite common. I believe the Justice League of America once went to Heaven to stop a war, and an actual Angel joined their ranks for some time. The Fantastic Four had to save their son Franklin from Hell, and traveled to heaven to get the soul of The Thing back from God. Now, I have noticed one thing in all these afterlife stories, and it is that Heaven and Hell are populated almost solely by superheroes and super villians. Rarely are normal humans seen.

I was thinking about this- the set up of these universes renders normal humans irrelevant, and the world and afterlife exist for characters which wear funny costumes and posses attributes that normal humans supposedly do not. I think this is how most people I associate with at Hampshire College and in Providence, view themselves, part of an elite pantheon with deep and meaningful characterization. Everyone is human though. A mere mortal.

2) A mouse evidently got into my beans. We have a problem. What can we do that is not too cruel? Any ideas? Both sticky traps and spring loaded traps are not certain to kill mice. What is a "have a heart" trap?


3) The cupola is not heated, so although I am warm with my electric blanket, my head is cold. So I think my sleep is not as deep as it normally would be. Because of this, NPR (which I leave on overnight) has been slinking into my dreams. This morning there was a story about a man in Iceland whom flies a plane to a Glacier to measure it every year. In my dream he asked me to accompany him, and I had to leave my DIV III show in order to do it. I was excited, but scared because we were flying in a dinky little one rotator plane. The Icelandic man flying the plane was my favorite Swedish actor Max von Sydow (The Knight in the Seventh Seal by Igmar Birgman). He was quite a guy, kind of a male Amelia Mary Earhart.

I think Amelia Earhart is amazing. I am sad she disappeared, I would have liked to see her speak, and maybe to have asked her on a date. Many things would have to be changed in reality for that to happen. I hope it does in my dreams tonight. I would take her out to get Pizza and play arcade games.


-Than

lessons

last night we learned a few important lessons:
1) Trader Joes throws away a lot of perfectly good bananas and key limes, and orzo stuffed pepper is probably gross no matter when you eat it.
2) Dunkin Donuts switches out its batch of donuts in the afternoon. I think this is because only 1 person works in the store over the night shift, so if they tried to throw away the old donuts then, the store would be unmanned and very easy to rob.
3) We need a membership to pleasant street video or we need to start taking advantage of hampshire media services for rentals.

also, i am tired today for no reason i can quite understand. i am just a very tired person. weird.

yours etc,
ben

ps: than, can you please lend me dubin's electric shaver? my chin has been too covered for too long.

patriots v ravens

listening to the game in the 4th quarter. both teams seem like they're trying to lose.

it's now 3rd and 14 at the baltimore 41. INCOMPLETE!!! the ravens, who i hate to root for, have held them.

this is huge. i'm rooting for the ravens (which is a first) but someone has to beat these NE jerks.

about 5 minutes to go, baltimore has the ball 1st and 10 on their own 28.

baltimore is 3rd and 2 now on the 36...shit they miss the marker. They'll have to punt with with about 3 and half minutes to go.

ravens at least have a staunch defense. as long as they can keep them out of the endzone.

patriots take over at their own 27. they've got 2 timeouts left, so there is plenty of time. Baltimore really needed one more first down.

here's the home stretch. first pass is incomplete- so far so good. patriots get a 1st down.

question: why isn't baltimore applying more pressure? Brady is much much worse under pressure. Prevent defense is not going to work with so much time left I don't think.

anyways, it's 2nd at 10 at the 50. and they just hit a 9 yd pass, so 3rd and 1, and brady sneaks to the 40 for a first.

incomplete on 1st down and it's now the 2 minute warning. patriots have very stupid radio commercials.

we're back. incomplete. 3rd and 10. They hit brady after giving some pressure. like i said. pass goes to faulk around the 30 near the first down, but shy by about a yard. STOPPED on 4th and 1, but baltimore had called a time out...so the patriots get to retry 4th and 1 on the 40. flag down, it's a false start on the pats, bringing it to 4th and 6. shit shit shit, brady runs for a 1st. 1:38 to go, 18 yards. this looks bleak for the home team. Faulk runs, gets to the 13. Incomplete pass, 3rd and 5, one minute remaining. Incomplete pass. 4th and 5. the patriot-loving announcers are criticizing Brady, which i think you can get excommunicated for in this part of the country. We're just under a minute to go, so if they only get a first, time becomes a factor.

INCOMPLETE...but a flag for Defensiveholding. BULLSHIT. 1st and goal at the 8, less than a minute. TD, but there are several flags. The announcer mis-called the play, couldn't see it and called it wrong. The flags are on the ravens and are assessed on the kickoff.

the announcers, refs, and ravens are all awful. what nonsense, getting 2 extra tries on 4th down.

44 seconds remaining. Baltimore is going to have terrible field position because of so many flags (3 now) for penalties to be assessed on the kickoff (35 yards). 27-24 now. the patriots are evil and i hate them.

They're going to get the ball on the 20, so they have 44 seconds to go and 1 time out. They need to get to at least the 40 for a field goal. 1st down to the 33. time is ticking, pass is complete to the 42. 14 seconds left only and they call their last time out. This is dismal clock management for only 2 plays. incomplete pass. 8 seconds to go.

they make a pass to the 2 yardline and the clock expires. terrible clock management. terrible coaching allowing the patriots to take too much time on their scoring drive and then operating with no sense of urgency on the ensuing drive. Baltimore is a bad team because they have decent players but a very very overrated coach in Brian Billick.

anyways, i'm disgustedly signing off.

Dear Reader

Dear Reader,

We in the Purple House would like to discuss the topics that are burning holes in your mind and/or pocket. If do not live in this house and make a suggestion, we will discuss it. We will probably research it and debate it and the results of our investigations into the topics will be posted here. Leave suggestions for topics as comments on this post. We'd be much obliged.

Also, Dubin rolled in poop.

Debate, etc.

Liveblog:

Currently talking to Price about a secret!

Yesterday we had a very nice little show. Thank you Brian and Peter. Brian was great as expected. I didn't know what to expect from Peter but I thought he was pretty fantastic. I thoroughly enjoyed both sets.

Today is slow and lazy. We watched the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. it was good, except the ugly wasn't really that ugly, which is too bad.

It's cold out.

***

I would like to add a thought about the gun control debate: If we think about soveriegnty, in a democracy, the sovereign power is supposed to rest in the people through their elected representatives. Unfortunately, the truth is that soveriegnty actually rests in the hands of the police, who (in how they choose to enforce or not enforce certain laws) actually are the sovereign force in our society. In any given situation, the non-elected and essentially autonomous organization of the police creates and enforces the law. So, in theory, the reason to allow citizens to have guns is in order to create a genuinely democratic form of sovereignty. As a counterbalance to the force of the police, one could argue, we would be better served if we had an armed population.

However, in terms of the argument earlier advanced on these pages, Price is absolutely correct. The 2nd amendment is absurd as a protection against any kind of army and the last thing this country needs is an uptick in militias. The right to bear arms is one of the remaining relics of a liberalism (in the technical sense) doubting itself. In so far as this doubt is all the more important in the age of late capitalism, it's sad to see that the internalized self-doubt guaranteed by the amendment might be lost.

And yet, even as a safeguard against liberalism, the 2nd amendment is outdated. Guns are defended not out of a distrust of the goverment but out of a distrust of the poor-- (self-defense against thieves and like). Right now we must advance a serious structural critique of the system that produces radical inequality rather than hold onto antiquated and defensive measures.

***

Also, in the world of sports, Hawaii is the only team in major college football that is undefeated and yet they are not going to have an opportunity to play for the national championship. Instead, a 2-loss team (probably LSU) is going to play a thoroughly mediocre Ohio State team. Talk about injustice.

-ben

absinthe hangover

Life is difficult, especially when you're hung over from absinthe.

Russ hasn't vomited bile in a long time, apparently. Huzzah!

Tuna/salmon casserole in the oven is taking far too long, in my opinion. Potatoes are difficult to cook through in a huge dish.

Brian's show was a success, a nice small group came and enjoyed. So kudos all around.

McCain got a major NH endorsement by a newspaper, which apparently is influential. Maybe he'll get the nomination, which I think would be better than Huckabee.

Brian is leaving now, hugs and promises all around. Have a good drive!

A belated response to Jim

I would like to point out that we are the only western nation, and indeed one of the few nations in the world, with such lax gun restrictions. Why is this? The government at the time of the founding of our country was afraid of a tyrannical central government infringing on people's individual rights, like England did to the American colonies. The founding fathers, and Jefferson in particular, did not have faith in the ability of a government to remain uncorrupted. Thus, a way to keep the federal government in check was to guarantee that if it were to ever stamp on a state or states' rights, they would have a well-armed militia with which to revolt. This would more or less frighten the federal government into respecting the rights of smaller political entities, right down to the individual.

An argument could perhaps be made that what would be good for this country is indeed a well-armed state militia that would lead an armed revolt in response to the Patriot Act or wire-tapping or the needless military interventions, in both Iraq and past countries such as Vietnam. But the reality is that state militias are a thing of the past, and have been since the Civil War. At this point, the second ammendment is interpreted to protect and INDIVIDUAL'S right to bear arms, but one which is, I believe, inaccurate to the original intent of the framers'.

What Jim says about individuals owning arms as a line of defense against some sort of hypothetical invading army is, too, inaccurate. If an army was organized and armed enough to overcome our bloated military and national guard, then I highly doubt that scattered households would actually pose much difficulty.

In the end, loose gun laws mean there are more guns on the streets and easily accessible by criminals and children. The fact that America steadfastly hangs onto this antiquated "inalienable right" is stupid, and we should overturn the second ammendment immediately. The statistics support my position, since America's gun death totals far exceed other industrialized nations', even per capita. Get them off the streets and out of the lawbooks.

I just woke up and have decided to liveblog a bit. The sun is shining through the trees right outside my window and it creates a really nice shadow play on the glass. There are children from the school across the street playing and I can hear that. My toes are a little cold.

In international news, large crowds of people are rallying in the street because a teacher was jailed for allowing her students to name a teddy bear 'muhammed'. The reason they are demonstrating is not in protest against the strict religious laws of their government, but because they don't think the sentence (15 days in jail) was harsh enough. Many of them were calling for her to be shot.

In positive news, if you would like to buy into the Purple House Investment Syndicate, please contact Ben or Jim. The syndicate will be pooling money to invest socially responsible specialty and index funds. We are initially hoping to buy into a Calvert Alternative Energy Fund.

Cool Hand Luke is a really great movie. I always forget things about it and then I watch it again and it's just really amazing and sad and kind of perfect. It's also really weird. Like the part with 'Lucille' is so strange but it ends up being perfect.

Weird. Anyways, it's in my room if you want to watch it. Than and I just did. We ate popcorn and watched it and now it is very very late.

Also, in a bit of my-own-horn-tooting news, i have a short story up at monkeybicycle.net. As of this posting, it is on the main page, but it might have moved to the archive by the time anyone reads this post. I think it's a pretty ok story.

Also Also, we showed the house today. I think it went well. I felt kind of weird being a tour guide to the place. I do like us though, so that part(talking about living here) was nice. Plus I got to talk about how sweet the cows are in the backyard.

What else? In sports the Steelers and the Dolphins set the mark for the longest time without scoring in an NFL game since there was a 0-0 tie in overtime in 1944. Steelers' Kicker Jeff Reed hit the winning field goal with 17 seconds left, securing a 3-0 victory. The Dolphins have now lost 6 of their 11 games this season by 3 points each. Given that they are the only team left in the leauge without a win, this is fairly shocking. I mean, they are 18 points total away from being 6-5 and in the middle of the wildcard race.

I think it is time for me to get some sleep.

Goodnight.

Supreme Court - Second Amendment Debate

From here

"The Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it would decide whether the Constitution grants individuals the right to keep guns in their homes for private use, plunging the justices headlong into a divisive and long-running debate over how to interpret the Second Amendment’s guarantee of the 'right of the people to keep and bear arms.'"


Price and I were talking about this, and he stated his support for the Supreme Court deciding for tougher gun laws. I don't consider myself particularly educated on the topic, but I found myself defending gun rights from a sort of civil liberties standpoint. I agree with Price that the original intent of the law has little relevance to today, and that original intent factors into a court decision, but I believe that through a history of court decisions the second amendment has retained relevance and value. There is essentially no threat to us now that would require response from a state militia, but I don't know that this is criteria for the repeal of an amendment.

Crap!

Pleasant Street Theater is closing forever!

That really really sucks. I feel like our rent should go down. Honest to G-O-D I do.

Goddamnit, what is next to go? Backyard Birds? Mimo's pizza??? Bueno y Sano?!?!

purple house animal friends

We Have:
-mice
-shrews
-red squirrels
-blue jays
-a big dog
-a little dog
-goats
-sheep
-horses
-llamas
-cute lil piggy

i cant think of any others, but this house is like a congress of mammals.

oh, and the compost is full of wriggly red worms and maggots!

anyone want ten bucks?

if so, you should email tara to be in an erp study this saturday. it only takes about an hour, and you get ten bucks, which you can then spend on booze for the show saturday night. or on black beans. whatever. tdf04@hamp

Wow

If you were following the pop-able food debate that went wild on this site over the past 24 hours, you have heard the rumors of a pop-able black bean.

It does indeed exist. It is a subspecies of the common bean called the nuña. It pops and tastes like Peanuts- it was domesticated in the Andes a couple thousand years ago.

Interestingly, it has been "patented" by a large corporation. Natives are upset about this. We all should be. Patenting an organism. I bet Marguerrite is all for that..

Anyways, I most likely will never be able to try nuña.

This weekend I am going to try Amaranth though.

End. live. Blog.

?!

An interesting question about Pakistan came up in the Purple House the other day...

What is the difference if Musharraf steps down as the head of the army? Is he not still the head of the army?

Blank Stares all around...

Well, the man will "Take off the uniform" in a couple days, I have read... but...

Asked if President Musharraf was severing all his professional links with the military, Gen Qureshi pointed out that he would remain supreme commander of the armed forces, as was the case with heads of state in other countries.

bbc.co.uk

We live in a strange stagnant world where things don't really ever change. The human concept of time has to expand or I will die a depressed man.
Now that oldest living animal they found and killed... if it had had a human mind and was not killed for science, it would have had a chance to see actual change.

http://www.physorg.com/news112870855.html


God, i need to stop blogging like I own the place. Back to work.

More Pop

Popcorn pops because the shell is so hard, that it makes an explosive amount of pressure for moisture to be released. Other corn does not have hard enough outer shells on its kernels to explode. Thats pretty cool I guess... and you can pop certain types of rice- they become rice-crispyish more or less.

Popping rice does not sound exciting, but being more like an Aztec does. So I have decided to seek out the grain "Amaranth" which can be popped and is a miracle food. AKA PIGWEED!

Anyone I know have any idea where I could get this stuff? I don't think the pigweed that grows in our region (siberian east) can be popped.

It is the only other pop-able food worth-a-shit.

Deciphering "Porn"

I showed that Wikipedia segment on Popcorn to some of the physicists here at the lab. We fed it through an enigma machine and poured some liquid nitrogen on it, and apparently this is what it actually meant to say:

Air-popped popcorn is naturally high in fiber, low in calories and fat, contains no sodium, and is sugar free, which makes it an attractive snack unless one is limiting carbohydrates. The actual fat, sugar, and sodium content depends on how the popcorn is prepared though and a naturally healthy snack can quickly become unhealthy.

Popcorn is included on the list of foods that the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends not serving to children under four, because of the risk of choking. It is one of the top causes for children choking to death (along with hotdogs and balloons). [15] Special "hulless" popcorn has been developed that offers an alternative for small children and for people with braces or other dental problems who may otherwise need to avoid popcorn.

We all agree that a way should be found to re-cipher text, but we have to finish working on that blasted flux-capacitor.

popporn

I was just poppping corn straight off the cob, from our last week of a farm share. Very good, it popped within seconds! And it is delicious! Truly a versitile and healthy snack (popcorn is a whole grain and is high in fiber!). A while back, a good friend of mine told me that pop corn is just one of several pop-able snacks, so I went online to find out the truth of this...
My search took me to wikipedia, and I think the entry on the nutritional value of popcorn has shaken my faith in the open-source enclyclopedia we all love. From wikipedia:

Air-pod porn is nally high in fiber, low in calories and fat, contains no sodium, and is see, which mack can quickly become unhealthy.

Porn is included on the lit of foods that the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends not serving to children under four, base of the risk of ching. It is one of the top cases for chin chng to death (along with hogs and boons). [15] Special "huss" porn has boped that offers an alternative for small chin and for pole with braces or other deal proms who may otherwise need to avoid porn.

Wow.... what the hell does that mean?

Emerson

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is
concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kentucky is cold

my thoughts are with you, jesslyn. the purple house is big. cold. the todrins could be lurking.

I visited the old kentucky capitol with tara. it was awesome. the woman started talking about "free colored" who did the plaster molding. but she continued to refer to the freed slaves as "colored". it was quaint.

boiled custard makes me happy, though it doesn't exist in the north. imagine eggnog, but thicker, richer, sweeter, and better. kentucky in the holidays. and it snowed!

tara is drinking tea. n*sync christmas album playing. good cheer all around.

Yin and Yang

Samuel is dead. The cause: a sweet sweet drowning in my honey. I am finally over my grief and guilt on this, but only because another rodent has stolen my heart.

J.F is a new friend I saw on the couch we have on the porch yesterday. At first I though he was a chipmunk, but he was too big and had no stripe. I then assumed he was a normal ol' grey squirrel. But, it turns out he is a Tamiasciurus hudsonicus. An American RED squirrel.

J.F is stealing the couch stuffing to make a nest somewhere. And I could not be happier! An excellent example of how animals adapt to human presence, a topic I study here in Academia. Right on our porch! J.F is adorable. The first red squirrel I have ever seen! Here is a picture of a red squirrel(it is not as adorable as the real thing!):

The house is very quiet. i remember when a friend told me they very creeped out by this house and thought it was haunted, but i'm trying not to think about it. kristin said she was going to be home tonight but never came. Where ever she may be i hope she is having a nice Thanksgiving and i hope everyone else is having a nice thanksgiving too.Tonight my activities included beer drinking, eps watching and the creation of a huge (overflowing) pot of squash/potato/carrot/onion/cabbage stewish thing. It's delicious.
I threw a touchdown pass today. True story.
Well Benny is munching, my eyes are getting heavy, it's time to retire.
Miss you shorties.

oh snow you di'int!

Lots of us are driving today and there's at least an inch on the ground plus clumpy snow flakes falling fast. Be careful!!! I'll miss you guys, I hope everyone has a good break. Post so we can all get a glimpse of what home is like! Also, last night TMNT didn't go down...but a couple episodes of arrested development did. Jesslyn and I had hot laundry for blankets and Than made a comida rico y Emily...came over. venir...vino? Shit my spanish sucks.

gotta go before the ahhhh nooooooo not again!

Thxgivin week starts

Price Kristin and Jim are leaving tomorrow. Jesslyn has to work on thanksgiving day. That sucks. Don't know what Ben and Than are doing.

I think Jesslyn is watching TMNT with Kristin. I'm listening to Marcy Playground.

Mornings are awesome!

I can't believe how many people are still asleep at 11 AM. It's going to get dark in five hours!

This morning I found a cabbage in the compost at Hampshire, a fully good, purple cabbage. So I saved it, though am not quite sure what to do with it. I already have so much sauerkraut fermenting at the moment, I suppose it will be cabbage soup or something. Maybe a stir fry. Or I'll just force-feed it to Than.

House is looking approximately as clean as it always has, but today I plan on putting up some drapes and perhaps cleaning up a bit.

Answer to a question a while back:

Than has one older brother, Dick (Dick Wood), and at holidays, his father, grandfather, brother and he sit at a table together and talk and they're referred to as the table of Dicks, even though Than is certainly not a Dick.

Decaf coffee makes my spirit animal crest.

See Price!

" WASHINGTON - The Senate on Friday blocked a Democratic proposal that would have paid for the Iraq war but required that troops start coming home.
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The 53-45 vote was seven votes short of the 60 needed to advance. It came minutes after the Senate rejected a Republican proposal to pay for the Iraq war with no strings attached."

I took a basic civics class, and I recall that a bill needs 50 votes to pass. This is mysterious and bizarre to me. If anyone can explain why these anti-war bills work on some different formula I would be obliged. War is always.

Wow.

In a horrible and ironic twist of fate- Samuel the kitchen Shrew was found drowned to death in a container of my honey this evening.

That is all.

Road Trip

When I am done with school, Ben and I are going on a road trip. No sweat.

We need funding though, and I want to go West (YES!) and Ben wants to go South. I told him we would meet our ends like the guys in Easy Rider down there. Far better to get stuck in the Rocky Mountains, and visit my friend in Idaho who Skis and light dynamite (really!) for ski patrol. His name is Matt Ryan, and his JOB is to set off avalanches. Sheesh, I go to school for the wrong things.


End future blog.

Purple house loves eggs

it's almost 8:30 AM and i'm sitting in the quiet house like i do every morning, with one big difference. I just read that the democratic house passed a war funding bill with a timetable for a pullout, and substantially less funding than Bush had wanted. Maybe things are changing?

Hoping everyone's here for the meeting tonight, haven't seen the whole house together in such a long time. soup and whiskey for everyone involved, i say. it's a thursday night, but who keeps track? Thursday is the new Friday.

I think pornographic comic books are hidden in the walls. But that's just my guess. Completely unfounded in any sort of reality. I swear.

Amazingly, I bought 18 eggs on Monday and by Wednesday they were all gone. all. I would be frustrated, except I'm so astounded at the incredible rate that this house consumes eggs that I can't be. We should totally get a chicken. or four.

EPA

live blog:

i am being wholly unproductive. my feet are cold. the house is quiet.

dear than: you should just have your reception here. we'll all clean everything and set it up nice. fuck sodexho. also, i volunteer jim to personally chauffeur (sp?) your committee to and from the house. sorry jim, but it's for the best that I volunteer you.

trivia: what's buried in the walls of the house?

cars are going by outside, i can hear that. my feet are still cold. maybe it's time for socks.

-bs

soup's on!

Come eat some potato leak stew! it needs salt, but otherwise is awesome.

more sauerkraut on the way.

and that tower of books? oh yeah, you know you want them...

Poorly Run Institutions

So, I just found out that at my DIV III show I cannot have alcohol, must pay a student 17$ an hour to monitor it, and can not serve me own food, but must pay sodexho. Also they cannot guarantee that I actually can have the show.

MOTHER FUCKING CUNT ASSHOLE SHIT HEAD I HATE THIS FUCKING SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!

Fuck them fuck them fuck them assholes.


Time for a class where we dont actually learn anything. Wow, Hampshire is great. Maybe afterwards my committee can ignore me and I can spend my time alone not enjoying life.



Fuck.

bummer boring bad day for me. price made good soup though. no thoughts at present, sports related or otherwise. except this one that i am sad that we have to lose people here. i want everyone to stay together forever and be happy, but our house is shifting its composition and it's a little frightening.

anyways, i really love living with you guys.

your housemate,
ben

j. anderson

Jim and Jesslyn beat some MauvStin Ass at beer pong (what? beer pong? the purplepeopleeaters play beer pong? Yes, we also drop it like it is hot) So now we're going to see Jason anderson. Jim is in the shower...HURRY UP JIM! Jaassssoooonnnnnnn we're cooommmmmmmiiiiiinnnnnnnggggggggggggg!

Gasoline

Price has the right idea with his bicycle.

From greenuniversity.net:

A gallon of gasoline weighs 6.2 pounds, consisting mostly of carbon, plus a small amount of hydrogen and a few impurities. Through combustion each carbon atom combines with two atoms of heavier oxygen atoms, resulting in 19.8 pounds of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

How much prehistoric plant matter did it take to make that gallon of gas? About 196,000 pounds, or as much as is found in one-acre of wheat. Americans burn up about 131 billion gallons of gas every year, or the equivalent of 25 quadrillion pounds of prehistoric biomass. Since 1751, our species has used the equivalent from all types of fossil fuels of about 13,300 years of biomass production by all plants on earth.


THAT IS INSANE!

basket dunk flip pong

Spontaneous beer pong tournament/flip cup/basketball games occurred tonight. followed by band practice and plenty of laughing. We saw sides of eachother that wouldn't have been revealed without the pressure and competitiveness of chugging. We became a little fratty and Meave and Lauren were good sports, both exposing their natural pong abilities. Than gave himself the cut off point which is commendable and got more shots in than he gives himself credit for, Jim dominated with his height, long arms, strategic staring and encouragement. But I think everyone knows that Jesslyn and I took home the trophy in terms of team dynamic. You wanna go? Meet us on the court.
Ben, it would've been nice for you to stay a little longer as well as Price and Tara....another night....

blendbivelog

visitors and pumpkins

i'm going to make some sort of pumpkin goodness right now. ben just dropped a terrible hard cider that i brewed onto a glass, breaking the glass and spilling the cider, at which point someone shouted, "Why aren't we blogging this right now??"

I am intrigued that someone actually reads this blog other than people living at or intimately associated with the house. maybe we're getting more publicity than previously thought with this self-gratifying blog.

lots of activity, lots of visitors, and life goes on.

"History is geography in motion."

Friedrich Ratzel

Chowing Down

It is sunday night. Everyone is Chowing-d-down.

Jesslyn just had a soy-sausage-egg-tomato-sandwhich, and is making another.
Kristen just ate some casserole, chickpea thing, and an egg. Now she is making a pancake
Jim just had casserole.
I am going to rip into some candy I got from the veterans day parade. Then I am going to have some bread, and maybe some cereal.

E-e-e-e-ggs!

charger regained

i found my charger! Jesslyn has a friend over! Tara is reading a magazine!

w00ts all around.

poops

first of all i'ma start this blog out like this
they say i'm 20something and i should be slackin'
but i'm workin' harder than ever and you can call it mackin'.
kristin is pooping
someday i'm going to play guitar, drink a beer, and poop all at the same time and it's going to be amazing.
there's a fire ablazing...where are my homates?
Newcastle is good.
END.

than one-upped me

i told a great story about a cow getting inseminated. a dude stuck his hand up the cow's butt and then pulled out all this manure and, from the colon, grabbed the cervix and injected semen directly onto it, thus increasing chances of insemination.

then than told a better story about inseminating an elephant.

peee-yew!

Jim is a TRAITOR.
Period.
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Period.
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Period.

big news

Price is a huge hippie, and is mad because Eddie Izzard wasn't as funny as he used to be. Tara is giggling, price is doubled over, and Than and Jim are gonna drink warm scotch with honey. Stay tuned.

eddie izzard transgressed

I would like to point out two things:

if we had the gold standard, we would need no federal reserve. this is because the finite amoutn of gold in circulation would inherently cap inflation, which is the purpose of monetary policy set by the Fed.

also, there woudl be little use for the IRS if there were a flat tax rate of, say, 10%

I only write this because Ron Paul, the topic of the previous post, is in favor of these seemingly anachronistic ideas. though, perhaps, they have more utility than we give them credit.

mice are pests. we kill flies and pathogenic bacteria without a second thought... why are mice different? because they're "cute"?

Than just said we should get too personal in our back and forth in the blog. i would like to go on record that he smells like a woman in dire need of vagisil.

eddie izzard is hilarious, and we stopped it prematurely. just like the weimar republic.

that's just the way it is, things will never be the same. that's just the way it is, oh yeah.

Price says he is going to set deadly mouse traps to kill Samuel the mouse.

What ever happened to the Purple House?

Ron Paul

Ron Paul is a big hit in this house.
I saw someone holding a door open at Thornes and when people said "Thank You", he would say "Vote For Ron Paul".

That is a genius way to get elected. Please vote for the man. A door holding campaign.... fantastic...

Hello,

I apologize for my absence, I've been in without internet for 30 hrs! (so basically death).

In that time the blog has exploded. It's awesome. I'm so happy about it. Also I totally just got 2 bingos in a row on scrabulous. So yeah, internet plus bingos, plus our blog = sweet.

Sports Thought of the Day:
Boston area sports are too good and they're riding for a fall. BC football already had their stumble this season (of course, they were the only local team I could stand), but the Patriots are going to blow it in the playoffs, and the Bruins being good can't really be for real. But the interesting case is the Celtics. They might actually be good, and might actually be fun to watch. We should take a house trip up to Boston for a game. I'd like to see them play the Suns.

Trivia: What is Than's favorite book? What is did Jim share with the residents of Green Bay? What century would Jesslyn most want to be born in? What is Price's military rank? What does Kristin think the mouse should be called? What am wearing right now?

Yours Sincerely,
Ben

q&a

Trivia: What town was Jesslyn born in?
What is Price's middle name??
How old is Ben?
Who is Than's favorite author?
How tall is Jim?
At what pizza shop did Kristin work for the past year?

Benny has a yeast infection. IN HIS EARS!
We're starting a band. Practice is on Monday nights, bring your own beer.
And chord progressions.

Whatever happened to Pizza Shark?

I need an eggroll pizza!

On A Lighter Note. Graphic Design.

Defense! Defense! Defense!

Watching a bad movie in mod 100, it has that guy from "The Core" who was the nerd computer genius.

My vote is also that Jim had a rat tail when he first came to Hampshire. Either that or a major in physics. possibly both.

also, Jim was only 4'8" when he got to hampshire. and Cambodian. isn't that also embarrassing?

trivia: How many siblings does Kristin have?

summer people need to pay jim. if they don't, i think we should start sending them one email a day. from each of us. significant others included. that would be over ten emails a day about paying the stupid electric bill.

peace

Honey

Ok. Honey for sale, prices under Bens advice.
Small Jars are 6. Large jars are 12. Medium Jars? I don't know.

No Deals, except if I owe you money.


THE MOUSE IS OUT!
I CAN SEE HIM!
HE IS SO CUTE!!

blah-ging

i want to come home.

stuck in the library at hampshire in sterile white walled noiseless empty academia staring at a huge sign that even blind people could see...'main office'. well, maybe not blind people...more like near sighted people without their correctional lenses.

i'd like to come home and see jesslyn and personally thank her for letting me use her car to putter to boston (no not putter...zoom zoom is more like it). i stalled a couple of times on hills and intersections. i will pay for a new transmission though i didn't grind any gears.

other things i'd like to do while at home....roll around my spacious floor, an activity i like to do every so often, just because there's so much space! i'd like to fall asleep to laughter or murmurs from the living room, sink into the couch...literally...i think we need more cushions for that thing. smell a jar of honey just because there are so many, tell Than to save me some...again. and again. Save me some. I'll pay big money!

i didn't know jim went to penn state. i'm guessing he was ashamed of owning....a crack pipe? nooo....maybe something a bit more innocuous...a full yankee's wardrobe...hat, jacket, wrist band, jersey...no no...a toby keith CD??

40 minutes and I'll get to walk through that door to greet that wonderful bear dog and all of my homies

TKO

What kind of math?

Jim just put money in the money jar. He also got dish-soap and paper towels. Also Jim is owed so much money from the summer people that I've been forced to write this note: Dear summer, If you haven't paid, we're going to start leaving awkward comments on your social networking accounts.

Most likely incorrect answer to quiz: Maybe he regrets paper towels?

We should all put money in the money jar more often.

Than got a package. It's little jars for honey. He's going to place honey in the jars and then they will be honey jars. He will then sell them for money at his DIv III. They're gourmet. Than is a gormet food-maker.

Jesslyn has returned. Still no Benny. At least Dubin is here, sleeping, trundling around the house, giving very human looks. Do dogs like honey?

As for me, of couse nothing to report. Another weekend, another ba(r/t) mitzvah. Winter (including most of fall) is a season of inertia.

I'm also introducing a new feature, the Sports Thought of the Day.

Sports Thought of the Day #1:
Why isn't Kansas getting more respect? They're 9-0 and they play in the Big 12, but everyone acts like they're an afterthought, as if Oregon St. and LSU are the only real options for the #2 spot. Let's be realistic though, Kansas is the only team besides Ohio State that still controls their own fate. If Kansas wins out, I can't see how anyone could keep them out of the national championship game. Obvious conclusion: BCS needs to be replaced with a playoff, just like every other sport ever.

Some Thoughts of Thans

Answer to quiz below:
He was a commuter at Penn State. My grandfather taught math there.

What accessory did Jim have, which he regrets, when he first began attending Hampshire?
No cheating.

I am eating a lot of dumpstered cookies. This is a nice article on freeganism:

http://www.eatingliberally.org/tags/freegans

The swine is screaming, my feet are cold, and I am almost done with school (time wise, not work wise). The house is funny when it is empty. I open all the windows and turn the heat all the way up. As you all know, I am a hypocrite in my effort to reduce my carbon footprint.
I also leave the hot water running, and fill the upper toilet tanks with my gallons of honey, just so I can shit in honey.
These Are Just Some Examples of My Dualistic Nature!

I think people should sign contracts on their point of view before beginning an argument. People keep flipping the script on me. I am better off fucking a mud puddle than debating anything that actually matters to me.

END LIVE BLOG

wrote an email in German, Than was surprised to find out that I speak German

Then I brought home some food from work, and Kristin was surprised that I don't work in a legal office, which she thought for some reason that I did.

I was surprised to find out that Jesslyn has been in California for quite some time. the conspicuous lack of Bennie for some reason wasn't conspicuous enough, that being the usual evidence of Jesslyn's work-all-day presence in Northampton.

Shockingly, we seem to know so little about obvious things. we ought to do what they did on an episode of friends and design a trivia game about each other, i presume in the style of trivial pursuit.

Question one: what college did Jim attend before Hampshire?

if i could write the answer upside down at the bottom of this post, i would.

I'm being harassed about my chore. there is no justice in this world.

also, our compost pile is generating heat, which is good news.

and i just learned that flum gum is disgusting, but useful for attractive wild hives.

also also, we just got blogged about: http://thesosoglob.blogspot.com/2007/11/country-clubs-of-higher-learning.html
thanks guys. come back soon.

(mostly) past blog

the house has been quite busy and our blogging has fallen behind. or my blogging. whatever.

at this moment, than is doing more honey work. that's been a big part of the house, giant buckets of honey, our kitchen a small-scale factory for separating it from the combs.

another major recent event is the discovery of a large stash of vintage comic books and magazines including the quite vulgar 'young lust' and several issues of high times from before we were born.

we were visited by a lovely band of (mostly) brothers. actually, one of them is aliza's brother and the other three are brothers of themselves. they are called the so so glos. listen to them. my favorite of their songs kind of reminds me of the constantines.

jim refuses to accept that don was figuratively run over by a train. this is because he is too busy worshipping at the altar of science.

squirrels in a basket chicken in a box

hit wide, hit hard, superman that roll!

gross!!! mutilated ooooo

savage grin, blood running

moldy

"what are you doing?" (it would be embarrassing)

ninja turtles.

Jim, paternal booming voice, trying to maintain order.

chicken trunk

chicken house

no problem---- add a riddle

i don't know them

hit the chicken with a broom/hit the chicken with a wooden spoon.

purple house!

we don't have any real ideas, these are real ideas.

eat shit gene tacey

lil bowwow

dancing

Jenifer

Blood sucking crows, screw driving into old man faces death
Ben covered his face with his arm to shield himself from the terror.
Meave's scratchy grabbing trying to dig the scariness out
Than laughs at his own fright.
We hope this girl Jenifer is hot, she has a supple body supposedly.
Emily and Jesslyn joined the sardine squished couch to partake in the...DAMMIT I MISSED THE SCARY PART!!!
EVeryone screamed and I had to press play. That's ok. She only had a cleft lip.
No money for medical care.
Gotta go collect material for nightmaring later.

End Live AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

house meeting

Live Blog:

We are all here, discussing bills. The summer residents owe a lot of money.

We all owe money. the details are boring.

It smells awful still from Benny's recent run-in with the skunk.

Duct tape barriers will always be breached.

This blogpost sucks.

-End Liveblog

SHIT

SECOND SKUNK SPRAYING THIS MONTH!!!

Benny!

(horse radish and somebodies asshole!)

Big Night for Us

Price thinks he put his foot in it this morning. But we all agree it could have been worse in many ways. It also could have been funnier.

Jesslyn is having a cold one.

We still have no hot water, so I shit shower shave sauna at Hampshire.

Ben knows the inside scoop on Hampshire power struggles, and may have dried little dead sperm.

Kristen really loves the idea of scooping up dead squirrels.

Doesn't anyone want a sweet ol' cat?


Imp.Life.Pog.

cold water hot kitchen

Dubin is sleeping on the couch having doggy dreams or nightmares.
I thought we were going to watch another scary movie tonight so I came on home and nobody but the dogs were around so instead of being incontinent from fear, I ate some of the stir fry on the stove top.

Than spilled my pumpkin remains today, or it fell all over Than rather, because I tried to balance it on a pepper in the fridge. Jesslyn went on a date tonight, I'm wondering how it went. I don't see Price, Jim or Ben enough. Come home and eat dinner.
Pumpkin cookies will be made tomorrow, or the next day.
Does that make you want to come home?

Let's watch a movie again. How about 'Dead Man'? Or 'American Graffitti'?

I think we should invest in a hammock for the back porch and perhaps a waffle maker from free cycle?
End. Live Blob.

Liveblog:

I am so scared right now.

Also scared: Than, Kristin, Jesslyn, Maeve


End Liveblog

Liveblog #3

Tonight we had a show. Josh is passed out in my bed. He threw Than's knife into the woods, but we found it. Daniel and David and Zeke are sleeping in the living room.

Than stepped on a needle. It hurt.

I am sitting on a chair. Zeke is playing with a leash. Everyone is drunk to varying degrees. I can hear Kristen through her non-wall. Than is going to go to bed.

i am tired and don't want to be awake and blogging, but i don't have a bed.

We are discussing getting homefries from a diner at 8 in the morning.

I must search for a place to lie down.

End Blog

Liveblog #2

Jim and I have returned from Hampshire. We failed in our attempt to play basketball. The coach locked all the balls in his office. We played wiffle ball and tossed the frisbee.

And then something wonderful happened. We enter to a very clean home and fresh cookies. Jesslyn wins best housemate award hands down.

Than is in Providence.

Jim is in the recliner eating milik and cookies. Benny is giving him wistful looks. His eyes are getting better after a nasty infection. He's looking at me now, like he knows I'm writing about him.

Conversation: Benny is itchy because he has sensitive skin and the cold affects it.

End Liveblog

The Purple House: Live Blog1

Listening to Destroyer. Jim sits in the recliner tapping the djemba. Than is on the floow shoeing himself before going to homework. Jesslyn is in the kitchen. Ben is blogging on the sofa.

Dubin looking at Than, also on the floor.

Discussion: how often does dubin go out?
Dubin wants food. Than prepares food.

Jim: Can dogs eat avocados. still drumming idly. Answer: it's up for debate.

Jim has wandered off.

End liveblog 1.