Master Archive List
January 2010
Taking a Break:
The things we can live with are falling away, now more than ever — replaced by an act without image. Rainer Maria Rile, the 9th of the Duino Elegies...
December 2009
Nine (Single) Ladies Dancing:
If you liked it then you should have put five golden rings on it! Muchas gracias to my hilarious sister who had the idea for this, despite it meaning that I suddenly had to sit through that music video...
Eight Maids:
This has been a lot of fun to work on, despite just how much work it entailed. The next four are going to be nuts! So many figures! Here’s hoping you had a happy holiday — my christmas was...
Seven Swans a Swimming:
Compared to the geese, everything seems like a dream: this one took me like, a sixteenth of the time to draw. So here’s seven swans-a-swimming in a winter wonderland. Here’s some fun facts: the young swans are called cygnets,...
Flat Out Terrible for the Gander:
This went through some wacky wacky versions, but in the end I just had to cram them in a crate and be done with it. At first, I was going to do this very tiki/swank scene with Hawaiian Nēnē...
Fiiiiiiiiiive Golden Riiiiiiiiiiiings!:
Whew! I am finally caught up, and should be able to stick to one-a-day and have the whole song completed by Christmas day. This part of the song will be forever sung in my head al?? Miss Piggy from...
Four Colly Calling Birds:
I couldn’t decide whether to do Colly Birds or Calling Birds), so I thought, let’s just do both! I really wish they still made phones like that — maybe some one can get fabricating a blu-tooth hand-set that would...
Speaking of a R?ti:
Look, there is just no way you have the room or the means to take care of so many birds so this time your true love is taking care of dinner for the week. Granted, it’s gonna get monotonous if...
True Love Gifts, One and Two:
Ok, let’s try this 12 Days of Christmas thing one more time! I did this drawing of the Partidge in the Pear Tree last year, and then promptly gave up. But this year I am feeling better abut the whole...
The Big Chill:
Weston popped this shot the other day leaving work, when at 5pm it was around -1??F/-18??C. This has since been the way I look just about everyday whenever I attempt to go out of doors. Remind me why I...
Mailman For The Win!:
This, folks, is the way to make my day: deliver packages from Meg Hunt, Frank Chimero and The Pencil Factory all in one day! Mailman, I could just kiss you. I guess I got lucky, and was one of...
Scenes from an Experiment:
I, unlike Jason, am not a terrific photographer — let alone a terrific food photographer — but here are some of the more memorable scenes from my month-long experiment of eating nothing but what I cooked myself. Not featured...
November 2009
R?ti Sans Pareil: a Farce:
Now that I have been cooking this whole month, I feel I am ready to attempt this spellbinding gem of culinary excellence: The largest recorded nested bird roast is 17 birds, attributed to a royal feast in France in the...
Cold Hands / Warm Hearths:
Made a fall mix-tape for a friend, and have been listening to it non-stop, myself. 1. Esthero Country Living2. Antony & the Jonsons Crazy in Love3. The Wild Beasts The Devil's Crayon, Acoustic Live4. Bryce Dessner & Antony Hegarty I...
Broken Embraces:
I cannot wait for Almod?var’s new film, Broken Embraces (a title which I have countless times mistyped as Borken Embraces: a bold new film from one of Spain’s most celebrated directors, starring Jim Henson’s Swedish Chef.) Last night, Davey...
November Nosh Status Report:
So far, I’m 15 days into my November Nosh project, and I can say that with one exception, I have been pretty vigilant in eating only the things I have made myself. This has included among other things: seared ahi...
Sounds of the Seasons:
Somehow every autumn I slide seamlessly from the frenetic dance beats of summer and the sartorial compliments that go along with them to the quiet dignity of Autumn. By way of illustration, Hercules and Love Affair gives way to Antony...
Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love:
Every time I have seen the new ads from Levi’s, I have felt my hairs stand on end, and chills run down my spine. Whitman’s words always strike a certain cord with me, but especially in the poem “America” —...
On Kale, Cream and Kafka in the Cold:
Last night I went with one of my go-to recipes for cold autumn days: potato and sausage soup with cream and kale. If it sounds familiar, you may have had it, ahem, somewhere else. I make mine with sweet...
Some Thoughts on Making Bread:
Yesterday was day one of my November Nosh, and I don’t really think it could have gone better! I I started off the day by making the dough for two loaves of butter-milk country bread, from a recipe I scored...
October 2009
My November Experiment:
Man, I thought I’d be able to pretty easily juggle the whole “full-time job + freelancing + couple college courses + having a life” thing, but surprise, surprise, it’s really pretty tricky. Things around here have been zooming by at...
Autumn Apples:
Summer bowed out suddenly this week, and Autumn was at the ready to take its place. 80° on Tuesday, 50° on Wednesday, with weather watchers telling us we’ll not see the like of 70° again this year. As if...
August 2009
The Major Arcana:
Today I finally get to unveil a little side project I’ve been working on, The Major Arcana: Dread Sigils, Graven Images & Esoterica. Some backstory: I’ve been bookmarking images over on Dropular now for several months, and bookmarking images...
I hope this runs in the family:
This last week, my mother’s great aunt Katie died at the ripe age of 96. Now, I never got to meet this woman, but at this point I am sure wishing I had. Above, you see a picture of...
July 2009
Treat me like your mother:
This is probably old hat to most, but I am living for The Dead Weather. I tell you, I would wade through a hundred of Jack White’s mediocre side projects to get to gems like this. The lead single off...
Island Park & West Yellowstone:
I have been a traveling man these days. This last weekend was Pioneer Day weekend here in Utah. For those of you “not from ‘round here,” Pioneer Day is like Independence Day 2: Electric Boogaloo. Most people get the...
Approximately 14,000 Words You Won't Have to Read:
I’ve spent the last week or so in Atlanta, at TypeCon 2009, hosted by the Society for Typographic Aficionados. Rather than bore you with accounts of panels debating the psychological process of reading, or describing the fangirl-ish swoons I...
See you in the Funny Papers:
A few weeks back, Emiley Morgan from the Deseret News called me asking for a brief interview about my house. The article came out today, and I am so impressed with the photos. Our Tour de France mural is...
Road Trip: Provo to Cali for the 4th of July:
This last weekend, with our friend Ang moving to California in two weeks, and Josh being accepted into fashion school in Los Angeles for the fall, we decided to take a quick holiday-weekend jaunt out to the coast to...
June 2009
Thwarted:
I bought these sunglasses about three weeks ago… and it has rained almost everyday since. I am getting really peeved. About five weeks ago began my glorious romp in the sun, I had reached a level of color that...
Spoke to Soon, or did I?:
Well, so much for things not not going well. In the last five days: I lost my hard drive at work (losing all the original files for mostly everything I’ve worked on in the last two years), the fuel pump...
May 2009
A & E:
The lack of posts here might place some in the mindset that things are not going well. In fact, it is just the opposite: things have been remarkably well with me, and I’ve found I have almost little-to-no desire to...
April 2009
Whistle While You Work:
When I think about parenting, I think about the ups and downs, the trials and tribulations, the tiny joys, etc. And I think I could probably cope with all of those, enough so that prospect of having a family one...
Figure Structure:
When I signed up for a figure structure class this year, I was pretty nervous: it had been a long time since I had done any life drawing. And even though the class has been quite a headache at...
Vanity:
These are my new glasses, as photographed in their natural environment (my face), while testing a lighting scenario for photographing old people. As old people and I wear similar clothes, glasses, and arch looks of disapproval, I was a...
A Visit From the Mothership:
Today my mom, out of the clear blue, stopped by my office (a 30 minute drive from her house) to bring me an April Fool’s lunch. This is not some tradition that we have established, not a yearly thing...
March 2009
The Remedy:
Lately when I have gotten sick, I am surprised how suddenly it comes on. Yesterday at five I was up and about and feeling fine, great even, and by six I was so ill, I could only be described as...
'Cause It's Full of Secrets:
Today, my 2nd grade mullet and I were featured over on Sexypeople-Blog! I still maintain that this is not a mullet-proper — mullets, as decided in Geneva on April the 4th of September, start at the crown of the...
Running, Running:
This last week when I met my parents for my birthday dinner, we stopped on our way for dessert at a glasses place, where I wanted to show them the frames I was going to be getting for my new...
Screening Blood on the Beach:
This last weekend my friend Brad invited me down to make some silkscreens of one of my drawings. I’d never silkscreened anything before, so I was really excited. I found some paper that was pretty close to my original scheme,...
February 2009
Twenty Five Plus or Minus One:
I am now 26. I don’t really think this is worth noting, as 26 feels suspiciously like 25 + 1, or frankly, like 25 - 1: back to a non-age, just a number. That or, as Steven puts it, “Now...
Paucity:
I did this drawing this morning as part of a promotional flier for UtahModern.org, along with some Arne Jacobsen chairs and a Calder-esque mobile. You can view the fliers, and the individual drawings here. I’ve been working on a...
Nerd Core:
Virtually every time I succeed at any sort of test, accomplishment, whatever — I always think the same thought. Par example: When I ace an exam in my drawing for animation class, I think this thought. An Illustration: When I...
Craving:
I don’t know what it is, but lately I have been having some mean food cravings. And not like, “I could really go for some…” but rather, sharp, intense longing for wholly unattainable things. In Honolulu, there is a little...
January 2009
Ketchup Catsup Catch-Up:
Fun Fact: Every time I have to fill the huge tank on my humidifier¹ before bed? I unconsciously start to whistle, hum, then full-on-sing that “I will go and fetch the water…” song from the end of the Jungle...
Going Hungry:
I’ve been slowly working my way through Matthew Battles’ Library: an Unquiet History, for quite a while now. Not because it is difficult to read, or boring — far from it, actually — but mainly because it is so depressing....
Get into it:
In 2009, the look is Cossack. Related: My new glasses came today ($6 - Thanks eBay!), also, I have not shaved since the new year....
Weird Science:
Oh, internet — sometimes I wish I was alive and working in the 50s: the furniture, the cartoons, the lax attitude towards AM drinking and other vices…. But mainly so I could have drawn this first: You can almost hear...
White Out:
It’s another white-out day on the Wasatch front, which is only serving to underscore, highlight, and blot out the mounting disdain I have for this bitter, bitter season. Last week, Molly Young put it down sharply over on her site:...
December 2008
Auld Lange Syne:
Well it’s New Year’s Eve and I officially have NO plans. This always happens. After the rigmarole of the Christmas, and with my dad’s birthday on the second, I never seem to get around to making party plans for the...
Merry Christmas:
Merry Christmas everyone! We are under about a foot-and-a-half of snow (most of which fell this morning), but fortunately, we stocked up on starchy foods coated in caramelized sugar so we are doing fine! Whew! In a bit of Debbie...
Heritage & Identity:
I’ve been thinking about the idea of heritage and identity lately. I’ve dropped a few video’s in here from the incomparable Bassey Ikpi, Suheir Hammad, and the Hebrew Mamita herself, Vanessa Hidary. I hope you will take some time and...
Risom Reading Corner:
A while back I mentioned the Jen’s Risom chair I picked up down in Salt Lake. Well, I finally got around to snapping a picture of my favorite spot in the house now, the reading corner in my bedroom. Right...
Black Cab Sessions:
Usually I leave links to other sites in the side bar or on my reader feed, but lately I have been so hooked on The Black Cab Sessions, that I think they deserve an entry in they’re own right. The...
Hello, Winter!:
Man, this is stacking up to be a fantastic weekend, requiring little-to-no leaving the house! Here’s why: This morning I woke up to a chirping iPod, letting me know that I had email. I crossed my fingers and whispered “Please...
Something Like a Memory:
Allow me to talk about something serious for a moment. And I’d like, if you’ve had similar experiences, to share them. Back in September, my office took a trip to Deer Creek, up in Heber Valley. On our way home...
Red as Strawberries:
Tonight is the Christmas Card Exchange for the local AIGA student chapter, so we were all asked to design/draw a card, and bring a few copies to trade with the other members. I didn’t have anything really planned for it,...
Deck the Halls:
Not to go all Martha on you…but. After avoiding almost all of the Black Friday ridiculousness in local boutiques and antique dives, I stopped at the hardware store, and picked up these festive cedar swags at a bargain in the...
November 2008
Tomorrow:
Fifty People, One Question: New York from Crush & Lovely on Vimeo. I just watched this video over on Chels’s Tumblr, and I don’t know… it hit me like a ton of bricks. It’s just so beautiful, and simple. When...
Weekend Wars:
This weekend has been a whirlwind of activity! Redecorated the living room, music room, and bedroom! Drew a lot! Had my family over for dinner! Finished the lawn! I am still kind of coming down off this crazy get-er-done high....
Caroline? Coraline!:
Every day that brings us closer to the release of Coraline, is a day that brings me closer to what I am sure will be one of my favorite films of all time. Coraline is one of my favorite books...
Birds of a Feather:
So, recently (wait, I mean, already five months ago!) the school I work at changed its name from Utah Valley State College to Utah Valley University — commonly abbreviated to UVU. Looking at those initials, non-stop, day in and day...
????, ???????!:
According to my dream last night, my subconscious is primarily concerned with the following: The cleanliness of my socks, and what my friend Brett (who I have not seen in over three years) thinks of them “Cheaters” in Mario Kart...
October 2008
Cinderelly:
When I was at the grocery store the other day, browsing the children’s books (as I am wont to do) I noticed Golden reissued the original Disney Cinderella under its “Little Golden Book Classic” line. I immediately snatched it up,...
Mane and Tail:
Ok, I promise this is not posting-for-posting’s sake, but lately Jake keeps referencing this photograph, and I cannot look at it without seeing Kathy Griffin. Just me?...
Your Epidermis is Showing:
While reading Guy Trebay’s latest over at the Times, Backstage, It’s Down to Bare Essentials, and while watching the season finale of Project Runway, I was reminded again of the very different way you come to see people After Art...
Puppy Love:
Hexl is sick, sick, sick. He was fine yesterday at breakfast, fine again when I came home at lunch, and when I got home at dinner… he had deposited a frisbee-sized platter of doggie-vomit on my pillow. Classic. Anyway, I...
Did you mean, O, Give?:
Speaking of Anne Fadiman, in Ex Libris she recounts her experiences reading Carl van Vechten’s The Tiger in the House, while researching an article on cats: “[Vechten’s book’s] subject was cats — cats in literature, history, music, art and so...
Back to the Books:
Goodness, heavy entries are just that, heavy, and I don’t like the extra weight. So nevermind! Angry screed on Maher! I will just keep to my usual trite entries about books and bees and bicycles, et cetera. Lately, I have...
September 2008
Breadcrumbs:
I know that this is a common topic around the blahgs, a meme in its own right, but I need to take some time to talk about my love of Wikipedia. Coming off of recent posts about my love...
Crumble:
Look, I’ve never really read anything by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I know at one point I was supposed to, but I didn’t and I don’t really remember how I got out of it. This happened frequently in high school. Believe...
My Most Grievous Fault:
One of the things that I got teased for a lot as a kid was my know-it-all-ed-ness, having a ready answer for just about any question whether I was asked one or not. I butted in, piped up, spouted off...
Les Fauves:
The other day I was introduced to the band The Wild Beasts, via a post from the Coudal Partner’s Blended Feed, regarding their recently released video for “Brave Bulging Bouyant Clairvoyants.” Brenda and I immediately remarked that these boys from...
I Know a Little German:
This is old news to most people, but a couple weeks ago I got a puppy. I’d been wanting one for a long time, and this ad popped up on Craigslist for a Dachsund puppy. I emailed the poster, asked...
August 2008
The Olympics and Nothing But:
I have never been super athletic. I have distinct memories of my four year-old self desperate to impress my dad’s troop of WEBELOs, sprinting as fast as I could, windmilling my arms in great circles as I did - you...
Oh! My poor country!:
I’ve just finished Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell for the third time, this time in the form of a 32 hour read-aloud performed by Simon Prebble. I love that book. Despite having read it twice, I honestly, truly, could not...
Dumbfounded:
I really want to talk about The Faint concert last night, and put up pics of the after party where we talked to Todd and Jacob, and Nick and Pete of Shy Child. And I really want to talk about...
July 2008
Car Trips and Coleridge:
Just got back from a wonderful trip to Arizona — the first time I’ve been back in almost nine years! Really surprised that contrary to being crushed by the triple-digit temperatures, I actually loved it. Got to see some great...
Back in the 606:
Well I’ve been back from Brooklyn and the ICON5 conference for about a week, which is just about the amount of time I’ve needed to settle back down and really digest everything that I learned. I met so, so many...
June 2008
Oh, Man.:
You want to know something that irks me every time I encounter it? When I am at a cash register, and I am using a debit card, and I have to run through the rigamarole of learning how this specific...
Dangerous:
Lately I have been riding the same stretch of road everyday, the same 13.14 miles over and over and over again. It’s become a sort of meditation. It’s the longest stretch of uncrowded road, and it begins two blocks from...
"Just too, uh . . pink.":
The other day I was talking to Stefanie, and I don’t remember how it came up, but I suddenly realized that in every interpersonal relationship I’ve ever had, be it romantic, professional, platonic, or whatever; that I am always Max....
Oh, Humanity:
OK, look. JUST. I mean… I cannot, seriously, form a coherent thought — so blind is my absolute hatred of the se— flames, flames on the side of my face. Burning, heaving… Why is the Segway even a real thing!?...
Midnight Ride:
Russian olive and white jasmine. Two scents that I forget about over the long winter, both sneaking up on me after the spring and catching me completely unaware. In the middle of the night, when it’s too dark to see...
I'm Just Saying.:
I think the reason I don’t post here more often, is that I want each post to be a gem of good writing, visual stimulation, and sharp humor (“Really? Hadn’t noticed,” you say). But those days are through, and from...
May 2008
Back from Brooklyn:
I just back from one of the best short vacations I have ever taken. Spent the last six days in Brooklyn with my roommate Josh, who’s living there while he does an internship with illustrator Sam Weber. While there I...
Anthropomorphic Fish Pants:
Here’s a conversation I never thought I would have. Jory Dayne: ok, I have to put some pants on a guy I drew for adobe, and I am totally stuck. WHAT KIND OF PANTS DOES A MERMAN WEAR? Kyle pants??...
April 2008
The Walker is Abroad:
School is out and though I have finished countless semesters, it never ceases to amaze me how liberating it is. All that stress: vanished. All that sleep: caught up on. So we are moving this week into our new house:...
Le Rasoir:
I got this photo in a text message from my dad last night during my French class, it made me laugh… and then totally start to cry. Cancer, you can go sit on a tack....
Pola Bear:
Just getting around to uploading these shots from my Birthday party back in February. Such a great night. Just had a bunch of friends over; I made some Mexican bruschetta, roasted vegetables, Pico de Gallo and finished things off with...
Seriously:
Today I got stuck in an elevator with a girl who was not, despite Zack Morris preparing me for just such a situation, going into labor. My fellow prisoner was, however, wearing high-wasted purple Lee brand jeans. So we’ll always...
San Francisco:
This past weekend some friends and I took a trip to San Francisco to see Justice perform at the SFDC Concourse. Such a good show, opened by the notorious Fancy and the talented Diplo, with the boys from Paris finishing...
March 2008
The Feminine Mystique:
Fourth grade Halloween, 1992, and my nine year-old self was standing in the lunch line talking to Kami. I was dressed as a Mad Scientist (naturally) and Kami was dressed as a cowgirl. We were discussing the mysteries of womanhood....
Say Hello to Your Friends: Daily injections!:
My mom has to give herself Lovenox shots! Ohhhh, horror. This is something that, while I know people do this sort of thing all the time, I have still kind of cordoned it off in my mind as fantasy. Why?...
Baby Steps:
Things are looking up in such a big way — Mom’s personality is back in full force, and after a little blood transfusion she finally has some color back in her cheeks! She is recovering from the surgery really well,...
Bon Mots:
Here are some things Mom said this morning that made me laugh: “The jell-o makes me nauseous. Every time I eat it, I get nauseous. The chicken broth makes me nauseous, too. But I like these ice chips.” Respiratory Nurse:...
The First Day of the Rest of Our Lives:
Things always seem so much worse in the nighttime. I flew into Boise on the last flight, and touched down at 10:37 pm. Dad called me from the off-ramp telling me he was almost there and his voice was not...
February 2008
I'm as good as gone:
This has easily been one of the most hectic years of my life, and here we are only 50 days in. However, it has been a good hectic: a hectic full of opportunities, whirl-wind excitement, and hard work, in spades....
January 2008
The Darjeeling Limited:
Josh and I just got back from Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited. Sincerely, one of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen in my life: profound, heartbreaking, and arresting. Also, hilarious....
December 2007
The House that Books Built:
This morning as we all sat together after frenzy -- surrounded by great mounds of shredded wrapping papers, crumpled box and deflated stockings -- Corbin, my brother in law, surveyed this year's haul, his first as a member of the...
Fly, Mordecai:
No time for a real post, so here's a brief list, and a recipe. Things that made last night one of the most relaxing in a long time: Watching The Royal Tennenbaums for the first time again in like, three...
Hoi Polloi:
The other day I stopped in at Barnes & Noble to grab a couple of books, left with Anne Fadiman's At Large and at Small and The Mabinogion, and am reading both now. The Mabinogion is bizarre and I love...
Goodnight, Nurse!:
You know, I've said it before, but I will say it again: Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd, author and illustrator of Goodnight, Moon, have got to be the most dead-sexy book-making pair in the world. I mean, goodness. Margaret...
Wrapped Up in Books:
Internets, let me tell you something I love: a good book. No, let me tell you two things I love: a good book and talking about books. Wait. Internets, let me tell you three things I love: a good book,...
Just Because:
What a great time of year! I can't get over how I'm always like "Ughhh, Christmastime" in like, November, but man, the moment I finish Thanksgiving Dinner I remember how much I totally LOVE Christmas! But one thing spells trouble...
November 2007
Thanksgiving:
This year's Thanksgiving was a good one, for more reasons than one. I got to get with the family up in North Utah, seeing my cousins Jordan and Jessie for the first time in a long while; took out...
A thousand times, I die:
Five things I was doing 10 years ago: Well I was in 8th grade I believe, so that naturally means several things. 1) I had a crush on was In Love™ with Hailey Gerber, which meant, essentially -- as Melanie...
The Difference:
Here behind this stuffy, ridiculous, neo-Edwardian fa?ade I am essentially a 19 year-old fan girl, so let me just tell you how excited I am that Project Runway 4 is finally running on Bravo. I love-in-all-caps PR4, 'Oh' period 'EM'...
Consider the Source:
Yesterday Jake and I went to Health Food Junkies for lunch. Health food Junkies is a little cafe inside the a giant health food store in Orem, and I alternately love and hate it. I hate it sometimes because I...
Nice Day for a Sulk:
Last night sucked so hard that it's not even kind of worth it to bring up any of the particulars. I'm just moving on, cutting my losses, and forgetting about it. Here is a great way to forget about crummy...
Spooky:
In the past three weeks since I last wrote, quite a bit has happened. I saw Shout Out Louds and Interpol in Salt Lake; went to New York with my friend Jake, where I saw and hung out with Lo-Fi-Fnk,...
October 2007
Minelli:
Eerie Similarities II: Liza Minelli & Talkatoo Cockatoo, from Zoobilee Zoo. Look, I'm just sayin....
Wreckage:
Two nights ago I had a dream where I watched one of the people who mean the most to me be convicted of murder, sentenced to death, get decapitated, then rolled off the chopping block -- body and head --...
September 2007
Power's Out:
Last night I went to Thanksgiving Point's Electric Garden to see LCD Soundsystem and Arcade Fire -- and what a good show! I was there primarily to see LCD; having not really ever gotten into Arcade Fire. Now, I...
Slaves to the DJ:
So this week was really like the never-ending weekend from heaven/hell. From Monday to Saturday, we seriously had a party or something vaguely party-like every night, and now, on the following Tuesday, I am just realizing how wrecked my body...
I wish I weren't a liar:
Just so you know how completely fickle I am, here is a photo from last weekend to completely discredit and undermine everything I said in my last post. In this photo, I am not only wearing skinny jeans, but also...
August 2007
The Shocking Truth:
Living with the guys that I live with, I run into, and often find myself hanging out with, a high percentage of hipster guys and gals. (Are we even saying hipster anymore?) Now internets, there was a time that I...
Ku`u home kulaiwi nei:
It's been a bit! In the last two weeks I have started school, moved into an new house, and covered roughly 6,618 miles in travel. Hawai'i was just amazing. You think you now how much you love a place --...
Just Call Me Treebeard:
Sometimes, my job is a real headache, and I just forget how lucky I am to be in the industry that I am. I mean, isn't eveyone expected to spend a least one day out of the fiscal year constructing...
July 2007
Monday, Monday:
So things are looking sort of "up" in a general way. We finally signed on a new apartment, and despite one of my roommates constant flip-flopping commitment-wise, I am allowing myself to get excited about it. 1800 square feet, four...
Today Sucked so Hard:
July Twenty Fifth: Cons in descending screwed-everything-up order: The apartment that I was supposed to be moving into tomorrow got sold out from under me and my three room-mates at 6pm, today. For those of you playing at home, this...
Constantly:
Lately the books I've been reading sound more and more and more like required reading for students at Hogwarts. Examples: A Transparent Illusion: The Dangerous Vision of Water in Hekhalot Mysticism, A Source-Critical and Tradition-Historical Inquiry Beholders of Divine Secrets:...
Rodeo Drive:
Last night I got roped (waka-waka) into to going to a Rodeo out in Nephi with my neighbor Rodney, and his friends Stephanie and Ange. It was one of the situations where I just couldn't think of an excuse fast...
The Office:
Look, I'm working on a real entry, but right now I just need to get some stuff off my chest. Particularly, how much I love Pam Beesly. And not like, this Pam Beesly: But rather, this Pam Beesly: My kingdom...
Hele On:
Today I purchased my tickets to Hawai'i. And, can I just say that nothing makes an impending vacation finally seem real like paying out the nose for it. Seriously though, I am so, so excited for this trip. It's only...
Hi-C:
On Saturday, I decided (fool that I am) that I would take a trip down to Salt Lake City. Maybe do a little shopping, make some frivolous purchases, you know, whatever. So I'm heading down the freeway, not a car...
June 2007
And We're Back:
Talk about heartbreak: last night after I finished half of my fresh lemon sorbet after dinner? I put it in the fridge. Not the freezer. The fridge. So today, nearly the only thing sustaining me on the ride home from...
Words Well Woven:
What a crazy day! I'm tired of talking about it. I just wish I lived in the same state as my parents. I wish my sister wasn't in New York right now. I wish I would have known what to...
May 2007
Pike's Public Market:
Some shots I snapped while I was up in Seattle over the weekend with my dad (via Flickr). I would kill for a market like this down here in Utah -- kill for it. Why, why, why don't we have...
The only thing worth spending money on:
Just a sampling of some of the more wonderful things I have eaten in the past four days: Thursday: I have mastered the fine art of snacking. Crystallized Australian ginger, wrapped in a 65% cacao Belgian dark chocolate. Eaten piece...
Shoes. Omg. Shoes:
So, I don't know when I became that guy, but in the process of moving into my new apartment, I realized I had 10 pair of shoes: black Alfinis, Etnies, Airwalk Slip-ons, and Doc Martins; white DVSes and Etnies; a...
The Beautiful People, The Beautiful People:
When it comes to People Magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People issue, I am thoroughly baffled -- there is just so much, SO MUCH to be confused by. I don't really have the time to try to string this together into...
January 2004
Blistering Cold:
There's a science to all this, you see. Its not in how you dress, or how fast you take your steps; its in the very sound of your footfall. You must walk like you mean it, you must walk like...
December 2003
Neigh!!:
While playing me and my sister's favorite game, Guess What I'm Thinking, my sister's turn came around with the topic "Who would I change places with for a day?" My mother's guess? "Gimli, becuase you'd get to ride on a...
Red Sweater:
I am wondering about the boy in the red sweater, sitting a few seats away from me. He has a good sized scar that runs laterally across his left cheek and then curves down towards his tightly clenched jaw. It...
November 2003
Woods? Through? Woods?:
An excerpt from two of my favorite customer interactions last night at the bookstore: [Scene: I am standing at the cash register, nametag around my neck, tagging books with anti-left devices] Customer: Do you work here? Me: Um, (look at...
Elvis Costello:
When I was waiting for Master and Commander: Far Side of the World to start last weekend, I was busy-ing myself reading the little pre-movie advertrivia stills, when one really kind of stuck out. It was an ad for Elvis...
October 2003
Amber Spyglass:
I'm like, five eighths of the way through The Amber Spyglass and oh, I just can't handle this! They're stuck in the world of the dead! They're bargaining with harpies! Catholic assassins! I alternately want to both read the book,...
Subtle Nothing:
People keep coming up to me at work and asking if we have anymore 2003 calendars, and I fear my facial expression aren't eaving much to the imagination as far was what I am really thinkining goes. I'm just like,...
Through the Sieve:
I think my subconscious is trying to tell me something, but I cannot figure out what. It seems like lately I have had no actual thoughts in my head, just snippets of songs and poems and other people's words. And...
September 2003
Shiner:
One is for the general public, specifically those who create. Two is for someone in particular who will never-ever see this. Both are related to one another: One is the invitation, two is the dance. OK maybe this is just...
The Archivist:
The other book I'm reading at the moment, (in addition to The Artist's Way, Kokology, and The Power of Babel) is The Archivist, by Martha Cooley.I'm kind of drowning in this book. On the first page, she remarks "I"d forgotten...
The Artist's Way:
Before I get down to the MTR, I'm reading this book right now, (while I wait for Fran and Naz's picks to ship) called The Artist's Way: A Sprititual Path to Higher Creativity. I've had my eye on it for...
It's Magic:
Somebody needs to be responsible for just kicking me in the head the moment I consider siring an offspring. At Osaka on Friday, I was showing a book of Hindi artwork to Michele's daughter, Vanessa, who is 6years-old; so naturally,...
Extra Curricula:
This school! Usually such a pleasant place to go, but the things I have seen in the last couple of days! This guy in my web design class asked the girl that sits next to him for her number, like,...
Big Sissy:
Last night, Chelsey, Erin, and Tiffany came over to my house to watch Dancer in the Dark, and I think they kind of thought I was just messing around when I said that it would tear them apart, when in...
Passionately:
Two things: First: I had so many dreams last night! I kept waking up and then falling back asleep, and with every pass a new dream surfaced. In the first all my teeth on the right side of my upper...
Such a Bad Man:
I am such a horrible person! I totally went and sought out that girl's (from the previous post) Diaryland account, and then proceeded to read every entry from most recent and then on. And I feel so dirty! Why does...
Slide:
I was going to write something about my trip to Boise, how I spent a good portion of Monday running along side a river near BSU with my 4 year-old sister on my back, or about my inability to find...
August 2003
Two Ideas, Not Really Related:
Ok, so I have two really great ideas, except one is not so great because it relies on the kind of good fortune only to be found in a certain Jean-Pierre Jeunet film. Idea #1: The really very good idea!...
Correspondance:
Dear Nick Bantock: I have just finished reading The Morning Star, and while I am sad that Griffin & Sabine is now complete and at an end (or is it?), I am just so thrilled by this tiny red book...
The Back of The Bus:
I have not written here in a while, in my little moleskine or in the ventricle, because the week has just been so hard. Between the anniversary of my best friend's death (which by the way, if covered by...
Wistful and Listless:
In the last 24 hours I have finished the following books (and I need help): Lullaby: Chuck Palahniuk So, so good. I love this strange new vein of modern urban mystecism -- very Gaimanesque, very spooky. I love the line...
Tight Jaw Says it All:
Yesterday I got my driver's liscense, so I guess that is something. More importantly: now that the swelling has gone down, I can clench my teeth together and I cannot tell you how good that feels. I just bite down...
Diary: A Novel:
Ok, so sometimes working at a bookstore has its advantages. For instance, scoring an advanced reader's copy of Diary, Chuck Palahniuk's soon to be released fifth novel. "Hurray!" Or um, I mean, somber hipster sign of excitement. I'm adjusting my...
Extraction:
I think my favorite part about having five teeth pulled yesterday, was when the dentist forgot to write my name on the prescription for 650mg of Percocet, so that about 40 minutes after I was done with the operation, and...
Keep Me:
Had a dream about Steve last night. He wasn't dead, he'd just been unconsious for 11 months, and then hiding out with Lorina in San Diego while he recuperated. When we agreed to meet up in the back of...
Poetic Kinetics:
I got my haircut today by a man named Jeff. Jeff works at Legends, this funky salon/loft in Provo, and came highly recommended by Hedi and Jeremy and Michele. Jeff hates Thomas Kinkade, Richard Paul Evans and Bob Ross; and...
July 2003
Party Tricks:
Nodochinko: The common Japanese term for the uvula; literally translated, it means "tiny penis of the throat." Eggplant is delicious when sliced paper-thin, and lightly battered in tempura. And, despite previous notions, Jory actually is capable of carrying on with...
Boxing Day:
A while ago, my dad started interviewing for several positions outside of Utah with his company. The plan was, that, if he did indeed get one of these jobs, my sister and I would stay behind in the Beehive State,...
Hard Rock Life:
So when my friend Chesley was a little girl in the suburbs of Utah, she was involved in an unfortunate accident where she accidentally swallowed Wonder Woman's Golden Lasso; and now its really hard for her to get anyone to...
OH SUCK:
Listen, I know I promised all that stuff in the last post, but that will have to wait until tomorrow, because I cannot even begin to describe how HELL-AWFUL-SUCK this day has been. Let's just say this though: at 11am,...
June 2003
More Notes from the Road:
Oregon Travelogue Entries 2,3,4 In the car, en route to Portland -- We've spent the day driving again, and its been surprisingly nice. On the typical family vacation we're usually pressed for time, driving at great lengths with little...
Morning After:
Oh to sleep in -- the joy, the wonder. As much as I loved the trip, it felt so good to be back in my own bed. The trip was great, although a little strained. The college just "neglected" to...
And Gravity:
Sometimes, when the bus pulls into the station, people think it is going to stop on one side of the platform, when really it is going to stop on the other. And so, we (the people riding the bus) are...
Possibly Devourer of Worlds:
So there's this new guy at work, who sits right next to me. His name is Sargon. Sargon. I'm haven't found out his last name yeat, but I'm pretty sure its The Destroyer, because I mean -- what else could...
Rolling Boil:
We all sat on the lawn in the fading twilight, resting in the soft grass. The crowd left a lot to be desired. The sparkling diamonds to my right were Norah and Tiffany, the lad sitting diametrically opposite me was...
All That Glitters:
So there was this kid named Andy who used to work at Border's a while back around Christmas, who I remember for several reasons. One, the kid dressed himself like a mofo; and by mofo I mean one who owns...
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps:
Perhaps fellow co -workers would take me more seriously if I didn't snicker everytime I read the words "endowment fund," or if I didn't practically drop the UPS box when someone asked "Hey Jory, just how big is that package...
Mind the Cat Calls:
Have you ever seen someone so beautiful that you kind of want to, you know, catch them? Like, put them in a jar, or lock them in your basement? You know, its like everytime you see their face your breath...
Bassey Rocks My World:
Ok so a few months ago, Kyler introduces me to Russel Simmon's Def Poetry Jam, he brings over his little black VHS tapes all mislabeled in masking tape, and we watch several episodes straight through. During those few hours, I...
Shimmer and Shake:
The thing I love the most about the Border's down in Provo, is that the building still has Christmas lights around the top. But I guess they're not really for Christmas or anything, they're just those decorative little display lights...
There Should be Two!:
Ok, so here's a story from the yearbook. During my senior year of high-school, through a series of class scheduling foibles, I was required to go back and take sophomore chemistry. Which, I know, was really just a blessing in...
She's Like the Wind:
With every great leap in technology comes the obligation to use that new power responsibly. To demonstrate the obility to excercise our skills with control and restrain. A good example of how not to do this, would be today, when...
Half Life Wastes, Before it Goes:
Today I walked alone, down the street, comparing my posture, my angles, with those of street lamps, with telephone poles, with wire running the roads. I gaged each step by the cracks in the pavement, timed my footfalls with the...
May 2003
Shoot Me in the Face:
Today, after making brownies, I realized I have reached the point in my life where I have absolutely zero-urge to lick the bowl after I am finished. This is the saddest thing that has ever happened to me. Good brownies,...
Must be Prayin Too Hard, Lord:
Looking back, I would have to say the highlight of my evening last night was not so much purchasing Who Can You Trust? by Morcheeba, not so much the lunar eclipse, and not even starting Wigfield by Amy Sedaris et...
Let me get my apron?:
So there's this older guy that sits near me at work, who, for the large part, has completely ignored my presence until today. Usually I just sit there and draw, and listen to the random things that come out of...
Shpritz!:
I spent a large part of my Sunday dinner trying to extol the virtues of a Hairspray themed amusement-park ride to my mother. "It'd be fantastic! You would ride around in a gigantic fiber-glass beehive while trying to dance the...