I had reason last weekend to look at an old journal of mine from when I was nineteen years old. I still have my old journals, and lately if I do find myself reading them (particularly the older ones), I wonder why I keep them around. How are they serving my present self? It’s painful […]
Posts Tagged ‘olympia’
memories lost
Posted in Uncategorized, Writing, tagged childhood, olympia on February 12, 2013 | 2 Comments »
car ride
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged kona, olympia on April 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
One of Kona’s favorite activities We took her to Olympia yesterday. It was her longest ever car ride and she was very good, slept much of the way. When we got to town we had to leave her in the car while we went to lunch, poor baby. But after we ate we took her […]
hex-zene
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged book, olympia, writing on August 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I just packed four more boxes of books. I now have six total. I figured out it’s half as cheap to mail them book rate than to put them on the moving truck, so that will be a fun day at the post office. As I went through my bookcase I found my collection of […]
93
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged music, olympia on August 8, 2007 | 7 Comments »
I’m sharing music with husband tonight and I see that he has the Slant-6 record. MEMORIES!!! I snapped this polaroid of them in a tri-cities parking lot They put out a great 7″ which I listened to a hundred times back then. There was a song called “Semi-Blue Tile” that clocked in just under a […]
a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged olympia, punk on March 17, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I skimmed my journal from 19 this morning. I could barely even read it. I literally looked away from some of it, quickly turning the page over. I thought to myself as I read my own handwriting, “no, don’t do that! NOOO!!!” But oh yes, I did it. I did all of that. I seem […]
conejo
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged olympia on March 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I have issues #1, #2, and #3 of the fanzine “Joe Preston’s Legs”, produced in 1992 by Justin Trosper, four to six photocopied pages each, no staples. Still in pristine condition, having been stored in a dark dry box for years upon years. I cracked a couple of them open tonight and was instantly transported […]
feels like 37 degrees
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged music, olympia on January 17, 2007 | 5 Comments »
It’s 42°. Wool coat again today! It is January 17. Fifteen years ago tonight, I attended my first ever real punk rock show. Two bands from Portland, two from Olympia. Heavens to Betsy played first, I think we missed part of their set. Singing about having their periods, which to me, was revolutionary. Riot Grrrl […]
Protected: another gift from the mighty flickr
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged book, olympia on December 13, 2006 | Comments Off on Protected: another gift from the mighty flickr
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tra la la la la
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged book, olympia on December 11, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Tonight I watched about ten minutes of “Deal or No Deal.” Wow. Alec Baldwin was right; it really is just bimbos opening suitcases for an hour. Then we watched eight minutes of a holiday TV movie directly after the suitcase show. It “starred” John Goodman, whose exhaustion and annoyance did not seem like acting; Chris […]
archivision
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged music, olympia on August 20, 2006 | Comments Off on archivision
I am only three pages into Joshua’s flyer fanzine and already I am laughing my ass off. I swear he is one of the funniest writers I know. He also has the most airtight memory of anyone I have ever met. It’s a fucking gift. The zine is one of three he gave me when […]