and then there was that time i got a tattoo...

Here are some pics from my recent trip to Fat Ram's Pumpkin Tattoo, where I got myself inked.
Per usual, the day would not have been complete without a little passing out action. AND, to top it off, when I went to upload my files from my camera phone page, I found the pictures from our exciting trip to the ER LAST fall (just about a year ago) after I cut my hand trying to shuck a clam with a steak knife and promptly passed out. Thank God for Jenny and Abby and the wonderful camera phone.

Bonus points go to those who DON'T know what my Tat is and can guess....my English professors will be either profoundly impressed or profoundly weirded out!

you know the economy is bad...

when you see one bum hit another bum up for money

bum 1: got a few dollars you can help me out with?
bum 2: seriously?

seriously.

Much Ado About Nothing

Notes on JP:
-Apparently I'm not the only one who skips down Centre Street.
-Last Friday, 6pm, man walking down Centre Street with Tuba upon shoulder
-My landlord does not wear shoes. He wants to paint pink flamingos all over the city to slow down traffic. The city despises him.

Notes on life:
Men make a great ado about the folly of demanding too much of life (or of eternity?), and of endeavoring to live according to that demand. It is much ado about nothing. No harm ever came from that quarter. I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is. I shall be sorry to remember that I was there, but noticed nothing remarkable -- not so much as a prince in disguise; lived in the golden age a hired man; visited Olympus even, but fell asleep after dinner, and did not hear the conversation of the gods.
-HD Thoreau-

And on not writing....

Is not the attitude of expectation somewhat divine? -- a sort of home-made divineness? Does it not compel a kind of sphere of music to atend on it? ... What if I should forget to write about writing. It is not worth the while to make that a theme. It is as if I had written every day -- It is as if I had never written before -- I wonder that you think so much about it, for not writing is the most like writing in my case of anything I know.
-HD Thoreau-

So, it's as if I've been keeping up with this blog all along!

And, to all of you who have 2 years of letters stashed way back in my brain, I guess I can let myself off the hook for not officially writing you! As the profound Joey Lawrence once wrote, "the longer I delayed sending the email, the more necessary it seemed to pump it full of inner significance - which is why so often the best letters simply go unwritten." (Whoa!)

Other things to note:
On the bottom of this web publisher, there is a space to add labels for this post. As examples, they give: scooters, vacation, fall. I choose scooters!

Ya Mahn

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