November 2006

The Archives

• General

  Black Friday

  11.24.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  When the pipe from the sink is clogged and greasy brown water is backing up into the dishwasher and then onto the floor and liquid plumber doesn’t work, the next step is to get under the sink and take pipes apart randomly until the clog is found and you’ve soaked yourself well. Then put it […]

• Music

  Spoilt for Choice

  11.20.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  I forgot my ipod at home today so am listening to a CD via Windows Media Player.  Now I’m wishing that the ipod showed those nifty ‘visualizations’ on its screen while playing.  Or at least the visualisation called gemstonematrix.

• General, Writing

  Possible Story Opening Inspired By Cat

  11.20.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  “In the small hours of the night, I was woken by the noise of a cat trying to vomit on my head.  Thank God I was able to fall asleep again.”  Thankfully in this case said vomit did not land on me and the mess was contained and abated by swift de-contamination techniques.

• General

  Creatures of the Night

  11.18.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Last night when I took the dogs out back to play fetch (rather for Vinnie to play fetch; Boris gets involved of games and plots fathomable only by him) there was a lot of fog. So deep that black dogs at night were invisible at the end of the garden. So thick that the lights […]

G.E. Dempsey