Smallhouse Log

Monday, Seventh Week
"Some people have nipples in weird places." -Leah, 03/12/2006

The following is from They Might Be Giants' "Stalk of Wheat":

I was looking for a friend (At the end)
At the end of the line, and it took me 'til the end of time.
I was all out of luck (Like a duck)
Like a duck that died;
I was all out of juice (Like a moose)
Like a moose denied.
I was all out of money like a bunny that's broke,
I was all out of work like jerk who's a joke,
And I was out of ideas, like I is, like I is,
Like I is, like I is, like I is.

And from 1945's "Aurora Borealis":

Inside of everything
Is someplace I've got to go.
It leaves me hypnotised
By the way I seem to leave
Everyone I've ever known
Well, Everyone I've ever known

And that's what today was like. Then I had pizza (Leah: "Wait a minute, pizza? That's not vegan." I: "I just bought a thing of milk.... I'll be vegan when it's done."). Hawaiian pizza.

Speaking of Leah, more 1945, this time "Make Out in the Dark":

I fall,
Every time she calls,
To an early grave
That's growing in her room.
With lips
Like ribbons on a gift,
....And sure enough, she's sleeping on the floor,
In a black shirt so long that I'm barely hanging on,
hanging on.

I suspect the reason that I don't write much poetry anymore is because everything has already been said, and better, by either 1945, Atmosphere, or the Magnetic Fields. Or the Mountain Goats, but I don't think I wrote many of those kind of poems anyway.

I did just uncover my collection of erotic Magnetic Poetry haiku, though. Maybe those'll be up here for the next post.

Sunday
"Any STDs will be killed by the jalepeño." -Stan, 05/26/2005

So last night, I went to see A Prairie Home Companion with Leah and Laura. Leah didn't really like it. I really liked it. I kind of made me nostalgic for the Midwest proper, and also (even though I haven't left this behind yet) being backstage at the Folk Festival. Hmm. Yeah, it was a weird movie -a very weird movie- but in a very familiar way.

I don't really know what I'm trying to express with this, but Ruthie demands that I write more, so here it is.

even later that day
"Does the Rock know he's in this Movie?" -HS, pd

So I keep changing things to make the RSS more feasible and so forth. What this means is probably not obvious as of yet, but as more post are aquired, I'm sure it will become less nebulous.

Saturday, Sixth Week, Autumn Quarter, Superannuation
"Wait a minute, she can't get married. She and I had that whole Internet thing going, and I was sure...." -HS, 07/25/200?

Well, now that my uploading problem is fixed, there are changes.

Just.... not very many.

Thursday

Well, last night I began to implement some of the new suggestions, with the result that you can now leave your suggestions right here. For those who may not have seen the other posts on the matter, I want to know what parts of the site people like or think are important, whether the icon menu is confusing or cool (and if anything could be done to improve it), and things people wauld like to see that aren't here, like comments or an RSS feed. Mind you, comments are already here, and I hope to implement the RSS later tonight. Oh yeah, and how is this comment service? I didn't feel up to coding my own, so I'm using HaloScan. Are the ads too annoying? There are other systems I can try out, too.

Oh, and I don't know if it's my network or the host or what, but uploading has been slaw and hard recently, so if any pages are missing or incomplete, that's probably why.

Wednesday befor O-Week
"Now that's an immaculate conception I can get behind!" -Leah, 09/07/2006

Sooooo.... changes. To the website. Coming soon. By request, some of them. These things happen. Still working on design, though, so drop any suggestions here.