three crazy bitches in the department store

[poem warning]

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There is $6 trillion worth of oil in the Caspian Sea. Isn’t that strange?

[Via my good friend Paul, who I'm visiting in two or three weeks.]

Hrm. Half hour to kill before lunch.

Here is something else from my first time in Japan. It’s basically a longish journal entry.

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Very interesting comment fest going on at Tessrants.

[Via xkot, whose name means extra excrement in German.]

We’re in the beginning stages of a police state.

[Via serialdeviant.org]

Polonius: What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet: Words, words, words.
Hamlet II, 2

I don’t feel like writing anything new for a few days, so until I do I’ll be posting old stories and journal entries written over the last 20 years, with a minimum of editing. Here’s the first one, about a night in Tokyo in 1983 or 1984.

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Michele recently posted a google time-killing activity here, in which you search for “[your name] is” (in the quotes otherwise google skips the “is”) and you come up with a list of wacky sentences about yourself. This also works with other words, however, such as “was” or predict the future with “will”. Alpha – I’m doing this on my coffee break honey, okay?

Today’s list: what does Miguel eat?

• Miguel eats a special cake with relatives.
• Miguel eats all the bean dip.
• Miguel eats, like a big man.
• Miguel eats burritos.
• Miguel eats some orange chicken and makes a face.
• Miguel eats it all.
• Miguel eats Joe’s [deleted] as he strokes.
• Miguel eats, drinks and sleeps at the computer right here on this very page.

[Real content later maybe]