for milena_shibush the third note in the oxford english dictionary definition for the word "jink" (a noun). 3. high jinks: app. orig. high pranks. a. A name given to various frolics formerly indulged in at drinking parties. Sc. Obs. They mostly consisted in deciding by the throw of dice who should perform some ludicrous task [...]

i’ve worked non-stop this weekend and a good part of last week building a web site for a small record label and finishing up some other freelance work. i have a teeny-tiny reprieve right now while the site is uploading for the client to preview this week. and then it is back to the grind…pretty [...]

r a d i o:  …garrison already decimated by the Vietcong, who lost 115 of their men… w o m a n:  It’s awful, isn’t it, it’s so anonymous. m a n:  What is? w o m a n:  They say 115 guerillas, yet it doesn’t mean anything, because we don’t know anything about these [...]

called my grandma last night. miz a. she—a wonderful, funny quintessential southurrrn black woman. she ranted for many, many minutes about and against the two boy-men running her state and her country. she got my postcard from the peabody-essex museum and said she laughed at what i wrote on the back. nice. it was over [...]

Jackson 5 Christmas Album this is the best christmas album. along with a wide-variety of gospel-inflected holiday music, my family listened to this album every christmas of my childhood. we had the album AND the 8-track. the album was at my grandmother’s house in the possession of my "teenybopper michael and jermaine crazed" aunts and [...]

some.days.i.wake.up.and.i.only.want.to.hear.fela. for hours on end. easy to do as most of his recorded tracks go over ten minutes. on my way to boston. will go to salem and take in the new peabody essex museum, shop for food at harvest market, and then wander the first northern city i ever step foot into when i [...]

so i’m a little late but i just heard today for the first time missy elliot’s “pass the dutch.” remember “pass the dutchie” by musical youth from the 80s? although the song itself is forgettable (sorry missy fans but it just sounds like a second-rate retread in her music catalogue) she did an nice sample [...]

depaul is ahead of tennessee! omg. this reminds me of a few weeks ago when usc led uconn at the half. i have to admit, i wanted to see uconn go down. now i’m rooting for depaul. last season i saw tennessee and depaul play on the blue devil’s home court in chicago. depaul lost [...]

i just installed the full mozilla 1.5. i got tired of using the slimmed-down firebird. and i’m going to finally wean myself completely off of ms outlook. it’s been an off and on thing with that email client for years now. sometimes i’m using a mozilla email client. sometimes i would go to eudora. but [...]

Punk Rock Flea Market 4 Sunday December 14th 2003 11am – 5pm / Free and Open to All Mass Art Gym, 621 Huntington Ave, Boston MA Take the “E” Green Line to “Longwood Medical” or the #39 / #66 Bus You can also take the Orange Line to Northeastern U. and walk over to Huntington [...]

current music: how sweet it is (to be loved by you) – junior walker and the all-stars i do luv outkast. i find them amusing, actually hilarious, and they make some contagious, funky and smart yet funny off-the-cuff long-lasting hip hop. however, the love below kind of annoys me. don’t get me wrong, it’s still [...]

current music: library white noise humming the current temperature is 20 degrees fahrenheit (-7 celsius). there is a ton of snow on the ground. and walking on campus just now i saw some male child wearing flip-flops. no socks. bare white feet out in the elements.