I finally had time to read the *whole* thread, and figured out that Syc was gonna make a long drive (did I mention I'm insanely busy most of the time, and have attention deficit problems the rest of the time?).

Such a trip definitely calls for a mix of literate spoken word, and music. Nothing beats Golden Earring for road music, IMHO. A little Radar Love goes a long way when you're going a long way. In fact, if you can find the entire Moontan album, I recommend it highly.

     I'm pretty sure there's no 'Radar Love' whatsoever in this part of the Cellar.
     Oh wait... That's not what you meant was it? Hmm, s'okay. I hate that song anyway. It's been overplayed for over a decade now.

Unless you buy the CD of Midnight in the Sunken Cathedral and do it yourself, I don't think you'll find them. You should know full well that Harlan's the kind of guy about his intellectual property that anyone who tried that with an intent to distribute would have his picanthrapoid self bisected along his long axis and his entrails nibbled upon by syphillitic carnivourous sheep for eternity, with the poor bastard renewed daily like Prometheus to have it all start over again, bright and early with the dawn, thankyousoverymuch. ;)

A CD it is, then...and thanks for the title!

Far be it from me to incur the all too literate wrath of Mr. Ellison!

Gosh Wolf, do you think you could be a little more graphic?:eek:

It was an hommage.

You say that like it's a "bad" thing...LOL.:p

It was frightening. Caused more shrinkage Saturday Night Live
reading Reagan's medical procedure.:D

you think the hommage was scary?

Try the real thing sometime ... ;)

(important safety tip ... start with something 'easy' like Repent, Harlequin, Said the Ticktockman. You're better off working your way up to I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream)

20/4/2003: St. Louis, MO
 

What's up, bitches?

At the moment, I'm chilling out in what used to be my bedroom...now it is the computer room/mom's soap tape-watching room. Dish Network...9 kabillion channels...nice...and Caffeine Free Dr. Pepper, which I cannot find for the life of me in Philadelphia. And of course...my car. My very own car. My first car in over 3 years. Happiness. :)

Hey, did I mention that I decaffeinated myself 2 weeks ago? Yep...no more caffeine for me. Shit, now all I need to do is give up the smoking and I'll be in the big time.

The train ride from Philadelphia to Baltimore was very nice...only about half-full. Grabbed a seat all to myself, plugged up my phone to charge, and chilled out to some CDs.

Spent the night at my in-laws in Baltimore, which wasn't as painful as I thought it would be. I spent most of the night trying to figure out my father-in-law's computer.

Calling it a "computer" is a stretch...it's a Brother word processor that has an OS called Geos 3.0+, which allows text viewing of the internet (a la what Juno used to be back in the day). I was able to connect to the net with my Earthlink account, however:

--My father-in-law cannot remember his password to connect to his own Earthlink account.

--The "computer" runs painfully slow, and if a page is too graphic intensive, the system will crash. For example, it crashed on Cellar twice.

I got through the Southwest counter at BWI in no time yesterday morning, and got through the security checkpoint in about 15 minutes: No strip search, no taking off my shoes, fairly simple.

I usually have no problem with flying, other than a bit of claustrophobia. However, I felt unusually anxious this time around...I kept having thoughts about something bad happening to the plane. Fortunately, it dissipated about 20 or 30 minutes into the flight. We hit a lot of turbulence, but that didn't bother me at all.

I spent most of yesterday afternoon trying to get used to my new car. It's been 2 years since I've driven it, and almost 6 years since I've driven it on a regular.

Feasts yesterday included Jack in the Box tacos (no more breakfast anytime though...damn!) and Cecil Whittaker's Pizza...*drools*...good stuff. Today is the Easter Feast...I believe my mom said she pre-ordered a dinner from one of the grocery store chains here, so I imagine it'll be mighty good.

I got to spend most of last night with my best friend from high school, whom I've not seen in almost 4 years. More on that at another time, b/c I am going to go out for a nice Sunday drive.

So, I'll leave with this: Being back in St. Louis, things in general seem to go much slower. I'm so used to the rush-rush of Philadelphia, and now it's like shit is in slo-mo...but this isn't really a bad thing. It's kind of...soothing.

Enjoy that cheap gas out there, fucker.

     I know I do. I'd hate to try to afford those high prices I hear on the news for the east coast. I mean damn that's expensive. :angel:

It's currently $1.35 a gallon out here, about the same on the other side of the river in IL. When I left Philadelphia, it was about $1.65, and about $1.50 in NJ.

I imagine that it's almost $2 a gallon in Chicago though.

Oooh! And I got a carton of smokes for $23!!! Jesus, I think my last carton in Philadelphia was $37.

Yet another reason to drop your disgusting habit, mongrel.

We all have our personal addictions, dirtnut.