Monthly Archives: March 2010

Siberia Is Really White/Random French Photographer I Met on the Street

This photograph was successfully taken after walking through waist-deep snow in order to reach the river bank where the snow was actually somewhat packed and therefore easier to walk upon. I had ended up at this place because I had recently found Ljubisa on the street. Found? I was walking home from work one day [...]

Messages I Have Actually Sent To Girls On OKCupid

that one picture sorta looks like you’re wearing ‘fashion lederhosen’. I’m sorta sad that I probably couldn’t ‘pull off’ that look. (No subject) I knew a guy who only had a thumb on one hand. It looked really weird. He was from the Ukraine, we would see him at the ukrainian catholic church just down [...]

The Improbable Story of a Sweatshirt

A sorta crappy short story type thing by Keith Birthday This is Hatfield, Pennsylvania. Nestled in the southeastern corner of the state, Hatfield boasted a population of around 2,500 and covered a total area of 0.6 square miles. The folks there enjoyed a peaceful, simple suburban life. There was a wal-mart, a mall, and many [...]

Poland I: Warsaw/Beatbox Maracas/Wait We Understand Polish?/Where the Milk Bars at?

part two in an apparently ongoing series about Keith Birthday’s recent travels through Europe. part one here It was probably the most absurd thing that I had seen/heard in a while, the ‘DJ’ in this Warsaw basement bar was making a ‘shicka-shicka’ sound into the microphone in rhythm to the music, in what appeared a [...]

Sort of liveblogging Joanna Newsom’s “Have One On Me”

I found out that NPR was streaming Joanna Newsom’s new album in its entirety. Before finding that out I knew that a track from the album, “Good Intentions Paving Company” (I think) was available for download on Drag City’s site, following a cryptic blog entry bearing the date 2/23/10. My initial reaction to the song, [...]

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