the wackness.

August 18, 2008 at 12:38 pm

Look what happened when I got on a death machine last week just so we could get breakfast at the Tin Shed:

I was riding a fixed gear for the first time, wearing flimsy ballet flats with absolutely no traction.  The bike’s pedals were pretty smooth, too, so when I stood up at one point to try to adjust myself, my left foot slid off the pedal and shot forward in between the front fork and the wheel.  The fork did some painful damage to the top of my foot and the spokes ripped off a chunk of the skin underneath, which you see here.  It was surprisingly non-bloody, and a nice gentleman saw it happen and offered me a ride home.  Jbin cleaned it and wrapped it and I went to the doctor the next day for a tetanus shot and a more thorough cleaning. At this point the skin has completely bonded and fused back together (the human body is a marvelous thing), though underneath the healing there is still a lot of blood and bruising and there’s still some slight pain, swelling and tenderness on the metatarsals.  Hoping to be back to 100% by next week.

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puerile.

July 11, 2008 at 9:48 am

A month or so ago, the blogosphere was all abuzz over this story from the New York Times magazine (see here, here, and here, for starters), revealing former Gawker editor Emily Gould to be as petty, self-absorbed/involved, and megalomaniacal as I continue to view myself, for wanting to have this, that, or any blog. I can’t quite figure out what it is that drives me. I started a Livejournal in 2003(?), which then morphed into skinscented.blogspot.com, which became sansguile.blogspot.com. I’ve barely committed to any of them, even though my mind is running fathoms per hour daily. My walks to and from work blend together in a wavering meditation of sorts. I spend a majority of my day reading The Internet, scanning blogs, watching YouTube videos, reading the news and catching up on celebrity gossip. Yet, somehow, I can’t be bothered to regurgitate any of this information, these opinions and epiphanies, the hilariously mundane sitcom shenanigans that make up my life. Read the rest of this entry »

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