OH YA

I just spent 8 hours of my life getting my hair done. WTF.

Thrift Color

Lit Crush: Aleksandar Hemon

Aleksandar Hemon is one of my new favorite writers. My friend Jon borrowed me his book "Nowhere Man" which is a collection of stories revolving around one charactar, Josef Pronek. The book is often really funny, (Hemon has a talent for pairing the quotidan with the absurd) yet the plot still hints at the underlying tragedies in everyday life, age, and love.

Hemon is originally from Sarajevo, but got stuck in Chicago in 1992 when Sarajevo went under seige. He has since been awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship, and an McArthur Foundation "genius grant". I plan on reading his book "Love and Obstacles" next.

Wasnt prepared for this

Night of the Living Dead

Joey and Turtlehand. Zombie pub crawl. Nothing better going on in minnesnowta.

Dear Fire Marshall, you are ruining my fun

So lately some bummer things have been happening, like Fire Marshalls and Building Inspectors trying to shut our building down. I also lost my phone, and its led to some complicated interactions, since my old service is still in Wisconsin and they shut down customer service. (who does that). This weather has been so depressing- more than a week of overcast days and all i want to do when i get home is curl up and sleep! Some good news is that i finally got promoted at my job and get to do things like plan color-schemes and put up graphics all day. I think this weekend will be ok. I'm going to be a model for some platform artist.

Picture Wednesday