Late on the Parade

I'm a little late to have discovered this, but one of the nicest things occurs over at HTML Giant (or rather occurred in January and I missed it). Thanks Mike Young! You are a gem.


Also meant to update this a while ago, but life, you know...

Went to the hot springs last weekend with a cadre of poet-types. It was so nice. Hot, hot puddles & a cool breeze, blue skies. This after the best gyro I've had in the states. Still can't find one that's anything like what I had in Greece (It'd be so nice to discover a gyro place that put french fries in their gyro.)

Either way, these things make the list of Boise good times.

Entry 13: Gyros from Bosnian Express.
Entry 14: Hot springs.


Sometimes, life can be so good.

Mama Said

& so I believed her. She was an honest lady. I'd say it's a case of the Mondays, but baby it's Tuesday & I can't get it together.

Thankfully, I got 40 minutes left on the clock, every intention of stopping off at the Boise Co-op (ENTRY #12), to pick up New Belgium's TRIPPEL (the beer which I have recently become obsessed with). It's not a cheap beer, but I drink slow at home & it is delish...


Then I'm going to make this thing I've been thinking about all morning. Battered & pan fried sweet potatoes, with sweet chili sauce.

And then to read. And read. And read. For not my thesis (as I have successfully defended) but for my classes (which have fallen a bit by the wayside due to thesis... & mental exhaustion).

Thank god for good food & good beer.

ENTRY #11: Croquetas at Guernika. Yum. So yum.

Some Quick Press:

So, Lucas Farrell, of alice blue numero 9, & alice blue books (see The Blue-Collar Sun) was selected for inclusion in

Dzanc Books Best of the Web!

Yay. Congratulations Lucas!

I went for a walk to put some time between the long stretches of misery & the other long stretches of misery in working an 8 hour shift and landed myself in Boise's Rose Garden, in Julia Davis Park, and it brought me to more lovelies to add to my "I'M GONNA MISS YOU BOISE" list...

ENTRY 9: The Rose Garden-- even fascinating in winter when there are no petals, just twiggy frames. And the sculpture of the old lady giving the little girl an apple-- both of them in bonnets. And the sculpture garden on the other side.

ENTRY 10: The geese that live in Julia Davis Park year round. It's totally weird to see geese traipsing about in the snow, but they do, they do, they do.

Birthday Festivities

The day of, sure, I had work, then teaching, then a meeting for my thesis, then class. But Friday, it will be epic. Bowling, Thai Food, & Karaoke.

Which brings me to Entry #7: Crickets Karaoke night... even though I haven't been there in several months.

Entry #8: How almost nothing is more than 15 minutes away by bicycle.


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*Sidenote: Things to look foward to on a return to Washington here. I'm kinda geekin' out about it.

More Strings, Binding

Entry#3: Cheap Movie Tuesday (where I most recently saw MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS for $2)
Entry#4: Harry's (aka Hyde Park Pub, aka Football Sunday, aka ESPN Classic=Creative Breaking championships from 1978-- or some other era where the mullet was popular in martial arts competitions)

Entry#5: Friends. This should go without saying. But, then I realized maybe I just sound like a dick. Hell, even coming in at #5 makes me sorta seem like a dick.

Entry#6: Riding my bike on flat land. (I will still ride my bike when I move back... but all those hills...eegads!)