The Dancing Sausage Web Journal

Category Archives: personal

Public but personal blog.

Thunderbirds are GO!

Monday, July 22, 2002

Sweet! It appears everything’s back to normal around here, or at least patched up enough to give a semblance thereof. *cracks knuckles* Main column, right column, category headings… well, the archive page is still busted, but that’s easy enough to fix. The old stuff from the side column is going away for the time being […]

Filed in personal, System Updates | Comments (7)

Youthful Escapism

Saturday, July 20, 2002

Pictures of me trying to escape as a baby.

Filed in From the Vaults, personal | Comments (66)

Great, it’s not just mouse poop, it’s CORPORATE mouse poop

Thursday, May 23, 2002

I love my little sister. She’s come up with the bestest, most cutting-edge advertising campaign *ever*. Herbuveaux: hi SolonsRoz: hey you wanna hear something gross? SolonsRoz: MOUSE TURDS Herbuveaux: mustard SolonsRoz: ALL OVER MY DESK Herbuveaux: ew! Herbuveaux: at home or work? SolonsRoz: HANTAVIRUS! SolonsRoz: work Herbuveaux: not good at all! SolonsRoz: HANTA SolonsRoz: VIRUS […]

Filed in Detritus, personal | Comments (3)

Goings On About Town: On About Town Goings-On (Ongoing)

Saturday, May 18, 2002

Had a press club today at work. This is one of the many things our ambitious little nonprofit does: arrange for speakers to come and talk to reporters from the minority, immigrant, and community newspapers in the city (we say “ethnic,” but I’m getting exceedingly tired of how clumsy that word is. There are over […]

Filed in Detritus, personal | Comments (4)

The Myth of the Uncommunicative Father

Wednesday, May 15, 2002

I read Sharon Olds and Joan Didion and Sylvia Plath, all these writers of recent rebellious generations, the ones of whom it was said you can never go home again — people who dig out the viscera of their relationships with their parents and slap them into the pages of novels. I admire these women. […]

Filed in On..., personal | Comments (0)

I give writing advice to Wil Wheaton! Eee hee hee hee hee hee!

Saturday, May 11, 2002

After getting 150 accolades from adoring fans, Wil Wheaton wrote that he wanted to pitch this piece to This American Life. So I gave him a little advice on pitching to them. My comment was at 1:47 p.m., his response at 4:15 p.m. — scroll waayyy wayyy down. I’m trying very hard not to let […]

Filed in Failed Celebrity Encounters, personal | Comments (6)

From The Vaults: Summer Evening Dinner With Seismologists

Friday, May 10, 2002

July, 1998 It’s berry season, so for once there was a lot I wanted to eat in this non-vegetarian house. There were few dishes not based on berries. Dried-cranberry challah. Deep-dish pie with blackberries, raspberries, and tiny champagne grapes. A salad with avocado, mesclun greens, raspberries, thick raspberry vinaigrette dressing, strawberries, blueberries, and the blackberries […]

Filed in From the Vaults, personal | Comments (7)

From The Vaults: Letter To A Timid Traveler

Friday, April 19, 2002

This is why I don’t like travelling into the city. It’s an ordeal, and scheduling is an absolute nightmare. You are seriously overreacting. Four hours on the bus and half an hour in Port Authority is probably the mildest travel problem you will ever have. Try riding the bus for fourteen hours ending in a […]

Filed in From the Vaults, personal | Comments (0)

From The Vaults: Opinion Poll

Monday, April 15, 2002

Originally published in the precursor to the DSWJ, 02/09/00 THE ADVERTISING INDUSTRY SEEMS TO BE VERY INTERESTED IN MY PERSONAL HABITS! THEY CALL ME AT HOME AND ASK ME QUESTIONS ABOUT MY PRODUCT PREFERENCES! THEY COOKIE MY COMPUTER! THEY SEND POLLS DIRECTLY TO MY HOUSE ASKING WOULD I LIKE A BRAND OF CIGARETTES WITH LESS […]