googlicious

sometimes the internet is *so* boring. for instance, as i was pouring myself a cachacha and orange juice and contemplating the lovely raindrenched vista outside, a cool and spacious airconditioned house furnished with art and a few oddlies, and the hour approaching where i shall hie myself out to a birthday party, but to retrench, this luxurious sensation brought to mind the phrase “gilded cage” and being nearly close enough to touch a keyboard whilst this ran through my brainpan, i quickly arrived at http://gildedcage.com. if that isn’t one of the most boring use of a fine domain name….

of course, i shouldn’t be one to talk, seeing as i have taken googlicious.com and turned it into this….

at this moment i am in the middle of buying a plane ticket for a good friend who is travelling from denver to help with a show next month, and i come the meal preference part of the ticket form, and i pull down the menu, and lo and behold, in this day and age of $7 sandwiches and $2 water on airplanes, i get to choose from an array of cuisines! diabetic, vegetarian, vegan, low-sodium, kosher, and muslim. hmmmm… shouldn’t that be halal? which reminds me that today, while sitting at the counter of our classiest local coffee shop, the metro, and being served by a deliciously ambisexual barrista, i picked up part of a stack of some kind of trivial pursuit cards for foodies, and about the fourth one down referred to the halal and kosher (same part of the world, same cuisine) requirement that animals be slaughtered by having their throats cut while conscious… that kind of made an impression. but anyways, i digress; there was the pull down menu, and it was all i could do to resist the temptation to sign my polish friend up for a muslim meal. at that point, all he has to do is pull out a cell phone, and it’s all over. but after some deliberation, i chose no preference, as that would be his choice i think. myself, i’ve chosen hindu when i’m offered, in the faint hope that someday i’ll be served a passable curry while riding in a 757.

the first person to tell me where the picture in the header was taken will be taken out to dinner at a restaurant of their choice. the first person to tell me where the picture in the header of the about page was taken is really sharp, but gets the same thing… for that one, you could probably use a hint, but you’re not getting one…

Strange happenings: had a meeting with a client during which he almost hit me he was so out of control. guess i’m dropping him. the bayshore house is as beautiful as ever, the crickets are heavy, the drainage pump from the development across the street kept us company this evening of national night out…

i interviewed for a job as stage manager for four shows at the newly renovated asolo theater up the street.

ms. k is on the street in mexico city - she sends this dispatch: “Meanwhile, the largest street in mexico city has become a giant campground with yoga everyday at 8 am and black beans cooked over fires and dancing at all hours. I fucking love this city….i’m never going home.”

thank the universe for all of our good luck.

a quite fine animation … actually a meta-animation, which makes it quite cooler, at least to me. let’s hear it for abstraction!

everybody seems to be just fine here, at least they aren’t shooting anyone. i’m still looking for a girlfriend, but what else is new? my airconditioner works, and for that i am exceedingly grateful…

a large local homebuilder went belly up on tuesday with 71 houses in various states of completion. the company had sold 123 houses in 2005 and had sold 4 in 2006. i’d go belly up too. methinks the realestate boom is slackening hereabouts. i see an occasional terror in the eyes of people who have bought houses as investments in the last year. of course the median price of 335K is still a bargain compared to say, oakland ca, with a median price of $600K.

the development across the street, which has been the subject of much controversy, has yet to sell a lot in two years. i awake at 7am to the lovely tune of reverse horns on the earthmoving equipment, and i can tell you, they spend at least as much time in reverse as otherwise..

tonight was the occasion of our fourth wednesday night dinner… the theme being vegetables and readings- i added a pair of lovely yellowtail snapper to the vegetables, and here’s what came of the readings…

1. ode to clouds - pablo neruda - english

2. bushs twentieth hundred days - shouts and murmurs, new yorker

3. stock traders handbook, real estate remix - 1923

4. veronika kills herself - pablo coelho -
5. ode to the night - pablo neruda - bilingual

6. two poems - chelsea yarrow gould - read by the author

7. ode to clouds - pablo neruda -espanol

all in all, an exquisitely eclectic selection to hear, with a pablo neruda refrain. just couldn’t help ourselves.

i shall post a picture, but not now….

Here you are folks, a job with a realistic salary…
Position: Web Developer (Part-time to Hire)
Location: New York City
Salary: Commiserate with experience
Company: Colin Cowie Lifestyle
Contact email: rsenzon@colincowie.com

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