Vox Noctis

So we go inside and we gravely read the stones/all those people, all those lives/where are they now?

2007-03-08T09:03:09Z

Pleasantly warm and sun-blind after a lengthy stroll through the local Catholic cemetery today. Spent a long time looking at the small small graves in the children's garden and photographing some beautifully mossy and decrepit headstones. Been o...

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The sun's been quite kind while I wrote this song/It's for people like you that keep it turned on

2007-03-07T16:24:42Z

Fridays are usually very busy days for me, but the weather was just so gorgeous that the Grub and I couldn't resist a sunny stroll. We took lots of fun photos for my ongoing Strolling in Menlo Park set. Schoolgirl Originally uploaded by nulla...

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Be afraid of the cold / They'll inherit your blood / Après moi, le déluge / After me, the flood

2007-03-05T14:56:52Z

Oh, the joys and trials of living in a century-old Victorian! It's been less than warm at home these past couple of days, since our ancient furnace mysteriously ceased functioning on Tuesday. After poking vainly at the rusty, imposing contraption...

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Will she let me in / underneath her clothes? / That girl got skin / like a ghost

2007-03-01T09:16:09Z

Saturday was brunch with my peeps (oat bran pancakes with fruit compote) before playing our new Zombies!!! game (second edition). fan_boy recently bought all the extension sets, too. It was as awesome as one might expect, and I prevailed against...

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Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it over ice...

2007-02-22T21:55:19Z

We hied ourselves to Oakland last night to meet teawiththecheat, dicedork and tinellaq at the Parkway Speakeasy Theater for some grub, grog, and a flick. I'd never been to a speakeasy theatre before, and we had a capital time. tutordennis an...

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Got a wig for his wig / got a brain for his heart / he'll kick you apart, he'll kick you apart

2007-02-20T07:02:09Z

This lovely long weekend was just groovy. There was bowling, a fine game of Gloom: the Game of Inauspicous Incidents and Grave Consequences, a yummy brunch, a cheesy movie, a great restaurant discovery, zombies, and a new book. Happy Presidents'...

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A'ight stop what you're doin' cause I'm about to ruin / the image and the style that you're used to

2007-02-17T01:03:31Z

Tagged by sweet sweet teawiththecheat: RULES: Each player of this game starts off with 10 weird things/habits/little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 10 weird habits/things/little known facts a...

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All the king's horses and all the king's men / couldn't put baby together again

2007-02-16T20:29:44Z

Did you have a fertile Lupercalia? Ah, the fecundity! NB: If in future you plan to celebrate by watching Ginger Snaps Back, I heartily recommend whacking your loved ones with bloody goat hides instead. That movie was almost as bad as the Gryphon...

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Listen, all creeping things—the bell of transience.

2007-02-15T00:22:38Z

Animal Lover Originally uploaded by nullalux. One day when we lived in Sacramento, a neighbor boy brought over his bird to show us because he "heard we liked animals." The bird in question was a rather disgruntled cockatiel, crammed into a...

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Ιερός Λόχος τών Θηβών

2007-02-14T07:49:17Z

Embrace Originally uploaded by nullalux. And if there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their loves, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour...

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