on vacation! :)

i've been in NYC for the last two days or so...and i'm having a blast. :)

i'm writing a ton about my trip in this old-style composition book i bought at the drugstore...i'm sure i look like a total dork in bars, on the train, and everywhere, writing in a composition book like a elementary kid, but oh well. i'm going to put parts of it here when i get back to st. louis next week. but, not all of it...because some of it is stuff that would make sense to post here, but some of it is so much along the lines of my own crazy ramblings and mental tangents that it would make even less sense than most of the stuff that i post here.

i know. difficult. but, try to imagine.

my brain goes on crazy tangents when i'm hanging out in an unfamiliar town where i know exactly four (well, no, make that six after last night) people.

but, needless to say, i'm having a fantastic time. and, if you're in NYC, you know me, and you want to hang out with me...say hi, 'cause i'm in town all the way until tuesday! :)

username

(ganked from serawench):

Rules: Post the explanation of where your username came from. Then tag TEN users whose explanations you'd like to hear. If you are tagged post the explanation to your page.

i've got two of them, given that this blog is posted in two places:

absentelements: my username on blogger. it's taken from the song "absent elements" by finger eleven. it's off their self-titled album, an album i was listening to nonstop all through the summer of '03, when i started this on blogger.

faceless_wonder: my username on livejournal. i was going to be absentelements or absent_elements, but they were both taken--by journals that DID NOT KEEP POSTING! ARRRRRGHHH!!! but, anyway...it's from a shades of fiction song called "faceless wonder of the world".

i picked both of those songs because they are songs in whose lyrics i see important parts of myself.

more jonathan lee riches (c) hilarity.

remember the crazy list of defendants i posted a few weeks ago? and the michael vick suit?

well, jonathan lee riches (c) is at it again. and this time, he's suing barry bonds.

oh yeah. and, hank aaron's bat.

yes, it's another bivens suit. against people who are not federal agents.

and mr. jonathan lee riches (c) is apparently doing business as "THE WHITE SUGE KNIGHT."

and it gets crazier from there.