you say, "can you rock harder?" i said i could, and i explode.

the shooting blanks concert last night was amazing. my ears are ringing from the loud music, my neck is a little sore from thrashing my head around, but i don't care.

( and then you'll know just how far we'll go. )

finally, just in case you didn't notice it before--hoffman had the shiniest guitar ever. the shape alone is cool. the fluorescent green tape alone is cool. the whole, however, is greater than the sum of its parts. together, they create a guitar force that cannot be stopped.

travel woes

the good news is that it took me almost no time to get through security at midway airport this evening.

the bad news is that my flight back to st. louis is currently slated to be an hour late. i'm posting this from my gate. yes, that means that i have paid six or seven dollars or whatever the exorbitant amount of money they charge nowadays for airport internet access. but, with my flight running late, it's a small price to pay to be able to get on my laptop, vent, and distract myself for the next [hopefully only] two hours.

this has not been the smoothest travel experience of all time--my flight to chicago on wednesday was also delayed. i hate being in airports during thanksgiving, or during any major holiday periods. they get so crowded. flights always get delayed. people are so frazzled.

i'm starting to think i would have been better off if i had taken the megabus.

advice

behold: more advice. it published last week, and i realised i hadn't linked it here yet. it's an article about the ever-so-awkward situation of having a crush on your friend.

speaking of advice--the column finally got a letter from a student last week! that was really exciting...but, there are two advice columnists. a male columnist and i alternate weeks. his column was up next...and since neither of us have any special background in the topic over and above that of the average student, it was only fair that he got the letter for his next column.

i really hope someone else writes in asking for advice. it's really, really difficult to write an advice column based on thinking up situations that people would need advice on. it's more concrete and more rewarding to have people's specific questions to answer.