landis

New Blog!

Yup. Now with more RSS and less emotions! I am officially a paid blogger about the uptown neighborhood.Check it out! www.60640.net
Posted by landis on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:14:00 PST

The Longest Blog I Have Ever Written

Inspired by Chris' blog... 2007 began with me moving out of the apartment I had lived in for the last two and half years, and shared with Kendra for the last year and half of that.  It was a...
Posted by landis on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:01:00 PST

Another in my series of conversations with American cities.

Hey L.A.  I know you heard me talking to Minneapolis, and I want to get one thing clear, right off the bat.  You can't even step to that.  So get your game off my friends, cuz it's not ...
Posted by landis on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:54:00 PST

There is a lot of cursing in this.

Fuck you if you've ever said that spiders are afraid of me. Fuck.  You. They are NOT. They sense my fear, and they love it.  They come sneaking in from the outdoors just to hang from my cei...
Posted by landis on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:11:00 PST

Damn, Minneapolis.

I can't help but notice how attractive you've gotten lately.  I know that Chicago and I are in a pretty serious thing right now, but if I wasn't attached... I mean, don't get me wrong, you've alw...
Posted by landis on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:32:00 PST

The word voracious comes to mind.

Dave Eggers writes brilliance.  And I don't mean he writes intelligently, he does, of course he does, but I mean he writes and it is light, it is sunshine reflected off white stone and glass...
Posted by landis on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:17:00 PST

I don't think I can say enough about this.

Look, I don't want to like the song "Satan Is My Motor".  I've got all kinds of instincts against it that have been sparked and fanned by my religious upbringing.  And I've got a sneaki...
Posted by landis on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:23:00 PST

Xanga is offline...

People only seem mysterious until one day you realize (because he tells you) that you never asked him any questions.  You could have known anything you wanted anytime you wanted to.  But you...
Posted by landis on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:37:00 PST

I love semi-colons.

I accepted computers at first with elation, then with fear, and now finally I have reached the crotchety old person stage of begrudging acceptance. Tolerance, but not support for all their shenanigans...
Posted by landis on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 01:08:00 PST

thoughts on an improving mood

I'm really ill today.  And so I'm thinking too much, learning too little, and not playing nearly enough.  I expect tomorrow to step it up, lay it down, get it's game straight, get it's head ...
Posted by landis on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:16:00 PST