Archive for July, 2005

our first harvest

So there they are. Our first little harvest of veggies from the roof garden. Considering the hornworms, blossom end rot, the incessant heat, and the nasty grit and grime that hangs off every building in the city, I’m surprised anything grew up there at all. Meg and I sat and stared at them for a [...]

tomato/tobacco hornworms

I got home from work yesterday to find an infestation of tomato hornworms eating our tomato plants. Apparently, these nasty little buggers are one of the only things around here that will eat a tomato plant. Lucky us, they found our rooftop garden. I pulled 4 of these damn things off our plants last night, [...]

assholes.

i’m glad there have been certain people around in my life if for nothing other than how to spot an asshole, and then subsequently ignore them.

long lost levi

LEVI! Yeah. Meg and I stumbled on Levi’s MySpace profile. There are a lot of things wrong with that sentence, but it was totally awesome to have found a good friend that we thought we’d lost to the Mormons. He has since corrected us by stating we’ve lost him to the MOUNTAINS. Point taken, Utah [...]

passport photos

What the eff, mang? Back in my day, passport pictures were 2 for $9.99, plus tax. I just got my passport pic taken, for 16 dollars. SIXTEEN. The part that really raises my ire, is that the dude that shot my picture used a digital camera right off the shelf. DIGITAL. Five years ago when [...]