It’s just the beginning (PART 2)

Who the hell opens at freakin’ noon?! (interro-disgracious!), originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
I remember how much I freaked you all out last time, so I’m going to make this short and sweet: COME VISIT ME AT MY NEW HOME! I know, I know, we’re all fancy schmancy now. “Daat caam!”
Please come play at the new [...]

Friday, February 2nd: ‘Rockstars Wear Red’ Day

Rockstars dress in red dresses. Originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
It wasn’t enough that I’ve been getting emails about children I never knew I had (Bethany is still quite busy unleashing her slacker tendencies, by the way). Now I’m receiving emails from the Office of the Governor…of the State of Kansas. This is better than Bethany, [...]

Catch you on the flip side

Originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
It’s over, but right now I’m too exhausted (and sunburnt) to clearly reflect on the experience. A huge gratitude-filled “Thank you” to the superstar SI, who called me Friday afternoon from the East Coast to wish us good luck. Photos and lengthy descriptions coming soon. Click the photo above, or check the [...]

I don’t need nobody flyin’ in my jet stream/Take the bus, go on and get yourself your own dream

Originally uploaded by yaznotjaz
“Everyone’s a critic, yaar,” said my friend over IM. “Let’s just call ‘em all biatches.”
I started laughing, which was a good thing, because I had just spent most of the morning cursing a stranger I knew nothing about. This was two Fridays ago. It started with an email: GMail automatically refreshed my [...]

"Who was that masked man, anyway?"

Originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
This image was something I had quite a bit of fun putting together yesterday. [Click for a larger view, and to read the notes, even though, after all this time, I'm sure you already know why I specifically picked those photos.] I was inspired by Jamelah’s montage to [...]

Bastages! (Stealing words from Baji)

Nothing brings one’s (read: my) mood down like logging into an old Yahoo! email account and realizing it was deactivated because I hadn’t logged in for four months. Yeah, like your 1GB of space helps me now, Yahoo!, when I’ve been using GMail as my primary email account for nearly two years.
Thanks a lot [...]

Tryin’ to fit the world inside a picture frame

Also: Say hello to my new toy.

i guess it’s possible that i have been a bit distr…

i guess it’s possible that i have been a bit distracted/and the directions for me are a lot less in demand.
Hi, is this thing still on?
Okay, so while I was drag-racing down the freeway in my car this morning [I mean, really, where else would you find me?], I was listening to that Barenaked Ladies [...]

why don’t the newscasters cry/when they read about…

why don’t the newscasters cry/when they read about people who die?
Last night, on a whim, my sister and I rented and watched Promises, a powerful and compelling documentary that follows seven Palestinian and Israeli children over the course of several years, between 1995-2000. I’d heard about this documentary for years, but had somehow never gotten [...]

rebel and a liberator, find a way to be a skater …

rebel and a liberator, find a way to be a skater
Welcome to the first day of Winter Quarter 2005. Aww Lord, here we go again.
And the post title has nothing to do with anything, just so you know. But I am easily amused, and this we also know.
Real updates coming soon to a weblog near [...]

we are hella paranoid, yes we are I could almos…

we are hella paranoid, yes we are
I could almost swear that the girl who cashed my paycheck for me at the Bank of America in my hometown yesterday morning waved, “Bye, Yaz!” to me as I turned away from her counter on my way out. Neither her name nor her face were even vaguely familiar. [...]

re. "sore losers" And one more thing, from a po…

re. “sore losers”
And one more thing, from a post by Leila, whose entire archives deserve to be read:

I think I need to clarify what I meant when I said I hoped we wouldn’t be sore losers. I did not mean that we should give up activism, our beliefs, or our place in society. I did [...]

still wearing my "i voted" sticker – for all the d…

still wearing my “i voted” sticker – for all the difference it made.
As always, Sofia said it very well:

Let me be like the Ahl Al Kahf and surrender to slumber for another century, or at least another four years, where God protects me for being a true believer, so that when I wake up the [...]

i voted today, and i hope you do, too. "To be h…

i voted today, and i hope you do, too.
“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. [...]

i live to amuse you, abuse you, infuse you with th…

i live to amuse you, abuse you, infuse you with the weirdness
S: Yasmine, you’re such a display case.
Yasmine: Uhh, okay. And what’s that supposed to mean?
S: I don’t know, you’re just always so entertaining to look at.
I wonder if it was the red pants. Or maybe it’s the fact that I’ve been wearing real, actual [...]