: not a blog

10 mar 07

consider these questions "answered"

nearly 100% of my creative energy has been going into a flash animation, one which i am unable to show you. but if you know who i am, and google my name, you can find my public presentation of "self" on the web. it is there where i will eventually post the animation. i might even send out a group email, but nah -- maybe not. i think i'm too old for those.

but i finally decided to get on the stick, and at least make a cursory offering here. it's 1:30am on a friday night, and i just got back from delivering pizza. i showered, unfolded my lappy, saw yet another email from axe da box, and then guilt overwhelmed me and i decided it was time to answer the box.

note how i still call it "ask the box" even though it's now "q the z: not a blog".

Where is your next vacation?

funny you should ask that question.

i was (am?) planning a cross-country, city-to-city odyssey of sorts across canada come early-to-mid-may. i'd like it to last through august, if possible.

the only problem is that my current car-of-use, a 1995 saturn, burns oil. it used to burn a lot of oil, when i had it on 10W-30, but now it seems to be doing significantly better on 10W-40, along with periodic supplements of a gooey "pure petroleum" oil additive. that stuff is gross when it gets on your fingertips and it's 10F.

i have yet to measure exactly how much oil this car burns now, with the new oil. i'd guess it's something like a quart every 200 miles, which might be ok for road-tripping (stopping every 200 miles is desirable anyhow), but what if the engine got sicker? everyone i've talked to about it warns against taking a car with 125K miles on the odometer and oil-burning problems (and also it sounds like a tractor on cold mornings till it warms up) across a continent and back. plus, i'd basically have to fill the trunk with oil.

i just don't know. i wish i still had my escort.

anyway, if i can work something out (get another car somehow, or chance it on this one as it is -- repairs are out of the question), then i'll do it. if not, then i'll just kill myself.

BLOGGOMITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yeah, i'm a blogger. it's shameful. no one reads it, though, so that's ok. it's just a diary, basically. or wait -- it used to be this "ask the box" thing where people submitted questions. but then, when i broke my domain name, apparently several genius readers were no longer able to find it, even though i put up a notice for something like a week. oh well. i don't care.

are you a sellout?

yes!

it's one of my principle traits. the fact that i took my name off of this thing, and am afraid to show and tell the world what i'm really like, is a testament to my selling out. i always have in the back of my head the idea that i might someday get a real job, and that i need to make sure people don't find this page where i talk about running around at night raping dead squirrels.

it's depressing that i have to do this. or, maybe i only think i have to. i used to have a whole slew of articles posted on my old site, with my name emblazoned boldly across it; i talked about my weekend in jail, and my trip to a brothel, and i wrote some other essays that didn't paint me and my world-view in a too-flattering light.

i'm fucking crazy. just deal with it. unfortunately, i might want to siphon some money out of the frat boy fucks-in-suits, so my identity must remain secret. mwaha.

basically, i want to fucking kill everyone, and this view doesn't go over well on job interviews.

Interesting. I have always wondered what tired.com was!

yeah, it's some "web solutions" e-business prick. i want to kill him too.

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i agree -- your sister does stop struggling too easily.

but seriously: i'm working on a 3-minute animated flash cartoon (set in 30th century africa), and don't have much energy left over for writing.