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Posted by Occulas Blog 2 months ago.
Husband and I have been playing a first-person shooter RPG called “Resistance: Fall of Man.” We’re both loving the game. It’s a traditional split-screen cooperative mission-based game featuring soldiers trying to fight off an alien invasion (in a ...
Posted by Occulas Blog 8 months ago.
I read something like this recipe in a blog a few months ago, which is why I had the jar of sauce on hand.Olive oil1 carrot, finely dicedup to ½ bell pepper, choppedup to ½ smallish onion, chopped1 can chickpeas1 small jar Tikka Masala sauce (from Food ...
Posted by Occulas Blog 9 months ago.
A few weeks ago, my mother-in-law gave us a can of hominy. She was cleaning out her pantry, didn’t want the hominy, and thought we might.I hadn’t eaten hominy in … I don’t know how long; perhaps since trying it once or twice in elementary school a...
Posted by Occulas Blog 10 months ago.
When I was younger, I was a raging optimist. Well, with qualifiers. I guess I didn’t think things would be okay for everyone, or for the whole world, but everything always worked out okay for me personally. I wouldn't change a thing. When I got my heart...
Posted by Occulas Blog 10 months ago.
We needed a large snack over the weekend, and I made this could-have-been-better but very simple bean dip. 1. I medium-small chopped a medium-small onion and sautéed it in a pan with olive oil plus salt, pepper, and dashes of garlic powder, chili powder,...
Posted by Occulas Blog 11 months ago.
For some reason I was just thinking about the time I sprained my ankle.I know, totally mundane. I was lucky enough to live a largely injury-free childhood apart from the usual skinned knees and elbows, so this event was pretty significant to me. I’m not...
Posted by Occulas Blog 1 year ago.
Yesterday my husband took the afternoon off work so he could be home for a refrigerator delivery. He came home at noon, shut our cat in the bedroom, and waited.Going on 5:00, they called to alert him that they were on the way. Fifteen minutes later, they ...
Posted by Occulas Blog 1 year ago.
While my pictures load to flickr, here's the setlist from Jason Isbell's set at the Taste of Downtown Saturday:GrownDecoration DayStreetlightsDock of the BayTryGoddamned Lonely LovePsycho KillerOutfit7 Mile IslandHurricanes & Hand GrenadesAmerican Girl (T...
Posted by Occulas Blog 1 year ago.
Yes, it's true. So this spring we went to Rodrigo y Gabriela and Mark Knopfler in St. Louis and the Drive By Truckers in Chicago. All were a blast, although we had the misfortune to be next to Continually Shrieking Girl at Rod y Gab, and honestly, while i...
Posted by Occulas Blog 2 years ago.
While we were in St. Louis last month J indulged me and we went to Bellefontaine Cemetery on Nov. 6. I really just wanted to see William S. Burroughs' grave - he was from St. Louis - but the cemetery office had a map and informative guidebook, the suggest...
Posted by Occulas Blog 2 years ago.
Yes, yes, I'm very late. Let's get to it.I ended up writing a ridiculously long account of my day and night at the show with my friend E., so I'm cutting it into two parts: here's the first half.On Tuesday 9/29 my friend E. and I went to the U2 show at Fe...
Posted by Occulas Blog 2 years ago.
Anyway, I knew it would be okay, because our numbers were good and the line was really pretty orderly and calm all day. A really good line. Nevertheless, you get that late afternoon panic disorder syndrome sometimes. Or at least I do. Getting to the venue...
Posted by Occulas Blog 2 years ago.
I went to Washington, DC at the end of September to visit several old friends and, of course, to go to a U2 show with one of them.I’d never been to DC before, and Monday before the show my friend and host spent a day taking me to some of the major attra...
Posted by Occulas Blog 2 years ago.
U2 in Chicago: the madness continuesAs stated, after the 9/12 show my friend Ally and I got numbers 46 and 47, which was awesome. We went back to our group by the loading dock and eventually ended up asking a cab driver where we could get something to eat...
Posted by Occulas Blog 2 years ago.
I’ve totally neglected this blog for forever – the result of too much other ‘social media,’ I think.But I have some shows to tell you about – in September I went to three U2 shows and got some great pics.First I went to the two Chicago shows on ...
Posted by Occulas Blog 2 years ago.
I never posted about the Robert Cray Band July 7!we didn't take off early from work, so we weren't exactly early. the seats were full and the floor was empty, but J didn't want to be down front this time, so we found what seemed like a good standing spot ...
Posted by Occulas Blog 2 years ago.
Had a great time at the Dylan-Mellancamp-Nelson show last week.My directions said the exit would be closed at 4:00 but well before that I was forced to drive past it to the detour, going right past the venue and seeing a dismayingly large number of cars t...
Posted by Occulas Blog 2 years ago.
It's not long until the U2 tour starts up in Europe! They've been building the stage and rehearsing in Barcelona.Here are some looks at the stage, which they're calling "the claw" but which I think also looks like 1. "the tentacles" and 2. "the dangerous ...
Posted by Occulas Blog 2 years ago.
So I never posted about the Drive By Truckers show from a couple of weeks ago, so here it is: some comments and 25 pictures (new camera!)The Truckers show was supposed to be in February, but Patterson had pneumonia and they had to postpone it a month. I w...
Posted by Occulas Blog 2 years ago.
I love this album already.If you know me, you probably know that I'm a big U2 fan. (ask me about the time I met Larry Mullen Jr.)So I tried to brace myself. I've been anticipating this album since approximately the day the Vertigo tour ended, and one hear...
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