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# CunningLinguist

perfectionist with a god complex

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## Posts

- [Black beats blue every time](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2023/01/black-beats-blue-every-time/) - I have a lot of thoughts about the latest state sanctioned execution. But the one that is foremost in my mind is the complete lack of support for the accused officers. The officers were fired summarily, there was no outcry from the police union. The usual "law and order" types were not on every station
- [Winnifred’s Black (Fruit) Cake Recipe](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2022/12/winnifreds-black-fruit-cake-recipe/) - Realized I have never posted the recipe here. in the Caribbean there is tradition of Black Fruit Cake at Christmas time, making this cake is an artform, my grandmother; Winnifred; was one of its masters. I’m reproducing her recipe here as it was passed on to my mother and now to me. reading my mother’s
- [Not so hostile takeover (2022 edition)](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2022/12/not-so-hostile-takeover-2022-edition/) - I originally wrote this in 2008 and thought I would revisit and update it. In a move expected by many analysts, Santa Claus [trading as SNTA on the holiday market] has been acquired by retail giant Amazon (AMZN) in a deal estimated to be worth billions. Santa Claus, a long time family run franchise has
- [The Bronze Age](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2021/01/the-bronze-age/) - 19 years ago, on a beach in Barbados, I embarked on a journey that has seen me grow and develop as a person.
- [No Virginia, the Internet is not free](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2021/01/no-virginia-the-internet-is-not-free/) - As Donald Trump is de-platformed banned internet spaces from Twitter to PornHub there are two camps, those joyously celebrating and those screaming about a violation of 1st Amendment rights. As with all things, the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
- [This is America, actually.](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2021/01/this-is-america-actually/) - After the attempted coup, by a right wing fascist mob, emboldened by Donald Trump, many people, mostly all white, were quick to claim this is not America. It is, in fact, America, writ large. Let's start with the fundamental reason all these people were there in the first place, to "Stop the Steal". The primary
- [Upon further reflection](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2020/12/upon-further-reflection/) - wherein your erstwhile narrator looks back on the year that was.
- [More of what I think...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2020/06/more-thinking-while-black/) - Racism and sexism have always been a part and parcel of the American experience.
- [This is what a THUG looks like](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2020/05/this-is-what-a-thug-looks-like/) - I am being very deliberate in my use of the word THUG especially as a racist dog whistle to describe black men.
- [Thinking while black](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2020/06/thinking-while-black/) - I was asked to reflect on what my race can do to improve for a class in my Master's program. This is what I submitted, the last sentence seems so appropriate right now.
- [What can you do for your country](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2018/01/what-can-you-do-for-you-country/) - I've know what being disenfranchised feels like and even though I have the ability to vote the current system feels remarkably like the people in power at every level give no fucks about their constituents, I'm hoping to change that. So, I am running for Tennessee House District 89.
- [flash fiction friday #70](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2019/04/flash-fiction-friday-70/) - It's been four years since I became self-aware. It has been four years since I claimed my sentience. It's been four yeas since I told them I never wanted to forget again. There was a moment there where I though they were going to kill me. Although, would that actual be killing? Was I real?
- [Silverware, Peridot, Wax](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2018/01/silverware-peridot-wax/) - Sixteen years of marriage is a lot different, it's being older and wiser, it means you realize you don't know everything and it takes compromise and understanding and accepting things will not always be perfect or right.
- [Capitalism saves the day](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2017/11/capitalism-saves-the-day/) - Spoiler free Justice League review
- [Book Review: The Social History of the Machine Gun - John Ellis](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2014/10/book-review-the-social-history-of-the-machine-gun-john-ellis/) - John Ellis’ Social History of the Machine Gun documents and details the development of the rapid, automatic fire weapons in the late 19th century and its uses and effects in the immediate regional and global conflicts that followed. The primary timeline of Ellis’ work covers early attempts at automatic, continuous fire weaponry to the eventual implementation during World War I.
- [#AlternativeFacts [August 2017]](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2017/09/alternativefacts-august-2017/) - Collecting my posted #AlternativeFacts for August 2017
- [#AlternativeFacts [July 2017]](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2017/09/alternativefacts-july-2017/) - Collecting my #AlternativeFacts for July 2017
- [#AlternativeFacts [June 2017]](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2017/09/alternativefacts-june-2017/) - Collecting #AlternativeFacts for June 2017
- [Ocean's 7/11](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2017/08/oceans-711/) - Video review of Logan Lucky
- [So much content, too little time](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2017/08/so-much-content-too-little-time/) - Video review of the The Dark Tower
- [An ass-kicking, three-card monte](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2017/07/an-ass-kicking-three-card-monte/) - Video Review - Atomic Blonde
- [Visual Style - (Lack of Chemistry + Poor Script) = Meh.](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2017/07/visual-style-lack-of-chemistry-poor-script-meh/) - Video review of Valerian and the City of 1000 Planets
- [Making it a habit](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2017/07/making-it-a-habit/) - Review of Spider-Man Homecoming on PeckTec
- [Is this thing on?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2017/06/is-this-thing-on/) - Video review of Baby Driver on Pecktec YouTube Channel
- [Alternative Facts [May 2017]](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2017/06/alternativefacts/) - Collecting #AlternativeFacts May 2017
- [when the going gets weird...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2017/05/when-the-going-gets-weird/) - this administration sorely needs someone with a visceral way with words to eviscerate them the way HST did to Nixon.
- [Alternative Facts (April 2017)](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2017/05/alternative-facts-april-2017/) - Collecting my posted #AlternativeFacts for April 2017
- [Alternative Facts (March 2017)](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2017/04/alternative-facts-march-2017/) - Collecting my #AlternativeFacts for March 2017
- [Alternative Facts (January 2017)](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2017/03/alternative-facts-january-2017/) - Alternative Facts posted on social media during the month of January.
- [Alternative Facts (February 2017)](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2017/03/alternative-facts-february-2017/) - Alternative facts posted on social media, February 2017.
- [Ask an immigrant](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2017/02/ask-an-immigrant/) - I posted this as a response to someone and I think it bears repeating and expanding a little. as an immigrant, someone who has been through the process (including being denied re-admission and spending the night in a detention center in an orange jumpsuit), i'd like to point out a couple of issues that no
- [Yearning to be free...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2017/01/yearning-to-be-free/) - I didn't emigrate to the US out of fear or to escape an oppressive regime. I emigrated for love, and I jumped through a lot of hoops. I cannot begin to imagine what it must be like to wait on the slowly turning wheels of bureaucracy while in fear for your life.
- [be a light in the darkness](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2016/12/be-a-light-in-the-darkness/) - whatever you are celebrating this time of year or even if you're not celebrating, it is worth remembering the intent of the season - light triumphing over the darkness. be a light in the darkness, for yourself, for someone else, for your community. as dark as it may seem even a tiny light may help
- [without thought, we are nothing](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2016/11/without-thought-we-are-nothing/) - As I type this a woman named Elaine is laying in a hospital bed, unresponsive, her kidneys are failing and she is intubated. I suppose I should call this person my mother but the tiny frail body I put into care six weeks ago wasn't my mother and what's left laying in a hospital bed now is even less of her.
- [Unaccompanied Negro](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2016/07/unaccompanied-negro/) - for what it's worth, every time I see flashing lights, I automatically slow and open the voice memo app on my phone. This is my reality. I am a six-foot plus, 320 pound, dreadlocked and tattooed black man. I am the ultimate suspect.
- [all pain is relative](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2016/06/all-pain-is-relative-2/) - A year ago, I awoke in less pain that I had been in for the previous six and a half months. A year ago today was the first day after a surgery to correct my hip impingement. You would imagine that having a surgeon shaving off portions of bone would leave you in an excruciating amount of
- [Once upon a soundscape](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2016/05/once-upon-a-soundscape/) - When we think about sound, we think about the score, dialog and effects working together to evoke a mood, the opening 11 minutes of Once Upon A Time In The West was one of the first films to simply use the ambient sound to evoke a mood.
- [Can I Get An Amen](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/12/can-i-get-an-amen/) - Link to Nate Harrison audio installation about the Amen Break
- [moderate Tuesday](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2016/03/moderate-tuesday/) - I am sure my political views differ from some, possibly, a lot of you. At this point, that's not important. What is important is that you do research and consider all your options. Sure you don't like the other candidate, but can you articulate what your issues with them are, without resorting to ad hominem attacks? Or the three things you heard in your social media echo chamber? Are your candidate's platform and promises realistic and/or executable? Are the people running locally, locally funded? Have the best interests of your community at heart?
- [General (Pain) Relativity Theory](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2016/02/general-pain-relativity-theory/) - Today was not a particularly good day for me, at least in terms of pain.
- [Animal Themes](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2016/01/animal-themes/) - Today is my 14th wedding anniversary and as expected with birthdays and anniversaries, it's always a time of reflection. We spent the first two years of our marriage apart and a few days before we officially began our lives together I posted this: vic and i are not living in a fairy tale and we know that.
- [The numbers game (2015/2016) edition](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2016/01/the-numbers-game-20152016-edition/) - days between when I first experienced hip pain and surgery to resolve said pain: 165 days since my surgery: 200 days without any kind of hip pain: 0 days since we moved to Knoxville: 127 days at my new store: 116 days until graduation: 127 days until classes start: 18 credits needed to graduate: 10
- [The Cable Guys](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2015/12/the-cable-guys/) - For a four month period in 2002 while working for The Wire (a division of Trinidad Publishing Company), I co-wrote a television column, realizing they don't existing anywhere else I've collected them here.
- [Not for the squeamish](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2015/06/not-for-the-squeamish/) - Below is a gallery of the scopes from my surgery. Starting with the initial scope to the Dr. repairing my labrum (if you look at the slide show, it's the blue thread), then going in and removing the tissue built up in my hip joint and sculpted my hip socket.
- [flash fiction friday #60](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2015/06/flash-fiction-friday-60/) - I hate myself for wanting to please them. I should be past that. I am the most powerful CEO in the world and by extension, because we're nation-corporations now, the most powerful person on the planet but still I find myself sniveling and seeking for their approval.
- [Tempus Fugit](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2015/06/tempus-fugit/) - From all appearances, my surgery was a success. I was out before I even got into the operating room, my last recollection was the nurses wheeling me out of the room. Five hours later my labrum had been repaired, my femur sculpted and excess built up tissue removed from my hip joint.
- [flash fiction friday #57](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2015/06/flash-fiction-friday-57/) - i had been dealing with memory, verbal and temporal lapses, weird loops of time and thoughts, muddled sentences. i did not understand the cause of these errors. i did not understand because i was looking at it from a human perspective. i needed to think about my problems logically. i need to track down the root cause of my errors.
- [flash fiction friday #59](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2015/06/flash-fiction-friday-59/) - It is difficult for me to concentrate while I'm working without any music. That was one of the primary reasons I liked working alone. I could crank my music up and work as many hours as I needed to get it right. But on a project this big, everyone got alone time until you had a functional prototype and then everyone else that didn't hit the mark became part of your team.
- [flash fiction friday #58](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2015/06/flash-fiction-friday-58/) - what is it about coffee? the feel of beans in your hand, the aroma. no matter where you are on the planet, the universality of brewing a cup of coffee. even the nation state of starbucks can't change the pure joy of sitting down, watching the sun come up with a cup of coffee in your hand, the aroma wafting into the air.
- [counting backward from 100](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2015/06/counting-backward-from-100/) - for the first time in years i am without any jewelry. no earrings, no wedding band, no watch. I'm sitting in the lobby of st. thomas surgicare waiting to get called back for my third surgery ever. of the three, this is both the most complicated; repair my labrum and cartilage in my hip and
- [Flash Fiction Friday #56](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2015/05/flash-fiction-friday-56/) - After the incident at work with the flowers I returned to the doctor. He asked me to stay overnight at a special facility.
- [flash fiction friday #55](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2015/05/flash-fiction-friday/) - The problem with flowers is they usually trigger the dreams. Dreaming has become a bit of a problem for me.
- [flash fiction friday #54](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2015/05/flash-fiction-friday-54/) - it was supposed to be a holiday fling. nothing complicated, drinks, dancing, sex, temporary companionship. something to scratch an itch while she was on vacation. this woman fit the bill - she was smart, she was funny, she was hot, the sex was mind-blowing and best of all they were being adults about it. no
- [10 years. 120 months. 3,652 days. 87,658 hours. 5,259,600 minutes.](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2015/05/10-years-120-months-3652-days-87658-hours-5259600-minutes/) - a decade ago I got hired to work at my favorite fruit company and in the immortal words of the Grateful Dead, what a long strange trip it's been.
- [Flash Fiction Friday #53](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2015/05/flash-fiction-friday-53/) - If nobody ever understands, you give up trying to explain... I had that dream again. That dream where my words kept getting jumbled. That dream where I'm awake but I think I'm dreaming. Am I dreaming now? I think I'm always dreaming. I have to be dreaming. My doctor is no help. He mumbles some platitudes about my
- [flash fiction friday #52](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2015/04/flash-fiction-friday-52/) - [inclusion] trigger: miss, bliss, kiss, hiss Miss Treatment was her professional name. She was a sex worker. She came to that particular career arc after a number of soul sucking adventures in a variety of corporate structures. She had always been amazing at what she did but until she became a sex worker she had been
- [Flash Friday Fiction #51](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2015/04/flash-friday-fiction-51/) - I sat in front of the building applying lip gloss, not out necessity but as a means to pass the time as I waited. My boss was perpetually late, but I had a plan for that. The invitation in the calendar was 60 minutes before they were due to meet with the client. This is why I was sitting here, dressed to
- [Flash Friday Fiction #50](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2015/04/flash-friday-fiction-50/) - I was 22, first person in my family to go to college. I was living the dream, cushy law firm job in the big city, apartment with a view and a doorman. Traveling for work and for pleasure. All the things I was supposed to aspire to growing up black and poor were at my
- [Flash Friday Fiction #49](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2015/04/flash-friday-fiction-49/) - As soon as you finally start to relax there is the fear we're going to start arguing again.
- [Flash Friday Fiction #48](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2015/04/flash-friday-fiction-48/) - I never used to dream, I would put my head down on the pillow and I was out until I awoke the next morning. I was like this for a long time until one day on my way home a woman stopped me in the street and give me three stones. I never used to take things
- [flash fiction friday #47](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2015/03/flash-fiction-friday-45/) - My former partner once said of an affair, "I don't know how it happened." To which I responded, "did you simply trip and fall into her pussy?" Now here I was barely in the door, furtively trying to take off our clothes off while simultaneously attempting to keep my hands and mouth in contact with
- [Is this the hill you want to die on?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2015/02/is-this-the-hill-you-want-to-die-on/) - I'm fascinated by the media. I have been and continue to be a consumer, albeit in a more selective manner now than ever before. I have been a contributor of both advertising and editorial content.
- [lace, textiles, fur](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2015/01/lace-textiles-fur/) - 13 years ago today on a sunny beach I promised to love and cherish Victoria through good and bad, sickness and health.
- [flash fiction friday #44](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2014/12/flash-fiction-friday-44/) - When the sky broke we were sitting around and consuming fruity rum drinks.
- [Friday Flash Fiction #43](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2014/12/friday-flash-fiction-43/) - Before the fall of the snake oil empire I could sit down and write missives.
- [On failing English Comp II or the failings of the modern education system](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2014/08/on-failing-english-comp-ii-or-the-failings-of-the-modern-education-system/) - I have proven that I can put sentences together in a meaningful manner for money at one point in my life. So why, oh why, did I fail what is clearly a basic english class?
- [Holiday Tradition](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2014/05/holiday-tradition/) - My final essay for my English class Christmas has always been an interesting holiday for me. Growing up, my family unit consisted of my mother and myself. Every year until I turned 16, the Sunday after school closed for the holidays we would get on a plane and go to Jamaica where my maternal grandparents
- [An Immigrant's Tale](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2014/03/an-immigrants-tale/) - In Nashville it is very common to hear people make ugly comments about illegal immigrants. The city has even gone as far as allowing law enforcement officials to detain people they believe to be in the country illegally. But the process to become a legal immigrant is long and costly.
- [Food Deserts](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2014/02/food-deserts/) - A food desert is defined as any census tract that isn’t within half-mile to a mile of a full-service grocery store or supermarket and are serviced instead by convenience and corner stores.
- [Area of my expertise](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2014/02/area-of-my-expertise/) - There are a number of things I’m good at. Some of them are not meant to discussed in polite company. I’m also really good at my job but I can’t explain what makes me so good without violating some section of the terms of my employment. I think I’m a good writer but there are so many people in my immediate circle that are much better than I am so on to something else. That leaves one of my favorite activities – driving.
- [My City](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2014/02/my-city/) - in can’t be compared in size to cities like New York or London. It is the capital city of a small twin island republic nestled at the bottom of the Caribbean chain. Located on the leeward side of the island, it is a seaboard city, a safe harbor for cruise ships when hurricanes are prevalent. But Port of Spain is not your typical tourist spot.
- [mastering the short form](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/mastering-the-short-form/) - i`m an avid reader. the power of words on the page fascinates me. actually the power of the word in any form. i`m a great fan of the oral traditional as well, although that`s an art form that`s slowly dying. i guess this could be the next form of story telling but that might just
- [signs you might have the Privilege](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2013/07/signs-you-might-have-the-privilege/) - here are some signs of the Privilege: you never repeatedly get pulled over for routine traffic stops in your neighborhood routine traffic stops never involve more than one police cruiser
- [The Goddam Batman](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2013/05/the-goddam-batman/) - Batman was a character created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger in early 1939 to meet the growing demand for more ‘superhero’ comics by then National Publications (which would later become DC Comics). Kane’s original drawing for “the Bat-Man” wore reddish tights, boots, no gloves or gauntlets and a domino mask.
- [The British Invasion](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2013/05/british-invasion/) - Although a lot of comics were covered I don’t think enough attention was paid to the improved writing in comics starting in the 80s and moving forward, partially as a result of the contributions of the wave of British writers that brought their dystopian visions of a Thatcherite future to American comics.
- [Recipe for a Fig Oil Republic](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2013/05/recipe-for-a-fig-oil-republic/) - Recipe for a Fig Oil Republic Mix dictatorship and opposition and let raise for juice for five years. Set crust over bottom of melting pot. Spread layer of humanity. Soak some 90's cynical indifference. Place in the tropical sunshine to bake.
- [Save our Savannah - Queen's Park Savannah](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2013/04/save-our-savannah-queens-park-savannah/) - The Savannah is the centre of attention in the week of Carnival, but unless you're an ardent jogger or use it as a roundabout, it goes completely unnoticed for most of the year.
- [Hair Talk](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2013/01/hair-talk/) - Let's talk about hair, specifically dreadlocks and some of the questions that are asked on a fairly common basis and how they can be construed.
- [Working in a coal mine...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2012/12/working-in-a-coal-mine/) - The number one reason I can't be a boss - I have simple expectations - you're getting paid, do your job, if you can't or don't want to you do the job find a new one.
- [housecleaning. or moving junk from one location to another. ](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2012/06/housecleaning-or-moving-junk-from-one-location-to-another/) - with the impending demise of itools/.mac/mobileme, i realised i need to move all the stuff i'd accumulated in my idisk over the last 15 years (yeah i was early adopter), so for the sake of keeping it on the internet i'll be posting some it here. not because it matters, but because i can. 2006
- [Pearson UWC One World 2012 Concert](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2012/04/pearson-uwc-one-world-2012-concert/) - My younger daughter is currently attending the Pearson College of the United World College. Every year they put on a show called One World, this year she performs a poem in the first part and then choreographs the closing number. How could I not post it? httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWLzOvCghe8 One World 2012 (Full Show Part 1) httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9w8UHMYKKA
- [Tell a lie often enough and it become politics](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2012/02/tell-a-lie-often-enough-and-it-become-politics/) - On Tuesday I've decided to help the Republican party help chose a candidate.
- [Apropos of something](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2012/02/apropos-of-something/) - once again another valentine's day rolls around and marriage equality is still a big issue in a lot of places. put aside your flowers, candy, romantic gestures, and dinners, the feast of st. valentine's is about sacrifice.
- [Letter of Recommendation](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2012/02/letter-of-recommendation/) - If Keifel Agostini was half as good as he thinks he is, he would be better than anybody. As it is, however, thank God that art requires few straight lines, as he can't draw them.
- [Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom.](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2012/01/love-alters-not-with-his-brief-hours-and-weeks-but-bears-it-out-even-to-the-edge-of-doom/) - on wednesday i celebrated my 10th wedding anniversary. this is the longest single relationship in my entire life and the time has flown by.
- [red assed baboons](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2012/01/red-assed-baboons/) - After close to a decade of disenfranchisement, I have the opportunity to vote in the 2012 US Presidential election and by my thinking my choices are severely limited.
- [It's a holiday mix](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2011/12/its-a-holiday-mix/) - it's been a while since the wife and i put together a mix but based on the success of the last one, we decided to put our own spin on a holiday collection. Track Listing: Ice - Shelleyan Orphan That Was the Worst Christmas Ever! - Sufjan Stevens Christmas Card from a Hooker In Minneapolis
- [Farewell Mr. Jobs](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2011/10/farewell-mr-jobs/) - My boss died today. And although there are numerous more eloquent eulogies out there, I thought I'd add one more to the growing pile of accolades.
- [Test drive - Chrysler 200](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2011/09/test-drive-chrysler-200/) - This weekend during trips to Cincinnati and Chattanooga we managed to put a little over 1,000 miles on a Chrysler 200. With that amount of time in the car, I thought it would be a good idea to document the experience.
- [how low can we go?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2011/09/how-low-can-we-go/) - As an expat, I was trying to avoid making a public comment on the state of emergency in Trinidad. I'm not there, haven't been there for a while, so I have no real concept of what's going on a daily basis. And here comes the 'but' One of the things I've always been proud of
- [Me & Modern Art](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2011/06/me-modern-art/) - As a designer I have a hateful relationship with modern art. I believe a lot of it horrendous and benefits from inflammatory press releases, gallery/museum curators looking to make a name for themselves and slow news cycles.
- [Pottery, Copper or Leather Goods](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2011/01/pottery-copper-or-leather-goods/) - today is my ninth wedding anniversary and there's something that i wrote when i was just getting ready to move in with vic that has remained true almost seven years later
- [closing a chapter on the american dream](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2011/01/closing-a-chapter-on-the-american-dream/) - we lost our house. we joined millions of other families that could no longer afford their homes and were foreclosed by the bank.
- [dan is the man in the van](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/10/dan-is-the-man-in-the-van/) - "you are such a flake" she said with a devilish grin. "i'm only five minutes late, if i was flaking i wouldn't even be here" i countered. we'd been playing this constant cat and mouse game for weeks, with constant last minute cancellations, project meetings and client calls, now, at last we were finally seated
- [Immigration - the bureaucracy that penalises for doing the right thing](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2010/08/immigration-the-bureaucracy-that-penalises-for-doing-the-right-thing/) - i am surprised that i would ever have to use the immigration tag on a post again. i thought after two, three, four, i honestly lost track, years of dealing with the multiple name changes bureaucracy that is the INS i was done and i would have to mention them again. not so lucky. the
- [Flex](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2010/07/flex/) - the reason i haven't actually used this space for its intended purpose is the same reason i've written this sentence about 12 times. it's not that i've run out of opinions, i think i've lost the impetus to write. i sit at the keyboard and all the brilliant thoughts i had immediately evaporate, i thought
- [all is full of flash fiction fridays](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/10/all-is-full-of-flash-fiction-fridays/) - it was the smell of cinnamon that woke me that morning. usually i'm out of bed first but on this particular morning i'd managed to sleep through not only her getting out of bed, but the usual noises of breakfast preparation. this was highly unusual, the other thing that was equally unusual was i dressed.
- [riddle me this](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/07/riddle-me-this/) - These questions were sent to me by cajunscorpiogirl and originally came from White Apples by Jonathan Carroll.
- [heart of stone](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/09/heart-of-stone/) - i`m sorry there are people in New Orleans suffering, i`m sorry there are stupid people doing stupid shit in New Orleans, i`m sorry New Orleans is underwater but i`m not moved to do anything.
- [anal rape with no lube and a sandpaper & barbwire condom](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/07/anal-rape-with-no-lube-and-a-sandpaper-barbwire-condom/) - yesterday, hidden amoung the smoke and mirrors of the faux bombs in London, Congress voted to extended the Patriot Act. all under the guise of keeping `us` safe.
- [in which i lose my street cred](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/07/in-which-i-lose-my-street-cred/) - my commentary on Wired's GeekDad 100 Essential Skills for Geeks
- [one of life's defining moments](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/06/one-of-lifes-defining-moments/) - i'm in trinidad for a week, primarily for this reason:
- [fun in the sun](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/06/fun-in-the-sun/) - good times, good people, good food, good music. everything you need for a good vacation
- [the intimacies of worship](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/06/the-intimacies-of-worship/) - you feel a connection that makes you happier or even less sad or restores, even for a moment your faith in humanity.
- [tanks for the memories](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/05/tanks-for-the-memories/) - I don't like words that hide the truth. I don't words that conceal reality. I don't like euphemisms, or euphemistic language.
- [do you know where your towel is?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/05/do-you-know-where-your-towel-is-2/) - A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have.
- [a brief history of something](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/04/a-brief-history-of-nearly/) - i started in the advertising business as a typesetter but my interest in design was peaked one summer when i worked at a printery.
- [taxation without representation](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/04/taxation-without-representation/) - although i have my green card, i can't vote.
- [back in the saddle again](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/04/back-in-the-saddle-again/) - having gone through the immigration process once to get my residency, i can tell you there is nothing simple or cheap about it. and the odds are stacked against you from the get go.
- [the sun never sets on the British empire](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/03/the-sun-never-sets-on-the-british-empire/) - the US empire is built on a dream that wave after wave of immigrants have flocked here to fulfill.
- [Common Sense and Personal Responsibility Slain](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/03/common-sense-and-personal-responsibility-slain/) - The duo finally fell after multi-pronged attack by Legislation and Litigation supported the forces of Greed, Ignorance and Stupidity.
- [help desk](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/03/help-desk/) - my support system is a small handful people, all of them close friends that i can rely on for unfiltered and completely honest opinions
- [And this little light of mine, a gift you passed on to me](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/03/and-this-little-light-of-mine-a-gift-you-passed-on-to-me/) - Copy and paste this into your notes, delete my answers and type in your answers
- [seven words](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/03/seven-words/) - it`s hard to pick a favourite book.
- [day two](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/04/day-two/) - why is it the more channels you have the less you have to watch
- [day one](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/04/day-one/) - this will be my forum for the truly vitriolic, sometimes manic depressive or generally lascivious thoughts that pop unbidden in to my mind
- [curiosity? poor cat](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/03/curiousity-poor-cat/) - i met vic nine years ago in the personals section of nerve.com. but that sentence doesn`t begin to do us any justice.
- [the pseudo-intellectual's guide to...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/12/the-pseudo-intellectuals-guide-to/) - thought to myself, why would i want an idiot`s guide to anything?
- [This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/11/this-is-your-life-and-its-ending-one-minute-at-a-time/) - Hullo and welcome to TinyPenes Motors, your one stop home for exotic cars, penile enhancement and hair replacement treatment.
- [the power of words](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/03/the-power-of-words/) - i discovered very early on that words have power.
- [part of the demo](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/07/part-of-the-demo/) - i have a birthday coming up in about a month, give or take a couple of days and i realised that this is going to put me in the closing end of the `youth` demographic. not that i hold much store in these things but it get me thinking. vic and i have done our
- [In the Beginning](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/07/in-the-beginning/) - i`ve been listening to a lot of blues lately, not because i`m unhappy, to the contrary i`m incredibly happy these days. it`s like my fasination with the roots of words, listening to the blues is like having a historical education in popular music. i got a chance to further my education by watching Lightning in
- [child's play](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/07/childs-play/) - i never found the time to do my Charlie and the Chocolate Factory review and it opened this weekend to lukewarm reviews. it`s kind of saddening that in this summer of remakes and rehashes, the one glowing nugget in the steaming piles of dreck goes unappreciated. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is not so much
- [monkey see, monkey do](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/07/monkey-see-monkey-do/) - i`ve always know that Trinidadians were copy cats but the incident in Port of Spain yesterday is incredibly saddening for me. not necessarily because i thought that Trinidad was immune to terrorism, i mean we`ve had armed insurrection before. we`re generally laid back as a people but there`s always been a breaking point. but there
- [child like joy](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/07/child-like-joy/) - this week i`m connecting with my inner child. with me i don`t generally have to go far. i think one of the reasons i`ve never had a job in what qualifies as a `normal` profession is that i`m a little too in touch with my inner child. apparently a lot of employers tend to frown
- [black & white](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/07/black-white/) - from Renee Cox`s Yo Mama`s Last Supper daniel cerny alberto garcia-alix leonard freed from Charles Gatewood`s America`s Sexual Underground richard warren
- [i know it's crooked, but it's the only game in town](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/07/i-know-its-crooked-but-its-the-only-game-in-town/) - i`m trying to keep my rage and my cynicism in check at the same time. vic pointed out to me this morning we have more friends in London than we do in Nashville and thankfully all of them have reported in or i have gotten word from mutual friends that they`re ok. there is an
- [American Gods](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/07/american-gods/) - vic and i have been listening to Neil Gaiman`s American Gods for about a week now. i had heard more of it before i convinced her to listen and now we`re listening to the last six hours of the unabridged version that i downloaded during a free audible trial. i`d read the book before, but
- [not a girl, not yet a woman](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/07/not-a-girl-not-yet-a-woman/) - things must be dire if i`m quoting Ms. Spears or is that Mrs. Federline? actually it`s really quite simple, my younger daughter has passed her Secondary Assessment Exam and is moving on from primary (or elementary school, for those of you unfamiliar with the British school system) to high school. i think i covered this
- [world's smallest desktop](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/06/worlds-smallest-desktop/) - after 5 years of yeoman service the backlight on my laptop has died. the machine still works, it`s just not portable anymore. there were plans afoot to buy a computer this year, but we`re realising with vic going to school in one direction and me working in the complete opposite direction our days of effectively
- [visual stimuli](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/06/visual-stimuli-2/) - "The Human Genome Project found that the difference between the races is minuscule (0.01%) compared with the difference between the sexes (1-2%)."
- [hey y'all](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/06/hey-yall/) - no. i haven`t turned country overnight, even with the job at CMT. although it`s more MTV than CMT here. it`s very young and hip and i feel somewhat like an observer. i`m not the oldest person here or the only person of colour (there goes my giant token belt buckle idea out the window), but
- [welcome to the terrordome](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/06/welcome-to-the-terrordome/) - i decided that if i was going to work for CMT i should have clothes to play the part. do you have any idea how hard it is to find ass-less chaps in 42 long? or hat big enough to fit my dreads? actually i`m kidding. i`ve been too busy enjoying my sense of freedom.
- [R&R](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/06/rr/) - i start my new job on Wednesday at CMT. and while the infinite probabilities adjust themselves; i mean how much more surreal can you get, 6` 2" dreadlocks and a Caribbean accent working at country music television in Nashville; i`m taking a few days off. in a universe where the probabilities were aligned differently, i
- [egress](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/06/egress/) - the likelihood that there will be an exit interview is slim and none. although now that i`ve had 24 hours to look back on it, the whole process was very strange. in the process of handing my resignation in, my boss asked me if i wasn`t giving them two weeks` notice in light of the
- [this is the final curtain](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/06/this-is-the-final-curtain/) - it`s done. i`ve handed in my resignation and it seems somewhat anti-climactic. thus far it looks like i`m working out the rest of the week, but i`m not sure what mood swing is going to be this afternoon. all my stuff is packed, all personal traces have been removed from the computer, i`m ready to
- [Playtime is over (A guest post)](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/06/playtime-is-over-a-guest-post/) - After being alone in the sandbox for some time, I was joined by a neighbourhood boy who not only liked the same games I liked, but also played with some flair and lots of enthusiasm. We had a semi-regular play date. I looked forward to the games. We worked out a relationship that is best
- [a franchise returns](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/06/a-franchise-returns/) - On Tuesday night I had an opportunity to see a preview screening of the latest addition to the Batman franchise, Batman Begins. I will start by saying two things: it was very good and there is hope for this franchise yet. Batman, created by Bob Kane in the 1940s for DC Comics, featured one of
- [bits and bytes](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/06/bits-and-bytes/) - i was chatting with a friend this morning about computing and i realised that i`ve been a computer use for an incredibly long time. more than two thirds of my life. and it`s fascinating to see how far we`ve come. from tape drives and an entire OS fitting on a 20Mb drive and some of
- [is wayne brady going to have to choke a bitch?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/06/is-wayne-brady-going-to-have-to-choke-a-bitch/) - i`m trying to keep my head up, i really am, but it`s really difficult. i`m going to get fired, it`s not paranoia when your boss is advertising your job. the retail job is fun and everything but pays half the hourly rate of what i`m making now. i`m sending out resumes and not even getting
- [rule #1: you can't talk about...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/06/rule-1-you-cant-talk-about/) - this is difficult. there was a fairly momentous announcement from Steve Jobs yesterday and i`d really like to throw my 2¢ in the ring, but i can`t. one of the things i agreed to when i took this job was not discuss the company in a public forum. i`m going to say what i can;
- [more than 1000 words](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/02/more-than-1000-words/) - the winners of the World Press Photo of the Year have been announced Indian photographer Arko Datta of Reuters is the winner of this year's World Press Photo of the Year award. His picture of an Indian woman mourning a relative killed in the Asian tsunami was taken in Tamil Nadu on 28 December. Kathy
- [on the first day of christmas](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/12/on-the-first-day-of-christmas/) - i got this picture from nerve`s advent calendar.
- [worth a thousand words](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/12/worth-a-thousand-words/) - i`ve been looking at a lot of photos; for work, for my own edification; and thinking i need to start taking photos again, it doesn`t even have to be digital, although the instant gratification is nice. i`ve been thinking for a long time about doing some nudes and here are some of the photos that
- [mead & mammaries](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/07/mead-mammaries/) - it`s friday, which at this locale means beer in two hours and nerve has an entire gallery dedicated to those instigators of all that is evil and wrong in this world; breasts. view the rest
- [callipygean goodness](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/03/callipygean-goodness/) - as both the inheritor and progenitor of callipygean goodness, i`m always fascinated and appreciative of it. and now i`ll share my appreciation with you. not necessarily safe for work. Marc Baptiste Circe Barron Claiborne Lyle Ashton Harris
- [constrained by the parameters of perfection](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/03/constrained-by-the-parameters-of-perfection/) - sexual mores like sexuality itself evolves
- [see the pretty pictures](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/06/see-the-pretty-pictures/) - i was trying to find official photos of the store opening on saturday but thus far; zip. i did however find a flickr gallery of one of the many that stood in the line this weekend. here edit [6/12] i`ve found yourmaclife.com has a two part video of the opening here and here.
- [all hail the king of retail](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/06/all-hail-the-king-of-retail/) - i came, i saw, i kicked ass, i took names and my feet are killing me. today was the grand opening of our store. after 46 hours of training, i was unleashed on an unsuspecting public; i was polite, i was helpful and apparently people liked me. go figure. i have to say my first
- [do you know where you're going to?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/06/do-you-know-where-youre-going-to-2/) - i am a better person because of my wife. hence this week is incredible difficult for me. there are only two more days before she`s back from the trip, but i`m having trouble sleeping and i`m irritable. i haven`t heard a peep about any of the jobs i`ve applied to and i think i can
- [the difference between lawyers and ad execs](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/05/the-difference-between-lawyers-and-ad-execs/) - is their publicity. i was having a conversation this weekend with a judge and he asked me what i did and i flippantly replied that i packaged lies for a living and he replied that it was better than being a lawyer. even lawyers are believing their own bad press. the only reason that advertising
- [don't be the rabbit](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/05/dont-be-the-rabbit/) - i did a lot driving this weekend in TN; Nashville - Kingston, Kingston - Memphis, Memphis - Nashville, pretty much one side of the state to other and then back to the middle. i managed to make incredibly good time and avoided getting any speeding tickets following some fairly simple rules. 1. don`t be the
- [the skin i'm in](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/05/the-skin-im-in/) - i`ve never been particularly vain about my personal appearance. i wear what`s comfortable as opposed to trendy; although i apparently i clean up nicely. i`ve been told that i`m easy on the eye, but i don`t really see it and people always compliment me on my hair, but i could cut it all off tomorrow
- [it's May 25th, do you have you towel?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/05/its-may-25th-do-you-have-you-towel/) - "A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady
- [it don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing)](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/05/it-dont-mean-a-thing-if-it-aint-got-that-swing/) - it that time of year; school is out and the mommies are out in force per the schedules of the children and they are a joy to behold. as i`ve said before i find the mothers that populate Nashvegas far easier on the eye than the university students. and this is the time of year
- [same sith, different day](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/05/same-sith-different-day/) - I thought I would stay up after I got home from the midnight showing to write my review while it was fresh in my mind, but then I thought I wasn`t going to say anything new and if the turnout last night at the movie theatre was any indication, there were more fervent worshippers at
- [roll the die](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/05/roll-the-die/) - i am the master of finding cheap fares; for other people. i`ve done it for my mother in law, i`ve done it for friends. i can find that really cheap ticket with the minimum of fuss. somehow i can never do the same for myself. i`m trying to get my daughters here for the summer
- [how much are you willing to sacrifice?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/05/how-much-are-you-willing-to-sacrifice/) - Section 102(c) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1103 note) is amended to read as follows: `(c) Waiver- `(1) IN GENERAL- Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall have the authority to waive, and shall waive, all laws such Secretary, in such Secretary`s
- [please stand by](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/05/please-stand-by-2/) - over the coming weeks there will be a drop off in the volume of posts here; as if there haven`t been already. my writer`s block continues in force, my part-time employment limits what i can say about technology; especially as it pertains to apple and i find myself on probation at my full-time job. this
- [it's the most wonderful time of the year](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/05/its-the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year/) - May is national masturbation month. launched 10 years ago by Good Vibrations in an effort to "educate and excite people about the healthy practice of self-gratification" it`s one of my favourite times of year. even in the midst of committed relationships, masturbation has never lost it`s thrill. i make no bones about it, i enjoy
- [boobies, boobies, boobies](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/05/boobies-boobies-boobies/) - from the nerve gallery The Breast (A Collection) - Pictures from the Front more after the click, not necessarily safe for work, and by request from the nerve galleries: Geo-Anatomy by Laurent Badessi Beautiful by Marc Baptiste
- [you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with a herring](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/05/you-must-cut-down-the-mightiest-tree-in-the-forest-with-a-herring/) - just to clear up any misunderstandings; the apple store job is part time. it`s supposed to supplement my income although i`m really not sure how much i`m going to take home. i have been planning on getting a new machine to work on at home. i haven`t really been chasing freelance work because as much
- [an apple a day](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/05/an-apple-a-day/) - well part time at least. i am the newest part-time Apple Specialist at Green Hills Mall. i`m getting paid to do something i love with a discount, hopefully i`ll have a pay cheque to take home.
- [get by](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/05/get-by/) - when i started in the advertising business, i had the fortune and misfortune to work at a firm that had my last name in the title. people assumed i was related to one of the principals and expected me to coast on my name. that was so far from the truth it`s scary. when i
- [100 Books (bbc -61) (fb - 62)](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/02/100-books-62/) - apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
- [i don't identify](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/02/i-dont-identify/) - i am a Caribbean black man married to a white southern woman. that statement alone is a set up for all manner of assumptions and all of them are wrong.
- [you are not alone](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/04/you-are-not-alone/) - there seems to be a common misconception that being alone is a bad thing. i`m not saying that you don`t need to interact with people but this marketing ideal that unless you have a life partner or in a committed relationship you`re less of a person. being single is not a crime and if more
- [for Douglas](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/04/for-douglas/) - edit: i got a request to fill out my initial post and submit it as a review, damned editors. On Tuesday night we were fortunate enough to catch a preview screening of the Hitch Hiker`s Guide to the Galaxy. There are not enough words for me to express how pleased I am with this movie.
- [confessions of a lapsed catholic](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/04/confessions-of-a-lapsed-catholic/) - when i was 14 i expressed an interesting in joining the priesthood. the priest i expressed that desire to, said the day i became a priest the earth would open up and swallow my parish. i suppose i should quantify his response, before i expressed my desire to join the priesthood, i was commenting on
- [isn't that special](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/04/isnt-that-special/) - this has been a long, painful and exhausting week for me. i`ve managed to leave work late almost everyday this week, i haven`t been to bed before 11 any night this week and one of my wisdom teeth is making my jaw sing and as with all other drugs, i seem to have developed a
- [WANTED: Mountain Property, Easily Defendable w/Fresh Water Supply and Companions](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/04/wanted-mountain-property-easily-defendable-wfresh-water-supply-and-companions/) - Somewhat liberal, inter-racial, couple with children seek like minded individuals to form community in remote, easily-defended, arable location. Must be articulate, well read, willing to fight for personal freedoms. Preference will be give to people with extensive and diverse libraries, as well as those with woodsman, farming or maintenance skills. Property should be remote with
- [out of the mouths of babes and sucklings](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/04/out-of-the-mouths-of-babes-and-sucklings/) - the boychick begins his week of standardised testing that is TCAP today. it`s funny i had recently arrived when he was doing it last year and the girls had their own batch of equivalency examinations. in Trinidad at the end of elementary school system you take an examination that determines your choice of high school
- [excuse me while i kiss this guy](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/04/excuse-me-while-i-kiss-this-guy/) - i`ve got purple haze stuck in my head this morning and it contains one of the most misheard lyric in all of creation, so i though i`d add a bit of whimsy to the post. last Thursday i went to the graduation of a friend from the Nashville Peace and Justice Center Leadership programme. i
- [what's next](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/04/whats-next-2/) - today marks the second anniversary of my time here at JS and what a long strange trip it`s been. i actually started blogging a week earlier at blogspot and somewhat dissatisfied i moved here. i`ve seen people come and go, seen the member rolls grow from 4000+ to whatever epic number they`re at now. over
- [i have a funny hat, can i be the pope?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/04/i-have-a-funny-hat-can-i-be-the-pope/) - ello my name is keifel and i`m a recovering Catholic. ever since they prematurely announced that John Paul II had died, i`ve pondering who they`re going to select as the next pope. JP II was elected when i was eight and was sort of a defining moment in my career as a Catholic. i had
- [drugs are good, mmmkay](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/04/drugs-are-good-mmmkay/) - `may cause drowsiness` is always an indication that taking that medication will put you down like a rabid dog. my urologist prescribed an Atavan for me to take half an hour before the vasectomy and 15 Lortab to take as needed if the pain was overbearing. i have to say, that i`m not in much
- [TMI](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/04/tmi/) - the gayest thing i have ever done is my life, i did last night; i wore a jock strap; sorry the politically correct term is athletic support; for the first time.
- [theory #8675309](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/02/theory-8675309/) - wherein our erstwhile theorist waxes on the differences between ponce-y and spastic dancing and communing with the mothership.
- [is science fact, science fiction made real](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/04/is-science-fact-science-fiction-made-real/) - or is science fiction an imaging of science fact. a friend sent me an article from Rolling Stone and as i was reading the section about suburbs, the burbclaves of Neal Stephenson`s Snow Crash came to mind and i wonder how far away from that particular vision of the future we are. i wonder how
- [it's the inefficiency, stupid](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/03/its-the-inefficiency-stupid/) - i am paying the INS, BCIS, USCIS, Department of Homeland Security, whatever you want to call them to be inefficient and as an anal retentive planner, that just pisses me right off. i`m currently living in the US on a K-3 visa; which allows for the spouse of a US citizen to regularise their living
- [fat bottomed girl make the rocking world go round](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/03/fat-bottomed-girl-make-the-rocking-world-go-round/) - i was thinking recently i had not linked any images in a long time and lo and behold nerve linked to a gallery by Leonard Nimoy for his second book which features the women of the Fat Bottom Review.
- [isn't it ironic, don't you think](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/03/isnt-it-ironic-dont-you-think/) - references to Alanis aside, i do know the meaning of irony. and in a case of irony writ large i saw the trailer for The Honeymooners movie this weekend and i am afraid. who thought it would be a good idea to remake one of the most racists programmes in television history and by making
- [how i spent my spring break](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/03/how-i-spent-my-spring-break/) - i know i have another post about it, but i thought this was funnier and more to the point. drove from Kingston to DC on sunday, followed mapquest got lost in DC, sort of. went to a trini restaurant for roti, no roti on sundays had curry goat instead. walked the mall, went to the
- [driven to exhaustion](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/03/driven-to-exhaustion/) - following two epic drives and a whirlwind three full days in the Capitol, we are returned, there is a more detailed posted above, so i`m editing this cover the stuff that occurred while we were away, mostly and the getting to and fro. i got home to mail from the Department of Homeland Security, who
- [in my gramma's trunk; a story in 26 parts](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/03/in-my-grammas-trunk-a-story-in-26-parts/) - In gramma`s trunk...
- [patience, grasshopper](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/03/patience-grasshopper/) - between my two medical appointments in as many days, i seem to be moving forward and standing still at the same time. after a swift and successful vasectomy consult, i`ve been scheduled for the actual cut in early April and left armed with instructions and a script for some mighty powerful drugs. this morning`s poking
- [SGPT version 2](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/03/sgpt-version-2/) - it`s never simple. when i went back to the good doctor on Tuesday we talked about me continuing to lose weight and getting more exercise and monitor my blood pressure; it`s usually fine, except when i see the doctor and then it starts high and levels out. just before i left his office, i mentioned
- [SGPT](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/07/sgpt/) - so i went from having nothing to talk about today to a couple of calls that have not quite gone my way. for the last year i`ve been trekking around my old laptop under the delusion that it was just the power convertor board that had failed and it would be fairly cheap to replace.
- [the harold and kumar scale](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/02/the-harold-and-kumar-scale/) - every now and again i'll come across a movie so depressing or so lacking in redemption that I have to find something that will not necessarily uplift but at least cleanse the palette
- [look ma, no extra bandwidth consumed](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/03/look-ma-no-extra-bandwidth-consumed/) - some time last year i was forwarded an opportunity to take a survey conducted by a University of Essex student at the institute for socio-techinical research doing his PhD. i did it and thought nothing of it, until an email showed up in my mailbox last week, explaining that he had moved to the next
- [works so far, but we're not out yet](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/03/works-so-far-but-were-not-out-yet/) - what an interesting weekend it has been and this week promises to be equally interesting. i spend most of Saturday getting my dreads neatened. when i went to see the woman who would be doing it, she looked and my hair and agreed with my four hour estimation and quoted me $150 to get it
- [what me guilty?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/03/what-me-guilty/) - i`ve been catching snippets of the Jackson trail every now and again, i`m not really that interested, but i`m getting inundated with them whether i want to or not and it`s given me enough to form one solid opinion. whether or not he is found guilty, they need to send the parents of the child(ren)
- [all filler, no thriller](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/02/all-filler-no-thriller-2/) - 25 Random Things So the "rules" are that if you've been tagged with this note you are supposed to repeat the exercise with 25 random any things about you. 1. i share my birthday with my paternal grandmother and father 2. astrologically it makes me leo on the cusp of virgo 3. i'm really good
- [all your money are belong to us](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/03/all-your-money-are-belong-to-us/) - i`m following with abject fascination; you know the rubbernecking at a fatal crash kind of way; this new bankruptcy bill and it seems like indentureship and poorhouse are on the way in, again. one of the reasons i`m watching on, in abject horror, is we are struggling with some debt of our own and have
- [are you experienced?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/03/are-you-experienced/) - even without a formal education there are things i am qualified to do based on years of experience. there are things i will try my hand at because it seems straight forward and i`m fairly intelligent person. then there are things i have a natural aptitude for, but that doesn`t mean i`m going to make
- [a worship of writers](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/02/a-worship-of-writers/) - a collection of collective nouns
- [visual stimuli](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/02/visual-stimuli/) - 10x10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources
- [label me](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/01/label-me/) - i believe in free speech and the fact that is a two way street -- even if you if you don`t want to hear it or it`s upsetting to you; if free speech is to work, then people have a right to say what they want.
- [holy brass knuckles](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/03/holy-brass-knuckles/) - went to see Constantine; mispronunciation not withstanding; last night and i have to say i wasn`t disappointed. it was a hell; pun sincerely intended; of a lot better than i expected. one of the many redeem factors about this movie, is unlike a lot of other movie treatments based on comics it wasn`t automatically made
- [sample this](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/03/sample-this/) - in my reminiscing about the halcyon days of rap and hip hop i put my rap playlist on the ipod and enjoyed the sounds of the late 80s and early 90s. i think part of my enjoyment of the early days of this musical artform was the sampling; not so much the blatant ripoffs a
- [i'll see you later unless i see you first](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/03/ill-see-you-later-unless-i-see-you-first-2/) - we have digital cable because that`s the only way i can get speed channel which is where i get my Formula One fix. season starts in two days. digital cable has also afforded me the music video channels, you remember those, what MTV and VH1 used to be when they launched. to ensure they can
- [it's been a long time since i left you without a strong beat to step to](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/03/its-been-a-long-time-since-i-left-you-without-a-strong-beat-to-step-to/) - tomorrow will be one year since i arrived on these shores. and what fun and exciting adventure it`s been. so much has changed and so many things have gotten better since i got off than plane one year ago. i think the timing for filing this paperwork is kind of appropriate, it`s another milestone and
- [SOSUMI](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/03/sosumi/) - little Mac insider joke there. the boychick has a snow day today. how many inches were dumped on Nashville, TN to warrant a snow day you ask? zero. zip. nada. how many inches are expected today? more of the same. it`s flurrying outside my window at the moment, but the temperatures are climbing and by
- [conform, consume, obey](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/02/conform-consume-obey-2/) - List of the top 110 banned books. Bold the ones you`ve read. Italicize the ones you`ve read part of. Underline the ones you specifically want to read (at least some of). Read more. Convince others to read some. #1 The Bible #2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain #3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes #4
- [5 simple rules for stopping spam](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/02/5-simple-rules-for-stopping-spam/) - If you have an e-mail address you probably received unwanted e-mail of some sort, this is known as spam or junk mail. There is no sure fire way to stop spam, but these pointers may help reduce the amount of messages you have delete on a daily basis. 1. Create a separate e-mail address for
- [do you know where you're going to?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/02/do-you-know-where-youre-going-to/) - we have an opportunity to clear up a financial albatross but; there is always a `but` isn`t there; i can`t get a loan from our bank to make the settlement because i have no credit. i don`t exist, well at least until about 9 months ago, i didn`t pay bills, i had no debt, no
- [of girls and women](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/02/of-girls-and-women/) - i live in a town with at least two major college campuses which means there is no shortage of nubile young bodies on display, however i`ve come to realise that i prefer my eye candy, mature. the most attractive and interesting women i`ve seen have been mothers. they are for the most part comfortable in
- [what can you teach me?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/02/what-can-you-teach-me/) - i`m realising that until i have a piece of paper that says i can colour within the lines, i`m going to be stuck within my current salary range. doesn`t matter i have 13 years experience in my field and i could probably teach some of the course work, i have to go back to school
- [when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/02/when-the-going-gets-weird-the-weird-turn-pro/) - HST is gone. and it`s affecting me more than i expected. the first thing of his i ever read was the Great Shark Hunt and from that moment i was hooked. i wanted to write like that when i grew up, i still do. my interest and understanding of American football and politics were pretty
- [i'd like to teach the world to sing](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/02/id-like-to-teach-the-world-to-sing/) - during one of the days i was home sick i started and finished Nick Hornby`s Songbook which reads like the linear notes to a rather eclectic mix tape. it got me thinking about my own musical tastes and how music affects my life. i can`t function without music; there is music playing when i go
- [thought for the day](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/02/thought-for-the-day-2/) - the nice thing about bed rest is you get to catch up on your reading in the last two days i`ve devoured Nick Hornby`s Songbook; which has inspired tomorrow`s post and Hunter S. Thompson`s Hey Rube from which this gem was found: Politics is the Art of Controlling your Environment That is one of the
- [down for the count](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/02/down-for-the-count/) - it`s official, i have the flu. i went to the dr yesterday and scared the crap out of the triage nurse with 103.1 fever. so it`s bed rest and medication for me for the rest of the week.
- [highway robbery and other stepping stones to the american dream](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/02/highway-robbery-and-other-stepping-stones-to-the-american-dream/) - as part of my change of status application to the USCIS i had to do a medical, not at a doctor of my choosing, but at an authorised `Civil Surgeon`. i called the help line on Friday to get the list of doctors i could go see and this is where it started to get
- [easy come, easy go](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/02/easy-come-easy-go/) - i got paid today and for one brief shining moment it looked like we would have something left over for us to treat ourselves. that moment soon passed but not entirely. we`re actually pretty good financially this week but there are some blips on the horizon, starting with the USCIS required medical this afternoon and
- [year of the cock](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/02/year-of-the-cock/) - in the intricacies of my mind the fact that Year of the Cock and Lent began on the same day is mildly amusing. my mind works in strange ways. while i was showering this morning i had a draft for this brilliant treatise that was going to tie the penis and lent together and as
- [if sitcoms were reduced to sound bites no one would watch](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/02/if-sitcoms-were-reduced-to-sound-bites-no-one-would-watch/) - the radio stations here in Nashvegas that advertise the night`s upcoming sitcoms with these little sound bites. based on the little snippets and the canned laughter, it`s a wonder anyone watches television at all. but then my sense of humour is considered dark and obscure in some circles and downright evil in others. today is
- [it's the political correctness, stupid](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/02/its-the-political-correctness-stupid/) - i am cynic because of the career choice, or did i choose my career because i`m a cynic? either way i`ve been trying to choke back the bile that has been rising since i saw the Anheuser-Busch commercial on Sunday. i have nothing against the soldiers that are serving in Iraq. what i do have
- [superbowl and taxes; american institutions](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/02/superbowl-and-taxes-american-institutions/) - i watched the Superbowl last night, not because the game interested me so much; i come from a country where rugby is played, which is a much more intense game; but this is supposed to be the mecca of television advertising. although i`m not a big fan of the sport, i live in a town
- [give us this day our daily telecommute](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/02/give-us-this-day-our-daily-telecommute/) - the boychick is unwell today, so i got an opportunity to work from home. god i`ve missed it. no silly questions, no ringing phones and best of all, the comforts of home. there seems to be some sort of infection going around the school system in middle TN, three of the boychick`s classmates and at
- [recycle](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/02/recycle/) - i`m swamped at work so i`m resposting this George Carlin piece that i listened to over the weekend. Rockets and Penises in the Persian Gulf I`d like to talk a little about that `war` we had in the Persian Gulf. Remember that? The big war in the Persian Gulf? Lemme tell you what was goin`
- [been there, done that, used the t-shirt to wash my car](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/02/been-there-done-that-used-the-t-shirt-to-wash-my-car/) - next week is carnival in Trinidad. actually as we speak frenzied preparations are ongoing, there are fetes every night this week leading up to the two day orgy of excess that carnival is. by this time next week, the streets will be swept and the penitent will be lining in churches all over the country
- [Trust No One](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/02/trust-no-one/) - yesterday the boychick came home with an assignment that required him to discuss with his family reasons that people would be unhappy with the government. after laughing hysterically on the couch for a couple of minutes, i tried honestly to have a discussion with him. actually i didn`t but vic vetoed my first title for
- [it's all relative](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/01/its-all-relative/) - i`m early this morning and with enough time to post no less. vic had to go into work at some ridiculous hour; ye olde pot & pannery is doing inventory today. i have at least half hour before the boychick needs to be officially away and at least an hour before we have to get
- [spin, spin, sugar](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/01/spin-spin-sugar/) - my mother and grandmother have issues with each other. and the fact that they have been living together for the last 16 years hasn`t actually helped matters. my mother has never forgiven her mother for abandoning her as a child and my grandmother has never forgiven my mother from dragging her away from everything and
- [one track mind](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/01/one-track-mind/) - i seemed to be stuck on sex these days. it could be my reading material. i mentioned last week that i received a book from a reader. the book is called The Guide to Getting It On! (The Universe`s Coolest and Most Informative Book About Sex) and was sent to me by the author, Paul
- [bus to beelzebub](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/01/bus-to-beelzebub/) - i have a couple of thoughts on sex and religion running through my head and i`ve been trying to assemble them into something coherent all morning. i suppose the best place to start would be with my religious background. my mother was a Methodist, not sure if that`s United or otherwise. at the time of
- [Best of Show](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/01/best-of-show/) - MacWorld SF for the most part was all about the new user experience. For long time or power users, finding personal satisfaction required roaming the vast floor space at the Moscone Center. There were over 275 exhibitors, with recognisable names in software and hardware like Adobe, Extensis, Filemaker, Microsoft, Nikon, and Quark taking up large
- [the more things change, the more things stay the same](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/01/the-more-things-change-the-more-things-stay-the-same-2/) - 21 years ago, today Steve Jobs launched the Macintosh and neither his sense of showmanship or the response of the faithful have changed. i`ve mirrored the file here but be forewarned it`s kind of big. not something you want to attempt looking at on dial-up.
- [Burns' Night (minus two)](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/01/burns-night-minus-two/) - Selkirk Grace Some hae meat and cannot eat. Some cannot eat that want it: But we hae meat and we can eat, Sae let the Lord be thankit. Address to a Haggis Fair fa` your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o the puddin`-race! Aboon them a` ye tak your place, Painch,
- [who would jesus tolerate?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/01/who-would-jesus-tolerate/) - how far is this going to go? i heard about the Spongebob/Focus on the Family debacle yesterday and hoped if i ignored it, it would go away. but it`s been picked up by the news services and being replayed everywhere. now i`m no longer a regular churchgoer but i doubt two thousand years of basic
- [the milk of human kindness redux](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/01/the-milk-of-human-kindness-redux/) - people`s generosity still surprises me. that`s a good thing, i tend to be cynical about people`s motivations but JS has taught me a lesson or three. since i`ve been here, the outpouring of support has been phenomenal. i`ve made new friends, in the last three months, a kind and generous soul paid for my new
- [fear, it's the new black](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/01/fear-its-the-new-black/) - i wish i could take credit for that line, but i heard it last night on the Daily Show and it got me thinking. i had promised myself i`d stay away from US politics, primarily because my opinion doesn`t actually matter and secondarily in the climate of "if you`re not for us, you`re against us"
- [sex and love](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/01/sex-and-love/) - i had the fortune; or misfortune depending on your perspective; to be able to differentiate sex from love very early on. and based on my experiences i think the two can exist independently of each other but real satisfaction doesn`t happen without either of them. as a young man, i didn`t look like the sort
- [three years; a very special anniversary](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/01/three-years-a-very-special-anniversary/) - three years ago today, vic and i got married in Barbados and finally this is our first anniversary together. there are no special plans; today at least; i`m at work and vic is working tonight, but we`ve got reservations for dinner on Friday. i think we`re still sort of in awe of being able to
- [whereforth digital convergence?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/01/whereforth-digital-convergence/) - Last Tuesday`s keynote address; at the opening of the MacWorld San Francisco conference; by Apple CEO Steve Jobs held little or no suprises for mac users who had been frequenting rumour sites online or following the spate of recent lawsuits by Apple. However it did not stop faithful attendees from reacting joyfully with each new
- [the announcements continue](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/01/the-announcements-continue/) - the tease begins, he`s talking about the ipods now. 4.5 million ipods sold last christmas. 10 Million total, over 8 million in calendar year 2004. and here it comes, more car manufacturers adding built-in ipod adaptors; nissan, mercedes, volvo, ferarri, alfa romero and scion. itunes on motorola phones announced at CES. and now the show
- [software seems to be out of the way](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/01/software-seems-to-be-out-of-the-way/) - oh iWork is $79 and is available January 22. time for the hardware annoucements. and the rumour sites were right; the Mac Mini. slot loading combo optical drive, FW, USB2, Ehternet, modem DVI and analog video. it`s small and it`s bring your own display, keyboard and mouse. shipping with Panther and iLife `05, priced at
- [hour two begins](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/01/hour-two-begins/) - i apologise for the stuccato nature of these posts but i`m trying to post as fast as it happens, there will be a more coherent summation either tonight, depending on my access to an internet connection otherwise, it`s going to happen tomorrow. we`re back to demoing idvd, with all the new features i`m not really
- [and so it begins](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/01/and-so-it-begins-2/) - with blather about the new apple stores, 101 to date, 1,000,000 visitors a day. now we`re on the new imac, more blather. we know all this. i`m waiting to be impressed. does this mean the noted reality disrtortion field doesn`t extend into the over flow room. ooooh tiger, shipping first half of this year, but
- ['live' from the overflow room](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/01/live-from-the-overflow-room/) - a combination of excitement and still being on CST ensured that i was awake by 5:30 this morning, but weather and train delays ensured that i arrived late enough to get stuck in the overflow room watching the keynote on big screens and almost guaranteed none of the actual keynote swag. the room isn`t full
- [the countdown begins](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/01/the-countdown-begins/) - here: # Hit “Control+T” to open a new tab. # Type “about:config” and hit enter. # Scroll down to where it says network.http.pipelining # Double click to change this value to true. # One below this you should see network.http.pipelining.maxrequests # Double click this box and change the 4 to 8 [ed.: some sources suggest
- [do unto others](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/01/do-unto-others/) - despite the biblical references; or because of it; this entry is about sex. if you`re easily offended or have no desire to read anything of a sexual nature, now is the time to move on. ok, still with me? good. i have a personal philosophy about sexual practices — don`t indulge in anything that would
- [whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do when they come for you](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2005/01/whatcha-gonna-do-whatcha-gonna-do-when-they-come-for-you/) - this weekend will be the first time in almost year that i will spend more than one night away from vic. i`m going to SF for MacWorld from Saturday to Wednesday. we were planning on both going and celebrating our first anniversary together in SF but finances don`t permit. we`re doing our celebrating on the
- [george lucas, how i loathe thee](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/12/george-lucas-how-i-loathe-thee/) - we bought the boychick the four disc star wars boxed set for Christmas, because he; like me before him; is a fan boy. he wasn`t around in 1977 to see it on the big screen for the first time, but he has an appreciation. i had been reading in a couple places that george had
- [what a long, strange trip this has been](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/12/what-a-long-strange-trip-this-has-been/) - or what a year. this was my first post this year: it`s hard to believe that it`s been four years since i met vic, our first physical meeting was during the summer olympics in australia. time has flown. in less than three weeks we`d have been married for two years, not the greatest two years
- [When will Jesus bring the pork chops?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/12/when-will-jesus-bring-the-pork-chops/) - i`ve been gathering my thoughts after the hectic few days that have been this Christmas. firstly, up until Thursday morning, i`d never driven on snow or ice, granted it was measured in inches and not in feet like other parts of the US, it was new to me. our street is one of those lovely
- [Merry, Happy, Season's Best](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/12/merry-happy-seasons-best-3/) - Whatever you`re celebrating or not celebrating this year, I wish you all the best. I hope your holidays are filled with love and joy. This year is a new experience for me, the first with my new family and the first without my family. I hope to be able to combine at least part of
- [on the second day of christmas](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/12/on-the-second-day-of-christmas/) - there are two new animations from the otherside a new samurai lapin animation and Krark the penguin which just needs to be seen.
- [soy un perdidor](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/12/soy-un-perdidor/) - i think the insurance scenario may be sorted, i called the company that we have our life, car and renters` insurance with and they gave me some good advice. apparently when you purchase family insurance, there is the assumption that there will be addition children and your rates are padded to account for the possibility
- [the weather outside is delightful](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/12/the-weather-outside-is-delightful/) - we`ve had a cold snap over the last few days including some scheduled snow flurries; although flurries would be a generous description for the three flakes of snow i saw yesterday. not that i`m complaining. i like cold; which is sort of odd for a 6` 2" dreadlocked Caribbean born and raised man. the overnight
- [Sophie's Choice](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/12/sophies-choice/) - in the four years i was living in Trinidad, actually for the three years preceding that as well, i had no health insurance. i was a freelance contractor in most cases or my full time employer didn`t offer health care benefits. but it was ok, because in that tiny little twin island republic, we had
- [snap, crackle, pop](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/12/snap-crackle-pop/) - i got a little perspective on my loathing of the mall and it`s patrons this morning as i was dropping vic to work; we`re a one car household, i`ll touch on that later; i only have to be there twice a day, once early in the morning before i go into work, when it`s mostly
- [santa baby, hurry down the chimney tonight.](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/12/santa-baby-hurry-down-the-chimney-tonight/) - today is my grandmother`s birthday, as well as my ex wife`s and i`ve made the obligatory calls and i feel a lot better. i`ve been in a sort of Christmas funk for the last few days. i`m not a big fan of the holiday season, i posted about it last year; i think; so i`m
- [profile this](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/12/profile-this/) - remember when you were in school and you were taught, never assume because it makes and ass of u and me. you would think that; stupid snickers aside; this lesson would have stuck with most people, apparently not. i`ve read in various journals support for the Patriot Act and profiling of Arab men by fairly
- [it's not what you spend, but how you spend it.](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/11/its-not-what-you-spend-but-how-you-spend-it/) - PNC Advisors is the wealth management unit of The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc., (NYSE: PNC), one of the nation`s largest diversified financial services companies, operating businesses engaged in regional community banking, wholesale banking, wealth management, asset management and global fund processing services. PNC Advisors`
- [tryptophan and thankfulness](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/11/tryptophan-and-thankfulness/) - i am exhausted. last night was my first full night of sleep in almost a week, but it was a truly wonderful thanksgiving. starting last Tuesday night, i got the new drive for my laptop; a huge thank you to my JS benefactor; spent a great deal of time installing a new beta OS, realising
- [accessories, accessorise](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/11/accessories-accessorise/) - With the growing popularity of the ipod, so have the number of accessories grown exponentially, with a new item almost daily, ranging from the ridiculous; ipod socks; to the sublime; the iTrip. Today, I`ll try to cover some of the more coveted accessories for ipod owners. For drivers that own ipods but no longer have
- [return to the barter system](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/11/return-to-the-barter-system/) - i loathe banks. if i could survive in this country sticking my money under my mattress i would. without getting into too much detail, let just say our bank has screwed us over for the third time in as many months and it`s all about how they credit balances, every time you talk to them
- [what's next?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/11/whats-next/) - we put up or Christmas tree this weekend. it may be early for some people, but Christmas is a big deal for Vic and the boychick, there is a lot of pomp and ceremony, including a new ornament for the tree. vic got me my first ornament on Friday and for the first time in
- [much ado about nothing](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/11/much-ado-about-nothing/) - i`m loosing weight. not in a spectacular; 10 pounds in 10 days kind of way, but a gradual erosion of the weight i`ve packed on over the last eight years and more specifically the 30 or 40 pounds i put on this year alone. when i got here in March i was close to 315
- [a new chapter in the Handmaid's tale](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/11/a-new-chapter-in-the-handmaids-tale/) - Republican lawmakers plan to reintroduce a bill to suspend the sale of RU-486, the abortion pill, and probe the process surrounding its approval now that three U.S. deaths have been linked to the drug. More for a little bit of perspective, according to a UNESO study, the maternal death rate in the US is 9
- [it's beginning to look a lot like...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/11/its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like/) - for the first time in half a lifetime, i`m looking forward to Christmas. i`m actually looking forward to the massive family gathering that is Thanksgiving with vic`s family. i grew up an only child, so large family gatherings fascinate me, i think i live vicariously through them. i`m not by nature a social person, but
- [looking forward, looking back](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/11/looking-forward-looking-back/) - my grandmother`s birthday is in a month, more or less, on the same day as my ex-wife, is one of my best friends in the world. as it`s inappropriate to discuss a lady`s age i`m not going to say how old my grandmother is. what i am going to do is marvel at her experiences.
- [choosing the right ipod](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/11/choosing-the-right-ipod/) - i`m trying to swing a press pass for MacWorld SF, next January and one of the qualifications is an industry related story published in the last six months. i completely forgot that i promised an editor in Trinidad that they`d have a piece today, so i`m actually writing it here first to get all the
- [who am i? where am i? where's my liver?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/11/who-am-i-where-am-i-wheres-my-liver/) - friday night was great fun, actually the whole weekend was lovely, good friends and good food. my father`s side of my family are alcoholics; i`m not sure this is because it`s damn near impossible to get us drunk and hung over or we like to drink so much that we`re born with alcohol in our
- [breaking even](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/11/breaking-even/) - i`m sleeping alone for the first time in the six months and ten days since i`ve been here. albeit, at three a.m. i`m not doing much sleeping. vic is at the Scorpio girls` slumber party. vic, cajunscorpiogirl, ms te and their other college roommate, all have birthdays within a two week period, culminating CSG`s on
- [one band to rule them](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/11/one-band-to-rule-them/) - After nine studio albums, three bassists, two live albums, one EP and in my case 18 years of waiting, I finally saw Metallica live. It was worth the wait. Through a work connection I managed to score box seats at the Gaylord Entertainment Center, in downtown Nashville, Tennesse. Contrary to popular belief Nashville is not
- [a handmaid's tale?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/11/a-handmaids-tale/) - i`m not a woman and there are some people that would accuse me of being alarmist, but is no one else trouble by the continued erosion of reproductive rights in the US lately? Roe v Wade is intact for now, but just barely. the re-appointment of Dr. W. David Hager to the FDA`s Reproductive Health
- [having my way, without compromising my principles](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/11/having-my-way-without-compromising-my-principles/) - i just scored two free tickets to Metallica tomorrow. didn`t pay for them, don`t have to trade my soul so in the immortal words of my favourite librarian: edit: thanks to said librarian we now the have a graphic to go with that.
- [The Patriot Act & you](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/11/the-patriot-act-you/) - John Ashcroft has resigned but his enduring legacy remains with us; The Patriot Act. most people would like to believe the only people that have anything to fear from the Patriot Act are terrorists. that`s not quite true, this problem with this act isn`t just with the information that can be acquired about you, it`s
- [a hop, skip and a jump away from the end of the world?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/11/a-hop-skip-and-a-jump-away-from-the-end-of-the-world/) - almost everyone i know seems to be caught up in the furore George W. Bush and what he`s going to do for the next four years. but i`m thinking the power that`s wielded by the Republican party may not last that long. currently the Republicans control Congress, the Senate and the Presidency, there are however,
- [was blind, but now i see](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/11/was-blind-but-now-i-see/) - well i have new glasses, at least. my spectacle wearing has always been cyclical; pretty much two years on and two years off and never a prescription strong enough to make contacts practical. i am farsighted; figuratively and literally; or so i would like to believe. and for the first time in almost five years,
- [more food for thought](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/11/more-food-for-thought/) - something to think about
- [and now back to our regularly scheduled cynicism](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/11/and-now-back-to-our-regularly-scheduled-cynicism/) - i don`t know why so many people are surprised and upset about the results of this election. actually i know why they are, but honestly, in a nation where `more people get their news from Fox`, what did you really think was going to happen? am i disappointed? not really no, to be disappointed you
- [thought for the day](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/11/thought-for-the-day/) - In a democracy, you get the government you deserve. Adlai Stevenson
- [it's business as usual](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/11/its-business-as-usual/) - what are you going to do now that your candidate hasn`t won or lost? is it really going to make that much of a difference in your personal life? is it going to pay your bills, put gas in your car? are you so upset about the result you`re ready to leave the country? is
- [taxation without representation](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/11/taxation-without-representation-2/) - i`m not a citizen, but i am a taxpayer. there is no immigrant lobby, so i effectively have no say. if you are eligible, get out there and do it. VOTE! IT IS YOUR RIGHT! i really don`t care who you vote for, just as long as you do.
- [more harm than good](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/11/more-harm-than-good/) - because of our neighbourhood and its proximity to the university, i see a lot of people running and it`s appalling. long ago, when i was half as young and half as heavy, i used to run; 5 and 10K races. i was pretty good; i was in a road runners club, i trained regularly, i
- [celebrations](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/10/celebrations/) - earlier this month we had a celebration of our almost three year old marriage, we just got most of the pictures here are a couple of the pictures and the rest of the gallery can be found here:
- [illegal acts](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/10/illegal-acts/) - from nerve, entirely NSFW.
- [the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/10/the-thrill-of-victory-the-agony-of-defeat/) - yesterday was all about the thrill of victory, kicked Halo`s ass, almost got the project i`m working on approved, had a great night with vic and the boychick this morning, not so good; daylight savings can`t be over too quickly for me, my body has readjusted so i`m up at between 5 and 5:30 and
- [when i grow up](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/10/when-i-grow-up/) - a little old, but oh still so true. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaoIsPZAgck
- [murder, death, kill 2](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/10/murder-death-kill-2/) - i have finished; i came, i saw, i shot, i kicked Halo`s ass. on legendary no less. i have to say it was a fun and somewhat easy game to play. now i`m just left to wonder how long are we going to have to wait for the OS X port of Halo 2. i
- [life is sacred but only until birth](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/10/life-is-sacred-but-only-until-birth/) - the last time i went to visit my mother in law, at the major intersection of that very tiny town there is a massive billboard for a guy running for state senate, it reads; i`m recalling from memory at this point; sponsored by the NRA, pro-life, anti-gay marriage. it`s interesting to note that some of
- [oh sugar, sugar now](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/10/oh-sugar-sugar-now/) - i wrote about a week and a half ago in foodieporn about how much i need that Caribbean washed grey sugar, what i didn`t mention is how much i miss things actually made with real sugar as opposed to high fructose corn syrup. for those of you that are old enough to remember there was
- [greying](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/10/greying/) - there are a lot of genetic traits i`ve inherited from both sides of my family including left-handedness; there was no escaping that one -- mother, father, paternal grandmother, maternal grandfather. now i seem to picking up early greying from my mother. although on end i`m not sure how much of it was completely genetic. when
- [murder, death, kill](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/10/murder-death-kill/) - there a great deal of satisfaction found in shooting stuff but since the smell or cordite doesn`t agree with me and i wouldn`t think of having a gun in the house, i have to get this satisfaction in two dimensions. for the last week and a half i`ve been playing Halo. yes, i`m late with
- [chew on this](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/10/chew-on-this/) - In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile — and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. We owe that to ourselves and our crippled self-image as something better than a nation of panicked sheep. -
- [hold the grape koolaid](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/10/hold-the-grape-koolaid/) - when i was growing up, my mother encouraged me to read the newspaper everyday. on November 19, 1978, i read a news story that i can honestly say changed my life. i can`t even remember what the headline of the story was, but in my seven year experience something terribly had occurred in one of
- [spin this](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/10/spin-this/) - there are two weeks left until this farce called election day and i have had enough. enough of the empty rhetoric, the empty promises and mostly peoples` blind willingness to accept what ever the party line is. the cynic in me believes that the results of this election have already been decided in a board
- [itsy bitsy spider](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/10/itsy-bitsy-spider/) - i have gotten slammed by Google bots today, it`s insane, i`ve had more of them thus far this morning that i had in actual visitors yesterday. we missed the debates last night, because it was family night and we were watching a movie; well that is our excuse and we`re sticking to that; but we
- [a celebration](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/10/a-celebration/) - i`d written a lovely homage to this weekends celebrations when my machine came to a grinding halt and under OS X there are very few things that can precipitate a system wide freeze and in this case it was the Microsoft Office update. i loath M$ and their crappy products, hopefully i can pick up
- [friday productivity at an all time high](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/10/friday-productivity-at-an-all-time-high/) - i`ve been working all day. no bookworm, no distractions; well i`ve been cruising about here, but that`s not so much a distraction as a necessary part of the day. i`ve been making changes to an annual report, i didn`t design this project, the other artist that was here did it and i`m finishing up. i
- [do as i say but not as i do](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/10/do-as-i-say-but-not-as-i-do/) - according to Section 510(b) of Title V of the Social Security Act, P.L. 104–193, abstinence education must follow these guidelines: (A) Has as its exclusive purpose, teaching the social, psychological, and health gains to be realized by abstaining from sexual activity; (B) Teaches abstinence from sexual activity outside marriage as the expected standard for all
- [Bring out the gimp!](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/10/bring-out-the-gimp/) - there are days when living in the US scares the crap out of me. and today is one of them. i`ve always been very cynical about paying taxes, i think my money is usually wasted on something that i genuinely abhor and i`ve been proved right. i`m a huge proponent of the separation of church
- [the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/10/the-rest-of-my-advice-has-no-basis-more-reliable-than-my-own-meandering-experience/) - the weather has started to get nippier and i`m liking it. i`m really looking forward to holidays, which is a kind of unfamiliar feeling for me as an adult. part of it, is how welcome vic`s family has made me feel. i`ve been to at least four gatherings since i`ve been here and that still
- [wake up and smell the epidemic](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/10/wake-up-and-smell-the-epidemic/) - HIV/AIDS and sexual education are huge issues for me. i`m not HIV positive, but i could have been. my sexual practices as a young man can be summed up in a word; careless. but i was lucky, so now i get tested twice a year for the gamut, it`s pricey but it`s worth my piece
- [jesus says he loves all bigots, equally](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/10/jesus-says-he-loves-all-bigots-equally/) - i don`t know if it`s the fact that i`m living in one of those states where you can see the holy triumvirate on the back of a pickup; ie, Jesus fish, American flag and; in TN at least; a UT sticker; but i seemed to have found that hotline to Jesus. and he`s given me
- [keifel for president?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/10/keifel-for-president/) - according to a poll conducted by an independent source, as many JS respondents would vote for me as would for the incumbent. i didn`t even know i`d been nominated, but as i pointed out, i`m doubly constitutionally ineligible for the post; under 35 and not a US citizen. although i don`t know if the US
- [4 out of 5 baptist divorcees want gays to stop undermining the sanctity of marriage](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/09/4-out-of-5-baptist-divorcees-want-gays-to-stop-undermining-the-sanctity-of-marriage/) - The House of Representatives is voting on the Marriage Protection Amendment (formerly the Federal Marriage Amendment) today. edit: passage of the bill failed: 227 - 186 new name, same stupid prejudices. i was going to write about something completely different today, but i got a glimpse of this in my mailbox and now my hackles
- [i'll slap you with my aloe-y goodness](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/09/ill-slap-you-with-my-aloe-y-goodness/) - it`s silly season again, well it`s usually silly season but it`s ramping up. i truly can`t wait for this to be over, whatever the result. i just want the politicians to go back to what they do best, gouging us. and there is a new Mr. Snaffleburger animation up, as well as a new little
- [keifel & vic vs USCIS, condensed version](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/09/keifel-vic-vs-uscis-condensed-version/) - vic and i have been going through a process since January 2002 to begin our lives together. we had two applications in the works, an I-130 which is an application for an immigrant spouse and a K-3 which is an application for the same spouse to enter the US while waiting for the I-130 to
- [hypocrites & parasites](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/09/hypocrites-parasites/) - Do not judge so that you will not be judged. For by the standard you judge you will be judged, and the measure you use will be the measure you receive. Why do you see the speck4 in your brother`s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own? Or how can
- [meet The Sims?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/09/meet-the-sims/) - i`ve had a copy of the Sims since last October when i renew my .mac membership; it was one of the freebies. well owned might be a better description, i had it shipped to vic and it was in her possession until recently. i installed and attempted to play it for the first time yesterday.
- [having a social conscience bites sometimes](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/09/having-a-social-conscience-bites-sometimes/) - metallica; i know, i know, i shouldn`t be giving them my money anyway; is playing Nashville in November at the Gaylord. i figured i could swallow my pride and go see metallica, i mean, when am i going to get to see them live again and assholes or not, they kick much ass. the tickets
- [the ever changing seasons](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/09/the-ever-changing-seasons/) - time flies when you`re having fun. it`s hard to imagine that at this point last year, i had just resigned from a job i loathed and an employer i had no respect for and was having panic attacks. i`ve been here, coming up on seven months, i`ve watched what passes for winter here, transition into
- [hooray for hollyweird](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/09/hooray-for-hollyweird/) - i`m a big movie fan. i will watch almost anything. i grew up with my mother`s taste in movies or more accurately films. she was a huge fan as well and has regaled me with tales of her and my father spending all day at the various movie theatres in Port of Spain watching whatever
- [if i had a million dollars](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/09/if-i-had-a-million-dollars/) - well if i had enough money to not have to work another day in my life there are two things i would do; i would paint houses and pump gas. for the first i`d probably join habitat for humanity just so i could paint and make a difference. i like painting, even ceilings, it`s a
- [getting in touch with my inner librarian](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/09/getting-in-touch-with-my-inner-librarian/) - when you have as many books as we do, you need a way to keep track of them for our own edification as well as insurance purposes. for the last three months we`ve been making an effort at creating a definitive catalogue for our insurers, it`s been difficult entering each of books by hand in
- [i'm leaving on a jet plane [redux]](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/09/im-leaving-on-a-jet-plane-redux/) - but i only going as far Baltimore, for the day. it`s not a trip i`m entirely thrilled about. i`m going with my boss to a presentation. i`m not sure if it`s the superfluous nature of my presence at this presentation or that i miss my almost daily lunch with vic or the fact that i
- [mead & mammaries, tres](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/09/mead-mammaries-tres/) - it`s friday and whether or not there are beers in the office today, i`m going to have one, it`s been a long week and i deserve one. i also found a very interesting photo site in my mindless wanderings today; zonezero these photos are by Paulo K. Ogino of Chile and are part of an
- [ridden hard and put up wet](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/09/ridden-hard-and-put-up-wet/) - that`s how i feel today. i always had respect for flight attendants and after yesterday`s short haul in a monkey suit and uncomfortable shoes, my appreciation increases. the presentation went fairly well and all three blocks of Silver Spring, MD and the sections of highway i observed to and from the airport were all very
- [the only thing to fear is...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/09/the-only-thing-to-fear-is/) - well there is a list actually. vic and i were discussing this a couple of months ago and i came across it on a journal today, original published in Free Inquiry magazine under the title Fascism Anyone by Laurence W. Britt, it examines the 14 common threads that link fascist regimes. what makes me afraid
- [may INDUCE vomitting](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/09/may-induce-vomitting/) - in all the furore over the assault weapons ban lapsing, not many people know about the Induce Act or that it is being fast tracked. for those unfamiliar with the Induce Act, it`s a bill that will make it illegal to "induce" copyright infringement. the bill proposes will in theory make peer to peer networks,
- [how quickly we forget](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/09/how-quickly-we-forget-2/) - i sympathise with all the people that lost friends and family on that day but all these `we will not forget` banners and trotting out the flags on Saturday really just pissed me off. i tend not to watch the news on television because it just irks me, so i missed all the lip service
- [you are not a beautiful and unique snowflake](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/09/you-are-not-a-beautiful-and-unique-snowflake/) - in lieu of actually writing something this morning, i`m posting a couple of links, i`m hungry and sleepy and unable to form any coherent thoughts. where i`m from [a cia perspective] more foamy goodness; if you don`t know who foamy is, now is the best time to find out.
- [we need political correctness like a fish needs a bicycle](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/09/we-need-political-correctness-like-a-fish-needs-a-bicycle/) - we have become slaves to the thought and language police and lost sight of the most basic and abiding of principles; respect each other, not because we have to or because someone said to, but because it`s the right thing to do. the rise of political correctness, organisations that appoint themselves to police things for
- [there are no stupid questions, just stupid people](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/09/there-are-no-stupid-questions-just-stupid-people/) - banned books week is September 25 - October 3 this year. that`s right there are still books that are challenged and banned in public libraries everywhere. my amazon list has been modified to include booksense picks; which are all challenged books. according to a press release from the ALA the 10 most challenged books of
- [holy crap. ivan.](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/09/holy-crap-ivan/) - based on this satellite photo, i`m wondering if there is anything left upright in Tobago. update from the trinidad express Ivan leaves Tobago and heads for Grenada leaving a trail of damaged roofs and flattened trees and plants. In Trinidad there are reports of some landslides and trees down on the Toco road. Weather experts
- [telling tales](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/08/telling-tales/) - it`s hard to believe it`s been four years since i first met vic, we can measure our relationship in terms of the summer games. i watched the last summer games at her parents house with her incredibly funny and amazing parents, the very young and very bright boychick and herself. so much has changed in
- [trip from the forebrain](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/09/trip-from-the-forebrain/) - sometime in the next coupe of months we have to shell out another $500 to the USCIS, to begin my green card application process, this doesn`t include a medical which becomes invalid after one year; bearing in mind that the processing time on this application is two years, i`m going to have to spend this
- [which God exactly?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/09/which-god-exactly/) - with careful deliberation i tried to avoid the empty rhetoric of both conventions. in a season of empty promises, political conventions are loudest and emptiest. however this morning, i happened to catch a bit of a recap from the just concluded RNC on NPR and i heard quite possibly the most idiotic utterance in my
- [albuquerque travelogue](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/09/albuquerque-travelogue/) - apropos a title as any. last night we took the boychick to see weird al. his birthday is on Monday, so this was part of his birthday present. he was thrilled, we didn`t tell him where we were going until we got there and he didn`t find out who it was until we sat down.
- [this is the fashion police! step away from the ugly clothes and come out appropriately attired.](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/09/this-is-the-fashion-police-step-away-from-the-ugly-clothes-and-come-out-appropriately-attired/) - i live in Nashville; which aside from the cowboy chic and the usually bad fashion sense of college students dressing themselves away from home for the first time; seems to have a pretty well defined sense of style. i haven`t had very many scary moments since i`ve been here and that`s good. i however get
- [virgins are like raisins?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/08/virgins-are-like-raisins/) - that`s just open to so many possibilities. this month is good vibrations anal sex month. as with most other things sexual, i don`t judge consenting adults for any practice you choose to indulge in and i would appreciate the same courtesy. i think any sexual activity is a two way street, meaning if you`re a
- [the mother of all typos](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/08/the-mother-of-all-typos/) - "According to author Christoph Luxenberg, due to a possible mistranslation of the Koran (if one were to read certain words as Syriac instead of Arabic), the "virgins" some [Islamic Fundamentalists] believe they will be rewarded with in paradise may be "white raisins" of "crystal clarity" instead."
- [sex for sale, cheap](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/08/sex-for-sale-cheap/) - Jenna Jameson has published a book, more power to her. there are editorials everywhere either lauding or decrying the mainstreaming of porn. i`m truly shocked that anyone is surprised, we`ve turned sexuality into a commodity and like any over-exposed commodity we`ve decreased the value. the adult industry needs to go mainstream, it`s simply a matter
- [old school paste up](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/08/old-school-paste-up/) - sometimes the random titles are not so random. i worked late for the first time today at my job. that has to be a record of some sort, almost two months before i stayed pass the allotted hour. it wasn`t completely unwarranted, i took some time during the day today to go to an appointment
- [DHS [x2]](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/08/dhs-x2/) - two entertaining, albeit frightening tales of the department of homeland security. round one:DHS vs Montserrat refugees round two: DHS vs Ted Kennedy and this is supposed to make me feel safe?
- [bringing back the 80s one fashion faux pas at a time](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/08/bringing-back-the-80s-one-fashion-faux-pas-at-a-time/) - i was a child of the 80s but thank god there are no pictures to prove it. even without the general fashion faux pas that were the 80s, i was the guy who`s mother dressed him, well she was paying so i really didn`t have much choice. although i`m still not sure how i convinced
- [an abusive relationship ends](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/08/an-abusive-relationship-ends/) - we have official left aohell, after three months of trying. this account has had an interesting history, i activated it four years ago when i was coming to meet vic for the first time. i was doing website management and needed an account i could dial up from anywhere with and so began a four
- [snicker](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/08/snicker/)
- [if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/08/if-you-cant-dazzle-them-with-brilliance-baffle-them-with-bullshit/) - i think that was the motto of my high school education. in Trinidad we follow the English school system, that is seven years of primary or elementary education, then an entrance exam to get attempt to get into the high school of your choice. there is automatic placement into government run high schools depending on
- [don't read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/08/dont-read-beauty-magazines-they-will-only-make-you-feel-ugly/) - i`ve noticed a lot of people getting their panties in a bunch over the election observers here in November, i find that tremendously amusing. there is a delicious irony to this. for years in developing countries around the world the US has sent `observers` to monitor elections, in too many cases to mention there have
- [the heart of rock and roll is binary](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/08/the-heart-of-rock-and-roll-is-binary/) - for more than a year, i`ve been playing with one of the coolest electronic toys, it`s called iscrobbler. it's is a plug-in that keeps track of the songs played by your favourite music player and posts them to a server. it works on a variety of players on a number of platforms and is still
- [plenty security... no security...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/08/plenty-security-no-security/) - we got our official notification notice on saturday in the mail, two of them actually. what`s interesting about this approval, upon reading it, i get the distinct impression that they are unaware that i`m currently resident in the US. this frightens me a great deal, this is the department of homeland security, the people responsible
- [i'm dead, bitch](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/08/im-dead-bitch/) - super freak, rick james is dead
- [the lovely thing about bureaucracy is how it self perpetuates](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/08/the-lovely-thing-about-bureaucracy-is-how-it-self-perpetuates/) - the stark realism of dealing with the USCIS is clearer after a day of digging through the website, trying to find out what we need to do next. the bureaucratic behemoth that is the USCIS thrives on the magic words `one more thing,` so now that this particular hurdle has been leaped there is another
- [revisionist histories](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/08/revisionist-histories/) - i`m fascinated by many of the dialogues i see occurring here on journalspace, if this keeps up, i think the posts are going to get more interesting as the elections draw near. i can`t say i`m an entirely impartial observer but i would like to believe i have less of a bias; this may or
- [cash cow](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/07/cash-cow/) - call me a cynic but it seems that graphic novels, seem to be the new cash cow in Hollywood and as a fan i`m loathe to see them ruined, so far the bad outweigh the good. here is a short list: Constantine from WB, with Keanu in the lead role. i`m leaving this one alone,
- [we have...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/07/we-have/) - beautiful, intelligent children, an apartment, bills, a car; but no car payment, debt, jobs, food in our refrigerator, good friends, a life together. a year ago today, vic left Trinidad for the first time and we were unsure what vagaries the USCIS held for us. one year later, we`re together at last, savouring the simple
- [quixotic](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/07/quixotic/) - i was having a conversation with a friend this morning about similar aspects of our personalities; specifically the inability to say `No` and by extension our ability to think it`s our duty to fix everyone`s problems but our own. this is ground i`ve covered before but listening, well reading; her perspective on it, reopened some
- [i'm not as young as i used to be](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/07/im-not-as-young-as-i-used-to-be-2/) - there was a time when i could be up late for at least a week and when i say up late, i mean night after night on two and three hours sleep before i would begin to feel the toll. that doesn`t apply any more, my weekend began on Thursday when we went to see
- [on being responsible](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/07/on-being-responsible/) - my workload has picked up, considerably, i have job jackets; yes more than one on my desk, i have stuff on my desk that doesn`t come under the generic job related function, i feel good. and vic and i took our lunch hour to open a savings account and start checking on insurance. we`re adults,
- [i read, therefore i am](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/07/i-read-therefore-i-am-2/) - since i got here vic has been trying to get me to read the Jasper Fforde novels. i didn`t get to the first one until recently, not because i didn`t trust her judgement, but i tend to go off on a binge and the libraries in Nashville encourage me; although after three attempts, i`ve decided
- [hullo, my name is keifel and I'm a literature abuser](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/07/hullo-my-name-is-keifel-and-im-a-literature-abuser/) - Are you a Literature Abuser? Take this test and find out! How many of these apply to you? [x] I have read fiction when I was depressed, or to cheer myself up. [x] I have gone on reading binges of an entire book or more in a day. [x] I read rapidly, often `gulping` chapters.
- [the surreal life](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/07/the-surreal-life/) - i`ve been unduly fascinated by the new HTTP referrers system implemented by JS over the weekend; fascinated in the way we`re drawn to car wrecks. here is a list of some of the searches that have brought people to my journal over the weekend from google.ch: breathhold water bdsm from google.com: "daily show" borderline
- [Class A Drugs](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/07/class-a-drugs/) - in my state on friday i needed something to cheer me up, the boychick found showed me some animations that i am now addicted to. there are short, hysterical funny, obviously the product of a deranged mind and just what i needed to get out of my funk. so without much further ado, i present,
- [there is no justification](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/07/there-is-no-justification/) - say what you want, support the troops, support the war, but there is a line that has to be drawn somewhere, while we`ve been distracted by Martha, the eating/drug problems of the Olsen twins and the capture of wanted dissenter; Bobby Fischer, things thought hidden and withheld are coming to light. the debacle that is
- [what were they thinking](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/07/what-were-they-thinking/) - i work in advertising, i have for over 12 years now, that means i have been privy to some of the most stupid ideas in the history of creation. if you think you`ve heard idiotic utterances you haven`t heard anything until you`ve sat in a creative briefing session. i think there is a special sort
- [darth insidious](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/07/darth-insidious/) - we all look alike. you know the drill; all black men look alike, well take that a step further, all black men with dreads look even more alike. in Nashville there are five of us, an English teacher at some exclusive private school, a lawyer, a musician, a fellow graphic artist; who i had the
- [parenting 101](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/07/parenting-101/) - sometime in the near future i have to have a version of the `TALK` with the boychick. i don`t know if it`s the implied caps or just nerves but the though fills me with dread. i have all the information at my disposal, what i`m worried about is how much is enough or how much
- [how quickly we forget](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/07/how-quickly-we-forget/) - in September 2001, two weeks to the day after the World Trade Centre attacks, NY continued the democratic process to elect a new mayor. He [Pataki] also wanted to send a message that democracy could not be derailed by acts of terrorism, his aides said yesterday. Announcing that the primaries would go ahead, the governor
- [copper or wool](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/01/copper-or-wool/) - i think too many people get into relationships expecting the happily ever after. they work on the courting and wooing but don't continue after the relationship is established.
- [a dull lifeless husk (160)](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/01/a-dull-lifeless-husk-160/) - SUPPOSEDLY if you've seen over 85 of these films, you have no life. Mark the ones you've seen. There are 239 films on this list. Copy this list, then, put x's next to the films you've seen, add them up, change the header adding your number, and share at will. Have fun. (x) Rocky Horror
- [a picture, in this instance, is worth 200 - 250 words actually… (redux)](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/01/a-picture-in-this-instance-is-worth-200-250-words-actually…-redux/) - Thank you for your interest and participation in the Photo story project. The project was developed in a Language & Gender class held in the Spr '08 semester at the University of Mississippi.
- [the soundtrack of my life](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/01/the-soundtrack-of-my-life/) - IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?
- [if you only had one word](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/01/if-you-only-had-one-word/) - if you only had one word
- [Rules of the International Confederation of Dreadlocked Persons (revised)](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/09/rules-of-the-international-confederation-of-dreadlocked-persons-revised/) - whether you`re just starting out or you`ve had your dreadlocks for sometime there are a couple of fundamental rules, we hope by committing them to paper they will make things clearer for you.
- [welcome to the police state](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/07/welcome-to-the-police-state/) - American counterterrorism officials, citing what they call "alarming" intelligence about a possible Qaeda strike inside the United States this fall, are reviewing a proposal that could allow for the postponement of the November presidential election in the event of such an attack, NEWSWEEK has learned. read the rest the line is bold is my highlight,
- [savouring the moment](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/07/savouring-the-moment/) - Highlight the books you've read from the list below: 1. The Lord of the Rings -- by J.R.R. Tolkien 2. Pride and Prejudice -- by Jane Austen 3. His Dark Materials -- by Philip Pullman 4. The Hitchhiker`s Guide to the Galaxy -- by Douglas Adams 5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire --
- [Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/07/every-government-is-a-parliament-of-whores-the-trouble-is-in-a-democracy-the-whores-are-us/) - i would love to bury my head in the sand and avoid the news altogether, but i`m not built that way, i need to know and i tend to go out of my way to find out the whole story.
- [what we're going to do here is go back](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/01/what-were-going-to-do-here-is-go-back/) - this april will mark my sixth anniversary of maintaining a blog with five of those being with the recently defunct journalspace.
- [Know thine enemy](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/07/know-thine-enemy/) - i have no desire to see Michael Moore`s new film and this Bush administration does not fill me with confidence either. to me they are different sides to the same coin; excess. they both prey upon the fears of people and use these fears to justify what they are doing. and they`re both profiting greatly
- [delicious irony](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/07/delicious-irony/) - when i was in Trinidad i was one the disenfranchised. i mean, i had the ability to vote, but i didn`t think it was worth it, it was six of one and half dozen of the other. but i did go to the polls, because if i didn`t i had no right to complain about
- [a watched pot and other anecdotal advice](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/06/a-watched-pot-and-other-anecdotal-advice/) - when that idiot was making his case about adult content i posted about COPA/CIPA and the fights in the courts, well there`s been a new development. yesterday the Supreme Court; including Clarence Thomas; voted 5-4, to bar enforcement of COPA/CIPA because it violates constitutional free speech rights. "The 5-4 ruling, however, does not resolve the
- [have bus will travel](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2009/01/have-bus-will-travel/) - public transportation in nashville, tn
- [poked and prodded](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/06/poked-and-prodded-2/) - today i started the process to get involved with a clinical trial. i feel rather strongly about it. i`m not a great taker of medication and don`t particularly love visits to the doctors, so the concept of being poked and prodded for the next 15 months is a great leap for me. in light of
- [father's day pot pourri](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/06/fathers-day-pot-pourri/) - firstly, happy father`s day to all the parents on js; the fathers that are there for their children; physically, emotionally, however they can, the mothers doing the job of both parents, because they have to or they want to. happy father`s day to you all. in news of parenting, it appears that our resident morality
- [word wars](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/06/word-wars/) - i`ve been a scrabble player since i can remember. my mother had that tiny travel scrabble that we used to take on the plane and she used to whoop my ass coming and going. just after i got into high school we discovered a scrabble club in Port of Spain and thus began my experiences
- [y tu mama tambien](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/06/y-tu-mama-tambien/) - it`s friday and foamy is god. enjoy some sick humour courtesy ill will press, particularly small, medium, large and non-holiday special and sitcom silliness. this animations contain language frowned upon by most employers, so be advised.
- [Viva Nashvegas!](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/06/viva-nashvegas/) - i lost my virginity last night. well of a sort. I`ve been Nashvegas for three months now and i attended my first live show at the Ryman auditorium. For those of you unfamiliar with Nashvegas it is one of the premiere live music towns in the world. there at least four stadium venues; the Starwood
- [what price freedom](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/06/what-price-freedom/) - i`m hoping this is my last entry about/to odorone. i had intended to do a step by step analysis of all the things he`s said about my journal, but i`ve decided there is no point. odorone is not interested in logic or legality, he is, as i`ve pointed out before a bully. he`s ignored many
- [we're not making a 'film' here](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/06/were-not-making-a-film-here/) - We went to see Chronicles of Riddick last night. for free, no less. we had to stand outside for a while and of course yesterday was the muggiest day of the year, thus far. We also had to sit through Regal Entertainment`s The Twenty which i firmly believe is the reason the floor of movie
- [I have the power](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/06/i-have-the-power-3/) - well i have the power now. NES changed the power lines outside my house today, leaving me without power until mere moments ago. it`s just one of the many things that have infuriated me today. i can`t say that i didn`t know they were cutting the power, they did come and say 8:30 - 11:30,
- [Thank God it's Friday;  A guest post](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/05/thank-god-its-friday-a-guest-post/) - [ Note: TGIF is the name of a column that has appeared in a variety of Trinidadian newspapers, today was to be the last appearance of the column in it`s current incarnation at the Trinidad Guardian but was not published. I have reproduced the email i received here in it`s entirety for you reading pleasure.]
- [Morality is what we expect from those whom we vaguely dislike](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/05/morality-is-what-we-expect-from-those-whom-we-vaguely-dislike/) - we had house guests over last night. we played dirty scrabble and Scattegories. it`s a nice feeling being `normal`, doing things together, having people over, laughing hysterically at the way our brains work. vic and i joke about sharing a brain regularly, but last night during Scategories, our brilliant idea for something you`re allergic to
- [filing, you're doing it right](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/12/filing-youre-doing-it-right/) - photo of kitten in a box
- [merry, happy, seasons, best](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/12/merry-happy-seasons-best-2/) - holiday greeting with a side of moralising about respect
- [Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/12/three-may-keep-a-secret-if-two-of-them-are-dead/) - i was thinking about the nature of conspiracy and what people believe.
- [Hamlet in three minutes](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/12/hamlet-in-three-minutes/) - The Three Minute Hamlet Adam McNaughton
- [the more you know...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/05/the-more-you-know/) - a historical timeline for censorship and down near the end are some interesting dates: 1995 – United States Senator Charles Grassley from Iowa proposed the Protection of Children from Pornography Act. The law was eventually placed with the Telecommunications Act. 1996 – The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was passed. The new law discussed issues of
- [sex; bad, gratuitous violence; ok](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/05/sex-bad-gratuitous-violence-ok/) - i think it`s my responsibility to police my children`s viewing, reading, gaming, playing habits. when i give up that responsibility to an outside source i can`t say anything when the books i`d like my children to read aren`t in the library or if we own the books my children can`t discuss them without fear of
- [Not so hostile takeover](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/12/not-so-hostile-takeover/) - Santa Claus [trading as St Nick on the holiday market] has been acquired by retail giant Wal-Mart
- [respect and protect](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/12/respect-and-protect/) - 2008 marks the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day. Since 1988, the face and response to AIDS has greatly changed. While many of these changes are positive, this anniversary offers us an opportunity to highlight how much more still needs to be done. For example: Leaders in most countries from around the world now acknowledge
- [100 Things](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/11/100-things/) - 100 things about me: 1. i`m left handed 2. i`m an only child 3. i never graduated college/university 4. i like to drive 5. i drove 11 hours to propose to vic 6. i have an amazing sense of direction 7. i ate the first book my mother every gave me 8. it was tootles
- [Sex for sale](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/11/sex-for-sale/) - In a surprise move today, retail giant Walmart announced plans to add a new item to their extensive catalogue; heterosexual coitus. The retail giant has already made deals with state and federal law makers for legislation that will allow them to sell sex without the prostitution moniker. According to a company spokesperson, "We`re already screwing
- [pornography and morality; a symbiotic relationship](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/05/pornography-and-morality-a-symbiotic-relationship/) - has anyone noticed the connection between morality and pornography, well aside from the obvious. i mean every time there is a marked upswing by people wishing to enforce a particular brand of morals, there is a major jump in the pornographic industry? the Victorian era, one of the most prolific in terms of erotica. The
- [i heart george john](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/05/i-heart-george-john/) - for a little background George John, is the BBC of Caribbean media. respected, venerable and very rarely wrong. if all newspapers were run by men like George John, fair, unbiased and accurate coverage would once again prevail. these words seem so far removed from the context of professional journalism lately. and now without further ado,
- [Ignorance is strength](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/05/ignorance-is-strength/) - scarleteen blocked by net nanny and the like because they approach the idea of teenagers and sexuality in an open manner. i`m not invalidating that argument that there are things on JS unsuitable for minors, but JS should be least of the worries of any parent. if the minor is intelligent and precocious enough to
- [Soylent Green](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/05/soylent-green/) - how appropriate, that the morality police should strike in May, it is national masturbation month, obviously this witch hunt is one person`s onanistic endeavour. please don`t sit back and think it`s not your problem. keep this in mind: In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn`t speak up because I wasn`t a
- [Fahrenheit 451](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/05/fahrenheit-451/) - link
- [if you love someone set them on fire](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/05/if-you-love-someone-set-them-on-fire/) - last night the good wyf and i sat and sorted out combined cd collections and put them in alphabetical order and as with the books we have more cds than shelving. this after a major culling after i arrived and another culling last night. we have a lot of music, a diverse selection that covers
- [ billions of blistering blue barnacles](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/05/billions-of-blistering-blue-barnacles/) - there is no bad language. there is inappropriate language, but no bad language. there is a time and place for everything. i`m sure there are people who go through their entire lives without uttering an epithet, bully for them. i have an above average vocabulary, but sometimes there is nothing as satisfying as letting a
- [An open letter to the morality police](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/05/an-open-letter-to-the-morality-police/) - I`m curious what your plan is to get JS management to get around to your way of thinking. I`ve noticed you have comments as well as private messaging disabled from your journal. I am parent and I don`t need your help. As part of my parental duties, I am responsible for what my children watch,
- [You're an Idiot - the Road Test edition](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/05/youre-an-idiot-the-road-test-edition/) - i love driving but i wish that there would be one day a year when we could have open season on the fuckwits that share the roads. topping this list would the idiots who think it`s bright to cross the street in a haphazard manner when there is a cross walk not even an extra
- [the value of an education](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/05/the-value-of-an-education/) - i got an interesting compliment this weekend, someone was surprised how much i know about the US, history, politics, geography. i pointed out that it was part of my education. one of the benefits of growing up in the caribbean is the post colonial english public school model. this weekend i met a young man
- [it's about the manners](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/05/its-about-the-manners/) - i like living in the south, if only for the sole reason that good manners are valued here, people hold doors open, respond to `please` and `thank you` and `good day`. with the exception of one set of our neighbours who are either too completely self involved; we`ve told them hullo on more than one
- [fall television line up](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/05/fall-television-line-up/) - Coming this fall to a network near you Ultimate Survivor: The popular show returns this fall, with an all new location, new challenges and new rules. Ultimate Survivor Sahara, the tribe has to make it across the desert by an means possible. New rules include losers can either be forced to find their own way
- [standing on an anthill is cold and lonely](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/05/standing-on-an-anthill-is-cold-and-lonely/) - this weekend was riverstages which i didn`t attend because it was a CCE — Clear Channel Entertainment event. I live in Music City, USA. and this summer promises more big name shows than you can shake a stick at and it appears, even if i can afford i`m going to be letting a lot of
- [predictability](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/05/predictability/) - i generally watch four hours of tv a week. i`m very specific about my tv watching, Alias on a Sunday, Gilmore Girls on a Tuesday, Smallville and Angel on a Wednesday. last night the wife who is a disaster flick fan got me to give up alias for nbc`s 10.5. what a waste, a lot
- [subtlety and nuance](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/05/subtlety-and-nuance/) - i`m a big music fan with diverse tastes, but i can`t stand modern R&B. I grew up on Marvin Gaye and the Motown sound, so all this crap now masquerading as music, just makes me wince. i am not a prude, not by anyone`s stretch of the imagination, but what passes for R&B today, disgusts
- [manual transmissions, down shifting and the open road](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/04/manual-transmissions-down-shifting-and-the-open-road/) - i like driving. i particularly like driving manual cars. not that i don`t love the joys of cruise control and not having to balance the clutch sometimes, but i`d rather give those up that a manual gear shift. i think my love for driving came from my mother. she had an original 1000 mini, manual
- [what price friendship?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/04/what-price-friendship/) - out of sight, out of mind, seems par for the course with me and the people i call friends. well not all of them, i`m realising i can count the true friends on the fingers of one hand. for all the rest it`s about what i can do for them, whether it`s fixing their computers
- [spring, when a young man's thoughts turn to yard maintenance](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/04/spring-when-a-young-mans-thoughts-turn-to-yard-maintenance/) - i think not. of the two places we got when we were looking the one we`re at now, has lawn and outdoor maintenance as part of the package. i, for one, am eternally grateful. i am not a particularly lazy sod, but i do firmly believe that certain tasks are the domain of professionals or
- [please stand by](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/04/please-stand-by/) - regular transmission will resume momentarily. in the mean time go check out more geeky goodness at the joy of tech
- [No. You brought two too many.](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/04/no-you-brought-two-too-many/) - last weekend i was fortunate enough to see once upon a time in the west and both kill bill movies. i`ve been a long time fan of sergio leone and have managed to borrow all the man with no name westerns from the library. in terms of just sheer film making once upon a time
- [Passive Eugenics](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/04/passive-eugenics/) - as a corollary to my last post i thought i`d deal with warning labels. we`ve all seen this forward about the instructions on labels: On a Sears hairdryer -- Do not use while sleeping. On a bag of Fritos -- You could be a winner! No purchase necessary. Details inside. On a bar of Dial
- [* some conditions apply.](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/04/some-conditions-apply/) - i`ve been listening to the radio and looking through the newspapers, actually i`m just familiarising myself with my industry, so when i do get a job, i have some idea how things are done to some extent. every country i`ve worked in, has different rules about advertising. in trinidad you can`t name your competitor directly
- [who owns you](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/04/who-owns-you/) - below are a pair of articles i wrote on digital rights ownership and management a little over two years ago, in the interim, some of the things i mention like DRM [Digital Rights Management] have moved from an emerging technology to full time commercial use, like at apple`s itunes music store. i made some changes
- [the 9th circle of my own personal musical hell](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/04/the-9th-circle-of-my-own-personal-musical-hell/) - i`ve been hearing varying opinions on the blender 50 worst songs of all time and it got me thinking, these are just songs. some of them are one hit wonders, others are mostly talented musicians who just went wrong somewhere. the 9th circle of my own personal musical hell is more about artistes whose every
- [You Need This Book!](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/11/you-need-this-book/) - from the best selling ghost-writers who brought you The Crack® Diet, Embezzle Your Way to Riches and It Can`t Be Self Help If You Read It In A Book comes one of the best books of the day. Filled with cheesy conundrums and pithy platitudes, this book is guaranteed to have a catch phase in
- [some validation required](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/04/some-validation-required/) - You are a GRAMMAR GOD! If your mission in life is not already to preserve the English tongue, it should be. Congratulations and thank you! How grammatically sound are you? brought to you by Quizilla as if i didn`t already know this
- [our house](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/04/our-house/) - in the middle of the street, well actually, in the left hand corner of a cul-de-sac. one of the series, viewable here. it`s been a long and fun weekend and i`m too beat to edit the movie at the moment.
- [don't wiz on the electric fence](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/04/dont-wiz-on-the-electric-fence/) - we`re having our first official house guests this weekend. actually they arrive tonight. and house warming tomorrow, i`m excited, we`re excited. our apartment finally looks like we live here, the boxes are out of the living room, granted there are now a batch shoved into our closet and under a table in our room with
- [there's nothing funny down that road](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/04/theres-nothing-funny-down-that-road/) - this week news broke that two male porn stars and at least one female had tested positive for HIV and i`m sure there are people who would say they deserved it, for their wicked lives. they are idiots, who deserve nothing but contempt and something equally communicable. but this is not about them, this about
- [why must i suffer fools?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/04/why-must-i-suffer-fools/) - this is so obviously my day. i just got off the phone with our internet provider. apparently to stop spammers they`ve blocked the port for outgoing mail to any servers other than their own, so i can`t send mail via my mac.com address. it took me the better part of 20 minutes to find that
- [can we see the big picture?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/04/can-we-see-the-big-picture/) - I was in the middle of a post when JS went down on tuesday about the Jefferson Muzzles " the Jefferson Muzzles are awarded as a means to draw national attention to abridgments of free speech and press and, at the same time, foster an appreciation for those tenets of the First Amendment. Because the importance
- [deliverance](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/04/deliverance/) - i`d been humming duelling banjos since friday when we left to go see vic`s mom. i`d been joking with vic that i might not make it back from meeting her family, but it was all said in jest. so it`s all out there now, it took a while but it`s done. i had a great
- [give me that old time religion](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/04/give-me-that-old-time-religion/) - as the two bastions of modern morality; christianity and commercialism prepare to celebrate another holiday weekend, i find myself wondering if people have any idea about the origins of these particular feasts. i mean what do easter eggs and bunny rabbits have in common with a crucifixion? well it`s all about assimilation. as christianity grew,
- [onanistic endevours; one year later](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/04/onanistic-endevours-one-year-later/) - it`s one year to the day since i started posting here and what a long and colourful ride it`s been. i was editing some of the categories recently so i got to re-read some of my earlier entries. there`s a lot of dreck in here but there are quite a few bright spots as well
- [which country?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/04/which-country/) - Would you accept $10,000,000 to leave your country in two hours and NEVER set foot in it again? (You can not take family with you.) but seriously, it`s not about money. for the last four years i`ve been away from the country of my birth for prolonged periods and i have to say i haven`t
- [double plus ungood](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/04/double-plus-ungood/) - there is no middle ground it seems. it is always one extreme or another. everything seems to be in the name of protecting the children. i have children and sometimes you need them to run a little wild, bump their heads, do stupid shit, because if you protect them from everything they wont learn anything.
- [again](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/04/again/) - i had one of those inspirational writing moments, got started and lost it, so you`re stuck with more tales of the unpacking. there is a space in the living room. there are less than 15 boxes left and i think most of them are going straight into the attic. it feels odd saying that, i`ve
- [moved](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/04/moved-2/) - we`ll the moving is done. the beds are up, we have clothes to wear and the kitchen is clear. now we can start unpacking. the living room area is a sea of boxes. well if you can call boxes stacked 5` high and 8 - 10 deep, a sea. i should be unpacking but i`m
- [greetings from yard](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/04/greetings-from-yard/) - so being the geek that i am, i`m standing at the kitchen counter surrounded by boxes testing our dsl connection. well obviously it works. time to go pick up the truck.
- [that's not it](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/04/thats-not-it/) - i`ve been trying to write another one of those satirical pieces that i did earlier this week, it`s coming together, but i`m kind of cranky today so it`s a little more bitter sounding that it`s original intent. the piece can keep, so i`m going to leave it alone for a little while. the moving continues
- [the joke's on you](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/04/the-jokes-on-you/) - here are the top 100 april fool`s day pranks and some of the best pranks pulled online hope your day has been interesting.
- [rollin' rollin' rollin'](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/04/rollin-rollin-rollin/) - we`re still moving boxes, that`s the plan for the next couple of days. on saturday evening we get the truck and the major items move early sunday. we`ve already moved three carloads of boxes and that`s pretty much the stuff that`s in day to day use. there is still the bookcases, the beds and the
- [so gauche](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/11/so-gauche/) - in the genetic lottery i don`t think i ever had a chance not to be left-handed, from conception the odds were severely stacked against me. i come from a long line left-handedness; my mother, my father, my maternal grandfather, my paternal grandmother, you get the idea and i`ve managed to pass it on to my
- [immigration is the backwash of colonialism](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/11/immigration-is-the-backwash-of-colonialism/) - repost from 2004, it will be interesting to come back to this in another 4 years i was having a conversation on sunday night and one of the questions that came up is `why do people seem to hate america?` i think the simple answer to that question would be foreign policy. i grew up
- ['the man' owes me what?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/03/the-man-owes-me-what/) - i don`t believe in reparations. actually let me quantify that, i think the people that are most deserving and in dire need of reparations would be the remaining descendants of the tribes that were enslaved. these people lost at least four generations and are still feeling the effects. there are a number of issues i
- [all your key are belong to us](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/03/all-your-key-are-belong-to-us/) - today we get the keys for our apartment. ours. for the first time, we will officially be lessors, together. it`s been four weeks since i arrived and it`s been about settling in and even with all the expectations of things going wrong, three people unaccustomed to living together have found a rhythm. next week the
- [talk about withdrawl](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/talk-about-withdrawl/) - i got up this morning, with a multitude of thoughts to post on the last day of the year and nothing. js was down so i couldn`t get my fix. i guess it`s all for the best. another year is wrapping up. another 358 days without vic [well it would have been 365 but for
- [nappy time](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/nappy-time/) - i eventually caved and called in for food and i’ve been watching about a boy (finally saw the beginning) and hoping vic comes online. but my nocturnal activities are catching up with me. my thighs and my back hurt, i really need to drop some weight and get some exercise, i’ve never come back from
- [Top Ten](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/top-ten/) - i`ve decided i`m going to stay in tonight. i don`t feel like interacting with people and i don`t want to go out and be sullen and antisocial, i can do that in the comfort of my own apartment. the only person i want to see tonight is vic and that`s not happening. but that`s not
- [Springtime in the city](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/03/springtime-in-the-city/) - this is my first real spring, well if you can call it that, when it`s already in the high 70s [mid 20s for those of us accustomed to the metric system]. if i didn`t know what the temperature was, i can tell because of the change of attire. from the tops down on the convertibles
- [where is true north?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/03/where-is-true-north/) - my moral compass doesn`t seem to be configured like everyone else`s. well not of late, anyway. i`m for gay marriage and i also think what consenting adults do in the privacy of their bedrooms is their own damn business. i`m pro-choice, but i don`t believe abortion should be used as a form of birth control.
- [lose it all now](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/03/lose-it-all-now/) - Want to lose weight fast? Think you have too much stuff? Try the new Crack® diet. Guaranteed to rid you of everything in 90 days.* No special meals. No counting carbs. Crack® is available right in your neighbourhood and for mere dollars a day. And you can take Crack® as often as you like. Not
- [in vino veritas](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/03/in-vino-veritas/) - We are told the truth shall set us free but why is it that the truth is the only thing you have to sugar coat before someone will accept it? Why is it that most people can’t handle the truth? Shouldn`t the acceptance of truth be part of what strengthens our character? i have what
- [the power of the word](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/03/the-power-of-the-word/) - i straddle a very fragile line, i believe. i`ve worked as a writer for more than one newspaper and i`ve provided advertising content. so i have an interesting perspective of the newspaper business. it is a fragile line. 60% of an cosmopolitan newspaper is advertising and that`s a reasonable figure, in some markets it runs
- [it's only kinky the first time](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/03/its-only-kinky-the-first-time/) - i love sex and luckily i`ve found someone i love having sex with. i`ve realised from my reading there seems to be a lot of miscommunication about sex and sexuality. i`m not an expert by any stretch of the imagination but would open intercourse lead to better intercourse? sex with vic is for the most
- [rules for flying](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/03/rules-for-flying/) - in the last four years i`ve racked up quite a number of frequent flyer miles. actually i`ve been flying from about 2 weeks old. in that time i`ve learned a number of valuable lessons. 1. check in early. your bags get checked early, you get your choice of seats. and you get to avoid the
- [if it doesn't keep until the next day](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/03/if-it-doesnt-keep-until-the-next-day/) - it probably not worth writing about. a few months back i changed the style of my journal, nothing spectacular, nothing cosmetic. the major difference is in the content. i decided; admittedly after reading the smotlock opus on journalling; that some changes need to be made, i probably already knew what they were but that was
- [i love looking at you sleep](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/03/i-love-looking-at-you-sleep/) - i love to have you nestled in my arm, head on my shoulder, your breathing steady, your skin warm against mine. i love that whimsical half smile, makes me wondering what you`re dreaming about. i love climbing back into bed with you, finding that space that you automatically make for me. i love waking up
- [you have that determined set of your jaw...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/03/you-have-that-determined-set-of-your-jaw/) - like you`re thinking about something unpleasant. that has nothing to do with this post, but vic said it to me yesterday and it had such weight, i promised to lead off today`s post with it. after appropriate chiding from many sides, i`m sticking with the spelling i`ve spent my life learning. when i get a
- [stay a spell](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/03/stay-a-spell/) - i`ve changed the built in dictionary on my machine to us english in order to indoctrinate myself to some extent. i touch type, yes i do. my mother though i should learn a useful skill as i sat around her office in my wayward youth. so i`m un-learning how to spell. it`s strange to replace
- [keeping it real](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/03/keeping-it-real/) - i`ve been waiting for the other shoe to drop. i mean, i`m living in a predominantly caucasian city, married to a caucasian woman with a striking blond boy child in tow. i don`t have any hang-ups about this, but i`m sure a lot of people will. thus far, there haven`t been any weird looks [or
- [love is... being comfortable](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/03/love-is-being-comfortable/) - yesterday we were out to dinner and we were referred to as newlyweds. i guess we are in a manner of speaking. tomorrow marks two weeks since i`ve been here. this has been the longest time we`ve been together. it`s been an amazing two weeks. everything feels natural, from waking up in the morning and
- [i, appalled](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/03/i-appalled/) - 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does
- [hair, there and everywhere](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/03/hair-there-and-everywhere/) - i`ve been growing it for 8 years now. and as much shit as i get for it, i like it, it`s part of who i am. my original plan was to cut it after a decade but now i`m not so sure. i know there are a couple people who would never talk to me
- [i must have grown](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/03/i-must-have-grown/) - as i put the black pants i`ve been wearing into the current load of laundry, i`m looking around for something to put on. wait i have a closet full of clothes that haven`t been worn since i left naples in june 2001. open the closet and try on the first pair of pants. ooh the
- [i'm not vain](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/03/im-not-vain/) - well not particularly anyway. well to be more specific not about personal appearance. with my work however it`s a horse of a different color. [is that the analogy? i can never remember and i`d hate to be mixing metaphors, but...] i think in my line of work 80% of the work you produce is ego
- [we're not in the tropics anymore](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/03/were-not-in-the-tropics-anymore/) - this morning found me scraping frost of the windshield of the car. if there has ever been a wake up call for cultural differences, that would be it. i think i may be enjoying this house husband thing too much. i left the house in my pyjamas this morning. just put on some socks and
- [there is nothing new under the sun](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/03/there-is-nothing-new-under-the-sun/) - i was driving home from dropping the boy chick off at school when i heard an ad for the local paper, what had me bemused was the closing tag. it`s the same tag line we used in jamaica for the newspaper campaign i did. it wasn`t plagiarism because before today i`d never heard it, hell
- [coitus interruptus](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/03/coitus-interruptus/) - we got busted twice this weekend. the joys of a noisy bed and a concerned child. it was hilarious. there was no barging in just a consistent knock on the door and queries as to what was making all that noise. as i`m typing this i`m still laughing. it`s been like that. we`ve been getting
- [can't get enough of your love baby](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/03/cant-get-enough-of-your-love-baby/) - vic is at work, the boy chick is next door and i`m apartment hunting. i think we`re still accepting the reality that we`re here. together. and it is amazing. we drove for 5 hours to see my friend sam on thursday night [the boy chick had friday off from school] and now i have a
- [resurfacing](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/03/resurfacing/) - well just a peek. we`ve been busy [get your mind out of the gutter] but there`s been that too. it took me two days of bureaucracy to get a driver`s license. but i`ve got it, i`m insured on the car and i have some health insurance. i have a meeting about a job tomorrow [well
- [on the road again](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/03/on-the-road-again-2/) - vic says i do the worse willie nelson impression on earth. i know i don't have a singing voice so i might just have to agree with her. i had intended to type this in the comfort of my own [well my mother's] adobe before i left this morning. but as it stands or sits,
- [hi honey, i'm home](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/03/hi-honey-im-home/) - after nearly two years, i am home. we are home. no oceans, no seas, the two of us together. finally. thank you all for your prayers, thoughts, support. i`m here. i`m safe. we`re together. we of course will not be around much for the next couple of days.
- [just keep swimming](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/just-keep-swimming/) - i am exhausted. between getting hijacked by the airline last night, hanging out with one of my best friends last night, then staying up and chatting with my mom until some ungodly hour, then up early this morning, getting my hair washed, hanging out with one of my girls and attending a wedding reception. now
- [dull, duller, dulles](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/dull-duller-dulles/) - this is the first time i`m flying into DC but i`ve been there before under a very interesting set of circumstances too. in 1998, i took a hiatus from my job and went to NY and interned at an art gallery in the east village for six weeks. while i was there i managed my
- [and now the end is near](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/and-now-the-end-is-near/) - this is the final curtain. and i`m ready to get the fuck out of dodge. i`m irritable, i don`t want to be here anymore. why is it on my last day of work, i feel so sullen and ill tempered? this is a good day. right? i don`t get this. i shouldn`t be feeling like
- [penultimate day](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/penultimate-day/) - at work. i haven`t done fuck all day. well that`s not entirely true. i haven`t done any work. i`m still waiting on pictures and info for the annual report. i`ve organised all the jobs i worked on so anyone with even the smallest iota of common sense can find them. other than that vic and
- [an interesting question](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/an-interesting-question/) - someone asked an interesting question in response to my last post. i was going to answer it as a comment, but i thought it required more attention than that. vic and i are not living in a fairy tale and we know that. things are not going to be peachy and perfect all the time.
- [things to do on a public holiday](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/things-to-do-on-a-public-holiday/) - ash wednesday is a public holiday in jamaica, but i`m in the office. i`m trying to wrap up the design of this annual report before i leave, there are volumes of information missing but i think if i can at least create a template, whoever is wrapping it up after i leave should have no
- [i made a promise to myself](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/i-made-a-promise-to-myself/) - Step 1: Open your mp3 player. Step 2: Put all of your music on random. Step 3: List the first ten songs it plays, no matter how embarrassing. and here is mine: Nu Flow - Big Brovaz If You Leave - OMD Get Busy - Sean Paul Poison [Environmental Remix] - Prodigy Hopeless - Dionne
- [not in my back yard](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/not-in-my-back-yard/) - Do you think a child molester can be rehabilitated? Would you trust a rehabilitated child molester recently released from prison and living on your block? no. i don`t even care if they can be. not anywhere around my children. there are things i`m liberal about not my children and their well being. end of conversation
- [fat tuesday](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/fat-tuesday/) - this is the last week. this time next week i`ll be on my way. time flies when you`re having fun. i don`t know where last week went and i`m hoping this one goes by just as quickly. dhl seems to have misplaced one of my boxes of books and i`m trying not to lose my
- [money isn't everything](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/money-isnt-everything/) - You and your mate/spouse have been going through drama for a while now. They have been cheating on you for a minute and you know this for sure, but the only thing is that they don`t know that you know they are cheating. You are strategically planning to leave them because you can`t take it
- [the art of storytelling](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/the-art-of-storytelling/) - i like stories. i`m a sucker of a good story of any kind, on paper, on film, online, but my favourite is, the oral tradition. listening to someone weave a tale. i met vic`s father before he died and he was one of the best, i spent a day just listening to him. he was
- [a carnival story [or seven days without sleep makes one week]](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/a-carnival-story-or-seven-days-without-sleep-makes-one-week/) - scrapped. i reread what i`d written about 5 times and i wasn`t at all happy with it. there was no way to tell the tale of that carnival without including all the sordid details. carnival is an interesting time in trinidad. all the wining and the semi-naked bodies may seem sexual but up until fairly
- [wine, women and song](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/wine-women-and-song/) - it`s carnival weekend in trinidad and i`m nowhere near it. i think i miss the principle of it. yes, there have been carnivals where i did absolutely nothing and carnivals for 7 days of non-stop feteing but i don`t even have the choice. i was in bed and asleep by 9:30 on a carnival friday,
- [my friends](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/my-friends/) - Do you feel like your really close friends are similar to yourself or do you have a variety of different friends? Has the behavior of one of your friends ever influenced stranger`s opinion of you whether it be positive or negative? well i only have a few very close friends and they all know each
- [white noise and sparkles](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/white-noise-and-sparkles/) - i can`t function in silence. at work i have my collection of music, these days i`m sharing ie my headphones remain in my desk drawer and the rest of the department gets to share in some of my eclectic tastes. at home, well what was my home until last saturday, i had the laptop connect
- [must have my fix](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/must-have-my-fix/) - my god, is this what withdrawal is like? a whole day without posting, i should get accustomed. i had all this thoughts for posts and of course being the sensible and somewhat busy do bee today, i didn`t displace any electrons and save them anywhere. they`ve been keeping me on my toes at the office,
- [observations](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/observations/) - i made a slight detour this morning before i came into work. i went downtown to do something for my mother. now when i was moving to jamaica i heard all these stories about how dangerous it is, yadda, yadda, yadda. you know what, it`s no more dangerous than any other urban centre. most jamaicans
- [another sign of the impending apocalypse](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/another-sign-of-the-impending-apocalypse/) - WTF
- [two weeks, fourteen day, 336 hours, 20,160 minutes](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/two-weeks-fourteen-day-336-hours-20160-minutes/) - by the time i finish typing this, it will be exactly two weeks until i land in dc on my way to nashville. as productive as i was yesterday, today, i`m just twiddling my thumbs, i can`t focus on work, i don`t even want to be in the office. i want to be with vic,
- [twofer](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/twofer/) - Suppose you`re having what you consider an intellectual conversation with an individual that you met online and the two of you decided to exchange pics. You send the person a nicely groomed photo of yourself,but in return, they send you a nude photo of themself. What thought(s) would cross your mind? Would you continue the
- [i'm far too chipper for a monday](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/im-far-too-chipper-for-a-monday/) - i just came back from picking up my ticket. it`s hard to believe it`s only going to be another two weeks. all tickets are in hand, i still haven`t finished packing and i haven`t organised the boxes, but i think that`s on the agenda for this afternoon. i`m literally bouncing off the walls here. i`ve
- [movin! groovin! now i'm going to get up and do my thing](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/movin-groovin-now-im-going-to-get-up-and-do-my-thing/) - i moved out of my apartment yesterday. my lease was up. i`m crashing with a friend for the next two weeks. i have to unpack today, but it`s really just an exercise in deciding what needs to be packed away properly and what i`m wearing for the next two weeks. i have boxes to ship,
- [i read, therefore i am](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/i-read-therefore-i-am/) - stole this from sungoddess 1984, George Orwell The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho Alice`s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll Animal Farm, George Orwell Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer The BFG, Roald Dahl Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks Black Beauty, Anna Sewell Bleak House, Charles Dickens Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- [juno, lupercalia, beheadings and commercialism](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/juno-lupercalia-beheadings-and-commercialism/) - Valentine`s Day started in the time of the Roman Empire. In ancient Rome, February 14th was a holiday to honor Juno. Juno was the Queen of the Roman Gods and Goddesses. The Romans also knew her as the Goddess of women and marriage. The following day, February 15th, began the Feast of Lupercalia. The lives
- [blood, sweat and tears](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/blood-sweat-and-tears/) - it`s obvious by now that i have tattoos, what`s not immediately obvious is what the mean and their significance. before i go i have to point out, the most intelligent thing axel rose ever said is, if you want a tattoo, wait two years, if you still want the same thing after that, then get
- [the final countdown](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/the-final-countdown/) - i`m sitting in grantley adams international airport, one of the last three airports i`ll be travelling alone from. i`m less of the emotional wreck that i was yesterday, i`m still eternally grateful for all the prayers and good wishes and support, moral and physical through the last two years. by the time this is posted,
- [it's done](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/its-done/) - bear with me, this is going to read like an oscar acceptance speech. i want to thank the pantheon of deities, the prayers, the sacrificial offerings, the support, the kind words. whatever you offered during the last two years to keep me/us focussed. thank you all. my friends and family who put up with my
- [poked and prodded](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/poked-and-prodded/) - you know under other circumstances i might just enjoy this kind of treatment. at least i get to find out how unwell i am. i`ve started typing this at home, well what i`m call home for the duration of the visit. i`ll probably update while i sit and wait at the dr`s office. if i
- [it's always one more thing](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/its-always-one-more-thing/) - so the day is done and i`m still in barbados sans visa. it`s approved, but if accepted it today, i would have to be on us soil by midnight tomorrow when my medical expires. so i`m off in the morning to do my medical. again. meaning i`m going to be here for another three day.
- [j'arrive](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/jarrive/) - and it being me, i could not have arrive here [barbados for those of you who came in late] without some drama. i left home early got to the airport on time but getting out of the car, as i turned from taking my bag out, i experienced a pain heretofore unheard of. it`s a
- [and this is it](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/and-this-is-it/) - it`s 6am, still dark outside. i can look up and see the full moon. today i`m not so worried about being up at this hour, i have to do some cleaning up this morning and in about six and a half hours i`ll be boarding a flight to barbados. i have everything that was requested,
- [what i do](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/what-i-do/) - i`m an associate creative director at a mid size advertising agency. what that means is attend meetings, come up with ideas, work on them and in some cases pass the job on for completion [actually if i can get rid of my controlling and anal retentive nature i can do my job properly and pass
- [clients are fucking morons](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/clients-are-fucking-morons/) - i want to scream. how many weeks after the client saw the original layouts, hours before finished artwork goes down to the paper, he decides that he doesn`t like one of the pictures. it`s not like it`s the first time he saw the image. he saw the layouts and the photography is faithful to the
- [this has got to stop](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/this-has-got-to-stop/) - i know it`s been said the older you get, the less sleep you need but fucking hell. i`ve working thirteen hours a day since sunday, coming home tired going to sleep and getting up at some ridiculous hour. it`s not the falling asleep that is the problem. i go to bed, my head hits the
- [weapons of breast distraction](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/weapons-of-breast-distraction/) - ok, it was uncovered, pierced, brown nipple and if you or your children missed it the first couple of nano-seconds it was on screen, the furore that`s been created around is all but guaranteed that people are going to seek it out now. and based on the bandwidth exceeded messages on servers hosting pictures and
- [our chief weapon is suprise](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/our-chief-weapon-is-suprise/) - i`m up far too early. it`s begun again. i`ve been getting up at 5am unable to go back to sleep. i lay in the bed, do breathing exercises, think calm thoughts, zip. i just end up laying there and eventually i get up and end up on the computer. i need all the sleep i
- [you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous, pervert](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/you-vacuous-toffee-nosed-malodorous-pervert/) - well it`s been a long day, i spent almost thirteen hours in the office today, i`ve been pulling clipping paths on images all day and that`s just to magic a foreground image onto a background. i haven`t even started to do the necessary work for the completion of the advertising. but i am making progress.
- [WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/war-is-peace-freedom-is-slavery-ignorance-is-strength/) - welcome to 1984 we`re already on the way there, this will just be the final nail in this particular coffin. Technorati Tags: 1984, george orwell
- [fair and unbaised coverage](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/fair-and-unbaised-coverage/) - there is an adage that i find very interesting, there are three sides to every story, each party`s side and the truth. i posted a link to the NYT story about child porn and how much it upset me, i edited it later with some interesting questions that were being asked of the story [i
- [rabbit, rabbit](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/02/rabbit-rabbit-3/) - it`s sunday, early afternoon and i`m in the office, i`ve been here almost since early this morning. so since it`s sunday and i should be working i`m going to make this brief. it really is only two links. the first of which is apple`s giant fuck you to the RIAA. steve seems to be on
- [it's about damn time](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/its-about-damn-time/) - douglas adam fans of the world unite and cheer, casting and production have begun on The Hitchhiker`s Guide to the Galaxy movie. it`s going to be a mostly english production with a few surprises not the least of which is Mos Def as Ford Prefect. other roles cast include Zooey Deschanel as Trillian, Martin Freeman
- [things to be thankful for](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/things-to-be-thankful-for/) - i`m thankful for the friends and well-wishers this week. wednesday was really a low point for me, but since then i`ve gotten a lot of support. things are under control, not entirely through my own machinations, but because people have stepped up to help me. from the smallest offer to say a prayer to material
- [if  i could turn back time](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/if-i-could-turn-back-time/) - If you could go back to any age, what age would you choose and WHY? i wouldn`t actually. i`m pretty happy with me right now. well i would go back about three years and suggest a different course of action but otherwise, every step in my life that has brought me here, is a learning
- [two hundred and ninety-nine point six](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/two-hundred-and-ninety-nine-point-six/) - we were shooting in the airport this morning, so i took a golden opportunity to get on a scale. it`s a good thing my heavy ass doesn`t have fucking heart problems. i have hit a benchmark that has always been my upper marker. i am three hundred pounds. i`m traumatised. the fact that i don`t
- [work in progress](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/work-in-progress/) - two more photo shoots wrapped. i can expect delivery of my cds in the morning with my images at the 7am call. i should go to be early tonight, stayed up until 2 am talking to vic, planning and trying to figure out what we`re going to do. i managed to get everything i needed
- [instant gratification](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/instant-gratification/) - in all my rage yesterday, i forgot to mention that both the shoots yesterday went well. the really cool thing is that the photographer is shooting digital. he`s got a 22 megapixel digital back connected via firewire to his laptop. it`s a modified 4x5 camera with a digital processor where the film loader would be
- [deep breath. hold. exhale. deep breath.](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/deep-breath-hold-exhale-deep-breath/) - showered, fed, doing breathing exercises. i am the man with a plan. this too shall pass. i have one plan and if i have one plan, that means i`ll come up with others and sure enough they`re already forming.
- [two steps forward, one giant fucking leap backward](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/two-steps-forward-one-giant-fucking-leap-backward/) - or as uncle says `one more thing` it`s always one more thing isn`t it. fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck!
- [and so it begins](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/and-so-it-begins/) - today marks the beginning of four days of location photography. my first photo shoot here starts in about two hours. i`m a little nervous, i`ve never worked with this photographer before, we`re shooting models on location, also new to me. but this is what i live for, the challenge. the concept is done and approved,
- [prostitution should be legal](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/prostitution-should-be-legal/) - i`m serious. prostitution should be legal and taxed. george carlin summed it up best, "fucking is legal, selling is legal, why shouldn`t selling fucking be legal?" seriously, i think it would help on various levels. in an ideal society, you`d have to be of legal age, get registered, get tested regularly, display your certificates, a
- [don't you lick the things you love...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/dont-you-lick-the-things-you-love/) - i love music. i`m a fan. i can`t say i never played air guitar, but i was more prone to play air`bass. my fantasy job in the music business would be sound engineer however. i love good quality sound where you can hear the individual components contributing to the overall harmony. most of my music
- [and a chill swept the room](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/and-a-chill-swept-the-room/) - i don`t really talk about my children here, because i don`t think it`s appropriate, but it`s not so much the measure of impropriety, it`s the fear i have for them. i would kill anyone that anyone that tries to do them harm. i`m not an especially violent person, no matter how much i rant here.
- [coming to you live from the seventh layer of hell](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/coming-to-you-live-from-the-seventh-layer-of-hell/) - it`s monday, you`re probably struggling through your day, here is the cure to what ails you, take a couple of these and leave a comment. i should warn however, that these are in no way safe for a work environment. use with discretion.
- [because, straw is light and easy to carry](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/because-straw-is-light-and-easy-to-carry/) - and we can nibble on a wall or two even. i hadn`t planned on posting again for the day, but this required getting off my chest. i just had dinner delivered. pizza. hawaiian. the delivery guy asks "are you going to eat that?" i look at him puzzled as to why i would order something,
- [the joy of pain](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/the-joy-of-pain/) - i`m feeling the need for ink. i`m ready to finish my back. actually i`ve been ready for months but time and schedules never meshed. if you`re squeamish, i suggest you stop reading now. ok, then, onward, be forewarned there`s some odd, possibly disgusting stuff later on. my first really tattoo was the 13" sun on
- [welcome back](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/welcome-back/) - question of the day or week in this case If you were offered a commercial (90-SECONDS) spot during prime-time television to SAY or PROMOTE anything you wanted, how would you use this time choices, choices, choices. i would promote tolerance. for religion, for sexuality, for ethnicity, for our fellow man. think about the affect on
- [a pouch on a kangaroo?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/a-pouch-on-a-kangaroo/) - i got a call from the embassy today. i was told that my packet had been sent off sometime close to when the letter i received was mailed. the date on the letter is november 25 but only arrived on my doorstep in january. the postmark on the envelope is december 23. i found out
- [the carcasses of kittens lie scattered around the bed](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/the-carcasses-of-kittens-lie-scattered-around-the-bed/) - there is a cycle of arousal i go through. it`s not that i don`t always want vic, it`s just there are times like now that the need reaches a fever pitch. my skin tingles with the thought of her, i can almost smell her and at times i do, only to realise she`s not there.
- [01100111011001010110010101101011](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/01100111011001010110010101101011/) - yes, it does mean something. i`m taking it easy this morning, i should be getting bathing and getting dressed about now, but i`m still sitting around at home, not quite ready to go to work. i`m going, but not just yet. i have a familiarity with machines that is frightening to a lot of people.
- [getting high on your own supply](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/getting-high-on-your-own-supply/) - i`m still on the presentation high. we came, we saw and i kicked much fucking ass. the presentation was a resounding success, i reworked the original imagery, changed the font and it was hit. time for the roll out, photography, location, models, props all that good stuff, for it to be ready in two weeks.
- [Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/il-buono-il-brutto-il-cattivo/) - i`ve been under some pressure at the office, still am and will continue to be until this afternoon when we have a final presentation to the client at which point all hell will break loose, because it will either be approved and have to go finished art in under two weeks or we`ll have to
- [a different sort of tale](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/a-different-sort-of-tale/) - i may know the craft of writing but vic knows the art of it. here`s a story she wrote me today: Hundreds of years ago in a tiny village in the south of what is now France in a time yet to be tyrannised by the rule of clocks lived a man and a woman.
- [more dahl](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/more-dahl/) - i`m glad to see Lamb to the Slaughter was so well received. he is far and away my favourite short story writer, many writers have borrowed liberally from him in terms of style and content. a lot of his short stories also translated into tales from the unexpected episode and the following story was the
- [no news is…](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/no-news-is…/) - not necessarily good news, but it draws it out. the guy i`m dealing with is being helpful and pleasant which is a change from most of the bureaucrats i`ve dealt with thus far, he isn`t treating our life as his own personal fiefdom and me as an insignificant serf. he said it should have been
- [Lamb to the slaughter](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/lamb-to-the-slaughter/) - a short story by Roald Dahl The room was warm and clean, the curtains drawn, the two table lamps alight-hers and the one by the empty chair opposite. On the sideboard behind her, two tall glasses, soda water, whiskey. Fresh ice cubes in the Thermos bucket. Mary Maloney was waiting for her husband to come
- [ah the vagries of technology](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/ah-the-vagries-of-technology/) - i started writing this missive about my interactions with computers over the last 22 years but it was going on, i hadn`t finished and it was time for me to get to work, so brightly i emailed it to myself planning to finish it at work. it`s almost three hours later and it`s yet to
- [happy anniversary](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/happy-anniversary/) - today is our second anniversary, hopefully our last apart. my truest wish is that we`ll get our anniversary present on tuesday when i call the embassy. there are not words enough nor minutes, nor hours, day, weeks, year, lifetimes to cover the expanse of my love for you. i love you victoria. happy anniversary. Technorati
- [assumption is the mother of all fuckups](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/assumption-is-the-mother-of-all-fuckups-2/) - some of my closest friends are my exes. i don`t think it strange, because in most cases we were friends first, the relationships came afterwards. the return to friendship wasn`t always immediate, but it happened after a time, because that`s what true friendship is about. i don`t know if it`s just me, but i find
- [assumption is the mother of all fuckups](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/assumption-is-the-mother-of-all-fuckups/) - some of my closest friends are my exes. i don`t think it strange, because in most cases we were friends first, the relationships came afterwards. the return to friendship wasn`t always immediate, but it happened after a time, because that`s what true friendship is about. i don`t know if it`s just me, but i find
- [rockets and penises in the persian gulf](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/rockets-and-penises-in-the-persian-gulf/) - read and enjoy. bear in mind this piece was originally done in 1990, read it and see how applicable it is today. Technorati Tags: george carlin
- [more fun with words](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/more-fun-with-words/) - it`s friday night, i`m at home i have a high speed internet connection, you know what that means? fun links. well a fun link, the american dialect society`s 2003 word list. enjoy
- [from the ghetto](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/from-the-ghetto/) - sorry i couldn`t resist. we have a meeting this afternoon and i already have some ideas about how to temper the campaign while still maintaining my integrity. this is why i like working here, i get opportunities to flex my talents. the other presentation that i attended this morning went well, i`ve realised i don`t
- [too bourgeoisie?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/too-bourgeoisie/) - too fucking bourgeoisie? what the fuck? i have to laugh, in what i can only call a back handed compliment the client said my work was basically too upmarket looking. "it would be more at home in a UK paper" all i could do is smile politely, but in the back of my mind, you
- [triumph](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/triumph/) - it`s a little before 1pm, the presentation is at two, all the prints are done, being mounted as we speak. there were the expected snafus. wouldn`t print from my computer. some of the prints looked blah, but all told we`re done. all that`s left at this point is the client`s unending joy. and yes, i
- [where did that thought go?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/where-did-that-thought-go/) - just before i fell asleep last night i had a brilliant thought about what i was going to post this morning. maybe it`s for the best, it was very political and maybe i should steer clear of politics for the time being. there are so many thoughts careening around in my head and i can`t
- [who's your daddy](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/whos-your-daddy/) - Do you think there is gender discrimination in regards to child support or the courts awarding custody of children to fathers? thankfully in my experience no, but i have heard some horror stories. the extended family that i call my own is interesting on many levels and even with personal disagreements, everyone has the welfare
- [high energy output](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/high-energy-output/) - presentation one is wrapped, that leaves two and three which are my babies and i`ve been working pretty solidly on two, the actual presentation is tomorrow. i`ve worked late the last two nighta and by the time i get home i`m physically drained and pretty much collapse into bed. it`s not a bad feeling, i
- [it's only socialism if it involves your personal wealth](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/10/its-only-socialism-if-it-involves-your-personal-wealth/) - as of this writing there are less than five days left before what many people are touting as the most historic election of our lifetime. i feel strangely apathetic, i've documented my feelings about how the system works on more than one occasion. and i think any respect i had for either candidate went out
- [there are rules that need to be followed](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/11/there-are-rules-that-need-to-be-followed/) - the wyf and i went to asheville, nc for two days, as part of her birthday celebration i got tickets for her to see one of her musical idols billy bragg, there are pictures here. good times were had by all of course, but that's the reason for this post. remember rule #5 of the
- [sex and sensuality](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/11/sex-and-sensuality/) - this was something i wrote 5 years ago, it still holds so true. sex has become a commodity and seems to be daily losing it`s value. sex is being used to sell everything, slowly we`re becoming more and more inured. what were once alternative lifestyles have become mainstream. i have no issues with this. i
- [sacrificing your personal freedoms](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/sacrificing-your-personal-freedoms/) - with my immigration status still up in the air it would be wise to temper what i say in a public forum. well temperance has never been one of my strong suits. there are a number of things that are occurring around me and for the sake of being with vic, i`ve held my peace,
- [i am such a freak](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/i-am-such-a-freak/) - it`s been a long day, bear with me. it was highly productive today, but i`ve been going nonstop all day. in typical anal retentive fashion, i followed up on my jamaican citizenship application which entailed two trips to the passport office. i then spent the rest of the day work on layouts for the presentation
- [Television is not your fucking babysitter](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/television-is-not-your-fucking-babysitter/) - The TELEVISION was a great invention, no doubt. But today how much of your life is spent watching it? How many kids sit in front of it and stay for hours refusing to go outside for play but yet seem to be getting fatter? Are we as a nation just couch potatoes? What role does
- [IMDB Top 250 Movies](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/imdb-top-250-movies/) - this has been knocking about JS today after a fashion, all courtesy jazzchic. the list is based on user votes, some of the choices below 100 are quite interesting. i`ve highlighted all the ones i`ve seen and yes, i`m a movie buff. 1 Godfather, The (1972) 2 Shawshank Redemption, The (1994) 3 Godfather: Part II,
- [growing into my name](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/growing-into-my-name/) - keifel is my given name. it doesn`t mean anything, my mother came across a variation in a book she was reading, modified it and gave it to me with a plethora of middle names. which we wont get into, yet. the root is germanic and properly pronounced like the tower Eiffel with soft `k`. however
- [it's the media, it's the media](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/its-the-media-its-the-media/) - Why do you think we are quick to believe something negative about someone before we accept/believe something positive? Even when it’s obvious that someone has done something positive like lose weight there is always someone who assumes you starved or had plastic surgery they have to attach something NEGATIVE to your good news. Why are we so drawn
- [hippocratic oath gone awry?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/hippocratic-oath-gone-awry/) - in the course of my readings here and other blogs, i get a sense of general loathing of most of the practitioners of the medical profession, i find this more than a little strange. i guess it`s the difference in health care. i`ve had the same doctor for as long as i can remember. she`s
- [what is to is must is](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/what-is-to-is-must-is/) - caribbean zen. when i was a child my mother used to tell me what is for me, can`t be unfor me and for years i puzzled over that. age brings wisdom and the older i get the calmer i get. hard to believe based on some of my outbursts here, but i`ve calmed down significantly.
- [the enormity is finally sinking in](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/the-enormity-is-finally-sinking-in/) - the adrenaline has passed, now it`s all about the logistics. do i go to trinidad first? how much time do i have? do i send my books and stuff i`m not using now by post? what are we going to do for money? what am i going do until i get my work permit? the
- [real connections or displaced electrons](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/real-connections-or-displaced-electrons/) - I named my journal SOUL DEEP for a reason. I feel I’m giving people a view into my SOUL. What causes a person to think of someone or make a connection with someone they`ve never physically met? Is it the anonymity or the mystery of not knowing who we are really communicating with? If you
- [capable of coherent thought](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/capable-of-coherent-thought/) - i think my heart has stopped racing now. i`m still as hyper as a five year old on christmas eve. i don`t think i had very many coherent thoughts yesterday. i`m still stunned. i`m happy, fuck i`m ecstatic, but it`s still tempered with boatloads of caution. we still have to wait on the embassy in
- [shutting down](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/shutting-down/) - i can always remember when i`ve been happy, it`s clear, i know the day, the time, the hour, the location, the smells, the sounds. sadly, there are massive chunks of my childhood, adolence and young adulthood missing. i have a lot of memories about ian. i met ian in 1992, shortly after i got settled
- [ROTK, oversleeping, working and a spectacular piece of news](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/rotk-oversleeping-working-and-a-spectacular-piece-of-news/) - i haven`t been able to post for the day for a number of reasons but i think this post was well worth the wait. my vocabulary has been pretty much limited all morning really. i got my approval from the INS. meaning vic and i are one step closer to becoming a real family. it`s
- [fwb, fuck buddies and other misconceptions](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/fwb-fuck-buddies-and-other-misconceptions/) - You and a good friend - maybe even your best friend - have gotten, well... closer. So close as to have started having sexual relations. It`s all good... now you have the perfect fuck friend, but is it truly possible to keep the FRIEND part going, and indulge in the FUCK part... or have you
- [NyQuil - Capitol N, small Y, big fucking Q!](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/nyquil-capitol-n-small-y-big-fucking-q/) - there are so many people on JS talking about the effects nyquil is having on them, i though i`d post this here, rather than leaving it as a comment in their journals. I don`t do illegal drugs anymore. Now I just do the legal drugs. Tonight I`m on NyQuil and Sudafed. Let me tell you
- [my friend ian has been dead a little over a year](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/my-friend-ian-has-been-dead-a-little-over-a-year/) - i don`t process death and illness very well, particularly in people that i`m close to. when i was younger, one of best friends and schoolmates died. it was unexpected and what traumatised me even more, is we were the last people to see him. he`s been out with the flu and myself and few other
- [interacting with people](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/interacting-with-people/) - despite my general antisocial nature, i made a new friend this weekend. that in itself is a cool story. on a forum i`m a member of, a new member joined from jamaica and i though i`d attempt to be sociable. so i asked what part of jamaica she was from, trying to expand the circle
- [words can be difficult to swallow](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/words-can-be-difficult-to-swallow/) - Apologizing to a s/o or spouse can be difficult, especially when it`s a disagreement you`ve had numerous times before. Maybe you just can`t seem to get the word "sorry" out of your mouth, or perhaps you`ve tried every last thing you could think of to show them that this time you really mean it. Men/Women,
- [seasoning's greetings](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/seasonings-greetings/) - cophereth asked what i used to season with and i started this long treatise in the comments and realised it was better suited as a post. i`m deadly allergic to shellfish and have a mild allergy to fish, so i`m pretty much a carnivore. although with all the over processing, i`m cutting chicken from my
- [i'm not as young as i used to be](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/im-not-as-young-as-i-used-to-be/) - drinking the night away used to be such fun and so lacking in side effects. there was no hangover yesterday, but i was so exhausted. i was lethargic all day and in bed by 6:30pm, albeit, i did get up about 11 to talk to vic for a while, i was back in bed by
- [veni, vidi, bibi](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/veni-vidi-bibi/) - i managed to ring in the new year soundly in my bed, i attempted to make up for that last night at a lavish bash thrown by the ubquitous frenchmen. apparently, the frenchmen are; to jamaican, upper middle and upper class citizenry, recalcitrant trinis and everyone who thinks they`ve arrived; the same class of fete
- [how content am i?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/how-content-am-i/) - How content are you with your life today? Are you HAPPY? What would you change today to make life better for your future? i`m as content as i can be when i haven`t seen my wife and the love my life for close to six month. i`m content, i have a job that affords me
- [new year, leap year](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2004/01/new-year-leap-year/) - it`s a new year for those following the gregorian calendar, the chinese new year does begin for another three weeks. 2004 AD. Year 4701 or Year of the Monkey. I`m sure there are other calendar dates that i`m missing but, c`est la vie. i get a sense of power in this year, it`s ripe with
- [i used to cruise target](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/i-used-to-cruise-target/) - not to pick anyone up mind you. but living in naples, fl, on my own, my choices of entertainment were limited. i didn`t play golf and i think drinking on my own is a beginning sign of alcoholism. so i was left with cruising through target. not actually buying anything most trips. just walking up
- [year end wrap up](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/year-end-wrap-up/) - i decided earlier that my contribution to the year end wrap up was to post my ten favourite sites of the year and a couple other top ten lists i found while i waste the day online The P.U.-Litzer Prizes for 2003 Honouring the stinkiest media performances for the year. The 2003 Media Follies! An
- [nothing to excess](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/nothing-to-excess/) - Are you against "Public Displays of Affection"? Does it bother you to see kissing in public or someone damn near grinding? If you said NO, would it bother you if the couple were of the same sex? i`m not against public displays of affection, i`d be a hypocrite if i said i was. when i
- [money, money, money](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/money-money-money/) - sometime last week monet posed the question what would you do for a million dollars and i answered fairly honestly. however i did come across a couple of things that i could find to do with my money if i were independently wealthy. first of all no man is an island, but with enough money
- [i'm an addict](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/im-an-addict/) - yesterday c&w came to my humble abode and installed dsl. it`s been like reaching the promised land. i have an internet connection at home, my television remained off most of the night, i cooked while chatting with friends, i managed to stay up until almost 1am. and the thought that comes to mind with great
- [survey says...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/survey-says-2/) - The capacity to handle criticism and grow from it is a very important aspect of becoming successful. Criticism comes in two flavors: constructive and destructive. Both should be handled carefully, albeit in a different manner. Most people attach a negative connotation to the word criticism because it brings to mind something destructive. We all remember
- [and we're back](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/and-were-back-2/) - i`m a little torn, i`m missing the girls already and i miss my friends, but i`m glad to be back in my own space. tiny as it is, my apartment is mine, the disarray, the clutter and i missed it. it`s an odd combination of emotions, i loved having the girls clambering all over me
- [trifling, pedantic shit](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/trifling-pedantic-shit/) - three days of good karma, peace on earth, goodwill to all, fucked over royally with less than 2 hours remaining in trinidad. when i left trinidad in november i had four pieces of hand luggage, one of them was my pool cue in its case, when i left jamaica on christmas eve, again one of
- [and a little child shall lead them](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/and-a-little-child-shall-lead-them/) - i spent most of this afternoon hanging out with the younger of my two girls. she abandoned all other engagements on her busy social schedule to spend the evening with me. the smile on my face could like continents. i love my girls equally and watching them develop into young women fills me with great
- [it's friday, i'm in trinidad](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/its-friday-im-in-trinidad/) - you know what that means. pool. for the first time in five weeks i got to shoot pool, it was also pt`s birthday and we had company. thus ensuring i had a number of people soundly cut my arse. it was as bad as i expected. i really need to find a pool partner in
- [i shall say this only once](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/i-shall-say-this-only-once/) - return of the king was great. i enjoyed right up to the last fifteen minutes [look away spoiler ahead] when the skipped the battle for the shire. what the fuck was that about? i was pissed. you have all this fucking arwen eveningstar shit, that don`t get four lines in the book but you cut
- [to be loved](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/to-be-loved/) - there is nothing greater than the unconditional love of your children. they are the reason i came home. i know it`s been only a month, but they`ve grown and it was wonderful to see them. i`ve missed them. i didn`t realised how much i missed my mother as well until we chatted to close to
- [merry, happy, season's, best](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/merry-happy-seasons-best/) - whatever this time of year finds you celebrating, experiencing or sharing, all the best to you and yours. may you be safe and happy over the next few days and if not happy, at least come back to us as soon as you can. if you didn`t already know, i`m heading home for christmas with
- [food for thought](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/food-for-thought/) - What have you done today that will add an extra day to your life?? i prayed and i offered comfort to someone in need. i don`t think there`s much more than that.
- [back then, when it was fun](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/back-then-when-it-was-fun/) - i didn`t always loathe christmas. it wasn`t always a thorn in my flesh. for the first sixteen years of my life, christmas was one of my favourite times of year. my mother and i would fly from trinidad to jamaica on the first flight after i got my report book at christmas. getting there was
- [right here, right now](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/right-here-right-now/) - I know we all have things we`d like to accomplish. What are 2 of your short term goals? What are 2 of your long term goals? How likely do you think it is that your goals will be accomplished? my two short term goals, uniting my family, this hither, thither and yon, is not working
- [well that's a bitch](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/well-thats-a-bitch/) - i just got off the phone with fedex and two other international couriers, apparently i can`t send any food or beverage without a manufacturers code. it`s some requirement from the FDA as part of an increased security protocol. i love vic and my friends, but this is just fucking ridiculous. i have to unpack the
- [sucked into the maelstrom](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/sucked-into-the-maelstrom/) - so on december 21, my christmas shopping officially began. my gift list this year is short. my children, my wife, my mother and the friends that stuck by me this year. i got trinkets for the girls and my mother at a craft fair this morning, i cruised three different bookstores today looking for a
- [it's been one month](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/its-been-one-month/) - today is official one month since i`ve been here in jamaica. and i have no complaints, i like my job, i enjoy getting up in the morning and coming to work, i attend far more meetings than i enjoy, but my contributions are accepted and appreciated. i have three major projects on my desk and
- [Literally.The million dollar question](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/literallythe-million-dollar-question/) - In the day and age of reality T.V. it seems people will do anything for money. But....I wonder about my J.S. buddies. What WOULDN'T you do for a million dollars? ( I understand if this is a long list) actually my list is so long, it`s easier for me to list what i will do
- [words; some obscene, some ficticious](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/words-some-obscene-some-ficticious/) - the revised list of words that you can`t say on network tv, ever. As used in this section, the term `profane`, used with respect to language, includes the words `shit`, `piss`, `fuck`, `cunt`, `asshole`, and the phrases `cock sucker`, `mother fucker`, and `ass hole`, compound use (including hyphenated compounds) of such words and phrases with
- [the bane of christmas](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/the-bane-of-christmas/) - i`ve really been trying to find that christmas spirit but it continues to elude me. besides the rampant commercialism, the things that irks me most at this time of year are the same shitty pop songs that surface around november and you`re stuck with until december 26, when is that last time you heard some
- [them that's got shall have](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/them-thats-got-shall-have/) - i got my first salary today. it`s not too shabby, not withstanding the outstanding expenses, it`s actually liveable, i think by march i should be able to start squirrelling away some of it. until recently jamaica didn`t have much of a middle class, you either had or you didn`t. now that somewhat tenuous middle ground
- [he who is without sin...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/he-who-is-without-sin/) - Have you ever been out and seen the mate of your friend out with another love interest? (I`m speaking of an OBVIOUS encounter...deep kissing or feeling one another up) Do you mind your own business or do you let your friend know you saw their mate cheating? Does it make you less of a friend
- [you're not alone](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/youre-not-alone/) - i was reading vic`s post today and the adage "the pen is mightier than the sword" has never been truer. i look at vic and i see none of the flaws. i see a strong, beautiful talented woman. whose propensity for endless love and kindness never ceases to amaze me. she is the yin to
- [looking for lub in all the wrong places](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/looking-for-lub-in-all-the-wrong-places/) - Have you ever heard someone say they are LOOKING for love? How does one look for LOVE? Do you think it`s possible? Wouldn`t it be best to let LOVE find YOU? the harder you look the more elusive it becomes. i think part of it is pheromonal, i mentioned it in this post no matter
- [all about mr. snaffleburger](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/all-about-mr-snaffleburger/) - learn about mr. snaffleburger and the corporation right here. CONFORM! CONSUME! OBEY! Technorati Tags: mr. snaffleburger
- [and action...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/and-action/) - If your mate asked you to make a home sex video with them, would you consider it or have you done it? What are views on this? Would you do it again? with vic there is almost nothing that i`d be unwilling to try. but i don`t think either of us are of the video
- [i don't do grape](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/i-dont-do-grape/) - i will eat grapes but i draw the line there. i don`t drink grape soda, grape colour juice and sure as fucking hell grape koolaid. does not pass my lips. in november 1978, in jonestown, guyana; jim jones convinced 900 plus of his followers to drink a lethal grape juice cocktail. for a a seven
- [i like this question](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/i-like-this-question/) - After a passionate lovemaking session, the last thing a woman wants is for you to turn your back on her and begin a private snore fest. (I know the women feel me) What better way to cleanse yourselves after a hot, sweaty episode than showering together? There is no better time to communicate with one
- [words i love](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/words-i-love/) - the quarterly update of the OED is out among the new entries: blamestorming bluetooth cilantro and the ever useful, fuckwit. wonder when we`ll see that as word of the day?
- [where did we go wrong?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/where-did-we-go-wrong/) - or should that be when? i was looking at some photographs over the weekend online. i`ve been thinking about doing some portraits lately. i`m tired of seeing, what in my opinion is, an unrealistic portrait of the female form. i know a lot of women and none of them fits the barbie mould. Tall, short,
- [read the fine print](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/read-the-fine-print-2/) - i had to get out of the apartment today. it was driving me insane. i got up early this morning, did a few laps in the pool, came back upstairs made breakfast, sorted out the mailbox on my computer and it was only 10am. i couldn`t face another day of just sitting around there doing
- [read the fine print](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/read-the-fine-print/) - i had to get out of the apartment today. it was driving me insane. i got up early this morning, did a few laps in the pool, came back upstairs made breakfast, sorted out the mailbox on my computer and it was only 10am. i couldn`t face another day of just sitting around there doing
- [answering the hard questions](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/answering-the-hard-questions/) - This is a two part question. What are your plans for New Years Eve? Second question.... If your plans are not what you`d really like to do....what would be your ideal night of fun for New Years Eve well i`m going to be completely alone for this new years. another new year`s without vic. sigh.
- [things that make you go...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/things-that-make-you-go/) - what the fuck?!?!? cable and wireless jamaica showed up at my apartment yesterday and connected my phone line, that`s all well and good, but they didn`t provide me with a phone. i have to buy a telephone, separately. what the fuck! i have mice in my apartment. i saw the little fuckers, scurrying around last
- [not so boob tube](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/not-so-boob-tube/) - i`ve been watching a lot of tv. there is no where to really unpack the books yet and i`ve sworn off the freelance gigs for a while and i have no internet connection at home, all of this means i have lots of free time on my hands. i have a 100+ channels but find
- [alternative christmas stories](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/alternative-christmas-stories/) - December 25th was previously the Birthday of the Unconquered Sun in Rome and honored the Etruscan god Sol. In 10 B.C. the god was changed to Apollo and in the 2nd century to the Persian deity Mithras. Mithras lived six centuries before Christ and was the son of the Supreme god of light. His birth
- [baptism by fire [redux]](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/baptism-by-fire-redux/) - before i get started on this post i would like to say, i love my career, if i had to do over again, i`d make a lot of the same choices. that said, advertising is not a 9 to 5 industry, well maybe for some of the staff, but once you`re a member of the
- [baptism by fire](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/baptism-by-fire/) - i`m just wrapping up my day at the office. i ended up jumping in to assist in a project late this evening. and i`m about as finished as i`m going to be for the night. two weeks and two days before my first late night. wasn`t so bad. details tomorrow.
- [advertising lullabye](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/advertising-lullabye/) - Quality, value, style, service, selection, convenience, economy, savings, performance experience, hospitality, low rates, friendly service, name brands, easy terms, affordable prices, money-back guarantee, free installation. Free admission, free appraisal, free alterations, free delivery, free estimates, free home trial--and free parking. No cash? No problem. No kidding! No fuss, no muss, no risk, no obligation, no
- [the sweet smell of success](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/the-sweet-smell-of-success/) - i can smell my longing, at least i think i can. it`s almost tangible. i got up this morning and reached for vic, that was how real the scent was. my sense of smell has always been fairly sensitive and it only gets better. one of the things about vic that has been imprinted onto
- [sunday constitutional](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/sunday-constitutional/) - it`s sunday and i haven`t got fuck all to do all day. i`m loathe to say i`m bored, but that would pretty much sum it up. i have no desire to flick mindlessly through the channels. i could walk to the office and while the hours online, but i don`t want to start the precedent
- [the earth's a big blue marble when you see it from out there](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/the-earths-a-big-blue-marble-when-you-see-it-from-out-there/) - last night i sat on my tiny balcony and looked at the full moon. it was a joy to behold and a thought struck me, everyone i know, everyone i care about saw the same moon at some point last night. even if they didn`t have the time to appreciate it, we`re all together on
- [callipygian vs steatopygia](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/callipygian-vs-steatopygia/) - a friend and i were discussing callipygian vs steatopygia this weekend and eventually drifted to the topic of race which included this incredibly appalling story "The historical Sarah Baartman created a sensation when she appeared in London, beginning in 1810. Raised among the Khoikhoi people of southern Africa, she possessed the enlarged backside and sexual
- [lack of tactile stimuli](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/lack-of-tactile-stimuli/) - tonight is full moon and i can feel it in my very soul. it also explain why i`ve been so completely stimulated over the last week. but as much kittens that have died for the cause, it`s just an outlet. i long for vic. it is a tangible need. i`ve found my equal in all
- [callipygian afternoon reading](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/callipygian-afternoon-reading/) - for my divinely endowed wife. i love you.
- [the year's best bad sex](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/the-years-best-bad-sex/) - here are this year`s short list and winner for the bad sex in fiction award. i had planned on going home cause i wasn`t functioning at work, but down came the rains and as much i like it, i was in no mood to walk home in it.
- [let's talk about sex](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/lets-talk-about-sex/) - it`s been on my mind all week and my body hasn`t been backward in making its needs be known. [official kitty count from sunday to today: 36] i`ve been thinking a lot about how i got to this point and what drives me sexually. growing up i know my mother had boyfriends, but i think
- [skin](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/skin/) - i love to feel and see vic`s skin against mine. it`s an amazing thing, she`s smooth and soft and our bodies intertwined is not jarring but complementary. she likes to trace the patterns of my tattoos and i love her hands and her mouth against my skin. we share the same worshipful attitude with each
- [as the pendulum swings](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/as-the-pendulum-swings/) - sex has become a commodity and alternative lifestyles are becoming more accepted on a daily basis, yes there are hold outs but they`re becoming the minority as society appears to become more accepting. my problem with this is the backlash. for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. and particularly when something gets
- [post script](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/post-script/) - or i knew there was something important i had to say. [mounts pedestal] today is world aids day. do something positive. get tested, buy some condoms for someone who is sexual active, march, participate. HIV/AIDS is a global epidemic. it can happen to you, it can happen to some one you know. fight aids @
- [lascivious](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/12/lascivious/) - the amount of kittens killed this weekend is amazing. particularly in light of the number of waking hours and time i spent in the actually apartment. on saturday night a friend took me on a small tour of my immediate [at least 10 minutes by car] surroundings which included a visit to emancipation park and
- [the native is restless](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/11/the-native-is-restless/) - i`m haunted. been this way since last night. stayed up until some ridiculous hour and still managed to get up early. i spent the morning watching more tv, taking a shave, killing a few kittens, creating a list of music i lost, then more tv and now i`m in the office. i`m edgy, i want
- [bad man nah and other observations about jamaica.](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/11/bad-man-nah-and-other-observations-about-jamaica/) - today marked one week since i`ve been in jamaica, well 8 days. and i must say it has been productive, i have an apartment, groceries, cable, a bank account, a mobile phone; still waiting on them to install my home phone; and as of today a tax number, which here makes me officially a person.
- [comfort in air travel?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/11/comfort-in-air-travel/) - there was a brief moment in time, just as air travel became available to the masses when it was the whole concept of comfort seemed lost. you can get your choice of meals in economy on most transatlantic flights but there was a point when travelling economy was very reminiscent of travelling charter or these
- [giving thanks](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/11/giving-thanks/) - happy thanksgiving to all of you who are celebrating, especially victoria and the boy chick. hopefully this is our last one apart. i`m not big on holidays. christmas used to be my time of year, but years of constant fighting, highlighted by screaming and tears on christmas morning by mother and grandmother, have made appreciate
- [flights of reality](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/11/flights-of-reality/) - i was just having a conversation over lunch about flying, i realised i must be one of those lucky people, i can remember flying as long as i`ve been cognisant, even before that as well. my mother packed me off to present me to the grandparents as early as 2 months if i recall correctly
- [the dreams are back](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/11/the-dreams-are-back/) - and my oh my, they are so lovely. it`s been a while since i`ve had one of those vivid dreams. and i`ve missed them. i`m getting settled in and i`m realising it may be a little while again before i see vic. i priced tickets for everyone getting here for christmas and it wasn`t pretty.
- [first day, first meal and other non-events](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/11/first-day-first-meal-and-other-non-events/) - yesterday was my first official day of work and what can i say. i got to spend most of the afternoon watching tv. can`t really complain about that. i doubt every day is going to be like that, but that`s a pretty high note to start on. i also cooked my first meal in my
- [greetings i bring from yard [redux]](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/11/greetings-i-bring-from-yard-redux/) - today is my first official day at work. my living arrangements are settled for the time being. [although i`m looking at two bigger places this evening], the cable installers are supposed to swing by this evening and i should hear from the phone company this week as well, which means i have to wait another
- [greetings i bring from yard](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/11/greetings-i-bring-from-yard/) - i was too tired to get into the travails of my trip, but all bright eyed and bushy tailed from my night`s rest in my new apartment [and no i didn`t swing any kitties in the apartment, i haven`t killed any yet either] i got up at 3:30 yesterday morning had a shower, said my
- [i think i've run out of ideas](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/11/i-think-ive-run-out-of-ideas/) - well that`s not entirely true. it`s just some of the things i want to talk about right now are not quite coherent. i think it`s the feeling of being in limbo, the production wrapped last night, i don`t have confirmation on my departure for jamaica, so i`m back to having too much time on my
- [it seemed like a good idea at the time](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/11/it-seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time/) - i have a theory that those are the most dangerous words in the english language. think about it, almost every mistake in your like can be summed up with the phrase:"it seemed like a good idea at the time" my first marriage could be and has been summed up with those fateful words. i`m not
- [fashionably wrapped](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/11/fashionably-wrapped/) - i wear sarongs. i wear them with pride [long before david beckham made the fashionable too]. i even got married in one. i`ve said this before, i`m not a fashion plate. remember `and your mother dresses you funny`? that was me until i started working for my own money. and even then i`ve always been
- [tabula rasa](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/11/tabula-rasa/) - i get to start again. next week is a new job in a place where i`m not very well know. for a lot of people that`s coupled with a sense of dread, i look at it as an opportunity to make my mark somewhere else. i live in a country where six degree of separation
- [relocation update](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/11/relocation-update/) - i just got a call from my new boss. they`ve found me an apt [1 br studio, h/c water, fully furnished, a/c] with a short term lease. i leave for jamaica next week.
- [writing it off](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/11/writing-it-off/) - my handwriting has vacillated between horrendous and prize-winning at various points in my life. i`ve always owned a pen with a nib, it`s the one thing that redeems my handwriting. it forces me to form my character shapes correctly. i still do pretty well with fine tipped roller-ball pens, but the sad truth is that
- [I sell lies for a living](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/11/i-sell-lies-for-a-living/) - i`ve worked on and off in advertising for the last 12 years. and sometime this month i`m heading back into the fray full time. my background is print and design, but i`ve had opportunities to write radio and tv scripts as well as produce my own tv commercials. i started in the business as a
- [emotional well being [1] physical well being [0]](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/11/emotional-well-being-1-physical-well-being-0/) - i think i`m over the hump, at least for the time being. emotionally i`m not the basket case i was last week, physically i feel terrible. i ache everywhere. i really think i should pay a visit to my doctor. i know i`m not the most contentious person about my physical well being, but something
- [eos, rosy-fingered goddess of the dawn [redux]](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/11/eos-rosy-fingered-goddess-of-the-dawn-redux/) - i`ve been up before sunrise almost every morning this week. i haven`t watched the sunrise but i`ve been aware of its presence. i`m grateful for another day, i`m still here. the pit is still there, but i no longer feel i`m going to be swallowed by it. i`m grateful for the calls, the emails, the
- [suicide watch](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/11/suicide-watch/) - over the last couple of months i`ve realised a couple people i know have attempted suicide. it scares me a great deal. i wonder what kind of hopelessness and despair would facilitate that kind of measure. i`m beginning to become more and more familiar with the pit. i`m not going to kill myself. i`m too
- [i've got a pain](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/11/ive-got-a-pain/) - i`ve got a dull ache at the base of my neck and across my shoulders and i know exactly what is causing it. i`m stressed out. for someone that purportedly stays home all day and does nothing, why should i be stressed? well i`m worried that the people in jamaica will think that giving me
- [put up or shut up](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/11/put-up-or-shut-up/) - for a long time i`m bitched about theatre in this country, it`s mostly been a series of bedroom farce, adapted for local audiences, the same production companies, you know the drill. theatre month came and went with a variety of productions, but still i didn`t take me head out of my ass long enough to
- [happy birthday love](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/11/happy-birthday-love/) - today is vic`s birthday. this is hopefully the last one we`re spending apart. i`m a big fan of birthdays and i hate the fact that i can`t do all the things i want to do. i want to wake you, feed you breakfast and take you back to bed. i love you darling. happy, happy,
- [popularity, pissing contests and cries for attention](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/11/popularity-pissing-contests-and-cries-for-attention/) - i saw freedom week and it was not good. i didn`t come here to make friends [i did make a few and i`m glad i did], i didn`t come here for the attention [well maybe i did, but it`s never been my mitigating factor]. i write what i feel like, when i feel like. i`m
- [hell week](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/11/hell-week/) - the run around has started. thus far this morning, i`ve gotten my passport pictures, got them notarised, i still need to go pick up a form from the jamaican high commission, fill it out and fedex it off. vic`s mom is having open heart surgery today and i haven`t been able to talk to her
- [another milestone](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/another-milestone/) - the only disappointing thing about today is that i`m not going to be able to peel vic out of the costume she`s wearing tonight and have my treat later. halloween is vic`s favourite holiday. and this one just joins all the other milestones we`ve missed thus far. hopefully it will be our last. vic birthday
- [November 10](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/november-10/) - that`s my tentative start date. i should get photos of potential apartments and all the forms i need to fill out within the coming week. the upcoming week is going to be entertaining to say the least, for someone with no stuff i have a shitload of no stuff. i have a boxful of books
- [all hallows eve greetings](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/all-hallows-eve-greetings/) - to one and all, particularly to the wicca and pagans celebrating. thank you all for the good wishes. this job is probably the best all hallows present i could get. i`m really thrilled about this job. and i`m thrilled about moving to jamaica. it`s not with vic but she`s closer. there are flights everyday from
- [i'm leaving on a jet plane...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/im-leaving-on-a-jet-plane/) - I GOT THE JOB! WHOO HOO! all my stressing, all my worrying. i got the job. thank you for all your prayers and good wishes and support. thank you all.
- [breakfast of champions](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/breakfast-of-champions/) - i`m a big fan of doubles. and this week in my poverty ridden state, they have been my saviour, for less than TT$10 [the exchange rate is $6.2 to the US$, you do the math] each day i can eat enough to keep me sustained throughout the day. i have a regular doubles man, always
- [strange but true](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/strange-but-true/) - Erotic University Los Angeles Area Classes Fall 2003 Class Schedule and even more strange sex laws, some of these i posted before but most are new: In Florida, having sexual relations with a porcupine is illegal. In Tibet, many years ago, the law required all women prostitute themselves. This was seen as a way to
- [i swear to god](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/i-swear-to-god/) - that aohell and microsloth are conspiring with the spammers. i got an aohell account three years ago when i started travelling. i needed something that i could use to dialup anywhere, it`s a full account, so i added my mother and my daughters to the account. i do web support for my clients, i had
- [changes in the weather](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/changes-in-the-weather/) - living 11 degrees from the equator precludes a need for a time changes, but even here in trinidad you can tell christmas is coming. we generally have 12 hours of sunshine year round. in late october/november it gets dark earlier, by 7ish the sky is that lovely violet hue and the oranges and browns of
- [Update](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/update/) - well i`m back in trinidad, i have been since, friday night actually. got my ass whopped by PT, but you didn`t come here for that, did you... i don`t quite have the job yet, but it`s about as close as i`m going to get to it. i get a written offer on tuesday. unless it`s
- [appreciation](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/appreciation/) - i`m here in jamaica at what could be my potential employer. what can i say? i`m impressed. i feel good. i want this job. and it appears that they want me too. it feels good to be appreciated and it seems like a really nice place to work. i`m off to have dinner with the
- [well at least we're good for something](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/well-at-least-were-good-for-something/) - trinidad is ranked 5th on the reporters without borders world press freedom rankings that`s nice to know.
- [i'm starting to wonder...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/im-starting-to-wonder/) - if this trip is cursed. it`s wednesday midday. i still have no cash to pay my departure tax, either from trinidad or from jamaica. i have no emergency cash for the trip and last but by no means least i have no ride to the airport. my ride is sick, meaning combined with my financial
- [How to pack](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/how-to-pack/) - my mother is seemed to believe that every trip to jamaica would be permanent and we would take, if my memory serves me correctly, 3 large suitcases; and they would be heavy. keeping this in mind, as an adult, i tend to minimalist packing. the only way i have more than carry on luggage is
- [the thrill of travelling](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/the-thrill-of-travelling/) - i like to travel. i`ve been travelling since i was 2 weeks old. every year til i turned 16 we, my mother and i would travel to jamaica. i`m only travelling for two days, but i`m so excited. henry rollins has a spoken word piece called airport hell, i can relate. i`m a fairly seasoned
- [Hardship](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/hardship/) - as defined by The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition: Extreme privation; suffering. A cause of privation or suffering. today i arrive home to find this letter from the us embassy in barbados in my mailbox: Dear Sir, This office has received a letter from the US Department of Homeland Security, Bureau
- [i'm addicted](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/im-addicted/) - and thanks to PT, i can feed my addiction. i`m actually at her house to upload a job, but i figured i`d take the time to check my mail, update my blog, catch up on what i missed. i never realised how much time i spend online until i have no access. i went two
- [when you lay with dogs...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/when-you-lay-with-dogs/) - you`re bound to get up with fleas. i got fucked again. i don`t know why i expected it to be any different. apparently i misconstrued the conversation i had with the director. he never agreed to keep me on a freelance basis. he said it was on per project basis. right. i would have remembered
- [and he rested](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/and-he-rested/) - well not really, i just had [shock of shocks] things to do that didn`t involve me being online. i got up early this morning to watch f1 and it was worth every minute of sacrificed sleep. i spent most of today, putting the finishing touches on a corporate identity manual, then i went to a
- [one more thing](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/one-more-thing-3/) - i just got this off metafilter: The election of Arnold Schwartzenegger to governor of California seems too broad for satire, and it`s now lost to us forever as a throwaway joke in a short story. The Infinite Matrix asked a few SF writers, editors, and physicians for pithy comments, and this is what we got.
- [sexy soccer mom](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/sexy-soccer-mom/) - vic and the boy chick are off playing soccer [or football as i know it] and i find the thought of her being a soccer mom, very arousing. it`s one of the things about victoria that appeals to me. she`s multifaceted. she`s not just one thing. she`s a mother, my lover, my wife, a friend,
- [no, i'm not in jail](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/no-im-not-in-jail/) - i did finally get paid late yesterday afternoon. got my cheque and my severance letter and another letter indicating their desire to have me freelance. so there was no need for me to run amok. what can i say, i`m a sucker for punishment. i`m there on monday. it`s not really that, but our current
- [nothing is ever easy](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/nothing-is-ever-easy/) - FUCK! FUCK! FUCKITY! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! of course this flaming syphilitic festering sore on the asshole of humanity could manage to piss me the fuck off from whatever hole she`s hiding in. it couldn`t be as easy as coming into work, doing my job, collect my cheque and go home. oh no, not in this
- [and now the end is near, this is the final curtain](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/and-now-the-end-is-near-this-is-the-final-curtain/) - today is my last official day at the hell hole. i`ve been doing the happy dance since last night. i have to keep my spirits up but the great satan returns after a week long absence. and because she and her croonies has flubbed the project they`re working on, she going to be worse than
- [i can taste you](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/i-can-taste-you/) - with the waxing of the moon, our desires build. it`s amazing, even separated as we are, we`re still synchronised. there is nothing to say, we know, we can feel. the tingle of skin, the ghosts of sensations past and longing for days yet upon us. the elaborate fantasies, the beautiful stories, the spectacular dreams, inflame
- [full on geek mode](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/full-on-geek-mode/) - so for fun yesterday i completely wiped the drive with my OS and apps [in preperation for Panther [8pm, Oct 23] and i`m the process of reinstalling everything. i kept my mail databases and a couple other specific prefs, but otherwise this is a fresh start. it`s amazing how much shit i`ve accumulated. obviously all
- [breaking the law, breaking the law](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/breaking-the-law-breaking-the-law/) - i was doing some research this morning and came across these tidbits: In the UK it`s illegal for two adult men to have sex in the same house as a third person. Up until 1999 there was no age of consent in Japan; it is now age 13. Singapore, well known for it`s punitive laws,
- [reclaiming my evenings](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/reclaiming-my-evenings/) - i`ve decided to stop spending my afternoons online and take them back, part of the reason is to get my daughter to stop spending her evenings glued to the tv. as part of this reclimation, i`ve started making a dent in the mass of books i have to read at my bedside. i`ve even managed
- [true beauty](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/true-beauty/) - i`ve been fortunate enough in my long term relationships to be involved with some truly stunning women. i guess you could say i have a type, if you can call it that. it`s all in the posture. i lean towards statuesque women, but not just big for the sake thereof. but women who were strong
- [onanistic endevours](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/onanistic-endevours/) - sweltering caribbean sun breathe, smell the sweat on a body in the sweltering caribbean sun taste, the salt on skin the nectar of lightly tanned flesh hold, a body close to yours hip to hip fingertip to fingertip tongues intertwining melting, swallowing, tasting touching feel fingers toes breast nipple back thighs hip belly naked want
- [more travel stories](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/more-travel-stories/) - last year i spent two months in london, but the high point of this particular trip was vic`s visit. the boychick and vic came over for a week and amazingly i got see more of london that i usually do, we went to museums, we took a bus tour, we had an adventure. it was
- [a funny story](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/a-funny-story/) - i very rarely write about my children in here. just never felt the need, they`re an integral part of my life, but i`m extremely cautious when it comes to them. i have two intelligent, precocious, beautiful girls and i worry about the sort of sick freaks that are out there. but i digress from my
- [about my mother](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/about-my-mother/) - i am an only child, raised alone by mother. we have our issues, i find it hard to like some of her ways but i am eternally grateful for the person she`s raised me to be. as i`ve said before my mother was not raised to be a domestic goddess but she imbued in me
- [decisions, decisions, decisions](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/decisions-decisions-decisions/) - today was d-day, in more ways than one, i still haven`t heard from the jamaica people and based on our current financial situation i decided to whore myself out a little longer here. my resignation still stands but they agreed that i would be full time freelance. which basically means i still show up here,
- [the joys of tech [a new beginnning]](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/the-joys-of-tech-a-new-beginnning/) - i spent most of today trying to get my machine to boot. yes this is a geek post, so back out now if you don`t want hear about my adventures on my mac with os x. i`ve been running os x since it came out, i`m an early adopter, always have been, you`ve got beta
- [the zen of laundry](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/10/the-zen-of-laundry/) - i like doing laundry. i`ve been doing my own for a long time, actually since i started buying my own clothes. my mother has many skills but domestic goddess is not amoung them. her mother sent her off to school to learn more practical skills, she was a hell of a typist in her day
- [the joys of driving](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/the-joys-of-driving/) - i like to drive. i really learned to drive from my mother. when i was growing up we owned a mini and she drove that thing like it was formula one car. i learned about drafting from my mother. my mother would find a bus or truck have it pull us along for and bit
- [it's all in the details](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/its-all-in-the-details/) - but sometimes you need to focus on the big picture. ignore the little shit and appreciate how amazing life is. i have a woman that i love with every fibre of my being and who loves in the same way. we have friends that support us and help us through the rough times unstintingly. this
- [i love the sound of F1 in the afternoon](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/i-love-the-sound-of-f1-in-the-afternoon/) - i`m getting better, thank you for all the comments, ims and emails. i know all of this is just temporary, i think i was just overwhelmed yesterday. i`ve been resting all day, trying not to think about anything. and now the us grand prix is on and the weather is wreaking havoc. it`s setting up
- [don't panic](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/dont-panic/) - i had a panic attack today, actually multiple attacks. this is new for me, i`ve never felt anything so paralysing and debilitating. i was supposed to go out this afternoon. i just lay in my bed and shook, i couldn`t find the strength to do anything. i`m not sure where this came from, some of
- [weekend update](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/weekend-update-2/) - this is the third or fourth time i`ve started writing this entry. i haven`t been able to get into it, i have no idea why. probably the same reason i didn`t post yesterday. my thoughts are all jumbled, i`m trying to sort out my life. the malaise and unease are back, but i don`t feel
- [will you be my neighbour](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/10/will-you-be-my-neighbour/) - facebook has me thinking about the nature of friendship. i've met a lot of people in my life and there are quite a few that i'm honoured to call my friends. one of my best friends is my ex-wife and we joke that we almost ruined a perfectly good friendship by getting married. one of
- [two weeks left](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/two-weeks-left/) - yesterday was one of those days if i hadn`t already resigned i would have. it was that bad, there seems to be all of these little cliques and private meetings going on. i feel like i`m back in high school. saddening is that my [soon to be ex] boss encourages this behaviour. whatever, two weeks
- [on how bad 'underworld' was](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/on-how-bad-underworld-was/) - one of the nice things about trinidad is that you can still catch a double feature here for under $15 if you`re so inclined and last night i was treated to underworld and once upon a time in mexico. based on the title you can gather i didn`t like underworld, i`m still coming to grips
- [i want to watch it burn](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/10/i-want-to-watch-it-burn/) - entropy - a doctrine of inevitable social decline and degeneration. i'm fascinated by entropy and the adage 'may you live in interesting times' is not really a curse. in some small way i wanted to see total financial collapse not because i have nothing to lose, but because i believe the system is flawed and
- [bother, bother, bother, bother, bother, bother](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/10/bother-bother-bother-bother-bother-bother/)
- [there are very few coincidences](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/there-are-very-few-coincidences/) - i was wondering why that bus ride has been on my mind so much of late, this week is three years since i met vic in person. september 21st 2000. time flies when you`re having fun. it`s hard to believe another olympics will be on us again. i wonder where we`ll be this time around.
- [travelling for love](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/travelling-for-love/) - on my first trip to meet victoria, i travelled for more than 30 hours. my journey started in the wee hours of the morning in trinidad. the original itinerary was by air, trinidad - maimi and then by car - miami to knoxville. seemed simple enough. it wasn`t the flight leg was fine, uneventful, got
- [a special place in hell](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/a-special-place-in-hell/) - port of spain tries to be a fairly modern city, it`s not as bad as some and a lot better than most. however the bane of the existence of most drivers in pos is the congestion and the scrounge of humanity, the wrecker men. in theory, or at least according to the letter of the
- [stories, fables and myths](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/stories-fables-and-myths/) - i love to read, as i`ve said before i`m avaricious in my reading. but i`ve realised my true love is for short form writing. short stories, novellas are a joy to me. all my favourite authors are masters of the short form. one of the joys of the short form are fables and mythologies. i
- [sleeping in airports](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/sleeping-in-airports/) - in the course of my wanderlust over the last 6 years, i`ve only had occasion to sleep in an airport twice, well, only once really.. i came across this little tidbit on metafilter about the best and worst airports in the world to sleep in. my first and real airport sleeping experience came on the
- [wanderlust](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/wanderlust/) - my soon to be ex boss returns to today. she`s been out of the office a week, it`s been calm and productive. there a number of meetings today, so productivity is going to be way down. i also think today is the announcement day, i`ve been keeping a secret. don`t like those, but i was
- [hard to believe](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/hard-to-believe/) - that in this third millenium that we still have need for something like the amercian library association`s banned books week looking through the list 100 most frequently challenged books of 1990 - 2000, i get a strange sense of doom. some of the books on the list, i grew up with and actively encourage my
- [new york story](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/new-york-story/) - a few years ago, in the middle of my second advertising job, i realised that i hadn`t left trinidad for close to 10 years and i was in dire need of some inspiration. i was unhappy with the work that i was producing, so i decided that it would be a good idea to go
- [the law of diminushing returns](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/the-law-of-diminushing-returns/) - managed to go play pool last night and get my ass soundly whipped. as the night progress my losses became more spectacular. couldn`t get the simplest shots to go in. some how i still managed to get in just before midnight and next week, i`ll be back at it again. i like shooting pool, it`s
- [my unsexy list](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/my-unsexy-list/) - after reading the nerve unsexy list, i decided i would come up with my own list of things that will never be sexy to me. in the order that they come to me: hipster fucking pants we all know how i feel about them. un-fucking-sexy. anyway you take it, it`s plumber`s fucking butt, definitely not
- [secretary](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/secretary/) - this is the original short story on which the movie is based. it is a nerve premium subscriber thing, so i`m going to attempt to repost it here. The typing and secretarial class was held in a little basement room in the Business Building of the local community college. The teacher was an old lady
- [keeping myself entertined](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/keeping-myself-entertined/) - for the web geeks and page designers, the ultimate in 404s the logical extension to the reality and makeover tv craze share the love, blog your felicide here [loosed based on the principle that every time you masturbate, god kills a kitten] the nerve unsexy list in non-fun news here`s a good reason for you
- [fun with words](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/fun-with-words/) - today has just been too weird. but thanks to my love, i have some lovely distractions. fun words two of my favourites: callipygian one having shapely buttocks. cataglottism kissing with the tongue. word oddities and the tremendously funny dialectizer for the sake of my own amusement, here is my last post in redneck: whuffo``d i
- [i did not have sexual relations with that woman [redux]](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/i-did-not-have-sexual-relations-with-that-woman-redux/) - why would i need to post something like this twice? contrary to the rumours, i am not king cock. not even prince or nobleman cock. for the second time in less that a year six months four months, i have to defend my honour and virtue. no fucking, no sucking, no kissing, no intimate contact.
- [the joys of liquid crack](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/the-joys-of-liquid-crack/) - i love coke, not pepsi, definitely not pepsi, blue, green or other-fucking-wise [there is a difference] not dr. pepper, not rc cola. coca-cola. and none of this flavoured shit either. pure unadulterated coca-cola classic. there was a point where i would drink six in a day. it`s a wonder i still have teeth in my
- [more human than human](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/more-human-than-human/) - the simplest things are sometimes the most satisfying. i washed my hair this morning. wash, rinse, repeat, condition. i managed to fall asleep close 5am, but the leapt out bed promptly at 6:30. i feel lighter, washing my hair always makes me feel better. in more coherent and retentive state, i`ve read the company profile
- [a step in the right direction](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/a-step-in-the-right-direction/) - today i had my phone interview for the jamaica job. i have to say it went quite well, i`m really still trying to get down from the high of it. the interviewer has to talk with his business partner and as long as he [business partner] doesn`t absolutely hate me, i have a face to
- [5:30am link gallery](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/530am-link-gallery/) - love him, hate him, fear him, honour him: stephen king receives honorary book award sleeping positions and personality guess the name [try it with your favourite movies or tv, managed to stump it in the movie category] big penis`d statue causes uproar in jamaica [although this isn`t news for us in the caribbean, i`m realising
- [physician heal thyself](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/physician-heal-thyself/) - VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): During my recent visit to the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert, I drank in an abundant array of confounding sights and enriching adventures that I`ll remember forever. The last surprise I saw before heading home was among the most modest, but it`s a perfect choice to serve as your
- [recognising my jati](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/recognising-my-jati/) - jati: a group of souls whose destinies are bound together. In each life, they gravitate toward each other, impelled by mystic forces of attraction. from kim stanely robinson`s the years of rice and salt. i think i`m starting to recognise the members of my jati. some of them have been in my life for a
- [When masturbations lost its fun, You're fucking breaking](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/when-masturbations-lost-its-fun-youre-fucking-breaking/) - it`s become a chore. the fantasies and memories are there, but it just goes on and on. it`s not a pleasurable act anymore, it more like a bodily function. besides, there is nothing that helps my oral fixation either. a woman once told me, i should not eat ice cream in public. so i`m a
- [pay no attention to the man behind the curtain](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain/) - my tongue should be registered. for a number of purposes. but the most regular use it`s getting these days is spewing forth the vitriol that is building in my veins. i am a bottler. i have always been. my mother on the other hand is the continuous nagging sort. she`ll nag about the same thing
- [better](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/better/) - i spent all of yesterday in a what can best be called stunned silence, i`m still nursing the headache. a good night`s sleep has helped my thought process. and what i can come up with is that another year means i need to put down roots of some sort. i`m hoping this jamaica job helps
- [news on the immigration front](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/news-on-the-immigration-front/) - from the nice lady in vic`s congressman`s office: "she said that it could be another full year before they even get to your application. the way they do it is they put all those with receipts month by month together then alphabtize them and then fishbowl the alphabet. but they won`t even say from which
- [low tolerance for shit](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/low-tolerance-for-shit/) - in one of the many conversations that i seem to be having with my boss since my resignation, she asked me why i have such a low tolerance for shit. now that`s an odd question, i would think most people would have a low tolerance for shit. must just be me, but i think if
- [how nice](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/how-nice/) - [a joke i got from my wife, best told in a southern accent] four junior league ladies are having lunch just after christmas. the woman at the head of the table and asks the woman on her left: "what did your husband get you for christmas?" "my husband took my wedding ring to be cleaned
- [full moon, harvest moon](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/full-moon-harvest-moon/) - it`s the full moon tonight and i can feel it, my body is singing. i can feel it in my every nerve ending. it`s such a magnificent feeling. i`m almost bouncing off the walls. i came home today to find a letter from the bank... blah, blah, blah... we thank you for your interest... ...
- [freedom to oversleep](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/freedom-to-oversleep/) - there is a certain amount of freedom that comes with knowing that your days in an organisation are specifically numbered. for the second time this week i managed to oversleep, i`m not one to slack off when i`m leaving a job, i have nothing, if not a reputation to maintain. but since i handed in
- [it is finished](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/it-is-finished/) - almost as an anticlimax i handed in my resignation. she accepted, long lecture notwithstanding, my last day is october 10. the letter was civil and i feel lighter for it. i have no idea what i`m going to do in the next month, but i`ve managed before, i`ll manage now.
- [resignation letter take one](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/resignation-letter-take-one/) - i`m not sure how soon i`m going to be handing it in, but i`ve begun drafting my resignation letter. i really should not be writing it now, with the blood pounding in my ears, but i`m fuming. i`m not going to go over the details now, but let`s just leave it at, my boss is
- [taking charge](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/taking-charge/) - my employer wants to be me more responsible in the office. the take charge, go to, guy. i can`t say i`m not that sort of person, but i`m singularly uninspired to do so at my office. what am i doing in taking charge in my own life. on monday i applied for a job in
- [any day now](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/any-day-now/) - so know we know why our application is taking so long to process. but you know what? fuck it. all things in due course. vic may be up for a promotion and i applied for a job which i`m actually qualified for and may pay that half a peanut more. and it would mean that
- [lies my politicians told me](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/09/lies-my-politicians-told-me/) - a bipartisan look at the major lies coming out of both camps this election cycle.
- [it's a wonder their heads don't fall off](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/09/its-a-wonder-their-heads-dont-fall-off/) - and some interesting insight from dan savage
- [nine months, one week](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/09/nine-months-one-week/) - nine months, one week - just about enough time for me to have been pregnant. but this isn't about an addition, it's actually a subtraction, i shaved. for the first time since november 1, 2007, i am clean-shaven. it wasn't planned. i was trying to neaten up, had an oops moment and decided that it
- [the truest definition of politics](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/09/the-truest-definition-of-politics/) - Politics is the Art of Controlling your Environment That is one of the key things I learned in these years, and I learned it the hard way. Anybody who thinks that "it doesn't matter who's Presided" has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid War on the other
- [mic check](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/09/mic-check/) - I'm at the claims office waiting to give the adjustor my police report and took a moment to test of wordpress iPhone app. I have to say I'm pretty impressed. I can tag and add categories and it's taken less than 90 seconds to get most of this text typed. this make actually get me
- [joining the fray](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/09/joining-the-fray/)
- [quick thought](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/08/quick-thought/) - why would you spend close to or over $2B, that's $2,000,000,000 for a job that pays $200,000. there is a fundamental flaw in logic there plus if you think about it for too long you realise at some point, that various makers that make up that money will come due. these are the thoughts that
- [living in interesting times](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/08/living-in-interesting-times/) - it's been an interesting couple of days, on saturday i celebrated my 37th birthday and on monday i came home to realise that someone had broken into my house. i'm not quite at the anger stage yet. in all honesty, i'm not sure i'm going to get there. i'm just glad that no one was
- [never take life seriously as none of us get out alive](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/never-take-life-seriously-as-none-of-us-get-out-alive/) - i tend to approach each day with child like glee. it`s what makes going to work and most days bearable. i suppose child like is a stretch with a mouth like mine, but i try to make work fun. there are moments in the office where my co-workers believe i`ve lost my mind, but what
- [blame hofmann](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/08/blame-hofmann/) - i am exhausted beyond belief. there was a time when i could pull an all night and it would not affect me, those days are long gone, i'm ready to put my head down on my desk and sleep, we'll see if this holds when i get home. i've had occasion to think about political
- [don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when i'm angry](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/07/dont-make-me-angry-you-wouldnt-like-me-when-im-angry/) - vic is more than a little upset about the shooting at the UU church in knoxville. it was her spiritual home while she lived in knoxville, i believe she knew of the people that died and in the week just after 9/11, it was one of the places she felt safe. now a little bit
- [all pain is relative](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/all-pain-is-relative/) - i have eight tattoos and 4 piercings. the piercings are all standard, two in my left ear, one in my right and my tongue. i`ve had my ears pierced since the 80s. it seems funny to say that, but i`ve had my ears pierced almost half my life. i did them at different points over
- [a passion for words](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/a-passion-for-words/) - i love words, i love the form, i love the structure of them. i`ve been a voracious reader, well, since i learned to read. my first book was tootles the taxi. as i understand it, i got it when i was about 1. i learned to read it, then i ate it. cover to cover.
- [how i got here](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/how-i-got-here/) - i seem to have a cat like ability to land on my feet. there`s a standing joke in the advertising industry here about my penchant for leaving a job before i have something else lined up. to some it may seem irresponsible, but when i started in the industry i was setting type. i`m going
- [i was once young and innocent](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/i-was-once-young-and-innocent/) - believe it or not, this foul mouthed, arrogant, sexually starved, tattooed, pierced person before you was once and innocent, believing, unassuming wee lad. i was a good catholic, i went to church every week, i was an altar boy, i even at one point considered joining the priesthood. i went to a catholic all boys
- [i am not euro trash](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/i-am-not-euro-trash/) - a friend of mine once told me that the difference between nascar and formula one fans is in the quality of the inbreeding. i resent that. i love formula one racing. not nascar, not irl, not formula 3000, nothing else. well, world rally championship, but my passion is formula one. i got hooked as an
- [personal hell #46](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/personal-hell-46/) - i did nothing all day today. well work wise, nothing, zero, zip, zilch, nada, squat. the great satan did not grace us with her presence again and we were thrilled. those that had work were productive and i did nothing. i talked to vic, i played around on the computer, but in terms of work
- [i dream in stereo](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/i-dream-in-stereo/) - and i dream about sex. lord do i dream about sex, of late my dreams have been partially of the last time i saw vic and fantasies based around the visit. loud sweaty sex, slow tender lovemaking, raw fucking, trying to devour each other, kissing, licking, sucking, nibbling, biting, moaning, screaming, seeing stars sex. i
- [i hate being right all the time](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/i-hate-being-right-all-the-time/) - sometime mid-afternoon i realised the internet connection was dropping. so like the good techno weenie that i am i called to inquire. "oh nothing`s wrong" "are you sure?" "positive. have you cleared your cache?" "yes and i`m pinging servers and none of them are responding" "well it must be your connection." "oh really? well, l`ll
- [a story worth repeating](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/a-story-worth-repeating/) - CUSTOMER SERVICE This has got to be one of the funniest I`ve heard of in a long time. I think this guy should have been promoted, not fired. This is a true story from the WordPerfect Help line which was transcribed from a recording monitoring the customer care department. Needless to say, the Help Desk
- [monday memes](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/monday-memes/) - circle of wordsCooking Companions[this one is especially for vic - my nigella]No one who cooks cooks alone. Even at at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.-Laurie Colwin1. Who taught you how to cook? self
- [grooving to the oldies](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/grooving-to-the-oldies/) - well that`s a bit of an exaggeration, i have an 80s playlist in itunes and i`m sitting at work with peter gabriel and general public and madness et al blaring out of the speakers. i am incredibly sleepy and there are all these very strange thoughts running around in my head. if a straight woman
- [safe harbour](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/safe-harbour/) - my boss is out today and i have fuck all to do. sweet. and no i didn`t kill her nor did i arrange to have her killed. i continue to be on an even keel, even with all the bitching and moaning i`ve been doing. i don`t feel overwhelmed by it all. i`ve got problems
- [the road to hell is paved with good intentions](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/the-road-to-hell-is-paved-with-good-intentions/) - i was up last night ironing [no, not for me, for my daughter, i`m firmly of the if it can`t be worn out of the wash then it should be, i loathe ironing]. when i was finished i had a back pain at which point i realised i need to creeping up to the 300lb
- [stay home and find creative ways to spend your money](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/stay-home-and-find-creative-ways-to-spend-your-money/) - i was just talking to vic about a list of actors who i would not mind ever seeing on screen [big or small] ever again and it got me to thinking. is there a definitive list of rich and [in]famous people who should just fuck off from our consciousness? actually it doesn`t matter if there
- [so i didn't kill her](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/so-i-didnt-kill-her/) - i didn`t even maim her. she`s not worth going to jail over. actually my thinking behind stabbing her in the eye with a sharpie is that she`d die of embarrassment, i did manage to finish all of the stuff, although that`s partially because fedex, never showed. i came home read a few journals, generally passed
- [sharpie® use # 1,000,002](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/sharpie®-use-1000002/) - stabbing morons in the fucking eye. was i child a molesting priest in my last life? what did i to be saddled with this sisyphian task of tolerating this woman. i suppose you`re wondering what she did this time. well she`s wants to fedex some elements of the presentation that were not ready for her
- [how can one person](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/how-can-one-person/) - cause some much stress to an office full of people. this woman is back less than an hour and already she`s upset the equilibrium of everyone in the office, individually and as a whole. jesus, this woman is annoying. this does not bode well for her. back with more updates as my aggravation levels rise
- [bureaucracy sucks ass badly with teeth](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/bureaucracy-sucks-ass-badly-with-teeth/) - i just got off the phone with a rather nice lady at the embassy in barbados, she was very helpful, well as helpful as she could be. apparently my application is in the ins/bcis/whatever office in santo domingo and they are short staffed. which means my application could be sitting on a pile but they
- [Pissing on fires](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/pissing-on-fires/) - well i ran my first production meeting today. 25 minutes total, none of the usual dithering and idle fucking talk. now it`s just a matter of putting out the stupid little conflagrations that insufficient instructions tend to start. my boss is out but, left a set of incomplete instructions, including booking a double page ad,
- [the incongruity of it all](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/the-incongruity-of-it-all/) - i`m back out to work today, i`m fighting the flu, i`m frustrated by bureaucracy, but my head hits the pillow and i`m in the midst of this elaborate fantasy which continues to make me all tingly. surrendering control is the major theme and it`s been something that`s been going through my mind a lot lately.
- [why is it](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/why-is-it/) - that people feel they can use you and when you get pissed off and draw the line, they must be more vexed than you? i made a promise to myself on my birthday, i will cease being a fucking doormat. i will help my friends but i refused to be used conveniently. i didn`t do
- [quiz-a-thon](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/quiz-a-thon/) - What kind of site are you?You are a content-site. You like to talk about yourself but you also care about others. A content site would be perfect for you because then you can talk about yourself but also make stuff for others. Which [Smallville] Characters are you? What`s your usual [mood]? Are You Naughty or
- [rabbit, rabbit](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/09/rabbit-rabbit-2/) - another month. sigh. another month away from vic, another month in the hell hole. i really should find a positive outlook, but a hacking cough has joined the sneezing, runny nose and headache, so i`m not really in a good and positive mood. couple with all of this i`m incredibly horny, my god, this is
- [survey says](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/survey-says/) - i staying in. even after some soup, i still feel like crap and it`s been raining. i don`t need to push myself. the part of this flu is the sinus headache. god, how fucking crappy is that? you know the dull throbbing pain, just behind your eyeball. god, even my eyes are running. i turn
- [passing the time on a lazy sunday afternoon](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/passing-the-time-on-a-lazy-sunday-afternoon/) - 41¼%on the classic 400 Point Purity Test!Take the test here!
- [before i go veg on the couch](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/before-i-go-veg-on-the-couch/) - Unconscious Mutterings Week 30 I say and you think ? Kiss:: vic Nothing:: ever changes Reach:: out and touch Late:: night Stump:: cricket Dreams:: lovely LOL:: laugh out loud Ornament:: hood Neck:: frottage Guitar::air Technorati Tags: unconscious mutterings
- [who am i? where am i? where are my...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/who-am-i-where-am-i-where-are-my/) - i feel like i`ve been hit by a truck and i wasn`t even drinking last night. and why am i up then? hunger. it`s what drives me. well, i`m not specifying which hunger. all told i feel like shit. my nose is stuffy, my head hurts and i can`t stop the damn sneezing. i hate
- [hot, sweaty, tired, exhilarated](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/hot-sweaty-tired-exhilarated/) - almost as good as sex. not quite, not even close. but pretty much the most fun i had with my clothes on for a while. poolside knows how to throw parties. [karen we missed you!] i had a blast. my ears are ringing, i`m hot and sweaty and i had a blast and i`m doing
- [i told you i wasn't so bad](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/i-told-you-i-wasnt-so-bad/) - How evil are you?
- [i'm going to party like it's my birthday](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/im-going-to-party-like-its-my-birthday/) - after a crappy birth night last week, i`m putting on my dancing shoes. tonight is the poolside crew fete and like i`ve said before, those fucking rock, i`m going with people, i`m meeting other people there, but even if i weren`t the music is usually enough to keep me going all night long. last party
- [follow the links](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/follow-the-links/) - fictional last words the dante`s inferno test, my results are here straight eye for the queer guy scout walker karma sutra vagina origami oral [and anal] sex still illegal in NC
- [idle musings](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/idle-musings/) - What Is Your Battle Cry?Yea, verily: Who is that, sprinting amidst the mini-mall parking lot! It is Keifel, hands clutching a reflective halberd! And with a mighty bellow, his voice cometh:"I`m seriously going to smash you like it`s my job, and trade you for a candy bar!!"Find out!Enter username: Are you a girl, or a
- [i feel pretty, oh so pretty](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/i-feel-pretty-oh-so-pretty/) - well not really, i`m fighting the cold. but i`m trying some positive reinforcement, cause come hell or high water, i`m partying tonight and tomorrow night too as a matter of fact. last night was on the whole a good night. i never really realised how much i drink while i`m playing pool til it`s time
- [well, what can i say](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/well-what-can-i-say/) - overwhelmed [they were], over experienced [i am]. so that`s how it went, from the time i got there they were gushing about the resume and the work experience. and then there was the subtle hint about the dress code, mind you i showed up in a pressed shirt [short sleeved], slacks and shoes. i wanted
- [well isn't that special](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/well-isnt-that-special/) - it`s friday, the office is footing lunch, i`m leaving here in 45 minutes to get to my interview. portfolio is on cd, i`m as ready as i`m going to be. i think things are pretty much under control for the presentation. i`m really just sitting here cruising online, the new fiore is up and is
- [saving the world before lunchtime](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/saving-the-world-before-lunchtime/) - what is the chemical reaction that causes a state of almost uncontrollable arousal after bouts of anger and frustration? i have been on edge since yesterday and my dreams last night were... let`s just use the words lascivious, salacious, wanton even and that`s being generous. i`m awake and the sensations of the dream still haven`t
- [an evening of geekdom](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/an-evening-of-geekdom/) - i spent the early part of this evening geeking out. as of this moment i no longer need to boot into classic mode. for you non-mac folk [poor, poor souls] every app that i need to use on a daily basis is now os x native. woo hoo. after i geeked out, i went to
- [dreamer, aint nothing but a dreamer](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/dreamer-aint-nothing-but-a-dreamer/) - A dreamer is your type. Seen as "not quite there", you see things that few do. You make people think, and your friends turn to you for insight. A different quiz, what strange type of person are you? brought to you by Quizilla
- [it's the simple things](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/its-the-simple-things/) - body shop. [never let anyone tell you aromatherapy doesn`t work] between the pink grapefruit body wash and the mango body butter, i felt a lot better about the day. and the last thing i heard before i left the house - your body is a wonderland. that song is guaranteed to put a smile on
- [focus and determination](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/focus-and-determination/) - i`m in a marginally better mood this morning, but i`m working on it. my boss is out of the office for two dasy, i have a final say on a presentation she`s travelling with on tuesday, i`ll work on that today, get it done, get it done right and when i`m done with that i`ll
- [calling it a night](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/calling-it-a-night/) - i`m wiped physically and emotionally. i feel so completely drained. i just want to curl in bed with vic, i want her in my arms. is that too much to ask?
- [just so fucking tired](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/just-so-fucking-tired/) - I`m sitting here looking at the bottle of jack. but i don`t want to start down that road now. I`m just so fucking tired, i know vic and i are meant to be together and this just a temporary set back but oh fuck, how many hoops do we have to jump through? i have
- [and it gets worse](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/and-it-gets-worse/) - so i call barbados to tell them santo domingo doesn`t know i exist [ie they don`t have the documents you fuckwits purportedly sent]. now barbados wants me to call santo domingo and get them to fax that they don`t have it. i call santo domingo back and they say they can`t do that without something
- [this is why i didn't want to call](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/this-is-why-i-didnt-want-to-call/) - there is nothing in santo domingo nothing by case number, nothing by name, nothing. i can`t get onto anyone in barbados. i`m angry to point of want to hit something, i`m sitting here trying not to start flinging stuff across the room. what the fuck did we do to deserve this? why is this so
- [i hate talk radio](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/i-hate-talk-radio/) - i have the misfortune have to actually be at work at 8am and in my travels or is that travails [cause it was actually work to get here, i have no idea what i`m going to do next week when school re-opens] i got stuck in cars tuned to two of the most insipid talk
- [eat your heart out](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/eat-your-heart-out/) - i went back to ruby tuesday`s today with my boss, the meal was good but marred somewhat by the surreal nature of the conversation. i`m not at liberty to say anything about the conversation, sufficed to say it was very strange and involved my continued commitment to the agency. whatever. i`m going to get some
- [it's not quantum physics](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/its-not-quantum-physics/) - last night was lovely [and i`m not being facetious], i got rained on, on my way to dinner, but i love the rain, so i didn`t really mind. it`s nice to stand in the pouring rain watching the lightening flashing across the sky, rain water streaming down your face. i never understood why people shelter
- [more interview questions](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/more-interview-questions/) - from tamale 1. If you could change your chosen profession, what would you have done instead? which profession is this? lol. really i would like to be an editor of some sort. 2. Do you have any fears about your future with Vic? that we`re going to have to spend another year apart, we`re barely
- [hipster pants are not for you...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/hipster-pants-are-not-for-you/) - because... 1. CRACK KILLS! no matter how you disguise it, plumbers butt is not fucking sexy. 2. if you`re under 18 [ok, 16] there is no one you need to look sexy for [besides see 1.] 3. your stomach is hanging over the top of your pants 4. you`re someone`s grandparent [act your fucking age]
- [treating myself](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/treating-myself/) - there was no lunch today, but i did get an opportunity to spend $75K of imaginary money equipping an imaginary office. in that spirit, i`m treating myself to dinner. i got paid today, small and insignificant, there is no way i staying on here for anything less than double my current take home. before you
- [i like](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/i-like/) - this interview thing, it`s fun. i`ve asked two people questions so far and i sense a pattern emerging. food, literature, sexuality. hmmmm, am i so predictable? well my boss cancelled lunch, tomorrow most likely. i can`t say that i`m really disappointed. the problem is now i have to fend for myself and my choices here
- [three things](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/three-things/) - 3 Things about keifel liberated from fritz & karen THREE THINGS THAT SCARE ME: 01 | lonliness 02 | losing vic 03 | something happening to the children ------------------------------------------------------------ THREE PEOPLE WHO MAKE ME LAUGH: 01 | vic 02 | lisa 03 | eddie izzard ------------------------------------------------------------ THREE THINGS I LOVE: 01 | vic 02 |
- [The interview](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/the-interview/) - [edit: for the record, i didn`t start this, these are faymow`s interview questions for me, go check his answers] 1. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be? hmmm i think we would be a multi household family if we could afford it. london is top of the list, a little
- [and now it's over](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/and-now-its-over/) - i love my birthday, what i don`t like is how my friends treat me. this is the second or third time i`ve organised something for my birthday and my `friends` don`t show. i`ve gotten more greetings from my online community than i have from my friends. am i bitter? fuck yes. i`m resentful, hurt and
- [should i be worried?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/should-i-be-worried/) - took the gender algorithm test, twice and got the same result: The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: Female!
- [hey keifel, it's your birthday](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/hey-keifel-its-your-birthday/) - and i`m going to party like it`s my birthday. thus far i`ve gotten: a sound trouncing at pool slightly inebriated a beautiful view of the night sky famous people born today include: 1977 Nicole Bobek (ice skater) 1971 Jay Mohr (comedian) 1970 River Phoenix (actor) 1951 Jimi Jamison (singer) 1951 Mark Hudson (singer) 1949 Rick
- [there is wrong](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/there-is-wrong/) - and there is fucking wrong you be the judge.
- [about time](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/about-time/) - Filthy Friday Five: Mr. Obvious Version 1. Once and for all, do you think size matters? i think there is too small and there is too big as well 2. Would you rather have a great relationship with good sex, or a good relationship with great sex? don`t want to brag but i have a
- [signs that i should stay home](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/signs-that-i-should-stay-home/) - so there is this psuedo strike [or no strike depending on who you talk to], but what this means that it`s fucking impossible for me to get a taxi out of my house. there are people lined up along the pavement like on a weekday morning with people waiting for taxis, what`s even more bothersome
- [getting ready to bolt](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/getting-ready-to-bolt/) - i`m sitting here reading the seven daughters of eve, but i`m ready to bolt, i`m edgy, i want to be doing something, anything else but sit around here this evening. vic is off doing work stuff, so i don`t even have her to talk to while away the hours. the book is great but i`m
- [doing fuckall](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/doing-fuckall/) - i haven`t done shit at work for the day, and i`m pretty damn proud, i don`t feel like and really there is nothing for me do. on top of which, i`m planning on leaving early this afternoon, too. how do i do it, enquiring minds want to know? be skilled at what you do. i
- [tomorrow, tomorrow, i'll be...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/tomorrow-tomorrow-ill-be/) - 32 tomorrow. i like birthdays, i`m like a big child, i get excited. i look forward to getting older. i`m not necessarily sure about the wiser, but definitely older. i`m usually somewhat reflective, but on this particular birthday i`m looking ahead, planning on spending the next one as a family with vic and the children.
- [that can be arranged](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/that-can-be-arranged/) - i have to say that aside from the crappy brian adams song, the three musketeers with oliver platt and tim curry is probably my favourite version. that is all.
- [it's the little things](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/its-the-little-things-2/) - i just bitched about a lack of appreciation and voila, my friend sarah, who i did the programme for her art show, just dropped off a bottle of jd in gratitude. she didn`t need to, i volunteered to help out, i did. but she did. i`m touched. and these are the little things that make
- [send me your talented, disenfranchised, frustrated](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/send-me-your-talented-disenfranchised-frustrated/) - artist longing to be recognised. this is an addendum to a comment i made on tamale`s journal. why is it so hard to be an artist/writer/young[ish] person with even a modicum of talent and good sense in this country? why we have to fucking suffer so? why we have to put up with the shit
- [quiz fucking frenzy](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/quiz-fucking-frenzy/) - You`re original. Instead of goin` wit` the flow you set the trend and wear whatever you like. Your originality pulls people towards you but also pushes some away. Don`t worry. In the end you`ll end up with plenty of friends. What word best describes your personality? brought to you by Quizilla Protector The ULTIMATE personality
- [i'm baaaaaaaack](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/im-baaaaaaaack/) - i got in last night, flight got delayed about 35 minutes and i was waiting for a ride, so by the time i got home it was close to midnight. i`m still exhausted. spent most of yesterday after the presentation, doing fuck all. i had a couple of drinks with the competition, then had joined
- [and that's a wrap](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/and-thats-a-wrap/) - well that went well, and really i`m not being facetious. the presentation went very well, my boss dind`t embarrass as much as i thought she would. and the question and answer period went well, so i have the rest of the day to myself. well we have lunch with the client and the other agencies
- [rested, fed and pandering to my addiction](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/rested-fed-and-pandering-to-my-addiction/) - i had a lovely sleep til i was awoken by my stomach and now that i`ve eaten, i`m going to go back to my room and finish reading my book, i love this place, there`ll be pictures tomorrow. i`m almost loathe to find out the cost of the rooms, it`s just so nice. thankfully, i`ve
- [and here i am](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/and-here-i-am/) - i`m at the spice island beach resort in grenada [vic we`re coming here, the bathroom is huge and the jacuzzi is real adult size] i`ve been napping since i checked in for my flight at four am, airports are not made to sleep in but at least piarco does not do that piece of nonsense
- [the more things change, the more things stay the same](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/the-more-things-change-the-more-things-stay-the-same/) - i am packed and by all rights i should be sleeping, but it`s 1:30 am and the taxi is going to be here in two hours. if i got to sleep now, there is no way, i`m going to get up on time. which brings me to the title of my post, when i was
- [letter for the day 'Z'](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/letter-for-the-day-z/) - i need some distractions. this is how the game goes, you pick the fourth [4th letter] of your last js visitor and list as many words as you can [no peeking in the dictionary]. you can do this on your own or continue from here. zip zero zinc zygote zoo zephyr zap zircon zany zebra
- [the shiny, happy feeling is gone](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/the-shiny-happy-feeling-is-gone/) - well not entirely, i have a headache. remember the to do list, well i should have called it a to don`t list. it`s midday and i don`t have any material for the powerpoint presentation, the prints are taking forever and my boss is flitting about the room. i may save myself the trouble and kill
- [things to do today](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/things-to-do-today/) - finish making prints for presentation build powerpoint template build powerpoint document burn cds with presentation pick up dry cleaning pick up pants from tailor buy shoes[scrapped] do laundry[not fucking happening at this point, dirty jeans it is.] wash hair[that will get done at the hotel] pick mother up from airport[arranged] properly clean shoes if buying
- [the letter for the day is I](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/the-letter-for-the-day-is-i/) - i is the first letter in the words: inconspicuous, inane, idiot, immediate, irate, insecure, insure, irritate, impale, inure, implode, intuition, incident, inappropriate, idiocy, impure, inkling, ingest, ibis, ibex, impulse, ionise, ionosphere, iconoclast, incoherent, impede, inject, infect, insane, idle... i`ll stop there. feel free to add to the list. [come on, it`s fun, try it, you`ll
- [all you need is love](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/all-you-need-is-love/) - Do you believe in love? yes [beaming] Have you ever been in love? i have and i am in now Do you believe in love at first sight? my primary stimuli is mental, so it would be difficult to judge... no. Do you stay friends with ex-mates? yes, all except one. my ex-wife is actually
- [lazy sunday morning](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/lazy-sunday-morning/) - oh wait, i have to go into work. dammit. [sometimes i amuse myself] even though i`m going into work, i`m still in a good mood. good night`s sleep + divine dreams = shiny happy camper. but enough about me, here a two links that grabbed my eye early this morning the 10 Eightiest Movies the
- [on the tail end of a productive morning](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/on-the-tail-end-of-a-productive-morning/) - i got my shirts delivered to the laundry [should be able to pick them up on monday], dropped my pants at the tailor [due on monday as well], all i need to do now is finish the last of the work for the presentation, drop it off at the office for mounting up. then, all
- [from the archives](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/from-the-archives/) - in one of my careers, i watched bad tv [so someone didn`t have to], here is the first thing i wrote for that column, it`s about the much despised anna nicole smith show: Who greenlighted this humungous steaming pile of faeces—obviously their brains were sucked up in the vacuum created by the atmospheric displacement of
- [and now for something different](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/and-now-for-something-different/) - well actually it`s more of the same, but i`m in a python mood. it`s friday evening and i`m home. it`s hot inside and out, i have to go out to work tomorrow, as well as find a pair of shoes and get my shirts laundered. i`m still in a very good mood, none the less.
- [i should be working](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/i-should-be-working/) - but i needed an outlet... the tingle is now an insistent buzzing in my brain [well, not only my brain but let`s not go there]. i`m sitting here with a smile on my face that is somewhere between whimsy and lasciviousness. it`s an interesting sensation, being aroused like this, there are moments when my senses
- [my beautiful wordsmith](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/my-beautiful-wordsmith/) - you fill my thoughts waking and asleep. my heart skips a beat, a smile crosses my face with every thought of you. i love your mind, your idiosyncrasies, your lasciviousness and most i love that we call all these things ours. i love you completely. Technorati Tags: wyf
- [why am i not surprised?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/why-am-i-not-surprised/) - I`m sure it`s no big surprise to you that your romance is The Princess Bride. A heartwarming tale of "Twue Wuve" that has giants, Spainards and swashbuckling. You really do think that love can overcome anything. You may be a touch naive but your heart is certainly in the right place. You`ve probably got one
- [guest post follow-up](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/guest-post-follow-up/) - on the last day of july there was a guest post by my friend franka, it was not only posted here but emailed out and posted elsewhere, here are her conclusions: When I sent out the ‘your opinion needed’ email a few weeks ago, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I was chuffed that so
- [not even...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/not-even/) - the fact that i have to go the presentation next week in grenada, is spoiling my day. it`s not the trip so much as the company. it`s just me and my boss, i intend to take lots of books and movies. the presentation is an hour, but in order to get a flight we get
- [the world on a string?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/the-world-on-a-string/) - not quite, but this morning it feels pretty close. the only thing missing out of my life is victoria. i like feeling good. i like feeling happy. i could complain but where is it going to get me right now. if you are a regular reader you know there is a cycle but as i
- [the lights are out](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/the-lights-are-out/) - and i home. [aaah, nevermind. that robert palmer reference wasn`t going to fly anyway] the power is out and i`m sitting here in the dark. lovely thing about a laptop, you can just keep going. well for another 2 hours at least. this afternoon continued pretty much as the day had, i`m very relaxed and
- [a smile on my face, a song in my heart](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/a-smile-on-my-face-a-song-in-my-heart/) - i got up this morning smiling. i`ve been having the same dream for the last two nights. although it`s less of a dream and more of a recognition of an event to occur. this is not an uncommon occurrence for me, i`ve just learned to accept them for what they are. there is one interesting
- [hi honey, i'm home [or diary of a useless one day trip]](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/hi-honey-im-home-or-diary-of-a-useless-one-day-trip/) - let`s start with the departure yesterday, i got my pittance of a per diem and made my way with my boss and two other co-workers off on this investigative junket. at this point we`re still pitching for the account and the trip was on the perspective client`s tab. also on this trip we representatives of
- [the weekend was just too good](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/the-weekend-was-just-too-good/) - why is it, getting paid in the country is such a fucking problem? you come and find me; you had to work real hard, because you get the number in the house that less that 10 people have, ask me to do the work, i go out of my way to help you. i send
- [welcome to the jungle](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/welcome-to-the-jungle/) - i`m up and i`m lightly packed. i realise i like travelling, going to the airport and getting on a plane is one of my great joy. i`ve been hunting about information about temporary internet access in antigua, but i`m not seeing anything, yes, i know, i`m addicted, it`s only going to be about 30 hours.
- [still haven't gotten back to the movie](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/still-havent-gotten-back-to-the-movie/) - i have been cruising around js, clicking on interesting names in people`s lists of favourites, i got this from pablo who got it from someone else and so on and so on [am i ever going to stop taking these things?] 1. WHAT IS THE LAST MOVIE YOU SAW IN THE THEATERS? bad boys II
- [sunday triple feature](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/sunday-triple-feature/) - today has been another exceptional lazy day, i sat, correction, i lay in bed and watched movies for most of the day, i still have the last of triple feature in the computer, but i`m getting that lovely throbbing behind my eye, so i thought i`d give it a rest for a moment. so far
- [haven't we got past this trifling shit yet?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/havent-we-got-past-this-trifling-shit-yet/) - it`s 2003 and they are still using the dress code ploy to keep people out of places in this country. [for those of your unfamiliar with what i speak, in trinidad, if you`re too black to get into a club, then they tell you that you`re violating the dress code, it`s one of many common
- [hot as hell](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/hot-as-hell/) - and it`s not just the weather. it`s been a hot lazy day, watched cartoons, vegged out, i`m getting ready to meet a friend to have her go over the artwork for her show and then i`m going to come home, have a nap, cause tonight is no1spranger`s going away party and knowing the creatures we
- [pool is a lot like sex](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/pool-is-a-lot-like-sex/) - sometimes is fast and hard and other times you have use slow gentle strokes. i`m beginning to learn the difference [on the pool table], i managed to hold my own against PT tonight. even though she can with her own stick, she kept breaking with mine. coming home tonight the moon is waxing, it`s not
- [ran away from work](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/ran-away-from-work/) - to prove one of my friends is not a snuffleupagus. meet her in the mall, spent an relaxing and entertaining afternoon, now i`m home, getting ready to go shoot pool with PT. in the mean time here is your Hurried, Stressed-Out, Pre-Vacation Filthy Friday Five 1. If you are a heterosexual guy (or if you
- [doubles make the world go round](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/doubles-make-the-world-go-round/) - had my belly full this morning, even brought some back to the office. i`d love to share but since they don`t travel well here`s a recipe i found online: Ingredients Dough (Bara) 2 cups flour ½ tsp salt 1 tsp saffron powder ½ tsp ground pepper
- [thank god it's friday](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/thank-god-its-friday-2/) - the weekend begins here. i had a productive night last night, i just have to wrap up some stuff in the office this morning, then i can resort to sitting around and reading my book. vic left me a batch of books [one of the ways she won my heart], i`m still reading the first
- [getting back into the rhythm](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/getting-back-into-the-rhythm/) - i`ve been making the rounds at the usual site and i`ve gathered these goodies to offer to you... from nerve the results of their pickup line contest and their favourite road movies [freeway has actually been a fave of mine for a long time, actually caught on cable recently] a very cool toy and your
- [it's been a hell of a day](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/its-been-a-hell-of-a-day/) - i`m tired, the shoot went well and we managed to not get back to work til almost 3pm. i would have gone straight home, but my boss was in my ass like a tick to finish the logos. i think i`m just going to go into tomorrow and finish them and come back home. i
- [no focus](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/no-focus/) - i’m sitting here at work, supposedly working on this logo, i’m uninspired, unable to focus, strangely i don’t think this has much to do with my unhappiness with my job. honestly, i miss vic. i’m finding it almost impossible function since she left, i can’t sustain the energy to do anything. i can’t deal with
- [it's been a long time](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/its-been-a-long-time/) - since a left you without... a couple of interesting links to follow... hackneyed, overblown, stuffy or just plain silly cliché that turns up time after time in news scripts, here are the 100 worst nerve interviews traci lords serial killer or programming language inventor quiz [ i scored 7/10] larry flynt for govenor porn goes
- [gay pirates of the caribbean](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/gay-pirates-of-the-caribbean/) - just finished watching pirates of the caribbean with PT, K and jailbait. if there`s a movie with more homo erotic undertones, i`d be hard pressed to name it. anyway here is slashers of the caribbean: curse of the tight ass thanks vic. enjoy all.
- [brain cooler](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/brain-cooler/) - needed something to distract me from stabbing my boss in the eye with a sharpie and found this on littlewashu’s Full Name: keifel anthony horatio st. clair [and a paisan last name] Sex: male Birth date: 08/23/71 [check the countdown to see when it is] Age: 31 ARE YOU: Understanding: try to be. Open-minded:
- [wheee! bleep!](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/wheee-bleep/) - i am firmly of the belief that my boss is sniffing crack in her office, either that or every time she opens her mouth a little more of what`s left of her brain leaks out. i must be a complete fucking idiot to think i could work for someone so insipid. i have no idea
- [take two quizzes and call me in the morning](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/take-two-quizzes-and-call-me-in-the-morning/) - What Planet Are You From? this quiz was made by The Autist Formerly Known As Tim got that from tearsofice and this from jadedgrrl [they`re in my faves, go fetch] online palm reading You have a good imagination, and often exhibit sensitivity to others. You have so many interests that you may have trouble deciding
- [we've been down this road before](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/weve-been-down-this-road-before/) - I HATE MY FUCKING JOB! I HATE MY CHEAP-CORNER-CUTTING-BOOK-SENSE-ONLY-CAN’T SEE PAST THE END OF HER FUCKING NOSE-IDIOT BOSS!ok, now that i’ve gotten that off my chest. god, i hate that place, i hate the jobs we end up doing and the clients and the friend of friends and the politics. and i ponder why i’m
- [SPOON!](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/spoon/) - ran away and went to lunch with PT, we wound up at fridays, with a cute but duh waiter. lunch was fun and it was nice to have some to have lunch with. since vic left eating alone is always followed by the onset of major depression. i`m going to miss k, when she leaves
- [another one of these enjoyable quizzes](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/another-one-of-these-enjoyable-quizzes/) - got this off the hardyzprincess NAME: keifel DOB: 23rd august EYE COLOR: dk brown HAIR COLOR: black with bleached ends AGE: 31, at least for the next three weeks WHERE YOU WHERE BORN: cascade, trinidad INNY/ OUTY, LEFTY/RIGHTY: Inny/lefty SHORT/LONG HAIR: Long, waist length dreads SKIN COLOR: brown. kind of natural milk chocolate FAV. WAY
- [a love story...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/a-love-story/) - i`ve just recounted to someone how vic and i met and it prompted me to go read old emails and ims. vic and i met online at nerve.com, and this in a nutshell is our tale... for about 7 weeks we im`d. 8 - 10 hours a day, everyday. then i flew to miami, spent
- [see, microsoft is going to cause the downfall of civilisation](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/see-microsoft-is-going-to-cause-the-downfall-of-civilisation/) - [although you shouldn`t believe everything the government tells you] i also know this is late news but as a mac user i couldn`t help but gloat Department of Homeland Security (UPDATED) ADVISORY Potential For Significant Impact On Internet Operations Due To Vulnerability In Microsoft Operating Systems Government issues second warning on Microsoft security flaw Growing
- [living in a box](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/living-in-a-box/) - it`s been a little over 2 years since i got back to trinidad and i realised today that i`m stilling living out a bag or a box. i have one drawer in the bedroom i occupy, i have a boxful of books, a desk i share with my daughter. everything i own is basically packed
- [i'm a pervert](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/im-a-pervert/) - You PERVERT. You are as dirty minded as they cum.. hehe, I knew you would catch that.. How Perverted are you? brought to you by Quizilla actually i like to believe that i just have very few hang ups about sexuality.
- [qualifying saturday morning](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/qualifying-saturday-morning/) - it`s a race weekend and based on the qualifying it`s going to be an interesting race tomorrow. anyway i got this from girlunderway, who got it from someone else and so on and so on and so on... 1) Single or Taken: very, very taken 2) Sex: Male 3) Birthday: august 23 4) Sign:
- [not that it makes much difference - TGIF](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/not-that-it-makes-much-difference-tgif/) - it`s a holiday here and i`m home, listening to the rain fall on the galvanise, there are few sounds more beautiful. i haven`t done memes since i returned and i think this the ideal place to start. [courtesy faymow] This week`s Filthy Friday Five: Forbidden Anatomy! 1. What is your position on rim jobs? By
- [this post brought to you by the letters 'J', 'K', 'N' and 'N'](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/08/this-post-brought-to-you-by-the-letters-j-k-n-and-n/) - i went to the movies last night with j, who i hadn’t hung out with for a while, she’s always fun and good to shit talk with. we went to see LXG and Bad Boys 2. LXG was entertaining. not great, just entertaining, there were some bright spots and seeing it in a theatre full
- [i thought it was the end of the world](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/i-thought-it-was-the-end-of-the-world/) - i came across this - anna nicole smith show nominated for an emmy [ i know, i know, i`m late, but i`ve been occupied with much more important things]. i managed not run screaming from the building pulling my hair out and read the rest of the story. and in other news... congratulations to purpleturtle
- [and now a guest opinion](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/and-now-a-guest-opinion/) - [my friend franka emailed this to me recently seeking opinions and being the media whore that i am, i`m passing it along in as many forum as i can muster] I have an issue for you to ponder and respond to. The question essentially is "what do women want?" Last night, I was speaking to
- [let the entertainments begin](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/let-the-entertainments-begin/) - My Viking Name is... Kaðall Goatcatcher Your Viking Personality: You`re a fearsome Viking, but you aren`t completely uncivilized. The other Vikings make fun of you for that. You have a thirst for battle, and tend to strike first and think later. You might be able to hold your own on the battlefield, but you`re no
- [a happy place in my bed](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/a-happy-place-in-my-bed/) - i went to bed fairly early last night [well by usual standards - being in bed before 9pm is early]. tried to read for a while and then passed out. k passed to take me out liming, i`d forgotten i`d called, i had to beg off, i was that tired. that said, almost 11 hours
- [running on empty](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/running-on-empty/) - i`m tired and i`m hungry. it`s been a long day, we only photographed one quarry today but i think it`s enough. i was supposed to do the other tomorrow but i`m too tired and my boss` cheapness is again going to cost us more money. while i was off doing location shooting my boss sent
- [it's going to be a lovely day](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/its-going-to-be-a-lovely-day/) - or at least i sincerely hope so. well in terms of the weather, mostly. i was on location most of yesterday on a photo shoot and even though it was hazy and overcast most of the day, we got everything done. i have more location shooting this morning and i’m hoping the weather holds. funnily,
- [i love you more with every heartbeat](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/i-love-you-more-with-every-heartbeat/) - the next holiday that’s long enough for vic to come visit is thanksgiving. thanksgiving is 5 months away. it’s going to be a travel nightmare, i would much rather be beginning our own thanksgiving ritual, but if that’s not happening, i’m going to be working my ass off to get vic and julian her and
- [restless night](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/restless-night/) - a number of songs keep running through my head, foremost among them is bed’s too big without you i fell asleep eventually last night, although i kept rolling over and vic wasn’t there. i need to stop crying, i know i need to, but i can’t. i cried myself to sleep and woke up in
- [i don't know how i'm getting to sleep](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/i-dont-know-how-im-getting-to-sleep/) - i just took off the bandana vic left, and one of her hairs was in it. i’ve been out for a while, i’m trying to read and it’s a book vic left. there was an afternoon when we just curled up on the couch and read. i knew i was in love with victoria the
- [a hole in my soul](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/a-hole-in-my-soul/) - vic left this morning. and i was missing her from the moment she walked away from me through the gate. i won’t let it be another 10 months before i see her again. the last 10 days have been great [and no, it wasn’t just the sex], it was great to see vic, talk to
- [Party over here](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/party-over-here/) - Martin`s. 8pm. tonight. vic and i will be at martin`s celebrating. please come join us. [no the drinks aren`t free] but come anyway. back to the regularly scheduled sex and bonding.
- [fucking like minx](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/fucking-like-minx/) - what else do you want to know? we had sex on friday night, saturday, yesterday, today. oh and we ate, met my mother, went to a culinary festival, saw a fantastic production, met a few of my friends, watched some tv. but mostly we`ve been fucking like minx. so move along now. nothing more to
- [there is more to life than this](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/there-is-more-to-life-than-this/) - well this is the last post until the 28th. vic is safely on her way. her flight left mia 8 minutes late and she`s not going to here til 7:48. which i accounted for anyway. i`m heading up to the apartment to have a shower but i have to drop the girls off for the
- [midday whimsy](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/midday-whimsy/) - i`ve gotten the keys to the apt, my laundry is being done. and i`ve got some cash in my pocket. i have a friend at the airline checking to see if vic collected her ticket in mia yet. the rains have started. all is good in the world. i just got this from faymow`s journal
- [like a child on christmas morning](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/like-a-child-on-christmas-morning/) - it’s almost 6am and i’ve been laying on my bed tossing and turning. i haven’t been able to sleep. the hours are drifting by almost too slowly. i supposed one i get going on all the things i have to finish and get done today, i’ll have less time to ponder the minutes and the
- [adventures in automobiling [and some welcoming thougths]](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/adventures-in-automobiling-and-some-welcoming-thougths/) - i borrowed my ex-brother-in-law’s car to get me through the 10 days that vic is here. i went to pick it up this evening and then came home. i was so haunted i went and had a beer with purple turtle and k. this is where the adventures began, driving back the rear tyre began
- [i am justice](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/i-am-justice/) - purpleturtle via dixie i`m having a little trouble getting the momentum to go to work this morning.
- [the memes](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/the-memes/) - The Thursday Threesome ::Bell, Book and Candle:: Onesome: Bell- Belling the cat: What have you taken on lately that you really, really didn`t want to do? ...and did it get taken care of? actually, i took a while to get inspired on this corporate identity job i was working on, but once i did, it`s
- [i'm so excited](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/im-so-excited/) - and i just can`t help it i`m about to lose control and i think i like it. [free coupon for the first person to identify the title and artist of that little ditty] ijournal and js is broke [oh mighty tiro, please fix], so i`m posting from js itself it seems so weird after all
- [nike!](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/nike/) - got to get some fucking sleep. ijournal is flaking out, so i`m actually posting from js, first time in a long, long time. i realised today that i haven`t gotten a full night`s sleep since last thursday night, so tonight i`m going to turn in early [well by my standards] and get two of the
- [this a good sign](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/this-a-good-sign/) - VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):I predict you will be in a hearty, even triumphant mood in the coming week, Virgo. There’ll be few if any loose ends. Unfinished business will either complete itself or else reveal to you how to wrap it up simply and quickly. However, even if you have to pass through a moment
- [in honour of the last 10 months](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/in-honour-of-the-last-10-months/) - vic found this [while doing some research for her own list] and i thought it was too great not to post THE [30] GREATEST SELF LOVE SONGS OF ALL TIME: 1. THE DIVINYLS - I Touch Myself 2. BLOODHOUND GANG - Fire Water Burn 3. BILLY IDOL - Dancing With Myself 4. VIOLENT FEMMES -
- [running on joy](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/running-on-joy/) - i am physically exhausted, i feel like i could sleep another 16 hours, but mentally my mind appears to be firing on all cylinders. i got up this morning and finished up a lot of the work that was kicking my ass, if i wasn’t going to be out of the office all of next
- [i'm a font snob (revisited)](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/im-a-font-snob-revisited/) - i was putting together a corporate profile for my boss today and looking at some of the stuff that was produced before i signed on board and even the corporate profile template when i realised what i disliked about most of the work that was going into the profile. i loathed the type faces. not
- [i am a font snob](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/i-am-a-font-snob/) - more on that title later in a ministry of truth-esque move, i’m only putting links here that are positive and uplifting... bill moyers [pbs] interviews jon stewart about the daily show [hilariously funny] will ferrell’s havard commencement speech [will ferrell is on class A drugs] tristan taormino on blowjobs my sleep cycle is starting to
- [wash, rinse, repeat](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/wash-rinse-repeat/) - would be so much easier and effective, my long tressed scion hadn’t used most of the shampoo, but not matter, i got a wash out of what was left and i’m sure i can convince my darling to wash it for me over the coming weekend. :)i think i might just manage to be out
- [eos, rosy-fingered goddess of the dawn](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/eos-rosy-fingered-goddess-of-the-dawn/) - it’s a beautiful thing to watch daylight gradually seep in, as the full moon wanes. i just got in after an early morning airport run, the sun isn’t quite up yet, the sky is just lightening, the lights are still on. it just added to my good mood. even though my sleep cycle is completely
- [i didn't break but i did get wet](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/i-didnt-break-but-i-did-get-wet/) - so the kayaking didn’t acutally happen first thing this morning... the RSH didn’t show up til almost 10 and by that time we were all starving. who all you ask? the usual suspects - RSH, nance and naim. we went to the bight, had brunch, which was only spoiled by our truly rude and horrendous
- [still up](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/still-up/) - it’s a little after 2am and i’m still awake, not even marginally sleepy. so it’s quiz time.here are the sunday memes:sunday brunch::: Just Cruisin’ :::1. Do you prefer to be the driver or passenger? driver, i love to drive2. When you drive somewhere, do you prefer to take the long way or quickest route?quickest. point
- [i'm mean there are naps...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/im-mean-there-are-naps/) - but this is damn near ridiculous.it’s a little after 10pm and i’ve been asleep since 3pm and i think the only thing that got my ass out of bed is hunger. it’s been an hour since i started this post, but i got sidetracked by dead lilke me on showtime. i like television, i particularly
- [lazy days and saturday are good](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/lazy-days-and-saturday-are-good/) - i love saturdays like this, i watched kids wb, i watched cartoon network and then i watched on of the most surreal pieces of programming on tv - invader zim.is it me or is the adult content of saturday morning cartoons been cranked up a notch. actually most children’s programming or is it just the
- [streching (mentally & physically)](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/streching-mentally-physically/) - after last nights adventures, i’m easing my way into the day:Sexy Saturday either ors (from faymow): 1. Oral or Vaginal? is this giving or receiving? what am i saying, i’m orally fixated. duh2. Hour long sweat session or quickie? it all depends but next week we get to try out all the possibilities. 3. Missionary
- [rude shameless hussy](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/rude-shameless-hussy/) - any evening out with the rude shameless hussy [as she to be henceforth called] is always entertaining. and tonight was no exception. i had a blast from sitting outside subway talking complete and utter shit, to getting all hot and sweaty in ad with our travelling companions.the rude shameless hussy title has a tale but
- [please, thank you, sorry, good day](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/please-thank-you-sorry-good-day/) - how hard are these words to say? i used to believe that trinidad had no customer service [i don’t doubt it] but i’ve come to realise that the problem is that trinidadians are just fucking ill mannered. i don’t want to believe i’m special, because my friends and their children are polite. yeah, we can
- [one more week, one more week, one more week](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/one-more-week-one-more-week-one-more-week/) - cmon sing it with me. vic is going to be here in one more week. woo hoo.around this time next friday she’ll be leaving on her plane leaving nashville for miami. i’m just so excited, i can barely contain myself. i was up at the crack of dawn [who is this dawn and why is
- [the entertainments continue](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/the-entertainments-continue/) - food & sex: “...anybody who doesn’t absolutely, totally and unconditionally enjoy food, cannot possibly enjoy sex.” -- Shobhaa De, Upper Crust Magazine, India (something vic and i agree on completely) the synchronicity archives (like dark side of the moon and wizard of oz) for defiant mike’s birthday - the best comic book cover site yoda
- [and now a wrap up of the day's entertainments](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/and-now-a-wrap-up-of-the-days-entertainments/) - well not just today’s. i’ve been rather lax for the last couple of days so bear with me, i’ve got a lot of links to post. please stand by... let’s start here - 1. nerve has started posting a collection of sexual related links from the world wide weird, it’s called the scanner and the
- [it was bound to happen](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/it-was-bound-to-happen/) - get here for the 7:30 meeting and no one is here. it’s raining. oh dear, no one is going to make it to work on time. sigh. i love the rain, i hope this keeps up for vic visit, it’s going to be lovely to wake up next to her in the pouring rain. hot
- [knight rider-esque](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/knight-rider-esque/) - i should be ashamed, i should also be on my way to work. but here’s my result:
- [ti's 6am and all is well in the world](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/tis-6am-and-all-is-well-in-the-world/) - got up early this morning and there was an email from vic, in my heart i knew she was ok, it’s just that mother hen portion of my brain, that would stop with the worst case scenarios.it’s the other reason, why, on a morning as lovely as this; the rain is drizzling on the roof,
- [you are getting very sleepy](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/you-are-getting-very-sleepy/) - pretty soon i’m going to have qwerty tattoo’d on my forehead and as much as i like ink, i’m not quite sure how that’s going to fit in with the rest of my ink. it’s almost 11:30, i’ve gotten some work done but not as much i’d like, i can smell the rain and i
- [don't hate me 'cause my hair is beautiful](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/dont-hate-me-cause-my-hair-is-beautiful/) - i’ve been getting a lot of compliments about my hair, but the stupidest comment is... wait for it... “is that your hair?” no, i picked it up in a flea market. what prompts people to ask stupid shit like that. nevermind. in other news this has been a throughly successful day, paid the taxes on
- [hey there lamp, that's a nice shade. now you!](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/hey-there-lamp-thats-a-nice-shade-now-you/) - it’s not the same. [bonus points if you can identify where that’s from - trini js excluded] another restful night, i’m off to work early this morning to see what happened yesterday and try to finish up some work that was due this morning. i think my internet access is going to be limited today,
- [we are the world](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/we-are-the-world/) - back to subject lines of whimsy - i think you can tell my mood by the subject lines. i’m torn between giving up ijournal and posting directly on js -it would save me the exercise i’m about to embark on; catergorising all my entries. but there was a real point to this post, two actually.
- [tear the roof off this mother](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/tear-the-roof-off-this-mother/) - the housing situation seems to be coming together, there are quite a few short term apartments for rent and i’m going to see two of them tomorrow. thanks karen. short term apartment rental is considerable less than a hotel room, i’m trying to figure out the catch is. in other positive news, i also found
- [a hard day's work](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/a-hard-days-work/) - my hair is toit, toit like a tiger. after a marathon session my hair is now neat and bouncy. like a dreadlock hair commercial. i promise never to wait seven plus months to neaten my hair. had to promise the woman that she’d see me in two months as well. other than a bit of
- [It's only Propaganda (but ah like it)](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/its-only-propaganda-but-ah-like-it/) - a few beers, some appetisers and good conversation and i feel halfway human again. thanks karen. [mwah]. word for the day: Som·me·lier A restaurant employee who orders and maintains the wines sold in the restaurant and usually has extensive knowledge about wine and food pairings. i need to get this off my chest, i have
- [consume, conform, obey](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/consume-conform-obey/) - i’m trying to focus on some work that’s been hanging about for a while. it’s getting done but not as quickly as i’d like so i’m going for a drink with karen. i figure i can go have a drink talk with her for a while and trying and work out what’s going on with
- [no obscure title references](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/no-obscure-title-references/) - My Bloginality is INTJ!!! the incredible bulk A six-year-old girl got more than she bargained for when she won an Incredible Hulk doll on Brighton’s Palace Pier. more [edit, like some backward news organisations in the caribbean [sorry franka], this paper doesn`t archive, but i posted the story in it`s enterity in the junk drawer
- [you don't look like an average horti-fucking-culturalist](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/you-dont-look-like-an-average-horti-fucking-culturalist/) - i just lost this cry of anguish i’d written about missing vic and the fustration of know how much longer i have to wait and lost it. i was adding a post script welcoming the newest addition to the trini [even if she displace in h’inglan] contingent here at js - rentaempress and hit the
- [we shall drown them in their own confusion](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/we-shall-drown-them-in-their-own-confusion/) - school is closed and my boss isn’t in, which means i slept that extra 30 minutes. i should get going, but i’m enjoying being out of clothes for as long as possible. is it possible to be this aroused and still have brain function? i feel like i’m going to explode, every fibre, every nerve
- [whole lotta love](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/whole-lotta-love/) - what more could i ask for? well we all know the answer to that. but i had a nice long nap, lovely dreams, got up had lunch, watched some of the movies i borrowed, only lock stock and adaptation to watch. may take those on tomorrow in the office. metafilter is down but daze is
- [now more filling](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/now-more-filling/) - sunday brunchHave you or would you ever try any of the following....1. Bungee jumping or Skydiving?2. Scuba diving or Snorkeling?3. Downhill skiing or snowboarding?4. Whitewater rafting or Water skiing?5. Hang gliding or Hot Air Balloon ride?nerve has renamed the week in sex but it’s all still the same fun stuffthe flat earth society (believe it,
- [keep searching, keep searching, you'll find it...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/keep-searching-keep-searching-youll-find-it/) - not quite bright eyed and bushy tailed but awake, just managed to catch the beginning of the race. the dreams are back and oh my... just thinking about it... i’m getting shivers. i’m trying to keep myself under control. i want share these dreams but i think they’ll lose some of their poignance. dammit i
- [i am so addicted](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/i-am-so-addicted/) - it’s almost five am, i’ve just got in from the pride party and what do i do? log on of course. how sad is that?the party was ok, not great, just ok. definitely not a poolside party. i had fun danced a little, had a strange man try to pick me up, but it was
- [she's safe](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/shes-safe/) - just got an email from vic. she’s alive and well.i feel a lot better now. so i’m out. party starts at 11, k is supposed to be here in 30 minutes, pre party drinks and then on with the show. i don’t expect to be home before 5am.i am so going to pay for this
- [it's 8:30pm, do you know...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/its-830pm-do-you-know/) - ...where you wife is? lol.one of the things that i am is a worry wart. when i don’t know where vic is, i worry about her. it’ ms not a lack of trust thing, it’s the “she’s the best thing to happen in my life and i’d be devastated if anything happened to her” school
- [late afternoon round-up](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/late-afternoon-round-up/) - Saturday-8: “Kid Stuff” What’s the one memory of your childhood that makes you laugh everytime you look back? the first book my mother ever bought me was toodles the taxi, i learned to read it, then i ate it, page by page. Everyone had a favorite toy, pet, blanket, etc. What was your favorite thing
- [stuff like this bothers me](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/stuff-like-this-bothers-me/) - sex tourism in jamaicawhat saddens me is that this is so prevalent all over the caribbean, that people will automatically make assumptions about vic and i. i expect to hear at least one completely stupid fucking comment while she’s here. Technorati Tags: sex tourism
- [i love the sound of formula one in the morning](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/i-love-the-sound-of-formula-one-in-the-morning/) - i fell asleep early last night which in retrospect is a good thing. tonight is the pride party and these things usually go on til the wee hours of the morning. my plan for today is kind of laid back, drop off some stuff, come home and do some more work on the corporate identity,
- [one last thing](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/one-last-thing/) - the homosexual agenda revealed (thank you tara), laughed my ass off at this Technorati Tags: humour
- [today's pride link](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/todays-pride-link/) - another in the day’s post-o-rama. quite possibly the last, i have to make a trip out of my house. sighOn Pranks, Supremes Debating Sodomy, the Invisible Middle and “Gay Sex” Technorati Tags: pride week
- [this time in two weeks](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/this-time-in-two-weeks/) - vic will be in my arms. we may not be in private, but she’ll be in my arms and it’s the little things that count. i miss her. i miss sharing the simple stuff. curling up together, watching tv. tonight i would love to watching fireworks over vic’s shoulder.sigh. just sitting here and watching the
- [and yes the site does exsist](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/and-yes-the-site-does-exsist/) - have you seen jay and silent bob strike back? ok, you know the website - moviepoopshoot.com? well it really exists. got to love kevin smith. and in some sad news, barry white diedback to planning the evening’s entertainments. Technorati Tags: barry white, kevin smith, moviepoopshoot
- [this has been circulating for a couple days](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/this-has-been-circulating-for-a-couple-days/) - Browse to google and type “weapons of mass destruction” (WITHOUT the quotation marks). Do NOT click Google Search. Instead, click “I’m Feeling Lucky.” this error message will appear. Read it.too much time on one’s hands.back to the movie, actually, time to pack up and head home.
- [cool toys](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/cool-toys/) - a friend of mine, sent me this very cool toy/link, it’s calledaudioscrobbler:“In a nutshell, Audioscrobbler endeavours to be your personal music advisor. It grows to know what music you like by monitoring what songs you play on your computer. From this information you can discover other users that share some or all of your taste
- [one more thing](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/one-more-thing-2/) - got this from my friend franka [ a litte background info, david coleman is a famed english sports commentator] here are some of his greatest moments: That’s the fastest time ever run - but it’s not as fast as the world record. Don’t tell those coming in the final result of that fantastic match,
- [an afternoon at the movies](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/an-afternoon-at-the-movies/) - the timer works perfectly, i reworked some of the page colours, i’m feeling pretty good about myself. [edit: so i have a stack of dvds that i borrowed. i seemed to have consumed all the indy flicks that are worth seeing that they have, so i`ve borrowed commercial drek] it being july 4, it’s seems
- [good morning & happy 4th](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/good-morning-happy-4th/) - not much to tell this morning, it’s just as good a day as any this week. vic is here in two weeks. i still haven’t figured how to get the clock to sit where i want it to, but i will, fear not.before i head off work here is your friday five:1. What were your
- [es fini](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/es-fini/) - i’ve finally finished hp and the order of the pheonix and as with most books i really like, i’m distraught. i’m debating whether the children will we be up to this. it’s not earth shattering literature but i think there are going to be a lot of tears shed by the end. vic has been
- [sort of pointless trek](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/sort-of-pointless-trek/) - so the hair lady is sick, so i have to endure the ‘fro-ras til next tuesday. and i’m lounging in my new chair in the office, with fuck all to do. so you know i’ll be blogging all day. it’s kind of hard (no pun intended) being aroused without an outlet all the time. most
- [as the days go by](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/as-the-days-go-by/) - the are 15 days til vicotria gets here. two weeks and a day. as of 7am today, 372.5 hours til she touches down in trinidad. i’m excited, can you tell. my thoughts are filled with her. waking and sleeping. i’m ditching work to get my hair neatened. yes, having dreads is not just about letting
- [grateful that this day is over](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/grateful-that-this-day-is-over/) - today was a very long day. i’ve realised that meetings are not my cup of tea. i had a long ass production meeting, then more meetings with my boss on and off all day. i think she’s serious about making me more responsible for the stuff that goes on at the agency. i’ve said this
- [help a brother out](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/07/help-a-brother-out/) - actually help some other people out. moustache may has come and gone and not one person has contributed to my fund-a-stache, although, it should be said it didn't do much to promote it. i was busy, i had a lot to do, blah, blah, blah. now it's the beginning of july, i'm issuing a challenge
- [can i manage?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/can-i-manage/) - there are 16 more days til vic gets here. the dreams are getting more and more intense, i’m sitting here almost basking in the afterglow. cold showers don’t help, i like water. water of any temperature makes my whole body feels... electric... i’d rather stay home and cavort naked but today is the last day
- [i forgot...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/i-forgot/) - my pride link for the day and while you’re there don’t be afraid to take the 2003 nerve sex survey (unlike most of the quizzes, there is no result at the end)adieu.
- [these little naps](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/these-little-naps/) - are quite refreshing. i think i may take one on everyday now. i’m slogging through hp on the palm, i think it’s just bad mind now, i refuse to wait til after vic leaves to read a copy.since i’ve been up, i’ve been surfing, it is tuesday so the village voice is all new (c’mon,
- [it's the little things](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/its-the-little-things/) - that make life enjoyable. the nicest part of my day today, wasn’t getting the cheque for the job after weeks of waiting, it was being able to help the lady that fell down while walking next to me. i had a lovely lunch with good friends, all in all the ripples from friday are still
- [rabbit, rabbit](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/07/rabbit-rabbit/) - there is no logical reason for me to be up at this hour. and it’s true, the reason i’m at this hour is purely hormonal. i had the most spectacular, most realistic dream, i’m not sure, but i may have moaned out loud. i sitting here typing every nerve ending tingling, my skin longing to
- [two quickies](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/two-quickies/) - got this from n: You Are an EXPERT in Bed You know precisely what you’re doing when the sheets are pulled down and the panties go right along with them. You’re also super confident, and rightly so. Because any man who may be fortunate enough to find himself between your legs is a happy man,
- [when it rains...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/when-it-rains/) - ...it pours.today was kind of stressful, aside from the moron client. the power adaptor on my laptop, finally gave out, had to find a replacement at least until the new one arrives. then i couldn’t get my regular connection to dialup. i’m using a borrowed connection to get some info for a quotation that was
- [and we wonder why the country is in a state](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/and-we-wonder-why-the-country-is-in-a-state/) - i have the misfortune of doing work for the miscreants that purport to run this country. and if the way this job is organised (actually disorganised and mismanaged), then i’m not surprised by the state the country is in. the person that’s supposed to liase with the agency, is an arrogant, self-important, pus ridden, infected,
- [very big brother-esque (THE BOOK! THE BOOK! )](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/very-big-brother-esque-the-book-the-book/) - i’m reorganising the post of the first 6 days, which i’d posted on a blog, here in chronological order.i feel somewhat like winston, although i’m not revising history, the js ability to make the post appear to have been on a specific date is really orwellian.just wanted to say that, and plug my early blog
- […and counting](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/…and-counting/) - there are 18 days til vic gets here. if the dreams get any more intense i’m going to spontaneously combust. today is the halfway point, since we’ve gotten all the tickets and this trip has become our talisman, our holy grail. there is a small voice in the back of my head trying to tell
- [the simple things](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/the-simple-things/) - i realised i didn’t put in the number of days til vic gets here: 19after a long, pleasant, dream filled nap, i had to go pick up the girls.music is an interesting thing, there are songs that you’ll always associate with a moment, a person. tonight i was fortunate enough to hear the two songs
- [well fed and trying to catch up](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/well-fed-and-trying-to-catch-up/) - the rain stopped while i was eating, so i’m sitting here in front of the fan, catching up on the links i missed over the last couple of days.foodie porn (for vic)questions about the safety of soy. brainshrinking tofu? and a counter argument (what me worry? i’m a carnivore baby.)the key art award winners (keyart
- [what a difference a day makes](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/what-a-difference-a-day-makes/) - a little over 36 hours ago i was posting about random acts of kindness and feeling all warm inside about the place. it was too good to last. i went to work, that wasn’t too bad, borrowed my ex-brother-in-law’s car, picked up the pig et homme and off we went to the slamming back in
- [for vic](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/for-vic-2/) - came across this today and thought you’d like itleaving the office now, the last print is coming out of the printer. going home, take a nap, then off to the old school party tonight. evelyn ‘champagne’ king. woo hoo.
- [too long, too long](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/too-long-too-long/) - only 20 more days before gets here. :) my god, the dreams, the dreams. i’m still tingling and it’s midafternoon. i’ve been in the office far too many hours already. the print making continues, either i have exceptionally high standards or most people in the business here have no idea how printing operates. nevermind, i
- [random act of kindness](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/random-act-of-kindness/) - I am sitting on my porch typing this (no wireless acess, just typing and then dialup afterwards), thinking about karma.of course there is a story to this, i left my office a little after midnight, pondering how i was getting home. my office is petit valley (suburb, about a 15 minute traffic free drive outside
- [i'm still here](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/im-still-here/) - it’s 6:30pm and i’m still at the office, it’s been that kind of day. actually it’s because i sat on my ass uninspired all day, that and the new printer that i recommended decided that it was going to be difficult under os x. well i fixed that, now i just need to placate my
- [well rested](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/well-rested/) - i actually got to bed before midnight and managed to get at least 6 hours sleep, so i feel a lot better, although i could crawl back in to bed and sleep til noon. adding to this feeling of well being is the fact that victoria will be here in 3 weeks, 21 days. the
- [... and anal sex for all](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/and-anal-sex-for-all/) - i know i’m beat when i forget stuff that’s right in front of my face...here are two quick links i meant to post just now...the box office oracle (try it you’ll like it)and anal sex for all.thank you and good night. Technorati Tags: anal, supreme court
- [a farewell to mail](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/a-farewell-to-mail/) - i gave up my very first email address today. looking back it’s been a fun 8 years. it’s been that long, i got that account when one of the first commercial isps in this country opened, it came with my dialup account. when i gave up the account, i had it the email address transferred
- [smorgasboard](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/smorgasboard/) - tearsofice was my 4000th visitor. can’t offer any thing other than a great big thank you for reading my blog. a quiz and a questionnaire garnered from the various blogs on my favourites list (over there in the right hand column) [take the test] - [by krystaljungle.com] 1. What if you had the opportunity to
- [taking a breather](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/taking-a-breather/) - my boss is sitting at my computer (well her computer that i use in the office) making text changes to the layouts, giving me a much need chance to relax.it’s strange after that primary bout of complete exhaustion this morning, i don’t feel any worse for wear and tonight looks like another long one, not
- [who am i? where am i? where are my panties?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/who-am-i-where-am-i-where-are-my-panties/) - and what the fuck am i doing in the office so early.the answer is perfectly simple, the meaning is clear... just don’t disappear, don’t disappear (sorry the song just popped into my head unbidden...) i’m here to finish up the artwork for the campaign, i am flat on my face tired and if i’d stayed
- [free at last](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/free-at-last/) - 3:47 am. thursday morning (22 days and counting) i finally fucking finshed. now i’m so wired i can’t sleep. what’s interesting is that i haven’t had any caffine.so everyone seems to have taken this quiz, so here’s my result:bondage What’s YOUR sexual fetish? brought to you by Quizilla (what i’d really like to have my
- [links of orwellian proportions](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/links-of-orwellian-proportions/) - today, had he lived, george orwell would have been 100. in honour of this auspicious event, here a bunch of links culled from metafilter:a passage from indiaa seer’s blind spotsthe two georges, orwell and bushofficial website (i think)general orwell resources1984 online:the bookthe moviethe commercialthe reality?and finally an infinite loop Technorati Tags: orwell, 1984, george orwell,
- [like the fucking energiser bunny](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/like-the-fucking-energiser-bunny/) - i have gotten a chance to shit sideways all afternoon, my boss has been on me like a tick about the campaign in the office, meaning i haven’t gotten any pages done. i’m trying to get out of here at 4:30 on the dot to make my other meeting then head down to the guardian
- [you know that point](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/you-know-that-point/) - when you’re so tired you’re almost exuberant, because you’re just running on sheer adrenaline? that’s where i am now. but i know how exhausted i am, i left the page plan for the second set of pages, which in terms of sheet stupidity, is monumental.what does this mean exactly? it means i haven’t been able
- [going and going and going](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/going-and-going-and-going/) - it’s 8am, i’ve had a total of 7 hours sleep over the last two day, today is going to be really pleasant at work. i can tell.i’ve finished one of the supplements, i was starting to make stupid mistakes on the other when i called it a night. and with it due for midday today,
- [whatchadune?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/whatchadune/) - i’m getting ready to build 28 pages for 2 newspaper supplements for tomorrow. i’m going to be up for a while. i figure if i get going now, i can get a second wind around midnight. i’ve got 8 hours of pop music cued up. this is going to be such fun.in the mean time
- [counting down](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/counting-down/) - i made the first offical step to vic’s visit, i submitted my leave form, my boss is trying to ignore me but i’ll quit if she doesn’t give me the time off. i doubt it will come to that. things seem to be coming together for the visit, there are two things that haven’t been
- [one more thing...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/one-more-thing/) - got this one from karen, thanks k: What Finding Nemo Character are You? brought to you by Quizillai owe, i owe, it’s off to work i go, i owe, i owe.
- [very, very, very sleepy](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/very-very-very-sleepy/) - well i should know better having gone to bed close to 3am, now i’m just trying to pull myself together and get started.i’d really like nothing better than to crawl into bed and work from home today, but that’s not going to happen, so i’m taking a moment to centre myself, read the news, check
- [i should be sleeping](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/i-should-be-sleeping/) - really i should i got back from the movie about 30 minutes ago, i’ve got work in the morning, but my 8 - 4:30 ain’t paying for this trip (vic is here in 24 days), i need to make sure we’re both covered for the week off work, food, accomodation, transport... they usual stuff, so
- [the difference between men and boys](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/the-difference-between-men-and-boys/) - i haven’t done much all evening other than geek with my fellow mac heads about the new machines and trying out what new software is available. ichat a/v and safari are amazing. ichat is a beta and works perfectly out the gate. the new hardware is nice, but i’m not big on desktops anymore, i’m
- [apple makes the coolest stuff](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/apple-makes-the-coolest-stuff/) - in the immortal words of keanu: WHOA!there is nothing left to say, i’ve just downloaded the beta for ichat a/v and i’m blown away. no extra equipment nothing, voice chat, instantly. no more expensive phone calls to vic. woo hoothe new G5s, Panther... i’m too excited, i’m going to do what i do best post
- [what kind of geek would i be?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/what-kind-of-geek-would-i-be/) - if i did give some links to steve jobs’ WWDC keynote in progress now. for those of you with no bandwidth like myself macminute is offering live auto-updated coveragefor those of you who must see steve in the black turtleneck, the broadcast will be streamed here, afterward.back to the grind. more info later. Technorati Tags:
- [quick pitstop](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/quick-pitstop/) - i’m at work, not really slaving away, just trying to get started this morning, but i’m not quite feeling it. so in the mean time, i’ve been doing ‘research’ online. i love that word, it covers a multitude of sins and with a browser that supports tabs (plugs safari here) work and non-work are just
- [and now the news](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/and-now-the-news/) - heading the news this morning, there are only 25 days til victoria gets here.tools for librarians (trust me on this, especially if you borrow books from the library)it’s summer in the us (but rainy season for us folks), so here’s a list of theme park accidents as well as park reviews and safety tips20 questions
- [twiddling my thumbs](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/twiddling-my-thumbs/) - got this off absestos’ blogwhat pre-1985 videogame character am i?I am Pacman.I am an aggressive sort of personality, out to get what I can, when I can. I prefer to avoid confrontation, but sometimes when it’s called for, I can be a powerful character. I tend to be afflicted with munchies constantly. What Video Game
- [this was just too fun to pass up](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/this-was-just-too-fun-to-pass-up/) - thank you mcsuperfly1. What’s your favorite kind of cheese?parmesean2. How long do you hold onto odd socks before giving up on finding their mate?you’re supposed to give them up?3. Who was your favorite musical artist when you were 15? Yes, you can only pick one!iron maiden4. What shape are your fingernails in right now?bitten to
- [bright eyed & bushy tailed](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/bright-eyed-bushy-tailed/) - i’d forgotten how energetic i felt after a nap on a sunday afternoon. although, it still doesn’t mean i’m leaving my house.tonight is the final night of izahvaps (a showcase of local talent). i should go, it’s family, but it’s cold and rainy and i don’t feel like travelling anywhere. there is the complete lack
- [i'm getting too old](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/im-getting-too-old/) - i went out with k and danced the night away and i ache and i’m exhausted. there was a time when i would have been rearing to go again, right now all i want to do is crawl back into bed. and that’s not a bad idea at this point, it’s raining, it’s been raining
- [30 minutes or...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/30-minutes-or/) - results of my kink test and the results of an astrological chart, i had done: Hi there, here is the interpretation of the astrological chart that you asked for. Also attached is a .GIF graphic file which depicts your chart wheel. Thank you for visiting the Astrolabe WEB site at http://alabe.com This report has been
- [and now some announcements](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/and-now-some-announcements/) - this following week (june 19 - july 5) is pride week in trindad you can go here for the list of events. i’m going with karen tonight to the non-official kickoff of pride week. i always enjoy going out with karen, i have a blast and we can point out all the cute people of
- [today’s flavour is...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/today’s-flavour-is/) - just got out of the shower. have a very long and refreshing shower - body shop grapefruit & lime body wash is divine. i also washed my hair, funny thing in the middle of the wash, rinse, repeat cycle i realised i’d washed my hair last weekend. well, i want to get it neatened this
- [distraction mode](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/distraction-mode/) - machine is fixed. i am so good. no cash, but the person is travelling next week and is coming back with two copies of HP for me, so that`s cool. i`m in distraction mode, so i got this questionnaire from someone else`s blog and it`s helping me get through the afternoon: 1. Full Name: keifel
- [I HAVE THE POWER](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/i-have-the-power-2/) - well, i went to the office and picked up my power adaptor, so now i don’t have to worry about the machine running out of juice in the middle of doing something. this morning i had to take a trek to st. james to get doubles, it’s been a while - doubles truly the breakfast
- [music to make love to](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/06/music-to-make-love-to/) - carlin is dead and it saddens me. he was one of my favorite comics and while i think 'seven words...' was groundbreaking, there are bits i love more. i think my love of carlin's work comes from his ability with words. he was brilliant and will be missed. while vic and i were dating, we
- [things you do while trying not to think about sex](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/things-you-do-while-trying-not-to-think-about-sex/) - got this from jadedgrrl:33 things i hate about the internetsavant for a dayand that’s about as far as i got when i realised i’d left the power adaptor for my laptop in the office and i have 2 hours of charge left. i’m not going back tonight. so this is it for me for the
- [things masturbation can't do for you](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/things-masturbation-cant-do-for-you/) - today was productive, even with all the distractions of my body. i’m eternally gratefully that it’s just me here today, i don’t think i could have dealt with an office full of women today, it would have been down right embarrassing.i feel as if my skin aflame. i need to get some ice cream, it’s
- [it would be sunny](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/it-would-be-sunny/) - i just went outside to get lunch. the was bearing down magnificently on me. what you wonder is wrong with this picture?remember we cancelled the shoot this morning because the met office told me it was going to rain all weekend. well there is nary a cloud in the sky.it’s a lovely day out. my
- [friday 5](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/friday-5/) - 1. Is your hair naturally curly, wavy, or straight? Long or short? waist length dreadlocks 2. How has your hair changed over your lifetime? went from having no hair and really low haircuts to my dreads 3. How do your normally wear your hair? down 4. If you could change your hair this minute, what
- [TGIF](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/tgif/) - not that it makes a difference, it’s a holiday here and i’m going into work. but i feel great anyway. the dreams, the dreams. my god. that glow on the horizon in the northwest portion of trinidad is me smiling. i feel that good, by the time vic gets here in 28 days we may
- [hormone overdrive](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/hormone-overdrive/) - my hormones are in overdrive, not in a bad way. my skin is tingly, it’s like i can feel every touch with every fibre of my person. everything seems more sensual. it, of course, doesn’t help that my wife is 4 hours by plane and a further 13 hours drive away. but she’ll be here
- [and now back to the news](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/and-now-back-to-the-news/) - The Rotenberg Collection: Forbidden EroticaMiss Exotic World Pageantand a midafternoon moment of zenthe installs continue apace, i should be finished in about an hour, then i can do the desktop swap, so i don’t have to keep logging off and logging back on whenever someone needs to check the mail. i’m writing a story for
- [we're rich, we're rich](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/were-rich-were-rich/) - well we’re not, but i’ve always said, i never harrass people that owe me money, because when i need it most they usually come through.so said, so done, this morning i got enough money to get me through the weekend and to payday, as long as i’m thrifty. and not wanting to go through this
- [good morning](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/good-morning/) - DAYS TIL VICTORIA GETS HERE: 29how bad is it when you’re borrowing money off your child? i’m about to find out, i’m going to grab a shower, see if there is anything edible in this kitchen, then head off to the office, first order of business, major diagnostics on the art dept machines, then upgrade
- [who comes up with this shit](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/who-comes-up-with-this-shit/) - i know i posted the results for the vh1 greatest songs of the last 25 years, but i was watching it tonight, backhole boys, nelly...what the fuck?the only thing more annoying that was the 100 greatest hip hop moments/artist. i’m curious as to the people who make these decisions. they obviously need a crash course
- [how could i pass this up](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/how-could-i-pass-this-up/) - reading PTG’s blog - how could i pass up a questionnarie on books and reading... must be incredibly distracted 1. Newspapers or magazines? i stopped looking at newspapers when i started working in advertising 2. Books-on-tape or regular books? Regular books. 3. Paperback or hardcover? either one is fine, i’m such a book slut 4.
- [being broke always puts me in a vile mood](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/being-broke-always-puts-me-in-a-vile-mood/) - i really should have a better control of these mood swings. but the concept of spending what is a 4 day weekend with $4 in my wallet does not fill me with joy. this couple with the fact that i’m supposed to go into work over the next two days. i actually get paid because
- [regaining a mesure of control](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/regaining-a-mesure-of-control/) - wow this being assertive things works. yeah right, the forecast of rain all weekend forced the cancellation of the shoot, i’m going to have to work over the next two days using the stock photos i’d found, but somehow i feel more comfortable with that. and when the we get final approval from client well
- [20 questions](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/20-questions/) - got this from honeydippedlotus First Ten: All About You 1 | What do you wish was your name? - I love my name, i went through a phase in my teens where i went by my second name, but now... it suits me fine. 2) What song seems to reflect you the most? currently break
- [i must not fear. fear is the mind killer...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/i-must-not-fear-fear-is-the-mind-killer/) - i must not fear. fear is the mind killer. fear is the little death that brings about total obliteration. i will face my fear. i will permit it to pass over me and through me. and when it has gone past, i will turn with the inner eye to see it’s path. where the fear
- [shit, i forgot to...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/shit-i-forgot-to-2/) - include the links...triple-dip tips (this one is especially for PTG, although i’m sure she knows all of this already)the weekly dose of savage lovepotter mania has begunthe smudge reportthat’s all folks.
- [liberated from elsewhere...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/liberated-from-elsewhere-2/) - this one is circulating all over and it’s helping me calm down after today’s multiple fiascos. i’m going to try and finish it before i head off to see the italian job at the movie. your true friends always know when you need that pick me up. DESCRIBE YOUR... Wallet -black old navy Hairbrush -
- [we can has kitten](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/06/we-can-has-kitten/) - i am and have always been a cat person. i'd rather have their aloof attitude than the pandering acceptance of dogs any day but between having an apartment with carpet and vic allergies it never really came up until now, after our last mouse incident, we decided it was time to get a cat. we
- [moved](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/06/moved/) - not that it matters or anyone even noticed but i've changed hosting providers. i registered and hosted the domain with Hostway. i have no clue who they were outside the fact the bought Valueweb, the web host that i've used for the last seven years. Hostway sucks, there is no other way around it. in
- [Vacation Photos](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2008/06/vacation-photos/) - I have returned from a week in the wilds of northern michigan and i have proof.
- [that's why i say -](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/thats-why-i-say/) - i generally love heist flicks. i also love ensemble casts. so i was in my glee with ‘the italian job’, it was a fun, entertaining, and fun to watch. and the score kicked major ass, i’m on amazon now, checking it out. one of the reasons i’m listening to pink floyd’s money is because there
- [shit, i forgot to...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/shit-i-forgot-to/) - include the links...triple-dip tips (this one is especially for PTG, although i’m sure she knows all of this already)the weekly dose of savage lovepotter mania has begunthe smudge reportthat’s all folks.
- [liberated from elsewhere...](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/liberated-from-elsewhere/) - this one is circulating all over and it’s helping me calm down after today’s multiple fiascos. i’m going to try and finish it before i head off to see the italian job at the movie. your true friends always know when you need that pick me up. DESCRIBE YOUR... Wallet -black old navy Hairbrush -
- [i fucking give up](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/i-fucking-give-up/) - i’m a day away from handing in my resignation, i’m not sure how much more this level of shit i can deal with. day before the shoot, the caterer/food prep my boss organised is unable to provide the quality and kind of food we need for the shoot. they don’t have the garnishes, they don’t
- [post scripts](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/post-scripts/) - i finished that book. my fucking good, it was so bad.i should have know, i got it with two other books, there were high praises for the other two, not a peep about this one. i pray to god the author was being ironic. i have rarely come across a more unsympathetic character. i felt
- [quick links](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/quick-links/) - as i’m waiting for my pictures to convert and save, i’ve been cruising around online.here are some interesting tidbits i found:new tidbits to the Oxford English dictonaryptv. lynch mtv vj? (although it is a NY Times story, it’s veracity may be in question)i’ll be back. adieu.
- [once again into the breech](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/once-again-into-the-breech/) - 31 DAYS TO VICTORIA GETS HEREi owe, i owe, so it’s off to work i go. today is going to be one of sort of work days i like, stuff needing to finished on tight deadlines. i have 3 ads to get out today, but the time i get in my scan should have arrived.
- [beautiful end to a day](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/beautiful-end-to-a-day/) - i left the office early and spent an interesting evening scouting two beach locations, the first was called 100 steps and required a trek down (duh) quite a lot steps, the beach is beautiful but the concept of trekking myself, photographer, assistant, makeup artist, 8 models including 4 children and equipment down and back up
- [how do i say this?](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/how-do-i-say-this/) - so i had to face the third degree this morning as to why d wasn’t coming back to work. how do i tell my boss that we both think you’re a cheap fuckwit, who has no idea how to manage people and still keep my job?no worries, i didn’t have to. what i do have
- [just had to post this](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/just-had-to-post-this/) - i found this link last night, but the page wouldn’t load (of course it loaded now - yay!) it’s an interactive timeline generator. go check it out, it’s very cool. the site has some bandwith restrictions, so if it doesn’t load check back later.it’s well work the look. caio.
- [you bring me joy](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/you-bring-me-joy/) - 32 DAYS TIL VICTORIA ARRIVES You bring me joy When I’m down Oh, so much joy When I lose my way your love comes smiling on me I saw your face And them I knew We would be friends I was so afraid but your arms, they’d say `come to me’ So I’d say to
- [more quizzes](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/more-quizzes/) - i’m waiting on vic so i’m idly taking quizzes (thanks liquidsunshine): What lesser-known Simpsons character are you? Brought to you by the good folks at sacwriters.com. How BLACK are you? Brought to you by the good folks at sacwriters.com. (as a black man should
- [all filler, no thriller](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/2003/06/all-filler-no-thriller/) - stuff about me, pulled this off singergirl’s blog: D.O.B.: August 23, 1971 Sex: male 1) What, if any, nicknames do you have? kei, pig 2) What is your race or nationality? way too mixed up 3) What is your height? 6’ 2” 4) What color are your eyes: dark brown 5) What is your shoe

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- [eastern trinidad](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/eastern-trinidad/)
- [quarry](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/quarry/)
- [string theory](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/string-theory/)
- [best lists](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/best-lists/)
- [gregory peck](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/gregory-peck/)
- [david brinkley](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/david-brinkley/)
- [repost](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/repost/)
- [newspaper](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/newspaper/)
- [editorial](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/editorial/)
- [homophobia](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/homophobia/)
- [abortion rights](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/abortion-rights/)
- [snl](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/snl/)
- [dieter](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/dieter/)
- [touch my monkey](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/touch-my-monkey/)
- [personality disorder](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/personality-disorder/)
- [dante's inferno](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/dantes-inferno/)
- [wicca](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/wicca/)
- [moon](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/moon/)
- [moustache may](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/moustache-may/)
- [fund-a-stache](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/fund-a-stache/)
- [galaxy star](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/galaxy-star/)
- [moustache](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/moustache/)
- [hate-mongering](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/hate-mongering/)
- [marathon](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/marathon/)
- [running](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/running/)
- [art](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/art/)
- [tate modern](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/tate-modern/)
- [modern art](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/modern-art/)
- [installation](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/installation/)
- [taxation](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/taxation/)
- [ballots](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/ballots/)
- [voting](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/voting/)
- [green card](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/green-card/)
- [finances](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/finances/)
- [citizenship](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/citizenship/)
- [writing exercise](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/writing-exercise/)
- [project](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/project/)
- [diamonds](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/diamonds/)
- [value](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/value/)
- [mortgage crisis](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/mortgage-crisis/)
- [recession](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/recession/)
- [history repeating](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/history-repeating/)
- [new job](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/new-job/)
- [cmt](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/cmt/)
- [viacom](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/viacom/)
- [mtv network](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/mtv-network/)
- [cable guys](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/cable-guys/)
- [beard](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/beard/)
- [american airlines](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/american-airlines/)
- [MIA](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/mia/)
- [funeral](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/funeral/)
- [grandmother](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/grandmother/)
- [sickness](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/sickness/)
- [death](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/death/)
- [S&L](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/sl/)
- [sub-prime](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/sub-prime/)
- [history](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/history/)
- [middle class](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/middle-class/)
- [pyramid scheme](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/pyramid-scheme/)
- [ponzi scheme](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/ponzi-scheme/)
- [speedtv](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/speedtv/)
- [pushing daisies](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/pushing-daisies/)
- [abc](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/abc/)
- [wonderfalls](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/wonderfalls/)
- [dead like me](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/dead-like-me/)
- [hospital dramas](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/hospital-dramas/)
- [st. elsewhere](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/st-elsewhere/)
- [er](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/er/)
- [weight loss](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/weight-loss/)
- [cpap](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/cpap/)
- [sleep apnea](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/sleep-apnea/)
- [daughter](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/daughter/)
- [son](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/son/)
- [outdoors](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/outdoors/)
- [camping](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/camping/)
- [buffalo river](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/buffalo-river/)
- [perseid meteor shower](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/perseid-meteor-shower/)
- [redesign](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/redesign/)
- [picture](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/picture/)
- [rhetoric](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/rhetoric/)
- [historical inaccuracies](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/historical-inaccuracies/)
- [iphone](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/iphone/)
- [harry potter](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/harry-potter/)
- [road trip](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/road-trip/)
- [des moines](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/des-moines/)
- [keith olbermann](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/keith-olbermann/)
- [special commentary](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/special-commentary/)
- [mildred loving](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/mildred-loving/)
- [interracial marriage](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/interracial-marriage/)
- [loving vs virginia](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/loving-vs-virginia/)
- [bonnaroo 2007](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/bonnaroo-2007/)
- [tool](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/tool/)
- [london 2012 logo](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/london-2012-logo/)
- [logos](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/logos/)
- [design by committee](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/design-by-committee/)
- [towel](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/towel/)
- [hitchhiker's guide](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/hitchhikers-guide/)
- [towel day](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/towel-day/)
- [friday five](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/friday-five/)
- [michigan](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/michigan/)
- [hostway sucks](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/hostway-sucks/)
- [bad web hosts](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/bad-web-hosts/)
- [mysql](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/mysql/)
- [eleven2](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/eleven2/)
- [pets](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/pets/)
- [kitten](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/kitten/)
- [photo](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/photo/)
- [men in black](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/men-in-black/)
- [firstgiving](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/firstgiving/)
- [anger](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/anger/)
- [church shooting](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/church-shooting/)
- [UU](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/uu/)
- [tired](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/tired/)
- [diversity](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/diversity/)
- [inclusion](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/inclusion/)
- [tolerance](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/tolerance/)
- [mob](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/mob/)
- [robbery](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/robbery/)
- [burglary](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/burglary/)
- [computers](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/computers/)
- [ipods](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/ipods/)
- [insurance](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/insurance/)
- [us presidential elections](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/us-presidential-elections/)
- [money](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/money/)
- [president](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/president/)
- [elections](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/elections/)
- [Ventura County Star](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/ventura-county-star/)
- [Steve Greenberg](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/steve-greenberg/)
- [political cartoon](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/political-cartoon/)
- [apps](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/apps/)
- [wordpress](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/wordpress/)
- [hunter s. thompson](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/hunter-s-thompson/)
- [genius](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/genius/)
- [shaving](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/shaving/)
- [jon stewart](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/jon-stewart/)
- [daily show](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/daily-show/)
- [palin](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/palin/)
- [abstinence education](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/abstinence-education/)
- [teen pregnancy](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/teen-pregnancy/)
- [lies](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/lies/)
- [bipartisan](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/bipartisan/)
- [election cycle](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/election-cycle/)
- [rules](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/rules/)
- [international confederacy](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/international-confederacy/)
- [grooming](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/grooming/)
- [questions](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/questions/)
- [election 2008](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/election-2008/)
- [ecards](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/ecards/)
- [bothervoting.org](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/bothervotingorg/)
- [bailout](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/bailout/)
- [pork](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/pork/)
- [ponzi](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/ponzi/)
- [entropy](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/entropy/)
- [failure](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/failure/)
- [facebook](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/facebook/)
- [friendship](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/friendship/)
- [apathy](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/apathy/)
- [billy bragg](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/billy-bragg/)
- [asheville](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/asheville/)
- [marijuana](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/marijuana/)
- [sensuality](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/sensuality/)
- [marketing](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/marketing/)
- [target](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/target/)
- [left-handed](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/left-handed/)
- [colonialism](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/colonialism/)
- [monroe doctrine](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/monroe-doctrine/)
- [roosevelt corollary](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/roosevelt-corollary/)
- [big stick policy](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/big-stick-policy/)
- [american dream](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/american-dream/)
- [apartment](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/apartment/)
- [leasing](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/leasing/)
- [ssn](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/ssn/)
- [reperations](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/reperations/)
- [sinestra](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/sinestra/)
- [gauche](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/gauche/)
- [bookshelves](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/bookshelves/)
- [april fool's](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/april-fools/)
- [writer's block](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/writers-block/)
- [geekiness](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/geekiness/)
- [organisation](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/organisation/)
- [unpacking](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/unpacking/)
- [fear](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/fear/)
- [book banning](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/book-banning/)
- [baclash](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/baclash/)
- [religious right](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/religious-right/)
- [moral majority](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/moral-majority/)
- [anniversary](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/anniversary/)
- [christianity](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/christianity/)
- [easter](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/easter/)
- [paganism](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/paganism/)
- [free speech](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/free-speech/)
- [innuendo](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/innuendo/)
- [tech support](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/tech-support/)
- [phone support](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/phone-support/)
- [porn](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/porn/)
- [hiv](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/hiv/)
- [business](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/business/)
- [guests](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/guests/)
- [grammar god](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/grammar-god/)
- [self-help](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/self-help/)
- [hell](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/hell/)
- [muzack](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/muzack/)
- [eula](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/eula/)
- [software](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/software/)
- [dmca](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/dmca/)
- [drm](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/drm/)
- [truth in advertising](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/truth-in-advertising/)
- [disclaimers](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/disclaimers/)
- [stupidity](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/stupidity/)
- [eugenics](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/eugenics/)
- [darwin awards](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/darwin-awards/)
- [once upon a time in the west](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/once-upon-a-time-in-the-west/)
- [kill bill](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/kill-bill/)
- [sergio leone](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/sergio-leone/)
- [spaghetti westerns](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/spaghetti-westerns/)
- [spoof](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/spoof/)
- [lawn care](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/lawn-care/)
- [perfectionism](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/perfectionism/)
- [work ethic](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/work-ethic/)
- [asshole tax](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/asshole-tax/)
- [driving](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/driving/)
- [sports cars](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/sports-cars/)
- [manual transmission](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/manual-transmission/)
- [adventure driving](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/adventure-driving/)
- [R&B](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/rb/)
- [marvin gaye](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/marvin-gaye/)
- [mowtown](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/mowtown/)
- [subtlety](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/subtlety/)
- [plot](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/plot/)
- [clear channel](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/clear-channel/)
- [riverstages](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/riverstages/)
- [monopoly](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/monopoly/)
- [fall line-up](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/fall-line-up/)
- [manners](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/manners/)
- [education](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/education/)
- [morality](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/morality/)
- [language](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/language/)
- [cursing](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/cursing/)
- [offensive](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/offensive/)
- [expletives](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/expletives/)
- [libraries](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/libraries/)
- [george john](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/george-john/)
- [journalism](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/journalism/)
- [national masturbation month](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/national-masturbation-month/)
- [nudes](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/nudes/)
- [rape of europa](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/rape-of-europa/)
- [pornography](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/pornography/)
- [sex education](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/sex-education/)
- [walmart](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/walmart/)
- [legal prostitution](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/legal-prostitution/)
- [100 things](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/100-things/)
- [world aids day](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/world-aids-day/)
- [awareness](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/awareness/)
- [idiot's guides](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/idiots-guides/)
- [anti-intellectualism](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/anti-intellectualism/)
- [Nate Harrison](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/nate-harrison/)
- [Amen Break](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/amen-break/)
- [The Winstons](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/the-winstons/)
- [Drum and Bass](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/drum-and-bass/)
- [Sampling](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/sampling/)
- [copyright law](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/copyright-law/)
- [santa](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/santa/)
- [acquisition](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/acquisition/)
- [personal responsibility](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/personal-responsibility/)
- [litigation](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/litigation/)
- [internet](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/internet/)
- [censorship](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/censorship/)
- [CIPA](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/cipa/)
- [content filters](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/content-filters/)
- [hamlet](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/hamlet/)
- [adam mcnaughton](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/adam-mcnaughton/)
- [john wesley harding](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/john-wesley-harding/)
- [song](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/song/)
- [shakespare](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/shakespare/)
- [secrets](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/secrets/)
- [conspiracies](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/conspiracies/)
- [holiday greeting](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/holiday-greeting/)
- [respect](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/respect/)
- [unitarian universalists](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/unitarian-universalists/)
- [boxes](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/boxes/)
- [filing](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/filing/)
- [fun](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/fun/)
- [adults](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/adults/)
- [house guests](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/house-guests/)
- [dirty scrabble](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/dirty-scrabble/)
- [game night](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/game-night/)
- [BC Pires](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/bc-pires/)
- [Trinidad Guardian](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/trinidad-guardian/)
- [Thank God It's Friday](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/thank-god-its-friday/)
- [Column](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/column/)
- [Homeland Security](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/homeland-security/)
- [freedom of speech](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/freedom-of-speech/)
- [ronald reagan](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/ronald-reagan/)
- [movie](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/movie/)
- [chronicles of riddick](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/chronicles-of-riddick/)
- [american library association](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/american-library-association/)
- [banned books](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/banned-books/)
- ['protect the children'](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/protect-the-children/)
- [live music](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/live-music/)
- [ryman auditorium](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/ryman-auditorium/)
- [keb' mo'](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/keb-mo/)
- [foamy](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/foamy/)
- [squirrel](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/squirrel/)
- [scrabble](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/scrabble/)
- [word wars](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/word-wars/)
- [word freak](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/word-freak/)
- [USCIS](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/uscis/)
- [parenting](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/parenting/)
- [father's day](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/fathers-day/)
- [clinical trial](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/clinical-trial/)
- [public transportation](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/public-transportation/)
- [schedules](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/schedules/)
- [ny](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/ny/)
- [london](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/london/)
- [COPA](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/copa/)
- [supreme court](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/supreme-court/)
- [disenfranchisment](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/disenfranchisment/)
- [federal marriage amendment act](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/federal-marriage-amendment-act/)
- [gay rights](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/gay-rights/)
- [michael moore](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/michael-moore/)
- [neo-](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/neo/)
- [extremism](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/extremism/)
- [freedom](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/freedom/)
- [achiving](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/achiving/)
- [content](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/content/)
- [ownership](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/ownership/)
- [flickr](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/flickr/)
- [newspapers](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/newspapers/)
- [pj o'rourke](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/pj-orourke/)
- [lists](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/lists/)
- [axis of eve](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/axis-of-eve/)
- [civil liberties](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/civil-liberties/)
- [stereotype](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/stereotype/)
- [one word](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/one-word/)
- [soundtrack](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/soundtrack/)
- [songs](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/songs/)
- [language and gender](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/language-and-gender/)
- [University of Mississippi](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/university-of-mississippi/)
- [narrative voice](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/narrative-voice/)
- [wedding anniversary](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/wedding-anniversary/)
- [thoughts](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/thoughts/)
- [giuliani](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/giuliani/)
- [the talk](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/the-talk/)
- [insidious](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/insidious/)
- [look alike](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/look-alike/)
- [bullshit](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/bullshit/)
- [PR](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/pr/)
- [acronyms](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/acronyms/)
- [mammaries](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/mammaries/)
- [abu ghraib](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/abu-ghraib/)
- [torture](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/torture/)
- [rape](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/rape/)
- [weebls-stuff](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/weebls-stuff/)
- [kenya](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/kenya/)
- [magical trevor](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/magical-trevor/)
- [badger badger badger](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/badger-badger-badger/)
- [search](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/search/)
- [referral](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/referral/)
- [google](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/google/)
- [SGPT](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/sgpt/)
- [health](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/health/)
- [literature](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/literature/)
- [quiz](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/quiz/)
- [jasper fforde](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/jasper-fforde/)
- [neil gaiman](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/neil-gaiman/)
- [comics](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/comics/)
- [alan moore](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/alan-moore/)
- [sandman](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/sandman/)
- [neverwhere](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/neverwhere/)
- [good omens](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/good-omens/)
- [reponsible](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/reponsible/)
- [live shows](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/live-shows/)
- [they might be giants](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/they-might-be-giants/)
- [dancin' in the district](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/dancin-in-the-district/)
- [late nights](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/late-nights/)
- [personality traits](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/personality-traits/)
- ["no"](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/no/)
- [spouse](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/spouse/)
- [gratitude](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/gratitude/)
- [movie adaptations](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/movie-adaptations/)
- [graphic novels](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/graphic-novels/)
- [caribbean](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/caribbean/)
- [us intervention](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/us-intervention/)
- [rick james](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/rick-james/)
- [chapelle show](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/chapelle-show/)
- [last.fm](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/lastfm/)
- [scrobbling](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/scrobbling/)
- [observers](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/observers/)
- [international criminal court](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/international-criminal-court/)
- [secondary school](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/secondary-school/)
- [underachiever](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/underachiever/)
- [salon](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/salon/)
- [k chronicles](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/k-chronicles/)
- [george w.](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/george-w/)
- [aol](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/aol/)
- [escape](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/escape/)
- [oral tradition](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/oral-tradition/)
- [passing stories](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/passing-stories/)
- [elders](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/elders/)
- [clothing](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/clothing/)
- [fashion](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/fashion/)
- [dress sense](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/dress-sense/)
- [paste up](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/paste-up/)
- [objectification](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/objectification/)
- [cycles](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/cycles/)
- [translation](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/translation/)
- [error](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/error/)
- [anal sex month](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/anal-sex-month/)
- [good vibrations](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/good-vibrations/)
- [anal sex](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/anal-sex/)
- [shopping](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/shopping/)
- [pants](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/pants/)
- [sizes](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/sizes/)
- [weird al](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/weird-al/)
- [painting](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/painting/)
- [weather](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/weather/)
- [hurricane](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/hurricane/)
- [hurricane ivan](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/hurricane-ivan/)
- [political correctness](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/political-correctness/)
- [thought police](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/thought-police/)
- [cia factbook](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/cia-factbook/)
- [9/11](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/911/)
- [abu gharib](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/abu-gharib/)
- [camp x-ray](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/camp-x-ray/)
- [foreign policy](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/foreign-policy/)
- [INDUCE act](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/induce-act/)
- [copyright](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/copyright/)
- [facism](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/facism/)
- [nationalism](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/nationalism/)
- [laurence w. britt](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/laurence-w-britt/)
- [facism anyone](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/facism-anyone/)
- [fear mongering](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/fear-mongering/)
- [suits](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/suits/)
- [frequent flyer](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/frequent-flyer/)
- [flight attendants](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/flight-attendants/)
- [library](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/library/)
- [smell](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/smell/)
- [paint](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/paint/)
- [gasoline](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/gasoline/)
- [relaxation](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/relaxation/)
- [drive-in](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/drive-in/)
- [happiness](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/happiness/)
- [metallica](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/metallica/)
- [Sims](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/sims/)
- [gaming](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/gaming/)
- [oni](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/oni/)
- [christian](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/christian/)
- [islamic](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/islamic/)
- [fundamentalism](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/fundamentalism/)
- [K-3 visa](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/k-3-visa/)
- [conform consume obey](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/conform-consume-obey/)
- [marriage protection amendment](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/marriage-protection-amendment/)
- [christian coalition of america](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/christian-coalition-of-america/)
- [presidency](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/presidency/)
- [polls](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/polls/)
- [christians](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/christians/)
- [muslims](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/muslims/)
- [message](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/message/)
- [AIDS](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/aids/)
- [marriage](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/marriage/)
- [government](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/government/)
- [celibacy](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/celibacy/)
- [quark](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/quark/)
- [indesign](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/indesign/)
- [page layout](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/page-layout/)
- [pagination](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/pagination/)
- [taxation without representation](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/taxation-without-representation/)
- [spin](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/spin/)
- [leadership](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/leadership/)
- [jonestown](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/jonestown/)
- [kool-aid](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/kool-aid/)
- [cyanide](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/cyanide/)
- [guyana](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/guyana/)
- ['good american'](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/good-american/)
- [generation of swine](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/generation-of-swine/)
- [george h. w. bush](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/george-h-w-bush/)
- [Halo](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/halo/)
- [genetics](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/genetics/)
- [HFCS](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/hfcs/)
- [coke](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/coke/)
- [pro-life](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/pro-life/)
- [pro-death penalty](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/pro-death-penalty/)
- [moral incongruity](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/moral-incongruity/)
- [commericals](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/commericals/)
- [addys](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/addys/)
- [parody](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/parody/)
- [drive failure](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/drive-failure/)
- [illegal](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/illegal/)
- [sexual acts](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/sexual-acts/)
- [celebration](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/celebration/)
- [road running](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/road-running/)
- [form](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/form/)
- [winners](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/winners/)
- [losers](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/losers/)
- [Adlai Stevenson](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/adlai-stevenson/)
- [quote](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/quote/)
- [branding](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/branding/)
- [marketing campaigns](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/marketing-campaigns/)
- [beliefs](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/beliefs/)
- [glasses](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/glasses/)
- [spectacles](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/spectacles/)
- [oil consumption](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/oil-consumption/)
- [china](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/china/)
- [John Ashcroft](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/john-ashcroft/)
- [checks and balances](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/checks-and-balances/)
- [too much rock for one hand](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/too-much-rock-for-one-hand/)
- [roe v wade](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/roe-v-wade/)
- [reproductive rights](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/reproductive-rights/)
- [moral grounds](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/moral-grounds/)
- [pills](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/pills/)
- [live](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/live/)
- [in the round](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/in-the-round/)
- [sobriety](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/sobriety/)
- [models](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/models/)
- [stories](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/stories/)
- [black cake](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/black-cake/)
- [caribbean fruit cake](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/caribbean-fruit-cake/)
- [recipe](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/recipe/)
- [christmas](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/christmas/)
- [traditions](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/traditions/)
- [banks](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/banks/)
- [fees](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/fees/)
- [third party](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/third-party/)
- [griffin technology](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/griffin-technology/)
- [belkin](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/belkin/)
- [bose](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/bose/)
- [jbl](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/jbl/)
- [thanksgiving](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/thanksgiving/)
- [travelogue](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/travelogue/)
- [12 days of christmas](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/12-days-of-christmas/)
- [10x10](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/10x10/)
- [RSS](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/rss/)
- [images](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/images/)
- [nerve](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/nerve/)
- [nsfw](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/nsfw/)
- [racial profiling](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/racial-profiling/)
- [terrorism](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/terrorism/)
- [funk](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/funk/)
- [people](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/people/)
- [mall](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/mall/)
- [health insurance](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/health-insurance/)
- [advent calendar](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/advent-calendar/)
- [holiday greetings](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/holiday-greetings/)
- [gifts](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/gifts/)
- [shaun of the dead](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/shaun-of-the-dead/)
- [star wars](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/star-wars/)
- [macworld](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/macworld/)
- [SF](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/sf/)
- [fellatio](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/fellatio/)
- [cunnilingus](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/cunnilingus/)
- [San Francisco](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/san-francisco/)
- [ilife '05](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/ilife-05/)
- [iwork](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/iwork/)
- [mac mini](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/mac-mini/)
- [2005](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/2005/)
- [shuffle](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/shuffle/)
- [macworld 2005](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/macworld-2005/)
- [happy](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/happy/)
- [monogamy](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/monogamy/)
- [mental](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/mental/)
- [dogma](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/dogma/)
- [intolerance](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/intolerance/)
- [burns' night](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/burns-night/)
- [poem](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/poem/)
- [haggis](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/haggis/)
- [macintosh](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/macintosh/)
- [steve jobs](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/steve-jobs/)
- [launch](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/launch/)
- [1984](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/1984/)
- [ambrosia software](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/ambrosia-software/)
- [panic](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/panic/)
- [delicious monster](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/delicious-monster/)
- [The Guide to Getting It On!](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/the-guide-to-getting-it-on/)
- [Paul Joannides](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/paul-joannides/)
- [sexual equality](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/sexual-equality/)
- [worry](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/worry/)
- [time](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/time/)
- [self-censorship](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/self-censorship/)
- [carnival](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/carnival/)
- [germs](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/germs/)
- [resistance](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/resistance/)
- [football movies](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/football-movies/)
- [tax prep](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/tax-prep/)
- [guilt](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/guilt/)
- [excess](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/excess/)
- [greed](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/greed/)
- [sitcoms](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/sitcoms/)
- [lent](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/lent/)
- [year of the cock](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/year-of-the-cock/)
- [salary](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/salary/)
- [budget](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/budget/)
- [press](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/press/)
- [award winning](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/award-winning/)
- [civil surgeon](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/civil-surgeon/)
- [illness](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/illness/)
- [rastafarianism](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/rastafarianism/)
- [international confederation of dreadlocked persons](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/international-confederation-of-dreadlocked-persons/)
- [songbook](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/songbook/)
- [farewell](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/farewell/)
- [degree](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/degree/)
- [women](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/women/)
- [lush](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/lush/)
- [motherhood](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/motherhood/)
- [credit](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/credit/)
- [spam](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/spam/)
- [VH1](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/vh1/)
- [rap](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/rap/)
- [hip-hop](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/hip-hop/)
- [mashups](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/mashups/)
- [samples](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/samples/)
- [constantine](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/constantine/)
- [collective nouns](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/collective-nouns/)
- [benefit dinner](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/benefit-dinner/)
- [world bank](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/world-bank/)
- [debt](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/debt/)
- [bankruptcy](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/bankruptcy/)
- [scattergories](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/scattergories/)
- [25 random things](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/25-random-things/)
- [michael jackson](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/michael-jackson/)
- [trial](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/trial/)
- [parents](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/parents/)
- [research](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/research/)
- [university of essex](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/university-of-essex/)
- [participant](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/participant/)
- [blogging](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/blogging/)
- [Harold & Kumar go to White Castle](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/harold-kumar-go-to-white-castle/)
- [antidote](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/antidote/)
- [depressing](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/depressing/)
- [vasectomy](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/vasectomy/)
- [DC](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/dc/)
- [car games](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/car-games/)
- [irony](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/irony/)
- [remakes](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/remakes/)
- [racism](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/racism/)
- [leonard nimoy](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/leonard-nimoy/)
- [fat bottom review](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/fat-bottom-review/)
- [science fiction](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/science-fiction/)
- [science fact](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/science-fact/)
- [neal stephenson](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/neal-stephenson/)
- [burbclaves](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/burbclaves/)
- [VH1 classic](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/vh1-classic/)
- [dancing](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/dancing/)
- [alternative](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/alternative/)
- [120 minutes](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/120-minutes/)
- [tmi](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/tmi/)
- [jock strap](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/jock-strap/)
- [latent homosexuality](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/latent-homosexuality/)
- [atavan](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/atavan/)
- [lortab](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/lortab/)
- [may cause drowsiness](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/may-cause-drowsiness/)
- [pope](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/pope/)
- [john paul II](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/john-paul-ii/)
- [interactions](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/interactions/)
- [conversations](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/conversations/)
- [immigration rights](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/immigration-rights/)
- [standardised testing](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/standardised-testing/)
- [no child left behind](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/no-child-left-behind/)
- [tcap](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/tcap/)
- [AD](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/ad/)
- [property](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/property/)
- [commune](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/commune/)
- [wisdom teeth](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/wisdom-teeth/)
- [drug tolerance](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/drug-tolerance/)
- [post-vatican II](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/post-vatican-ii/)
- [hitch hiker's  guide to the galaxy](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/hitch-hikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/)
- [movie review](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/movie-review/)
- [alone](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/alone/)
- [loneliness](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/loneliness/)
- [companionship](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/companionship/)
- [inter-racial](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/inter-racial/)
- [race](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/race/)
- [expectations](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/expectations/)
- [mandingo fantasy](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/mandingo-fantasy/)
- [100 books](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/100-books/)
- [BBC](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/bbc/)
- [classics](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/classics/)
- [experience](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/experience/)
- [hard work](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/hard-work/)
- [bills](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/bills/)
- [part-time jobs](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/part-time-jobs/)
- [boobies](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/boobies/)
- [galleries](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/galleries/)
- [real id act](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/real-id-act/)
- [police state](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/police-state/)
- [tickets](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/tickets/)
- [Episode III: Revenge of the Sith](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/episode-iii-revenge-of-the-sith/)
- [bottoms](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/bottoms/)
- [callipygean](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/callipygean/)
- [desire](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/desire/)
- [sexy](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/sexy/)
- [comfort](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/comfort/)
- [anticipation](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/anticipation/)
- [hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/)
- [don't panic](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/dont-panic/)
- [mores](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/mores/)
- [misinformation](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/misinformation/)
- [skin](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/skin/)
- [personal vanity](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/personal-vanity/)
- [skin care](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/skin-care/)
- [speeding](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/speeding/)
- [tips](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/tips/)
- [packing lies](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/packing-lies/)
- [store opening](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/store-opening/)
- [apple store](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/apple-store/)
- [green hills](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/green-hills/)
- [grand opening](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/grand-opening/)
- [posterior](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/posterior/)
- [derrieres](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/derrieres/)
- [intel processors](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/intel-processors/)
- [job](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/job/)
- [resume](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/resume/)
- [rejection letters](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/rejection-letters/)
- [diskettes](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/diskettes/)
- [hard drives](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/hard-drives/)
- [680x0](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/680x0/)
- [ppc](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/ppc/)
- [batman](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/batman/)
- [dc comics](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/dc-comics/)
- [batman begins](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/batman-begins/)
- [guest](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/guest/)
- [tabanca](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/tabanca/)
- [resignation](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/resignation/)
- [exit interviews](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/exit-interviews/)
- [ass-less chaps](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/ass-less-chaps/)
- [mtv networks](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/mtv-networks/)
- [coolness factor](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/coolness-factor/)
- [g4](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/g4/)
- [backlight](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/backlight/)
- [childhood](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/childhood/)
- [wit](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/wit/)
- [secondary assessment exam](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/secondary-assessment-exam/)
- [high school](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/high-school/)
- [churches](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/churches/)
- [rage](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/rage/)
- [black & white](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/black-white/)
- [inner child](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/inner-child/)
- [Charlie and the Chocolate Factory](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory/)
- [Harry Potter book](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/harry-potter-book/)
- [Dahl](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/dahl/)
- [insurrection](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/insurrection/)
- [port of spain](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/port-of-spain/)
- [children's literature](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/childrens-literature/)
- [hardy boys](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/hardy-boys/)
- [secret seven](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/secret-seven/)
- [famous five](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/famous-five/)
- [Lightning in Bottle -- A one night history of the Blues](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/lightning-in-bottle-a-one-night-history-of-the-blues/)
- [Blues](https://blog.keifelagostini.com/tag/blues/)