Time for 2011’s Year End sirshannon Says It Rocks Awards!
Movie of the Year: Bellflower, a intensely beautiful movie that was stuck in my head for days, like a song. Many thanks to Back Alley Film Series for bringing this to a Charlotte theater!
Honorable Mention: Thor, X-men: First Class, Captain America. What can I say? I’m [...]
Marisa and were married in May, honeymooned in New Orleans, then drove from CLT to the Grand Canyon with my stepson Vincent. Click through to read the full story, along with some photos.
I wake up with a song in my head most mornings. In fact, I have some random song playing in my head almost every moment of the day. There is no way I’m going to track every song playing in my head so I decided to only track the song in my head when [...]
Screw a new year’s resolution, I’m celebrating 2011 by resurrecting 52WAY. Expect greatness there, at least 52 Weeks A Year.
On 3/16 last year, I took my too (still broken) arms to get tattoos. On 3/16 this year, I am having my wisdom teeth removed. The top 2 will be pulled. The bottom 2 will be excavated, I think they’re probably going to blast them.
I doubt I’ll miss them.
At some point around 2000/2001 I finally bought my personal domain name sirshannon.com and started playing around on it. I was already working as a web developer but was mostly working locally and on other people’s domains. Sirshannon.com has been through many incarnations but I realized early on that I would need a [...]
I finally went to the new Trader Joe’s on my way home yesterday but after driving around the parking lot 1.5 times, I decided that driving up to the 2nd level of the parking deck was just silly so I continued on my way home instead.
When I signed up for cable in my current home, I ordered an HD tier (not sure which one) by requesting “the one that includes HDNet”. I just received a letter from Time Warner yesterday stating that, as of tomorrow, I will no longer have HDNet because they will no longer offer it. [...]
Tomorrow (2009-03-16) marks my 1-year sober date, aka the first day of my second year of sobriety. I should probably write a big long post here, getting all deep and spiritual and philosophical but then I would end up having to promote the book on Oprah when she finally picks a true memoir to [...]