Buuurrr! and the burner solution

It's true, LA has made me such a wimpy little baby when it comes to weather, but I've always hated the wind! Today i had an epic battle with the Santa Anna winds opening my apartment windows. Having an old apartment is like having an old car, there's a lot of maintenance involved! I thought i would just be able to move into this cute little building built in the 1920's and set up a cute little place and leave everything else to the maintenance people. I was sorely mistaken.. Maintenance people don't care that your toilet doesn't work after two months of repeatedly trying to fix it, they don't care that the previous tenant painted over the windows with black paint, they don't care that the heater doesn't work, and most of all, they don't care that the windows don't latch all the way... I mean, it's never that windy in LA to blow open the window repeatedly making it impossible to heat up the apartment right?

I love my apartment, no really, I'm really proud of all the work I've done on it. I'm no handy man, but I really do try!

wow man it's a MOON BOW

I went to Moon Tribe for the first time last weekend, it was really cool! Good people, i felt pretty safe. I got to meet some new people and i saw a ring around the moon for the first time. It was rad to share that with Andrew, it was like the world was smiling down on me that weekend. Then i saw a ring around the sun for the first time on the way home. It was really a nice to get out of LA and go on a vacation, but it took a lot out of me. I've been so moody and my energy has been drained all week. I feel like a bitch.

Moon Tribe is rad! i think i almost like it as much as burning man. There's a lot less going on, but i get the same good feeling from it. I feel like i'm a part of something, i get this awesome feeling of togetherness with people. Maybe because we are all out in a harsh environment experiencing the same stuff.

This round goes to Fluffy

Fluffy and Food looked like things were going to work out. They were starting to become the best of friends, sharing food and tank space, frolicking in the onion plant leaves. So a day goes by and i come home to find no trace of Food except for a small flake of orange fin.

Does this make me a bad person? It's not like i killed an animal with my own hands and fed it to my pet, but i definitely had a feeling that Fluffy would eat Food. My real intention was to give Fluffy some excitement and interest in his life because he was looking board. It would have been cute if they became friends, but fish do what they want to do, you cant punish a fish or train it to do anything.

Well, Fluffy's fat now.. and looking a lot more happy.. cannibal fish

Fluffy vs. Food round2

So it's been several days now, Fluffy looks like he's enjoying the new and improved water filter. Food is still alive and well! He looks a little freaked out, he spends most of his time hiding up in the leaves of the onion plant. Two days ago i came home to fluffy having a bloodied side and he lost a scale. I was really worried but it healed up back to new in two days flat.

Fluffy vs. Food

Fluffy's been looking really board lately I think because I haven't been home a lot. So i bought a new filter with a nice light for him and a new friend! Is it ok to name a feeder fish Food? He's about 1/8 the size of Fluffy, maybe he will turn into food? Lets find out!

I Cooked my Meat

Ok this is why you spin out your poi before you light up!! I was playing two nights ago with my new poi (kick ass mini-d's attached to fire ropes.) for people that don't spin fire, this is a tone of fire! So I was being a cocky bastard and wanted to show off my new stuff. First i over dipped in white gas then i didn't spin out the extra fuel so when i started up there was way too much fire. I did what i thought a good fire performer does and just span out trails of fire on the ground (it looks cool and gets rid of extra fuel.) I didn't even hit myself, some of the fuel licked my back that was still on fire and my skin was on fire for several seconds. It wasn't from my clothes or anything else, straight up, flaming fuel on skin! By the time my back was extinguished several layers of skin were missing. I look over and my safety didn't even see what happened, he was too busy talking to a girl! From now on i'm not going to ask strangers to safety me. Don't let this happen to you.

Slutty Monogamy in Hollywood

I had a really interesting conversation with Alicea the other day about my sex life. Alicea is the classic monogamous straight girl, born that way, never experimented to any extent, and she's a good 20 years older than me. Her philosophy behind my generation and sex is that it was heavily influence by Porn. Generally, most girls shave all there hair neck down, It's way more socially acceptable to be a swinger or polly, and orgys and three sums are very common. I feel like people out here are way more into that life style than what I'm used to seeing. One of my Polly friends was talking to me about monogamy and saying that it's a chemical in the brain that makes people like that. He said they are doing research on Polly people and Swingers, injecting them with this chemical and trying to make them completely monogamous. "trying to fix the social epidemic." This could all be BS, someone in the Polly community very likely could have started that rumor to draw attention to his lifestyle.

I really don't see being polly or a swinger as a problem. I wish I could be like that! For me, I've tried to have open relationships and they just fail miserably. The only way I was able to deal with knowing my lover is with someone else was to not love him anymore.. When I'm into someone I just have blinders on, I cant help it.. It's not that I'm just TRYING to not see other guys when I'm into someone, I just don't see them at all. This has become a problem for me in LA.. I just ran into it last night! Guy was maybe hitting on me? But I cant even tell, and I'm not even really dating anyone! I would have way better luck if I was a slut. The dating scene is so messed up for people like me. I wish they could do a study about trying to make monogamous people swingers. I would hella get injected with swinger chemicals!