First World Dilemmas

My creative impulses are dragging me all over the place. I’ve got about a half-dozen projects I want to work on and I’m paralyzed with indecision. Maybe writing them down will help. In no particular order, I want to… – Get started on the perfume I’m making for Eve. – Play the hell out of [...]

Am I a writer? Or just restless?

There’s a certain self-righteous quality to calling yourself a writer when you have no published/paid work to your name. At that point you are closer to the truth if you refer to yourself as a “typist.” I have some friends, though, that exhibit that trait that I think is the telltale sign of a “real” [...]

Dreamweaving Again

So the good news is I’ve gone longer without posting on here, but that’s like saying midget murder is more condonable because they’re about half a life. I’ve started on a new web project, and with the number of features I want to build out it stands to be my most ambitious project yet, and [...]

Time Management Fail

I should be getting ready for work right about now, but I feel like writing too. So writing wins for now. I’m getting myself psyched up for 2011 with plans and ideas for how I’m gonna keep things interesting for this Monday-Wednesday-Friday regularity of posting. My work schedule actually calls for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday [...]

Polished Turds and Reinvented Wheels

I did a pretty major reskin of the blog, in anticipation of some upcoming projects. I liked the previous theme, don’t get me wrong, but it was difficult to work with and had some nasty bugs of it’s own. This one is simple and quite a pleasure to use so far. One thing I’ve come [...]

Remembering August

Rumors of my demise are greatly exaggerated. This month has been the best, busiest and most life-changing month I’ve ever experienced. Let me bring you up to speed. Back in early August, Diana and I moved in together, which involved moving out of our respective cities and into a new town. We knew where we [...]

Niche Experiment Volume Two

Luckyscent is getting more business from me as I delve back into reviewing niche. Expect to see reviews for: Andy Tauer Lonestar Memories Andy Tauer Une Rose Chypree CdG Series 2 (Red): Sequoia CdG Series 3 (Incense): Avignon Domenico Caraceni 1913 Keiko Mecheri Bois de Santal L’Artisan Timbuktu Le Labo Rose 31 Mazzolari Lui Montale [...]

Not dead. Not, in fact, deceased.

I’m alive, and in fact have been writing all this time, albeit in smaller, 140-character chunks on my Twitter account. So what happened after that fateful evening of March 15th? Well, an hour or two after writing that, I sent a message to a member on Basenotes named exquisitely_me, and the message said… “What’s new [...]

I’m not joking, and don’t call me Shirley.

I just received an invitation via email to the Perfume Expo America 2009 in NYC.  This has to mean that either everyone else declined, or PXA is succumbing to being politically correct, and having to diversify their blogger panel.  If I were to go, I would be “the straight one”.

Not a Dead Guy.

Some long awaited common sense with regards to fixing the blog has been dispensed by Mike at the Dreamhost support center so this is the first post in rather a while, isn’t it?