Frank Garrett Online

Category: anniversary

  • Two-Track Tuesday: Melissa Etheridge

    My twentieth “anniversary” is approaching. Twenty fuggin’ years! (No pun intended.) What the fuck?!?! Driving in Arlington, down E. Abram Street, past Meadowbrook Park where horniness and wine coolers blossomed… more ›

  • ♥ + 5

    While driving to Allen last weekend for a fiasco of a cook-out, we heard Haircut 100’s “Love Plus One” on the radio. Afterwards, I confessed that when I was in… more ›

  • On this day…

    … twenty-nine years ago, Skylab–the US’s first space station–began its own crash course across the Australian desert. more ›

  • Nuevo y nueve

    So, nine years. This blog began while I was living in Japan as a way of keeping in touch with friends and family around the globe. It was originally called… more ›

  • Tiananmen

    I was in Beijing just a few days after the tenth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. It was still closed to the public for “renovation,” in anticipation of protests… more ›

  • Overview

    Is it over yet?Now is the time when my prick of a professor contacts my colleagues to let them know when the revised deadline is for their obligatory rewrite. Graduate… more ›

  • May Day, May Day

    As if to prove the rule from yesterday’s post, today’s headlines included “U.S. airstrike kills top Qaeda agent in Somalia” and “Car bomb kills at least 9 in Baghdad; U.S.… more ›

  • A bad case of the hollows.

    Yeah, this band is rad. I love new music that gets under my skin. Angry words about how fucked-up stuff is. Makes me wanna burn it all down. Singing at… more ›

  • The New 30

    I think it’s fairly telling that I should lose my earrings just a couple of weeks before I turn 40. I had to remove them at the doctor’s office while… more ›

  • Year of the Whirlwind

    In honor of a Japanese tradition I recently learned about, I have chosen sempū as the kanji to represent the passing year. Sempū means “whirlwind” and is written thus: From… more ›