Not mitthai, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
I’ve spent the last month or so on what we flickr rockstars have all, in regards to our respective deadlines and dramas and to-do lists, been referring to as Getting Important Things DONE. What this means, of course, is that I’ve been distracting myself by spending far too much time […]

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Rockstar & sunshine & scribbles, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
The past couple of months, I kept getting emails reminding me that the sweepthesunshine.com domain needed to be renewed by February 17. So, I took care of that - on Valentine’s Day, no less, because I really do lowve you, internetS, and especially Blogistan - and we’re […]

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From Pearls Before Swine
My friend just sent me this link - Entire Blogosphere Stunned By Blogger’s Special Weekend Post:
NEW YORK—In what is being called a seminal moment in Internet history, a rare weekend post by 25-year-old blogger Ben Tiedemann on his website bentiedemanntellsall.blogspot.com rocked the 50 million-member blogosphere this Saturday. […]
“Wow, what a special […]

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By the way, did you know that the nominations stage for the Fourth Annual Brass Crescent Awards is going on right now? Yeah, I’m kind of outta the loop these days, too.
It goes like this:
“The Awards will take place in two phases. First is the nominations phase, where readers nominate their favorite blogs in […]

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Things to write in: ROCKING, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
I don’t even know why I’m doing this to myself, since I hate deadlines and writing under pressure, but I’ve decided to jump on the bandwagon and try my hand at this one-post-a-day drama for the entire month of November. And just look at me and my […]

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Gelato! (Back to business), originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
Wandering around aimlessly in downtown one day, I stopped by one of my favorite little shops, only to see the following sign on its door: UNOPEN. Which is a hell of a lot better than the deliberate finality of Closed, you know? UNOPEN means, We’re taking a little […]

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Originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
I’m so tired of constantly feeling so tired - I don’t sleep enough, I fall asleep holding books I once could have finished reading in a single day, I sleep crookedly, and my neck has been aching for over a week. Also, there’s that drama that enters my head once in a […]

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Trying to be difficult at the Berkeley Marina, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz
Yesterday morning, I checked my emails and found the following facebook message from my sister’s friend and classmate (this makes her my friend by default, too, I think). S wrote:
hooooly, lardki!
omg omg omg, i just discovered your mad photo hobby. ummmm, what?? you take […]

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Things to write in: ROCKING, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
I remember when I first switched from RamblingMonologues to SweepTheSunshine.v1 (as I have taken to calling it), one of my favorite blogistanis, Binje, groused, “Yazzo, only you would go from one loooooong weblog URL to yet another long weblog URL.”
So, here we go yet again - another […]

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Courtyard of Lions, originally uploaded by Imran Saithna.
And we meet…to depart,And then depart -Just to meet again. *
The problem with - and the beautiful gift of - the internet is that I always fall a little bit in love with everyone I interact with. I refer mainly to blogistan and flickr, since those are the […]

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I admit to a weakness for red brick, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
Apropos of nothing, I have a new cell phone (a Motorola Razr in case you’re wondering, now that they’re not trendy anymore and are instead one of the most affordable phones in the T-Mobile store). Remember all the freakin’ drama I had to undergo […]

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Wishing you much sunshine!, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
Nearly two years ago, I visited UC Berkeley for a conference and stopped to check out a workshop entitled, “WRITE OR BE WRITTEN: Using Spoken Word to Speak the Truth.” The workshop was lead by Junichi Semitsu, then-director of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People course at UC […]

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Pencil in that patriotic profundity, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
I forgot to share with you all a rocking weblog I came across during Ramadan: MUSLIM FOR A MONTH.
And - hey look, kids, you were supposed to be nominating submissions for the annual Brass Crescent awards! The deadline is Friday, November 17, 2006 (yes, tomorrow). Obviously, if […]

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Sunlight shadows on the sidewalk, Friday afternoon, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
This afternoon, after clicking over to Blogger.com and pausing before signing in (believe it or not, this is something I do often: I decide I want to update this weblog, I click over to Blogger, and then I just stop, overcome by a feeling of […]

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Sunlight shadows on the sidewalk, Friday afternoon, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
This afternoon, after clicking over to Blogger.com and pausing before signing in (believe it or not, this is something I do often: I decide I want to update this weblog, I click over to Blogger, and then I just stop, overcome by a feeling of […]

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