I made a box for my late roommate Soup. Soup was not a human. Soup was a cat . Soup was not my cat. My friend Jen was Soup’s human, and we all used to be roommates some time ago in a house in Berkeley, California. (Jen is a musician who plays for The Hammerbombs …
Author: termberkden
I am a writer, a software engineer, and a refugee from the punk/metal/new wave/my-God-what-did-we-do-last-night daze of the San Francisco scene.
I write, I run, I actually stop and smell the roses, I meow back at cats, and I pet strange yet friendly dogs.
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My blogging career started on Livejournal, oh so many moons ago. I no longer use Livejournal, but I have archived all of my entries and occasionally check them out. This post was from a few years ago. I was at my German speaking group and I was talking to a vegan about Sarah Kramer, a …
The Box I made for my Roommate Soup
Full blog on this topic soon. In the meantime, here’s the video!
Matucha Of Berkeley’s Famous Pressure-cooked Hackey Sacks
Matucha Of Berkeleys Famous Pressure-cooked Hackey Sacks With Pixie Stix And Moonshine You can find this recipe here! Prepare a large quantity of Hackey Sacks for cooking. Combine Pixie stix, coffee grounds, Potting mix, and bread crumbs in a small bowl – sprinkle Hackey Sacks with Pixie stix mixture. Place Hackey Sacks in a circular …
From the LiveJournal Archives: When La Vida Loca Follows You Around…
My blogging career started on Livejournal, oh so many moons ago. I no longer use Livejournal, but I have archived all of my entries and occasionally check them out. This is a post I wrote nearly four years ago in January of 2016. The woman in question is currently MIA, though I do still wonder …
The one time I went Christmas Caroling
Christmas caroling is considered to be quite old fashioned around these parts, but it was still, (sort of,) a thing when I was younger. It was not such a thing that I ever considered going Christmas Caroling. Christmas singing was common enough during the holiday season, but not so much caroling. Nevertheless I did go …
Bit Characters Gone Wild – The Writing Process
“…don’t pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don’t.” – Anne Lamott I’m currently working on my next novel, What the Hell Ever Happened to Yuri Rozhenko? I’m not spending as much time on the work as I would like at the moment, but I’m filling in more of the …
From the Livejournal Archives: Boring and Interesting
My blogging career started on Livejournal, oh so many moons ago. I no longer use Livejournal, but I have archived all of my entries and occasionally check them out. This is a piece I wrote almost 17 years ago entitled Boring and Interesting, in which I reference the 80’s British show The Young Ones to …
Test – This post is a test!
This is a test of the Terminal Berkeley Denizen Blog. This is only a test. Had this been an actual blog post, you would have received a political rant, a list of recommended books or movies, or possible more reasons why Shakespeare was a fraud. In the event of an actual post, you will become …
Gender Swap Casting: Road Warrior
(AKA Mad Max 2 in certain locales!) What is gender swap casting you say? Recently on Facebook, in the Wake of the recent and controversial Joker movie, I was inspired by a tweet by blogger Geraldine DeRuiter who said the Joker should be a woman. I asked my Facebook friends about a theoretical Joker movie …