"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Distractions, Party, Ruby the Dog on Feb 25th, 2009
When all of the dogs are horizontal, you know that a good time has been had by all.
Apparently, we were on the ground floor of a trend amongst our social circle of taking in abandoned puppies. Our friends Julie & Tracey took in a stray Rottweiler/GSD pup about two weeks ago. His name [...]
Posted in Fashion, Recommendations, books on Feb 25th, 2009
I’ve been enjoying a two-book set I checked out from the library. It’s a fashion history survey based on the collections of the Kyoto Costume Institute.
If you’re into fashion (historic or contemporary), these books are a real treat. The collection is marvelous and the photography is splendid. Some of the more spectacular [...]
Posted in Fashion on Feb 25th, 2009
My fashion sense…it’s sufferin’!
I’ve got this habit, probably formed in childhood, of not wearing nice clothes at home.
When my sister and I were kids, when we got home from school, we changed into our “play clothes.” Usually it was old jeans too shabby for school, sweats, or some other oddments of attire that had [...]
Posted in Utter Silliness, You have got to be kidding me!, bike commuting, dumb things I have done on Feb 24th, 2009
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So, as I mentioned over on Twitter earlier, I got caught singing Spice Girls tunes publicly this afternoon.
I was out riding around, running some errands and enjoying the unseasonably pleasant weather, and for some odd reason, “Wannabe” was in my head. And soon, I was singing it, which was, of course, ridiculous and stupid [...]
Posted in Super-Short Entries, Utter Silliness, dumb things I have done on Feb 24th, 2009
I’ve admitted before that I conflate George Clooney & David Duchovney in my mind.
Apparently, Mickey Rooney & Mickey Rourke are the same person in some perverse crinkle of my brain, too.
Posted in Fashion/Sewing stuff, Photo entries, Sewing on Feb 21st, 2009
, originally uploaded by Meetzorp.
I’m making a suit out of some fabric I’ve had hanging around for a while. I’ve decided to embrace the dorktastic cliches of fashion journalism and dub this the “mad for plaid” plaid suit. It will be kind of frilly and girly and totally awesome in every plaid-laden way.
This [...]
Posted in Distractions, videos on Feb 21st, 2009
When I was listening to the newest Morning Musume single, “Naichau Kamo” the other day, I thought that it reminded me of two of their previous songs. Iroppoi Jirettai, from the early days of 6th Gen and a fairly recent single, Resonant Blue. It’s got that Latin sound of Iroppoi, and the Thwarted-Love/Playing-Tease [...]
This was the incredulous question posed to me by one of my highschool classmates who eventually became one of my buddies, early on in our schooldays together.
He had looked over my shoulder to see that I’d been idly pencilling the iconic “fishhook” M on a page in my notebook during a dull lecture in one [...]
Posted in Distractions, Recommendations, nostalgia, videos on Feb 19th, 2009
There are a lot of bands I like and a lot of albums I like, but I’d have to say that my favorite album of all time, could listen to it straight through, both sides, is The Black Crowes‘ second album, Southern Harmony & Musical Companion. The whole album just flows so smooth, and [...]
Posted in Adventures, Distractions, Photo entries, biking on Feb 18th, 2009
I don’t know why I never published this back when I wrote it (in April of ‘08) but here’s my writeup from the Ouachita Challenge weekend last spring.
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Last weekend, Joel and I went down to Arkansas: he to participate in the Ouachita Challenge and me to ride around the countryside and really put my new [...]
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