"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Car Drama and trauma, Distractions, nostalgia, videos on Feb 18th, 2009
My love of covers is well documented. I really love how different bands can put their individual stamp on a song, and so here are a couple of wildly different takes on the same song. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sS5jSbV0Vg] First we have Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys, doing a “western swing” version of a super-cool song about [...]
Posted in "Greenie II", Art Projects & Making Things, bike commuting, biking, Burley, Other Bike Stuff, Party, Schwinn World Sport Singlespeed on Feb 17th, 2009
I had a pretty significant day on the bike today. I had a lot of errands to run, and I took the long route, so to speak, because I really needed to blow out the cobwebs. I think I got in the riding mode on Sunday night; Team Frank Stallone‘s Westport Roadie Douche Crit was [...]
Posted in books, Recommendations on Feb 16th, 2009
Okay, now it’s book-nerd time. I just read a couple of books that I really enjoyed, so I’m going to make a big ol’ fuss about them here on my blog. The first one I’m going to recommend isn’t that deep, but damn if it isn’t some funny stuff. The book in question is The [...]
Posted in Fashion, Fashion/Sewing stuff, Photo entries, Sewing, Utter Silliness on Feb 13th, 2009
Well, I had a couple of really, really nice surprises this morning. #1 is that Joel thought today was Valentines Day, so I got a lovely treat of LUSH goodies a day early. I’ve now got a selection of lovely soaps (ice blue, sexy peel and yay! karma) and a fab shower gel called Flying [...]
Posted in Fashion on Feb 11th, 2009
Talk about totally random. I’m going to write about this ancient-history shirt that is probably one of my favorite items of clothing (and that’s saying a lot, because I have kind of a rota of faves that get more or less play depending on season, mood, and occasion). Anyway, this top…well, it wasn’t mine to [...]
Posted in Distractions, Utter Silliness, videos on Feb 11th, 2009
Someone from Hello Online made this ages ago. It’s a capture from Ayaka’s Surprise English Lessons, where Kimura Ayaka from Coconuts Musume would ambush members of Morning Musume and teach them useful (or not so useful) phrases, and usually reward/bribe them with desserts. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXj6RnaK4Pw] Here’s the episode it came from. Ishikawa Rika was learning about [...]
Posted in Photo entries on Feb 9th, 2009
St. John’s On The Kaw, originally uploaded by Meetzorp. The church is a good quarter mile away from and quite a bit above the river, but the angle of light was just right, just before sunset, to reflect it on the surface of the Kansas River.
Posted in Cats, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Sewing on Feb 6th, 2009
I recently finished making a new blouse, and it turned out pretty cute if I do say so myself. I decided today that I was going to take a picture of it on myself, since my modern dressmaker’s dummy is broken and it looked lousy on the circa 1914 one. So, I set up my [...]
Posted in Distractions, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Utter Silliness, You have got to be kidding me! on Feb 4th, 2009
So, I’m pretty much on tenterhooks of late, because I’ve been awaiting a callback from a job I really, really, really want. I’m hoping for a second interview, but at this point, I’d possibly let out a sigh of relief if the callback was telling me that I’m out of the running. At least the [...]
Posted in Adventures, beer and/or homebrewing, biking, Party, Utter Silliness on Feb 2nd, 2009
After Joel’s gonzo recap of Saturday’s pub crawl, there ain’t much I can say so instead I am going to let my pictures do most of the talkin’ What? You don’t park your bike this way? Wrong Right! Jill & Wade show us how it’s done. I think it’s a nice touch that Jill’s beer [...]
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