"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Family, Photo entries, Recommendations, dumb things I have done on Aug 31st, 2010
A squillion years ago, more or less, I graduated from highschool and my grandparents gave me a really, really, really, really nice set of pens (one ballpoint, one fountain). I, being the hamfisted mutant that I am, managed to break the ballpoint pen within a year. Moreover, being an ignorant cluck, I tried to “fix” [...]
Posted in Distractions, Super-Short Entries, Utter Silliness, You have got to be kidding me!, dumb things I have done on Aug 25th, 2010
So, what I’m really looking for is a battery powered picture frame that will make the sound of a toilet flushing when you push a button or pull a lever. Ideally, it would accommodate an A4 sized sheet of paper. Can you believe this thing is for real? Or that I, in actual fact, “earned” [...]
Posted in You have got to be kidding me!, bike commuting, dumb things I have done on Aug 23rd, 2010
I’ve been vaguely under the weather this past week. Snotly, wimpy, and excessively sweaty. Not sure if it was just some sort of crazy hay-fever or a very feeble summer cold, but I’m over the worst of the foulness. At least I don’t feel totally wimpy anymore, though I am still in possession of a [...]
Posted in Adventures, Art Projects & Making Things, Dumpster Diving, Other Bike Stuff, Party, Trashboat Shenanigans, Utter Silliness, dumb things I have done on Jul 13th, 2010
Well, well, well, well, well! Another Regatta has passed with no deaths, arrests, or maulings by invasive Asiatic Carp, so I guess we can chalk up yet another successful run down the Missouri. So last Thursday evening, our back porch looked like this. My neighbors love me. On Wednesday night, I was prowling throughout Strawberry [...]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Gratuitous Cussing, Other Bike Stuff, Party, Trashboat Shenanigans, Utter Silliness, You have got to be kidding me!, bike commuting, dumb things I have done, videos on Jul 4th, 2010
On my way home from work today, I rode past some very busy fireworks stands in the West Bottoms. If you know Kansas City, you might know about James Street and the half dozen or so semi-abandond buildings that become explosives emporia in the week leading up to Independence day. Being as today is The [...]
Posted in dumb things I have done, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching on Jun 11th, 2010
it’s worth doing really badly. I shaved my legs last night after posting pictures that exposed their excessive prickliness and in the course of doing so managed to scrape off about a square inch of ankle-epidermis. They really don’t make band-aids big enough, you know? The standard size ones, the gauze pad is only about [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, dumb things I have done, wrecks on Jun 10th, 2010
I’m not sure if I’m just a lousy cyclist, or if there’s a certain proportion of falling-over-per-mile that every cyclist averages and I’m simply fulfilling my quota. One way or another, I seem to be entering another of my streaks of wreckage, kicked off by a little offroad falling-over out at Lawrence when we got [...]
Posted in dumb things I have done, nostalgia on Apr 27th, 2010
Home Despot inspires a particularly delirious delusional state in me. I think it’s the fact that you can find pretty much everything there with which to make or destroy your average house and all of its accessory structures and miscellaneous appurtenances. A few years ago, I required a crowbar, as one does. So I hied [...]
Posted in dumb things I have done on Apr 22nd, 2010
I guess I only have one eyeshadow compact (lovely earthtone set from Covergirl) I used to have one for doing “smoky eyes” and I liked it a lot, but I accidentally dropped it in the toilet, and there’s no going back from there.
Posted in Other Bike Stuff, bike commuting, dumb things I have done, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching on Apr 3rd, 2010
Cycling advocacy wonks like to call it “taking the lane.” I call it “riding in the fuck-you-position.” Also, “cockblocking.” As in, “that meatus in the Lexus who acted he like was going to run me over in the intersection was pretty pissed when I pulled into the ‘fuck you position’ and cock-blocked him for about [...]
|
