"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Dumpster Diving, Fashion, meta on Oct 22nd, 2014
I’ve been on a winning streak with the dumpster diving just lately. Found this embroidered jeans jacket in the West Bottoms on Monday. This is legitimately a thing I’d buy and wear on purpose, so finding it in the trash is just a bonus. Free obnoxious clothing is serendipitous and appreciated. Then, yesterday, I found […]
Posted in Dumpster Diving, Parenthood, Photo entries on Dec 12th, 2013
With a little scrounging, a little thrift-shopping, and a little swearing, I got the tree all festive today. Didn’t get to shoot anything at it via compressed air, however. Maybe next year. I started ratting around in my craft-crap bins and realized that I had a crapton of tinsel garland that I’d pulled out of […]
Posted in Cars as a hobby, Dumpster Diving, Family on Aug 19th, 2013
I come from a family of scavengers and trashpickers. So does Joel. In fact, in our early relationship, we bonded over an outing on Large Trash Day down in the ritzy Brookside district, when I scored my prized enamel-and-chrome step-stool (1950s vintage) and Joel found a banjo! When my sister and I were kids, we […]
Posted in Dumpster Diving on Jun 22nd, 2013
The other day, on the way home from work, I discovered a new illegal dump-site. As is my wont, I pulled over to see if there was anything good there. As it turns out, yes, there was. Here, you see Janet and John. As best I can estimate, these two hail from the 1950s and […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Dumpster Diving on Apr 15th, 2013
Some years ago, Christi and the Saturday Crew and I had been digging around in dumpsters, as you do, and I found this hat: It was completely ridiculous. I thought I might use it in a costume context or wear it ironically or something, but I never did. I’m a bit too old for ironic […]
Posted in Dumpster Diving, Fashion, Holidailies 2012, Weird as Hell on Dec 23rd, 2012
Here is the other horrible dress I rescued out of a trash heap. It is in such great condition and it is such an excellent example of the fashion of a very specific point in time (very early 1980s) that I had to keep it. It may be ass ugly. It may be a color […]
Posted in Costumes and disguises, dumb things I have done, Dumpster Diving, Fashion, Holidailies 2012, Utter Silliness, Well I'll Be Darned on Dec 22nd, 2012
This dress. I own it. I have worn it in public. I found it in an enormous trash heap under a bridge in the West Bottoms. I think that pretty much says it all. Oh, not quite. Actually, I have another, worse dress, but in order to spin out this Holidailies thing, you have to […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Distractions, dumb things I have done, Dumpster Diving, Holidailies 2012, Kansas City, Other Bike Stuff, Party, Photo entries, Utter Silliness on Dec 3rd, 2012
I’ve been just rotten with the follow-through on this blog. Seriously. Couple of days ago I promised to rant about meditation, and there was something else I planned to write about and forgot to. Anyway, since I’ve got a lot of writing ahead of me, and my ideas have been a little thin on the […]
Posted in Adventures, Art Projects & Making Things, dumb things I have done, Dumpster Diving, Utter Silliness on Oct 7th, 2012
Some vehicles were built for beauty: the Jade Idol, for example. Others were built for speed. The legendary and record-setting Bluebird was a byword for speed. Yet others, like the Pierson Brothers’ iconic ’34 Ford dry-lakes racer, managed to marry both beauty and speed. Then again, there are some that manage to bring you neither: […]
Posted in bike commuting, Dumpster Diving, Trek 800, Well I'll Be Darned on Jul 16th, 2012
I expect that most of the people who saw me, and especially the four teenaged skateboarders over by Penn Valley Park, were thinking, “what the hell is that crazy lady doing?” I expect I elicit that question often. I encountered an abandoned rug on my way home from Friz tonight and decided I’d just as […]