You probably have seen this video that is making the rounds, of a surprisingly articulate little girl being coached by her Dad through a Socratic discussion on gender marketing of toys. While I applaud the family for encouraging their kid to think about marketing and gender expectations, I find myself more than a little bit [...]
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As I mentioned yesterday, I had a grand night out on Saturday, and among the diverting and pleasant facets of the night, I met a lutenist (I restrained myself from making terrible puns along the lines of “luter/looter” because I can be mature/not-a-complete-asshole, with some amount of effort). Yon fellow is a great devotee of [...]
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Do you ever read something and just find your face stuck like this ? Yeah, so I read a woman’s blog entry recently that just made one eye squinch up, while the other bugged out, and my mouth perhaps went “wha’ th’…you have got to be kidding me…the hell you say…” and maybe something incoherent [...]
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After a decade of being vaguely broke and more than vaguely pissed off about it, I have finally paid off my student loan. Before the July payment was set to draw, I shut off the automatic draft, transferred an extra $1,000 from my savings to my checking, and paid that bad boy off. I just [...]
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So…that’s basically the sound of my brain these days. Holy crap, April was pretty much a waste. We’ve been having one of those notoriously shitty Midwestern springtimes. Spring in this part of the country is really unabashedly rotten. After something on the order of 8,762 days of freezing ass hatefulness known as Winter, we all [...]
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So, on my ride to work today a driver pulled a nasty trick which seems to be a particular Kansas City specialty. This guy took a wrong turn…pulled in to the Community College campus off 31st Street when he probably meant to take a right on to Broadway. So, instead of cutting through campus to [...]
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Words which are not at all rude but can sound that way if spoken in the right tone: buzzard crust ramrod gizzard fusty crock bustard golden custard plugging sun on the beach Words and Phrases which are very rude, but also make no earthly sense cock-smoker Cockswoggler cock-gobbler scrote-weasel turd-bailer fuck-bucket assbasket Gratutious silly words [...]
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Oh but he was! The trauma of his annual trip to the veterinarian for his vaccination boosters brought out Griswald’s inner Mr. Humphries (or Niles Crane, depending on your decade and side of the pond). His histrionics are impressive, if you don’t have to share the cab of a pickup with his yowling, howling, frenzied [...]
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Joel built me a shelf across the windows in my sewing room so that the “Swiss Cheese Plant) (pictured at right) and the Madagascar Dragon Trees (at left) have a safe and secure home in my sewing room. Now, they’re above the level where I might accidentally crash into them and bruise their leaves and [...]
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Sometimes, I think I go out of my own way to annoy myself. This is called being a masochist, and there’s no good excuse for it other than maybe I’m not so right in my headmeats. Anyway, I went to a friend’s show at the Honeytree Gallery on First Friday (this past Friday), and that [...]
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