"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in bike commuting, Imports from old blogs on Jul 25th, 2005
So yeah, I woke up in a crispy frame of mind this morning. I had Yon Olde Earlie Shift at work, so at approximately 5:40 a.m., I hauled my butt out into the street and started pedalling. A mental rendition of “Too Drunk to Fuck” is actually not bad riding music. I used to love […]
Posted in biking, dumb things I have done, Imports from old blogs, wrecks on Jul 20th, 2005
Say I were a 1977 Buick Skylark. In pretty good shape, considering, but the paint job…a little damaged. I’m a lifelong klutz. I’m never without some sort of minor injury. It’s apparently been a messy biking week for me. The bruise up high on my thigh is from Saturday, on my old mountain bike, when […]
Posted in bike commuting, biking, Burley, Imports from old blogs on Jul 19th, 2005
So, I’m airing up my back tire, which has had a slow leak. When I was unscrewing the tip of the Presta Valve, I noticed that it looked a little cockeyed, but I didn’t think much of it. However, when I was pulling the head of the tire pump back off, that whole little screw-cap-and-shaft […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, nostalgia on Jul 15th, 2005
Hot summer days on the high prairie smell like honey and hay. A haze of dust hangs on the horizon, but if you look right, straight up, the sky is such an intense blue you can hardly stand to look at it. Puffs of hot, dry wind punch into you, drying your sweat, but not […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Distractions, Fashion/Sewing stuff, Imports from old blogs on Jul 15th, 2005
We had the first organizational meeting for the fashion show last night and it was…interesting. It’s basically going to be like a 2-hour-long performance arts binge with fashion stuff thrown into the mix. Modern dance. Fire spinners. Unicyclists. Acrobats. Wearable sculpture. Rollerskaters. Apparently, there’s going to be a kinetic fabric background which the models will […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jul 12th, 2005
I swear I'm the only one around who just loves the hell out of hot, sticky summer weather. Everyone else is grizzling about the heat, cranking up the AC and acting like roadkill, and I'm just happy as could be. What's so bad about sweating, anyway, if you have good deodorant? Sunshine makes me happy! […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jul 11th, 2005
So, some ten years ago or so, I was a teenaged wannabe-intellectual asshole, and I tried to read “Remembrance of Things Past,” didn’t get it, didn’t get past the first book, and later made a complete asshole of myself in a class by commenting that I didn’t get it, found it boring, and couldn’t understand […]
Posted in Fashion/Sewing stuff, Imports from old blogs on Jul 8th, 2005
Totally out of nowhere, I was just invited to participate in a local fashion show at the Fringe Festival. This guy I talked to for about half an hour two years ago remembered me and my weirdass clothes and thought my stuff would be great for the show he’s getting together. Apparently his main partner […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, Oh, for fuck's sake, Super-Short Entries on Jul 4th, 2005
Has anyone in the history of bottle-rockets ever actually stuck an unlit rocket into a bottle, lit the fuse, and gotten away quickly? ‘Cause I’ve never actually seen them used that way. The lads up and down the street are currently engaged in holding rockets gingerly by the ends of the sticks and aiming them […]
Posted in biking, Burley, Garden, Imports from old blogs, Lists on Jul 3rd, 2005
1. I’ve got four zinnias and a marigold blooming now, so the inundation of psychedellic floral color riots is drawing nigh. I can’t wait for my lot-wide hedge of orange, yellow, pink, and purple flowers to take off and start rioting. 2. The morning rain broke around 11:00 and at around 12:00 I decided the […]