"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in biking, Imports from old blogs on May 27th, 2005
Okay, have you ever been so tired, that your arms felt like they were someplace other than on your body? This 6:00 a.m. shift shit is going to kill me. Thank goodness I’m off at 4:00 today. Granted, I’m taking off early to go biking, so it’s going to be refreshing in the sense that […]
Posted in Distractions, Imports from old blogs, Utter Silliness on May 26th, 2005
Yesterday after work, I went down to Westport and signed up for some fresh dance classes. The style du jour? Burlesque. Aaaawwwyeah! I seriously think this will suit my bawdy, campy personality much better than ballet or bellydancing did. Nothing, but nothing fits my dorkitude as well as tapdancing does, though. Ye gods, I miss […]
Posted in bike commuting, biking, Imports from old blogs on May 23rd, 2005
Well, I guess I’ve established that I’ve been hell on wheels for the greater part of my life so far, but I don’t think I’ve articulated exactly why I love biking so much. Now some of it dates back to my early, childish epiphany that being able to balance on my own two wheels was […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, Utter Silliness on May 23rd, 2005
Was having a very dirty conversation with friends earlier this evening, and have since come to the conclusion that I couldn’t hang with the whole whips-n-chains S&M thing for the simple fact that when I get hurt, I get PISSED THE FUCK OFF. I can see myself getting whapped in the ass with a flogger, […]
Posted in bike commuting, biking, Imports from old blogs, Trek 800 on May 22nd, 2005
Like most American children born in the 1970s, once I was able to pull myself up standing, I was plunked into a “walker” and allowed to cruise the house under supervision. This meant, apparently, that I importuned customers in the restaurant and attempted to stalk the dogs as they motored around, minding their own doggy […]
Posted in Garden, Imports from old blogs, Photo entries on May 20th, 2005
For ! I need to dig up and move the tulips around this fall. They didn’t do for crap this year…they’re getting worked too deep into the earth, I think. Plus, the only type I have are these yellow/red hybrid stripey buggers. Not that they’re not pretty, mind you. It’s just that there are other […]
Posted in Garden, Imports from old blogs, Photo entries on May 20th, 2005
This is the start of something big! Potential Playing around with soft-focus. It’s kind of cool, but it kind of sucks. Same flower, slightly better quality. Same flower, different angle, MUCH better quality. I’ll share my hot-pink peonies later. Also the irises, and the few presentable tulips I had this year. The weather has been […]
Posted in Distractions, Imports from old blogs, Oh, for fuck's sake, Utter Silliness, Well I'll Be Darned on May 18th, 2005
An enormous blue basset hound about the size of a 1974 Oldsmobile Regency 88 soared high above the flooded landscape using the motion of his vast, floppy ears to bank and steer his lazy glide. He let out a gurgling bay which I’d come to recognize meant that he was about to spiral downward toward […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on May 17th, 2005
So, I was thinking some more about vampires, and thinking of all the psychotic vamps portrayed in literature, film, and TV, and thinking, so, what makes a vampire go crazy? Isolation? Feeding off one's parent species? Nigh imortality and no goals to fill it with? Eeeeenormous ears, curving tusks, and the persistent reek of cabbage […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, nostalgia on May 17th, 2005
Once, when I was a little kid, an older boy who was the son of one of my parents' friends convinced me that my dad's guitar case was a vampire's coffin. I was terrified of that guitar case for months. So much so that I'd have nightmares at night, then want to go downstairs and […]