"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Mar 10th, 2005
1. Licking the glue on certain types of envelopes and stamps…the ones that are vaguely sweet and minty. When I was a kid, and my parents would get Publisher's Clearinghouse junkmail, my dad would let me abscond with the subscription stamps and lick them and stick them to my heart's content, so long as I […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Mar 8th, 2005
I was listening to NPR this morning, as I often do at work, and was listening to a local arts-discussion program, “The Walt Bodine Show.” He had on, as his guest for the hour, Thomas Spencer, a professor at Central Missouri State College, who had edited a book of essays titled The Other Missouri History: […]
Posted in Fashion/Sewing stuff, Imports from old blogs on Feb 28th, 2005
I tried on this jacket on Saturday, for shits and giggles, and my GAWD, I haven’t tried on anything so flattering since this one time I was trying on Betsey Johnson dresses for a lark and hit upon one which was disgustingly perfect. I’ve totally got to make something like this for myself. Idiot that […]
Posted in Food & Snacks, Imports from old blogs on Feb 27th, 2005
I went to the grocery yesterday, as I usually do on a Saturday, and bought a bunch of fruit, since that tends to constitute a lot of the lunch and snacks I bring to work. I bought 6 Braeburn apples, because they’re my favorite, and I have almost never gotten a nasty one, which is […]
Posted in Cats, Imports from old blogs on Feb 24th, 2005
I just got done scrubbing up my hands after having to do a detailed, amateur poo-nalysis on a cat turd. Griswald has been having some kind of bottom-system ittitation lately, and has been butt-scooting on the floor, which suggest either worms, anal-gland blockage, or something stuck in his ass-hair. I inspected his bum-fluff, and saw […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Feb 23rd, 2005
The bulk of my years on the Internet thus far have been spent in communities of genial, like-minded misanthropes who bonded while rolling their eyes over misused apostrophes on gas-station whiteboards, grizzling about people who stand on the wrong side of the escalator, squawking about roadhog SUV drivers, and tutting at the guy whose kid […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Feb 22nd, 2005
I had to kill two hours in Independence, MO yesterday while a glass specialty shop there was replacing the cracked windshield of our car. Speaking of which, the Volkswagen dealership was giving us another inflated estimate, wherein I was given to understand that it would be approximately $700 to replace the windshield, whereas my bill […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Feb 22nd, 2005
Todd and I met with Feckalyn and her husband Walter (whose LJ-nick, I can’t remember) on Sunday for lunch/brunch down in Westport. Shout-outs to Bell Street Mama’s. Excellent bagel-wich…red onion, guac, swiss, plus a generous side of cole-slaw started my day right! Anyway, we all had our diner breakfasts and bullshit session, and ramped up […]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Imports from old blogs, nostalgia on Feb 22nd, 2005
One very simple and stupid reason: they bring out my mulish, cranky, inner fifth-grader, bucking obstinately at “creative writing” assignments. Around about the end of the third grade, when my handwriting began to be halfway reliable, and other people had half a chance of understanding what I’d written, I started penning my own childish stories, […]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Imports from old blogs on Feb 21st, 2005
I’ve been thinking about this for a long time. Weeks, in fact. About a month ago, a furor broke out across the Internet, as well as across the land where people listen to pundits, then get their panties in a wad over whatever outrages the pundit du jour is spouting. The knicker-twister I’m thinking of […]