"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Imports from old blogs on Feb 20th, 2005
So, I wrote up a full-sized entry on my lunch break at work on Friday, then forgot to e-mail it to myself, so it languishes on my work computer. Therefore, here’s some stuff I made yesterday. Here’s an old necklace of my mom’s. Note how the leather cord is broken? One of my thrice-damned cats […]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Imports from old blogs, nostalgia on Feb 16th, 2005
As some of you might know, this Sunday is the opening of the NASCAR racing season, with the Daytona 500. While I’m not into NASCAR, I have a lot of respect for this race, it being one of the longest-running big events in the American racing scene. Sure, I’d chew my left leg off not […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, nostalgia on Feb 16th, 2005
Some people might think less of me on account of this, but I’ve got a shameful confession to make: I’m a racing fan. Not the big-bucks NASCAR circuit, nor the big-bucks F1 racing, nor the big-bucks NHRA drag-racing type. No, I’ve a major sentimental spot for low-budget, DIY stock-car racing, as enacted every Sunday, Sunday, […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, nostalgia on Feb 16th, 2005
So it came to pass in the early spring of 1991, that my family hauled home a wrecked, filthy, and decaying Karmann Ghia. Soon, Dad and a group of his buddies set upon stripping the car down and cutting out some extraneous bits, absence of which would greatly improve the Ghia’s potential as a racecar. […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, nostalgia on Feb 16th, 2005
The car was ready to drive by mid-season, and so Dad registered it #48 for the year of his birth, 1948. First season’s performance was pretty miserable, as everyone’s first season is. You’re still getting used to the idea of driving as fast as you possibly can while turning to the left. The car’s still […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Feb 16th, 2005
Before the start of the 1995 season, with big dreams of becoming a writer for Rod & Custom when I grew up, I pitched an idea to the local newspaper. What did they think about carrying a sports column covering the weekly stock-car races? Highschool sports were out of season for the summer, and at […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Feb 15th, 2005
If you're reading this, and if you've read much of my writing, you know that I cuss a lot. I do. I know it's a rotten habit and unladylike and tells lies on whatever intellect I may have, but dammit, it's part of who I am and how I am. I remember this one day […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Feb 14th, 2005
I knew, from back when I was a kid, that I wouldn't live in the country anymore when I grew up. I enjoyed my rural childhood mightily, don't get me wrong, but I always felt a sense of exhilaration and longing when we visited in cities, a sort of sensory Ashcan School aesthetic that appealed […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Feb 14th, 2005
Car snobbery has chapped my ass for a long time. I remember writing an argument on behalf of low-riders back in my Hissyfit days, when a bunch of people jumped into a slam-fest regarding small rims and low-profile tires (thread title “Did you get those wheels off a skateboard.”) My feeling then, as is my […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Feb 13th, 2005
The weather continues crappy, soggy, and grey here, so I holed up in my sewing room most of the weekend and sewed. Thus, I have completed the last item in my “What Can I do with 1yd of Fancy Cotton Pique” project, and finished trying out an unmarked 1950s McCall pattern. 1. Pique: Strawberry Shortcake […]