"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Delight, Fashion, NaBloPoMo 2011, nostalgia, Take A Look At This on Nov 10th, 2011
I was thinking about the Victorian & Albert Museum earlier, and especially about a particular section of the costume collection: the Heather Firbank dresses. She was of a well-to-do family and was quite fashionable and chic in her day. For example, this is a mourning dress. An extremely stylish, even kind of sexy mourning dress. [...]
Posted in Fashion, NaBloPoMo 2011, nostalgia, Shopping on Nov 3rd, 2011
Once upon a time, I owned the most awesome, perfect, kick-assedy boots that ever kicked ass. They were fuckin’ rad, and I wore the everloving crap out of them. My classmates at school thought they were awful, and I took a lot of guff for my big stompy boots (oddly, during an era when it [...]
Posted in Distractions, nostalgia on Jul 14th, 2011
Once when I was about 14, I guess, my family went to Hay Springs, NE for some errand. Hay Springs is a little, shabby town of no especial distinction. You can find towns of similar stature and countenance pretty much anywhere in the central United States. Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, South Dakota, Ohio, Minnesota, Illinois…you [...]
Posted in dumb things I have done, nostalgia, Utter Silliness on Jan 7th, 2011
I’m given to understand that pica, the compulsion to eat non-food items, is fairly common in children. Sometimes it is a symptom of a dietary deficiency, but sometimes it falls into a very broad category I like to call, “little kids are inscrutable little weirdos.” I should know. I was an enthusiastic little weirdo myself [...]
Posted in nostalgia, Utter Silliness on Jan 6th, 2011
I distinctly remember the point in my life at which I became aware of the concept of “free time.” It was in the first grade. I’d taken to school with a typical childish exuberance. You got to be amongst other kids, eat as much paste as you could snaffle unnoticed, and learn stuff. Somehow, the [...]
Posted in dumb things I have done, nostalgia on Dec 12th, 2010
I pretty much dedicated today to cleaning and organizing my sewing room, no mean task for a packrat who often uses said room as a dumping ground for stuff I don’t know what to do with. I’d recently bought a few more of those Sterilite/Rubbermaid boxes with the clamp-on lids and decided that today was [...]
Posted in dumb things I have done, nostalgia on Apr 27th, 2010
Home Despot inspires a particularly delirious delusional state in me. I think it’s the fact that you can find pretty much everything there with which to make or destroy your average house and all of its accessory structures and miscellaneous appurtenances. A few years ago, I required a crowbar, as one does. So I hied [...]
Posted in Garden, nostalgia, Photo entries on Jan 16th, 2010
The day I took my favorite photo to date was a charmed day – some days are. There’s no predicting which ordinary day will turn out to be extraordinary, but that was one of those days when the insects, zinnias, and I were somehow operating in perfect harmony. I’d gone out around midday on a [...]
Posted in dumb things I have done, nostalgia on Dec 14th, 2009
I was a little heathen child during the 1980s, arguably a fairly conservative decade, in western Nebraska, arguably a very conservative part of the country. I’m also from the tail end of the generations who experienced overt Christianity in the public schools. I realized pretty early on, after a fairly disastrous stint in Summer Vacation [...]
Posted in Distractions, Family, nostalgia, Recommendations, videos on Nov 27th, 2009
I just got a movie recommendation from my Dad: The Long Long Trailer,” which opened in 1954 featuring the beloved Lucille Ball/Desi Arnaz team, a 1954 Mercury convertible, and a really big travel trailer. Dad has been laid up for the past month following rotator-cuff surgery; he’s currently banned from using his right arm, so [...]
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