"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in books, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Recommendations, Things I like & Things I don't like on Jan 1st, 2012
So, I’ll give you the good news first. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox would have had a hard time being any better. When I finished it, I wanted to start reading it all over again from the beginning and enjoy it once more. It was a letdown that it ended. It was the sort [...]
Posted in Distractions, dumb things I have done, NaBloPoMo 2011, Recommendations, Utter Silliness, videos on Nov 1st, 2011
So, my dumb ass has decided to participate in NoBloPoMo, or whatever the hell they call it. Because I am crazy. Also because I feel like I could use a swift blogging kick in the pants and that may be the boot to administer it. Or something like that. And because it is late and [...]
Posted in Fashion, Recommendations on Aug 4th, 2011
Enough with the gutter-based content. Today, I want to show you this My fingernails are really shiny, sparkly silver. All day long it has been making me cheerful to see them twinkling as I have gone about my work duties and stuff. This combination of cheap nailpolishes was a real winner: One coat of the [...]
Posted in Distractions, Recommendations, Take A Look At This, Utter Silliness, videos on Jun 2nd, 2011
I have become ridiculously fond of the Black Dice and other similar bleep-gizzle-frunzzzz type music. It is completely fantastic if you like weird music made up of random electronic bonking noises and zoinky sounds and general chopped-stirred-and-fried bleep-gleep effects. At work, we are allowed to listen to streaming ‘net radio, so long as we either [...]
Posted in dumb things I have done, Family, Photo entries, Recommendations on Aug 31st, 2010
A squillion years ago, more or less, I graduated from highschool and my grandparents gave me a really, really, really, really nice set of pens (one ballpoint, one fountain). I, being the hamfisted mutant that I am, managed to break the ballpoint pen within a year. Moreover, being an ignorant cluck, I tried to “fix” [...]
Posted in Costumes and disguises, Distractions, Recommendations on Jan 11th, 2010
I’ve been keeping a blog sporadically since 2002, which is a plenty long time, though sometimes it seems like I’ve kept one for much longer. Back in the day, I used to post on this message board called Hissyfit quite a lot, and sometimes I’ll think, “I know I blogged about that some while back,” [...]
Posted in books, Recommendations on Dec 11th, 2009
This time of year, I always get in the mood to re-read Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind In The Willows. A pleasant story about the adventures of a group of sociable woodland animals (and especially their triumphs over the hostilities of winter weather) goes over a treat when the dags are getting shorter and colder. I [...]
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 [...]
Posted in books, Recommendations on May 6th, 2009
I just finished reading the last of Terry Moore’s Strangers In Paradise series and I am going to be recommending it to everyone I can, because it was just that good. I’m going to link the Wikipedia synopsis of the series which gives you an idea of what the stories are about, though it completely [...]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Recommendations on Apr 28th, 2009
Y’all, I can’t even think up a title for this entry, so you’re just gonna have to deal with the toothpaste situation. As am I. I’ve got kind of a history of weird toothpaste-related issues with the Wild Oats (now Whole Foods) down on 44th & Main. There was, as you can go back and [...]
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