"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in books, Imports from old blogs, Recommendations on Sep 26th, 2005
I was reading these stories, and I knew I needed to share them with someone, and I figured if anyone could appreciate, it would be you! A Very Naughty Girl by L. T. Meade and A Sweet Girl Graduate by the same author. These stories are simply killing! Okay, they aged terribly, but they are […]
Posted in Home Improvements, Imports from old blogs, Lists, Recommendations on Mar 20th, 2005
1. Steam Boy Rocked. I’m not going to spoiler this movie for anyone, I will just say that it was everything a family movie ought to be. Lots of adventure, excellent animation, cool fantastical inventions, lots of “wow-factor.” I actually felt myself burst into a big grin, and had to forceably restrain myself from applauding […]
Posted in Car Drama and trauma, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Imports from old blogs, Recommendations on Jan 24th, 2005
About which I bitched so vehemently last week. We took it to Vee Village today, and after 20 minutes of removing splash-shields and inspecting the radiator and its environs thoroughly, they called me at the office to tell me that there’s not a goddamn thing wrong with the radiator, its mounting brackets, the heater core, […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, Imports from old blogs, Recommendations on Aug 14th, 2004
Just got back from seeing Napoleon Dynamite which cracked me up bigger than shit. That movie was so refreshingly weird. It definitely has the best dance scene of pretty much any movie, ever. Better than Julia Stiles’s debut to hip-hop club dancing in Save the Last Dance. Maybe not quite as good as The Time […]
Posted in bike commuting, Imports from old blogs, Recommendations on Mar 6th, 2002
A good bath is one of those things that just caps off my day in a spectacular way. Finally we have reliable hot water again, it seems. Whatever the hell they were doing to the water-heater and general water supply, it seems they have stopped. I tell you, lukewarm water baths in the midst of […]