"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Lists, Super-Short Entries, videos on Dec 5th, 2007
1. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6mls-Xd8Ko&rel=1] A junior-high orchestra’s preformance of the theme song from the Jeeves & Wooster series (a jazzy little number I thoroughly enjoy) 2. A terrible story about high-powered laxatives which was linked in some comments on the Bad News Hughes site. 3. I HAS A SWEET POTATO 4. Dogs In Elk (tangential to the […]
Posted in biking, Photo entries, Super-Short Entries on Dec 1st, 2007
Well, the time has finally come to let the Burley go. It’s a damn sweet bike, but it’s just not right for me. The fit isn’t quite on, and it just doesn’t really work with the way I ride. So, if you’re short and like an elegant and zippy steel road bike AND a good […]
Posted in Distractions, nostalgia, Photo entries, Super-Short Entries, Utter Silliness on Nov 29th, 2007
I was going through my old photo album for an upcoming entry, and discovered a magazine clipping I had saved when I was a kid. The copyright is 1986, which means I was 9 when I cut this thing out. Back then I was entranced with anything that seemed “old-fashioned” so I really dug these […]
Posted in Distractions, Super-Short Entries on Nov 21st, 2007
You really shouldn’t miss this page. It is an archive of old print ads such as you would have encountered in any mainstream magazine between the 1930s and 1970s in the USA.  I am adding this link to my Nifty Stuff page, too, because I believe it is extremely nifty. While I was at it, […]
Posted in biking, Super-Short Entries on Nov 21st, 2007
Check out Chris Thomas’s second installment of the KC Urban Cyclist Photo Project. You might recognize one particularly goofy woman with tufty hair and glasses and one tall, grinning man in a Speedo.
Posted in biking, Costumes and disguises, Super-Short Entries, Utter Silliness, videos on Nov 21st, 2007
The New Orleans writeups are going to be posted probably Friday or Saturday. Instead, why don’t we re-visit Halloween with a couple of videos from the costumed cyclocross race. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC4R2fOcTiM&rel=1] Part one–the takeoff. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjAWsLmGSFI&rel=1] Part 2–Nearing the finish. You get a great view of the walker in this shot. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyPvsktMhos&rel=1] Part 3–Afterwards. Quote: “That was […]
Posted in meta, Super-Short Entries on Nov 9th, 2007
I’m going out of town for the weekend to attend my sister’s wedding. Post-a-day ain’t happening this weekend. There will likely be a big writeup when I get back, however. Probably going to have a few disruptions this coming week, too. I have to go to a conference, and don’t know if I will have […]
Posted in Super-Short Entries on Nov 8th, 2007
who is not especially swept away by Clinton or Obama, why not take a look at Mike Gravel? Seriously, if you click no other link today, please click this “on the issues” link. Good, solid information which says what you need to know about ?Mike Gravel’s position on things. Why not look at his official […]
Posted in meta, Super-Short Entries on Nov 8th, 2007
Circa 1998-2000-ish, I was a regular reader and poster to the Hissyfit message board (Hi, I used to be Fahrvergnugen), an online bulletin board devoted principally to snark and petty bitchery. Oh, sure, there was intelligent conversation, fun and funny stuff, and good advice, but at its core, it was a deeply disgruntled social norm […]
Posted in Lists, Super-Short Entries on Nov 6th, 2007
Prepped to go to my sister and her fiance’s wedding. Her dress – completed My dress – completed. Lace tights, petticoat – procured. Shoes – polished Hair – hennaed I just need to get clothes together for Sunday and find my curlers and I’ll be ready to bridesmaid like there’s no tomorrow.