"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Distractions, videos on Jan 9th, 2012
Stupid things I have been thinking of lately: Dung beetles fighting over doody. We have dung beetles around here, actually. Out in the Flint Hills. When you go out on the gravel roads along cow pastures, it is not uncommon to see a beetle rolling a poo-pellet along the ground. Or several beetles quarreling over [...]
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 videos on Aug 18th, 2011
Slade pretty much owns over Quiet Riot. QR basically made their fortune in America as a Slade cover band, but they lacked something crucial. Noddy Holder. Good lord, I love the bassline of this song. It literally makes me happy. A little better effort than on Mama Weer All Crazy, but still…I gotta say I [...]
Posted in Distractions, Uncategorized, videos on Jul 26th, 2011
Most people are seriously more articulate than I am…and it appears that some of us are feeling a particular malaise these days. I just read Sarah Spahr’s entry for today and thought, “gosh, she pretty much said just and exactly what’s on my mind right about now” as regards Norway, Amy Winehouse, and just generally [...]
Posted in videos on Jul 23rd, 2011
I’m sure many eyes will roll, but I’m going to let Detroit tell it like it is. Summer’s here, and the time is right: Incidentally, I’d like to note that I freakin’ love that striped, double-breasted suit. There were some seriously cute fashions in the 1960s. More Martha & the Vandellas, singing about a Heatwave! [...]
Posted in videos on Jul 16th, 2011
a Honda Accord? This tickled my funnybone today. I’d been wanting to hear Janis Joplin’s famous “Mercedes Benz” and came across the parody. I must say that whomever it was sang this song did a damn fine job of mimicking Joplin’s iconic gravelly wail. Ace stuff. And while I’m on the Janis tear, here are [...]
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 Distractions, Utter Silliness, videos, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Feb 5th, 2011
Mistake: listening to Prince while reviewing concrete contracting documents. Phrases like “coordinate with other trades as required for any penetrations, embedded items, or sequence of work issues” and “reinforcing steel to be furnished by Concrete Contractor,” suddenly become fraught with nasty, dirty double entendre.
Posted in Mountain Biking, Super-Short Entries, videos on Sep 7th, 2010
Apropos of pretty much nothing, Perez Prado’s “Patricia” popped into my head and stayed for the day while I was out riding the trails at Smithville yesterday. It’s a surprisingly good song to mountain bike to, actually.
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, bike commuting, dumb things I have done, Gratuitous Cussing, Other Bike Stuff, Party, Trashboat Shenanigans, Utter Silliness, videos, You have got to be kidding me! on Jul 4th, 2010
On my way home from work today, I rode past some very busy fireworks stands in the West Bottoms. If you know Kansas City, you might know about James Street and the half dozen or so semi-abandond buildings that become explosives emporia in the week leading up to Independence day. Being as today is The [...]
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