"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Adventures, biking, Oh, for fuck's sake, Utter Silliness, Well I'll Be Darned on Nov 25th, 2010
Last Saturday, I got invited to an exorcism at a liquor store. Well, the exorcism wasn’t at the liquor store; I was at the liquor store when the invitation was extended to me. The exorcism, supposedly, was to take place in this new church in an old warehouse in the West Bottoms. It is a […]
Posted in Dumpster Diving, Fashion, Utter Silliness, Well I'll Be Darned on May 25th, 2010
There’s a fashion/lifestyle magazine called Lucky which peddles $300 bluejeans and $900 spangled high-heeled sandals yet somehow purports to promote elegant, almost-zenlike simplicity…kind of like Dwell for the wardrobe. Any old how, I guess the implication is that you’re lucky if you can drop that kind of dough on the ephemera of fashion, but I […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, dumb things I have done, meta, Well I'll Be Darned on Dec 8th, 2009
For as much goofing around with the Internet as I do, I’m not what you’d call proficient. I don’t know how to code. I use WordPress templates that pretty much walk you through any minor modifications you might want to make. Until today. Joel had been asking me for help with the Dirty Kanza 200 […]
Posted in Distractions, Well I'll Be Darned on Sep 26th, 2009
A little AP blurb on a dude with a metal detector who found a massive Anglo Saxon treasure hoard mentioned in the “Share and Enjoy” section of The Usual Suspects has reignited my fascination with all things Early-Medieval-To-The-Point-Of-Damn-Near-Prehistoric. A metal detector hobbyist trying his luck in a friend’s field stumbled upon the largest to-date cache […]
Posted in Adventures, Oh, for fuck's sake, Sewing, Well I'll Be Darned on Sep 15th, 2009
make trashmonade? Yes, yes, I directly cribbed that from Strongbad and piemonade. Pretty much everything funny I’ve ever said was probably cribbed from somebody funnier than I am. Wit by proxy, isn’t it? Anyway, I’ve been makin’ some trashmonade just lately. You’re probably looking at this picture right now and thinking, “WTF does this lady’s […]
Posted in Photo entries, Super-Short Entries, Well I'll Be Darned on Sep 13th, 2009
Here’s that cool fungus I was talking about the other day…the one we had to stop and marvel at when we were out riding the trails at Smithville Lake. I have no idea what it is, other than some kind of a fungus, but man, isn’t it pretty? Looks like a big old hunk of […]
Posted in Adventures, Art Projects & Making Things, Distractions, Utter Silliness, Well I'll Be Darned on Sep 4th, 2009
IMG_0511, originally uploaded by Meetzorp. I pushed my way through a home-made revolving door into a diaphanous, amorphous, rustling pink antechamber. It was not unlike being encapsulated in a gigantic chewing-gum bubble. This was the entrance to Jaime Burkhart’s conceptual installation project, “Great Accommodations!“ The piece takes its form as a large, inflatable maze, a […]
Posted in Distractions, Garden, Well I'll Be Darned on Aug 29th, 2009
We planted eggplants! Who knew?, originally uploaded by Meetzorp. I didn’t realize that I had an eggplant plant until today. I was weeding after about a two-week lapse (shameful) and saw, lo! Eggplants! I don’t remember planting eggplant, so Joel must have, unless this is somehow a volunteer. This is the eggplant that tipped me […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Party, Well I'll Be Darned on Jul 17th, 2009
So yesterday evening, Joel was off to Kung Fu class, and I was considering my options of leftovers from the fridge, maybe re-watching one of our DVDs, and finishing up cutting out this suit jacket I’ll be working on one of these days. As I was just about to have a rummage around the fridge, […]
Posted in 2008 Coast-to-Coast Adventure, Well I'll Be Darned on Jul 8th, 2009
My brain was wandering today, and it wandered back to the Arizona desert, to a two day stretch when our attention was consumed by grasshoppers. For one reason or another, on these two particular days, there were grasshoppers absolutely everywhere. They were apparently in the midst of some sort of migration. Also, they were apparently […]