"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Adventures, biking, Utter Silliness, Well I'll Be Darned, You have got to be kidding me! 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 "Greenie II", bike commuting, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing), You have got to be kidding me! on Sep 10th, 2010
I’ve been having the devil of a time finding a “safe” place to park my bike at my current job. My first two parking spots were awkward and/or obstructive, so finally one of the secretaries secured permission for me to park my bike in a storage room (the one I now nap in during my [...]
Posted in Distractions, Gratuitous Cussing, You have got to be kidding me! on Sep 5th, 2010
Sometimes, I think I go out of my own way to annoy myself. This is called being a masochist, and there’s no good excuse for it other than maybe I’m not so right in my headmeats. Anyway, I went to a friend’s show at the Honeytree Gallery on First Friday (this past Friday), and that [...]
Posted in Distractions, dumb things I have done, Super-Short Entries, Utter Silliness, You have got to be kidding me! on Aug 25th, 2010
So, what I’m really looking for is a battery powered picture frame that will make the sound of a toilet flushing when you push a button or pull a lever. Ideally, it would accommodate an A4 sized sheet of paper. Can you believe this thing is for real? Or that I, in actual fact, “earned” [...]
Posted in Gratuitous Cussing, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing), You have got to be kidding me! on Aug 24th, 2010
I was in a colossally bad mood yesterday after having to work on my day off, plus learning that I didn’t get the promotion I’d applied for (one which would have gotten me off the phone lines and allowed me to wear ear-protectors at work and not have to listen to my co-workers gabbling at [...]
Posted in bike commuting, dumb things I have done, You have got to be kidding me! on Aug 23rd, 2010
I’ve been vaguely under the weather this past week. Snotly, wimpy, and excessively sweaty. Not sure if it was just some sort of crazy hay-fever or a very feeble summer cold, but I’m over the worst of the foulness. At least I don’t feel totally wimpy anymore, though I am still in possession of a [...]
Posted in Distractions, You have got to be kidding me! on Aug 23rd, 2010
Oh lord, did my alarm clock just wake me up from one HELL of a scorched-earth hissyfit. I was dreaming that I had some sort of big final paper to turn in, the fate of my BA hung in the balance, and a string of catastrophes was preventing me printing it out and handing it [...]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, dumb things I have done, Dumpster Diving, Super-Short Entries, Trashboat Shenanigans, Utter Silliness, You have got to be kidding me! on Jul 7th, 2010
because I got wolf-whistled while armpits deep in a garbage can in downtown Kansas City Kansas. The absurdity of the situation just tickled me eight shades of pink. KCKS guys have basically no standards, nor dignity. I mean, srsly? But sexual harrassment and foul odors nonetheless, i think I got enough bottles for my boat [...]
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 [...]
Posted in biking, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, meta, Other Bike Stuff, You have got to be kidding me! on May 31st, 2010
This is written partly in response to Jacquie Phelan’s recent musings about where women fit into the cycling industry, and partly because I sometimes kick ideas around about my own “place” in the two-wheeled underground. I think part of the problem(s) that both Jacquie and Bike Hugger were addressing (1) (2) (3) stem from how [...]
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