"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in beer and/or homebrewing, Imports from old blogs on Aug 27th, 2004
I am typihng this wuitout correcting ,my errors because I drank a glass of beer and am impaired. I am all buzzy and gpoofy and my lips are numb. I windser of ot os a ppd idea top make dinner in this condition. I’ll let y’a;l; know if I cut off nay fingers, okay?
Posted in bike commuting, Imports from old blogs on Aug 20th, 2004
The remainder of a two-dimensional possum: Due to the close, personal association between me and the streets in my habitual mode of bicycle commuting, I get to see a lot of roadkill. Possums and squirrels mostly, various birds, some cats, the occasional dog, and once in a while a skunk or a raccoon. The thing […]
Posted in books, Imports from old blogs on Aug 19th, 2004
I’ve been applying to an online literary discussion group which involves listing favorite books, first one’s personal top 20, then others as requested by a panel of extant members. It has been a lot of fun so far, and is stirring up the dark, cobwebby stacks of my mental library and getting me to thinking […]
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 Food & Snacks, Imports from old blogs on Aug 14th, 2004
This is just to say… Munching a plum on the street… Apparently wcw liked plums. I do, too. They’re one of the few fruits you can get at the grocery that don’t seem to suffer too badly from having been picked before prime ripeness and shipped halfway across the country. Of course plums are best […]
Posted in Garden, Imports from old blogs, Photo entries on Aug 7th, 2004
I mowed the yard for August today. I have this thing, about mowing. I don’t hate it, in fact I think it is kind of fun, if smelly and itchy and sweaty. I just don’t feel that it is that terribly necessary. I have a fine disdain for grass, in general, considering it pointless and […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Imports from old blogs on Aug 3rd, 2004
I’d like to take the opportunity to state, right now, that I fucking hate my glasses. Let me clarify—I am very fond of my normal glasses, an unobtrusive little Ben Franklin number of delicate wire rims and painfully expensive FeatherLite plastic lenses. I hate the glasses I am currently wearing, which date back to 10th […]