"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jun 30th, 2007
Let me be the first to admit I'm woefully lacking in pop-cultural knowledge. Therefore it should come as no surprise that I was unaware, until moments ago, that the mythical creature known as an Underpants Gnome originated with South Park. I figured the little bastards transcended place, time, and origin. Anyhow, the other night, I […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jun 29th, 2007
My camera started malfuncitoning a couple of weeks ago: The picture above was supposed to be of some really lovely dark red, orange, and yellow flowers I saw on a ride out Blue River Parkway, but as you can see, it is a weird pink image with “reversed” looking coloration. I initially thought maybe it […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jun 27th, 2007
I had a really gross dream last night, that I was at the grocery store and I found a display of these little shrink-wrapped loaves of a product called “artificial bacon”. I was intrigued and horrified, and went to the library and scoured several months of food and cooking magazines and learned that Bacon Substitute […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jun 26th, 2007
I've recently discovered I harbor a real passion for organization. I probably should have known it, really; I've always kept all of my books in alphabetical order, with multiple books by an author kept chronologically. Likewise for my music and movies. In college, I took an internship based on dating, identifying, labeling, then storing, by […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jun 1st, 2007
I heard one of my favorite sounds today as I was riding home from work–the sound of drill-team drummers doing their thing. I fell in love with drill teams shortly after having moved to Kansas City. The Marching Cobras were doing a fund-raising drive, and were performing out in the parking lot of the grocery […]