"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Costumes and disguises, dumb things I have done, Utter Silliness on Jan 31st, 2009
I think I might have mentioned that I was going to make a belt out of a scrap of bowling alley carpet. I probably posted about it on Twitter. Anyway, I found a little strip of leftover carpet trimmings in a dumpster downtown a few weeks ago, and was inspired to make a belt out […]
Posted in Distractions, videos on Jan 29th, 2009
You might recognize the little orange fairy in the lower left corner of this tableau. I wrote about her a few years ago when I randomly discovered that she wasn’t just a miscellaneous cute figure but was actually a character from a Japanese kids’ show called “Ojamajo DoReMi.” The Internet, which has grown to contain […]
Posted in Cats, Ruby the Dog, Utter Silliness, Words I Like on Jan 29th, 2009
As a pet-owner, I have many nicknames for my pets, individually and collectively. I figured what the heck, I might as well highlight a bit of the silliness that is my life with critters. This one is Minnie Pearl. Mostly known as Minnie, but also as “dammit, kitty,” “kittygirl” “Little Miss” “Pesty-pest,” “small-cat,” “dumbass,” “Satan,” […]
Posted in Distractions, Oh, for fuck's sake, Other Bike Stuff, Recommendations on Jan 25th, 2009
I sort of sometimes read New York City Bike Snob but after a post or two, his blog makes me get all head-punchy. His “your bike sucks, you sucky hipster” shtick gets really tired. Sure, fixie evangelicals can get super annoying, but what sort of zealot doesn’t? There are annoying people in pretty much every […]
Posted in Cats, dumb things I have done, Ruby the Dog on Jan 25th, 2009
I am obviously not a prescient woman, and have one especial blind spot in my planning; I scrub out the bathtub twice every two weeks. Okay, so I scrub it out once a week, every week. However, every two weeks, I give the dog a bath, and almost invariably, the dog gets her bath in […]
Posted in nostalgia, Utter Silliness, videos on Jan 24th, 2009
Man, I so dug this band. They broke up some while back, but man, they just amused me silly. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFtywrOTnHw] I remember the first time I heard this song on the radio, and I totally thought they were something leftover from the ’80s, some obscure hair band that I somehow missed during my junior high […]
Posted in Adventures, Art Projects & Making Things, biking, Party, Playing With Weather, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Jan 23rd, 2009
Well, we’re back to winter again. Yesterday it was around 60, and I rode around town sans jacket, gloves, and hat. Today it is around 30, and I will be bundling up right and proper to head out to a job interview this afternoon. But yesterday was so gorgeous you could easily forget that we’re […]
Posted in Adventures, Trashboat Shenanigans, Utter Silliness on Jan 22nd, 2009
Basically, a trashboat is any bicycle powered or bicycle-towed “boat” that doesn’t sink or break apart under its own ill-considered engineering. Buckets, bottles, and barrels are the most common pontoons, though you can make a trashboat out of just about anything, so long as it floats and can either be ridden or towed to the launch site. If your trashboat is a trailer, you need to consider how to secure your bike to it so that you can tow it back to ACME for the after party.
Posted in Sewing on Jan 22nd, 2009
A couple of weeks ago, I featured a dress made from the first pattern I ever drafted. For a refresher, this is what it looks like: It had some issues. The neckline wasn’t quite right. The collar didn’t sit properly. The waistline was too high. The skirt didn’t hang evenly. But there were enough good […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, Hair issues on Jan 21st, 2009
People who have met me within the past 6-7 years would never believe that I used to have ass-length hair. I did. For many, many, many years. The photos above were taken in 2002, the day before I got all of my hair cut off. At the time this photo was taken, it wasn’t even […]