"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Too lazy to classify on Feb 19th, 2025
Weyhey! The brilliant thing about restarting my blog is that nobody gives a gold plated good golly gosh about blogs anymore and I can write whatever I goddamn want and there’s a strong chance that the best part of nobody will ever lay an eyeball upon it. It’s very freeing, very bracing to the ego […]
Posted in Too lazy to classify on Feb 18th, 2025
I know the “theory” of love languages is bunkum, but there is definitely a value to accepting that different people express affection or connection differently. And for my Mom and I, our moments of bonding and closeness seemed often to occur while elbows deep in a messy DIY project. One of my cherished childhood memories […]
Posted in Too lazy to classify on Jan 11th, 2017
This beautiful afternoon, while it was about 65F and sunny, while one child was zooming around the yard on his Strider and the other was literally wallowing in the mud that constitutes our sandbox, I did a Minesweep of the back yard and cleared out all the dog-doody the last snow had concealed. And it […]
Posted in Too lazy to classify on Oct 16th, 2014
You guys! A fungus exists called the Stinky Squid And they totally look squidly, and apparently smell of poo. A horrible side of me wants to cultivate a bed of them somewhere just for the total grossout effect.
Posted in Too lazy to classify on Oct 7th, 2014
and how back in the day, they were kind of a shameful, naff affectation. Â The little “website under construction” GIF with the man and shovel, the e-mail GIF, with the little mailbox that flapped open and closed, the dancing baby, and the dancing hamsters. Â Everyone did it and everyone reviled each other for having done […]
Posted in Too lazy to classify on Oct 6th, 2014
I’d already been planning to make my son an amanita mushroom costume for this Halloween. Â Using a footie sleeper pattern for the main body of it, that’ll be done up in a light tan fleece, with an oversized, slightly padded beret in red with white spots appliqued on (and mittens also in red, so his […]
Posted in Too lazy to classify on Jun 11th, 2014
This morning, as I was preparing to go down and plant some additional morning glories in my front flowerbed to fill in some bare patches, I caught this weasel-faced jackass dumping the ashtray from his car into said flowerbed. Â So, I did what any crotchety gardener would do and started shouting at him, something […]
Posted in Too lazy to classify on Mar 16th, 2013
Yesterday, when I was taking the dog on her run, I caught scent of a smell that took me right back to elementary school. No, it wasn’t kindergarten paste, mimeograph ink, or cafeteria Sloppy Joes. It was, in fact, the aroma of sun-warmed tires. You might be wondering what the hell sort of school I […]
Posted in Too lazy to classify on Dec 8th, 2011
I was remembering earlier today, an incident, a sad, pitiful, seriously pathetic incident Joel and I witnessed a couple of months ago. We were outside a convenience store drinking some Gatorade on a hot ride and taking a break in the shade. A young fellow drives up in the absolutely shittiest old (late 1980s) Camaro […]
Posted in Too lazy to classify on Nov 26th, 2011
IMG_0406, a photo by Meetzorp on Flickr. Okay, I have gone and fixed it.