"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Adventures, Gratuitous Cussing, Parenthood, Up The Pole on Jul 26th, 2013
1. Hallucinated 2. Passed out* 3. Gone home with a boy I’d never met before It sounds like I’ve been having wild and salacious times, but in reality, that’s a misleading lead-in to a labor-and-delivery anecdote. On June 28, I was heading down to KU Med for a routine pre-natal appointment, wherein I expected to […]
Posted in Adventures, Art Projects & Making Things, dumb things I have done, Dumpster Diving, Utter Silliness on Oct 7th, 2012
Some vehicles were built for beauty: the Jade Idol, for example. Others were built for speed. The legendary and record-setting Bluebird was a byword for speed. Yet others, like the Pierson Brothers’ iconic ’34 Ford dry-lakes racer, managed to marry both beauty and speed. Then again, there are some that manage to bring you neither: […]
Posted in Adventures, Art Projects & Making Things, Delight, Distractions, Dumpster Diving, Kansas City, Party, Photo entries, Trashboat Shenanigans, Trek 800, Utter Silliness on Jul 15th, 2012
Saturday, July 14, 2012, I was up and at ’em at the crack of 7:00 a.m. By golly, I had shit to do, and a finite amount of time in which to do it. I had provisions to lay in, prizes to prepare, and most importantly, I needed to go scavenge up a few more […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, NaBloPoMo 2011, Photo entries, Take A Look At This, Urban Photo Highlight Rides on Nov 12th, 2011
I took Ruby running in a shipping container wareyard today. She enjoyed splashing through the puddles and searching for rats, and I enjoyed the disorienting scenery. It felt like I was cavorting in a giant’s LEGO village. This looks like a tight fit, but I could easily ride my bicycle through this passageway. It is […]
Posted in Adventures, NaBloPoMo 2011, Travel on Nov 9th, 2011
IMG_4758, a photo by Meetzorp on Flickr. I decided to go back and exposure-correct this picture from Joel’s and my coast-to-coast trip today. We are standing in the rigging of the Adventure, a replica coastal trader ship which is part of the Charles Towne Landing living history site. This young fellow, whom I believe was […]
Posted in Adventures, Dumpster Diving, NaBloPoMo 2011, Notions and Rants, Utter Silliness on Nov 6th, 2011
Man, yesterday was a study in contrasts. At one point in the day, two friends and I were splitting a cookie we’d found in a trash can (it was wrapped, and on top of everthing – absolutely no garbage juice was involved) then later that evening, I was listening to these guys in the new […]
Posted in Adventures, NaBloPoMo 2011, Travel on Nov 4th, 2011
IMG_9041, a photo by Meetzorp on Flickr. In the past three years, I have found three different suitcases. Each is a different brand and color (or pattern) but somehow, they all look really good together! I meant to take the orange Samsonite along on our vacation to Chicago, but then we thought we were going […]
Posted in Adventures, Art Projects & Making Things, biking, Distractions, Photo entries, Utter Silliness on Aug 2nd, 2011
On Saturday, I found myself among friends, hanging around behind an abandoned industrial building. Some folks were drinking beers; all of us were talking shit. Because that’s what we do. Shoot the bull, drink beer, and hang around debris-strewn alleyways behind abandoned buildings. We’re classy n’ shit. Any old how, I wasn’t drinking beer because […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Photo entries, Playing With Weather on Jun 8th, 2011
So…another Dirty Kanza 200 has come and gone, and I was on hand as a helper-varmint again, though this time as support crew for Joel and Wade. Which meant driving Joel’s pickup from one tiny Kansas town to another, with a 5-gallon water cooler in the back (as well as a cooler of food and […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Food & Snacks, Garden, Ruby the Dog on May 30th, 2011
I went on a dual-purpose ride today. First objective was to give the dog a run: Second objective was to scavenge up as many ripe mulberries as I could: I made an scouting trip yesterday with the dog, and just snacked on mulberries as I find them, but made plans to come back again…with tupperware! […]