"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Delight, Fashion/Sewing stuff, Sewing on Aug 1st, 2012
The first time I saw the movie poster for 13 Going On 30, I thought, “ohmigod, I love that dress!!” I went and saw that movie at a double feature of it and Mean Girls. Talk about tennybopper fashionable chick-flick heaven. My only disappointment was that the fabulous polka-dotted dress from the movie poster never […]
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 Delight, Kansas City, nostalgia, Ruby the Dog on Jul 8th, 2012
Day! I’ve been getting up with the crack of dawn voluntarily lately in an attempt to beat the heat. The dog needs her daily constitutional, and the garden needs to be watered. It’s been blazin’ assed hot lately and there’s no way I could get the dog’s run done in the evening – by the […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, biking, Costumes and disguises, Delight, Party, Schwinn Debutante on Apr 15th, 2012
I own a 1953 Schwinn Debutante, a bicycle which is delightfully pretty and gloriously impractical: This is not a bicycle you ride if you are in a hurry. I’ve wheeled it out for two special occasions so far this year. It was a belle of the ball on St. Patrick’s Day. To go with my […]
In my junior year of highschool, a neighbor lady recruited my sister and I to play Easter Bunny to her three kids. The set-up was simple. She left the key under the mat, bags of candies in the cupboard, and took the kids in to town for Easter service at church and brunch with Grandma. […]
Posted in bike commuting, Delight, Distractions, dumb things I have done, Kansas City, Oh, for fuck's sake, Playing With Weather on Dec 14th, 2011
If you haven’t seen the “murmuration of starlings†video on the Internet yet, first things first, go and do it. It is beautiful and impressive and a testament to the wonders and glories of nature. It is also…how to put it…gratifyingly devoid of flying guano. Now, then. This morning, on my way to work, I […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Delight, Distractions, dumb things I have done, Food & Snacks, NaBloPoMo 2011, Notions and Rants, Utter Silliness, Words I Like on Nov 17th, 2011
Oh man, I have brainmeats problems. A month or so ago I read an article online where this guy decided to try recipes or foodstuffs mentioned in The Simpsons. I laughed myself silly, as you do. Especially over the notion of Corn Nog, which sounds really fucking disgusting. I mean! Almost as bad as fuzzy […]
Posted in Delight, Distractions, NaBloPoMo 2011, Take A Look At This, Utter Silliness on Nov 11th, 2011
Just got back from taking Joel out for his birthday dinner, and I’m going to go and enjoy the rest of our evening together. I heard this monologue on Slacker radio today (I was listening to a medley of comics while doing some mind-numbing Adobe crap at work) and I completely thought of Joel and […]
Posted in Delight, Fashion, NaBloPoMo 2011, nostalgia, Take A Look At This on Nov 10th, 2011
I was thinking about the Victorian & Albert Museum earlier, and especially about a particular section of the costume collection: the Heather Firbank dresses. She was of a well-to-do family and was quite fashionable and chic in her day. For example, this is a mourning dress. An extremely stylish, even kind of sexy mourning dress. […]