"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Gratuitous Cussing, Notions and Rants on Jan 13th, 2014
Many years ago, I had a job I hated. Granted, I have had many jobs that I have hated. I majored in English in college which outfits you for specifically NOTHING. Also, pretty much everything’s a bit of a comedown after you’ve studied metaphysical poetry about morning-wood. I’m just sayin’. Anyway, I had a joyless […]
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 Gratuitous Cussing, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Notions and Rants, Up The Pole on Apr 11th, 2013
When do we get a baby belly picture? So asked an old school friend back in Nebraska on Facebook the other day. The short answer is “probably never” but I didn’t reply thusly, because I try very hard not to be an asshole, even if I fundamentally am one. In fact, I never did reply […]
Posted in Car Drama and trauma, Cars as a hobby, Gratuitous Cussing, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Notions and Rants on Feb 7th, 2013
A reader caught a typo for me in my Kia Magentis post from the other day – I’d mis-named the Chrysler 300, a leaden and funereal 4-door sedan as a Chrysler 500 (because I have stubby-little-kid-hands and have to take my fingers off home-row to hit the number keys) and he thought I was making […]
Posted in bike commuting, Gratuitous Cussing, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Kansas City, meh, Notions and Rants, Photo entries on Jul 18th, 2012
Let’s just clear the air and start with “animosity,” since alphabeticaly it’s the first, and it will be the predominant theme of this entry anyway. I feel a lot of damn animosity toward taggers, especially those who just scrawl gang tags, names, or slogans all over the place. And I double-hate stencillers, especially those who […]
Posted in Gratuitous Cussing, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Notions and Rants, Things I like & Things I don't like on Dec 31st, 2011
You probably have seen this video that is making the rounds, of a surprisingly articulate little girl being coached by her Dad through a Socratic discussion on gender marketing of toys. While I applaud the family for encouraging their kid to think about marketing and gender expectations, I find myself more than a little bit […]
Posted in Gratuitous Cussing, NaBloPoMo 2011, Words I Like on Nov 7th, 2011
As I mentioned yesterday, I had a grand night out on Saturday, and among the diverting and pleasant facets of the night, I met a lutenist (I restrained myself from making terrible puns along the lines of “luter/looter” because I can be mature/not-a-complete-asshole, with some amount of effort). Yon fellow is a great devotee of […]
Posted in Fashion, Gratuitous Cussing, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Oh, for fuck's sake, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Jul 31st, 2011
Do you ever read something and just find your face stuck like this ? Yeah, so I read a woman’s blog entry recently that just made one eye squinch up, while the other bugged out, and my mouth perhaps went “wha’ th’…you have got to be kidding me…the hell you say…” and maybe something incoherent […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, Gratuitous Cussing on Jul 27th, 2011
After a decade of being vaguely broke and more than vaguely pissed off about it, I have finally paid off my student loan. Before the July payment was set to draw, I shut off the automatic draft, transferred an extra $1,000 from my savings to my checking, and paid that bad boy off. I just […]
Posted in Gratuitous Cussing, meta, Playing With Weather on May 19th, 2011
So…that’s basically the sound of my brain these days. Holy crap, April was pretty much a waste. We’ve been having one of those notoriously shitty Midwestern springtimes. Spring in this part of the country is really unabashedly rotten. After something on the order of 8,762 days of freezing ass hatefulness known as Winter, we all […]