"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Dumpster Diving, Fashion, meta on Oct 22nd, 2014
I’ve been on a winning streak with the dumpster diving just lately. Found this embroidered jeans jacket in the West Bottoms on Monday. This is legitimately a thing I’d buy and wear on purpose, so finding it in the trash is just a bonus. Free obnoxious clothing is serendipitous and appreciated. Then, yesterday, I found […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Distractions, dumb things I have done, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Lists, meta, Notions and Rants, Photo entries, Take A Look At This, Well I'll Be Darned on Nov 3rd, 2011
Facebook. Freakin’ Facebook. It’s a love/hate website, that’s for sure. It’s fun to keep up with your friends, see your old schoolmates’ babies, check out your co-workers Spotify picks, hand out party invites, RSVP to same…it’s a daily ritual that many of us enjoy. Mostly. But Facebook has a habit of inventing new ways to […]
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 […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, meta on Feb 16th, 2011
Well, I reckon I might have a few new guests in here thanks to the fabulous Thieving Thursdays from Was That Awkward, so I thought I’d do y’all a favor and provide you with a list of links to some of my favorite awkward moments I’ve shared on the blog over the years. The one […]
Posted in biking, Distractions, Fashion, meta, Utter Silliness, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Dec 16th, 2010
I was reading the erstwhile blog of Rob Coombes, musician and former astrophysicist, most well known as the keyboard player in Supergrass. He’s an amusing man, and I wish he’d return to his blog – it is a lot of fun. Anyway, what got me going today was another abandoned blog, of which he’d been […]
Posted in meta, Things I like & Things I don't like on Dec 9th, 2010
New minifeature over here. I’ve decided that I can’t waste all of my brainfarts on Twitter or Facebook. Not when I’ve got a perfectly good blog to yammer on. So now, occasionally, I’ll post pairs of things that I have liked and disliked recently. I like riding past a house at night that has the […]
Posted in Distractions, Family, Fashion/Sewing stuff, meta, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Nov 13th, 2010
It’s been nearly a month since I looked at an Internet form with a header that read “Adde New Post.” Okay, there’s no Olde Englishe “E“, that’s just a typo I decided to leave in because I’m entirely too easily amused. To quote Jim Anchower from The Onion, “I know it’s been a long time […]
Posted in biking, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, meta, Oh, for fuck's sake, Other Bike Stuff on May 31st, 2010
This is written partly in response to Jacquie Phelan’s recent musings about where women fit into the cycling industry, and partly because I sometimes kick ideas around about my own “place” in the two-wheeled underground. I think part of the problem(s) that both Jacquie and Bike Hugger were addressing (1) (2) (3) stem from how […]
Posted in Distractions, meta, Utter Silliness on May 4th, 2010
Hi, hi! I’m just lollygagging around tonight and trying a new approach to the abuse of GIF images. Don’t mind me. I’m sure I never do. I have a favorite little animated GIF, a self-drawing rosette that I may end up using more again, if this embedding process looks any good. We shall see how […]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Hair issues, meta, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Feb 2nd, 2010
Any woodchucks poking their heads out here in KC today weren’t too likely to see any shadows…it was overcast and kind of grimy today. Winter in Kansas City, when it isn’t snowy, is not an aesthetic triumph. I’ve been hunkered down pretty deep lately…gone to ground so you might say. Here I am popping my […]