"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in NaBloPoMo 2011, Photo entries on Nov 13th, 2011
IMG_0231, a photo by Meetzorp on Flickr. This is possibly the most amazing photo I will ever have taken. I lucked into an intimate view of a young red-tailed hawk’s luncheon date with a pigeon.
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 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. […]
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 dumb things I have done, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, NaBloPoMo 2011, Shopping, Well I'll Be Darned on Nov 8th, 2011
I got this phone in February of 2006. It was pretty awesome, so I stuck a couple of foil daisy stickers on it to make it awesomer. They didn’t stay very well, but they were cute while they lasted. I got this phone from a shady discount-cellular-and-tobacco store on East Truman Road, about a block […]
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 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 Fashion, NaBloPoMo 2011, nostalgia, Shopping on Nov 3rd, 2011
Once upon a time, I owned the most awesome, perfect, kick-assedy boots that ever kicked ass. They were fuckin’ rad, and I wore the everloving crap out of them. My classmates at school thought they were awful, and I took a lot of guff for my big stompy boots (oddly, during an era when it […]