"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Distractions, Lists, nostalgia, videos on Apr 3rd, 2008
The Internet Phenomenon of “rickrolling” has just come to my attention, which means the meme has probably been building for months and months now, and I’m the last person to know that “rickrolling” is misleading somebody to click a link which takes them to the music video of 1980s 1-hit-wonder Rick Astley “Never gonna give […]
Posted in nostalgia on Mar 6th, 2008
In other news, the earworm that had been plaguing me, Bon Jovi’s “You Give Love A Bad Name” has been purged by yet another Bon Jovi hit Bad Medicine. I am forced to realize that these two songs share remarkable similarities in both sound and meaning. In both songs the protagonist is driving himself crazy […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, meta, nostalgia, Photo entries on Dec 4th, 2007
I got my first camera when I was 8 years old (“8 and a half, going on 9”), as a Christmas present. I’d spotted a children’s Kodak in the Sears Wish Book some months earlier, and decided that the little brightly-colored, kid-friendly snapshot camera was my heart’s desire. It was really the only thing I […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Distractions, nostalgia on Dec 4th, 2007
Because I have not had time to finish my scanning and write the real entries I want to post. Here’s some more stuff that was lurking in the back of my photo album. By rights it should have been lurking in my sticker book (anyone who was a little girl in the 1980s knows of […]
Posted in Distractions, nostalgia, Photo entries, Super-Short Entries, Utter Silliness on Nov 29th, 2007
I was going through my old photo album for an upcoming entry, and discovered a magazine clipping I had saved when I was a kid. The copyright is 1986, which means I was 9 when I cut this thing out. Back then I was entranced with anything that seemed “old-fashioned” so I really dug these […]
Posted in Fashion, Imports from old blogs, nostalgia on Mar 11th, 2006
I was putting up some of my heaviest winter clothes, and digging out my lighter-weight clothes when I got the itch to dig around in this suitcase of clothes I’ve saved for sentimental reasons. Either the garment had some significance, or it was a style I felt would one day be utterly representative of the […]
Posted in Distractions, Imports from old blogs, nostalgia, Photo entries on Feb 20th, 2006
A zillion fancy pencils…these always seemed to turn up in gifts, and I felt they were to pretty to use up. Also, they tended to be that splintery wood that doesn’t sharpen well, anyway. They were better to look at than to use, anyhow. Special delivery: eraser, par avion! The big red bag was my […]
Posted in Distractions, Fashion, Imports from old blogs, nostalgia, Photo entries on Feb 20th, 2006
At one point in the mid-1980s, it was fashionable, at least amongst schoolgirls, to have a long plastic chain with a bunch of little keychain/charm thingies hung on it. My sister and I never had the chain, but we had a few charms. This is one of mine. She had one just like it, but […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, nostalgia, Photo entries on Feb 20th, 2006
Rainbow Circus was apparently a Sanrio line back in the early 1980s. This pencil case was a birthday present from my grandmother, and I think I was in the second grade. I know Mrs. Berry was still my teacher, so it would have had to be either first or second grade. There’s a little heart-shaped […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, nostalgia, Photo entries on Feb 20th, 2006
Because I am utterly sickening, not to mention a Bear of Small Brain tonight, here are some pictures of some cute shit from my childhood. This past Fall, my folks brought down a trunk of my old childhood momentoes, and today I was a little bored at one point and started going through some of […]