"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
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 Delight, Holidailies 2012, Notions and Rants on Dec 2nd, 2012
I might as well make it as enjoyable as possible. This is my basic operating philosophy for most of the things that I do. For example, I am obligated by the mores of society to wear clothing, so I do my best to have as much fun with fashion and style as possible. The same […]
Posted in Holidailies 2012, Mountain Biking, Notions and Rants on Nov 30th, 2012
Not necessarily referring to “Permission to say ‘cock’” but permission to suck, as referenced in the article linked…here. I just get an inordinate amount of amusement from strong invective, especially as uttered by Top Gear’s own Captain Slow. So, the other day I was kind of freaking out because I signed up for another of […]
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 dumb things I have done, meh, Notions and Rants, Things I like & Things I don't like, Well I'll Be Darned on Jul 6th, 2012
Acclaimed humor site The Oatmeal has a running series of comics called “Minor Differences” wherein situations go from great to gruesome with the addition or omission of some small factor. Examples are: the cuteness of a woman wearing just a tee-shirt versus the creepiness of a man wearing just a tee-shirt or the difference in […]
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 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 NaBloPoMo 2011, Notions and Rants on Nov 16th, 2011
I’m about to post a video clip for y’all, but I’m warning you, don’t bother watching the video. Just listen to the audio and everything will be all right, good, fine, and amusing. The problem with this video is that it is a fan-made-vid/AMV/pathetic-piece-of-shit. It’s one of those things where somebody took an audio track, […]
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 […]