"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Delight, Distractions, nostalgia, videos on Jan 15th, 2017
I was thinking about the Ten Albums that Defined Your Teen Years thread that’s going around. I am going to be a sad-ass and admit I don’t have a roster of ten albums. I listened to a lot of different music, depending on my mood. I was, to the largest extent, a pretty basic metalhead. […]
Posted in Delight, Holidailies 2013, Utter Silliness, videos on Dec 11th, 2013
Joel either read my blog or my mind, and came home last night with quite a nice fake tree, so we’re now ready to get Festive. I draped it in lights today, then failed to find the extension cord, so right now, the tree project is stalled out slightly. I’m actually going to re-arrange things […]
Posted in Oh, for fuck's sake, Utter Silliness, videos, Weird as Hell on Mar 4th, 2013
Honest. But I wasn’t feeling real good for a couple of days, then I got distracted this afternoon. You see, I was perusing Bangshift, as you do, and came across this article about a nut who put an old aircraft engine into an old Toyota MR2 and raced it in the 24 Hours of LeMons. […]
Posted in Food & Snacks, Holidailies 2012, Photo entries, Ruby the Dog, videos on Dec 9th, 2012
Well, I completely forgot about logging in and posting anything yesterday. Pretty much this is what the bulk of my day consisted of. Pressure-cooking beans. Then Joel and I went out to dinner, came back home, and watched Smokey And The Bandit, which Joel had borrowed from the library. Today, I began the annual holiday […]
Posted in Distractions, videos on Jan 9th, 2012
Stupid things I have been thinking of lately: Dung beetles fighting over doody. We have dung beetles around here, actually. Out in the Flint Hills. When you go out on the gravel roads along cow pastures, it is not uncommon to see a beetle rolling a poo-pellet along the ground. Or several beetles quarreling over […]
Posted in Distractions, dumb things I have done, NaBloPoMo 2011, Recommendations, Utter Silliness, videos on Nov 1st, 2011
So, my dumb ass has decided to participate in NoBloPoMo, or whatever the hell they call it. Because I am crazy. Also because I feel like I could use a swift blogging kick in the pants and that may be the boot to administer it. Or something like that. And because it is late and […]
Posted in videos on Aug 18th, 2011
Slade pretty much owns over Quiet Riot. QR basically made their fortune in America as a Slade cover band, but they lacked something crucial. Noddy Holder. Good lord, I love the bassline of this song. It literally makes me happy. A little better effort than on Mama Weer All Crazy, but still…I gotta say I […]
Posted in Distractions, Uncategorized, videos on Jul 26th, 2011
Most people are seriously more articulate than I am…and it appears that some of us are feeling a particular malaise these days. I just read Sarah Spahr’s entry for today and thought, “gosh, she pretty much said just and exactly what’s on my mind right about now†as regards Norway, Amy Winehouse, and just generally […]
Posted in videos on Jul 23rd, 2011
I’m sure many eyes will roll, but I’m going to let Detroit tell it like it is. Summer’s here, and the time is right: Incidentally, I’d like to note that I freakin’ love that striped, double-breasted suit. There were some seriously cute fashions in the 1960s. More Martha & the Vandellas, singing about a Heatwave! […]
Posted in videos on Jul 16th, 2011
a Honda Accord? This tickled my funnybone today. I’d been wanting to hear Janis Joplin’s famous “Mercedes Benz” and came across the parody. I must say that whomever it was sang this song did a damn fine job of mimicking Joplin’s iconic gravelly wail. Ace stuff. And while I’m on the Janis tear, here are […]