"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Distractions, Recommendations, Take A Look At This, Utter Silliness, videos on Jun 2nd, 2011
I have become ridiculously fond of the Black Dice and other similar bleep-gizzle-frunzzzz type music. It is completely fantastic if you like weird music made up of random electronic bonking noises and zoinky sounds and general chopped-stirred-and-fried bleep-gleep effects. At work, we are allowed to listen to streaming ‘net radio, so long as we either […]
Posted in Distractions, Utter Silliness, videos, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Feb 5th, 2011
Mistake: listening to Prince while reviewing concrete contracting documents. Phrases like “coordinate with other trades as required for any penetrations, embedded items, or sequence of work issues” and “reinforcing steel to be furnished by Concrete Contractor,” suddenly become fraught with nasty, dirty double entendre.
Posted in Mountain Biking, Super-Short Entries, videos on Sep 7th, 2010
Apropos of pretty much nothing, Perez Prado’s “Patricia” popped into my head and stayed for the day while I was out riding the trails at Smithville yesterday. It’s a surprisingly good song to mountain bike to, actually.
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, bike commuting, dumb things I have done, Gratuitous Cussing, Oh, for fuck's sake, Other Bike Stuff, Party, Trashboat Shenanigans, Utter Silliness, videos on Jul 4th, 2010
On my way home from work today, I rode past some very busy fireworks stands in the West Bottoms. If you know Kansas City, you might know about James Street and the half dozen or so semi-abandond buildings that become explosives emporia in the week leading up to Independence day. Being as today is The […]
Posted in Cats, Distractions, Playing With Weather, Ruby the Dog, Utter Silliness, videos on Apr 13th, 2010
I let Minnie outside for a little while today. Griswald is banned from the Great Outdoors because he always gets “the call of the wild” and tries to break for broader and greener pastures. Then I have to chase all over the neighborhood trying to recapture him. Also, he is very, very, very stupid and […]
Posted in Utter Silliness, videos on Mar 24th, 2010
I don’t write for ages, don’t do anything of any discernable value, and then come in here and do this: Apparently, this guy is the guy we can blame for Hooked On A Feeling. It’s way different with an electric sitar instead of ooga-chackas. Then, in 1971 this enormous dork improved it immeasurably with a […]
Posted in Distractions, Utter Silliness, videos on Mar 7th, 2010
I’ve been slightly obsessed with pigeons today and spent more time than I should admit reading Wikipedia entries about Feral Pigeons, (basically no-longer-domesticated Rock Doves), Wood Pigeons, which have a really cute voice, and the master list of types of doves and pigeons. I reckon a couple of events brought on my miniature fascination with […]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Oh, for fuck's sake, videos on Feb 6th, 2010
But the opening animation was AWESOME: We’ve had about a 50/50 rate of hits and misses with Netflix. The movies that we’ve gotten and enjoyed were really great and the ones that sucked were almost unbelievably awful. The nice thing about Netflix is that it’s so inexpensive that if you get a dud, you can […]
Posted in Distractions, videos on Jan 4th, 2010
The Onion (dot com) is an interesting institution. It’s spoof news has grown pretty formulaic and tired over the years, but other features, notably the AV Club keep me coming back. And I’ll pretty much tune in for updates from irrepressible, feckless, hapless Jim Anchower and dimwitted, chocolate-and-cat-loving, delusional Jean Teasdale (though I admit this […]
Posted in bike commuting, Playing With Weather, videos on Dec 24th, 2009
Man, I had the BEST ride home from work today. It was snowing like all get-out and I have this crazy powerful headlight (a Niterider Tri-Newt) which was illuminating the swirling flakes. The streetlights were doing a pretty good job of it, too. It was snowing pretty heavily and was also windy, and with all […]