Posts by hamblog
lonely teenager born years too late
This video [direct link] is “A Day in the Life of Abbey Road,” a time lapse movie in which people pause and pose on the crosswalk as the Beatles for their album cover. Clever! It reminds me of a photo I saw once, similar to this one, that depicts several tourists posing for pictures, pretending…
Read Morethis is what happens when you don’t spray for them
Yesterday was gearing up to be a beige, beige day, one of meetings and presentations and talking, talking, so much talking. And not by me, because that would be a great day, me being the motormouth and all. I showed up to the first meeting at 9, feeling distinctly uncute in a dumb, in-a-hurry outfit.…
Read Morewhite winter hymnal
Part one of this narrative got the intrepid MM and me to the foothills of the Sierras, en route to a lodge at Sequoia called, strangely enough, Sequoia Lodge. Upon seeing the sign commanding us to use chains, I obediently pulled over so that we could crawl in the slush and get our rig set…
Read Morerunning up that hill
sequoia trip merit badges i presented to molly during our trip (click to see enlarged image): making coffee on a campfire, putting up with my snoring, bear sighting, tent fire (artistic license taken for that one), and getting lost. I just got back from an amazing trip. There’s a pencil-size muscle in my upper hip…
Read Moreslog v. , slogged , slogging , slogs
It’s positively shitting down rain today. Yes, I know “we need it” (the tiresome mantra of every drought-aware Southern Californian,) but the rain is deciding to come down all at once, forcing me to figure out how to work an umbrella again and to drive the hair-raising streets and highways. Half the population down here…
Read Moremalformed lump of a week
Sunday: Waste most of the day with a stupid computer game and aimless puttering about. At 5pm, I start feeling iffy. By 6, I am on a strict hourly vomiting regimen until 3am Monday morning. Monday: Try to gather my wits about me after the Food Poisoning Fiesta. By “gathering my wits,” I mean “feebly…
Read Moretriple ex
Too much clicking on Facebook revealed that I am now two degrees away from D., the boy that was the object of my obsessive, heated affections for four solid years in high school. Just like that, from myth to regular old mister in a few tiny bleep-bloops of the internet. The grownup me doesn’t think…
Read Morejailbait
Just some hot shots of famous boys on the other side of the law. Hubba hubba.
Read Morea thousand things to cheer me today
Taking a running start, jumping on, and firmly planting my ass on Violet’s bandwagon, I shall follow her lovely post with my own list of things that are causing double-extra happiness on this fantastic day (Note to the Future: 1/20/09 is the day that Barack Obama became President of the United States, or “USA,” which…
Read MoreThe most loveliest bracelet in the world
I wrote this in 2006, in response to a question from a friend: what is the one object you would you take with you when the house is on fire? I thought I would share this in commemoration of my mom, who died 6 years ago tonight. In about 1972, my parents and their friends…
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