Posts by hamblog
waiting for my man
My nerves are shot, waiting for the results. Good lord. All I can do is to will time to pass and try to take some snapshots in my mind, of this agonizing historic day. I got to Blanche Reynolds Elementary School at 6:45 and already there were 20 people in line. By the time I…
Read Morevote vote vote! vote vote vote!
My brain is holding its breath on this day, Election Day. Let’s do this thing.
Read Morerandom thoughts on this year’s falling back
We did not have Daylight Savings Time (DST) in Arizona, where I grew up. It didn’t make life easier; in fact, it was an annoyance, having to figure out the time in other zones, which (of course) was different, depending on the time of year. As DST is vaguely tied into the Industrial Revolution, I…
Read MoreRecent Facebook status updates made to sound like poetry
Moya wide awake before it is light. Cindy is leaves. dirt. campfires. pumpkins. lakes. Phil is dreaming. Arjun is too lazy to sleep. Andrew saw a man with an improbable pair of wooden shoes Shaun is ahwa-ahwa-ahwa wanh-wanh-wahhhh. Kurt is thinking of the scream in “Roller Coaster of Love”. Colleen Hunganunga! Cyrus wants to frak…
Read Morethis post may or may not have been ghostwritten
ATTENTION READERS!!!1 In case you have not noticed, today is November 1st. And once again, we here at Hamblog (ie me, Becky Haycox) will be celebrating by dressing as Barry Manilow in the privacy of my own home, where no one can see me. Please join me in celbrating this valuable holiday by dressing as…
Read Morethe nerves
Thanks for the good messages and thoughts during my unpleasant dunking into the relentlessly deep pool of Blech. One of the issues weighing on me to which others are relating is our country’s creepy economic free fall. Readers from the future, don’t tell us how it turned out! The suspense, however, is killing us. Killing.…
Read Morejust me
I’m suffering (and have been suffering) from a certain amount of the funk, of the blues and the blahs. Too much (and not enough) going on in my life. There are a variety of things weighing me down, not the least of which the certain feeling I’m feeling as I muddle about in these Middle…
Read Morewhat sounds good right now
Taking a bite of a hard salami. The pop through the tough outer coating, the squish of the fatty meat. Tear, bite, rawr rawr! Salty fatty meaty! More Altered Images. I hadn’t heard I Could be Happy in multiple decades, and the second I heard it: wham, I got immediately and delightfully transported back to…
Read MoreNo on 8! All genders have a right to mate!
Other terrible chants I just made up: Hey, hey, ho, ho! That crappy Prop 8 has got to go! Guys like Tom and Larry should totally be allowed to marry! Each other! One, two three! My two mommies are better parents that your mixed-gender parents will ever be! Let’s just stop the bullshit and vote…
Read Moresigns that i am slipping another rung down the ladder of sanity
I can’t stop watching the doggie cam at Camp Bow Wow in Colorado. Sally Cruikshank, the famous animator, mentioned on her blog that her German Shepard is being boarded there (seen above at right). So now I stare at the cute doggies cavorting about, occasionally swirling around the human attendant with such enthusiasm I sort…
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