Last night, I sent a post entitled “dribs and drabs” out into the world that was not intended for publication. It’s my draft file that contains, yes, dribs and drabs of half-assed story ideas. It’s been unpublished now, but if you caught it, you now know the reason for my coherence (and please pretend to be surprised when there’s familiar material in a future post). I appreciate that Jeana did read it and even made lovely comment on it. Onward! Here’s a totally related post that I started last week and finished now.

That word (nubbins) will always, in my mind, be linked with Spy Magazine. I’m enjoying my way through Spy: The Funny Years and reliving my ultra-snarky mid-20s.

Anyway, nubbins. Here are weird loose ends that I put in an unpublished post (Ed. note: yes, the accidentally-published “dribs and drabs” referenced above) — hastily scrawled notes to self about possible blog ideas. I’m afraid some of them have never grown up to be real post ideas, so I’ll air these, the nubbins, here:

Dream Nubbin

I was listening to Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, and someone told the story of Koko the famous signing gorilla meeting Mr. Rogers for the first time, and the gorilla took off Mr. Rogers’s shoes. “Messed up dreams.” (that’s all I wrote — I can’t remember the dreams and I wish I did.)

Interview Nubbin

Q: How can I repay you for your consistent level of awesome?
A: By rejecting stupidity and embracing ideas and information.
From an excellent interview with Devo (here)

Cocktail Nubbin

That was one okay evening, friday feb 13. had my first lemon drop since 10 years ago, when at the loneliest palm, they accidentally rimmed the glass with salt. garrrrrrrgh.

Friends Nubbin

“mmm, soup! i mean noodle soup! i mean soup!”

Sad Rumination Nubbin

“Bonnie’s is Closing”
(Party supply, costume and weirdness store extraordinaire in downtown Ventura. Gone. I’m sad but not sad enough to conjure a long involved post.)

Spam Nubbin

Boileau Adcox Crazy iin love

Funny Friend’s Writing Nubbin

Evany, commenting on her photo:

Birthday balloon that won’t die (foreground): A gift from Caroleen and Scott, this balloon has been lurking around the house since Marco’s birthday almost a full month ago! When we woke up on Sunday, it was looming over the bed, swaying ominously and trying to look like we hadn’t interrupted it mid-murder attempt.

Overhead Nubbin (courtesy of college girls)

I looooove Christian Bale as Batman.

Ugh. I hate the way he moves his mouth — he totally ruined Batman for me

I see what you mean — he’s got kind of pointy extralong side teeth.

But he’s hot, though.

Totally.

Christmas Nubbin

I’m going to get behind this Christmas spirit thing, here are some things that cannot happen: Mannheim Steamroller playing in my pilates class

Awesome Description Nubbin

I’ve got what you would call novelty music slash psychedelic noises music slash pop music with that stuff on top of it.  — Andy Partridge (XTC), on his music

Can’t think of a tidy ending to this post Nubbin