Posts Tagged ‘postaday2011’
we need to talk about kevin
Another monthly challenge to myself: read a book, and report on it here (to keep me honest.) These will not be terribly in depth or insightful reviews. Here’s February’s. We Need to Talk About Kevin was rough to read on many levels. On the technical side, it was so damn long. For those of you…
Read Morefeed frenzy: binge/purge
This is a multi-parter post, as I am de-cluttering my Google Reader feeds. This is part two. Part one is here. I have culled my blogs down. I won’t lie: it hurt. But I went from a bloated 252 feeds down to a svelte 155. Hacking away the lifeless feeds was easy — there were…
Read Morebanned
Oh, boy, there’s a man from my past that I have been absolutely, strictly forbidden to have anything to do with, anything at all. The people that forbid me from Mr. X are my key girlfriends (especially Tamar, who knows exactly about whom I am writing) and I rely on them to keep the borders…
Read Morethings i fear
the rat with whom i share an office dentists making someone cry cult members being mocked by teenagers going down in flames razors blindness Nazis sporting goods stores/electronic stores (tie) raging toddlers inevitability of the fact of the death of my loved ones a bird attacking my eyes being pranked/punked poverty a debilitating injury that…
Read Moregreat beyond
A bizarre bunch of people have died recently. Not that they were bizarre themselves, just such a random grab bag of folks! Edna Babish, the butter-Brando lady, the chopped-off-ear guy!? Rest in peace, you guys. UNCLE LEO OF ‘SEINFELD’, LEN LESSER DIES AT 88 http://deathbeeper.com/7907461.html PEGGY REA, PLAYED BOSS HOGG’S WIFE http://deathbeeper.com/f/peggy+rea ‘THIN LIZZY’ GUITARIST…
Read Moretwo typos and one gaffe
TYPO Many years ago my roommate had a job doing paste-up (yes, that long ago) for Macy’s. One weekly ad she often handled was the huge one that was always across from Herb Caen’s column in the San Francisco Chronicle. It was a very popular page in a very popular newspaper, back when that stuff…
Read Moresenso-me-oh
So I put a tiny, lozenge-shaped thing into my shoe and it can detect and keep track of how fast/far I am running. The lozenge talks to my iPod which then talks into my ear, encouraging me to keep going and telling me congrats when I’ve reached my goal. Once I’m connected to the internet,…
Read Morefor the camera
This is the painting I bought at the art fundraiser I attended last Sunday. It’s an oil painted called “For the Camera” by a local artist. I plan on contacting him before I publish his name, just in case he’s shy. I apologize to the Visual Gods for the horrible photo. This piece spoke to…
Read Morea shot over the craft bow
Spotted on the “Classes” page of a website for a local quilt shop: Just when I thought the Great Southern California Quilting Civil War has ended, some hothead has to rile everyone up. Can’t we all just get along?
Read Morereligions were founded on lesser moments
I’m still trying to redevelop the habit of reading regularly and it’s some slow going. I enjoy it when I do it, so why am I so reluctant to do it? I had to return my book to the library today, since I had already renewed it once. I went to the check-in desk. Me:…
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