My guilty pleasure when traveling is allowing my self to buy an US weekly (typically balanced by a National Geographic or something). The only other time I allow myself to read this US is on the treadmill, and that usually ends up in disaster as I tend to run slantily (wd?) unless I’m paying attention. [...]
Archive for March, 2009
US Weekly
Posted in Uncategorized on March 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
handcrafts all dirtied up
Posted in Favorites, Interesting Internet Finds, Uncategorized, tagged dooce, locher's, subversive cross stitch on March 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »
For those of you who love Dooce*: about a millennium ago, she posted a link to Subversive Cross Stitch, which just about made my brain explode with adoration. I mean, who would have thought there was another person in the world who appreciated little hand-stitched, 30s-era samplers with such foul-mouthed gems of wisdom as this?:
It [...]
Lourdes….
Posted in Uncategorized on March 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Was just perusing my favorite pop culture/celeb gossip site, PopSugar, and saw a pic of Madonna – who is attempting to adopt a little girl from Malawi, yet the adotpion has been delayed – and she was with her oldest child, Lourdes. OMG – she is gonna be so beautiful when she grows up! I [...]
Facebook – I love it, but…
Posted in Uncategorized on March 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I admit it, I’m a facebook junkie. But my guess is most of us are. I check it a minimum of 20 times per day, and usually look at all of my friends’ pages to make sure I know what’s up with them/mildly stalk them. Lame, I know, but whatevs.
Even though my addiction to facebook has [...]
Weekend Entertainment
Posted in Uncategorized on March 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Main Characters:
Golden Retreiver: Princess Caribou Dinamite (Bou for short)
Shit-zoo/peekanese: Missy Mae Meehan (Missy for short)
Narrators/Commentary: Kevin and Kirsten Meehan (Ted and Kirst for short)
Plot: Bou and Missy may not look like they have much in common, but they are kidred spirits! Bou thinks she is a 15 lb. shit-zoo and Missy [...]
Mooching from Garrison Keillor
Posted in Poetry on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s poem from The Writer’s Almanac
Fiction
by Mark Strand
I think of the innocent lives
Of people in novels who know they’ll die
But not that the novel will end. How different they are
From us. Here, the moon stares dumbly down,
Through scattered clouds, onto the sleeping town,
And the wind rounds up the fallen leaves,
And somebody—namely me—deep in his chair,
Riffles [...]
Vampire Weekend
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Let the Right One In, Twilight, Vampire Weekend, vampires on March 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »
No, no, not the band, though they are on heavy rotation on the ‘ol iPod (who does give a fuck about an Oxford comma? …me. I do).
Nope, this weekend was all about the vampire flicks, starting with the advent of my pre-ordered-in-January copy of the Twilight DVD. It showed up in the mail on Saturday [...]
LA face with an Oakland booty
Posted in Celebrity, Hilarious, Interesting Internet Finds, Sports, arrested development on March 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
(The title of this post is only relevant if you watch the clip)
Randy Moller is now up there with Will Arnett and Michael Giles (picture not available, b/c he’s not famous, he’s my friend, and not google image-able, in fact, this is what came up when I tried, and I don’t want it to be a large “in [...]
FAC
Posted in Uncategorized on March 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I just got an email from a friend that reminded me of my favorite college activity: Friday Afternoon Club.
I distinctly remember that I would leave my morning Journalism class and walk with my friend Jay to the liquor store on campus. I would buy a six-pack of Miller Lite “tall boys” and proceed to [...]
Wintergirls is here!
Posted in Literature, tagged book recommendation, laurie halse anderson, wintergirls on March 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »
One of my favorite authors is Laurie Halse Anderson… I have loved her writing immoderately since Speak came out ten years ago. Yesterday, her newest novel, Wintergirls, hit stores, and a bright, shiny, pre-ordered copy was in my mailbox when I got home from work.
I blew off the rest of the day to start [...]
