Somehow, whenever I say something in public, a weird synchronicity comes along.
The parent website of this trailer (if you click, it will download in Real Media) came to me from Donna Barr, once again. I salute, in thanking her, all those who mine the ore of the tacky and tasteless.
Topical and timely yet wafting the [...]
Archive for August, 2008
The Laughing-Your-Ass-Off Thing, or, Butt Woman (II)
Posted in WTF???, tagged cheap horror, Godzilla, independent film, indie film, Japanese horror, low budget horror, Mark Pirro, Mothra, mutant ass, Pirromount, Rectuma, Rodan, satire on August 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Gilbert and Sullivan
Posted in L&X, Music, tagged Baby Got Back, bereavement, Gilbert and Sullivan, loss, love, marriage, mental illness, musical performers, rap, Savoy operas on August 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I always hated Gilbert and Sullivan. It seemed to me to be a fetish of the simultaneously snooty and G-rated mind, a sort of Mensa songbook for people who like to show off their eidetic memories and don’t know how to shut up.
So naturally when I got married — disastrously and heroically — it was [...]
I Don’t Want to Know About Your Diet
Posted in The Gym, idiots, tagged diets, food, John Callahan, Matt Furey, weight loss plans on August 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I note looking back that I have a lot of posts in Idiots. This means either that I am a curmudgeon or that idiots are pretty thick on the ground, probably both.
What I realized today in the gym was that we need to have a national moratorium on Talking About Your Diet — sort of [...]
King of Beers
Posted in The Yard, idiots, tagged Budweiser, dogs, Maxim, neighbors, parking on August 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Talking about David brings me to other members of the cast, marginal players at best, but they form the scenery around my digs, more or less.
I moved in here thirteen years ago, buying the house from an eightyish woman who had painted most of the interior guava pink and mentioned as we signed the papers [...]
It’s Organic
Posted in The Yard, idiots, tagged evangelism, garrulousness, Organic gardening on August 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I mentioned my gardener in the last post. I can never decide whether David is a cross I have to bear because I’m too nice to get rid of him or the kind of character that I couldn’t eject from the bad novel I am living in.
I fished him up from a neighborhood flyer twelve [...]
Bat Woman (II)
Posted in The Yard, tagged Bat, bat house, endangered species, gardening, mosquitoes on August 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have decided my yard needs a bat house.
I haven’t written anything here for a week because the weather was hospitable and I finally felt like I had my foot on the neck of my yard. I know that’s a difficult visual, but humor me. Since June I’ve been wrestling invasive plants, overgrowth, and simple [...]
Brucie
Posted in The Gym, tagged gym equipment, Hammer Strength, personal trainers on August 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have finally gotten a grip on the fricking Hammer sled machine. After Stiletto’s former trainer opined that I could have a quad sweep more like hers if I squatted low — which after a ridiculous three-year death struggle with a blistering hip injury, I’m finally ready to do — he added that I was [...]
Stand By to Call 911
Posted in The Gym, idiots, tagged cell phones, Feng Shui on August 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
My gym is in the back of a huge shopping center which could just about declare itself a sovereign Southeast Asian nation. I mean there are foo dogs at the front entrance, with a big red pagoda-like structure arched over them. I don’t know if the owners did this for good Feng Shui, though I [...]
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