So I got a service call scheduled for my limping air conditioner, any time from 12 to 3 this afternoon they told me, and when I walk in my porch at noon sharp from the gym I find two things:
1) a large packing case blocking the door, courtesy of Fed Ex, with a huge gouge [...]
Archive for April, 2009
One Angry White Woman
Posted in idiots, tagged adrenalin, Fed Ex, fuckups, HVAC repair on April 29, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Daniel Cainer
Posted in Music, tagged astrology, Bill Clinton, Daniel Cainer, Ex!, horoscope, Jewish Chronicles, Jonathan Cainer, The Happy Prince, The President's Knob, topical songs on April 28, 2009 | 6 Comments »
If I had a crush on a performing artist, it would be this guy.
He’s semi-bald (“Bald is Beautiful” — the song he recorded on a 1998 CD that’s been going through my head all day) and looks, in videos, a little squashy around the edges, the guy you’d pass without a [...]
Sledpress’s Virtual Garden Tour
Posted in The Yard, tagged azalea, blue-eye grass, dogwood, gimcrack landscaping, Photinia, solar lanterns on April 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This is an act of supreme egotism, because my garden is shaggy and my photography is indifferent, but since I brought this place back from the dead, after several years of neglect due to lack of time and funds and three subsequent years of being too hurt to do a damn thing with it, I’m [...]
Tropical Posting
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged British Foreign Service, heat, Henry Allen, tropical posting, Washington DC on April 26, 2009 | 11 Comments »
I have lived all my fifty-four years in a Virginia suburb of Washington, DC, excepting my college relocation to the boondocks of the Upper Hudson valley. That means fifty-four summers in a location which the British Foreign service, at one time, reportedly categorized as a tropical posting. For the Brits this probably meant white wool [...]
Fairy Lights
Posted in The Yard, Uncategorized, tagged azaleas, excess flash, garden, inept photography, LEd on April 26, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Azahar suggested I try shooting this picture at dusk — fairy LED lights in my garden that use solar panels to fuel a twinkle back in the foliage till around midnight in the summer. What I didn’t bargain with was my real ineptitude with my digital camera. I will go shortly and look up how [...]
The Limerick Memorial, Sunday, April 26, 2009
Posted in L&X, Limerick Memorial Sunday, Ripped from the Headlines, WTF???, tagged 1992, Jeff Dahmer, men's movement, Michael Meade, Milwaukee Murders, Robert Bly on April 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I have a small line in serial killers — not enough to be a sign of creepiness but appropriate for someone who’s written a mystery novel or two. My true-crime-in-general shelf is sizable, if only because nothing shows more of human nature in all its shabby glory — the foibles of police and investigators, the [...]
T-Shirt Friday in R’lyeh, April 24, 2009
Posted in Reading Matter, T-Shirt Friday, tagged Call of Cthulhu, Cthulhu for President, H. P. Lovecraft, H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, HPLHS, indie films, R'lyeh, T-Shirt Friday on April 23, 2009 | 12 Comments »
This is the sort of shirt that’s only worth wearing to sci-fi conventions because 99% of the people on the street won’t get it.
It was a gift, from someone who knew I am (to put it politely) jaundiced about children, but have been a huge Lovecraft fan all my life. No, I didn’t like kids [...]
Supreme Indignities
Posted in Life is Dumb, Ripped from the Headlines, WTF???, idiots, tagged Justice Souter, Justice Breyer, Savana Redding, Supreme Court, child pornography, sexting, drugs, ibuprofen, Matthew Wright on April 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Let’s go over this again. If you’re a teenager and you use your cell phone to send another teenager an unclothed photo of yourself, you’re a child pornographer. But if you’re a school official and you order a 13-year-old to strip because she might be concealing an over-the-counter anti-inflammatory, you’re defending Truth, Justice and even [...]
Gym Dandy
Posted in The Gym on April 20, 2009 | 5 Comments »
No one is ever going to accuse me of being terribly well-dressed but I confess to a certain foible about my gym clothes. They have to match. I am usually in gym baggies and a string tank, or a ten-for-a-four-pack men’s wifebeater undershirt, but the two garments and the sport bra underneath have to work [...]
The Limerick Memorial, Sunday April 19, 2009
Posted in WTF???, tagged dirty minds, limericks, true love on April 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
My oft-mentioned late and ex husband was an aficionado of the limerick, the filthier and more disgusting the better. Ages ago I swore I would collect his limericks, and the apocryphal ones that he treasured, into some sort of a memorial, and toward that endeavor I have decided to post one or two every Sunday.
He [...]
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