Many a moon ago the floral-laden Mrs. Daisy tagged me for a “five things you don’t know about me” meme. More recently, but still quite a few moons past (I am nothing if not prompt), the wonderfully bohemian Jeanine tagged me for a Stuart Smalley sort of game, wherein you freely admit to liking [...]

“I didn’t have time to put in a zipper.”
“I was a total queen.”
“Its freak-out time here ladies and gentlemen.”
“My model loves my outfit, and I love my outfit as well.”
“You do? I don’t; I think there’s some hand-sewn crap up in here.”
“It’s so ‘dressed in the dark.’”
“Can you imagine the next day The New York [...]

A few months ago I joined a book club. My first ever, and boy did I feel instant book geek gratification. A book! club. Where all we do is eat dessert! and read! books! One could pass out from the sheer excitement of it all.
But, seriously. I was excited. Because strawberries and home-made pound-cake? SO [...]

Last Saturday Chris and I braved the brightly lit, cellphone kiosk-laden aisles of the mall to visit Lenscrafters, I having recently begun to see (nothing much, but) blurred neon signs at night, and dancing mushrooms and Smurfs in the daytime, unable to focus on anything beyond fifty feet of my immediate vision.
I strained to see [...]

Today Chris and I are (over)packing and heading to the Oregon Coast to at long last take the vows we have been so excitedly anxious to take for what feels like decades. It’s a mock-elopement of sorts, we having changed our original date myriad times, and finally, and quite recently, settling on not settling for [...]

I Was Gored by a Bull
Is my life in danger?
—an actual write-in to a Q&A segment via MSN 7.12.07
Archaeologist: All royal mummies are suspect—from CNN 7.13.07

Researchers: Greenland really was green!—from CNN 7.13.07
OMG! YR still on MySpace? Loser!—from MSNBC 7.13.07

Christopher Walken can’t use a computer, regularly pulls his hair—from Celebitchy, 7.09.07
(and my personal favorite)
James Blunt sold [...]

Memes aren’t typically for me. Especially because apparently I’m a bit dense, a bit slow if you will (and, I will) and Chris had to correct me that it isn’t pronounced “maim,” as I was consistently (incorrectly) pronouncing it, for (ahem) over two years, so much as it is pronounced “me.me.” Um, right. Oops.
Moving right [...]

Via archshrk. For the movie buffs in the audience.
( ) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(x) Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest
(x) Boondock Saints
(x) Fight Club
(x) Starsky and Hutch
(x) The Neverending Story
( ) Blazing Saddles
( ) Airplane
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(x) The Princess Bride
(x) Anchor Man
(x) Napoleon Dynamite
(x) The Labyrinth
(x) Saw [...]

1. This article is one worth reading today. It’s interesting to see where we still struggle, almost fifty years later.
2. McSweeney’s is still hosting their F. Scott Fitzgerald short-story contest. Based on left-over prompts Fitzgerald himself never got around to using, the deadline has been extended to January 22nd.
3. I want this t-shirt. It’s from [...]

(Mostly inadvertent) Bad Idea, Number One:
Moving into a beautiful hardwood-laden basement apartment, without having any clear idea that we were also moving into the middle of a nasty divorce/custody battle, involving parties addicted to prescription drugs and parties kicked out of the household, but still possessing keys and prone to wanting to use said [...]