When Rush comes on the radio I feel very much like I imagine the American public felt when they first heard “talkies.” Geddy Lee grates on my nerves so badly I have to switch the station immediately, or else risk driving headlong into oncoming traffic. I feel exactly the same way about A Prairie Home Companion. I [...]
Sure, it would be nice to save the planet.
It would be even nicer to save my eyes and fingers and toes. And anything else that could get smacked with a rock or a projectile, or stuck in the samurai-sharp blades of a lawn mower.
For years, I’d justified the waist-high “lawn” in front of my rental property by telling [...]
First off, a disclaimer: I’ve only been to three yoga classes, and two of them were at Jivamukti, which merits a whole entry to itself. (Any facility with an elevator from the eleventh century that takes 20 minutes to go three floors should probably tone down the attitude, for starters.) My third yoga experience was at [...]
Yesterday, I had very specific dinner cravings, like I usually do, so I called the man to see if he was on board with my pre-menstrual combination of fatty dairy products and farty proteins and about twenty-five different desserts. He told me, like he usually does, the equivalent of “whatever you want is fine by me, dear.”
And [...]
This memorial was erected a dozen years ago outside the local Catholic church:
…oddly enough, they don’t have one for victims of pedophile priests.
You know it’s rural America when the local bulletin board advertises a free goat:
This year will be the first election I’m voting for, instead of against someone. And I’ve been voting for half my life. Obviously, that’s disturbing. More disturbing is the fact that I still know very little about my chosen candidate’s policies on, well, anything. It’s enough that he’s a black Democrat. Scary, I know. Obama [...]
Silly me, I thought that sixty days’ worth of gray sky was a pacific northwest phenomenon…apparently, it’s all the rage in Wyoming this spring. All the UV light bulbs in the world can’t make up for the fact that it’s 40 degrees outside, and mothball-size hailstones are raining down two weeks before summer.
The end of [...]
I’m not sure I could defend the use of a messenger bag instead of a “purse” as a mature choice, to begin with, but I was glad to see my materialism hasn’t progressed to the point where I care more for a leather bag than for the well-being of my pound puppy.
That said, he’s still [...]
Tonight’s the annual Monster Truck night again at the county fairgrounds. Despite my so-called ironic interest in such things, I decided to pass. It’s raining. Besides which, I spent my admission money on a half-gallon of Rice Dream, which I plan to consume while watching Chris Rock on DVD.
Confession: I went last year. So I [...]