Him: When in San Diego, when you take the top down and insist it won’t rain, you’ll probably be right.
Archive for July, 2009
The Skip Gates arrest saga continues. This has me in tears of laughter: Crowley, 42, said he won’t apologize. And his union has expressed “full and unqualified” support for him. On Thursday, he told WBZ that Gates verbally assailed him. The police report says Crowley asked Gates to talk outside, to which he responded “Yeah, [...]
I don’t like hearing Americans talk about Karma. Why? Because Karma is the exact opposite of American democracy. Karma assumes that you deserved to be born into your station in life, even if it sucks. Clearly an attitude that favors the rich. In America, we cherish the idea- however flawed the implementation may be- that [...]
Skip Gates was -already notoriously- arrested on his Harvard front porch for disorderly conduct. I agree that it’s a disgrace, but I think we need to look at it in a wider perspective. Here is an example from my own life: About 2 years ago I was in the graduate painting studio at Radford University, [...]
I hate clutter. It makes me feel crazy and harassed. So I decided to take my landlord’s Momma’s advice and shove all the boxes of crap into a semblance of order. I gave myself a strict time limit of 10 minutes. Here are the results. As always when faced with a challenge my first instinct [...]
Early Saturday morning, I returned home from a failed muffin-buying expedition to discover my landlord’s elderly mother weeding the flowerbeds in front of my house. I smiled tiredly at her in an attempt to be pleasant. She struck up a conversation. Her: Bruce (my landlord) is going to spray for bugs today. Me: Oh, ok. [...]
No longer Golden? Bah. Economies boom and bust and it is stupid to think California is symbolic of the collapse of an erstwhile American good life. If you think it is, first remember that it’s a real place, not a symbol. Then please study economics and 20th century history at a top university and get [...]
I guess her next step is to move someplace with more political clout than Alaska and pull a Hillary Clinton. All I can say about this is: I hope it happens soon because I can’t wait for the Tina Fey skits. I’ve been following Palin on Twitter and I find her sound bytes are better [...]
One time several years ago, my boss pointed to a decrepit bike chained up at the office and informed me he would not hire its owner. Because if they took bad care of their bike, he said, they would do a bad job in the office as well. It was my bike, and he was [...]
Häagen-Dazs® | Products | Häagen-Dazs Five | Details: Mint . I know that foods marketed as “natural and simple and minimally processed” but which are actually the end products of an enormous (and efficient, and desirable, and capable of feeding billions) industrialized food chain are very popular.   And I also know that mint ice [...]
We went to see Transformers tonight. The movie was absolutely epic. I loved it. My only problems with it were: Serious geography issues. Dulles, Virginia is not adjacent to the Southern California desert. And believe me, I wish it was because I am about to make that 2000 mile drive in 3 weeks. No sexual [...]
At 11:30 as I was about to go to bed, I saw a giant column of sparks a couple of streets over and ventured out to investigate. The big house on the corner of First and Clement was burning. Radford’s a party school, and this is the fratty area of town, so many of the [...]
A. paint them B. apply to hair in streaks C. squeeze into pasta D. make lemonade E. hurl them in a rage
It was the fourth of July, and a red, white, and blue cake seemed essential. Julia had already challenged us with her rainbow cake, and after a brainstorming session we came up with our own strategy for creating multicolored cakes. It is simple and fun!! Multicolored cake recipe: 1. Select a white cake [...]
Today me and Cathy (CATHY AND I- GRAMMAR GASP!) went to the art building for old times’ sake. Aided by the mysterious fact that someone installed the deadbolt backwards so you could turn the lock from outside, we ventured in and discovered this déclassé and unacceptable furniture arrangement. Look at the grainy cell phone shot [...]
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