...so's I went and got me a laugh. Actually bunches. I hung out with my LJ/Facebook/IRL friend steven, visiting family here this weekend. This is visit number 2 in six months, and I'm thinking somebody needs to move on down here. After meeting at the Farmer's Market and checking out the produce, we went on a drive across the cities in the area, and I was ( Read more... )

...I had to strip to my drawers today and get inspected by multiple people at the dermatologist's office. Instead of my suspected food allergy, NO, sorry...poison ivy. All over, everywhere. Cortisone shot in the ass, why-not-since-I'm-there-and-stripped mole check, and I was on my way. Hopefully I can sidestep the possible steroid-y side effects of ( Read more... )

Morrissey, Kathy Griffin, Joan Jett...and now *drumroll*...Bettye LaVette! Things are looking up around here this spring/summer, say I. The amphitheatre at the art museum is a great place to see a show, and Bettye is fantastic.

...AT SOME POINT, but I love this video as well as the song. What's wrong with me? I don't have anybody even in my radar at this point, and this song is making me silly. Oh wait, wine. But still! I love it.

I love walnuts. I used to hate them when I was a kid because all the ones that come from a typical grocery store, you know the ones in the baking section, they're always rancid or near-rancid. So, maybe 10 years ago I started buying the ones from Whole Foods in the bulk section, and I've always wondered how in the hell did they have really good ( Read more... )

Renee Fleming gets me every time...(watching the We Are One concert via streaming HBO).

...I really hate whistling. I mean it just bothers the living crap out of me, I don't know why. However, here is one instance where it not only doesn't bother me, it's an interesting element to a song, and that song is Aimee Mann's "Little Tornado", which is the simplest little song about a tornado. HOWEVER, it might be about all sorts of things, ( Read more... )

I'm trying to figure out if it's the climate, or what, but...Christmas just got over with, and hello, spring has already started outside. The daffodils have already sent up their foliage, the bearclaw hellebore is unfurling its bloom spike, the 'First Breath of Spring' bush has opened its first flowers, the daphne on the north side of the house is ( Read more... )

I slept through it...got a (hopefully short-lived) cold. Anyway...

*19 MORE DAYS*

...and the dark cloud over this country lifts.

I had some extra dough hanging out on Amazon due to a gift certificate, so I decided I should grab Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation", which I last listened to in 8th or 9th grade. What a GREAT record. It sounds incredible...Joan really had (and hopefully still has) chops.