Art Hogan, my mom's cousin predicted the recession/depression we find ourselves in and news analysts have taken to calling it The Hogan Bottom. I guess that's cool, although it's a sort of embarrassing name for it, don't you think? It's like, they're all talking about my mom's cousin's ass or something.

I go and work in a preschool full of disease-ridden little kids who each day invent brand new ways to get sick and then I go and work in the BBG, where I work outside and it's very labor intensive, wearing my body out each day so that it's ready by the end of the week to let those germs blossom and grow. And the really sick part is that I don't ( Read more... )

Roughly Everything That Happened this Year, Organized by Theme:

The Year in Happiness:Up front, the obvious, the one and only... Barack Obama ( Read more... )

I got into this huge fight with my mom about wearing this dress to her cousin's Christmas party. The last time I wore it, it was to my grandmother's funeral, and I really didn't want to wear it again, but I didn't have anything else nice to wear and after many other attempts at finding something nice to wear, she insisted I wear the dress. I ( Read more... )

(1) Deep throat died! (a.k.a., Mark Felt, the FBI Associate Director who leaked information on Watergate to Bob Woodward, bringing down Nixon (although not enough for it to be truly satisfying, however) and remained a secret for 30 years)

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Coming Soon:

Perfection

And I was delighted! But, underneath in smaller lettering it said:

A Gentleman's Club

And it was still pretty amusing.

Tonight the moon is the closest it's been to the earth in fifteen years and it's so big and bright.

Dogs welcome
to use free wifi

I hope they do!

Snow, snow, snow!

(1) There was a mouse in the kitchen! (more on creative solutions to solving the mouse problem later) My mother said, "This is just really depressing," and I replied, "Yes, it's just like being in a Sylvia Plath story ( Read more... )