BWAHAHA Stephanie Miller read this Craig's List ad on her show today.

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Spoken wordage with The Kates last month. Funny ladies plus decent turnout equalled good times!

Another snowy day in Chicago, another indoor recess for school kids.

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Last week I was at Eleanor's school, performing some executive duties for the PTO (aka, "volunteering"). Among the tasks du jour was crowd control during a recess spirit-week-activity. The weather that day was not permitting for the playground, so everyone reported to the ( Read more... )

It's been almost a year since our loving little Lucy departed this mortal coil. After spending the remainder of 2012 in a mourning state -- largely because we had two long stretches out of town and didn't want to deal with a catsitter -- we are ready to fill the vacant House Cat position.

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This meme is via the semibold. I wanted to write one earlier, like actually at the end of 2012 or the first week of 2013. As the punchline to one of my favorite awful jokes goes: better Nate than lever. To wit...

1. Was 2012 a good year for you?
Meh. As "they" say: not good, not bad, just "meh".

2. What did you do in 2012 that you'd never done before?
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So the other day I was inadvertently doing an impersonation of Moon Zappa when she was on the old 'Roseanne' show, and this person I just met starts cracking up at it. I got all self-conscious because it was, you know, just my regular old annoying gesticulating way of talking, but whatevs. He assumed (correctly, I guess) I was some sort of ( Read more... )

Greetings from the great state of Maine. I've been here since before Xmas, but am not getting around to posting until now. So sue me.

Meanwhile, here is a Wiglet. I've been having a hard time taking a photo that accurately captures his ginormous fluffy winter coat. This will have to do for now...


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I am going to make a brief post about the stunningly awful events of Friday morning. What can I say about something of this magnitude? Words are just going to fail, so I doubt any of my chatter is going to add insight. I cried when I saw the President cry on the TV. I was annoyed when I heard the cliches pour out of my radio and read them in the ( Read more... )

Here's hoping your Thanksgiving was more fun than a sack of wet cement hitting the pavement!


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If I have done nothing else right today -- and I haven't -- at least I got my sorry carcass over to the polling place.
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