For you, though honestly, I love anything that comes for me in the USPS that is not a bill ( Read more... )

You would be surprised how many women don't wash their hands after they use the restroom. I know this because sometimes I hang out in the last stall--the larger, handicapped one (which I can do without guilt b/c we don't have anyone in a wheelchair here, otherwise I wouldn't use it). I like it because the door stays closed by itself, and it's so ( Read more... )

( more haiku memes )

I drove to Hughes, Arkansas, this afternoon. It was 14 miles from the highway to the police station, and I swear to god those were the longest 14 miles of my LIFE. I have seen some beauty in Arkansas here and there, but this was most definitely NOT IT. Perhaps the fact that I was driving to pay off a $125 ticket had something to do with the misery ( Read more... )

...but maybe I'll come back later. Who am I kidding, I won't come back later, we are going to see the Features (!) tonight w/ the Whigs so this is a ten-minute free write. The unfortunate part of that is how much there is to say! Charlottesville was intense, intense low followed by intense high, lots of Dottie, I thought, but it turned out to only ( Read more... )

So for those of us that have hung onto some wardrobe 'pieces' that we knew would come in handy, one day, the ones that survived a decade of spring cleanings and trips to Goodwill, the apparent 80s revival may be convenient. I for one have felt somewhat smug when I see that tights and boots and tweeds and blazers are all the rage, because some of ( Read more... )

Today. god. I guess it is par for the course that today be intense. god. I think maybe lists work better ( Read more... )

That is how George liked his coffee. It always made me chuckle a little bit when he said that. I think it was the 'hinges of hell' part. He embodied the straight and narrow to me, so even that seemed deviant, in a way ( Read more... )

( some influential albums... )

Have you ever noticed that whenever you pass over any impulse-buy item as you are paying for whatever you are paying for, you will inevitably wish you had bought said item? Is that simply the lasting effect of the impulse buy? Or the uncanny ability of the placers of the impulse-buy items to anticipate our every need? Or just that we are Americans ( Read more... )