I won a SPJ Mark of Excellence Award. I came in second place in the southeast for sports photography. I never thought I would win an award for anything sports related ( Read more... )

I had to look up a vet for Oscar today because he won't let me trim his nails. There is a rabbit rescue group in Birmingham that has trustworthy vet listings. I was looking around on this website and ended up looking at adoptable rabbits. I thought, 'I could at least foster another rabbit ( Read more... )

I had to go to the emergency room on Sunday. I was whining and writhing around, and feeling bad for myself.
Then this old man, wearing a United Mine Workers of America jacket, busts in and just says,
"Well, I had a heart attack,"
and walks over to the sign in desk.

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I try to tell the truth all the time, within reason. This includes 'white lies' but excludes rhetorical things like greetings. I say what I mean pretty much all the time and you know what? I'm a well-liked person. Usually people can't combine well-reasoned sincerity and kindness because they are stupid. I'm kind of dumb too but I know that abrasive ( Read more... )

I've been working on a big mural called Galactus, Pantocrator. I've made a bunch of pieces of it but it'll take forever. Here's baby Cable:

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Sorry- but I like seeing other chicks do cool stuff. So sue meeeeeee.

It all used to be the bed of the Black Warrior anyway! Ever wonder why it floods all the time? Tuscaloosa wasn't flat until the city decided to make it that way.

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There's a lot of Psychic Vampires in the exurbs of Birmingham, some of them closer than I'd like. They don't want to show their hand and physically restrain me with nails and chains but their viscous sulk-mucus makes it hard for me make my travel plans ( Read more... )

Every year the women on my mom's side of the family go to Ohio to visit a cousin who has been dying of cancer for like, forever. There's an American Cancer Society store there stocked with bullshit that rich people donate like silver services and furniture pieces that have anachronistic functions- corner chairs for the hostess who doesn't want to ( Read more... )