I love, love, love this visual commentary on comic art (plus it up):

http://i.imgur.com/0HrMl.jpg

I particularly like the "look of intense concentration as I tried not to fall over while longing for Peter." Well, the tag line to that one, mostly.

( Random thoughts on obscure sports )

So was anyone else completely blown away by the album Eurythmics did for the movie 1984? Never did see the movie, but loved the album. I'd read the book in Jr. High, and was not really a fan. Hard to have much sympathy for a pathetic middle aged guy with a big time crush on a younger girl who magically has this big crush on him when middle aged ( Read more... )

Those who don't share my religious beliefs pretty much might want to look away now, because this is entirely a Religious Rant, with Bible quotations and the whole nine yards. You have been warned ( Read more... )

Theresa the inept is an embarrassment to all cat kind. Just about every morning she tries to jump across onto the head of our bed. Generally, while doing so she takes out at least something from the top of the bedside table ( Read more... )

Which I knew, and yet I bought another box. What was I thinking ( Read more... )

There's a big, bumbling summer-fly noisily exploring the upstairs bathroom, which got me thinking about Grandma's farm in Minnesota. For some years in my late childhood and into my teens, I'd spend a week or so with grandma every summer, just me or just me and my brother, and most nights I'd be the last one awake, curled up in my father's former ( Read more... )

So a week ago Saturday we get back from our last trip trading kids back and forth with dad and pick up the younger girls from Grandma Pat's and all generally crash. Then the phone rings in the middle of the night and hubby and I argue about who has to go get it (the only land line is downstairs). He heads downstairs about the time the phone stops ( Read more... )

We don't swear in this family to speak of (well, I have, but I'm the only one). Middle son, however, challenges Captain Haddock for most original swear phrases. (I wonder if Captain Haddock's expletive's are as "clean" in other languages as they are in English...) Son's current expletive is "Stupid Stupid Flying Manta Rays!", but it'll be ( Read more... )

I gotta tell ya, meeting dad halfway to trade kids for visiting grandma four Saturdays in a row really cuts into our local summer activities....

( The difference between boys and girls )

Last fall hubby decided to bid on a house around the corner and we bought it. For $3000 more than it had been listed for before the auction, but whatever... Cost about a third what this one did but they're about the same size and the new one's not in such good shape ( Read more... )