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Tomorrow I will be 40. This is a relief, as I have been "pushing 40" for at least 2 years ( Read more... ) -
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Okay, the REASON I live in a cold climate is that we have SMALL BUGS. And some cicadas, but you hardly ever see them despite how loud they are, yes I know they are basically the size of compact cars, but they're slow and stupid so they don't count. I say, the REASON I live in a cold climate is not to have giant bugs ( Read more... ) -
Who threw that ham at me?
I was in a grocery store and the cashier was packing up my stuff and managed to knock a package of sliced ham onto the floor so it bounced on its corner. (Vacuum-sealed, not, like, loose ham in a bag.) I watched it fly and burst into amazed laughter, and couldn't stop. The poor cashier had one of those the customer is always right, I am always ( Read more... ) -
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Earlier this year, I went on a sewing adventure, and boy, it was the slowest adventure ever, because I did the whole thing by hand. Which meant, near the end, making decisions based on how long any given detail would take rather than on, you know, what worked best for the garment ( Read more... ) -
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I spend ONE DAY on the beach and I get sunburn. Of course! (The smart people fled the sand at like 10:15, but I went back and didn't leave till noon.) Weird stripes all over my back. Ugh ( Read more... ) -
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After the orgiastic massacre of innocent titanium capsules that was last night, two last fireworks this morning, at 7:33 AM. Why, universe?
Never do I wish for so many strangers to lose their fingers as in this annual weeklong span.
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Today I learned
There is a reason millinery doesn't have much truck with real flowers, actually two. First, flowers die at different rates, which I know because I started working with some bought flowers and a few cuttings from the garden and within 20 minutes the leafy ferns were mush. But I had carnations and roses, which famously hold on well, and also some ( Read more... ) -
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I was in a Michael's the other day, rejecting the plastic flowers they sell, and the cashier had never heard the word millinery before. I mean, she was probably 22 and Michael's is a corporate chain, but if the craft-store people don't know that word then probably most people don't ( Read more... ) -
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In the further annals of my vintage adventures, I am discovering three things ( Read more... ) -
Daredevil and the Real City in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
It is perhaps telling that the hands-down most intense scene in the new Marvel series Daredevil is one in which the secondary protagonist -- Karen, an ordinary woman -- and the secondary antagonist -- Wesley, a man with access to power, but not powerful himself -- confront one another across a table. The series itself is bloated with fighty mcfight ( Read more... )