I Mess with Texas, Part 20
The Mess With Texas Sign I haven't messed with Texas in a while, actually. Not that there's a dearth of stuff to mess with, but, eh. I haven't been motivated. Maybe I'm drugged by the ribs. Or maybe massive floods, dirty lakes, racist hotels, fraud trials, random shootings and evangelical freaks lack the sting of…
Read MoreMom departs, Handymen arrive, Dog is intrigued. Film at 11.
So, the tile guys are here now. I say guys, because although – Francesco gave me the initial rundown and– Wayne de-grouted the old grout,– Derek and Shawn arrived to re-grout the thing. It takes a village, folks! Ciara, meanwhile, is fascinated: Mmmm … grout There has never been food in the bathroom, there will…
Read MoreMom visits, Part 2
Snappy Man, Coney Island was hot yesterday. Not just hot but humid, sticky, oppressive and like a big foot sitting on your face. On the other hand: cotton candy and freaks! I saw a man put a drill bit in his nose! And afterwards, Mike took us to DiFara's for pizza, which took obscenely long…
Read MoreMom visits, Part 1
On the amusing side, Mom waved at Jon Stewart approximately 8 seconds before he went on the air. And Jon waved back. On the Holy Crap side, the whole of my shower has to have the tiles removed, dried out and re-inserted then grouted. I shall be dirty (temporarily) and poor (less temporarily) following this…
Read MoreAnd now … the Hermione Crookshanks Experience!
Magic! Sometimes you find a great link you just wanna share with too many people. And so, it becomes a blog entry. Potter Rock! Surely someone should be the Order of the Phoenix, but maybe that's too obvious. We'll see.
Read MoreNot the King of Kong, that’s for sure
Or, even the queen of Kong Plus c'est la meme chose, plus ça change.I am a video game watcher, and not much of a player. I was always much happier watching someone who knew what he (or she, more rarely) was doing on a video game than playing it myself. Mike and I went to…
Read MoreThe right place
Eddi And this is how I ended up getting home at 4 in the morning on a work night. Eddi Reader, chanteuse and all-around-delightful lady, at your left. My co-worker Gregg had announced she was going to play Joe's Pub, which is a stone's throw from the office, and he got us both tickets when…
Read MoreWhy my life is not like a sitcom
Smoky! Despite all indications to the contrary, that is. So you first have to know I have a long-range, air-powered water shooter. I had a pigeon problem on the fire escape outside my bedroom window and on the A/C, and for the most part they're now gone. No humans were harmed in the removal of…
Read MoreA dusting from the Sandman
Well, The Sandman's creator, anyway. Mike and I went to a screening of "Stardust" on Monday night, and it was darling, with lots of "Princess Bride" touches and some lovely twists in the storytelling that — as Mike points out here in his review — are clearly from the mind of Neil Gaiman, who wrote…
Read MoreGotta have the sweet stuff
Has there been some kind of undeclared shortage of chocolate out there? Because while the squirrel who couldn't help himself was cute and prompted me to make a LOLsquirrel for Noralita … LOLSquirrel … I'm not sure what to say about Catherine Anne Delgado, of my home state, who couldn't seem to help herself either:…
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