Misheard Lyrics Better Than the Right Ones

Yesterday, we were driving around listening to this group the Butcher likes, which I have never heard of (he told me not to admit this to you, because, according to him, it will give you the impression that I have been living in a cave… Ooo, speaking of caves, I wonder if the old Demonbreun [...]

I Thought I Was the Only One who Had a Bunch of These!

I like to sing praises to mine and dance around them naked, but I guess having a couple of your friends sit on one is cool, too.
(See the photo gallery for more.)
(And in completely unrelated news in no way related to the other item in this post, check this out.)

Things I Think Are Applicable to Other Things We’ve Talked About

1.  The Rotund makes this point about how people want to suck you in to their diet talk, in part, because dieting is all about performing “goodness.”  Brilliant.  I’m going to be mulling this over, especially in the context of women and our dieting.
Part of dealing with this is understanding that diets have a performative [...]

Four Things 16th Century Spaniards Seemed to Love

1.  Boobs
2.  Beards
3.  Big collars
4.  Pictures of fruit arranged to look like people.

Oh my

My intern is in the other room right this second telling my boss about how the girl who is going to be my intern’s roommate for the coming year does not know what a bank is.
“Is that my card?” she asked my intern.
If this is an example of the great meritocracy that brings young minds [...]

Random Things I Can’t Quite Make Up My Mind About

1. How does a guy who puts pictures of his bare butt (which, yes, is quite cute in it’s own way) on the internet turn around and claim to be big on privacy? What kind of privacy is it that protects your words and not your ass?
2. On a similar note, Mack [...]

The Penis is Kind

Some things come up in your Google reader and, from the second you read the title–in this case “The Five Virtues of the Penis“–you just know you’re going to have to post about it.
This is one of those things.

Let’s Make a List

To whom would you attribute unchecked smolderation?  This wouldn’t have to be a person by any means conventionally good looking, but just someone who does it for you.  We were trying to explain to my intern, who had never heard of Raul Malo and thought that pictures of him made him look like a jolly [...]

Random Things–The “You Better Just Choose to Change Now, Before the 5th Wavers Make You” Edition

–How long have I been waiting for photos of beloved reader W.’s new kids?  Too long.  And how thrilled am I to see a tiny feminist in the mix?  Too thrilled.  Don’t worry, Luke.  Sure, getting punched in the mouth when you try to affirm the patriarchy is a drawback to having a feminist sister, [...]

A Couple of Quick Things While My Internet is Working

–Considering what a piss-poor job AT&T does of keeping the internet flowing to my house, I don’t think Comcast has to worry about losing me as a cable customer.  If I had TV as infrequently as I have my internet connection, I might pass out.
–Guess which Flying Spaghetti Monster got a shout out in Rolling [...]

If Only We Could Force People To Do What We Want…

–KAG has a post about Oatney’s love of large government.  She finds it odd, but then stumbles upon the real motivation for it: though conservatives traditionally favor small government, there’s a certain sect of conservative that favors using the government to make women’s lives as difficult as possible.  Is it tough on women to have [...]

Random Things that Caught My Attention

–There is a noise at the top of the stairs.  Plish, shloshp, plisp… something like that.  The noise water makes when it’s dripping from your ceiling onto your carpet.
–Answer me this: when you read the following sentence, do you not wish with every ounce of your being that you’d written it?
Instead tonight there is the [...]

Random Things that Don’t Fit Any Theme, Really

–Well, as long as it hurts those illegal immigrants, I’m fine with not having tomatoes or pumpkins or or farms or jobs.  Food’s overrated anyway and jobs?  They just get in the way of prime laying-on-the-couch-being-hungry time.  And, hey, it’s not like locally grown food is better than food grown elsewhere.
–I cannot read the answers [...]

Two Things, Er, Three Things. Wait, four.

1.  If I ever need to give someone a look of any sort, I’m totally hiring Katie’s baby to do it.  Take a look at these pictures.  We have “I will tear your head off,” “Um, maybe you shouldn’t wear that in public,” “Is that Lee Greenwood or Ray Stevens?” and “Let us never speak [...]

Random Things I’m Keeping an Eye On

–The “For Rent” sign that went up in front of the neighbor’s.  I’ll be curious how long it takes our landlord to fill the place.  I’m sure the house on the corner is still empty, though that “For Rent” sign has been gone since the last storm.
–My absence from the Pith in the Wind blogroll.  [...]

Random Things to Occupy Your Mind

Still sick.  Not better, not worse, just gross.  The Butcher said, “Wait for the puking and the explosive shits.”  I thought he was warning me, but no, it turns out that eventually, because you feel so bad, you start praying that everything in you will work its way out.  He was offering me hope.
Here’s three [...]

Random Blah blah blahs of a vaguely sexual nature

–I was up all night trying to write up directions (with photos) for how to make you a crochet cooter and on the one hand, it’s hilarious to type things like “Now, keep going until you come to the end of your labia,” writing up directions is more difficult than it seems.  So, I’ll probably [...]

Random Ways I’m Just Moving Stones from One Pocket to the Next

–I realized I have a nervous habit which ought to amuse you gun nuts.  You’ll remember many weeks ago when I shot a gun?  Well, I picked up one of the outer thingies… a case, I guess… and put it in my jacket pocket meaning to bring it home and stick it on my altar.  [...]

Dismissals of Various Sorts

1.  Jayne’s grandpa died.
2.  La Chola has been covering Andrea Smith’s failed tenure bid.  Yes, you can be nominated for a Nobel prize and that’s not good enough for Michigan.
3.  But now the Chronicle is writing about it and, god damn, will someone explain to me where all the fuckers on that site come from? [...]

Random Bits of News Collected in One Place to Simulate a Post

–Mag has some great news!
–Theriomorph has some great news, too!
–If you haven’t, even once in your life, longed to be a luchador, I don’t even know what to say to you.
–One thing immigrants don’t do better than us native born folks.
–Dangerous rolls on the loose in Memphis.
–Yes, this means I’ve finally finished a draft of [...]

It Gets Weird Around Here

–My parents do a Bible devotion every morning.  The other day, the Bible verse had something about having a good heart and my mom started crying.
–I am shocked to see how bad her eyesight is, though they both claim that it’s getting better under the treatment.  Yesterday, she poured herself a bowl of cereal onto [...]

The Wind Farm

I’m glad my dad warned me about it, because if I’d just come out of Gibson City and seen it with no warning, I would have had an accident.  But you round a corner and there, spread out as far as Bloomington, are miles and miles of windmills, enormous windmills with three long spiky arms, [...]

Good Newses

–Dr. J and her lover both got jobs!  At a place that will require me to visit so that I may soak up the sun.
–My dad is home from the hospital and shuffling around the house with his teddy bear.  I about can’t stand it, it’s so cute.
–Bridgett got tenure!
–Work sent me a press release [...]

Random Things about the Number Four

1. I’m number four! I’m number four! I just heard from The Women Playwright’s Initiative. They say, “Your play, Honey I’m so Lonesome, I Don’t Know What to Do, was one of four finalists out of 71 plays submitted to our recent competition among women writers in the Southeast. [...]

Updates for You Following Along at Home

1. My dad’s going in for surgery tomorrow. They’re doing that thing where they go in and clear out the artery. If they need to put in a stint, they will do that at that time. If they do, he’ll have to stay over night. If they don’t, he’ll come [...]