Monthly Archives: May 2007
Ou sont les mugs d’antan?
Why, Mom? Why did you take me to the mall when I was fourteen and buy a bunch of mugs with animals fucking on them? Oh, wait! I get it! This was our “sex talk”! NOW I UNDERSTAND. I do … Continue reading
Posted in Main
100 Comments
Long Post Ahoy!
I guess it was Friday, and my brother, Tim, and I were gleefully throwing away all the bits and pieces that my father had saved over the years. This, for example: I was a student at the University of Edinburgh … Continue reading
Posted in Main
43 Comments
FYI*
I have been dipping into the archives to link to old posts and I’m finding that my coding for photos used to be such that if you linked to individual posts the photos wouldn’t show up. So I’m finally fixing … Continue reading
Posted in Main
2 Comments
Just to Warn You
Okay, so my dad died and gone with him is the knowledge of how to use three different remotes to make the Dish TV work. To be fair, my brother, Chris, got it up and running last week and it … Continue reading
Posted in Main
29 Comments
Freddy and Frederika
Freddy and Frederika, by Mark Helprin I’d never read any Mark Helprin before, probably because an old boyfriend wanted me to read A Winter’s Tale and at the time it was more important for me to be an argumentative jerk … Continue reading
Posted in Reading
Comments Off
Selected Highlights
Normally when I don’t know what to say I just post a bunch of pictures and then try to explain them. For the last week I’ve been wandering around my parents’ house looking at my dad’s stuff and taking pictures … Continue reading
Posted in Main
83 Comments
Dear People of the Internet!
You are awesome. I have been so bolstered by your good wishes these last couple of days, and I’d like to give a special shout out to the lurkers who felt now was the time to step up, especially to … Continue reading
Posted in Main
185 Comments
Oh, Internet
When life hands you lemons, go online and look at LOLCATS. I’m now off for an unexpected three weeks in Denver, as my dad died (unexpectedly) early this morning. There’s a lot to be done, including convincing my mother of … Continue reading
Posted in Main
Comments Off
Waltzing With My Inevitable Decay
At some point in the last month I decided that I was starting to look like hell, so I fired up my cauldron, threw a toad over my shoulder, and ordered a bunch of stuff from Sephora.com. It’s somewhat ironic, … Continue reading
Posted in Main
58 Comments
And If You Ask Me Why, I’ll Say . . .
Two weekends ago I went to the David Sedaris vs. Sarah Vowell Celebrity Death Match up in Santa Barbara. Leah came up with her husband and Grace came down with her step-daughter; Jack bailed on me but I found a … Continue reading
Posted in Main
22 Comments
