I was thinking about titling this post "adventures in stomach flu" but then I found out stomach flu doesn’t exist. So, that thing that rendered me unable to do anything for two days other than re-read large portions of the last three Harry Potter books, and unable to eat anythingContinue Reading
I have a weird quirk to my personality, where I believe in failure, but have a hard time believing in success. Failure is always real — knife-in-the-gut real. But success? Surreal. Kind of distant and fuzzy, like it’s a dream I’m having and I’m going to eventually wake up. ThisContinue Reading
Paul and I are hosting trivia tonight at The Honeymoon meadery (and cider-y) in Bellingham. Come and prove that you’re smarter than we are.Continue Reading
Grr. My no-LJ-memes rule is colliding against my deeply held moral views. Because I happen to be a chick married legally and all to a dude, this does apply to me: ———– Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you’re in a non-same-sex marriage, and you don’t want it “protected”Continue Reading
Because otherwise we can’t go to Tales of the Cocktail. Which, I think I have seen mentioned before — maybe in chefcdb‘s blog — but I don’t think I realized it was an annual event. Anyway, I ran into it when I was researching falernum recipes. Falernum is a flavorContinue Reading
Or, why, sometimes it might be better just to not touch anything. So, our Halloween party decorations are in a storage closet. This storage closet also contains occasional-use items like camping equipment, as well as a great many boxes of “I don’t think I can just throw this out, andContinue Reading
Today I just became aware of perhaps the strangest of the strange Obama rumors traveling through the email-o-sphere: that Obama had been employing Voodoo against McCain, which causes him to writhe around and grimace uncontrollably. I just want to set the record straight here. Yes, there is voodoo being employedContinue Reading
Last night I was in a bar where Fox News was on with the sound turned off. All I could see was faces, clips, crawls, and captions. I tried not to watch, but I kept getting distracted by the movement on the screen, and then distracted by the fact thatContinue Reading
It is scheduled from 10 am Saturday October 18 through 10 am Sunday October 19. I have prepared an anti-mellow playlist for my ipod which is exactly one day long. It has a lot of X on it. Right now, I know of me and uly as designated cartoonists. dangerdaisyContinue Reading
A couple of weeks ago, I noticed a crude spray-paint job on Dino Rossi’s name on the large campaign sign in the yard of an insurance place near where I work. The McCain/Palin sign had a penis painted on it. Yesterday, I noticed that our neighbor’s Obama/Biden sign had beenContinue Reading
I have been informed that I am hosting a 24-hour comics day at my house on October 18. It will not be an entirely proper comics day, as it will go from 10 am on the 18th to 10 am on the 19th instead of from midnight to midnight. ButContinue Reading
On Poppy Z Brite‘s journal, she quotes an Amazon.com review of an one of her older books, which begins thus: T. Jackson (Portland, OR United States) Though I am a big fan of many dark films and movies, I usually like for them to have some sort of moral, lessonContinue Reading