So we bought a car, after a few days of wandering around being traumatized by salesmen…one place had us assaulted by some kind of skinheaded attack salescommando as we tried to leave, who got us cornered in the car, demanding to know why we weren’t buying a car, and what he had to do to […]
Monthly Archives: May 2003
Whew. Well, we made it. About the trip, surprisingly little needs to be said. Nothing happened that will provide an amusing anecdote, which is usually a good thing when dealing with travel–it’s the ones you’ve got side-splitting stories about that were the worst to live through. So the trip can be summed up in a […]
One of the unpleasant things about moving is that you have to go through mountains of crap that you don’t want, don’t need, never use, but for some reason, did not throw away. One of the pleasant things about moving is that occasionally, in all this crap, you find a gem and go “Woo!” Among […]
Some art is dangerous. I don’t mean that in the usual sense that art is considered dangerous. Were I to do some elaborately offensive piece of artwork–draping the Vietnam Memorial in used tampons, say, with some irate artist’s statement about the blood shed by women through the ages, blah blah tasteless feminist cliche blah–plenty of […]
Got collars and tags for the cats. They had a very limited selection–I think it’d been awhile since they had a shipment–so while Athena has a standard cat tag, Loki was forced to make do with a Harley-Davidson logo-ed tag. One cannot help but look at an overweight, placid, middle-aged cat, note the Harley tag, […]
The Phoenix Zoo looks majorly cool, and I look forward to many happy hours photographing there. If the website is to be believed, they have giant anteaters, aardwolves, lemurs, clouded leopards, capybaras, and many other delights. They also have a raccoon. Evidentally Phoenix doesn’t play home to many raccoons. Now, I can understand this–it’s the […]
Damnit. I just saw this commercial. It looked like an anti-teen-pregnancy commercial, and I’m fine with that. Woman looks at pregnancy test. Husband looks at test. Text flashes “There’ll soon be a new addition to their family. Their lives will change dramatically. They’ll be the youngest grandparents in town.” Then it pans to a scared […]
My dreams are usually pretty weird and cryptic, but not even I can figure out why I dreamed we were driving down to AZ, stopped at a grocery store, and there was a herd (flock?) of moa grazing on the lawn. Moa. Moas? Whatever. In other news, due to an unexpected reversal of financial fortunes […]
Whew! Another cat loose in the hall, but this one had a happier and more immediate ending–a darling little mackerel tabby mewing piteously outside our door. Very friendly little critter, not hungry, so I carried him around to the various doors, thinking “Oh, god, not again! Let someone own this one!” And fortunately, the third […]
So I watched “The Ring” while down in Arizona. And also the extended version of the Fellowship of the Ring, which made it a sort’ve Ringtravaganza. And I will now comment, so if you don’t like spoilers, stop reading. First of all, “Fellowship” was fantastic. The extend-o version fixed every minor quibble I had, and […]