I have the best husband ever. I’ve had PMS lo these past few days, and been mopey and depressed. So what does James do? He comes home with an apple pie and “Spirited Away” which I’ve been wanting to see. Giant Friendly Nippled Radish. I wanna be Miyazaki when I grow up.
Monthly Archives: February 2006
And a new “Wombat Droppings” column over at EMG. This month’s theme is romance, but I went straight for a paean to smut, ‘cos…y’know….it’s me. http://www.emg-zine.com/february06/ursula.php Check out the other articles as well! S’cool e-zine all around.
So ysterday evening, Athena was whooping it up in my studio, knocking things over and generally bein’ a pain. I found her dancing in the back corner of my table, where it is difficult to get to her, made a grab, and caught her rear end. The rear end is not the best handle for […]
Well, hot damn. I just picked up a CD of bird calls (at long last), and the very second section compares the hairy woodpecker to the belted kingfisher. And damned if the kingfisher call wasn’t the chrk-chrk-chrk-chrk I heard from the mystery bird. I went and relooked, and yeah, male belted kingfisher had no crest […]
Went out to Lake Crabtree to try out the new spotting scope. Works great on distant waterfowl on the lake! Now I just need more exciting waterfowl than Canadian geese and ring-billed gulls. A mystery bird went overhead, and now I’m stumped. Whatbird.com is down, or I’d be there–the guides aren’t helping much, largely because […]
State of the Union address on NPR. ARRGH! Horrors. Turn it off. Orphaned baby walrus on TV. Oh, dear god. It’s…so…so…SO adorable. I mean, I don’t have words. It’s like a leather ottoman with eyes! I generally don’t watch TV during the day, but when the choice is listening to somebody I loathe ramble for […]