God help me, I have GOT to stop listening to NPR when they run their shows on legalization of emergency contraceptives. My urge to strangle this sanctimonious religious jackass is kickin’ my acid reflux into high gear. I know I should turn the dial when they announce the topic, I KNOW I should pop in […]
Monthly Archives: August 2006
Graphic Smash is down for server migration, leaving me unable to upload this week’s Diggers (and even if I could, no one could see them anyway.) If it continues to be down tomorrow, rather than mess around with a day a lot of people won’t see, and having to post an alternate, I may just […]
So this weekend was spent, as usual, in yardwork. We took out MORE trees. Sweet gum–I’ve been calling it “junk maple” because that’s what it looks like, but it’s really sweet gum–grows every-frickin’-where. It’s a native, animals eat the seeds, I respect it in its place, but its place is not in my flowerbed, mailbox, […]
This little guy showed up, with about fifty friends, in a shady spot in my backyard where nothing was growing. Now it’s full of stiltgrass, this, a silktree that thinks I haven’t spotted it, and some sneaky wisteria. I intend to burn this section to the ground and sow the fields with salt, but I’d […]
All this angst over the de-planeting of Pluto. My friends, I am here to tell you that this was not an act of cruel injustice, but a setting to rights of the order of the cosmos. Pluto was a jerk. He wasn’t notably bigger than any of the other big lumps out there, but as […]
I realize that I am, oh, twenty years late to the party on this one, but is Takhisis the evil dragon queen from Dragonlance with the five different colored heads a total rip-off of the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon from the eighties with the dragon villain with the five different colored heads, or am I […]
Here on the ass-end of summer, as I look at the plants that are successful, and the ones that died, I have the following observations. Self, please re-read this note next spring when planting fever hits. The best plants for the hummingbird are the cherry sage. Hummingbird can’t get enough of that stuff, and it’s […]
Ya know, I just don’t get Patricia A. McKillip. It’s not that it’s bad. I don’t think it is. It’s not that it’s poorly written. It isn’t. Some bits are quite lovely and lyrical and excellent. By rights, I should like these–I love Robin McKinley’s work with an undying passion, and there is a huge […]
Well, it took long enough, but there he is. A genuinely defective squirrel, attacking my suet feeder. He is in all regards a perfect specimen of squirrelhood, except one–he’s missing his right eye. It looks like he’s easily startled by things appearing out of his blind side–he and the cotton rat about gave each other […]
Continuing to doodle. Sooner or later, one of these will strike fire in my brain and want to be a painting. http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/38592566/