Favorite thing overheard at New York City Comic-con A person (I assume a man) dressed as a Storm Trooper is standing in an aisle next to another person dressed as a Transformer. Out of the Storm Trooper’s nasally voice come the words, “man, I could really go for a funnel cake right now.” Photo courtesy [...]
Archive for February, 2007
27 Feb
Hell is for children
After wiping the snow off my car for the umpteenth time this winter, I’ve decided that it’s official: snow is no fun if you’re an adult.
26 Feb
Doing the things a spider can
I’ve just wrapped a busy weekend, and I don’t have the time or inclination to write it in story form. Since Sister Alyson has requested a new post to replace the wonky eye picture, I’ll give you some details on what the past 72 hours were like: Left for the city on Friday with Birmingham [...]
22 Feb
In your eyes, the light the heat
After two weeks of waiting, my new glasses were finally ready to be picked up yesterday. I’ve been having a small litany of issues with my head and its inner workings lately, so I had my fingers crossed that the glasses end of all my pain. As the optometrist fitted the frames to my face, [...]
20 Feb
Kick me in the Jimmy
For those of us in the publishing industry, the biggest scandal of the day is not Anna Nicole Smith, or Britney “Shears” or even the boring boringness of the Scooter Libby trial. In the book world, the word on everyone’s lips is scrotum. Okay, maybe not everyone’s lips, but there was this widely emailed New [...]
19 Feb
I’ll burn my eyes out before I get out
I got a letter from the cable company, my lovely internet provider. They’re raising the rates. Ten more dollars a month, which works out to roughly… $120 a year. I think that I hate them. Not just because they’re raising the rates, because it got me thinking: if I’m shelling out a whole lot of [...]
16 Feb
While you were picking your toes in Poughkeepsie
I always park my car here when I go shopping, especially on rainy days, because it’s the only part of the parking lot that’s covered. I guess it’s a good thing that I was at work at 11:00 yesterday, because the mall’s one elevated parking structure went boom. Birmingham’s boss was across the street at [...]
15 Feb
Wednesday
Let me tell you a little story. It’s the story of a girl who was steadily single for 26 years. There were a handful of dates (about one a year,) a couple of college hook-ups that led to nothing (and by a couple I mean two,) a foray into online dating, a realization that I [...]
14 Feb
Philosophical question for the ages:
If you wear a SuperCute outfit to work one day, but none of the other women are at work that day because of the snow, and therefore no one is there to appreciate it, (because the men just don’t get that kind of thing) does it make a sound? Wishing I had just stayed in [...]
13 Feb
Cleveland rocks, Cleveland Rocks
Despite the state of my kitchen floor, I like it when things are neat and orderly. So when I read this article about the new $1 coins that will feature the US Presidents in the order which they served, my first thought was, “Damn, Grover, you really mess up the flow.” Additionally, the president must [...]
