random: crying over you
I wonder if I can leverage my allergy tears to my advantage at the office… “Can you handle this task?” — “*sniff, sob* Sure! No problem!” — “Uh… take your time, really.” I’ve become very interested in the weather but...
Category: culture
video: world peace
At first I thought I might weigh in on the recent pageant kerfuffle*, but after watching some of the words and arguments from the sources and both sides, I had a my people, my people moment. So I decided to...
comics: What’s an IKEA?
It’s kinda icky and rainy, work is busy and it’s definitely a moody day. At least my elevator was working again this morning. This panel from Basic Instructions cracked me up as part of the strip, “How to Make a...
random: ow ow ow ow, we hate you, ow ow ow!
That would be the dialogue from my feet and legs after coming in from a friggin’ fantastic Happy Hour & Dinner with fun DC bloggers Gilahi, lacochran to say farewell to J.M. Tewkesbury* at Busboys and Poets and finding out...
in DC: Duck season! Wabbit season! … Tourist season!
I’m a little tourist’ed out, but it was a fun weekend. Some friends were down from Vermont, primarily to attend the Frozen Four, but once their team lost they lost interest and turned into D.C. tourists. You crazy sports fan...
video: Welcome to you’re “DOOM!”
After poking a bit of fun at Gilahi needing a proofreader as he was making fun of someone else needing the same, I was reminded of this quick scene from Frisky Dingo. Every day at the office, someone sends an...
random: whoa!
So I’m walking the aisles of my local Safeway yesterday after work looking for pomegranate juice. I was of a mind to make Pomegranate Cosmos* per one of my kitchen muses. I’ve gone back and forth between the produce area...
in DC: allergen masochist
I’ve been in DC over 10 years, and I go each year. I know what they look like, I’ve seen them in rain and shine, and it still doesn’t matter. You have to see the Cherry Blossoms. Even though ever...
in DC: PILLOW FIGHT!!!!
Thanks to a note from lacochran, James and I made it over to Dupont Circle yesterday to see the DC Defenestrators second-show contribution to World Pillow Fight Day. It was hilarious to watch and impressive that the participants could keep...
random: condemned to repeat it
Anyone else sick of all the remakes, covers, re-imaginings, etc.? To go off on a slightly* geeky tangent, in the X-Men and Alpha Flight comic from 1986, the trickster god was offering mankind the opportunity to become like gods. One...