From the monthly archives:

November 2009

Countdown to March

November 12, 2009

I’ve a long-term plan for the front walkway that will in two to three years time be so awesome you may be compelled to smack you mama. Here is the recipe: smackyoumama frontwalk cocktail 300 tulipa rococo 200 tulipa black parrot 125 lilum alba 50 allium sphærocephalon 6 single white pæonia Blend the rococo and [...]

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Washington Beaches Are State Highways

November 12, 2009

It’s true. You can drive for miles on the beach in Washington, go from town to town to town, as far as the sand will let you. There are rules however. This taken from the Long Beach Peninsula Visitor’s Bureau website: “All drivers and vehicles must be licensed and insured just as on any other [...]

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The Stephen Warrington™ Method of Name Retention

November 12, 2009

Here’s one they don’t teach in Dale Carnegie. I am not just horrible with names, I am abyssmal. Consider, if you will, the following actual encounter (note: this is not the actual encounter. this is a dramatic re-creation): Mise-en-scène: I miss the first and arrive for the second weekly meeting of the birth class. After [...]

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To Collect Something or Everything

November 11, 2009

I like lots of pretty things, but I don’t officially collect anything. Not seriously at least. I often think it might behoove me to get serious about something, except that I am bad at being single-minded for long. I am great at short intense bursts of interest, but the idea of studying the esoterica of [...]

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This Is An X-Ray Of A Pregnant Dog

November 10, 2009

It’s kinda blowing my mind right now. more x-rays of pregnant dogs

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Auto-Horn-Tooting Put to Auto-Challenge

November 10, 2009

If I were in tenth grade and my English teacher said we were all under too much pressure and so instead of doing work today we were going to sit in a circle and talk about our feelings and she started off with an exercise where we had to complete the sentence “if you knew [...]

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madbombers

November 10, 2009
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It’s Official: Offal’s Not So Awful After All

November 9, 2009

I’ve been thinking about all the kinds of foods I’ve eaten in the last couple of culinarily adventurous years, and am somedeal proud of the assortment of variety meats I’ve been lucky and brave enough to try. Below is a list of the types of offal I’ve eaten, organized by animal, followed below by my [...]

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2009 Potato Harvest In Its Entirety Right Here

November 9, 2009

moral: don’t plant your potatoes in the shade.

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Blue Lobster

November 9, 2009

I found a very blue lobster claw on the beach in Maine. Pretty! Courtney looked it up and as I live and breathe there is such a thing that lives and breathes. One in two to four million lobsters is blue, depending on which source you consult. That got us purty excited. It’s a genetic [...]

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