I know you took a lot of crap over “Isn’t it Ironic,” crap you altogether deserved what with the irony of English teachers quoting your lyrics, and those were lyrics that revealed you to be COMPLETELY OBLIVIOUS TO THE DEFINITION OF IRONY. But on the unexpected chance you haven’t since cracked an English Grammar for…
While watching last night’s convention
Me: Wow, Michelle and the girls are so gorgeous. And so BLACK! Just the prospect of them living in the White House is so UNBELIEVABLY BAD-ASS. First thing Michelle needs to do? Yank out all’a Laura’s Texas country kitsch and burn that shit on the front lawn. Then name Lenny Kravitz Secretary of Bangin’ Decor….
Internets, you never fail to surprise
I’ll admit to being a total noob at the Flickr — it’s world’s more fun and useful than Picasa, and a lot of the photography is inspiring enough to send me skulking back to Photoshop, where I can totally dick the day away fine-tune my own work. So I hadn’t even yet begun to explore…
On being an anatomical freak
To the naked eye, I look fairly pulled together. Some have even said “attractive,” though those people have never seen me when I realize TiVo’s eaten an episode of “Bridezillas.” And the liquor store is closed. On the INSIDE, however, there’s a whole lotta weird shit going on, courtesy of my esteemed forebears, whom I’m…
Still life with sweat
For fuck’s sake, summer has FINALLY arrived in Seattle in the form of 90-degree days and wading pools and SPF Infinity. The best sign? It’s arrived in the front yard: Grow, pretty pears! (But keep a low profile, lest the squirrels discover you and force me to haul out the shotgun. . .)
Papa rocks
Today is my Dad’s 60th birthday. Dad’s an artist. His preferred medium is acrylic on canvas, though he’s never so creative as when he’s splashing witty barbs at jerks and boobs. You want my Dad’s earnest critisicm? Sorry, that’s exclusively reserved for me, his daughter, the Worst Mommy in the World. Since Eliot’s first breath,…
A thousand words of YAYYY!!!
I don’t know what’s better — the news that researchers found an enormous population of western lowland gorillas in Congo previously believed to have been critically endangered, or this accompanying New York Times photo: I mean, how ridiculously awesome is that baby gorilla? She’s all, “That’s right, bitches, we’re back! And check these chest-thump skillz!”…
The Left Coast: We’re Differenter
How badass is it that there’s a new magazine devoted exclusively to Washington wines, and that this was the title they settled on: Really cuts right to the demographic, doesn’t it? (Scurries off to edit her own drink-of-choice project, “Absolut-ly Plowed”. . .)