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Category Archives: Nonsense

Wreckage of an other than historical and/or metaphorical variety (UPDATED*)

20-Jul-08

Earlier this evening, as we were driving home from a visit to my in-laws, I thought it would be funny if I posted this pathetic but true-to-life tip on Twitter: Lifehack: Can’t afford repairs needed to pass inspection? Make sure you have washer fluid. Pass cop, wash windshield, sticker date obscured! Within about ten minutes [...]

Things I learned about myself and our culture while at the gym today

03-Jun-08

The quality of television programming available as workout accompaniment at our local gym ranges from trite and inane to offensive and enraging. (For which reason I have learned not to go at the 7 PM hour. I always get stuck at the Lou Dobbs treadmill.) Which is why I bring my iPod along and groove [...]

Because who wouldn’t want a taxidermied chipmunk with a doll’s head in a flower pot?

14-May-08

Because I have about fifty other things going on, including a few stalled blog posts and an increasingly urgent need to pack for my trip to Greensboro tomorrow (my BFF is treating me to the Amtrak fare and a long weekend’s mutual writerly support, yay!), but I also feel like shaking up the uber-serious mood [...]

Biting my tongue until it damn near bleeds

22-Apr-08

As some of you know, I recently deleted my entire blog. I had several reasons (of which this episode was less an immediate trigger than it was the icing on the hyper-rhetorical cake), but the bottom line was that my life had been overtaken by (overt) political blogging, such that most other subjects and activities [...]

Briefly, on my choice to commit blogicide

15-Apr-08

[and this post will mean little to anyone outside the circular firing squad known as the feminist blogosphere, with particular concern for this debacle] At the time I was deciding to delete my blog, I had no idea whatsoever brownfemipower/La Chola had deleted hers. As my comments on this post reflect, that particular episode was [...]