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Category Archives: Amusements

Oh, Amazon product recommendations, you amuse me so.

05-May-10

The only possible connection I can see between these two items is that the author of the book on estrangement – the one I ordered1 – is, indeed, a lesbian, although her text (while it is inclusive of persons of varied backgrounds, including those of differing sexual orientations) has nothing to do with lesbianism per [...]

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Another Olympia queer history fragment, this time from the bottom of a box of files

07-Apr-09

[the last one having been discovered in my underwear drawer, at which time I was delighted persons still in Olympia shared my delight.] This flier: …was from the first meetings of Queer Nation in Olympia, hosted by my roommate Tod Streater (RIP). With him, I attended said meetings – along with the first local meetings [...]

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Seven things about two brands of whiskey I’d just as soon never drink, and why

12-Jan-09

(But First, A Ridiculous Preamble) Tonight I was reading one dude’s entertaining post in response to a “Seven Things No One Knows About You” meme. This led me to recall the fact that a number of perfectly lovely people have “tagged” me with such memes in the past. However, because I am a surly and [...]

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These are a few of their favorite things

04-Jan-09

My neighbors, last joked about here1, have what looks to be some strange former craft project set out with the trash. And not only is it set out with the trash, it also seems to contain trash. (I figured snapping these pictures was obnoxious enough as far as neighbor behavior goes; I didn’t actually investigate [...]

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Something I may or may not do during 2009

01-Jan-09

If I should, during this calendar year, attempt to perform in any amateur standup comedy venue (some people1 think I’m funny – go figure) – even if only once2 – my first line will likely be “I don’t have a fart’s idea what I’m doing here,” because: I most certainly will not have any such [...]

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Why I laughed when I looked in the mirror on my 38th birthday

25-Nov-08

Yesterday, I turned 38. (Am still somewhat in denial. For instance, I first typed that as “28.”) Among the festivities of the day was Lamb of God’s last show in Richmond, before they head out on their big tour with Metallica. It was a great show, about which more will have to be written at [...]

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I am always at least as fascinated by the missing artifacts as by those that are preserved

11-Sep-08

Finally reading Nancy Milford’s biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Savage Beauty (a gift sent by my friend Chris, to whom I owe a good three or four letters). Here, the biographer is speaking of her early, delicate negotiations with the late poet’s sister, owner of Edna’s estate: There were only three things she said [...]

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A recent evening of unbridled hedonism, as detailed via assorted media

06-Sep-08

__ This shot taken, as best I can remember, in one of the stalls at Alley Katz. (I know, I am a walking cliché.) The three different versions of same (rendered via Picasa because I still don’t know Photoshop or whatever it is the cool kids are using these daze) are intended to reflect the [...]

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Hip-Hop Hooray for Love

18-Aug-08

Today I woke up with Ella Fitzgerald’s Hooray for Love in my head. Specifically, these lines: It’s the wonder of the world, It’s a rocket to the moon It gets you high, it gets you low, but once you get that glow… So after my morning coffee, I went to iTunes and typed in “Hooray.” [...]

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A minor marital vignette

12-Aug-08

[L: Me with newly red-ified hair; R: shadow of husband taking picture. One of our stranger portraits together.] Proof my husband hates me: He recorded “Bait Shop,” starring Bill Engvall and Billy Ray Cyrus, on the DVR. Proof my husband loves me: Only five minutes into its playback, even he had to acknowledge it was [...]

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