Yesterday, the ever snarkful (& smart, so, what - can I now invent ’smarkful’ in addition to ’snarkful,’ also not an actual word?) Simon Goetz offered the following, um, pearl of wisdom with regard to incipient Fourth of July celebrations:
Guys are prematurely shooting their colorful loads of Freedom all over the sky’s face. It’s scary [...]
Folks, at the end of this month we will be, I’m afraid, moving.
Granted, it will only be next door, to a house owned by the same landlord (with marginally more room, so finally the girls will have separate rooms and, therefore, can hopefully avoid killing each other), so there will be no specific inconvenience or [...]
As anyone following me on Twitter will be all too keenly aware, I’ve been listening to an awful lot of The National lately.
So, I’ll understand if no one believes me, that the title of this post actually didn’t start out as a reference to Daughters Of the SoHo Riots, a track from their 2005 [...]
Some teenagers would kill to go to a Lamb of God show - never mind the luxury of VIP access and such, since we’re friends of the band members, in particular, vocalist Randy Blythe (as discussed recently) and guitarist Mark Morton (whom my husband has known since the seventies, and I’ve known since 1990). Here’s [...]
With Lee, some lake in Minnesota, August 1994. Click through to image on Flickr for explanatory notes.
Longtime readers (in my various blog incarnations) will be familiar with the name of “Lee,” the woman with whom I spent four years in hell Minnesota1. More recent readers can still access some of the backstory here; old entries [...]
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Teenagers: An Alien Life Form, originally uploaded by vmarinelli.
She may be an alien life form, but she’s my alien life form, and I love her so much it’s ridiculous.
(Did I mention she got into [...]
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Talk To The Hand, originally uploaded by vmarinelli.
My teenager, who was sassily trying to avoid the camera.
As with my recent blog deletion, her reticence was hardly personal.