28 Jul 2005
Thursday Ephemera.
Last night I turned on the tv around 10 and flipped through all the channels. In one flipping, which probably took about 7-8 minutes, I saw some brilliant things: (more…)
Last night I turned on the tv around 10 and flipped through all the channels. In one flipping, which probably took about 7-8 minutes, I saw some brilliant things: (more…)
Two Things I Overheard This Morning Within a Span of Five Minutes, Thus Making My Day. (more…)
I came across this book the other day and had to share with you some of what I found. Mississippi: America’s State of Opportunity is a rah-rah industry PR book put out by the Mississippi State Board of Development in 1944 in the hopes that business and industry would come to the state. I have to give them credit for one thing: they took a pile of crap and made it sound like diamonds. Every sentence is a testament to the perfection and utter paradise that is the state of Mississippi. (more…)
Yesterday I mentioned that I once had to read Gravity’s Rainbow for a class in graduate school. (I was telling Larry this morning about the one part I remembered, and I think he was a little shocked for a moment.) (more…)
The other day I was coming back from the grocery store and the Cher song “Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves” came on the radio. I don’t think I’ve ever heard it from the very beginning, so I listened and tried to pay attention. (more…)
Larry and I went to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory yesterday. Naysayers, just shut your faces. (more…)
The other night, I was watching TV and Larry came into the living room, mouth agape. (more…)
Mrs. Floon has the most awesome, vivid dreams. In one of my favorites, I have come to visit, but I have allergies, and so to accomodate this, she fixes me up a bed in a pie plate, and puts me in the freezer. (more…)
Among the various things my mother has in her house, one of them is mannequins. Creeped out yet? (more…)