In Which I Visit The Isle of My Fave Misfit Heroes
Kid Eternity – He calls dead (and sometimes mythical) figures from the past to battle crime. Hangs out with a ghost named Mr. Keeper. Actually brought a just-killed reporter back to finish a story and imprison a criminal. Wow. Hoppy The Marvel Bunny – Becomes the World’s Mightiest Cottontail when he says the magic word, Shazam! […]
In Which My Night Is Interrupted
Oh shit … I feel that clenched sensation in my neck. Stay calm. On the tipping point of a bad headache – first in months. Sinus spray. Motrin and Excedrin. Spot vibrator plugged in. Nothing’s working. Breathing slowly until I almost see purplish bars behind my eyes that are probably hyperactive nerve endings. It’s 1:09 am. […]
In Which I Search For My Lost Downward Dog, Part I
I didn’t expect to fall so hard in love with hot yoga, but there you are. I start drinking coffee at 4:30 am to make it to 6am class. This is love at its purest and most caffeinated. This is my 3/4ths of my excuse for going to bed at 9. The other 1/4 is NOT […]
In Which I Think Saturday Thoughts
Both neighbors have garage sales going on today. Odd. I would go look at their stuff, but we don’t really know them. My first real interaction shouldn’t be buying crap they want to get rid of. Someone is considering buying that framed bunch of candy wrappers. OK, I don’t need to see any more of […]
In Which I Confess My Guiltiest Pleasures …
Men Without Hats’ first album. “Safety Dance” is awesome, but there’s a whole lot of fun stuff on that LP. Naked and Afraid. I would never in one trillion years go on that show, but I can binge watch it like crazy. I lost entire weekends last year to Naked and Afraid XL. Thongor books. I don’t […]
In Which I Wonder Why Humans Are So Dumb – by Grits the Cat
I am only clawing this carpeted post because you are watching. And because it pleases me to make you think I am enjoying some store-bought pet thing and not your leather-upholstered couch, which I will get to the minute you start watching Judge Judy. Yelling at me only makes me want to scratch the leather-upholstered couch […]
In Which I Voyage Through My Atlas of Stevie Nicks
“Sara” reminds me of our 2-bedroom apartment in Raleigh, staring out the metal framed windows on rainy afternoons waiting for Dad to come home. “Wild Heart” brings back the tiny loft apartment I stayed in one summer home from college, where I had no over or stove only a hot plate. “If Anyone Falls” reminds […]
In Which I Ponder About Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs have always been one of my top three favorite things. I will see almost anything with dinosaurs. This means I sit through a lot of bad movies and TV shows. The first book I wrote (age 5) was simply 10-notebook pages stapled together composed of pretty much word-for-word plagiarism of the dinosaur entries from the Childcraft Encyclopedia. […]
In Which I Think About Doctor Who
My first Doctor was Tom Baker. I watched episodes on PBS and my eighth-grade self was stunned that the lead character on a TV show could be replaced by another actor. Clearly, I had forgotten Darren Stephens. My favorite Doctor is Five, but in the Big Finish audios, it tends to be Six. I loved Five […]