In a grocery store parking lot…
Him: So technically we’re on the West Coast now. What do you think about it?
Me: I’m not sure. I’ve got a distinctly East Coast mindset. Everything here is a little…alien.
Him: What do you mean?
Me: Well, give me a minute–holy fucking shit, I think that’s a goddamn wild pig heading for [...]
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Why Does Uncle Cupcake Hate Hank the Cat?
Posted in cats, oddities, personal, picspam, travel, tribulations on Aug 13th, 2010
For most of my life, I’ve lived in the part of the South that is also part of the East Coast, which has meant that none of my extended relatives have been anywhere near me. So when George and I were driving across the country to get to Tucson (PS: we made it! I’ll start [...]
Hybrid Vigor: Not All It’s Cracked up to Be
Posted in oddities, personal, race, tribulations on Aug 5th, 2010
So for those of you not in the know, I’m your typical European-American ethnic mashup. On my dad’s side, I am almost exclusively Italian, but on my mom’s side? It is one giant Northern-European free-for-all, folks. The best way to describe mom’s side of the family is “Scandinavian,” because that way people understand that you [...]
They asked him what he wanted on the cake he bought on a whim last night, and this is what he came up with. I think someone needs a nap, y’all.
Mother Issues
Posted in oddities, paranormal, personal on Jul 9th, 2010
For a really long time, no one in my family besides FANG! read my blog, and even he was pretty effing lackadaisical about it. I can’t really explain it: they don’t seem to find me boring in PERSON, but none of them seemed compelled to seek out my opinions on the internet, either.
SCREW YOU GUYS.
Anyway, [...]
Him: Did you know that Oliver twitches in his sleep?
Me: Yeah.
Him: Is that normal?
Me: Sure. It just means that he’s having a dream. Probably thinks he’s chasing Mimi. Or a squirrel. Something small and tasty, anyway.
Him: Are you sure? Because I thought maybe he had a neurological problem.
Me: …
Him: Maybe we need to take him [...]
Repost: Strong Stomach Needed
Posted in books, history, nonfiction, oddities, political, race, reposts, science on Jun 17th, 2010
January 25, 2010
In addition to being about various horrible and incurable diseases, this book contains lots of race-, gender-, and pedo-FAIL. You have been warned.
D.T. Max, The Family that Couldn’t Sleep
Max’s “hook” is the family history of an Italian clan that suffers from a rare prion disease called fatal familial insomnia: basically, [...]
Time Warp
Posted in Uncategorized, oddities, paranormal, personal on Jun 16th, 2010
I’m pretty sure that discussing this violates some kind of unspoken potential resident/current resident confidentiality agreement, but I don’t care. This shit was just too fucking weird.
So George and I were checking out YET MORE HOUSES yesterday, and we happened upon a home that was clearly warehousing some University of Arizona students. You could [...]
Addiction
Posted in cats, mysteries, oddities, personal, picspam, travel, tribulations, trufax on Jun 10th, 2010
Over the last week or so, we have done two of the most terrible things you can do to your cats AT ONCE: one of us left for several days at a time (that would be me), and the other one of us moved everything in the entire house (that would be George).
I was attending [...]
Someone really, really, REALLY should have rethought the posing on this one.
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- At first I though I might have shaken off my toilet-drinker, but then I realized that he's just UNDERNEATH the bed beside my desk.
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