Y'ever wonder what happened to some of those brilliant, quirky people you've met in your life? Joe Camhi is one of those guys for me.

The phrase "fish out of water" was more or less invented for this guy from New York who crash-landed in the… Read full post »

 

  

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HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK

OK that's the starting siren so the crowd's gonna start moving at kind of a lurchy herky-jerky semi-walk-hop toward the starting line...cellphone set to stopwatch...

I know I can do this one faster than the one two weeks ago OUCH thanks fo… Read full post »

Pumpkin Gnocchi with Melted Leeks, Dill, and Gruyere  

 

Image: http://mydailypumpkinrecipe.blogspot.com/2008/12/pumpkin-gnocchi.html

Today's The Great Pumpkin Cook-Off at work. I figured there'd be dozens of pies and cakes and breads and cookies, so I decided I'd tak… Read full post »

  

Paid $2,999; Sacrifice only $995!

Really? You paid that much for...that?

Were you off your antipsychotics at the time?

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Dear delusional (and frequently illiterate) Craigslisters,

I don't care how much you originally paid for the old, ugly, beaten-up, worn, frayed, crac… Read full post »

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MiddleAgedWomanBlogging has a great big heart. Freaky Troll, it seems, is due for a new home--or the ape needs a new purse. It's one of those things.

Now, I don't know about you, but when stylish women trolls need a new purse (the way the desert needs the rain), they certainly… Read full post »

 

^{Image: www.liontaming.com. Really.}

Running! Jumping! Boot Camp! Long-distance bicycling! Extreme weightlifting! Wall climbing!  Surfing! Sailing! Volleyball! Bungee jumping!  Paintball! Competitive log splitting! Elk wrestling!

Dear god.

Do single people my age rea… Read full post »

 

OK, guys, this started on Facebook but it's gonna END here!

Catalyst/story from NPR: Scientists discover spider that's mostly vegetarian.

My "Share" intro:

You just KNOW when the other spiders see this guy coming to a dinner party, they're all like, "Ugh, it's MORTIMER. He's going… Read full post »

R.I.P.

Gourmet Magazine, 1941-2009

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Fare thee well, Gourmet.

Up until now, I've managed to observe the implosion of magazine after magazine (even though some of them were old favorites) with a certain cool, detached sense of inevitability.

It was simply a given that th/… Read full post »

  

^{The fireplace isn't quite this nice...}

After spending the last six to eight weeks receiving daily emails about condos I can actually afford (picture small, dark, and depressing, in a scary section of town) and even spending an entire brutally hot Saturday fruitlessl… Read full post »

 

I listened to his new guitar suite last night. Saw he’d posted the music on Facebook and thought, oh my god, he’s composing again. Clicked in. Settled back. Closed my eyes. Let the music carry me.

• Movement 1
• Movement 2
• Movement 3
• Movement 4

In those… Read full post »

 

August 1 was my blogiversary.

A year of posting on OS.

A year of reading, laughing, commenting, crying, railing, kerfuffling, goofing, sympathizing, empathizing, jealousing, pirating, cake-ing...

But there've also been serious moments.

My second post on OS, Gutpunched, was written th/… Read full post »

  

• To make peacocks jealous.
• They just haven't been feeling like themselves lately and they wanted to spice it up a bit.
• They have an unholy, self-destructive attraction to fire; this makes them feel closer to it. 
• They secretly want to be butterflies.
• They hope to bl/
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 ^{Hello Goodbye: I'm #1! I'm #1! I'm #1!}

OK, you're just going to have to trust me when I say that's me up there, highlighted in a rather inexplicable shade of pinkish-salmon. Me. That's my score. 

Yeah, I know, it doesn't say Verbal Remedy, it says Henway. That's… Read full post »

• A kitchen without a dishwasher is like a car without brakes.

 

• Everything looks better when you wash and dry on the Delicate cycle.

 

• The average American woman owns 28 lipsticks* and actually actually uses two.

 

• Dog's got bad breath? He's hoarding a body somewhere. (As I found
… Read full post »

 

Remember when I told ya the Iz-Man was doing something really nutty and running across England, 30 miles per day?

He just finished the 33rd run.

And ended up running through this town.

Yes, it's a real place.

 :-)

I'm so depressed at the state of this nation, I… Read full post »

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Man's Finger Bitten Off During Fight At Health Care Rally

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- A health care reform demonstration landed one man in the emergency room after part of his pinky finger was bitten off during a heated argument in Ventura County. 

Sheriff's Capt. Frank O'Hanlon says about 100 peo… Read full post »

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Dear Family and Friends,… Read full post »

  

(Image Source: The Study Itself)

Hey, everybody! Did you hear about that study that says 40% of Twitter usage is "pointless babble"?!

Of course you did! Because it was, like, a study, right, and studies are solid, reliable, important, serious stuff.

You can't just make… Read full post »

If you're on Facebook, you've probably seen a flurry of Myers-Briggs personality profile activity lately; I am a hardcore ENFP. Off the charts, all dimensions. You simply can't get much more Extraverted, Intuitive, Feeling, or Perce/… Read full post »

Enough.

I can't take this anymore.

There are many things I'd rather be doing than reading or seeing or hearing one more blessed word about the healthcare "debate" and/or the slavering toothless torch-and-pitchfork brigades.

Among them:

• Building a model airplane out of snot, pus and guin
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Attention, Eddie Izzard fans...

As if we didn't already have a thousand and one reasons to adore our favorite executive transvestite, standup comdian, actor, genius, and all around sexy bloke, I thought you'd like to know the man is currently doing something COMPLETELY INSANE, mindboggling,&nbs… Read full post »

I hate to be the one to break it to you, but I fear we may soon see the end of free, unfettered access to lovely, scrubby exfoliation tools.

 

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Farewell, body puffs! Adieu, callous scrapers! Goodbye, washcloths! Au revoir, salty oily rubbing t… Read full post »

 

 

 ^{OMG! I look JUST LIKE ME!}

1. Who was your FIRST prom date? Joe was my first and only prom date, although we went two years in a row. The second time he drove his dark, broody, skinny, high-cheekboned self all the way up to Illinois… Read full post »

 

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You people are killing me. You! You Foodies! You with your cupcakes and bacon-baked eggs and spices and restaurant food photos and San Francisco Liberal Dinner Parties that I neither recall being invited to nor enabled to observe vicariously via live webc/… Read full post »

 

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So, yawannaknow what it takes for me to bother to figure out how to unfriend somebody on Facebook?

It ain't easy.

No, kittens, it's OK. Feel free to repeat FOX News talking points and blather on about socialism and commies and how this country's turnin… Read full post »